Swift-class

The Swift-class is a common class of light fighter designed by the PlazWorks company and in service with Trident Foundries.

Description
The Swift-class is a small craft, without heavy shielding or any form of FTL travel, and relies on a mother ship to travel between systems. This makes them best suited to a carrier strike role, or as purely defensive units surrounding a planet or station. Armed with light plasma cannons they are capable of successfully intercepting other fighters and bombers, as well as larger solid projectiles.

Swift-class fighters are small enough to penetrate the defenses of most capital ships and rain destruction directly on enemy ships' hulls, flying directly under these ships' shields. To this end, they are equipped with a simple rack capable of housing and launching a single "Meteor" anti-capital fusion torpedo, giving them single-use capital grade firepower when the need arises.

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