[RFC] Starhound Class fighter

[Dakota]

inspired after finding this picture while looking for other BSG data for a RP.
http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/ ... Vipers.jpg

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|length= 13 m
|width= 6.5 m
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|driverating= 0.11c
|manufacturer= Boskonian
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|crew= 1
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|weapons= x2 30mm gauss rifles 4x missle mounts
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The Starhound class is based off the jet fighter seen on the Caprica TV series as part of a flight sim, known as the Caprica "viper" in the BSG fandom. The name Starhound is a nod to the ToS:BSG. Designed and built by a Boskonian BSG:Caprica fen for use as a main stay boskonian fighter. However the Boskonian could never build enough to offset the numbers of Zigs built by the fen. The Colonies currently have a bounty on the designer's head, who is still at large. The very existence of the fighter drives most Colonials nuts, mainly because it was built by the enemy.
The Starhound looks like someone took the basic design theory of a Viper Mark II and built a twin engine jet fighter with parts from a F-4, F-18 and the nose from a ME-109.
All standard caprica vipers in boskonian service are painted in a off white with black trim.

== Class Quirks ==
Old school Cylon: To start the fighter the pilot must shout the phrase "By your command!"
Emergency Jacket: The class preforms best if a battered leather flight jacket is kept within the craft, most put it in the pilot's emergency kit.
== Known Fighters ==
Captured Fighters
Doghouse: Stolen, believed to be the first of the class.
One Wing Angel: Defected, one wing painted to look like a white feathered wing with a golden 'halo' around the nose cone. Rest of the fighter painted a flat black.
Pure of Heart: Captured, Gold with white trim, piloted by a Senshi. Fighter along with two other's captured from a minor boskonian base while still packaged from shipment. Employed as a Op-force for training Senshi pilots.

• Pure of Love: Captured, piloted by a Senshi, Gold with white trim
• Pure of Justice: Captured, piloted by a Kamen Knight, Gold with white trim

9th Life: Stolen, catgirl victim escapee
Boskonian Fighters
Redwing: A pure white fighter with one red wing piloted by a unknown Boskonian ace. Shot down during the Serenity Valley battle by the pilot of the Doghouse.
Blackwing: Redwing's wingman and fell Boskonian Ace. Pure white fighter with the opposite wing from red's painted black. Believed shot down by One Wing Angel during the battle over Boskonian One.
Lawn Dart: Infamous among boskonian pilots for the number of times it's been forced to make belly landings. Nose cone jokingly painted to look like a giant grass stain while the rest of the fighter retains the boskonian off-white color. Truely lived up to it's name during the battle of Serenity Valley, it's remains have been left where it crashed.
The Last Token: Minor Boskonian Ace, standard colors with tumbling gold game token decals - Fate unknown
No Cash Value: The Last Token's wingman, standard colors with name in large bold letters along the nose. - Destroyed beyond repair while still on the launch ramp by 9th Life's pilot during her escape - Pilot's fate unknown.
Justice's Bane: Piloted by a Dark Kingdom Senshi, Standard colors later black with gold trim - Fate unknown
== Trivia ==

==Notes==

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[robkelk]

I'm not happy with the top speed being 0.11c - that's a bit higher than other ships of its size in 2012. Could we make it 0.1c?

On the flip side, their wings should give them noticeably better-than-average speed and maneuverability in atmosphere...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[HRogge]

I'm not happy with the top speed being 0.11c - that's a bit higher than other ships of its size in 2012. Could we make it 0.1c?

Are you sure? The EZig is 0.12c, the Swordfish 2 Mono Racer has 0.11c. Both are from the war too.

I mean, 0.1c is the typical speed of a Fen car...

[ECSNorway]

And remember, 1/10 C is still pretty fast, when you're talking intrasystem speeds. That's enough to get from Earth to Mars, at greatest distance, in three-four hours.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Dakota]

I'm not happy with the top speed being 0.11c - that's a bit higher than other ships of its size in 2012. Could we make it 0.1c?

On the flip side, their wings should give them noticeably better-than-average speed and maneuverability in atmosphere...

I could knock it down to 0.10c while keeping the 0.11c at the same time. Say 0.10c is the stock speed of boskonian built ones and 0.11c is a fen refit of captured units/post war fen built ones. Running with the idea that while the design was solid, boskonian QA wasn't all that great and they where having to build them as quickly as they could. So corners where cut and lesser materials where used.
Ether way I'm not wed to having to have 0.11c.
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[robkelk]

I'm not happy with the top speed being 0.11c - that's a bit higher than other ships of its size in 2012. Could we make it 0.1c?

Are you sure? The EZig is 0.12c, the Swordfish 2 Mono Racer has 0.11c. Both are from the war too.

I mean, 0.1c is the typical speed of a Fen car...

Exactly. 0.1c is the typical speed of something that is smaller than one of these (and smaller than an eZig or a Swordfish 2 - if those are from the war, their top speeds should be retconned down as well) - top speed is inversely proportional to mass and size for handwaved vehicles.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[HRogge]

Exactly. 0.1c is the typical speed of something that is smaller than one of these (and smaller than an eZig or a Swordfish 2 - if those are from the war, their top speeds should be retconned down as well) - top speed is inversely proportional to mass and size for handwaved vehicles.

I always thought the type of the vehicle would also matter. Waving an X/A-Wing, a racing car or a Blackbird, you get something faster than a normal car, even with more mass.

I would vote for making the Boskone fighters at least a little bit faster than the typical car, because that makes them useful for chasing them!

if 0.11c is too fast, maybe 0.105c or something like this.

[Dakota]

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|caption=
|registry=
|hull= Custom built, based off the atmosphere jet 'caprica viper' from the flight sim shown in Caprica series.
|length= 13 m
|width= 6.5 m
|height=
|drivetype= x2 turbo-thrust engines
|driverating= 0.10c
|manufacturer= Boskonian
|owner=
|flag=
|port=
|purpose= Fighter
|datelaunched= Early 2012
|crew= 1
|supcrew=
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|weapons= x2 30mm gauss weapons 4x medium under wing mounts
|status='''Active'''
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The Starhound class is based off the jet fighter seen on the Caprica TV series as part of a flight sim, known as the Caprica "viper" in the BSG fendom. The name Starhound is a nod to the ToS:BSG. Designed and built by a Boskonian BSG:Caprica fen for use as a main stay boskonian fighter. However the Boskonian could never build enough to offset the numbers of Zigs built by the fen. The Colonies currently have a bounty on the designer's head, who is still at large. The very existence of the fighter drives most Colonials nuts, mainly because it was built by the enemy.
The Starhound looks like someone took the basic design theory of a Viper Mark II and built a twin engine jet fighter with parts from a F-4, F-18 and the nose from a ME-109.
In 2015 the Galacticans launched a redesign of the fighter called the Starhound Mk II
== Class Quirks ==
Old school Cylon: To start the fighter the pilot must shout the phrase "By your command!"
Emergency Jacket: The class preforms best if a battered leather flight jacket is kept within the craft, most put it in the pilot's emergency kit.
== Known Fighters ==
Captured Fighters
Doghouse: Stolen, believed to be the first of the class.
One Wing Angel: Defected, one wing painted to look like a white feathered wing with a golden 'halo' around the nose cone. Rest of the fighter painted a flat black.
Pure of Heart: Captured, Gold with white trim, piloted by a Senshi. Fighter along with two other's captured from a minor boskonian base while still packaged from shipment. Employed as a Op-force for training Senshi pilots.

• Pure of Love: Captured, piloted by a Senshi, Gold with white trim
• Pure of Justice: Captured, piloted by a Kamen Knight, Gold with white trim

9th Life: Stolen, catgirl victim escapee
Boskonian Fighters
Redwing: A pure white fighter with one red wing piloted by a unknown Boskonian ace. Shot down during the Serenity Valley battle by the pilot of the Doghouse.
Blackwing: Redwing's wingman and fell Boskonian Ace. Pure white fighter with the opposite wing from red's painted black. Believed shot down by One Wing Angel during the battle over Boskonian One.
Lawn Dart: Infamous amoung boskonian pilots for the number of times it's been forced to make belly landings. Nose cone jokingly painted to look like a giant grass stain while the rest of the fighter retains the boskonian off-white color. Truely lived up to it's name during the battle of Serenity Valley, it's remains have been left where it crashed.
The Last Token: Minor Boskonian Ace, standard colors with tumbling gold game token decals - Fate unknown
No Cash Value: The Last Token's wingman, standard colors with name in large bold letters along the nose. - Destroyed beyond repair while still on the launch ramp by 9th Life's pilot during her escape - Pilot's fate unknown.
Justice's Bane: Piloted by a Dark Kingdom Senshi, Standard colors later black with gold trim - Fate unknown
== Veriants ==
Starhound Mk II -
The Starhound mk II is based off the Boskonian built Starhound class fighter. After the war the Galacticans gained access to the blueprints and a number of air frames. They began a complete rebuild of the design, improving the engines, avionics, and weapons. Solving the wingtip light missile mount issue the Boskonians never could. Bringing the total mounts to two light and four medium.
Currently the design suffers the stigma of being a design that was orginally used by the Boskonians. However the Galacticans are slowly working to erase that stigma and make the design their own.
Launched 2015
Starhound Mk II-a -
Re-enforced undercarriage and airframe allows for a heavy belly mount also rigged to take a external fuel tank. Contiuned refinement of it's other systems.
Launched 2016
Starhound Mk II-b -
Undercarriage redesign and airframe re-enforcement allowing for two heavy under wing mounts, both rigged to also take external fuel tanks. Engines replaced with Graystone Aero-spike turbo jets. These more powerful engines help offset the extra weight from the now heavier airframe and weapon loads..
Launched 2017
== Trivia ==
Starhounds are surprisingly nimble and fast in atmosphere.
==Notes==

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Sabre Fang
Dakota

[HRogge]

So the Starhound Mk II (a/b) have exactly the same vehicle-datas as the first version?

[Dakota]

So the Starhound Mk II (a/b) have exactly the same vehicle-datas as the first version?

At the moment yes, I had the Mk II written up as it's own wiki page. Mal asked me to add it to the first one as a veriant. Since it's external appearance, size and speed remains the same. The major changes are airframe redesign/re-enforcement, undercarriage re-enforcement/redesign, and bigger weapon payload. -B gains new engines to offset the extra weight.
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Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota