Stalker Fighter Bomber

Stalker Fighter Bomber

The Stalker is well designed autonomous craft, made for the purpose of efficiency and striking fear into the unfortunate enemies of the Grimm Legion. As a craft it is entirely multipurpose, suited for flight in both Atmospheric conditions and in the void of space. In essence it is both the standard Aerial and space fighter vessel. It is incredibly agile and fast, making it a good dog fighter, and its ease of production means it is produced in vast numbers. In an Atmosphere, the Stalker as it name says, can be deadly silent at low sub-sonic speeds, allowing it to stalk enemies using camouflage capabilities, or strike unexpectedly. It can also make loud screams as it flies at faster speeds, giving it a fear factor as well, that grows exponentially when one can hear a horde of them coming.

It goes even beyond that though in its ability to be a bomber as well, however due to the need to be light and fast, it is not capable of having a payload loaded onto it, but instead it carries it, in a magnetic and stasis field generated by its tendrils. A final feature to make this fighter bomber deadly is the fact that it has slip-space jump capabilities, within small distances on its own power, allowing lone Stalkers the ability to escape to a location where a Frigate or Cruiser can pick them up. They can also link up with the systems of larger Craft and use their drives to sling shot themselves into a system ahead of the fleet. So far they are the only fighter class vessel capable of this, and this ability most likely comes from adapted Xenos technology.

Armor

The Stalker makes use of armoring techniques that minimize its presence on radar and scanning systems. It also makes use of advanced metal composites,carbon nanotube-weaves in its armor as well as a reactive gel layer that hardens for impacts or helps disperse heat or diffract high speed particles as it adapts to incoming projectiles. Finally it makes use of the typical magnetic fielding all Grimm Units are known for, this shield increasing in potency in the presence of other Grimm Ships. Its ability to generate a stasis field as well as manipulating magnetic field bubbles allows its tendril to make a last ditch shield in front of it.

Armament

• Twin Plasma Repeaters

The vessel has two forward mounted Plasma Repeated, having three barrels allowing for efficient cooling. This is its Primary weapon in a dog fight. Its exceedingly high rate of fire allows it to easily harass and destroy other fighters. What it lacks in a heavy punch it makes up for in the amount of shots it can put out in a short amount of time.

• Tentacle Particle Cutters

The Tentacle Particle beams are a powerful weapon this vehicle can make use of, giving it a heavier punch its primary weapon lacks. To fire it, it gives up its ability to manipulate magnetic and stasis fields with its tendrils, as it must use each cutter on the end of each tendril and focus them into a single pulse beam, of highly excited particles that can punch through armor similarly to a New Covenant Laser Cannon. It can be used in a dog fight as a coup de grâce, or to strike a vital portion of a larger ship. The Individual cutters can be used to cut into the hull of an enemy vessel as well. Another use is as an air to ground weapon, where the beam can either be swept across troops on a lower setting, or fired in a cannon like pulse for vehicles.

• Plasma/Fusion Ordinance

Tactics

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