Small craft Fighter Ship Design

[relyt]

I would love input or help here as I am not exactly following standards here as I want to put a warp 2 drive on a 30 ton fighter craft.
Multi–Purpose Fighter Tons Price (MCr)
Hull 30 tons Hull 0 1.5
Streamlined Structure 1
Aerofins STEALTH 1 0.02
Armour Crystaliron 8 points 1.84 .88
Reaction M–Drive sP Thrust 9 3.5 7
Warp Drive warp 2 TL 13 3 6
Fusion P–Plant STEALTH 2.5 fuel 2 weeks 6.3 12
Bridge Cockpit for 1 1.5 1
Weapons 3 ton modular bay 3 0.18
Smart missiles 12 missile rack 1 0.75 & 30,000 (cr)
Double fixed mounting Beam lasers 0 0.25
Beam Laser 2 2
Fuel 24 hours 10% .84
Cr. 500/ton for refined fuel 500 (cr)
Fuel scoops Included in streamlined
Fuel Processor convert 20 tons / day 1 50,000 (cr)
Cargo Hold 1 ton 1
Computer Model/4 Rating 20 5
Electronics very advanced Sensors DM+4 3 2
Enhanced Signal Processors 2.79 4.8
Visual, Thermal, EM, Radar/Lidar, NAS, Densitometers
ECM and ECCM potential for displacement class.
Software Manoeuvre/1
Library/0
Intellect 1
Evade/1 1
Fire Control/2 4
Total Tonnage & Cost 29.77 ton 49.46 (Mcr)

So any help here and input is greatly appreciated

 

[phavoc]

You are looking to make your fighter into a interstellar craft?

I'm not up on the warp drive aspects, but according to your design you have fuel for 24hrs of operation. That may be too little to move between star systems.

 

[barnest2]

No, he has two weeks of fuel... But no reaction drive fuel. Either fit a grav drive, or burn P-plant fuel, which will run your time down fast.
Actually, I cant work out how much fuel he has. He lists two weeks next to his P-plant, and 24 hours later... do you mean 24 G/hours?

How did you stealth your aerofins and power plant?

I think you have too many weapon systems. You have three mounted, and can only actually have one.

 

[relyt]

seems i forgot to post the 2 week drop tank for the warp jump,just noted the info with the power plant, anyways on the aerofins and power plant it was just noted that the craft was setup for stealth not meaning the componants them selfs were stealth, and yes the fuel for 24 hours was for normal opperations without the drop tank.
basicly just needed to see what i would need if anything for this to work correct.
Weapons systems when I run the build through highguard and core book I am seeing 3 weapons allowed effectivly what was intended is to fix mount the 2 beam lasers at the wings and chin mount the missile.

 

[AndrewW]

Weapons systems when I run the build through highguard and core book I am seeing 3 weapons allowed effectivly what was intended is to fix mount the 2 beam lasers at the wings and chin mount the missile.

High Guard page: 61 has the Armaments for small crafts table. For a 30 ton this is 1 ship weapon and 3 anti-personnel weapons.

 

[barnest2]

small craft of 30 tons are allowed:
1 ship to ship weapons
3 anti-personnel weapons

What you have currently is 3 ship to ship weapons. That's not on under the RAW.

Also, I doubt you could use the warp drive with a drop tank. You need to drop the drop tank pre-FTL travel, otherwise you seriously screw up your heading and such. There fore, you need enough on board tankage for the travel time, which is at least 3.5 days (if you're going 1 parsec)

 

[relyt]

actually if i understand correct you make the astrogation check and suffer a chance at misjump when you drop the tank as you enter or during the jump/ warp.
ok so I misunderstood the weapons options easy enough to fix.as its a 3 ton modual bay run the double fix mount beam lasers or the missile and then anti personel figure out later

 

[barnest2]

When It says one ship to ship weapon, it means one. A double beam laser is two. With a missile launcher, even if it is not in use, thats three.
You get One (1). Choose one, dump the others.

Well..if you're carrying them through jump (or warp) then it just reduces the drive level by the increased tonnage... which would be... no change because your ship is so small and shouldn't be going FTL under RAW
So yes, I suppose if you are carrying them continuously, then it's fine... but why you don't just have the fuel internally I don't know.
But if you are dropping them, you still don't have enough fuel for travel

 

[AndrewW]

You could use a module to swap out between a missile and a single beam laser.