Example Ships - Small Craft (Shadow)

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Hazard-class Dropship

Hazard class Dropship    175 tons     8 Crew     55.5 BP      TCS 3.5  TH 13.76  EM 0
24571 km/s     Armour 1-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 35%    IFR: 0.5%    Maint Capacity 0 MSP    Max Repair 32 MSP    Est Time: 0 Years
Drop Capacity: 1 Company    

MagCon Fusion Drive E780-F (1)    Power 86.25    Fuel Use 7800%    Signature 13.8    Armour 0    Exp 60%
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 1.3 billion km   (14 hours at full power)

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

The lightning-quick Hazard is designed to flash through to enemy vessels and deploy a full marine company for boarding actions. While it hasn't seen much action, ten Hazard dropships were responsible for the successful taking of the Kalugan battlecruiser Namacurra 009 during the Kaluga Campaign (2079-2081). While the alien vessel had little value given technological inferiority, its capture proved the effectiveness of fast dropships, not to mention Terran marines, during high-speed boarding insertions.

The class recently received a major engine upgrade, boosting its maximum combat speed from around 18800 km/s to over 24000 km/s.

Pathfinder-class Recon Fighter

Pathfinder class Recon Fighter    175 tons     16 Crew     69.5 BP      TCS 3.5  TH 13.76  EM 0
24571 km/s     Armour 1-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 4/4/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 35%    IFR: 0.5%    Maint Capacity 0 MSP    Max Repair 32 MSP    Est Time: 0 Years

MagCon Fusion Drive E780-F (1)    Power 86.25    Fuel Use 7800%    Signature 13.8    Armour 0    Exp 60%
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 1.3 billion km   (14 hours at full power)

OMNI Sensor Suite A-01.1 (1)     GPS 21     Range 168k km    Resolution 1
OMNI Sensor Suite T-05.4 (1)     Sensitivity 4     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  4m km
OMNI Sensor Suite E-05.4 (1)     Sensitivity 4     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  4m km

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

The Pathfinder reconnaissance fighter was originally designed to provide intel on the ungated Kalugan side of the Oasis-Kaluga jump point. While very successful at that task, those missions were generally suicidal due to the small spacecraft' lack of jump capability and the large alien presence on the enemy side of the point, which made extraction impossible. Many crewmen and several officers valiantly gave their lives in order to gather valuable data, which would later be fully utilized in the preparations for the Kaluga Campaign.

Pathfinder-A-class Recon Fighter

Pathfinder-A class Recon Fighter    285 tons     27 Crew     128.5 BP      TCS 5.7  TH 13.76  EM 0
15087 km/s     Armour 1-3     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 57%    IFR: 0.8%    Maint Capacity 0 MSP    Max Repair 84 MSP    Est Time: 0 Years

MagCon Fusion Drive E780-F (1)    Power 86.25    Fuel Use 7800%    Signature 13.8    Armour 0    Exp 60%
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 0.8 billion km   (14 hours at full power)

Artemis ALS 6.10 (1)     GPS 840     Range 6.7m km    Resolution 10

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

The controversial Pathfinder-A, focused on active sensors, was designed just prior to the beginning of the Kaluga Campaign, in order to be the vanguard of the Terran battle group and provide updated information about enemy composition on the Kalugan side of the jump point. These recon missions were meant to be safer than the earlier Pathfinder ones, given the fighters would theoretically lure the Kalugan forces away from the point while keeping them within their own sensor range. Once the hostiles were sufficiently far away, the main Terran group would jump in, attack the Kalugans and retrieve the Pathfinder-As.

Unfortunately, in reality, their internal confinement fusion drives turned out to be too burdened with the Artemis A'ctive LADAR Suite (ALS), which was twice as large as the standard Pathfinders OMNI package. Limited to speeds under 9000 km/s, the Kalugans could more easily target them than they could their earlier, nimbler siblings. This resulted in the loss of over half the fighter squadron seconds after jumping into Kaluga.

The whole operation was later strongly criticized, particularly the decision to install the oversized Artemis ALS on fighters that needed speed above everything else for survival, and even the purpose of the operation itself: the battle group's jump capabilities already allowed it to jump its elements into positions relatively safely away from the point. The fate of the Pathfinder-A is yet to be determined, its decommissioning put in doubt by recent developments in drive technology, as seen on the current design.