Fleet-Wide Ships & Equipment
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| General | |
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| Certification: | Any tier 4 starships skill |
| Mass: | 90k |
| Role: | Interceptor |
| Crew: | Pilot only |
| Weapon Mounts: | Projectile weapon x2 Ordnance x1 |
| Astromech Technology: | Astromech droid |
| Statistics | |
| Acceleration | 400 |
| Deceleration | 400 |
| Yaw Rate | 400 |
| Pitch Rate | 200 |
| Roll Rate | 200 |
| Speed Modifier: | 0.95 |
Ship Profile: Eta-2 Actis Interceptor
The Eta-2 Actis Interceptor (commonly referred to as the JSF) is a highly manuveurable starfighter deployed by the Fleet to protect Task Groups.
Characteristics
Wedge-shaped Interceptor.
Star Wars Lore
With the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Jedi saw themselves pressed into the forefront of military activity, serving as Generals in the campaign against the Separatists. The demands of combat saw advancements in the Jedi Interceptor arsenal, resulting in modifications and a new generation of fighter craft.
Though the wedge-shaped Interceptor design was still in use by war's end, a newer model had earned the spotlight for its use by renowned Jedi heroes, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
This new model was much more compact, cutting away a large portion of the forward spaceframe to have a forked front, bracketing a bulbous cockpit pod. Lining the inner edges of the ship's "tines" were powerful long-barreled laser cannons. The ship also had secondary cannons recessed on the outer edge of each tine. A full-size astromech rested within a spring-loaded socket on the port wing, and the craft's wingtips could fold open, revealing hexagonal panels when the ship entered combat mode. The hexagonal wings and the spoke-windowed cockpit were strong indicators of future Interceptor designs to be adopted by the galactic government (such as the Twin Ion Engine, or TIE fighter).
This new model also lacked a hyperdrive, so it too had to rely upon a hyperspace transport ring to achieve superluminal velocities. During the war, bigger more robust rings were used, with multiple lightspeed engines increasing their speed and range.