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Description
The Heavy fighter is the Main Forward Line of defense for Most Fleet formations. Designed for slashing attacks on Corvettes and attack craft. While Not as nimble as lighter combat craft the heavy fighter is well defended with shields, electronic warfare systems and ablative armor. Capable of blistering straight line acceleration, the Heavy fighter can sprint in close to it's target, or blast through formations of lighter craft using it's twin high impact low rate of fire mass drivers and twin fast firing, hard hitting, short range Plasma cannons.
While capable dogfight pilots Heavy fighters are often seen as crude, bruisers who rely on their defenses, speed and heavy guns rather than skill and good tactics. This is not entirely accurate Heavy Fighter Pilots require training and experience as well as a good grasp of their crafts abilities and limitations to employ their craft properly. A "Blaster Bully" will find himself cut off out maneuvered and nipped to death by lighter craft in quick order.

NOTES
The common Yellow Paint schemes may seem as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window. However due to the Tau Omaeda Eye which is less sensitive to the Yellow orange spectrum The coloration actually makes the craft more difficult to spot for the Omaeda as well as their typical enemy The Najuhlim.
The blue boxes on the hull are Marker strips self illuminate panels used to identify rank and role to fellow pilots. and aid in keeping elements and formations together in the darkness of space and night time operations. the three blue boxes mark this craft as belonging to a squadron leader.

Heavy fighters such as the P-47 Thunderbolt, F6f Hellcat, F4U Corsair, and F4 Phantom2 tend to be at a disadvantage in a turning fight with lighter aircraft. Their pilots tend to use the speed rugged airframes and heavy weapons of their aircraft, and superior tactics and positioning to defeat lighter aircraft. Getting into a tuning fight with a lighter craft can often lead to a pilot testing the reliability of their ejection seat. Then enjoying the hospitality of their enemy until they are liberated, exchanged, or die.

Description
The Heavy fighter is the Main Forward Line of defense for Most Fleet formations. Designed for slashing attacks on Corvettes and attack craft. While Not as nimble as lighter combat craft the heavy fighter is well defended with shields, electronic warfare systems and ablative armor. Capable of blistering straight line acceleration, the Heavy fighter can sprint in close to it's target, or blast through formations of lighter craft using it's twin high impact low rate of fire mass drivers and twin fast firing, hard hitting, short range Plasma cannons.
While capable dogfight pilots Heavy fighters are often seen as crude, bruisers who rely on their defenses, speed and heavy guns rather than skill and good tactics. This is not entirely accurate Heavy Fighter Pilots require training and experience as well as a good grasp of their crafts abilities and limitations to employ their craft properly. A "Blaster Bully" will find himself cut off out maneuvered and nipped to death by lighter craft in quick order.

NOTES
The common Yellow Paint schemes may seem as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window. However due to the Tau Omaeda Eye which is less sensitive to the Yellow orange spectrum The coloration actually makes the craft more difficult to spot for the Omaeda as well as their typical enemy The Najuhlim.
The blue boxes on the hull are Marker strips self illuminate panels used to identify rank and role to fellow pilots. and aid in keeping elements and formations together in the darkness of space and night time operations. the three blue boxes mark this craft as belonging to a squadron leader.

Heavy fighters such as the P-47 Thunderbolt, F6f Hellcat, F4U Corsair, and F4 Phantom2 tend to be at a disadvantage in a turning fight with lighter aircraft. Their pilots tend to use the speed rugged airframes and heavy weapons of their aircraft, and superior tactics and positioning to defeat lighter aircraft. Getting into a tuning fight with a lighter craft can often lead to a pilot testing the reliability of their ejection seat. Then enjoying the hospitality of their enemy until they are liberated, exchanged, or die.