Jack of Harts

The Republic of Texas Space Force greatly wished a new series of homegrown hypercapable attack and fighter craft to go along with their Valkyrie bombers. Texas was getting its Texas on when it replaced the older Vigilante’s autocannons with gravitic cannons and renamed it the A-10 Righteous Vigilante. It was a mouthful of a name that was quickly truncated by almost everybody. The absolutely new F-15 Sabre sported a quartet of missile launchers along with a single gravitic cannon so it could handle more mixed missions. Both designs received their baptism of fire in the Hyades Cluster, where mixed hypercapable forces quickly moved through the close systems of the Hyades Core in a serious of feinting and slashing assaults. It is one of the crowning moments of Space Force history that they drove this campaign clear through to War’s End.

The Republic of Texas Space Force had been working on a new generation of bomber for years when The War began. Most bombers mounted single-shot anti-ship missiles, or other heavy weapons, on external hard points at the time, but Texas wanted a hypercapable bomber with internal, capital missile launchers. They were experimenting with both the weapons and the hyperdrive when The War forced them to rush what they had into production. The B-17 Valkyries quickly gave the Space Force the one thing it had always lacked. The ability to send their units to other star systems without requiring a Navy transport to get them there. That ability would fundamentally change the function of the Republic of Texas Space Force throughout The War and after War’s End.

The Republic of Texas Space Force introduced a new generation of gravtech combat craft in the middle of the 23rd century. The Super Tornado and Super Savage were billed as simple upgrades of the older Tornados and Savages for the bean counters, but used entirely new technologies and production techniques to make them lighter and far more maneuverable. The F-6 Mustang completed their new triumvirate of space combat dominance with more firepower and maneuverability than any other Terran fighter on Earth and beyond. The Mustang would lose the competition for federal service to the F-7 Hellcat, but Texas partisans always maintained that the Mustang was the superior space fighter. Texas deployed them as their primary combat craft of the Pre-War era, and they served throughout The War with great distinction.