Blackhawk Starfighter

by on October 5, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The F-4 Blackhawk was designed by one of the preeminent design teams of her day, responsible for five successful Pre-Contact space fighters. She quickly showed superiority to America’s first three gravtech fighters, and became the most common American starfighter of her generation. Even after being retired in favor of the Hellcat, the Blackhawk continued to serve in corporate and militia forces. Post-War Hellcats have eaten into that market, but the Blackhawk is still the most common privately owned starfighter in Terran space. Typically armed with twin laser cannons and side-mounted missile pods, numerous War-era upgrades gave her significantly more firepower, increased endurance, and advanced deflection grids. Now serving in her second century of life, the Blackhawk is still a popular and dangerous starfighter.

Blackhawk starfighter on Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 4, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The most common Pre-Contact warship attack was the equivalent of David throwing a rock at Goliath. Warships used electromagnetic rail guns, or the older exploding shells of autocannons and machineguns, to fling projectiles at the enemy. Even with rudimentary guidance modules and maneuvering thrusters, warships could easily carry a thousand projectiles of various common sizes for any one rocket. And while the individual launchers were larger than a rocket launcher, the ability to fire more than once is a decided advantage when engaged in prolonged combat.

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The Essential Galactic Atlas

by on October 3, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

I didn’t go it alone when I left the Orion Arm. We took my Privateer of course, hauling four cargo pods packed to the bulkheads with supplies for good measure. And two Austins escorted us all the way. You can see things farther away out there, so we were able to spread out further in search of any gravitic runs. There weren’t many, and those we found were very weak compared to those we can ride out of Alpha Centauri for example. It’s real unsettling to find yourself out in the middle of nowhere with nothing to tell you which way to go.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 2, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s gang searched for terrorists in every major American city during the third season, but they kept missing the mark. Instead they kept finding people in need of help with some every day problem. The new primary sponsors thought that showing them helping every day American people would bring in more viewers and catapult Twilight into the top ratings bracket. The ratings jump never happened as Twilight fans felt betrayed and critics made fun of the show. Season three is generally considered one of the weaker seasons of the shows ever broadcast.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 1, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The largest weakness of warship-carried Pre-Contact rockets was ironically the rockets themselves. They were large and massive, and every rocket a warship carried took valuable space to carry it and valuable fuel to move it. Most warships only carried a handful of rockets because of this. But space stations and planetary colonies often surrounded themselves with long-range rocket-based defense grids that were happy to outgun any stray warship prowling their territory. Only the most prepared or ruthless warship commanders risked angering such defense grids.

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