The Spade is a small craft initially designed to provide a compact, multirole craft for the Navy to use. Due to it's compact and lightweight nature, however, it was found to be barely survivable in combat despite its performance, however, due to its performance and relative cheapness of production, instead of being scrapped, the fighter was re-purposed as a capable drone, to artificially increase numbers in a fighter battle.

With most of terra's fleet destroyed by the drathonian betrayal, a hodgepodge of fighter types and shuttles were utilized as a fighting force. need for change came when terran losses became so horrendous as to cause all terran ships to retreat to Altres or terra IV. Due to this, terran engineers designed the perfect multirole/space superiority fighter to give strength and uniformity to the Terran fleet's fighter corps.

Organizations Using This Vessel:Terran republic
Type:starfighter
Class:SF-X-22A, B
Designer:Terran Republic
Manufacturer:ARWW, Terran ships
Production:500,000+
Crew:0
Pilots:0
Maximum Capacity:1
Appearance:small egg-like body with rear swept wings that have pods on the end. wings end past the fuselage. modular in design so minor details are subject to change.


The B version has sharper, more industrial lines than the A and more exposed weapons, as well as wheels instead of skids. the engine compartment is covered by a larger cowl which adds slightly to the armor.

Length:fuselage:3 meters, nose to wingtip: 4.5 meters
Width: wings unfolded 4.55 meters, wings folded 1.7 meters
Height: wings unfolded 2 meters, wings folded 3 meters

Speed (STL):0.55C
Speed (Hyperspace Fold):10.0 ly/m
Speed (arial): mach 9
Range:5 days at max speed
Lifespan:10 years
Refit Cycle:once every 6 months

Fuselage-Medium
Wings- Medium
engine- Medium
Shileds- Medium

The Cockpit has been stripped down and most of the controls, displays, and consoles have been replaced instead with the computer cores housing the Simple Combat AI that serves as the Drone's pilot. A seat is still present, allowing the drone to take on a passenger if necessary, though most of the pilot comfort features have been removed.

The fuselage and wings are composed of duratanium plating. there are 12 hadpoints on the ship. 4 on each wing, 4 at the wing roots and 2 on the nose.

SF-OS: the SF-OS is an operating system designed specifically for this fighter.

Pilot's Helmet: the helmet is wirelessly linked to the SF-OS and can interpret Thought signals, making piloting easier.

Emergency eject:there is an emergency eject button for extreme emergencies.

Distress signals:the OS automatically sends out distress signals when necessary, unless it is disabled.

Distress beacon: the pilot's helmet has a built in distress beacon.

Air Recycling System: The air of the Spade is filtered through a Co2 scrubber which purifies it with great efficiency, though during most operations, the Drone's cockpit is evacuated of air.

Dynamic Thruster Drive: A network of small front, rear, lateral, dorsal, and ventral thrusters. These thrusters permit very swift and erratic, yet calculated movement in battle. as such, The SF-X-22 can move in very unpredictable manner. In addition, if ever needed, the ventral thrusters can be used to achieve vertical landing and take-off.

High Energy Plasma thruster: The SF-X-22 uses an extremely powerful high energy plasma thruster for its main propulsion. This thruster uses funneled energy from the Energon drive which is condensed into a state of plasma and funneled through the thruster.

Propulsion: The fighter propels itself at speeds many times the speed of light by use of a Micro-fold drive. This allows the fighter to travel thousands of times the speed of light.

The Scimitars are Powered by an Energon drive. those not originally made with one have been retrofitted to utilise it.

Shielding: The scimitar has an immensely strong shield for a craft it's size, allowing it to take more hits than a conventional fighter of similar size would. The shield will also regenerate after a hit given enough time.

weapon systems are modular and up to the end user. anything that fits on the hardpoints will work as long as it is capable of communicating with the SF-OS.

Turbo lazers-stock
Micro-missile pods-stock
Chainguns-common
Cruise missiles-uncommon
Jamming pods-uncommon