Quasar Fire II-class Light Carrier

### Complement

240 Viper-class Probe Droids, 24 TIE/LN2-starfighters, 12 TIE/IN2-interceptors, 12 TIE/SA2-bombers, 12 LAAT/2 Gunships, 8 Sentinel II-class Dropships, 8 TIE-Reaper Mark II boarding craft

## General information

### Additional systems

Class 3.0 Hyperdrive, Long Range Communications Array

The Quasar Fire II-class Light Carrier is little more than a simple modernization of the previous Quasar I-class made by the SuroSuub Corporation for the Galactic Empire during Palpatine’s rule. Though highly similar in its design, the Quasar II does make a couple notable changes to the Quasar I model. Seeing as the ship was never intended to fight other ships directly, the Quasar II had its predecessor’s turbolasers removed in place of a few laser cannons to help ward off stray fighters. Additionally, where the Quasar I had a single large hangar bay, the II divided this into four smaller bays with the idea that having them be separate would help mitigate damage to the others if one was destroyed. Lastly, the Quasar I had a reputation for being poorly made and was known to suffer from microfracturing in its hull during hyperspace jumps. This resulted in the ship needing more effort to be maintained. Several structural improvements would be made in its predecessor that remedied this issue.

Though the Empire’s Victory III Heavy Cruisers are plentiful, potent and have a respectable complement, it would be a gross misallocation of resources and unnecessary to assign them to every minor task force and patrol group. The Quasar II fills this role perfectly, acting as an inexpensive way to provide smaller fleets with fighter support or simply adding to a larger fleet's overall squadron count. The Quasar is practically defenseless, however, and relies almost entirely on other ships and its strike craft for protection. During any engagement, these ships will be at the far rear of Imperial formations where they can provide support unhindered. They can also act as backup resupply ships for Imperial fighters in the event getting back to their original host ship would take longer or is too dangerous. While it is primarily used to provide strike craft, the Quasar II carries a small complement of gunships and boarding craft allowing it to seize enemy vessels and deploy ground troops in a limited capacity.

## **History**

The Quasar II-class was first introduced during the initial stages of the Imperial Civil War and was among the first of the new designs put forward by the Fel Doctrine. After the SuroSuub Corporation fully sided with the Rebel Alliance, Sienar Fleet Systems took over the design and its production. Though the changes to be made to the Quasar I were simple and took little time to complete, the Empire’s panic to get its new standardized line of ship production running as fast as possible resulted in the Quasar IIs being hastily mass produced. This led to some of them ironically suffering from the exact same structural design flaws as their predecessor. These issues were swiftly stamped out once caught, however, and the Quasar II would go on to serve the Imperial Navy excellently from the Imperial Civil War to the present day. While the Galactic Empire keeps an extremely tight leash on what ships and surplus are sold to Independent systems and PDFs, the ease of its mass production and simple design has made the Quasar II one of the scant few ships in the Imperial Navy considered to be put out as a purchasable model by outside parties.