Commonwealth Shieldbreaker Class

## History

Designed during the Roth/Strategos War of early 2420, by the combined efforts of the U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Nemesis, the *Shieldbreaker-Class* space superiority fighter was designed as the first Commonwealth fighter, designed to effortlessly combine the experimental technologies of the United Commonwealth of Planets and the more traditional *Starfleet* technology avaliable on the original ships of *Task Force: Misfits*.

The result was what could be described as the first real Commonwealth ship, a fighter that combines the roles of both a fighter and a bomber. The *Shieldbreaker-Class* is able to effectively change *modes*, containing powerful secondary impulse engines which can redirect power between the main impulse engines for greater speed and agility, and the torpedo launchers with some of the most advanced targeting technology ever seen in the Commonwealth.

The fighter proved extremely effective at functioning both in space and in an atmosphere as shown during its debut where the *Shieldbreaker-Class* successfully conducted a bombing raid on a secret Rothian Corporation biological weapons facility on Exorna Regalis

In 2420, all *Shieldbreaker-Class* fighters on the U.S.S. Arizona, U.S.S. Nemesis and the newly commissioned U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr were upgraded with Transphasic Phasers in order to provide improved defense against Pryde technology.

To this date, the *Shieldbreaker-Class* has proven to be the premier fighter of the United Commonwealth of Planets and an example of the impressive engineering abilities of the Arkhosian Legion.

## Tactical Systems

The *Shieldbreaker-Class* main weaponry is the *Type IC-C Transphasic Phaser Revolution Cannons.* Transphasic weapons technology developed by the Argussian Republic, for use on the Argussian Coronet Class vessel, these weapons deliver a powerful subspace compression pulse which projects a portion of the energy weapon damage across mutiple subspace frequencies, allowing for impressive shield penetration as well as doing some damage to Eternium and Pryde vessels.

The *Type IC-C Transphasic Phaser Revolution Cannon* is a multi-chambered cannon, inspired by the weapons technology of the Aurellian Republic, one of the Commonwealth's new members that joined in 2420. The cannon is structured like the chamber of the ancient *Revolver-type Firearm* and composed of six phaser power cells, as a result, the phaser relay of the *Shieldbreaker-Class* continually *revolves,* cycling from one power cell to the next. This allows each individual power cell the time needed to cool down and be continually recharged by the fighter's *Micro-Warp Core,* allowing the fighter to fire almost continually without waiting for a recharge cycle or weapons overheating, as is common with most traditional fighters.

The *Shieldbreaker-Class* fighter is also capable of carrying at least 20 *Type VI (Micro) Photon Torpedoes*. These are much smaller torpedoes then those normally found on starships but they are capable of delivering a sizeable explosion to enemy space vessels and ground-based targets.

The torpedo bombing capabilities of the *Shieldbreaker-Class* are not usually active outside of *"Bombing Mode"* as they drastically decrease the speed and agility of this fighter.