Kindred PL4B "Blade" Heavy Fighter

**Name**: PL4B Blade
**Craft**: Kindred PL4B Blade Heavy Fighter
**Type**: Heavy Fighter
**Scale**: starfighter
**Length**: 20 meters (estimated)
**Skill**: starfighter pilot
**Crew**: 1
**Cargo Capacity**: none
**Consumables**: 14 days
**Jump Drive**: x100
**Nav Computer**: yes
**Maneuverability**: 3D
**Space**: 9
**Atmosphere**: 400; 1,150 km/h
**Hull**: 3D+2
**Shields**: 2D+1
**Sensors**

* Passive: 20 / 0D+1
* Scan: 40 / 1D
* Search: 60 / 1D+1
* Focus: 2 / 2D

**Weapons**

* **4 Mass Ion Cannos**  (firelinked)

Fire Arc: Forward
Crew: 1
Scale: walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1/3/5
Atmosphere Range: 10-100/300/500m
Damage: 4D+2
* **5 Light Ordnance Hardpoints**

Fire Arc: Forward
Crew: 1
Skill: starship gunnery
* **Snipe Missile**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-2/5/10
Atmosphere Range: 10-200/500/1,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: 9D
* **Brute Mk II Missile**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: 16D
* **Python Missile**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: 20D
* **Banshee Missile**

Scale: starfighter
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: None; Reduces Shields to Zero.
* **Disruptor Missile**

Scale: starfighter
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: None; If hit, the targeted craft cannot move for two rounds
* **Stingray Torpedo**

Fire Arc: Forward
Crew: 1
Scale: death star
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Ammo: 1
Damage: 25D+2
* **Hi-Explosive Mine Tube**

Fire Arc: Aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Range: N/A
Ammo: 10
Damage: 18D
* **Electronic Counter Measure Module**

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Space Range: 1-5/13/25
Atmosphere Range: 10-500/1,300/2,500m
Effects: Enemy Sensors and Fire Control -1D
* **Enhanced Countermeasure Pod Dispenser**

Fire Arc: aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: sensors
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-5/13/25
Atmosphere Range: 10-500/1,300/2,500m
Ammo: 10
Effects: Enemy Sensors & Fire Control -1D
**Gear**:

* Ejection Seat: This accessory allows the vehicle's crew and passengers to safely disembark while it is still in mid-flight. It can be used as the vehicle is being destroyed.

**Description**: The Blade is the Kindred’s signature fighter. Blades are used for the most important, most dangerous and most illegal missions in the Tri-System. They are particularly common when the Kindred is interested in performing a high level assassination – their extensive weapons array allows them to engage multiple target spheres in a single operation. Because of the threat now faced by the Kindred, the military offers a double bounty for destroying Blades.

Blades are typically armed with a quartet of Mass Ion Cannons, giving them short-range, but significant, firepower.

**Origin's Official Guide to Privateer 2: The Darkening**

Blades are medium-fast, and you have to get behind them to deal them a serious blow. (Otherwise, you're too busy dodging gunfire to stay on one for very long). Unless you're a wealthy hotshot, they'll likely have significantly better guns, so don't go head to head with one if you can afford it.

Blades don't really have much armor, so they are easy to kill if you can keep from being killed yourself. If you run into multiple Blades, however, you've got problems.

**Source**:

* Wing Commander Encyclopedia: Blade Heavy Fighter PL4b
* The Wing Commander Role Playing Game (page 329)
* thedemonapostle