Incom T-65K9 Pantha-X

Class Name: Pantha-X
Manufacturer: Incom Corporation
Production Line: X-Wing Space Superiority Starfighter
Technical Designation: T-65K9
Affiliation: Galactic Alliance, planetary militias, independents
Composition: Titanium alloy hull, composite armor plating

Classification: Starfighter
Role: Multi-role space superiority starfighter.
Height: 2.5 meters
Width: 8.5 meters
Length: 11.4 meters

Power Core Generator/Reactor: Incom 4j.4 fusial thrust engine (4), Novaldex O4-Z cryogenic power cell, emergency power cells (2).
Hyperdrive Rating: x1, backup x12
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 125 MGLT, 1,250 km/h atmospheric; good maneuverability and acceleration. While not so fast as some, the Pantha-X can fly circles around all but the most maneuverable of interceptors and can outfly almost anything in its class.

Crew: 1
Passenger Capacity: 0
Cargo Capacity: 25 kg; can be increased through use of cargo pods.
Consumables: 4 days; can be increased through use of cargo pods.

Armament:

• Taim & Bak KX12 laser cannons: The X-Wing's main armament, it has one of these mounted on each of its wingtips. They are powerful, reliable weapons capable of a wide variety of firing modes.
  
• Krupx MG9 proton torpedo launchers: The fighter has two of these, each with a payload of four torpedoes. They are mounted to either side of the lower chassis, just ahead of the engines, and fire on the forward arc.

Defensive Systems:

• Chempat "Paladin IV" deflector shield generators: A robust design, these dual deflector shield generators protect against enemy energy weaponry. They can absorb a great deal of punishment, their rugged reliability one of the keystones to the X-Wing's enduring success. Thanks to the astromech, the shields can be rapidly adjusted even in flight. Typically, one generator is set to double a facing, while the other provides full-sphere coverage.
  
• Miradyne 4x-Phantom C jammer: This electronic warfare package protects the X-Wing from enemy targeting computers and fire control systems. It combines a DERP with a full-spectrum distortion projector, most effective against other fighters and small ships and practically ineffective against capital ships.
  The DERP works by absorbing and blocking incoming long-range sensor pings and transmissions broadcast by enemy ships, rendering the Pantha-X invisible to most enemy scanners, targeting computers, and incoming missiles at range.
  The full-spectrum distortion projector portion of the Pantha-X's electronic countermeasures attempts to block all scanners and targeting computers by using broadband transmitters intended to interfere with sensors attempting to target it. While more powerful than the DERP, it is shorter-ranged. X-Wings operating in concert with each other and allied ships have a system of exceptions that, while exceptionally difficult to exploit, enable them to communicate and function normally.

Other Systems:

• Microaxial LpL-449 navigation computer: A limited navicomp, this holds the data for two pre-programmed jumps. The navicomp is intended as a backup for the astromech, but is also capable of slaving its jump coordinates off of another ship with a full astrogation computer.
  
• Fabritech ANs-7e sensor unit: A good sensor suite, this enables the X-wing to detect enemies outside of visual spectra. It includes multi-spectrum scanning and magnetic resonance imaging.
  
• PA-94 long-ranged phased tachyon detection array: This long-ranged sensor provides faster-than-light detection of other ships.
  
• PG-7u short-ranged primary threat analysis grid: A sophisticated analysis suite, this tracks, identifies, and paints targets based on their IFFs, silhouettes, and markings.
  
• R-series Industrial Automata astromech slot: Located behind the cockpit, this iconic component of the X-Wing series enables it to use any R-series astromech droid. With minor modifications, it can take other astro droids as well.
  
• Fabritech ANq 6.1 targeting/tracking computer: Used to acquire targeting locks for the proton torpedoes, this has a better than 98.6% accuracy rate. Against opponents employing jammers, however, this accuracy drops to somewhere between 40%-65%, depending on the quality of the jammer and the distance between the X-wing and its target.
  The ANq 6.1 provides full-sphere firing data for up to thirty-two targets within its range.
  
• IN-344-B "Sightline" holographic imaging system: This in-cockpit HUD projects painted target markers to assist the pilot in engaging his foes. Responding to voice commands, the imaging system is able to display anything from just the target marker to range and bearing to full detailed analysis and possible threat potential of the targets depending on setting.
  
• Expandable inertial compensator field: First developed in the Yuuzhan Vong War and retained only in a handful of legacy designs - including the Pantha-X - expandable inertial compensators protect the ship's shields against dovin basals.
  
• Belly hard point: Given that it was designed as a multi-role fighter, the X-Wing has the capability of mounting any one of several different components on the belly hard point. Anything from an ion cannon to another proton torpedo launcher to an anti-ship assault concussion missile to a recon suite can link onto the hard point with a minimum of modification, enabling the same fighter to serve in roles ranging from fighter to raider to scout and beyond - changing from role to role in under ten minutes of work.
  
• Flank hard points: Very similar to the belly hard point, the Pantha-X has a pair of these located to the sides of the cockpit just ahead of the engines.

Description: The workhorse of the Rebel fleet and each of the successor states since, the X-Wing line has enjoyed a long reign as one of the leading fighter designs in the galaxy. While it has phased in and out of favor as times, tactics, and technology changed, the X-Wing's versatility and strong performance in all areas has ensured that it remains a viable option even as fighter technology spawned new and increasingly specialized designs. Important to the X-Wing's longevity is the fact that Incom has refused to rest on their laurels, and has kept updating the designs as technology advanced. The newest line, the T-65K, has even begun to incorporate a rarity among starfighter designs - a plug-and-play hard point. While enabling Incom to make extra cash selling the components, it has also exponentially expanded the number of roles an individual fighter can fill.

T-65Ks are smaller than many of their predecessor models and most other space superiority fighters, taking advantage of advances in miniaturization while providing just as much power as the T-65XJ-series - as well as heavier armor than most previous X-Wing designs thanks to the surplus thrust the reduced mass freed up. This has led to them being nicknamed Pantha-X, after the Mantessan predator famed for being able to take on creatures much larger than it and win.

Its main failing, if the Pantha-X can be said to have one, is that the inclusion of the hard point has reduced the amount of cargo and supplies that the X-Wing can carry, a problem readily addressed by the use of cargo pods which secure to anchors on the rear of the craft, to either side of the fuselage, and on the top of the upper two engines.

There are two-seater X-Wings, typically used as trainers and fighter-bombers, designated as T-65K9T. The T-65K9T is nearly identical to the standard Pantha-X, save that it is just about a meter and a half longer at 13.25 meters long and has space in the cockpit for a co-pilot seated directly behind the pilot.