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The LL-444 Interceptor is suited for both planetary and capital ship
deployment. Able to scramble very quickly to defend strategic
resources, the LL-444 is intended as a fast attack craft – zipping into
range with a hard-hitting strafe of its weapons systems against enemy
targets, before breaking off out of range, ready to come in again with
additional strikes, moving faster than many enemy guns can target.
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The LL-444 was initially intended mainly as an anti-fighter
starfighter, however its weapons are powerful enough, when enough craft
are present, to penetrate the shields and hulls of small capital
ships. But capital ships are more normally left to dedicated
strikefighters, heavy fighters, or other capital ships.
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It mounts two heavy laser cannon on the wingtips and also has two medium Gauss Cannons in the tubes at the front. It would be theoretically possible to strip out the lasers and mount a
single Graser or X-Ray laser, either of which would be much more
powerful individually, but then the rate of fire would be drastically
reduced and the entire rationale behind the design would be lost as the
ship would have to slow to allow the larger weapons the time to inflict
the damage necessary.
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LL-444s are not intended for long deployment and are unsuited for
escort duties as their duration per sortie is limited. They are best
used in a CSP (Combat Space Patrol) function – brief two-hour patrols
around friendly facilities – or maintained in a “ready” status on
landing pads or in launch tubes for immediate action if hostile ships
come into range.
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