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Space Fighter

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Space Fighter	comment	More commonly called a Starfighter, this is an absolutely ubiquitous trope in Science Fiction (and especially Space Opera): A small, one-man Cool Starship equipped with Slow Lasers and Macross Missiles, used by the Ace Pilot for Old School Dogfighting. A great many Science Fiction protagonists are dashing Space Fighter pilots, and a fair number are Military Maverick types who don't follow the rules. Some Space Fighters have room for two (or, rarely, more) crewmembers rather than a single pilot, but all are small and nimble, in contrast with larger Cool Starships such as The Mothership or The Battlestar. Typically Space Fighters are dependent on a larger vessel, since they themselves lack the space for supplies or (often) a Faster Than Light Drive; however, there are exceptions. Battlestars will deploy Space Fighters against enemy Cool Starships with an appropriate Fighter-Launching Sequence. Fortunately for the Ace Pilot and his Wing Man, large enemy ships will usually turn out to be Point Defenseless—at least as far as the protagonists' Plot Armor-equipped Space Fighters are concerned. Thus the enemy will need to scramble Fighters of their own. An Old-School Dogfight will ensue. Expect many a Red Shirt Space Pilot to lose their life, thus underscoring just how risky The Hero's profession is, and making him or her seem all the more glamorous and heroic for it. Quite often the Space Fighter will look just like a Cool Plane, because Space Is Air. At the very least, it's likely to have wings. This goes along with the use of the Old-School Dogfight, and is largely Rule of Cool: Whether a Space Fighter has wings or not doesn't necessarily have any bearing on whether it will ever be shown operating in an atmosphere. If it can fight in the air as well as in space, it's also a Space Plane. Hard science fiction may instead employ more utilitarian-looking starfighters, with lots of engines and a completely un-aerodynamic shape. Some works may even opt for replacing Space Fighters with unmanned weapon systems controlled remotely or by AI—though in a setting involving Brain Uploading and The Singularity, the differences between a manned Space fighter and an Attack Drone could be very subtle. As far as Real Life goes, actual designs for manned orbital spacecraft that could charitably be called space fighters do exist, and the Soviet Union even launched a Space Station (the Almaz program) armed with a cannon similar to those used on atmospheric fighters as a test of the concept (they destroyed some defunct satellites). The USA, meanwhile, developed a missile that, while launched from within the atmosphere, effectively turned any plane that carried it into a space fighter, the ASM-135 ASAT. While it never entered full production, a prototype was used to shoot down a satellite in 1984 after being launched from◊ a McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle thereafter referred to as the Celestial Eagle. See also Humongous Mecha (some may function as or even turn into Space Fighters). Space Fighters are a major part of the Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, and a common form of the Mook Mobile. If you're interested in discussing factors affecting the feasibility of Space Fighters in different settings, check out the Analysis page.
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Space Fighter / int_117d6924	comment	The first game in the Renegade Legion series, Interceptor, was entirely about these. Later games included various ways to factor them in - tank-warfare game Centurion included rules for strafing by fighters, while capital-ship game Leviathan included rules for how groups of fighters could damage capital ships and vice versa.
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Space Fighter / int_142657fa	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_142657fa	comment	The Fire LEO and RVR series of fighters in the Thunder Force series
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Space Fighter / int_14d341dc	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_14d341dc	comment	In Star Trek Online fighters are classified as "shuttle" ships and include most of the examples in the television entries; they're obviously much weaker than regular ships and are only used in story missions where the player's regular ship can't be used, like infiltrating a heavily defended space station that would obliterate your main ship if spotted. Carriers also use fighters as "hangar pets" that can be deployed to wear down enemy defense while your ship pounds them and can be very effective depending on the type of fighter used and the abilities of your character and ship, with all of the fighters you can pilot having a hanger pet variant and more exotic versions being available like fire-damage dealing lost souls used by the Klingons' version of the Legions of Hell to entire frigates if your ship can equip them. There are even consumable items that will grant you the use of fighters regardless of your ship class, though unlike hangar pets they don't regenerate so you can launch more.
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Space Fighter / int_15c6ea11	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): At the tail end of the Golden Age and dawn of the Silver Age the Amazons had fighters capable of space travel and portal jumps which helped Diana out against extraterrestrial foes. Fascinatingly the crafts' defenses required the pilots to exit them and stand on them to deflect bullets with their bracelets while relying on auto-pilot.
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Space Fighter / int_15c6ea92	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): The Sangtee Empire have space fighters which are sent to escort the slave transport freighters when Wondy's revolutionary crew start hijacking them en masse. Most of the fighters end up surrendered to the revolutionaries since their tech whiz finds a way to remotely disable their scanners and other parts of the ships, allowing the revolutionaries to surprise them.
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Space Fighter / int_169f043b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft's Terrans used Wraiths. By extension, Scouts and Corsairs from the Protoss. The Terran Vikings and Protoss Phoenixes from StarCraft II replace Wraiths and Scouts in the fighter category. One of the scrapped Terran ships was the Predator, a fighter with a point defense system. The Scouts even look like they're more of a plane than starfighter. The Zerg have the Scourge, Mutalisk, Guardian, and Devourer as Living Ship equivalents to cruise missiles, fighters, bombers, and gunboats, respectively. Starcraft II phases out all of these except the Mutalisk, instead introducing the Corruptor as their air-to-air specialist (replacing Scourges and Devourers), which can morph into a Brood Lord, which is basically the same as the Guardian except its attack also leaves behind a Broodling to nibble on enemies.
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Space Fighter / int_17bfcf60	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld features multiple types of "strikecraft" which fulfilled various duties—scouting, defense, interception, and bombing. They can somewhat be used out of their roles with creativity, but the sequel Homeworld 2 intensifies the presence of Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. The semi-canonical sequel Homeworld: Cataclysm features the Acolyte-class heavy fighter used exclusively by Kith Somtaaw, based on Bentusi design. They are highly versatile and can fulfill multiple roles (armed with standard mass drivers but could also fire missiles). Additionally, two Acolytes can combine into a single Avenger-class composed vehicle (a corvette), which can bring down much larger ships with its EMP generator. A few missions feature the Bentusi originals; they don't have all the extra tricks of the Somtaaw version, but since their guns will tear through enemy craft of all kinds like tissue paper they don't need them. Homeworld and Homeworld: Cataclysm also have Attack Drones. The original ones were not very effective, but the design has evolved by Cataclysm.
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Space Fighter / int_192f731e	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_192f731e	comment	Moonlight Mile has more realistic depictions of space fighters which use reaction control system thrusters in a vacuum for rotation and movement instead of assuming Space Is Air. Thus, they don't need to be aerodynamic.
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Space Fighter / int_19350db9	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_19350db9	comment	Master of Orion II has Interceptors/Bombers/Heavy Fighters carried by ships and planetary bases.
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Space Fighter / int_1cc11947	comment	Descent was another important example, from the mid-90s.
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Space Fighter / int_1e82ffe9	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_1e82ffe9	comment	Both the nations of Earth and the Kafer make use of space fighters in 2300 AD. They are useful as independent missile launch platforms. Most of them are streamlined enough to enter an atmosphere as well, but some are designed only to operate in space.
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Space Fighter / int_21e4ee5c	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century used rejected models from Battlestar Galactica.
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Space Fighter / int_247422c7	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_247422c7	comment	The closest thing to starfighters in his Honor Harrington series are Light Attack Craft, or LACs for short. David Weber has gone to some length to explain that they are not actually fighters, but rather old school torpedo boats in space. They are VERY large by Space Fighter standards (over 70 metres long and massing over 20,000 tonnes) and require a minimum crew of ten, with most early examples being relegated to Cannon Fodder status. After ship-killer "Super" LACs carrying battlecruiser-grade grasers are introduced, "anti-LAC" LACs begin appearing, but they are still too big, too clunky, have too large a crew and are nowhere near manouverable enough to be true Space Fighters. However, when explaining the usefulness of the new LAC carriers, Honor does draw the parallel to the 20th-century Earth and the impact of aircraft carriers on naval warfare, especially since the new LACs have spinal-mounted weapons, meaning they have to face the enemy to fire. However, the development of bow and stern walls means they can take "down the throat" and "up the kilt" hits and still have a chance of surviving (although they can't maneuver rapidly or accelerate while using these walls). A big emphasis is placed on the different LAC doctrines used by the star nations fielding these. Manticoran LACs are primarily designed for anti-capital ship roles (although they usually can't go up against dreadnoughts or superdreadnoughts). The less powerful Haven LACs are designed for anti-LAC roles. This also affects the size of each side's LAC carriers (CLACs). With the need to attack, Manticorans build dreadnought-sized CLACs, while Havenites, using them mainly for defense, can afford to build the slower superdrednought-sized carriers. Of note are the Grayson Katana-class LACs, which are designed from the get-go to go up against enemy LACs, even though, at the time, no such thing exists. They are, basically, The Alliance's equivalent of Haven's Cimiterres, but with the advantage of Alliance tech. Manticorian LAC doctrine later shifts to focus more on the screening role with LACs (especially Katanas) being used to provide additional anti-missile defense for the wall of battle in place of the traditional destroyers and cruisers. They also make extensive use of LACs in a system defense role. While they can't stop a major attack they are more than sufficient to defend against raiding squadrons, particularly when backed up by large numbers of missile pods.
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Space Fighter / int_2604077	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_2604077	comment	Obi-Wan Kenobi: Several fighters show up over the course of the series. These included Anakin Skywalker's Eta-2 Actis-class fighter and a N-1 fighter in a flash back scene. The series also introdcuced the Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter.
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Space Fighter / int_2acb12c5	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_2acb12c5	comment	The X-Universe series' space fighters are clearly designed to be similar to atmospheric ships, but not so similar as to look silly. Each race has five different fighter classes (M5 scoutship, M4 interceptor, M4+note pronounced em-four-plus heavy interceptor, M3 fighter, M3+ heavy fighter) that may be further subdivided into variant models.
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Space Fighter / int_2ea6ae26	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard introduces the Romulan Snakehead fighter, a single-pilot scout ship that packs a lot of firepower for its small size.
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Space Fighter / int_36ee2abe	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_36ee2abe	comment	The Paranoia adventure "Clones in Space" had Pie Fighters (a Shout-Out to Star Wars TIE Fighters).
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Space Fighter / int_37fc51ce	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_37fc51ce	comment	Despite the rarity of Space Fighters, the Trek Verse did eventually feature Old School Dogfights, especially during some of the battle scenes of the Dominion War: abandoning their previous Space Is an Ocean analogies, they showed their starships maneuvering like space fighters. (The Defiant gets something of a bye for being tiny by Star Trek standards.)
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Space Fighter / int_38fa34eb	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Wonder Woman (1942): At the tail end of the Golden Age and dawn of the Silver Age the Amazons had fighters capable of space travel and portal jumps which helped Diana out against extraterrestrial foes. Fascinatingly the crafts' defenses required the pilots to exit them and stand on them to deflect bullets with their bracelets while relying on auto-pilot. Wonder Woman (1987): The Sangtee Empire have space fighters which are sent to escort the slave transport freighters when Wondy's revolutionary crew start hijacking them en masse. Most of the fighters end up surrendered to the revolutionaries since their tech whiz finds a way to remotely disable their scanners and other parts of the ships, allowing the revolutionaries to surprise them.
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Space Fighter / int_3fe6b4fb	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In the New Jedi Order series, the coralskipper is the ubiquitous fighter flown by Yuuzhan Vong pilots. It's so-called because it's actually grown from a kind of coral, though apparently the name loses a great deal of menace in translation from the Yuuzhan Vong language(Yorik-Et). But the skipper is very formidable its plasma cannons rip through shields and steel, and its engine can also suck up blaster fire with a mini black hole.
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Space Fighter / int_43a9c333	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_43a9c333	comment	The three main cast members of Cowboy Bebop each crew have one, and they're all named after fish. Spike has his Swordfish II, Jet pilots the Hammerhead and Faye uses the Redtail.
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Space Fighter / int_4937d0d9	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4937d0d9	comment	Sins of a Solar Empire also has "strikecraft" of two kinds — fighters and bombers. Bombers are designed to attack cruisers, capital ships and structures while fighters take on lighter vessels, bombers and other fighters. The TEC fighters and bombers, and Advent fighters look like atmospheric craft with streamlining, although they aren't meant to attack planets at all. The Advent bombers and Vasari strikecraft do not look atmospheric, but aren't utilitarian either — they're just Rule of Cool based Shiny-Looking Spaceships. All strikecraft act like atmospheric aircraft in terms of maneuvering, partake in Old School Dogfights and strafing, and can only be targeted by flak frigates, certain capital ship abilities and enemy fighters. TEC and Vasari strikecraft are classical one-man types, while Advent strikecraft are remotely piloted drones. The Rebellion Expansion Pack adds corvettes, which are slightly larger than strike craft, but are also better armed and armored. They are able to attack both strike craft and capital ships and can be used as fighters when in swarms.
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Space Fighter / int_4945cc41	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4945cc41	comment	Strange Adventures In Infinite Space has fighters for several races, including humans (although the only human fighter you find during the campaign is that of Ripcord O'Reily). However, they are extremely easy to destroy and are only a threat in large numbers (or if they come in at you from behind, where your weapons can't target). The sequel has several races feature carriers that periodically launch fighters (one is a full-fledged Battlestar and will rip you to shreds if you get too close).
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Space Fighter / int_4a059a74	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian: Both X-wings and TIE fighters made appearances in both the first and second season of the series, including one very well known X-wing.
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Space Fighter / int_4a6ef2c5	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	Omnipresent in Space Battleship Yamato. The Argo/Yamato doubled as a carrier, after all. The 2010 Live-Action Adaptation added the twist that the fighters were used to gather targeting information for capital ships and their heavy guns.
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Space Fighter / int_4edff9aa	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4edff9aa	comment	The Arwings of the Star Fox series
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Space Fighter / int_4ff41a9c	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_4ff41a9c	comment	Origins, being based on Mass Effect, Star Wars, Borderlands, and Halo has scads of these. They mostly exist as Zerg Rush flavor-text, but several examples stick out. Par for the course with Star Wars-inspired fighters, they're all capable of fulfilling the role of Space Plane by operating in-atmosphere if needed. Fireant blastboats have enough weaponry to level cities (and are unsurprisingly used to do exactly that). The younger version of Maya takes to piloting one when allowed, and the Fireants become an Awesome Personnel Carrier...IN SPACE!!!!! Punishers are basically what happens if a TIE Defender and TIE Phantom had a baby. Some have cloaks (not the one the main characters use of course), all have Slow Lasers, can unleash a Macross Missile Massacre, possess self-healing hulls, and heavy Deflector Shields. Unlike the Open Secrets surrounding cloaking devices, superlasers, and a giant not-military-military, these monster TIEs seem relatively well-hidden by comparison, as most people don't know about them. The maneuverability of Normandy SR-2.5 plus its heavy novalasers allow it to act like one compared to "frigate"-weight ships from the Star Wars universe. Raptor fighters are completely average by comparison but rack up a 3:1 ratio against Reaper Oculus.
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Space Fighter / int_50749345	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_50749345	comment	The Angel Frames from Galaxy Angel.
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Space Fighter / int_522196a7	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_522196a7	comment	Lancer: The Knights of Fenris is a Space Opera set in a Feudal Future. The protagonists are space pilots called Knights who fly Ace Custom fighters called "Lancers".
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Space Fighter / int_548cf63	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_548cf63	comment	In The Flight Engineer, there are Speeds and WACCIs. Speeds are fast, agile ships armed with a pair of mass drivers that fire molten copper particles, while WACCIs are stealth recon ships with a single mass driver for defense.
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Space Fighter / int_54a7dc07	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_54a7dc07	comment	Eagles, the workhorses of Space: 1999, were sometimes fitted with a laser and pressed into the role of fighters to defend Moonbase Alpha. One episode featured Mark IX Hawks, a specialised space superiority fighter built on Earth yet somehow being used by hostile aliens, which should probably have raised some red flags.
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Space Fighter / int_611c72dc	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_611c72dc	comment	In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, Starfleet finally gets around to creating advanced space fighters dedicated to combat in the aftermath of the Borg Invasion. They're introduced in the later half of the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch.
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Space Fighter / int_61de95d6	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_61de95d6	comment	Freelancer has the majority of pilotable spacecraft being fighters. You can get yourself a bulky freighter, but then you may as well paint a large target on its hull. On the other hand, the high-end space fighters in this game tend to be incredibly overpowered, as throughout the campaign you'll find yourself routinely taking out cruisers and battleships in your one-man fighter.
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Space Fighter / int_62aa95a6	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_62aa95a6	comment	Averted in The Lost Fleet novels. Due to the mass/thruster ratio, fighters are simply no match for larger warships (i.e. they can't maneuver as atmospheric fighters), and any computer targeting system capable of hitting anything while traveling at 10% of the speed of light can definitely track a small fighter. Fast Attack Craft (or Short-Range Attack Craft, as they were known in Geary's time) are capable of space and atmospheric flight, which is why they are normally used near planets or space stations. Corvettes get slightly more use by the Syndics, especially the so-called Hunter-Killers, which are a cross between a corvette and a destroyer. "Nickel" corvettes are used to patrol systems far from any border, as they're virtually useless.
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Space Fighter / int_67a9bbe6	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_67a9bbe6	comment	Take off every "zig!"
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Space Fighter / int_67c0a723	comment	In Worldwar the three main human powers have de facto space fighters by the early 1960s, designed to attack the Race's orbiting ships with nuclear weapons in case another conflict erupts. When the Nazis do end up opening a new war with the Race, their fighters get wiped out by their more advanced opponents but take out a few of the Lizards' ships.
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Space Fighter / int_6e0e351	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_6e0e351	comment	Present in every Escape Velocity game. The original has by far the biggest assortment, ranging from the strictly anti-fighter Defender on up to the Rapier, a heavy fighter-bomber that can take on capital ships in skilled hands. EV Override gives a single fighter model to each faction (except the Miranu, who use the standard Crescent fighter (so do the Igadzra and the Strandless, but the Crescent fighter is that faction-divided species' design, and not an import), and the Voinians, who have a heavy fighter and an interceptor). In EV Nova, carrier-based fighters are pretty useless against anything except other fighters; they don't mount weapons big enough to be anything more than an irritant to capital ships. The exception is the game breaking Polaris Manta, which is well-shielded, faster and more maneuverable than any other ship in the game, and mounts a gun worthy of a light capital ship (the Vell-os Dart would be another exception, but in addition to being much rarer it has an odd relationship with "space fighter" and especially with "carried-based" — Darts are formed by the psionic energies of the Vell-os pilot, except for "carried" Darts that are formed and controlled by the Vell-os controlling the "carrier").
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Space Fighter / int_6e1d5f36	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape has Peacekeeper Prowlers. Also, Scarran Fighters from the Miniseries, and D'argo's Luxan fighter. The Sheyangs launched fighter pods from their capitol ships.
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Space Fighter / int_70814599	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Notable in that the villains have space fighters from the very start, but the good guys have to develop theirs slowly, over several seasons. But, as with all Goa'uld technology, their Death Gliders were more impressive than practical. They were mostly used for strafing ground targets, but were frequently shown fighting in space as the show went on and started featuring more Space Battles. We see the first Tau'ri attempt to build a Space fighter in Season 4. It is built using two damaged Goa'uld Death Gliders that were stolen at the beginning of Season 2, and that were also shown getting worked on in a lab in an earlier episode. This prototype fails spectacularly. It's not until Season 6 that a successful prototype Space Fighter is fielded by Stargate Command, and it's not until Season 7 that the production model gets built, and sees actual combat for the first time. Though if you consider it, that's only five years between initial capture of the technology and fielding a practical unit. Five years in which they have to reverse-engineer advanced technology and re-create it with human tech. Not half bad for an R&D project of that magnitude. It also constituted a nice change of pace from Failure Is the Only Option and Status Quo Is God, since the SGC's mission was to find alien technology to bring back to Earth to help build weapons against the Goa'uld. The X-301 prototype failure in Season 4 occurred because the engineers left too much of the original Death Gliders' technology in the fighter, including, as it turned out, a recall device installed on Apophis' orders after Teal'c's defection. In the later seasons, they figured out how to reverse-engineer more of this technology, finally allowing for the creation of a fully human-built fighter, instead of a hybrid of human and Black Box alien technology.
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Space Fighter / int_73d7930f	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_73d7930f	comment	In some of the later episodes of Deep Space Nine, the unimaginatively named "Federation Fighters" could occasionally be seen. These fully fit the trope. In one episode, we see squadrons of them zipping in and out, harassing Cardassian warships. We see that while the fighters are very fast and nimble, they only take one or two shots from a starship's beam weapons to get swatted. These fighters◊ themselves appear to be considerably bigger than a shuttle even so.
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Space Fighter / int_7460586f	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7460586f	comment	In Archer 1999, Carol Tunt pilots an escort fighter that can be launched from and docked in the cargo bay of the Archer Crew's ship, the Seamus.
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Space Fighter / int_74c659e6	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_74c659e6	comment	Since the setting is called Rocket Age, it's practically mandatory for there to be Rocket Fighters, small two person rocket ships equipped for dog fighting.
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Space Fighter / int_755b343f	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The Covenant Seraphs and UNSC Longswords. Rarely seen on camera but in the novelizations they are threats to be reckoned with. Reach introduces the Covenant Space Banshee and the UNSC Sabre, and Halo 4 gives us the UNSC Broadsword. Notably, the Longsword is more of a missile boat than a fighter, making it somewhat more plausible than most implementations of this trope. The C-712 variant is 35 meters long with a wingspan greater than its length, and masses 180 tons. The larger C-709 variant is 64 meters with a wingspan of 75 meters, and (scaling from the C-709) would mass over 1,100 tons. It's equipped with three automatic 110-120mm cannons (about the same size as the 5-inch guns mounted on modern navy destroyers) and four high-explosive missiles that, judging by the image in Warfleet, compare favorably in volume to modern medium anti-ship missiles. It can also carry a single tactical nuclear warhead. There's a reason that even massive capital ships like Marathon-class and Epoch-class only carry a couple dozen Longswords - with much smaller light carriers presumably carrying only a few.
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Space Fighter / int_7668653b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7668653b	comment	They are finally featured in all their glory in Mass Effect 3.
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Space Fighter / int_77677ed1	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_77677ed1	comment	Averted by design in Sword of the Stars. The makers have stated that, with destroyers about 30 metres already, fighters would be at least half that size, FTL-incapable and fall quickly to point-defense, so they will not be included for now. The closest to them are the various unmanned Attack Drones, which are indeed FTL-incapable and swattable by PD. The second game has "battleriders" that are the size of the first game's destroyers or larger, have no FTL drives, and are launched from carriers or fixed bases. More like gunboats than fighters, especially since they max out at dreadnought size.
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Space Fighter / int_7832b74c	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Stevonnie pilots a custom-made fighter ship called the Star Skipper that was designed by Lars in the battle against Emerald's ship.
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Space Fighter / int_7988cb68	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect, though rarely seen, they do exist, albeit mostly as support craft to keep enemy fire away from larger Frigates, Cruisers and Dreadnoughts. Their main job in combat is to Zerg Rush enemy ships, cause the point-defense lasers to overheat, and deliver torpedoes to weaken kinetic barriers so bigger ships can use their mass accelerators to take down opposing vessels. That being said, their original use was somewhat limited until it was revolutionised by the Alliance who introduced the concept of a Carrier to the Galaxy, allowing for large squadrons of their to be launched at once. The Alliance also appears to have pioneered the use of Interceptors in order to counter-attack enemy dogfighters, leaving their Fighter Squadrons free to bring down enemy ships. They are finally featured in all their glory in Mass Effect 3.
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Space Fighter / int_79e4edd2	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_79e4edd2	comment	Crying Suns has Fighters as one of its four squadron types, along with Drones, Frigates and Cruisers. Fighters trump Drones but lose to Frigates in the gameâ€™s Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors system.
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Space Fighter / int_7a4a668c	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7a4a668c	comment	Captain Harlock: The Arcadia crew has Space Wolfs and Cosmo Wings. To demonstrate that Kei is an Action Girl, she pilots a Wolf flawlessly.
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Space Fighter / int_7de8951a	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller had a variety of small fighter ships.
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Space Fighter / int_7efcefbb	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7efcefbb	comment	The Blobs and Empire factions have their own variants in Star Realms. As the two most militant groups, they're the only ones the field space fighters. Based on the art work, the Viper card looks the part, but is rather ambiguous in regards to classification.
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Space Fighter / int_7f707367	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7f707367	comment	Freespace has you flying fighters in the Standard Sci Fi Setting. Freespace 2, the still-quite-popular sequel, has an involving storyline, and received numerous awards.
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Space Fighter / int_7f87dafc	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED's Moebius fighter is actually one of the more realistic designs out there for a space fighter. They were completely armored, with the pilots seeing everything over monitors, and their main weapon was a long range linear cannon, with four missiles as backup and twin Gatling guns for emergency usage only. They didn't have wings and their engines were movable. Ironically, before developing their Mobile Suits, ZAFT also had space fighters that had glass cockpits and wings, and these are noted in the fluff to have stood no chance in fighting a Moebius. Fighters like the FX-550 Skygrasper and its space variant the Cosmograsper can equip them selves with mobile Suit weapon packs either to support the MS or transfer them to the MS in the field.
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Space Fighter / int_80e838cd	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_80e838cd	comment	Tachyon: The Fringe's gameplay takes place entirely in fighters, given that Jake Logan is a fighter pilot by trade. Capital ships exist, but seem to mainly be used as carriers. Additionally, while fighters are not FTL-capable, they use TCG gates to jump between sectors, while capital ships are too big to fit into the gates. They may be too big, but all cap ships have their own tachyon coil generators and can enter Subspace or Hyperspace at will (usually preceded by the typical "accelerate fast into nothingness" animation), although the fluff indicates that they still use the gates as navigating beacons.
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Space Fighter / int_815220e8	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_815220e8	comment	The Autobots and Decepticons in Transformers: Armada both use Space Fighters when they join forces to battle Unicron.
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Space Fighter / int_81692f99	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Largely avoided Space Fighters in favour of larger ships, but they did show up on some rare occasions, mostly in Deep Space Nine. The Maquis used small ships somewhat similar to Space Fighters, and some rarely-seen old Bajoran ships fit the bill. The Dominion had ships called fighters, but these were really small warships, and had enough space for a full-sized crew. Usually, it seemed large ships in Star Trek had weapons both accurate and powerful enough to easily take out fighters, no matter how small and manoeuvrable (which would certainly explain why they're rarely seen). Maquis fighters were shown to have a crew of 4, except in the pilot of Voyager where one inexplicably has a crew of about 20. In some of the later episodes of Deep Space Nine, the unimaginatively named "Federation Fighters" could occasionally be seen. These fully fit the trope. In one episode, we see squadrons of them zipping in and out, harassing Cardassian warships. We see that while the fighters are very fast and nimble, they only take one or two shots from a starship's beam weapons to get swatted. These fighters◊ themselves appear to be considerably bigger than a shuttle even so. All incarnations of Star Trek featured small shuttle-craft, and these were usually armed, but almost never filled the role of a Space Fighter (with the Delta Flyer in Voyager occasionally being an exception). Despite the rarity of Space Fighters, the Trek Verse did eventually feature Old School Dogfights, especially during some of the battle scenes of the Dominion War: abandoning their previous Space Is an Ocean analogies, they showed their starships maneuvering like space fighters. (The Defiant gets something of a bye for being tiny by Star Trek standards.) "The Best of Both Worlds" did feature a wave of (automated?) fighters sent to take on the Borg Cube... that lasted for all of about 3 seconds. In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, Starfleet finally gets around to creating advanced space fighters dedicated to combat in the aftermath of the Borg Invasion. They're introduced in the later half of the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch. Small aerodynamic craft were also flown by an acrobatics group Wesley Crusher was a part of. The Kazon made use of both single-person fighters, boarding shuttles with modified hull-piercing tips, small warships called "raiders" (which were autonomous vessels with multiple decks) and huge carriers (rarer than the raiders, but could carry multiple raiders and fighters). The raiders resembled scaled-up fighters with several decks and a bridge instead of a simple cockpit. The Romulans and Remans have Scorpion-class fighter shuttles. Star Trek: Picard introduces the Romulan Snakehead fighter, a single-pilot scout ship that packs a lot of firepower for its small size.
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Space Fighter / int_85b998b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_85b998b	comment	Conquest: Frontier Wars has fighters as the main offensive weapon of the Mantis. Even their most powerful ship class, the Tiamat, is nothing more than a huge carrier that launches wings of anti-ship bombers and has no other weapons. Strangely enough, humans are the ones who don't have any fighters until the Mantis rebels give them plans for their own carrier. Even then, humans don't use them nearly as much as the Mantis. The Celareons don't even have fighters and rely on capital ships instead. Most ships are Point Defenseless. Each race only has one type of ship with any sort of anti-fighter weaponry (usually the cheapest). Fighters do often allow the Mantis to attack from beyond visual range, though, often requiring the fleet being attacked to look for the carrier (sometimes across a nebula or Asteroid Thicket). This is the reason why, of all the resources, the Mantis tend to rely on "population" the most.
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Space Fighter / int_8832bf9a	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_8832bf9a	comment	Commander Kitty calls them Skyflys. They apparently come in many shapes and sizes, though the most commonly seen are those employed by the Triple-I, which despite having cockpits are typically piloted by robotic drones.
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Space Fighter / int_8ac4e993	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_8ac4e993	comment	The various universes and timeliness of Gundam show space fighters either as predecessors that were entirely replaced by Mobile Suit Mecha or continue to be used as support units for mecha. However in many respects these Humongous Mecha are THE Space Fighters in the metaseries, just humanoid to account for the AMBAC (Active Mass Balance Auto-Control) system, which shifts the mass of hands and legs of the mecha to change the direction the mecha is facing to save propellant and shift the centre of mass away from the main body for evasive action. Mobile Suit Gundam had both the Federation and Zeon using Space Fighters in combat before they developed their own Mobile Suits. Zeon's Gattle fighter was one of the odder designs in the series, with a second cockpit off to the side of the main one. While space fighters were mostly replaced by MS they continued development and production well past the One Year War for example the FF-S4 Daggerfish. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED's Moebius fighter is actually one of the more realistic designs out there for a space fighter. They were completely armored, with the pilots seeing everything over monitors, and their main weapon was a long range linear cannon, with four missiles as backup and twin Gatling guns for emergency usage only. They didn't have wings and their engines were movable. Ironically, before developing their Mobile Suits, ZAFT also had space fighters that had glass cockpits and wings, and these are noted in the fluff to have stood no chance in fighting a Moebius. Fighters like the FX-550 Skygrasper and its space variant the Cosmograsper can equip them selves with mobile Suit weapon packs either to support the MS or transfer them to the MS in the field. Many Gundam universes contain Core Fighters which are combination of Escape Pod and Space Fighters. When the MS gets destroyed the Core Fighter will detach and try to escape at high speed. While extremely weak against MS they can be armed and can be used as fighters on their own. Other variation common to many Gundam universes is Fighters that can both fight independently AND play the Combining Mecha to merge with with MS to boost it. Notable example include G-Falcon from Gundam X, GN Arms and GN Raiser from 00 and Kutan Type-III from IBO.
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Space Fighter / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element: Space fighters make a brief appearance, shooting down the friendly alien ship carrying the protagonist.
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Space Fighter / int_90c73dda	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs has several. The Yeerks use Bug Fighters, which look like mechanical insects. They were stolen from a similar Andalite ship, the main difference being the position of the "tail" that contains the dracon or shredder cannon.
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Space Fighter / int_90e2f673	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech has Aerospace Fighters, which are every bit as well-armed and armored as the setting's Humongous Mecha (in some cases even mechs themselves can qualify for this trope). FASA even created two specialist games, Aerotech, for those who wanted to play the transatmospheric battles between fighters and Drop Ships that preceded the land battles of the main game, and Battlespace, for full space battles between Dropships and Warships. (The modern edition of BattleTech puts basic aerospace combat into its core rulebook, with more 'advanced' options—such as the alternative movement rules mentioned below or the use of unit types beyond just fighters, small craft, and DropShips—handled in subsequent volumes.) The interesting thing about AeroTech is that it also allowed you to actually choose whether you wanted to play Old-School Dogfight straight or avert it altogether by using the advanced movement rules for space-based combat. The "cool plane" designs are justified as the Aerospace fighters of the setting are intended to operate in or out of atmosphere.
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Space Fighter / int_91c7e65	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_91c7e65	comment	There are nominally fighters in The Forever War, but they're the size of gunboats (normally crewed by 3 people, but can take up to 12, they need to be that size to fit in all the support equipment for the crew when manoeuvring at 25 G), and end up getting treated more like shuttles (Drones can move at 100s of Gs, and are smaller).
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Space Fighter / int_91f0110a	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_91f0110a	comment	The R-352 Sepia in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is flown in the single mission that takes place in space. It is armed with various Beam Spam generators and used to shoot down enemy satellites.
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Space Fighter / int_9353169	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_9353169	comment	Angels 2200 features several types of space fighters, with several more described in the series bible. The most frequently portrayed are the Siren-class medium fighters used by the protagonists.
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Space Fighter / int_9fb9bec4	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: These used to be one of the Loroi's main offensive tools, often using liquid breathing mediums to protect their pilots against the massive g-forces they went through, but they didn't prove very suitable for the long war of attrition against the Umiak and are now mainly delegated to missile defense. The Umiak do not employ fighters, since they evolved on low-gravity worlds and can't handle 30+ g's of acceleration; inertial dampeners are too big for fighters.
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Space Fighter / int_a0bfcecb	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_a0bfcecb	comment	Haegemonia: Legions of Iron has fighter wings as your first buildable warships. They're fairly weak and usually go down from one or two shots, but each wing has 7 of them (the Expansion Pack has larger wings). Like larger ships, fighters can be armed with one of four types of weapons (proton, missile, ion, quantum). Turreted corvettes can usually take out fighters pretty quickly, effectively making them obsolete. Their only real use after that is to raid Asteroid Miners, go after discovered spies, or harass larger ships not equipped with turrets. Given the Arbitrary Headcount Limit, most players stop building fighters once they research larger ships. The intro, though, has extremely-advanced fighters (equipped with two weapon systems) ambushing the Martian ambassador's shuttle, sparking the war between Earth and its colonies.
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Space Fighter / int_a2a386c9	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm makes a few references to nano-scale space fighters. But for the most part, self-replicating "Autowars" are preferred to craft piloted by flimsy hominids.
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Space Fighter / int_a40b1126	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_a40b1126	comment	Partially subverted in Independence Day, where the alien attackers are certainly capable of flight and combat in space, but the vast majority of scenes involving them happen within the atmosphere.
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Space Fighter / int_a9830146	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_a9830146	comment	in Terinu: Rufus' beloved Swift Wing model fighter, the White Knight. It has laser cannons and missiles, and Word of God states is about forty years old, but regularly takes out Galapados mook mobiles.
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Space Fighter / int_aedc983a	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_aedc983a	comment	The Wing Commander series is all about starfighter combat, with some of the fighters also being atmospheric capable. The first game came out in 1990, and heavily influenced how the genre developed. Spiritual Successors helmed by the same designer, Chris Roberts, include Starlancer, Freelancer and Star Citizen, and likewise retain the emphasis on starfighter combat, though the latter two let you start veering into larger ships.
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Space Fighter / int_b6ba8ee	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_b6ba8ee	comment	The Lucifer's Star series has starfighters playing a huge role in combat. They're specifically noted as weapons designed to get around capital ship's defenses and soften up shields for larger vessels to destroy or to take down smaller ships. They have a lot of prestige, though, with Ace Pilot characters being propaganda tools.
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Space Fighter / int_b8c0a915	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_b8c0a915	comment	Early examples can be found in Space War and Asteroids, though the "ships" involved are simple icons.
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Space Fighter / int_ba197c24	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_ba197c24	comment	Starfleet Battles uses fighters extensively, despite there being none in the source materials. They primarily function to saturate enemy defenses and kill ships by simply being too numerous to stop. The result varies with the fighters and the target. Particularly effective are Hydran fighters (which are deployed on most Hydran ships) which were described in one tactical analysis as being like "roving nuclear spacemines". Two of them at point blank range will leave a cruiser a gutted wreck.
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Space Fighter / int_bbe35da	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_bbe35da	comment	Since space combat in Ark Royal is primarily carrier-based, fighters play a large role. Their primary goal is to keep the plasma-armed alien fighters away from the titular carrier. Ordinarily, there are also the heavier bombers, which can launch nuclear missiles at enemy capital ships, but the aliens' point defense is just too good, so no bomber can get close to launch a missile. Human fighters are ugly spherical pods with thrusters all over the hull to allow for maneuverability in space. As usual, a fighter is a One-Hit-Point Wonder. It's specifically stated that no one has been able to successfully design an aerospace fighter, since the requirements for air and space combat are radically different. One pilot does suspect that the more streamlined alien fighters may be able to land on planets.
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Space Fighter / int_bcadd7cb	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space-based fighter and bomber craft are more like gunboats, with crews of between four and sixteen depending on pattern and enough armament to level cities; necessary when the starships are at least a half-kilometer long and frequently plated in 80-100 meters of solid armor. Many Imperil aircraft, called Aeronautica, are capable of short periods of space travel, but lack the armor and engine power to mix it up with true spacecraft. It's more intended to allow them to launch from a spacecraft, conduct a mission against a planetary target, and return to the ship. In their 8th Edition background, the Tomb Blades used by the Necrons are said to have originally been developed during the War in Heaven as small, highly manoeuvrable void fighters. Fitted with high-yield weaponry and fielded in hundreds strong squadrons, the original Tomb Blades proved to be highly effective at destroying even enemy capital ships.
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Space Fighter / int_bef4b763	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_bef4b763	comment	Lost in Space played with the conventions of this trope, featuring several space fighter designs; the enemy raiders flew rather bulky, jet fighter-styled bombers, while Major West and his crewmate flew in bubble cockpits with gyroscopic seats, asymmetric, unfixed single wings and a main engine plus orientation thrusters that only fired when maneuvering. However, both followed Star Wars' example of ships banking like planes while still dogfighting on a completely three-dimensional plane.
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Space Fighter / int_c007e9c8	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond had star fighters used by both the Humans and the Chigs. The human fighters (the Hammerheads), carried missiles and mounted gun turrets in the chin and tail, while the Chig fighters used some sort of energy cannon. The Chigs' Super Prototype, a fast stealth fighter that was nigh invulnerable to the Hammerheads' weapons fire, flown by Chiggy Von Richtoffen. After three different squadrons tried and failed to take him down, the prototype was finally destroyed in a one-on-one fight with Colonel McQueen.
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Space Fighter / int_c5bf9810	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_c5bf9810	comment	Legacy of the Aldenata has the Space Falcon, developed to supplement the makeshift frigates guarding the solar system. It's explicitly stated that they are not capable of operating in an atmosphere.
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Space Fighter / int_cbad9b62	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_cbad9b62	comment	Legend of the Galactic Heroes has Space Fighters, although the action mostly focuses on large fleets of battleships. They are decidedly non-planelike.
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Space Fighter / int_cbf0ee94	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_cbf0ee94	comment	In EVE Online, Fighters and Fighter-Bombers can be launched by Carriers and Motherships. Unlike other ships, they're too small to fit the capsule system, so they can't be piloted by players. Instead, they're piloted by expendable NPCs, and functionally behave similar to the Attack Drones other ships have.
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Space Fighter / int_cc49cf71	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_cc49cf71	comment	Both played straight and averted in Il Ã‰tait Une Fois...... Space. Cassiopeian fighters as well as the Omega Confederation Dragonfly-class are somewhat large ships -seemingly with the size of a Real Life airliner-, with a crew of at least two people. However other races such as the Humanoids use small, one-man fighters.
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Space Fighter / int_d0a17774	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d0a17774	comment	Starfighter focuses on the crewmen of a starfighter wing stationed on a space station.
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Space Fighter / int_d0a5a846	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d0a5a846	comment	The Vic Viper of the Gradius series
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Space Fighter / int_d109f322	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda had the infamous Slipfighters from Archlike to Cerberus, all of which could operate in an atmosphere and could carry Nova bombs in addition to their array of seemingly overpowered conventional weaponry. Nietzschean Garuda-class fighters were also OP, with small packs of them being able to destroy High Guard and other Commonwealth capital ships and warships with ease. This could actually be one of the few cases where fighters would make sense, as Slipfighters are capable of traveling FTL and Slipstream drive has quite a few limitations — namely that it doesn't allow faster-than-light communication, is confined to certain paths, and can't be navigated by AIs. Those factors make fighters invaluable as scouts and raiders.
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Space Fighter / int_d461f757	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica: Both the original and new series were largely built around the Vipers. Fun fact: the pilot nickname for the F-16 Fighting Falcon in the US Air Force is the Viper, what with the F-16 entering service the same year that BSG was aired. If the design of the Viper Mk. VII from the new series is anything to go by,note In particular, the belly engine scoop that fact has come full circle.
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Space Fighter / int_d4f11a60	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d4f11a60	comment	Elite, from 1984, was perhaps the earliest example of this type of game, and one of the earliest home computer games to feature 3-D graphics. In this Wide-Open Sandbox, the player starts with a lightly-armed trader, and can (amongst other things) make enough money to outfit a proper Space Fighter for engaging Thargoids and Space Pirates in an Old-School Dogfight. The game is named after the highest rank the player can reach in combat proficiency. Oolite is a modern open-source remake.
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Space Fighter / int_d59d9e99	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d59d9e99	comment	The R-9 Arrowhead of the R-Type series, along with a hundred others in R-Type FINAL and R-Type Tactics 1 and 2.
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Space Fighter / int_d5f34c70	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d5f34c70	comment	X-Wing is a classic from the early 90s, set in the Star Wars universe. It was later followed by the popular TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance. The X-Wing series of games made the names of Rebel and Imperial craft popularly known among gamers, even those who were not interested in the Expanded Universe details.
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Space Fighter / int_d930a4c7	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_d930a4c7	comment	A few ships in Spelljammer could qualify, but the standout example is probably the Locust from Toril.
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Space Fighter / int_da6e2461	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_da6e2461	comment	Oolite is a modern open-source remake.
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Space Fighter / int_dc58e164	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_dc58e164	comment	The titular duo of the Ratchet & Clank series regularly flew in an FTL-capable spaceship which occasionally doubled as a space fighter, albeit a little sluggish compared to other space fighters in the series. This was more prominent in the first two games which included pitting the duo against waves of smaller ships while either between planets or fighting certain bosses. Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time restricted space combat to a 2-dimensional plane (while enemies and other vessels were capable of moving beyond this plane), but space combat in general has taken a backseat in most of the series since Going Commando.
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Space Fighter / int_de8ae019	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_de8ae019	comment	The Star Carrier series has the SG-92 Starhawk and Turusch "Toad". Starhawks have variable hull geometry (nanotech is involved) that allows them to reconfigure themselves between several forms: a slim needle for launch and space combat, an airfoil for atmospheric flight, and a sperm-like teardrop for crossing distances at near-c. They're armed with kiloton-yield nuclear missiles, Gatling railguns, and a particle beam. Toads are armed similarly but are more massive, less maneuverable, and lack the variable geometry which makes them crap for air combat. All ships in this 'verse use gravitic propulsion involving projecting a singularity in front of the ship, "winking" it out, then projecting it a little farther as the ship is constantly falling into it. By doing that billions of times per second, Starhawks can quickly accelerate to a high percentage of the speed of light in about 10 minutes. Since the pull of the singularity is roughly the same on the entire craft, neither the pilots nor their fighters experience any of the 50000 or so g-forces (no Inertial Dampening necessary). Turning is done by projecting the singularity to the side and letting the fighter simply move along the curved space/time (i.e. the fighter is not changing its local directional vector; it's the space itself warping around it). Once again, no g-forces, but a fighter that gets too close to its own singularity can be spaghettified by it. In a later book, a fighter pilot learns to use the singularity projector as a weapon by getting to "knife-fighting" range and projecting a singularity inside a capital ship, then leaving without "winking" it out. In later books, it's mentioned that new fighter designs are being introduced into the USNA fleet faster and faster, and the biggest obstacle to replacing all the fighters is not the number of the new fighters (they're nano-grown from asteroid matter) but the number of pilots with the upgraded neural hardware and software to fly them. The SG-420 Starblades made all the fighters before them obsolete almost immediately, including the still relatively new SG-101 Velociraptors and SG-112 Stardragons. It's nano-hull can flow around the pilot, redirecting enemy kinetic shots and growing weapons in any direction on demand.
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Space Fighter / int_de976635	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_de976635	comment	The Book of Boba Fett: After the destruction of the Razor Crest, Mando asks Peli for assistance in finding him a new ship. Peli manages to find an old Naboo N-1 starfighter which she and Mando upgrade and customize. Taking it out for a spin, Mando says the experience was "Wizard" when asked what he thought of the ship. Once again a few X-wings show up in the series, including the one belonging to Luke.
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Space Fighter / int_df890a88	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_df890a88	comment	In Rodina your ship functions as one in combat. You have a variety of weapons and quite good maneuvering capabilities. However, it is larger and has crew quarters and storage areas, plus a completely customizable interior.
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Space Fighter / int_e235270c	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris has Strikecraft divided into two categories, fighters and bombers. Gameplay-wise, they have slightly differentiating stats that allows them to take on any capital ship and other strikecraft, through judicious upgrades of their attack speed and overall damage.
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Space Fighter / int_e4732abc	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis there are the Wraith Darts, that fit the role perfectly. They are commonly used in capturing victims for the Wraith, and shoot down any flying targets. They also really, really suck; they've been shot down by infantry with assault rifles. The Puddle Jumpers could also act in this manner, although that is not their primary purpose.
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Space Fighter / int_e4cc279a	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e4cc279a	comment	When The Empire Falls has both starfighters and drones being used. Here, there is no good AI, but there is good wet networking, so heavily-augmented pilots take the role.
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Space Fighter / int_e4e93303	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e4e93303	comment	Laszlo Hadron and the Wargod's Tomb features some of these, such as the Estoc bomber and the Claymore heavy fighter, the latter of which includes Laszlo's personal fighter, the "Eaglehawk".
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Space Fighter / int_e5c5bc22	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: Spaceships has a supplement that covers fighters. The examples culminate in the Mirage Star Fighter which is loaded with superscience to the point that it is actually built mostly of force fields.
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Space Fighter / int_e6267766	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e6267766	comment	The many editions and iterations of the Star Wars RPG, obviously, have had many starfighter variants, most of which are from the Expanded Universe.
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Space Fighter / int_e66a25a9	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts Space Opera Phase World/Three Galaxies setting features a number of Fighters.
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Space Fighter / int_e68decb8	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control focuses on larger ships, and the smallest of the ships encountered in either the game or its sequel wouldn't really count as a fighter. However, the Ur-Quan Dreadnought, one of the deadliest ships in either game, is a Battlestar (it even looks like the original one!) that launches small autonomous fighters as its secondary attack. Though they're only a few pixels in size, the way these fighters work in the game makes quite a bit of sense: They deplete the Dreadnought's crew, they have limited fuel and must head back to the Dreadnought after a brief sortie, and they carry only a weak weapon and can be destroyed with a single hit. However, they are able to outmanoeuvre most opponents and so pick apart large ships little by little... Except for the ships that are not Point Defenseless. An AI-controlled Dreadnought won't even bother launching fighters against an opponent with point-defense systems. "Launch Fighters! Launch Fighters! La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-Launch Fighters!"
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Space Fighter / int_e7afca1f	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e7afca1f	comment	Infinite Space allows the player to mount hangars on ships to launch fighters. However, only ships with a built-in catapult can use fighters.
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Space Fighter / int_e7e37776	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e7e37776	comment	In Firefly, Alliance ships carry squadrons of "gunships" which are for all intents and purposes space fighters. Gunships are deployed by Alliance ships to pursue smaller, lighter craft that the cruiser itself cannot pursue, as the bigger ship is much slower—essentially a carrier/city in space. According to the RPG, the gunship (officially ASREV, for Alliance Short Range Enforcement Vessel) differs from the Star Wars model in a couple of respects. Instead of being basically a fighter jet in space, it is about the same size as a regional passenger jet at 83 feet long and 48 feet wide. Gunships carry a crew of four and are also used as the interplanetary equivalent of police squad cars.
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Space Fighter / int_e869fecc	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e869fecc	comment	Full Thrust has rules for space fighters, although the mechanics have received a lot of complaints due to balance issues—the pre-designed fleets have serious Point Defenseless issues, to the point where dedicated carrier fleets easily dominate against everything else.
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Space Fighter / int_e89f120b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam had both the Federation and Zeon using Space Fighters in combat before they developed their own Mobile Suits. Zeon's Gattle fighter was one of the odder designs in the series, with a second cockpit off to the side of the main one. While space fighters were mostly replaced by MS they continued development and production well past the One Year War for example the FF-S4 Daggerfish.
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Space Fighter / int_e8ff69de	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_e8ff69de	comment	Star Trek Federation Star Defense: The crew of the Intrepid encounters a Ferengi trader with four Falcon-class starfighters in his ship's hold. In the comic's universe, the Falcons were a Federation project abandonded for being "too warlike".
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Space Fighter / int_eaeeea9b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_eaeeea9b	comment	The Terran Vikings and Protoss Phoenixes from StarCraft II replace Wraiths and Scouts in the fighter category. One of the scrapped Terran ships was the Predator, a fighter with a point defense system.
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Space Fighter / int_ecef0113	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_ecef0113	comment	Gratuitous Space Battles: A strong fighter fleet can be a game-winner. Each fighter only has handful of slots and a tiny powerplant, often having to do without shields or armour. However, you can have lots of them: even mighty battleships can be worn down by a ravening horde of fighters.
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Space Fighter / int_edc3ea3	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_edc3ea3	comment	Star Citizen has a wide variety of space fighters, which are generally the starting point in the player's carrier. The majority of fighters have a Cool Plane aesthetic as they're capable of surface-to-orbit flight, though others like the "Aurora" look more like a lawn dart - and logically should fly about as well as one - but handles just like ships with atmospheric wings. All but the most basic fighters are capable of Faster-Than-Light Travel and have a cabin for the pilot to sleep in.
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Space Fighter / int_ef076a36	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_ef076a36	comment	All incarnations of Star Trek featured small shuttle-craft, and these were usually armed, but almost never filled the role of a Space Fighter (with the Delta Flyer in Voyager occasionally being an exception).
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Space Fighter / int_f74b5f80	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Earth Alliance has the Starfuries, a comparatively hard example. So hard, in fact, that apparently there was at one point some serious interest from NASA in actually building one, albeit more as a space forklift/tug than a space fighter. JMS agreed, on the condition that they retain the name "Starfury". However given the lack of activity it seems that project has been shelved. There were several variants of the Starfury depicted: the standard single-seat Aurora Starfury, a once-seen heavy Starfury with a tail gunner's seat (called Muskrat by the production but mistaken by many fans for the designed but never shown Badger Starfury), and the Thunderbolt starfury, with two pilots sitting in tandem, an elongated fuselage, and folding wings to allow it to operate in atmosphere as a bomber. Additionally, there was also the "flying forklift", which only had one wing with two thrusters (instead of two wings with four), manipulator arms instead of guns, and a bright yellow paintjob in the style of a piece of construction equipment (which it was). The Narn have the Frazi, another relatively hard example (even if less hard than the Starfury series). More technologically advanced races who have mastered Artificial Gravity have softer examples, such as the Sentri used by the Centauri Republic, looking like a crescent and flying circles around Narn fighters while still carrying enough weapons to smash them in one shots, and the Nial, the heavy fighter of the Minbari that is faster and more manouverable than other Younger Races fighters, has guns powerful enough to tear apart enemy warships, and a stealth technology that makes them extremely hard to hit.
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Space Fighter / int_fad1ddfe	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_fad1ddfe	comment	The Last Starfighter: The Gunstars and Ko-Dan fighters (though the Gunstars are really more like a gunship or weapons platform than a true fighter).
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Space Fighter / int_fb07494a	comment	Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is mostly focused on tactical capital ship combat. While fighters and bombers are present and available to be launched, they are usually fairly quickly swatted out by flak lasers. The only way to use them successfully is to take out the enemy flak grid first before deploying fighters. Fighters can also act as an anti-fighter or anti-missile screen in addition to flak.
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Space Fighter / int_fb0c0a3b	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	Voltes V: The Volt Machines are this and together they form the titular Combining Mecha Super Robot.
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Space Fighter / int_ff8d0a13	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_ff8d0a13	comment	Mahu: In "Second Chance", fighters are a common sight of the latter fleet of the Galactic Commonwealth. Still, though they are quite effective when used correctly, they are still considered a minor tool when compared to the huge, capital ships the Commonwealth is able to deploy.
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Mahu (Lets Play)	hasFeature	Space Fighter / int_ff8d0a13
Space Fighter / int_ff96c94e	type	Space Fighter
Space Fighter / int_ff96c94e	comment	The fifteen subunits making up Dairugger (AKA: vehicle-team Voltron) were all supposed to be able to act as space fighters(yes, even the cars). The other, non-combining space fighters that appeared were usually just cannon fodder.
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