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It has been months since the last attack against the Praetorians from the Xenkan, their forces have retreated to chaotic space, battered and bruised. If anything though this was worrying, little intelligence had been gathered on their enemy, and withdrawal would only mean they planned to come back stronger. This put the Praetorians in a bad position, since the onset of the immortal conflict praetorian space was offered to all immortal allies to be used for the garrisoning of troops, equipment and resources, the Praetorians had the room to fit whole empires in, and were far enough away from any of the major fighting to be safe from attack. however the idea of an enemy on their front door, capable of striking anywhere in their relatively loose borders was worrying to them and the fleets of ships and legions of troops holding up in their space. As such work was done to guard Praetorian territory, monitoring stations were set up along their borders, and more ships were commissioned to guard their space. A large gap was encountered in their forces, there was a distinct lack of any star-fighters, with the last fighters produced by the empire being the K8-Buzzer's that were de-commissioned with the EPIC-Class Battleships. A new breed of fighter was thus created, capable of both engaging capital ships, but more importantly of being able to bring it's firepower down on enemy troops. The Bismuth Class is the culmination of months (weeks) of work of Praetorian and D'o'D engineers
Bismuth shown using it's VTOL capability to make strafing runs on targets, it's primary weapon is the Mk3 Minigun it carries underneath (I'm debating fudging up to Mk4, primarily because 11" range is pretty crappy).
A look at the underside, showing weaponry, landing gear and vectoring thrusters. Total weapon count is 1Mk3 Minigun, 6Mk2 Rockets and 2Mk5 Rockets with thermobaric warheads (Ground attack variant only), the Mk5's have huge use at 10, however The missed shots rule is a potential life-saver here, unless I roll really poorly and have it sent in my direction. The rear-landing gear uses the SP3 Rocket-launcher pieces, letting it fold to the side, and the front gear folds forwards partly.
Shots of it on a landing pad, my camera's memory was filled up by these (Need to get a Micro-SD) the last-pic is the wings in position for storage. I needed to take picture of the cockpit, Might add them later, if I get time, favourite part of the cockpit is the little BA monopod I used for a sight and how I manged to squeeze two pilots in there, the rear pilot has his controls on the back of the front's 'chair'.
I have two more vehicles too post pictures, of. One is a quick conversion and the other is a fast-attack vehicle based partly on the 40k land-speeder.
