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Design
The Dark Death is the brain child of Lilly Starlight, she wanted to combine all the great fighter craft used by the Alliance, then later New Republic, into one all encompassing fighter craft. Using construction techniques and the systems that made the fighters great she came up with this monster.

The end result would be far to expensive for any sort of mass production and the design did fall short in some areas, namely speed and maneuvering. So she decided to turn it into one of Starlight Star Drives unique ships to sell. She refined the systems, and structure then added in a simple stealth coated armor plating.

When finished she dubbed it the Dark Death and added to the list of Unique ships their VIPs could buy.

Performance
The Dark Death is a powerful fighter that handle like the older X-wings. Its powerful engines allow the fighter to maintain this performance even in high gravity and has the ability to break through tractor beams, so long as its only one tracking the fighter.

The weapon systems are tied directly to the power systems bypassing capacitors giving them a 10% increase in fire power and fire rate. This has the draw back of possible over heating the weapons as there will be no forced delay between shots.

The nose cone of the fighter is the sensor package for a Recon X-wing. Its been given additional protection and shielding so its better able to survive heavy combat, unlike the shoot and scoot it was originally designed for. When linked to the PK-8f Primary Threat Analysis Grid it gives the fighter an unprecedented sensor range that can give highly detailed information on enemy units.