Tishina is a Starling Victory-class prototype lander outfitted with armament and defenses consistent with a corvette or frigate. Her current role is that of a frigate serving the FTS Corvus.
Spacecraft Specs
5x main fusion reaction engines with 2.0 TWR (Thrust-to-Weight Ratio) (at 1 G) per engine for total TWR of 10.0.
10x vertical thrusters for VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) capability at 2.0 TWR total (at 1 G)
Quad-redundant warp ring
Armament and Defense
1x 120mm main cannon with 5-round autoloader (Obtained through Starling)
- Tungsten Rod Penetrator ammunition: High speed, high penetration, armor piercing
- High Explosive (HE) ammunition: Standard speed, massive hull damage to soft targets, low penetration. Detonates on impact.
- Frag Ammunition: Standard speed, fragmenting for massive internal damage to soft targets, low penetration. Programmable detonation: Distance, proximity, impact, delay after impact (default)
4x 7-barrel 30mm autocannons (Obtained through black market, installed by Corvus and Starling)
- Forward facing
- Tungsten core ammunition
- Massive damage to armored targets
8x dual .30 cal PDC turrets (Obtained through black market, Kashani knock-off with Kashani software, installed by Corvus)
- Point Defense Cannon
- Shoots down incoming missiles (Primary function)
- Short range offensive weapon (Secondary function)
- Augments sensor suite with visible, night vision, and thermal cameras
- 360 by 360 degree coverage around Tishina, with 4-6 dual-cannon turrets able to cover any given direction from Tishina
- Advanced AI software suite for automated ship defense
2x 6-missile launchers (Obtained through black market, installed by Corvus)
- Multi-mode passive or active missile tracking capability
2x directed energy lasers / telescopes (Obtained through black market, installed by Corvus, integrated into ECM software)
- Full coverage around Tishina, one laser covering dorsal (360 by 180) and one covering ventral (360 by 180).
- High power: Capable of shooting down long-range missile attacks
- Low power: Capable of target designation (painting)
- Low Power: Capable of FSO communications
- Capable of telescope operation
- Spectrograph sensor
- NOTE: Only one of these functions can be used per telescope at any given time.
Advanced Electronic Countermeasures package (ECM) (Official Starling product with black market Kashani plugins, recently upgraded to official by Starling)
- Capable of spoofing false radar signatures (Kashani)
- Communication / radar jamming; reduced performance mode permits Tishina to use radar and radio comms (Starling)
- Confuse incoming radar guided missiles (Kashani)
- Decoy drones to create false radar signatures (Kashani)
- Connected to directed energy lasers to blind incoming laser-guided missiles (Kashani)
Physical countermeasures package (Obtained through black market, Kashani knock-off, installed by Corvus)
- Chaff / Decoy drones to confuse incoming radar-guided missiles
- Flares to confuse incoming heat-seeking missiles
- Variable armor reflectivity to confuse insoming laser-guided missiles
Stealth coating for reduced radar signature (Official Starling product)
- 80% reduction in radar signature
Armor (Official Starling product)
- Armor plating capable of defeating .30 cal rounds, and up to some .50 BMG rounds, and IR through UV directed energy
- Active camouflage
Drone Suite
- Drones communicate with Tishina's Situational Awareness software suite
- Swarm AI software suite (Official Kashani software provided by Starling)
- Drones can be controlled by Kashani AI suite, or manually piloted
- Fleet of 8 atmospheric drones for use within atmospheric conditions (Third-party)
- Fleet of 8 microgravity drones for use outside atmospheric conditions (Third-party)
- 2x Gravity propulsion drones for use in any conditions (Starling)
- 2x Corona fighters (Black market Kashani knock-offs) capable of remote operation as drones, or manually piloted from either aboard the fighter or from Tishina
- 2x Sea drones
- Drones with powerful enough transmitters can be used with ECM software suite as decoys
Sensor Suite
- Advanced Electronics Warfare package (Official Starling product with black market Kashani plugins, recently upgraded by Starling to official Kashani plugins)
- Integrates Electronic Countermeasures (Starling) with sophisticated battle and systems infiltration software suite (Kashani)
- 2x telescopes
- Thermal cameras (Part of PDC system)
- Spectrograph
- Advanced EM analysis suite
- Active and advanced passive radar
Advanced computer capabilities
Simulation mode (Official Starling product, augmented with black market Kashani plugins and custom Tishina-specific Tishina-written plugins)
This mode permits the crew to operate Tishina in a simulated engagement. Some or nearly all operations can be switched over to provide a number of different levels of simulation. Advanced AI enemies (Kashani plugin) or scenarios provide the crew with valuable training options.
NOTE: Tishina-specific plugins have not been provided to Starling
Photometric Terrain mapping (Third-party software plugin)
Uses PDC cameras to map terrain as Tishina flies over.
AI Situational Awareness software suite (Obtained on black market, Kashani software product. Recently upgraded by Starling with genuine product.)
Uses various cameras, sensors, and radar to provide advanced situational awareness to the crew.
Coordinates with drones, fighters, and other friendly ships with compatible software through radio or FSO to both collect and share situational awareness for battlefield-wide overview of the situation.
Undisclosed Tishina-specific Tishina-written software application