Western Reaches Campaign: Aggressive Strategy
The Tri-fighter was jointly designed by Colla Designs, under the Technological Alliance, and Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries, and manufactured on the industrial world of Colla IV.
This fighter had been designed to provide a droid fighter with greater firepower and higher speed, capable of countering the Galactic Republic's powerful ARC-170 heavy fighter.
The Tri-fighter was equipped with one heavy laser cannon, three light laser cannons, and twelve concussion missiles. To meet its enormous energy demands, it did not even carry shields. It was incredibly fast. Though slightly less maneuverable than the Vulture droid fighter, its firepower was in an entirely different league.
It was an extremely successful design. A Tri-fighter was 5.4 meters long and cost less than 30,000 credits. Compared to the 3.6-meter-long, 19,000-credit Vulture droid fighter, its increase in size and cost was not substantial, but its combat power had taken a tremendous leap forward.
The Vulture droid fighter's firepower had difficulty posing a threat to the ARC-170 heavy fighter, but the Tri-fighter could do so with ease.
Moreover, judging from its performance in this battle, even the Republic's V-19 Torrent light fighter was no match for it!
As a core member of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and with the imminent campaign against Eriadu, Dawn Star Planet had been given priority deployment of this new fighter, whose Confederacy production numbers were still low.
Now, above Malastare, the large-scale appearance of Tri-fighters had dealt devastating losses to the Republic fighter formations. By the time the Republic fighters entered effective range and could threaten those Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, more than five hundred of them had already been shot down by anti-air fire and Tri-fighters!
The Republic fighters plunging into the atmosphere resembled countless meteor showers falling from the sky, their hulls engulfed in flames by