// Vehicle File — In Inventory
Classification: Fleet Standard
◀ Small Craft Registry
Mace-Class
Bomber
UGAF · ORD-MCE-001
// Underside Profile — UGAF Livery
DesignationORD-MCE-001
OperatorUGAF
Crew2 · pilot and weapons officer
RoleSaturation bombardment
Heavy Ordnance4 central bay · 1 per wingtip
Wing OrdnanceFighter-grade missile pods
Defensive Armament1 × manual dorsal turret · 25° elevation
EscortRequired
ProductionClosed · refurbished hulls only
Status Training Rotation
"The squadrons exist on paper and in the training rotation."
// Service Synopsis
Over Ordin, on any given day, there are Maces in the sky. Academy qualification runs, advanced ordnance tactics, formation work over the shipyards. The Fleet keeps a full training pipeline current on a fighting craft it has not sent anywhere in a generation.
The Mace is the first and the cheapest of the Fleet's three bomber classes. Four heavy stores ride in the central bay and one more under each wingtip, carrying warheads a fighter cannot lift, or unguided torpedoes for targets that are slow or not moving at all. The wings carry the rest: fighter-grade missiles in numbers no fighter can manage.
It was never meant to be precise. It was meant to make a wide piece of space untenable, and to do it in one pass.
The Mace is the first and the cheapest of the Fleet's three bomber classes. Four heavy stores ride in the central bay and one more under each wingtip, carrying warheads a fighter cannot lift, or unguided torpedoes for targets that are slow or not moving at all. The wings carry the rest: fighter-grade missiles in numbers no fighter can manage.
It was never meant to be precise. It was meant to make a wide piece of space untenable, and to do it in one pass.
// The Turret
The engineers maximized kinetic load and left nothing over. The first pilots to fly it asked what they were supposed to do when the escort was out of range. What they got was a turret.
It is fully manual. The weapons officer has to take it, turn it, and aim it, and while he is doing that he is not releasing ordnance. Twenty-five degrees of elevation. It will not swing forward to aft without passing through everything between.
Two aboard, seated close. The second seat exists because that much ordnance is more than one person can manage while flying.
It is fully manual. The weapons officer has to take it, turn it, and aim it, and while he is doing that he is not releasing ordnance. Twenty-five degrees of elevation. It will not swing forward to aft without passing through everything between.
Two aboard, seated close. The second seat exists because that much ordnance is more than one person can manage while flying.
// Service History
The Mace was used heavily during the expansion, against the Scatter and against S.C.A.R., and it has not been used since. Few carriers embark a bomber squadron today, and those that do have flown it only on training runs.
None have come off the line in years. Those flying around Ordin are well maintained and refurbished when necessary. The pilots are current.
None have come off the line in years. Those flying around Ordin are well maintained and refurbished when necessary. The pilots are current.