THE JUMPGATE DEFINITIVE GUIDE - Tripod

Intensity
Classification: Heavy Fighter
Power plant: Sport Plus (size 4)
Engines: Guzzler x 2 (size 3 x 2)
Radar: Knocker (35000 meter range) (size 2)
Shields: Alpaa (20400mm equivalent) (size 3)
Armor: 11400mm
Capacitor: Pint for most, Deepol for Injustices, Jug for pulse lasers (size 3)
Laser Config: Heavy Laser x 3, VAPOR x 1/Warper x 2, FeatherFire x 1/Spitfire x 2
Ammo Config: Hitman x 1/Barrak x 2
Missiles (# x size): 1x4, 2x2
MODx: 5
ECM: 1
Speed (nor/ab/ff): 451/515/891 MPS
Acceleration: 90.1 (lasers), 86.4 (ion), 97.4 (pulse), 82.3 (railguns) kN/kg
Yaw/Pitch/Roll: 60/45/60 DPS
Cargo: 24 m³
Notes:
The Flying Banana, The Mean Blue Murder Machine, The Most Insane Ship In The Galaxy… the
Intensity has been and is all of these things. The S2-S Intensity is the ship that went from being a
washout to becoming a legend, and even today is still quite possibly the greatest fighter craft in
the five systems overall.
At first glance the Tens isn’t that great of a fighter. Slow to maneuver, vastly undergunned, thin
armor… there doesn’t seem to be much to love here. Even from the beginning, however, the
Intensity possessed a staggering number of MODx slots – giving it far greater hit-and-run
capacities than any other fighter. It also possessed a shield unit that was originally created
specifically for the Intensity – the TP52 Alpaa. Despite these strengths, the vessel was hampered
by a small power plant while lacking the raw acceleration of the Typhoon. The updated version,
however, stuffs a Sport Plus power plant into the frame, providing enough power for any weapons
loadout sans plasma. Combined with a generous capacitor, the fighter became the premier hitand-fade
vessel of space and was capable for some time of dominating all before it.
These days the Intensity is something of a galactic average – it lacks the guns of other Heavy
Fighters, but it has a number of advantages that still allow it to compete. The best way to fight a
Tens is to exploit its lack of raw firepower – it can power those guns, but it still lacks sheer gun
strength. It’s acceptable to take a blow or two from a Tens to knock its shield down – most Tens
pilots will retreat if their shield goes down, because the Tens is not thickly armored beneath the
Alpaa. Beware, however – good Tens pilots can re-engage just as quickly as they can disengage.
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