Star Wars Rise of Hope is a mod that will be based on the early Empire and its fall against the Rebel Alliance and its following sucessor the New Republic.
The StarViper-class attack platform was a heavy starfighter that was based on Prince Xizor's Virago, and was used extensively in the criminal underworld during the era of the Galactic Empire.
The Virago was commissioned by Xizor as his personal starship. He collaborated directly with MandalMotors on its design, and he purchased all production rights upon completion to ensure the ship would remain unique.
Following Xizor's death, MandalMotors reacquired the production rights and released a StarViper variant less powerful than the Virago to the open market. In addition, Mandal Hypernautics began producing the fighter. Those where armed with dual laser cannons like the Virago and featured a proton torpedo lauchers in both sides of the cockpit.
A fighter I liked in the vanilla game, the StarViper here got a great upgrade.
As stated above, dual lasers and proton torpedos are the ships armaments. It has shields, is fast as a TIE Interceptor and versatile as the X-Wing.
Now it comes with one surprise more... it deploys and undeploy its wings and main guns when not in combat and viceversa. I know this cant be shown in a picture to much. That´s why I made a video of the animations playing in the ALO viewer, later there will be a ingame video.
Wait for the video and I´ll explain some more things on it.
Also, if you haven´t voted yet in the TIE Fighter cockpit in the image before please feel free to do it.
Credits:
I dont know if the guy who made it is still around, if he is and wants this to be taken out of the mod I wont have any problem doing it, but I will give the corresponding credits.
Model, conversion to SWBF2: minilogoguy18.
Textures: NeoMarz1.
Engine particles: YVAW team modified by Nkorn.
Animations and rig: Nkorn.
This is the idle animation, when not in combat obviously.
This isn't relevant but would it be possible to make boarding craft and have fighters be able to garrison carriers like infantry in bunkers?
Boarding craft is possible and no, is not possible to ships act like that in space.