Aaaand another delay between my uploads!  Sorry, since I don't really have an excuse for this one aside from general laziness in making the title picture.  No status update on the Dauntless either.  Making good progress on the blog/blog ship though, so expect that by May. (I know, long time)

Specs!

• Name: SF-8 Daemon
  
• Type: Fighter-Bomber
  
• Manufacturer/Designer: Brony Aerospace
  
• Crew: 2 (Pilot and Gunner)
  
• Length: 28m
  
• Wingspan: 25m
  
• Height: 7m
  
• Powerplant: 1 Mk. Im Cold Fusion Reactor powering 2 Pratt & Whitney VS2000 VASIMR rockets.  Brony Aerospace anti-gravity generators.
  
• Top Speed: 0.5x lightspeed (sublight), 5x lightspeed (FTL)
  
• Range: 50 million miles (sublight), 20 lightyears (FTL)
  
• FTL: 1 Mk. X warp reactor powering coils in wing nacelles.
  
• Armament:
  • 2 Turbolaser Cannons (Output=75 MW)
    • Turbolaser pod interchangeable with 70 MJ railgun.
      
    
    
  • 2 Laser Cannons (Same pod as turbolasers, Output=30 MW)
    
  • 2 Missile Hardpoints on wings (Typically antimatter antiship and heavy anti-fighter)
    
  • 3 Bomb bays
    • Space based Ordnance: Thruster-propelled bombs pushed away from craft, typically nuclear, but antimatter and conventional warheads available.
      
    • All current Atmospheric Ordnance, nuclear and conventional.
      
    
    
  • 1 Auto-guided GAU-8 Avenger Gatling Gun for CIWS
    
  
  
• Shields: Electromagnetic Hull Plating, Carbon Nanotube Skin
  
• Weight: 50 tons
  
• Maneuvering System: Standard Control Surfaces (atmospheric) and multi-axial RCS system (space)
  
• Cost: $50 million Skylord dollars ($100 million USD)
  

Upon the production of the first SF-18s, a need was quickly found for a heavier attack craft to assist with more dangerous missions.  Skylord Brony designed the SF-8 as a space-worthy A-10 on steroids, packing as much armament as the average Falcon-class and then some, with maneuverablity and speed nearly matching its little brother.  The larger size allowed for a larger and more powerful cold fusion reactor, which in turn powered a warp field generator, making the Daemon the first Skylord military FTL vessel.  Unlike the Harpy, it is only capable of landing on airstrips and the Andromeda-class, being too large and heavy for the Dauntless.  Also unlike the SF-18, it is currently only available to the Skylord military and civilian market, albiet demilitarized for the latter.  Despite these differences, Daemon uses a scaled-up version of the same Pratt & Whitney VASIMR engine in the Harpy, and there are plans to adapt the reactor to fit in its smaller sibling.  A spaceworthy and airworthy craft, the Daemon is planned for escort missions, strikes on enemy spacecraft, ground support, and strategic bombing missions before being replaced in that role by a dedicated bomber in development.  The Daemon is also the first craft in the Skylord fleet to accomodate railguns, a recent innovation by Skylord weapons contractor Trojan Technologies that made the concept starfighter-sized.  The most powerful aircraft in the Skylord Space Fleet so far, it will soon be outgunned by upcoming vessels.