Model: ISP-6

Manufacturer: Cygnus Spaceworks

Designation: Short Range Fighter/Shuttle

Length: 4 meters

Crew: 1

Cargo Capacity: 100 kilograms

Consumables: 1 week

Speed: 70 MGLT

Hull: 5 RU

Shields: 5 SBD

Special Features: Adjustable stabilizer fins.

Weapons: 2 Blaster Cannons

 

The Imperial Shuttle Pod, or ISP-6, is one of the smallest fighters used by the Empire. It is designed and build by Cygnus Spaceworks, the developer of the beautiful Lambda Class T-4a Imperial Shuttle. The first of these models where introduced years before the Battle of Yavin and long before the well known Star Wing Assault Gunboat. Production of the first Imperial Shuttle Pods started while Sienar Fleet Systems were mass-producing the old TIE Fighters for the Empire's forces.

Maybe Cygnus Spaceworks wanted their share of the Imperial spacefighter marked. Cygnus was selling the ISP for 1/2 the price of a TIE Fighter, but it was still not possible for the company to compete with Sienar Fleet Systems. Sienar Fleet Systems soon bought op Cygnus Spaceworks and started the "cooperation" that still exists today. Now the TIE market has been unmatched for several decades.

The Imperial Shuttle Pod was sold to some parts of the Imperial Navy and still se active service. But the Army uses the fighter to a much higher extend. Even though it has a life support system and is more durable all together, compared to the TIE Fighter, it is not Imperial pilots preferred spacefighter. The ISP has 2 blaster cannons with firepower equaling 1 TIE Fighter Laser Cannon. It has a speed 30% slower than the TIE/ln and the X-Wing fighter. Still Naval Command orders the starfigher in small quantities.