My Scratch Designs: Titan Interceptor

Height: 24in Diameter: BT60 (1.6in) Weight: 10.6oz Wingspan: 22in

Motor: 24mm, e.g. AT RMS D21-4 with adaptor

Comments: This is a 1/21 scale model of the infamous Titan Interceptor, which shot down more Terran fighters than any other ship during the second Saturnian war of 2716-2721. Although clumsy by today's standards, this ship fascinated Earthbound scientists and the general public when Lt. Molly Kanoshita managed to lash a damaged TI to her ship and execute a controlled crash landing at Terran Marsbase Seven. Analysis of this craft led to weapons innovations that turned the tide of the war, but of course it was Lt. Kanoshita's capture of the crew--three Sino'oan pilots--that electrified the public and yielded the holovid footage seen by schoolchildren of every generation since then. The Sino'oan race did not evolve on Titan, but are believed to have begun settling on Saturn's largest moon sometime in the early 24th century, based on archeological evidence. Today, the ship captured by 'Samurai Molly' is still on display at the Tokyo branch of the Smithsonian. The one surviving Sino'oan pilot reportedly died of his injuries within days of capture. Eight months later, authorities reported that the bodies of all three pilots had been destroyed in an accidental lab fire, although this remains a source of tension in Terran-Sino'oan relations to this day.