The Fury class heavy fighter is an attempt to provide a powerful, fast, agile, armored, and dependable small craft for space combat. It has bunking arrangements for crew comfort, and allows the craft to remain on station for long periods of time.

The weaponry on this fighter is variable, and can be altered by service crews to fit a specific situation. Courier versions are known to carry three sandcasters and no offensive armament. Specific versions may also carry all missile racks, or all laser weaponry, with appropriate alterations in agility for the craft.

Heavy fighters are not usually named, although crews may adopt unofficial names based on sweethearts or common themes. The fighters do bear tail numbers consistently assigned for within the Imperial Navy. These number currently reach into the hundred thousands, and generally the craft will be referred to by the last two or three digits.

The heavy fighter is reasonable standard within the Imperium, and most (though not all) Imperial warships with launch tubes are adapted to receive and relaunch small craft in the 50-ton range.