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The '''XF-2 "VenatorSuper Valkyrie"''' is was an experimental [[fighter]]-class [[starship]], primarily designed to carry out assaults that larger vessels could not perform.  {{Sidebar\starship| ship name = Super Valkyrie Class Attack Fighter| allegiance = United Federation of Planets| image = XF-2-2.jpg| image3 = XF2New.png| image4 = | class = Super Valkyrie| specifications = }}

Designed on a joint for [[Star Fleet Special Operations Command]] and [[Dhar'hyyk Defence Force]] committee, the XF-2 Fighter was meant to act not as a replacement for current Star Fleet Fighters, but to supplement them and provide Fighter Support to ships not normally equipped to carry a Squadron or to operate independently of carrier vessels for longer periods of time than the [[F-1 Fighter|F-1]] and [[A-1 Valkyrie Class Attack Fighter|A-1]], upon which its design is based.

Designed and built on [[Dhar'hyyk]] in the same hangars that built the [[F-86|F-86 Valkyrie]] over thirty years earlier, the XF-2 was built to maximize combat efficiency while keeping a small profile. While officially designated a 'Strike Fighter', the XF-2 Super Valkyrie can fulfil almost any role from Reconnaissance to Interception and Escort Missions - a trait that would prove useful during the Second Romulan War, where convoys were often only guarded by smaller vessels incapable of carrying and supporting 'traditional' fighters. To facilitate the need for a vessel that could be accommodated in standard Shuttlebays, the wings were designed to fold when in the hangar, the Warp Nacelles also slide forward by almost a full meter when the ship is powered down.<br />

Initial tests proved that the XF-2 Super Valkyrie was a very agile fighter, in atmosphere and in space. When equipped with jamming podsCoated in sensor-absorbent material and utilising a specially-designed low-emission reactor, it was the ship proved near-undetectable to by most modern scanner sensor arrays . With overcharged engines and its firepower put even the [[A-1 Fighter]] to shame, the Super Valkyrie can rapidly approach a target, annihilate it, and retreat without being detected. The only drawback of the design was that the overcharged engines would overheat and overload when travelling at Warp Five for longer than fifteen minutes shut down if pushed too hard - such an overload overheat would effectively neutralize neutralise the fighter's Warp Drive and require a complete overhaul on returning to base.

The XF-2 Super Valkyrie would get its trial by fire against Romulan fighters on Dhar'hyyk. A patrol led by Commander [[Paul Braggins]] and Admiral [[Joseph Daher]] (who was undergoing training to qualify on the XF-2 at the time) was ambushed by the Romulans and claimed the majority of them shot down among the mountains while both returning to base intact. The action itself, the presence of the XF-2 Super Valkyrie and indeed the role of Admiral Daher and Commander Braggins is highly classified and known only to the upper echelons of the Dhar'hyyk Defence Force and Star Fleet Command. It was after this combat that the fighter received the nickname 'Venator' - Latin for 'Hunter', though later the matte-black colour scheme of the vessel would earn it the moniker of "Phantom", which has spread to more common usage among pilots than its official name.

CurrentlyThe Super Valkyrie was phased out in the last years of the 24th century, the XF-2's only active deployments with Star Fleet are with as continued modifications and upgrades to the [[1st Special Operations GroupPeregrine Class Attack Fighter|First Special Operations Group''Peregrine Class]] proved more cost-effective than continued production of Valkyries and Super Valkyries. [[Star Fleet Special Operations CommandImage:XF2Int.png|thumb|left|Cockpit View]].