"Talonraker Drone Fighter" by Kimberly A Taylor

Specs for a Talonraker; an unmanned space combat vehicle, or fighter drone, of the Strige Shadowfleet, which are often carried in large numbers by all of the large ships. Unmanned drones are nothing new in sci-fi or in real life, because of their obvious advantages over craft with a pilot onboard, except perhaps for the weapon used by these craft.   

Basically a scaled down version of what the 30km shadow cruisers have, seen the pic 'Cold Fire. Mono Fibre/fillament nets- atom thin strands of allined molecules which can cut through just about anything, from dense armour to energy shielding with little resistance, these invisible and virtually undetectable nets literatly shred enemy targets. However unlike the shadow cruiser they can't launch their MF nets, instead they use them by 'raking' them along their sides- flying as close to the hulls of their targets as they can get -

These ships can be remotely controlled by pilots on the carrier ship, or using their own onboard AI computer.