angler:
  name: Angler
  variants:
    default:
      flavor: A failed flight of fancy by Lord Patrick of Kemp. He spent the last of his fortune on mad engineering projects and failed attempts to corner the salted plum market.
      name: Angler
assault:
  name: Assault
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: This is what happens when a crew of good old birds with a machine shop discover a pirate's stash of 1835 LeTigre Absinthe. Smashing.
      name: Tusker
    VariantB:
      flavor: The whole Rebel-thing doesn't pay, so many have scavengers jobs on the side. This Mining Assault can burrow deep into the dangerous layers of ruins.
      name: Yewnoda Drill
    default:
      flavor: A close combat attacker with a devastating energized charge. Early losses by the Rebellion showed a need for an effective deterrent to the Empire's overwhelming numerical superiority.
      name: Assault
    flames:
      flavor: All pilots know the name Pepper. She takes cash up front and she doesn't do requests. It is flames or nothing.
      name: Spicy Pepper
    gold:
      flavor: This model is reserved for those who joined the force early. This model's gold paint was salvaged from melted Imperial Meowza memorials.
      name: Gold Assault
    spikes:
      flavor: The North division has their own anti-corrosion paint. The brittle cold and salted runways wreak havoc on those wimpy southern craft.
      name: Snow Plow
duster:
  name: Duster
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: Back in 74, 'Essy' Dunderforth spotted Imperial contrails arrowing in on the nearby town. Her modded crop duster plus some truly raucous whooping convinced them they'd made a horrible mistake. 45 kills, 0 losses.
      name: TheSeventyFour
    VariantB:
      flavor: Mercy Williams wasn't the smartest duck in the pond. He was fond of saying 'Shoot them guns hard enough and yer bound to hit something.'
      name: Spray N' Pray
    default:
      flavor: A civilian crop duster retrofitted with massive rear capacitors. Excels at running away.
      name: Duster
engineer:
  name: Engineer
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: A master engineer selects the right tool for the job. Or dynamite. Both work, for varying definitions of 'work'.
      name: Specialist
    VariantB:
      flavor: The Docks used a thousand different types of gears. Small brass ones, immense stone ones. A vast whirring steam ecosystem, turning, driving, breaking and building. The coggers loved them all. One day, they will rebuild them.
      name: Cogger
    default:
      flavor: 'Before the great aerial Docks burned, engineering planes helped build the legendary floating capital ships. Now, they deploy drones in direct combat. '
      name: Engineer
medic:
  name: Medic
  variants:
    EpicA:
      flavor: The remnants of a dead religious order. They heal unenlightened scum as a penance. Penance for betrayal of their mistress during her time of greatest need.
      name: Ghost Medic
    VariantA:
      flavor: A doctor flies a fine line when they dabble in their own medicine. There are fixes that give a bird confidence, agility, a sense of speed. The risks seems worth the greater good; the self treatment justified.
      name: Speed Medic
    VariantB:
      flavor: What good is a dead medic? Balance the risk of saving this one life against the long years ahead where you might save a thousand lives.
      name: Endurance Medic
    default:
      flavor: In the brutal hell of modern war, no pilot is more valued than the war medic. An aerial repair means the difference between narrow victory and fiery failure.
      name: Medic
    flames:
      flavor: The grackle who paints these gives discounts to medics. She'll grumble something, tap her wooden leg and hand back half your cash. The leg is painted with the most beautiful flames.
      name: Nurse Pepper
    spikes:
      flavor: Before the war there was a doctors guild built on the concept of reciprocation. They never asked for money. However, if one healed you, they expected an equivalent gift at some point in the future.
      name: Parrot Doc
olfaithful:
  name: Old Faithful
  tutorial_info: '<b>Airplane Movement</b>

    Flies like a plane, fires forward


    <b>Strong Armor</b>

    Can take many hits


    <b>Gamepad</b>

    Single Stick Controls


    <b>Keyboard</b>

    WASD and Mouse'
  variants:
    VariantB:
      flavor: The new shiny military upgrade to the Old Faithful airframe. Retooled for production in our remaining factories.
      name: Angel of Faith
    VarientA:
      flavor: The wings on this Old Faithful use an earlier construction method of stretching thin hides over finely carved fir spars. Agile. Flammable.
      name: Spirit of Saint Leonardo
    default:
      flavor: Originally intended as a training plane, the Old Faithful was pressed into full service when we lost our northern factories.
      name: Old Faithful
    flames:
      flavor: Crowdown Garage employs a grumpy grackle who only paints planes with bad-ass flames. It is her thing.
      name: Old Pepper
    spikes:
      flavor: Cool blue spikes transform this ancient training plane into a hipster fashion statement. Comes with built-in record player.
      name: Chill Faithful
paladin:
  name: Paladin
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: The burly birds of the Northern forests use these rigs to haul logs. Fueled by flapjacks.
      name: Lumberjack
    VariantB:
      flavor: When the fire's low and the whiskey's half gone, they whisper tales. Once there was a bird, as tall as a mountain. With his trusty blue fox.
      name: Bunyan
    default:
      flavor: More mecha than plane, the steam-hungry Paladin slices through swathes of enemies with a signature 50-foot plasma chainsaw.
      name: Paladin
pirate:
  name: Bandit
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: In the western canyons, small bands eke out a harsh living preying on caravans. Fear the growing whine of an unseen sandbike.
      name: Maurauder
    VariantB:
      flavor: Beware chipped beaks and jewel-crusted eye-patches. Do they dye those brilliant feathers? No. They pluck them from your corpse.
      name: Scallywag
    default:
      flavor: We sanction privateers as long as they make the Empire's life worse than they make ours. 'Scrappy' in all senses of the word.
      name: Bandit
rapier:
  name: Raptor
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: ''
      name: Eagle
    VariantB:
      flavor: ''
      name: Hawk
    default:
      flavor: 'Finicky, but beloved by skilled pilots, the Raptor offers immense firepower combined with surprising agility. '
      name: Raptor
support:
  name: Shieldmaiden
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: This rig, she glows. Back when only the old-lines kept up their mecha, the Shieldprincess was passed down mother to daughter. Those ceremonies died with the Empire.
      name: Shieldprincess
    VariantB:
      flavor: An older woman is a force to be reckoned with. Only young idiots believe otherwise.
      name: Shieldqueen
    default:
      flavor: The Bright Lady of the Sky. All rally to the charging Shieldmaiden as she boosts the armor of those who follow her into the fray.
      name: Shieldmaiden
tank:
  name: Hog
  variants:
    EpicA:
      flavor: The Order of St. Avem trained their nuns in the forbidden arts of politics, seduction and assassination. After the purge, only their Ghosts remained.
      name: Ghost Hog
    default:
      flavor: An immense hulk composed mostly of armor and field generators. The Hog shrugs off bullets as it barrels straight into the crossfire.
      name: Hog
walker:
  name: Quad
  tutorial_info: '<b>Hover Movement</b>

    Can move or fire in any direction


    <b>Weak Armor</b>

    Can only take a few hits


    <b>Gamepad</b>

    Dual Stick Controls


    <b>Keyboard</b>

    WASD and Mouse'
  variants:
    EpicA:
      flavor: Silence falls across the sky as a lone quadcopter emerges from the clouds. Necks crane. Heartbeats slow. The ghosts have arrived.
      name: Ghost Quad
    VariantA:
      flavor: It looks fast. Amazing what a little tin and a clever paint job can do.
      name: Speed Quad
    VariantB:
      flavor: Beefed up engines produced an intense thrumming that causes beaks to vibrate. Originally favored by unlicensed racers, chopshops still make 'em if you can find the parts.
      name: Power Quad
    default:
      flavor: Favored by officers, the Quad can hover about the very edges of a combat zone. A smart burst of their signature machine gun dissuades the most villainous of cats.
      name: Quad
wizard:
  name: Merlin
  variants:
    VariantA:
      flavor: '***WARNING*** THE EXISTENCE OF THIS DEVICE IS CLASSIFIED. REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO DNO [NEED TO KNOW] FOR MINDWIPE'
      name: Unidentified
    VariantB:
      flavor: '[REDACTED] used the mechanism in the failed fulcrum point assasination June 5th, 18XX. Wreckage analysis suggests extra-historical origins.'
      name: X54
    default:
      flavor: This highly experimental class uses a miniaturized teleportation apparatus to pop about the combat zone. The egghead pilots are derisively known as wizkids.
      name: Merlin