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:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: Though many of their arts relied on silence, the nuns of St. Avem knew of a forbidden chant. When executed at exactly the correct frequency, autopsies revealed brains turned black with terror.
      name: Ghost Assault
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    stars:
      flavor: Felines with their inferior eyesight never see the Bull until it is too late. Photophosphors scavenged from deep cave fungi create the plane's unique colors.
      name: Quiet Bull
bigbird:
  name: Big Bird
  variants:
    default:
      flavor: ''
      name: Big Bird
daggerknight:
  name: Dagger Knight
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: All the girls at the convent loved her flashing black eyes and thighs of rippled steel.
      name: Ghost Knife
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: Tigetron
    VariantA:
      flavor: ''
      name: Revel Knight
    VariantB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    default:
      flavor: ''
      name: Dagger Knight
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Fire Knight
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Shark Knight
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Star Night
duster:
  name: Duster
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: There's a strange cult of rural would-be-warriors who get together on weekends, drink corn liquor, puff up their chests and brag loudly about How-Things-Would-Go if there was an apocalypse. Strangely, the apocalypse is happening right now, yet these blowhard birds manage to do nothing useful or constructive.
      name: Militia
    EpicA:
      flavor: Before she joined the Order, she was drunken mechanic. Trapped in a wheelchair due to that horrible accident involving a coffin, 3-tons of freshly harvested sweet potatoes and an amorous parrot.
      name: Ghost Duster
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: In this final calculus, all that matters are bonds we made along the way. Make good friends; all other measures of success are self-serving lies.
      name: The Friend
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: Some farmers like animal prints. They are less rare than you might imagine, though usually keep their predilections closeted in a den or private basement. A few are more forthright in declaring their bold, beautiful love.
      name: Liger
    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
    flames:
      flavor: Immense plumes of fragrant essence bloom forth from her billowy beautacious bum. Men and women cannot help but swoon.
      name: Gassy Lassy
    spikes:
      flavor: Never in the history of birdkind has a more mundane junker been tarted up to such an unfortunate degree. The result is some form of art.
      name: Cropper
    stars:
      flavor: Once maintained by an elderly grounds keeper in employ of a drooling duchess. Her entire estate was various shades of pastel due to a dictate she'd issue just as the brain worms hatched. And thus never rescinded. The grounds keeper would dutifully repaint the decorations once a year and took immense pride in his craft.
      name: Feather Duster
engineer:
  name: Engineer
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: Oil Monkey
    EpicA:
      flavor: Though they have no tongue and one cuffed foot is (by tradition) welded to the hangar floor, they excel at repairing the Order's clockwork masterpieces.
      name: Ghost Engineer
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: Flamboyant Nerd
    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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Circuit Breaker
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Fixer
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Gearhead
medic:
  name: Medic
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: The remnants of a dead religious order. They heal the unenlightened as a penance. Penance for betrayal of their mistress during her time of greatest need.
      name: Ghost Medic
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    stars:
      flavor: When the Empire ground guns began targeting medics, there were no tribunals left to accuse them of war crimes. So rebel medics resorted to camouflaging themselves against the starry night.
      name: Line Medic
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:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: When the Lady burned, one last plane circled her pyre until the end. The only sound on the Order's radio was choked, incoherent cries.
      name: Faithful Ghost
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    stars:
      flavor: An Old Faithful trainer repurposed as scout. The spiffy paint helps pilots avoid detection by anti-air
      name: Secret Angel
paladin:
  name: Paladin
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: There are always those who seeks out religion after traveling a rougher path. For such souls, repentance is, by necessity, an ongoing act.
      name: Ghost Paladin
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Pepper Chopper
    spikes:
      flavor: An experimental set of powered armor funded by a reclusive Lord. The lab shut down after the family's mass murder suicide, due to public rumor the patriarch had been canoodling with a pied parakeet. Such times we live in.
      name: Armored Suit MRKXII
    stars:
      flavor: To the north lies a small town ignored by most. In a dirt basement, three children dug up a metal chest of glittering star-shaped ornaments. Upon touching the points to their heart, throat and foreheads, they could see time itself.  Thus commenced the gentle winter murders.
      name: Stars of St. Stevens
pirate:
  name: Bandit
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: Moonlighter
    EpicA:
      flavor: A charming chap with a golden beak once bought me a drink. Months later, my livelihood ruined, I received a scented letter that chided, 'Never let a rich man buy you with only a dinner.'
      name: Ghost Pirate
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Pirate
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Profiteer
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Smuggler
rapier:
  name: Raptor
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: That flickering motion in the corner of you eye? It is too late for you. It was always too late.
      name: Ghost Hawk
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    VariantA:
      flavor: ''
      name: Great Eagle
    VariantB:
      flavor: ''
      name: Hawk
    default:
      flavor: 'Finicky, but beloved by skilled pilots, the Raptor offers immense firepower combined with surprising agility. '
      name: Raptor
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Peregrine Pepper
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Razor Raptor
    stars:
      flavor: Famously piloted by an ancient field scout who lost most of his head feathers. Some say due to a gas attack. Others joke he furrowed his brow so much, his plummage fell right out.
      name: Bald Eagle
siegetank:
  name: Siege Tank
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: After the betrayal, a squadron of the Order's siege tanks found themselves hiding at a small mountain monastery. After draining more than their fair share of the monk's ale supply, the pilots became convinced that the judgmental mountain goats were clearly their spirit animals.
      name: Ghost Ram
    EpicB:
      flavor: 'No speaks of love stories. The frantic warning. The escape in the night. The arithmetic of one more life jacket, one more minute, one more eternity. Know this: The fire burns. Long after hope has died.'
      name: Lover
    EpicC:
      flavor: Some people are born ugly. Ugly on the outside. Ugly on the inside. Others are made ugly. It seeps in, one bad choice at a time
      name: Ugly Tom
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: In the final days of the Republic, there was a fashion trend where young, attractive birds would pluck all the feathers from their heads and then draw in boldly colored eyebrows. Perhaps the one thing that is not missed.
      name: Queenie
    VariantA:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    VariantB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    default:
      flavor: ''
      name: Siege Tank
    flames:
      flavor: Never, ever call Pepper a crow. And none of those New Caledonian compliments. Like her mama said, grackles ain't crows. And even with all the equalizing and Uplifting, there's a certain amount of pride that goes with being a smaller icterid.
      name: Pepper Tank
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Grind Tank
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
support:
  name: Shieldmaiden
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: Behind every throne is a shadow, cast aside due blood and betrayal. She trains each night and builds her quiet alliances with the cult of Avem. Knowing that one day, her kin will need her. And she will ask for her due.
      name: Ghost Maiden
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    flames:
      flavor: Pepper met Her when she rolled up to the garage in the family roadster. Crisp cropped crest, rose beak. Love at first sight. Amazing how many tuneups a car needs.
      name: Lady of the Shield
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Guardian of Virtue
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: The Governess
tank:
  name: Hog
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    VariantA:
      flavor: ''
      name: Boar
    VariantB:
      flavor: ''
      name: Some Pig
    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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Porky Pepper
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Sulky Sow
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Piglet
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:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: Pepper's Pad
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: The Liaison
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Attache
wizard:
  name: Merlin
  variants:
    Camo:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicA:
      flavor: In the final massacre, as the screws twisted and screams rang throughout the tunnels, one elder was missing.
      name: Ghost Mage
    EpicB:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicC:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    EpicD:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    Tiger:
      flavor: ''
      name: ''
    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 assassination 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
    flames:
      flavor: ''
      name: 'Subject: Pepper'
    spikes:
      flavor: ''
      name: Experiment 8
    stars:
      flavor: ''
      name: Experiment FINAL