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: [Assault Variant] Hard to say if this plane has never been washed or if it's just painted to look that way. name: Mudslide EpicA: flavor: [Assault Variant] 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: '[Assault Variant] Alpinists strike a one-sided deal with the mountain: tread lightly or be buried alive.' name: Avalanche EpicC: flavor: [Assault Variant] A ghastly implement, built by reluctant engineers to satisfy a sadistic noble's whim. name: Royal Spike EpicD: flavor: [Assault Variant] Farmers dig up long buried weapons from their fields once there's nothing to do but fight. name: Rusty Spear Tiger: flavor: [Assault Variant] Radiant, unblinking. It compels you to match its gaze and be mesmerized. The last thing you see is a thing of such beauty. name: Tiger's Eye VariantA: flavor: [Assault Variant] 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: [Assault Variant] 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 medium-armored bruiser with single-stick controls. Can equip Shotguns. The Damage Cloud ability boosts damage for itself and nearby allies. The Bash combines attack and mobility. name: Assault flames: flavor: [Assault Variant] 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: [Assault Variant] 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: [Assault Variant] 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: [Assault Variant] 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: [Dagger Knight Variant] He grew up poor. A mud covered boy in world of want, muck and misery. This is all he knows. To ask more of him is like asking mud to dream. name: Mud Knight EpicA: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] All the girls at the convent loved her flashing black eyes and thighs of rippled steel. name: Ghost Blade EpicB: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] 'We are in this together', she said, as she retied the bandage on the stump of his leg. name: The Companion EpicC: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] There's a charming dirge about songbirds overwintering in the snowy pines. For warmth, they'd huddle together in fluffed up balls. Never realizing that clever raccoons with their devil paws were slowly climbing up from below. Poof! Feathers everywhere. One less song bird. A tune often sung at funerals. name: Winter Song EpicD: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] Commissioned as a forward craft for officers and nobles, the DK-1 was designed to inspire the troops with heroic, close-range assaults. Later models added the now-standard shield for increased survivability. name: Vanguard Tiger: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] While Imperial breeding priests bestows their highest honors upon monstrous Lion-tiger hybrids, they look down on the smaller tigons. The shameful offspring of a male tiger and female lion coupling are culled at birth when possible. name: Tigon VariantA: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] Come harvest time, we shroud our mecha with black, white and orange crepe and stand at attention in the town squares. Revelers dance with abandon, celebrating the abundance of summer and welcoming the ghostly dead of winter. name: Revel Knight VariantB: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] How might we attain happiness? 1. Build your community. 2. Support others in times of need. 3. Invest your love in a few good friends. 4. Improve yourself. name: The Good Citizen default: flavor: A lightly-armored skirmisher with dual-stick controls. Can equip Snipers. The Shield Blast grants a temporary shield to itself and nearby allies. Invincible Dash manuever offers a quick burst of movement plus immunity to attack. name: Dagger Knight flames: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] Her son wanted to be a fighter pilot. So she did everything to support him. Extra shifts to buy his uniforms. Leaving good jobs so he could be near the school and then the base. When his empty casket came back, she could only blame herself. name: Fire Knight spikes: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] The loner tells himself self-inflicted lies. That he is better off alone. That others are threats. These are a defense mechanism. The truth is that others would welcome and love him if he would simply stop acting like a solitary shark, all teeth and selfish hunger. name: Shark Knight stars: flavor: [Dagger Knight Variant] When the champion was asked by a child how he became so grand, he knelt down and whispered the following secrets. 'First, I observe my failures. And note the ineffective patterns. Then I change those patterns. And always (this is the most important part), I try to be kind to others. Because we are all on the same journey of learning.' name: Star Knight duster: name: Duster variants: Camo: flavor: [Duster Variant] 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 blowhards still manage to do nothing useful or constructive. name: Militia EpicA: flavor: [Duster Variant] Before she joined the Order, she was a 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: [Duster Variant] She slid the food under the cell door. The poison worked more slowly than expected. name: The Sympathizer EpicC: flavor: [Duster Variant] In this final calculus, all that matters are bonds we forged along the way. Make good friends; all other measures of success are self-serving lies. name: The Friend EpicD: flavor: [Duster Variant] As his plane fell, he thought of his unborn child. name: Daddy-O Tiger: flavor: [Duster Variant] 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: [Duster Variant] 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: [Duster Variant] 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 medium-armored attacker with single-stick controls. Can equip Snipers. Leaves a Damage Trail when superspeeding. The Damage Cloud ability boosts damage for itself and nearby allies. The Spin Attack manuever combines a 180º-turn with a parting attack. name: Duster flames: flavor: [Duster Variant] Immense plumes of fragrant essence bloom forth from her billowy beautacious bum. Men and women cannot help but swoon. name: Gassy Lassy spikes: flavor: [Duster Variant] Never in the history of bird-kind has a more mundane junker been tarted up to such an unfortunate degree. The result is some form of art. name: Cropper stars: flavor: [Duster Variant] 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: [Engineer Variant] Some birds scoff at hydraulics. Wise coggers know strange physics fractal outward at higher pressures. The dense fluids gain a mind of their own. name: Oil Monkey EpicA: flavor: [Engineer Variant] 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: [Engineer Variant] Engineering builds off stable foundations; tried and true solutions passed down through crafthouses for generations. Who drew out those meticulous original blueprints? Rendered with a hand so steady it might as well been a machine. name: Master Drafter EpicC: flavor: [Engineer Variant] In Early Uplift times, the poles were covered with mile-thick layers of ice. We know this from oral traditions of the far southern tribes like the p'guens and petrels. In deep glacial cities, proto-coggers built vast mechno-optical factories of refracting blue crystal. name: Ice Cogger EpicD: flavor: [Engineer Variant] A cogger myth tells of a gearing assemblage that predicts the future with unerring accuracy. Stars, moons, people crunched into numbers by a perfect, diabolical machine. name: Philosopher's Epicyclic Tiger: flavor: [Engineer Variant] He knows how to talk. He knows how to dress. He knows how to build. Insufferable. name: Flamboyant Nerd VariantA: flavor: [Engineer Variant] A master engineer selects the right tool for the job. Or dynamite. Both work, for varying definitions of 'work'. name: Specialist VariantB: flavor: [Engineer Variant] 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: [Engineer Variant] A medium-armored area-controller with single-stick controls. Can equip Blasters and The Wasps. The Turret ability spawns a stationary gun that targets enemies. The Flip 180º manuever allows for a quick retreat. name: Engineer flames: flavor: [Engineer Variant] Raw materials for new work come from salvaging old wrecks. The land's a layer cake of era, each with their own machines and mysteries. A breaker rips it all down, melts it, separates out the good stuff. name: Breaker spikes: flavor: [Engineer Variant] Before the great aerial Docks burned, engineering planes helped build the legendary floating capital ships. Now, they deploy drones in direct combat. name: Fixer stars: flavor: [Engineer Variant] Being pragmatic birds of science, there's nothing magic about gears. But there is something sublime; an awesome infinite beauty that moves the soul. name: Gearhead medic: name: Medic variants: Camo: flavor: [Medic Variant] Healers once relied on folk remedies to treat patients. Modern medicine has proven much more effective, but something warm and comforting was lost in the transition. name: Naturopath EpicA: flavor: [Medic Variant] 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: '[Medic Variant] The soldier is too far gone, so the doctor seeks to comfort: tell me a treasured memory. Summertime, childhood, lying back on a field of grass, looking up...' name: Blue Sky EpicC: flavor: [Medic Variant] A recluse, his methods are scorned by his peers and feared by the locals. Still, if you've fallen hurt in the woods, you're better off going to him than not. name: Northern Doc EpicD: flavor: [Medic Variant] Come, get your humours in balance! Fever, apoplexy, headache? Acne, asthma, convulsions, gout? indigestion, insanity, leprosy, stroke? There's nothing the sanguinary arts cannot cure. To the barber with you! name: Bloodletter Tiger: flavor: [Medic Variant] Great cats are fiercely protective of their young. The cubs must learn to fight for themselves, but know they can always return home to have their wounds licked. name: Tiger Mother VariantA: flavor: [Medic Variant] 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: [Medic Variant] 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: A medium-armored healer with single-stick controls. Can equip Blasters and Wasps. The Heal Cloud ability instantly regains HP for itself and nearby allies. The Flip 180º manuever allows for a quick retreat. name: Medic flames: flavor: [Medic Variant] 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: [Medic Variant] 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: [Medic Variant] 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: 'Airplane Movement Flies like a plane, fires forward Strong Armor Can take many hits Gamepad Single Stick Controls Keyboard WASD and Mouse' variants: Camo: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] In the forested hunting grounds, our Rebels encountered a band of scoundrels who would camouflage their craft during the day and then harass the Nobility at night. We pay them a small retainer and they occasionally will act as our allies. name: Forest Faithful EpicA: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] When the Lady burned, one last plane circled her pyre until the end. The only sounds captured on the Order's radio were choked, incoherent cries. name: Faithful Ghost EpicB: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] The Imperial Intelligence (an oxymoron at heart) would gift these to would-be rebels. We lost so many before we figured out where they hid the tracking devices. name: Corrupted Faith EpicC: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] The most vile trick one can play upon a child is to teach them there is no difference between faith and guilt. name: Holy Sorrow EpicD: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] The napalm missed most of their body. That's what the doctor said. They could still fly. They could still fight. They must have been spared. For some purpose. That the rest of their family had not shared. name: Highest Calling Tiger: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] 'In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?' -Billy Blake name: Burning Bright VariantB: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] The new shiny military upgrade to the Old Faithful airframe. Retooled for production in our remaining factories. name: Angel of Faith VarientA: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] 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: A medium-armored, versatile attacker with single-stick controls. Can equip any gun type. The Acid Cloud ability deals ongoing AOE damage. The Flip 180º manuever allows for a quick retreat. name: Old Faithful flames: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] The Rebel City Store employs a grumpy grackle who only paints planes with bad-ass flames. It is her thing. name: Old Pepper spikes: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] Cool blue spikes transform this ancient training plane into a hipster fashion statement. Comes with built-in record player. name: Chill Faithful stars: flavor: [Old Faithful Variant] 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: [Paladin Variant] The careful application of poverty is an essential ingredient to any religious fervor. name: Mud Druid EpicA: flavor: [Paladin Variant] 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: [Paladin Variant] They say Iron Gregory once sliced through 30 feline ships with a single swing of his plasma chainsaw. They say a lot of things about Iron Gregory. name: Iron Gregory EpicC: flavor: [Paladin Variant] Sometimes the ice is on the inside. name: Ice Paladin EpicD: flavor: [Paladin Variant] The ever youthful lord ordered his lone servant to polish his rig to an impeccable shine. Tonight, he is out. On the town. name: Pretty John Tiger: flavor: [Paladin Variant] In the evenings, the flock performs a calming ritual. They keep a cage of mice in the corner, who've been told that this is their way into heaven. name: Lord of Claw and Fang VariantA: flavor: [Paladin Variant] The burly birds of the Northern forests use these rigs to haul logs. Fueled by flapjacks. name: Lumberjack VariantB: flavor: [Paladin Variant] When the fire's low and the whiskey's half gone, they whisper tales. Once there was a bird, as tall as a mountain. And his trusty blue fox. name: Bunyan default: flavor: A lightly-armored assault-support mecha with dual-stick controls. Can equip Swords. The Heal Aura ability slowly heals itself and nearby allies. The Hasty Retreat manuever offers a quick backward dash. name: Paladin flames: flavor: [Paladin Variant] Pepper never talks about her past. But she's got an old tattoo with a blurred name set in the dead center of a flaming heart. name: Pepper Chopper spikes: flavor: [Paladin Variant] An experimental set of powered armor funded by a reclusive Lord. The lab shut down after the noble 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: [Paladin Variant] 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: [Bandit Variant] When the clouds slip from the full moon, a curious shimmer floats up above the tree line. The clouds return and you shift uneasily in your bedclothes. Perhaps it was nothing. name: Moonlighter EpicA: flavor: [Bandit Variant] 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 your soul with just a dinner.' name: Ghost Pirate EpicB: flavor: [Bandit Variant] This plane belonged to an ex-author. Failing miserably to understand the true nature of their elite profession, they proclaimed themselves to be a writer without first securing a rich spouse, a sizable inheritance or even a minor confidence scheme. A life of crime soon followed. name: The Fantasist EpicC: flavor: [Bandit Variant] The previous owner of this plane grew up in a quiet northern household. His nanny would shush him, sometimes clamping his beak shut, so that he would not incur the wrath of his sensitive father. When he complained he could not breath, she whispered this was still better than more bruises. name: The Ice Boy EpicD: flavor: [Bandit Variant] We sanction privateers as long as they make the Empire's life worse than they make ours. name: The Parolee Tiger: flavor: [Bandit Variant] The tiger is the fallen enemy of civilization. It lurks in abandoned fields, barely surviving on stray livestock. Yet the tiger remains majestic. Though it is reduced to scavenging. Though it has lost the grand arc of history. name: Hunted VariantA: flavor: [Bandit Variant] 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: [Bandit Variant] 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: A lightly-armored skirmisher with dual-stick controls. Can equip Shotguns. The EMP Canon fires a slow-moving orb that stuns most enemies. The Warp manuever teleports forward past enemy attacks. name: Bandit flames: flavor: [Bandit Variant] Art is not a transaction. Yes, you pay coins for a work of art. But this is but one necessary expression of gratitude and appreciation. Ideally, it is also accompanied by kind words, a gift of fine liqueur and a sense of kinship. When you treat art as just a transaction, the heart of the artist turns to stone and you, with all your silly cash, are worth nothing. name: Pepper's Mask spikes: flavor: [Bandit Variant] Worldly goods eat at our soul. We covet them, seek them and fill all our spare hours obsessing, obsessing, obsessing over their grinding, unending acquisition. What do you truly need? A ship, the sky, a merry crew of fine mates. Stuff? Stuff is a mere waste of living. name: Profiteer stars: flavor: [Bandit Variant] In the 20s, trysting ladies took to wearing silk masks steamed into the shape of exotic mammalia. Foxes, deer, the occasional marmoset. In later decades, such fashions were popularly associated with dashing thieves, especially those flaunting an erotic feminine flair. name: Rake's Mask rapier: name: Raptor variants: Camo: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Favored by bootleggers for running liquor and general hooning around the swamp. Flying through mud and insects in an open cockpit plane appeals to a very particular sort. name: Mud Pigeon EpicA: flavor: [Raptor Variant] That flickering motion in the corner of your eye? It is too late for you. It was always too late. name: Ghost Hawk EpicB: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Winter birds of prey must be miserly with their energy. A caloric fortune spent is on simply maintaining their temperature. There's none to waste on a failed strike. name: Ice Hawk EpicC: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Why do we invest in shiny baubles? It is because, as social animals, we are compelled to engage in social comparison. The bauble is communication of our identity and status. Without baubles, we have no way to signal our ties and roles within the communal whole. name: Comparative Advantage EpicD: flavor: [Raptor Variant] In an ecosystem full of food and devoid of predators, competition for mates intensifies. Prance and preen! Your lineage relies on it. name: Bird of Paradise Tiger: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Originally the pattern of a dangerous predator, now everyone wears it to mimic that strength. Turns out that can be just as effective. name: Tiger Strike VariantA: flavor: [Raptor Variant] The old v1 prototype. It rattled as it flew and made a godawful noise, but it proved the design was sound. The rough sketch that was refined into today's mass-produced Raptor. name: Great Eagle VariantB: flavor: [Raptor Variant] You'd think the hunt is about killing, but in reality it's all in the waiting. Waiting and watching. Watching and waiting. name: Hawk default: flavor: A lightly-armored striker with single-stick controls. Can equip Snipers and Lasers. Guns deal double-damage while not superspeeding. The Mine secondary and Barrel Roll manuever help escape difficult situations. name: Raptor flames: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Pepper doesn't hide her distaste for these smaller, open-cockpit planes. Less surface area for painting flames, she says. name: Peregrine Pepper spikes: flavor: [Raptor Variant] Swoop down, talons out. Snatched from the pond in the blink of an eye. The fish never sees it coming, and how could it? An attacker from another dimension. name: Razor Raptor stars: flavor: [Raptor Variant] 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: [Siege Tank Variant] A forest glade filled with dappled light caught the scout's eye. How could such serenity exist within the maelstrom of war? The patterns of shadow shifted and the hidden tank's massive turret clicked into view. Oh, mused the scout as the hot shell sped his way, peace and beauty are but dreams. name: Camo Tank EpicA: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] After the betrayal, a squadron of the Order's siege tanks found themselves hiding at a small mountain monastery. Draining more than their fair share of the monks' ale supply, the pilots became convinced that the judgmental mountain goats were clearly their spirit animals. name: Ghost Ram EpicB: flavor: '[Siege Tank Variant] No one 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: [Siege Tank Variant] 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: [Siege Tank Variant] Ice storm of '19 cut off a group of mechanics on a remote base. Food was running low, so to keep spirits up, they held a little plane painting contest. The group pledged, if they were rescued, to never reveal the fate of the loser. Winner winner got a chicken dinner. name: Ice Storm Tiger: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] 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. Such abundance of spirit feels alien to this modern age. name: Queenie VariantA: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] Known for their dyed plumage and eroticized shoe collections, the ladies and bois of the famed Artillery Wenches always make an entrance. name: Bird Lust VariantB: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] Come middle age, you stand at the edge of a curious abyss. Not a straight plunge, but a soft slope going downward forever. If you trip, you will start to tumble and nothing will stop you. name: Old Timer default: flavor: A lightly-armored artillery craft with dual-stick controls. Can equip Lasers. The Flak Cannon ability shoots down enemy projectiles at a distance. The Siege Mode switches the craft to an immobile state with greatly increased firepower. name: Siege Tank flames: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] 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: [Siege Tank Variant] The birds moth-balled their ground artillery when they ceded the poisoned soil. But Avian engineers abhor wasted firepower, so this unlikely flying tank was born. name: Grind Tank stars: flavor: [Siege Tank Variant] The motto of the anti-propagandist Famous Personages Long Range Assassination Unit is 'Aim for the Stars' name: Celestia support: name: Shieldmaiden variants: Camo: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] The war, the deaths. She needed to escape. The music was too loud. They locked gazes and there was the briefest of nods. name: Urban Sylph EpicA: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] Beside 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: [Shieldmaiden Variant] There's a certain type of mechanic who enjoys working on Shieldmaiden rigs. Often a bit gruff, but with a kind heart. The sort that understands, even if society doesn't. name: Shield Wench EpicC: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] We act out so terribly during our teenage years. name: Ward of the State EpicD: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] The Bright Lady of the Sky. All rally to the charging Empress as she boosts the armor of those who follow her into the fray. name: Shield Empress Tiger: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] She knew which buttons to push. name: The Cub VariantA: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] 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: [Shieldmaiden Variant] An older woman is a force to be reckoned with. Only young idiots believe otherwise. name: Shieldqueen default: flavor: A lightly-armored support mecha with dual-stick controls. Can equip Arcs. The Shield Aura ability reduces damage taken by itself and nearby allies. The Dash manuever offers a quick burst of movement. name: Shieldmaiden flames: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] 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: [Shieldmaiden Variant] There's nothing saying girls shouldn't like girls. But there's a time and place. Proper courtship still matters. name: Guardian of Virtue stars: flavor: [Shieldmaiden Variant] She was quite strict with her impetuous charge. Given their predilections, it was perhaps inevitable the relationship took a non-traditional turn in later years. name: The Governess tank: name: Hog variants: Camo: flavor: [Hog Variant] Never wrestle with The Mud Sow. You'll both get filthy, but the sow will enjoy it. name: Mud Sow EpicA: flavor: [Hog Variant] 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: '[Hog Variant] When you can purchase or sell status, you demonstrate the true values inherent to capitalist society: The ultimate worth of an individual depends entirely on whether or not they are rich. Such seductively reductive systems devalue us all.' name: The Goodly Aesthetic EpicC: flavor: [Hog Variant] A heart beats hot blood below thick layers of fat and fur, staving off the cold. Trudging past frozen corpses of those too skinny for this climate. name: Snow Hog EpicD: flavor: [Hog Variant] All of the intelligent species have a creation myth involving crimson water. In both the Aves and Mammalia archeo-cultural branches, recorded narratives tell of heroes drawn into the ruby depths, usually by black cords or tentacles. And they emerge filled with light. name: The Ancient Red Tiger: flavor: [Hog Variant] You can clean it up, put some color in its trail, spray it with some stripes, but it is still a Hog. name: Zebra Pig VariantA: flavor: [Hog Variant] An immense hulk composed mostly of armor and field generators. Shrugs off bullets as it barrels straight into the crossfire. name: Boar VariantB: flavor: [Hog Variant] It takes a certain type to fly a plane designed to be pounded by enemy attacks. Sure, you say it's to protect your allies. Deep down though, a part of you likes it. name: Glutton For Punishment default: flavor: A heavily-armored tank with single-stick controls. Can equip Machine Guns. The Propeller Blast ability deals instant AOE damage. The Absorb manuever grants a temporary size and HP boost to soak up enemy attacks. name: Hog flames: flavor: [Hog Variant] Like a flying bonfire, lighting the heavens. Pepper went through 6 barrels of paint on this one. name: Porky Pepper spikes: flavor: [Hog Variant] When the academy recommends a recruit for flying a Hog, some take it the wrong way. Does it mean you excel at flying slow and getting shot? Of course not, but many pilots carry that doubt for years. name: Sulky Sow stars: flavor: [Hog Variant] Hogs have commonly been sold as military surplus for use as civilian transports, only to be recommissioned to aid the war effort. This one belonged to a traveling circus for 6 years. The odor of hay and manure lingers. name: Piglet walker: name: Quad tutorial_info: 'Hover Movement Can move or fire in any direction Weak Armor Can only take a few hits Gamepad Dual Stick Controls Keyboard WASD and Mouse' variants: Camo: flavor: [Quad Variant] This grimy little beater was used for speed trials in the salt flats. That alkaline dust is near impossible to wash out. A little bit shakes off each time the engine turns over. name: Dirt Devil EpicA: flavor: [Quad Variant] 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: [Quad Variant] An esoteric engine system that lift with a flapping motion rather than typical spinning props. Too expensive and high-maintenance for large scale production. name: Ornithopter EpicC: flavor: [Quad Variant] Originally used in mountain rescue by the Bernard family. Rumor has it they refused to give their allegiance to the empire. We found their quads abandoned in a remote hangar, still greased up against the cold. Ready to go. name: Snowcopter EpicD: flavor: [Quad Variant] He built this plane piece by piece, using the work as an excuse to avoid enlisting. A finely-tuned fighting machine and the pilot too terrified to fly it. name: Coward's Lament Tiger: flavor: [Quad Variant] Why do birds make such good pilots? The answer is monocular vision. The ability to track targets in full 360 with both eyes moving independently is a critical advantage in combat. name: Animal Quad VariantA: flavor: [Quad Variant] It looks fast. Amazing what a little tin and a clever paint job can do. name: Speed Quad VariantB: flavor: [Quad Variant] Beefed up engines produced an intense thrumming that causes beaks to vibrate. Originally favored by unlicensed racers, chop shops still make 'em if you can find the parts. name: Power Quad default: flavor: A lightly-armored skirmisher with dual-stick controls. Can equip Machine Guns. The Damage Cloud ability boosts damage for itself and nearby allies. The Hasty Retreat manuever offers a quick backward dash. name: Quad flames: flavor: [Quad Variant] There's a lady who paint flames on planes. That's her thing. She's got a bit of a following with the aficionados. name: Pepper's Pad spikes: flavor: [Quad Variant] Favored by officers, the Liason 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: The Liaison stars: flavor: [Quad Variant] Why darling, of course we need to go to the party tonight. Otherwise, who will plant the bomb? name: Attache wizard: name: Merlin variants: Camo: flavor: '[Merlin Variant] Merge notes: Time-line synthesis failed. Causality breakdown on June 6th, 18XX88xxs....^esc^b MONKEY DOMINENCE ENDS NOW' name: FATAL ERROR EpicA: flavor: [Merlin Variant] In the final massacre, as the screws twisted and screams rang throughout the tunnels, one elder was missing. name: Ghost Mage EpicB: flavor: [Merlin Variant] This highly experimental class uses a miniaturized teleportation apparatus to pop about the combat zone. The egghead pilots are derisively known as wizkids. name: Emrys III EpicC: flavor: [Merlin Variant] She was brilliant. After her advisor took credit for the critical stabilizer work, she left the project. Our progress faltered until we found her hidden notes transcribed from deep script. name: Snow Witch EpicD: flavor: [Merlin Variant] Our research is being quietly corrupted. Something reaches through walls and changes key letters and phrases in our papers. They do not want us to know. name: Missing Symbol Tiger: flavor: [Merlin Variant] After careful analysis of the ash, the consensus theory involves chained realities; pocket dimensions in a feedback loop replaying a million years of [REDACTED] history. name: 'Warning: Flammable' VariantA: flavor: [Merlin Variant] ***WARNING*** THE EXISTENCE OF THIS DEVICE IS CLASSIFIED. REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO DMO [NEED TO KNOW] FOR MINDWIPE name: Unidentified VariantB: flavor: [Merlin Variant] [REDACTED] used the mechanism in the failed fulcrum point assassination June 5th, 18XX. Wreckage analysis suggests extra-historical origins. name: X54 default: flavor: [Merlin Variant] A medium-armored area-controller with single-stick controls. Can equip Arcs. The Bullet Wipe ability deletes nearby enemy bullets. The Blink manuever warps forward past enemy attacks. name: Merlin flames: flavor: [Merlin Variant] They brought her in blindfolded. Told her she had some admirers. It was a special job for special state client and she could never talk about it. She just stared at him until he stopped talking. name: 'Subject: Pepper' spikes: flavor: [Merlin Variant] Some wizards are just so...goth. name: Experiment 8 stars: flavor: [Merlin Variant] The equations from the remaining codex fragment proved more flexible than expected. What we've managed must have been child's play for them. name: Experiment FINAL