The Ace(2 Spot Available)
In my eyes, I'm the only true ace, but those who may want to attempt this title may consider themselves a somewhat feared entity of the sky. If you choose this class you will be able to inflict increased damage and have boosted agility when facing another single plane in a duel capacity (when two planes dogfight uninterrupted by teammates) and your title will also have a morale effect on lesser enemies who will be terrified of you and make mistakes in combat or flee when your plane is spotted.

The negative that most cant handle is that your infamy plays against you when less cowardly enemies are concerned. You will be targeted more often by default and will be challenged more often than not by other aces whenever they arrive. Also some minor enemies will decided to gang up on you in scrambles (large scale team battles) and you will be in a lot of danger against multiple enemies. Also you will do more damage against Non-aircraft 'boss enemy' weakspots but you will take more damage from the same 'large boss enemies' Choose wisely.

The Scanner(1 spots available)
With this class your craft will have a powerful on board computer scanner. When a scan of an enemy craft is complete it will pull up a profile of the craft will which will include a diagram and an overview of its capabilities along with possibly a pilot profile and weaknesses that the craft may have along with its dangerous strengths. After each successful scan all info will be updated to the Codex (OOC or Characters Tab). The Scanner also has complete immunity against all EMP or hacking based weapons.

Now the weaknesses, because the craft is more designed toward its tech capabilities, it will inflict reduced damage on all airborne enemies (but will do standard damage on ground and sea based units). Also in 1-1 duels the reduced damage is amplified (but having scanned info on an opponent can tip the odds in your favor, I speak from experience!).

Also while scanning you cant fire any weapons, the speed of the scan varies based on how rare or powerful the craft is, so against a death Mecha in the Atlantic ocean it could take a few minuites, that's when being a lone wolf may work against you.

The Rabbit(2 Spots Available)
This is the class of pilot that can pull off all the ridiculous somersaults, u-turns, death dives and make it look it easy. The Rabbit has superior agility and is basically a fighting stunt pilot, whos dizzying maneuvers make it a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. The Rabbit is a cocky bastard and has a special taunt ability which can grab the attention of almost any craft and make them chase the rabbit through any loops and twists it wants by showing off and shooting insults over the intercom. This ability can also pull an enemy out of a duel situation and have him chase the rabbit too!

But beware, once actually in a duel the rabbit will not have its same super agility as this class likes to play to a crowd and when in a showdown the pressure throws the pilot off and robs him of his superior skills while the duel is happening. Also the Aircraft of this craft is almost completely built for the air, so the Rabbit will do less damage to ground units, and take more damage from ground and sea units, its a risky class, but isnt that why you wanted to be the Rabbit?

The Fixer(1 spot available)
This is role most knowledgeable about planes, and what it takes to keep them in the air, you are pilot and mechanic hybrid, and your team needs you to stay alive. The Fixer is able to keep his teammates aircraft running after they have sustained damage by offering expert advice over the intercom, this could be anything from how to patch an oil leak, to maintaining altitude after wing damage or diverting power from a faulty engine. Basically a 'healer' of machines and absolute wiz. On top of that the fixer has access to two Nano drones which are steadily repairing the craft after every hit the fixer takes. Keeping him airborne where other craft with the same damage would fail or crash. These Nano drones can be 'given' to other craft in emergencies but the fixer must maintain flight above the craft in need while drone makes the transition. Though note these drones will be lost forever if they are shot at during these transitions.
The other strength of knowing so much about keeping planes flying is knowing how to bring them down! you will do a slight boosted damage to all airborne craft.

The weakness is of the fixer is that the reliance on the drones and being healed is that the craft isn't as hardy as normal warplanes and will take more damage from all enemies than a standard craft and this weakness is almost doubled in a duel so be very careful. Also while giving mechanical advice over the intercom the fixer must concentrate so agility and reaction time will be reduced while keeping a teammate afloat. You are the lifeblood of the team.

The Hunter(2 spots available)

There was a time when these heavy craft were just called 'bombers' but have become somewhat more multipurpose since then. Scary large planes that can lay waste to and entire city and strike fear into any machine that happens to have the poor fortune of being at the full mercy of gravity.
The Hunter is always a somewhat larger plane than its teammates, and has 2 forward facing mini-guns
in addition to all of the normal custom weapons the Hunter holds 12 'bunker buster' bombs which will do significant damage to any ground or sea based target. Also the Hunter will do more damage in general to any ground based unit with all of its weapons. Last but not least the Hunter has better armor than any standard warplane and takes a lot of hits before it is brought down.

As for the weaknesses it should be the obvious but the armor and weight of the Hunter class aircraft makes it slower and less agile than normal warplanes. That's not to say it cant dogfight but will be susceptible to taking more hits in the fray. In a duel this sluggishness is amplified greatly and your craft will feel like an airborne tank in a showdown. Although your armor may keep an ace distracted for while although this is a last ditch strategy.

Lastly Hunter aircraft are usually older models that aren't quite as technologically advanced as most standard planes and are more subsceptiable to emp, computer and other gadget based attacks.

Blood Wings (unlimited spots)
We cant all be Infamous. This is the non specialized role which allows you to do normal damage to all enemies and in turn receive normal damage from all enemies you will suffer no penalties in duels and no boosts either. You are just a regular member of the team. But as a small bonus for choosing this less glamorous role you will be allowed 10 custom weapons to your craft instead of the regular 8

PILOT
Name: Nastasza Swarc / Natalie Schwartz

Age: 26

Former Rank and Affiliation: First Lieutenant and Political Commissar, Air Forces of the New National People’s Army and Ministry for State Security (Stasi)

Height: 166 cm

Weight: 63 kg

Pilot Class: TBD

Nationality: Polish, citizen of the New German Democratic Republic

Appearance:

As a proud officer and Political Commissar, Natalie makes a point of keeping an impeccable appearance. Except when flying and sleeping, she wears her service uniform properly and keeps it clean as if it were the only clothes she has, from the cap to the boots. The only exception to this rule is that she forgoes the waist belt, finding it to be inconvenient for her form, making a distraction for her comrades. She keeps herself very clean due to relegating work on her aircraft to technicians and engineers and has never been seen with a single mark or blemish on her uniform or her face. Her blonde hair is silky smooth due to near-excessive care given to it. As for her body, she has a very feminine figure and she attempts not let this be the main impression that she gives by moving and generally carrying a posture of authority. She wears a cross necklace as a memento of her late father, whose death she caused.

Bio:
Born in a small village in a Polish speaking area of central Europe’s countryside, Nastasza Swarc was raised by a single father who cared for her after her mother was taken in a raid on their small village. Life was hard, though it was peaceful, with the villagers doing their able best to help one another, like a large family. The worst memories she had of her childhood were raids on the village by bandits and needing to hide in the cellar of their small house as it was ransacked and ruined, often losing everything they had gathered over the last few months.

One day, a rumble could be heard throughout the town, a sound normally associated to raiders, but this steady roar was much different than any that had been heard before. Rather than a team of bandits, Nastasza and her father found men in uniforms with rifles and vehicles marching through the town, speaking a strange language and claiming that the area was now part of the New Polish People’s Republic, a tiny puppet state of the New German Democratic Republic, being made to neighbor the NGDR in former Polish land. Soon enough, the so-called “socialist” (a new word to the villagers) forces had established a hold on the town. Hearing of cities to the west, in the NGDR, where the buildings were only half in ruins and there was never a danger of being raided, Nastasza and her father moved to the city of Leipzig, the provisional capital of the NGDR until the “liberation” of Berlin.

Here, Nastasza was shown a new life and the young girl soon found herself enamored with the lifestyle and regime of the people, seeing as synonymous with order, peace and rebuilding from the ruins of the old world, even under the oppression of the Party and, particularly, the Ministry of State Security, Stasi for short, who watched every citizen and made short work of any perceived “enemies” of the state, whenever they were reported. It was a place where husbands reported their wives, parents snitched on their children, workers on coworkers and the list only went on and on, however, for Nastasza, these were means to the end of keeping order and eliminating dangerous oppositon. By her own choice, she decided to join the Young Pioneers and her loyalty to the state and Party only grew from there. She became a fervent partisan, happily taking part in the adventures of her Pioneer group, listening to the myth-like stories of socialism in the old world with wide eyes.

When she was 10 years old, she came home one night from her Pioneer activities to find her father drinking and playing cards with other Polish friends, as she had become accustomed to. Now, however, she decided to listen in on their conversation and she was horrified to find them criticizing her beloved Party. Everything they said sounded to her like plotting against the Republic and she went to bed in tears at the horrors she had heard. By noon the next day, the act had been done; she had reported her father and his friends to the Stasi, without the slightest remorse, though she loved her father dearly as her only family. Over the next few months, the Zersetzung went on. A psychological technique devised by the first Stasi in the old world, it used the powerful network of collaborators, records and power over institutions to psychologically oppress political enemies, often by devising a steady collapse of their life, at least in the new Stasi’s definition, without the victim ever suspecting the Stasi. Her father lost his job, lost money gambling, was beaten up by crooks and muggers and began drinking, until five months after Nastasza had reported him to the Stasi, she returned home not to find him drinking and happily talking with old friends, but hanging from the ceiling lamp.

At the age of 14, four years later, Nastasza, now living by the German name of Natalie Schwartz joined the Free German Youth, the official youth movement of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and four years later, after finishing school, she wasted no time joining the Air Forces of the New National People’s Army. With her past as a Pioneer and a member of the youth movement, she was chosen to be not only a fighter pilot but also a Political Commissar, the officer assigned to a unit to monitor morale and more importantly ensure loyalty and that the squadron carries out its tasks in accordance to the will of the Party and the people. Even if she had a superior in the squadron, she was able to supersede and countermand orders issued by her CO, she also had the power to carry out summary executions on deserters and traitors, a privilege which she used freely and often. As a country that considered itself the only nation truly dedicated to the rebuilding of its territories and with the only ideology that could be dedicated to this, the New German Democratic Republic was practically constantly at war and over the next six years, she gathered a huge amount of experience fighting whoever the NGDR decided was its enemy, whether it was the WEC, other Germans or countries to the east and west, sortieing daily in her MiG-21PFn.A.

Soon, she had gained a fearful reputation, but not so much among her enemies as among her allies. Anyone who wasn’t totally loyal to the Party feared her and even hated her and as rumors spread of her snitching on her father, even disgust towards her was felt. Still, this didn’t keep her from ruling over her squadron with a red, iron fist and she had no mercy for those she deemed “counter-revolutionaries”. This caught the eye of the Stasi and following a rough mission that left her with some leave time and a leg that would heal fast anyway, she was recruited by the Ministry of State Security. During this time, she learned English, French and learned to speak said languages with a small handful of accents and she participated in a spot of foreign espionage before returning to her fatherland to work on hunting rebels, defectors and even hunting dissidents within the Party itself. After two years, she was returned to the Air Force and was put at the head of a squadron manned entirely by pilots who were secretly Stasi agents, with the objective of hunting down mid-mission any military units which were thought to participate in counter-revolutionary activities. She fought many of the best pilots of her own Air Force, all while participating in some of the most dangerous missions in order to distract from her squadron’s true purpose.

Coming to the present date, following a posting by her superiors in the Stasi of Natalie on mercenary boards and lists as a way of investigating other countries and soldiers of fortune, she was given the mission of joining the Red Baroness’ group and investigating her operations and goals...

Theme Song: TBD

Name: VEB Flugzeugwerft Dresden MiG-21PFn.A

Photo Identification:



Plane Type: Jet

Aircraft Notes and Characteristics: Nearly a two centuries ago, the MiG-21 was a feared jet throughout the skies of the world. Massively produced, simple to make and relatively simple to fly, its reputation was grand despite its simple appearance, due to its versatility and apparently easy maintenance. As the most numerous fighter of the first German Democratic Republic, the MiG-21 had a symbolic place for the leaders of the reborn GDR and soon enough, an old factory near Dresden was building MiG-21's for the first time in dozens of years, with the designation of "n.A" differentiating it from the plane it was based on, the MiG-21PF, standing for "neuer Art".

Neuer Art can mean something along the lines of "State of the Art". Indeed, the MiG-21PFn.A is definitely state of the art, if state of the art means making it with the simplest processes and the simplest materials to allow for faster production in a country with few resources. Compared to older MiG-21's, the n.A has a jet engine that has no afterburner and is generally underpowered. However, this indirectly resolves the problem of the old world MiG-21's fairly short range in earlier models, thanks to a lower fuel consumption. Due to this underpowered engine, the weight it can carry is lesser and thus the n.A only carries two missiles on most missions, relying on gunfighting after the missiles have been expended, along with unguided rockets. Realizing this, the designers made the n.A variant carry much more 23mm ammunition for the internal cannon (the internal cannon itself being a feature that was added on as the original MiG-21PF upon which the plane was mainly based (a large reverse engineering project of a single aircraft had to be done) did not have an internal cannon). It can also carry bombs, but the targeting computer is very basic.

Finally, the radar is definitely something to scoff at. The intake design of the MiG-21 left a small space for the radar inside the cone, but over time, the old world's MiG-21 designers managed to build respectable radars into the confines of the cone. This isn't the case with the n.A. The radar is a new design by the Dresden factory and design bureau, which isn't actually a good thing. Based off the radar used on the MiG-21PF, the RP-21 Sapfir, it's a slow, sluggish beast made from vacuum tubes that were probably dug out of a basement of some old airfield and crudely copied. Research is currently being undergone to improve it, but for the foreseeable future, the pilot is better off relying on their own two eyes.

However, despite these flaws, the MiG-21PFn.A remains a MiG-21 and keeps nearly all the flaws and advantages of its ancestor. A design that could easily reach high-speeds but lose those speeds easily in harsh turns, the n.A relies on energy fighting tactics and altitude advantages, which is reflected in the AFNNPA's doctrines for dogfighting; picking up speed in dives and using that speed to escape and regain altitude after attacking rather than maneuvering with the enemy, taking wide turns once at an ample distance. The engine is so underpowered that sharp turns can sometimes cause the plane to stall entirely if there isn't enough speed, which can be disastrous at lower altitudes. However, provided no harsh maneuvers are taken, the n.A can pick up speed well enough due to its aerodynamic design, even with a lower powered engine and it's a plane that's easy to learn, but especially hard to master, with great versatility. As well as this, the old reliability of the MiG-21, along with the extremely simple NGDR manufacturing process and parts make it astonishingly easy to maintain, which should be a joy for mechanics who'll need to operate on it.

As a plane meant for easy mass-production, the doctrines of the Air Forces reflect this; group tactics are nearly essential and most situations and a well-coordinated squadron of MiG-21PFn.A can almost seem like a swarm of demons. Natalie's own MiG-21 has no modifications, aside from the roundels of the Air Forces being whited out, but after spending a good few missions fighting on her own, she has developed tactics to fight even without the help of her squadron.

Weapons Descriptions:

*One internal automatic 23mm cannon, 3400-3600 rounds/minute
*Two rocket launchers, each with 20 rockets
*Two radar-guided missiles.

Weaknesses: Weak powerplant (=slow climbing and gain of speed), easy loss of speed in maneuvers, weak radar.