The Ace(2 Spots Available)
Okay so any kid who attempted to climb into a plane probably already knows what this is right?
The badass, the assassin of high altitudes the notorious pilot that the enemies fear. 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 downside 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 spot available)
I'll be honest, I have a soft spot for this role, I was a scanner back when I was in the Canadian militia, and let me tell you its almost an invaluable role. 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 as for 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, but hey thats what your team's for right?

The Rabbit(2 Spots Available)
Haha, now this is a class I could never forget, these flashy pilots always made a spectacle whether on my team or against me. This is the class of pilot that can pull off all the crazy 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 thats what you wanted, right Rabbit?

The Fixer(2 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(1 spot available)

Back in my day we used to just call these guys 'bombers' but Christ they've become so much more 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. So smash enemies the old fashioned way!

Sky Warrior (unlimited spots)
So maybe you aren't interested in becoming a fancy class with an extravagant title, maybe you just want to focus on shooting down bad guys, flying your beloved craft and supporting your team. 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 because.... why not?

The Broken Birds are semi-religious gang of wackjobs from southern california but they were founded in Holland by a dutch-american psychopath named Bram Caspar-Hannes he has convinced a bunch of equally nutty but very devoted group of pilots that they are reincarnations of birds and need to destroy as much of the human world as possible if they are ever to 'reach the skies again' yeah don't ask me, but they are very dangerous and should be shot down with extreme prejudice. Here is their logo/flag ,if you see it on any machinery, flying or other, then blow it up.

Another gang ran by an ego maniac. James Garvey is the son of Mac Garvey who used to run the Junk Centre, a sort of charity that would help fix any sort passing travelers vehicle with whatever scrap parts they had available. But after Mac died, his greedy son turned into into a chop shop where he and his gang of scavenging bandits would shoot down and kill anyone who came past and keep the parts to sell off on the black market. Obviously after a while people started avoiding Junkyard altogether, so now 'Jim's Junkyard' Is a criminal convoy stealing any machinery they can with lethal force. Smash these guys into the junk they love so much when you see this logo.

Stupid name right? well what do you expect from a bunch of escaped convicts? After a successful jailbreak in Rikers Island Cellmates Daniel Sparks and Solomon Chavez managed to get a hold of some aircraft and started blowing up prison walls for more convicts to escape and join them. Nothing very interesting about these guys they are just everyday criminals, scum of the earth. Sparks is a Rapist and Chavez was a drug gang enforcer.
Kill them and collect their bounties. Their gang sports this logo.

Okay shes not really a princess but when rich girl Cara St-Michaels decided to leave home to find adventure you best believe her black ops trained bodyguard and assistant Nigel Costworth was right behind her along with some of the best trained pilots from the local flight school. Cara isn't a criminal or a bully in the conventional sense but her background in fencing has made her viciously competitive and will swiftly attack anyone who she feels could give her even the smallest challenge. She wears her logo proud, this is a smaller gang but they more than make up for it with skill, if you see the Rapier, Beware!

Name: James (Jimmy) Garfield Web
Nickname: The Runner
Age: 23
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 160 lbs
Pilot Class: Rabbit
Nationality: American (MidWestern U.S., under occupation of Warlord)
Appearance:



Bio:

Jimmy was the son of Carlton Tobias Web, a mechanic and former pilot. Carl was a local legend in the small area of "Jonesberg," a smaller region in what was once North-Eastern Ohio. Carlton himself was a Fixer when he used to fly the skies for Thomas Jones, the local warlord. There was peace and prosperity in Jonesberg due to the work of Carl and a few other local pilots. Carl's most prized possession, and one he kept a secret, a 1970s style F/A-18 Hornet he named the Roger Dodger. Jimmy was raised to be a pilot, learning how to fly in some of the older models his father had restored and inherited since the passing of his comrades. Jimmy also learned the basics of aircraft maintenance and repair, helping to modify some of the aircraft in his father's possession.

Jimmy was 17 when Thomas Jones, now in his 50s, came demanding to Carl demanding all of the planes at Carl's hangar be handed over to Jonesberg so that they could go use the planes to spread terror across the American Midwest. Carl's refusal led to Jones to shoot the mechanic in the head on the spot as Jimmy watched from a distance. Jones' men began to scour the hangar for other workers. Jimmy, out of shear desperation, fired up the Roger Dodger hidden behind the hangar under a tarp and took off. Jimmy wasn't used to the speed and agility this aircraft had shown.

For the next five years, Jimmy never stuck in one place long. He came to be known as "The Runner" due to his craft's exceptional speed and Jimmy's emphasis on running over gunning, often aiming to catch his opponents off-guard to take them out. Jimmy has kept in contact with a girlfriend from back home, Jessica, whenever he can. There is a printed picture of her taped inside of the cockpit, along with a picture of Jimmy's father, Carl.

Name: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet "Roger Dodger"
Description:



Plane Type: Jet
Extra Aircraft Notes: Handles like a beauty. Additional Weight has been off-set by a reduction in armor.

Weapons Descriptions:
- Two Forward-Facing 20-mm M61 Vulcan Cannons
- Twenty Standard Rockets
- 2 Caches of Missile Flares

Weaknesses: The Roger Dodger has very little armor to protect itself from enemy fire.

PILOT
Name: Ryan Lungfirst
Age: 38(15-65)
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 148 lbs
Pilot Class: Sky Warrior
Nationality: “Alaskan”
Appearance: Brown eyes so dark as to seem almost black stare piercingly from beneath red eyebrows speckled with white. Beneath them squats a wide nose atop a mustache and beard that make the mouth all but invisible, for all that the beard stops only an inch below the chin. Above it all is a high, and slightly receding, hairline with a slightly golden sheen breaking up its dusky blonde. This is the face of Ryan Lungfirst, pilot of the “Long-Dive” and skilled evader of major trouble.

His body isn’t that impressive though, a little thin but muscled with a farmer’s tan. His fingers and toes are a little long and he stands at a modest 5’10”. Fashion isn’t his strong suit and he is rarely seen in anything other than either a black or gray flight suit and dusty brown work boots, unless he broke out his mechanic’s coveralls.

Bio: Lungfirst was born to a farming family in southern Illinois. However, the town was raided and most of the residents were sold as slave labor, his family included. While most of his family were sold to settlements in various states throughout the Northwestern states, he was still small enough that onen of them wanted him. Eventually, he was sold to a bandit gang in southern Alaska in exchange for a few small boxes of cheap ammo. After a few years, he earned full membership by shooting a spy from a rival gang. Unknown to him at the time, the leader of his gang was watching when he pulled the trigger.

The spy died slowly from the gunshot wound to a lung as the young Ryan felt no need to waste additional bullets on a dying enemy. The gang leader gave him the name Lungfirst and full membership in recognition of his instinctive ruthlessness. He began to learn quickly, everything that he could learn as a full member. That gang survived for several more years before they suffered a series of catastrophic failed raids.

As Lungfirst was talented and efficient with maintenance and repair work he was too valuable to risk on raids. This was how he survived. As time went on, he was passed from one bandit squadron to another as they were killed in the continual infighting that ravaged the Alaskan wilderness. He loaded and maintained the bush planes that saw most of the tiny skirmishes over the interior of Alaska. Kept alive by virtue of his skills, he moved from one area to another with whoever he served. It didn’t hurt his survival odds that he wasn’t loyal to any one boss, they all understood that he was out to survive. But eventually, after dodging death most of his life and getting through puberty without giving girls much thought, he found himself besotted with an engineer working with a local military wing based out of an old Air Force Base. He waited until the right moment, when his current boss was going to die in another ill-conceived raid, and joined the military for the most cliché of reasons.

She was smart and driven. She also couldn’t care one bit about the up and coming recruit of questionable loyalty. Still, she needed a test pilot for their latest tech resurrection program who could actually understand what was being tested. That was how Test Pilot Lungfirst ended up behind the stick of quite a few exotic and experimental planes. He played a part in stabilizing the interior of Alaska by using his rapidly developing piloting skill and well-honed mechanical insight to perfect the planes that decided many fights and annihilated numerous bandit gangs. Unfortunately, the higher ranking officers decided that he knew too much and had become too important. They planned an accidental retirement for him, post-mortem medals included.

The plan involved the engineering girl of his dreams finally showing him some interest and leading him right into the trap. But, a boy raised by bandits is no stranger to betrayal. The change in his crush’s behavior was too much to be believed. When that test flight started he went up with a full load instead of the minimal supplies that were scheduled. After sticking around at low altitude long enough to test the alternate console arrangement that was the subject of the test and remove the bomb that was under his seat and drop it out the side of the canopy, he climbed up to his plane’s maximum safe altitude, picked a direction and kept going.

A couple lucky engagements and some mercenary and courier work kept him flying and allowed him to cross vast stretches of sky with only a few close calls. After all, there were very few planes that could even get to his altitude, never mind being able to fight or dodge once there. It helped his odds that he was able to maintain and upgrade his plane as he went, though he was careful not to return to Alaska. The plane that he fled with was far from cutting edge, though the line models being produced back there were heavier with either scanning equipment or heavy bomb loads. Neither could get within ten thousand feet of the altitude that Lungfirst prefers without dropping all their gear unless they wanted to stall.

After almost a decade of this roving life he finally developed a reputation for getting jobs done, consistently and safely. It was a rare kind of reputation for anyone who flew the turbulent skies. This rare reputation was likely the only reason why he received a job offer from a legendary ace. Ryan almost rejected the offer. The prospect of working with a dogfighter added an element of risk to the job that was usually past his go-no go threshold. But, the prestige he would gain by working with this particular man could prove to be well worth the danger. Besides, stability was good for business and war wasn’t.

Theme Song: (optional)

PLANE:


Name: XB-35-M4 “Long-Dive”
Description: This model was designed for testing various sets of modular equipment and extended flight initially. Lungfirst's subsequent modifications include numerous features including targeting sensors in the fuselage that allow the acquisition of missile locks at significant range without altering the Long-Dive's orientation or costing it altitude.
Plane Type: Prop Flying Wing
Extra Aircraft Notes: Designed for extreme altitude, efficiency, and precision, this plane can hold its altitude for 38 hours and is equipped for mid-air refueling. However, its armor is concentrated on its belly, tail, and nose with the upper fuselage left more vulnerable. Long-Dive typically holds an altitude where the thinness of the atmosphere makes dogfighting all but impossible, even for the planes that can reach it without stalling.

Weapons Descriptions:
-One Nose mounted Minigun
-20 Unguided rockets divided between two launchers, one beneath the Minigun and one in the rear center fuselage.
-4 Air-Ground missile launchers in the wings.
-2 Ammo Pods on the upper fuselage loaded with replacement missiles for his launchers.
-2 Air-Air missile launchers that fire half-sized twin-detonation homing missiles. Each missile is either EM or Heat Seeking, fired alternately. (If the target breaks off and achieves a relative position that approximately flanks the missile then it fires a ring dispersal shower of bomblets. If the target remains ahead of it then the missile will attempt to collide with the target, detonating a shaped charge with high armor piercing capability. If the missile suffers damage it will align with its target and detonate both systems simultaneously.)

Weaknesses: unarmored upper fuselage and very limited agility
Past Encounter: (Optional, give a description of a note-worthy mission/battle/adventure that this Frame has been on)

PILOT
Name: Rodriguez Hefferman "Spyglass"
Age: 32
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 95.2kg
Pilot Class: Scanner
Nationality: American (Cascadia)
Appearance: Someone somewhere is missing their assault rifle… (credit to phelandavion)
Bio: Growing up was not an easy thing for Rodriguez. Though he was born to a happy family, there was not a whole lot of money to go around; repeated debts and failed loans only retained enough of a budget to keep him and his folks going with food and a roof over their heads. As the years went by, their finances further declined hopelessly eventually forcing Rodriguez out of guilt of not being able to help his parents with their teetering living expenses to find a job, especially at an early age too.

Despite his parent’s best wishes, Rodriguez joined the Cascadian militia personally out of financial necessity right, even when as the States warred with one another. After getting his placement tests, he later found himself in the Cascadia Air Force, rather unexpectedly on that note too and even further so when he realized that he had a knack for flying even though he never gave the concept much thought. Through further testing, Rodriguez was eventually assigned to aerial reconnaissance and patrol duties and wouldn't see active combat until much later hostilities broke out with Lone Star Land. Much of the actual combat he participated in initially comprised of opportunistic ground-attacks against lightly armed and isolated convoys unlucky enough to wind up in his patrol sectors. As fighting grew more fierce, Rodriguez's recon wing would end up operating closer to the front lines, and shortly afterwards, behind enemy lines.

After bringing his record to twelve successful nighttime raiding and information gathering and missions, Rodriguez was then offered a position to help expand Cascadia's electronic warfare technology and implementation in its air force. Interested, he gladly accepted the offer. Three months later, Rodriguez was back in the air, now with an aircraft armed the latest innovative gadgets available. During this time, a small conflict was brewing with Cascadia and one of the neighboring Midwestern warlords. As a live trial for the newly equipped aerial reconnaissance division, Rodriguez and other pilots from the same wing were deployed to discourage would-be raiders from violating Cascadia's airspace. Opening operations were largely successful with only a few instances of a dogfight breaking out while the majority of the encounters lead to those Midwestern intruders forced to withdraw from a possible combat zone after their airplane's instruments supposedly malfunctioned or went haywire for 'inexplicable' reasons.

Though returning to the civilian life was very pleasant after several years of service, Rodriguez grew unsatisfied and yearned to fly once more, even if was not combat oriented. As fate would have it, he would later acquire an old North American XA2J Super Savage had it refitted using the funds gained through his service with the militia. With the aircraft, dubbed Pandora, Rodriguez soon entered into the mercenary business as a freelancer, taking up spying and support contracts that came his way.

Theme Song: Coming Soon

PLANE
Name: North American XA2J Super Savage "Pandora"
Description: To Wikimedia!
Plane Type: Twin-Engine Turboprop
Extra Aircraft Notes: Due to modern upgrades, the aircraft can climb to higher elevations and achieve a much higher maximum speed than its previous un-upgraded airframe. The aircraft's cockpit, constructed to support three crew members has been outfitted with electronic warfare and sensor suite, effectively reducing the crew capacity to just the pilot.
Weapons Descriptions:
-Two forward-facing 20mm cannons
-10,000lb ordinance store (may carry up to six homing missiles, five bombs, or four torpedoes).
Weakness: Very low maneuverability due to large airframe, very ineffective in a dogfight.