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"I'm pleasantly surprised by the Poe's performance."

"And why is that, master?"

"Although we do have to reduce the spread on the Poe's gatling laser for fighter purposes, it did quite well for an attack craft."

"If we had armed the SFFS on it, you think it would have made a difference?"

"What, you want it bombing fighters? Don't be silly, soldier."

"..."

"We should be finished soon. Launch up the Despair."

The Korhal planes, having easily taken down the Poe and the Quorum, waited silently for the Palusincola to show up. "Where is it?" The plane screening Rozhkov asked. The pilots shrugged.

"Look behind you! That bastard could show up any second!" Maxmillian shouted, and the planes continued to wait.

A few beats of silence.

"I'll go scout him out, if he isn't coming, we're coming to him!" One of the younger pilots said, in a passionate voice. He went out of formation and dove down.

"No! Don-" But it was already too late. As soon as the pilot went level with the ground, the Palusincola uncloaked, and out of the bottom of its wings a large railgun appeared. Unlike the Korhal's railguns, this wasn't a machine gun. This was a one-hit equals heavy damage weapon. The Palusincola fired, completely blasting off one of the pilot's wings.

"I'm hit! I'm hit!" The pilot screamed, unable to control his plane. The Palusincola cloaked again, as it let nature take its course. The pilot's plane went into the ground, smashing into the Kratos ruins.

However, Rohzkov noticed something rather interesting, and broke his eternal silence to communicate to his allies.

"When it cloaks, it can't go fast."

It was because the pilot went level with the ground, and slowed down to find the Palusincola, that he became easy bait. Realizing what to do, the rest of the planes broke formation and pulled maneuvers at every corner, making it impossible for the Palusincola to follow them while cloaked.

The trap was set. The Palusincola decloaked, and immediately followed after Maxmillian. Maxmillian, planning to evade, went into a dive, going under the rest of his squadron's planes. The Palusincola followed suit.

He climbed back to level with the ground, and turned his railguns around, waiting for the Palusincola. Sure enough, it popped up right behind him.

"And, fire!" The railgun's bullets shot forth, straight at the Palusincola's location. But what he didn't realize was that the Palusincola had anticipated it. Pulling into a Pugachev's Cobra, it pointed its nose straight up, slamming the brakes, and retreated from Maxmillian.

"Come back!" And Maxmillian flipped around just in time to see the Palusincola fire its railgun at the planes above, calculating the shot just enough to pierce through the exact center of another Korhal plane, causing it to explode midair.

As Maxmillian rushed towards it, the plane straightened itself back in his direction, recovering from the Pugachev's Cobra. It too, then accelerated and rushed towards Maxmillian.

"Here's a jousting competition for you." And as the two planes screamed towards each other, their guns were ablaze, and missiles alight. The two passed each other, Maxmillian suffering several holes from the gatling gun, and minor damage from scraping with the Palusincola.

He turned around. His missiles had hit. The Palusincola wobbled around struggling to maintain itself, then plunged into the ruins of the Funale. Maxmillian went back to his formation.

"And that's all of them."

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HYDRAXIS Losses:
 * 2 Pendragon IIs
 * 3 Quorum IIs
 * 2 Poes
 * 2 Palusincola IIs
 * Total: 9 Planes down

CCCP Losses:
 * 4 ST-1s
 * 5 S-90s
 * Total: 9 Planes down

"I would have to say sir, our planes did well in the battle. Not only did we take a equal amount of them down, but it seems our utility planes do just as well. Although that may be due to the fact they are controlled by AIs."

"And? Humans can do the same, probably, provided we have aces."

"But these AIs are aces, Darksire. And they'll be on every plane of ours. This is almost a moral win."

"Don't forget that our planes are much more expensive then theirs. Especially Despair. That thing costs more than a Basileus."

"The Despair is effectively a proof of concept plane. It is impractical for a real war."

"While the planes that they just fought are. Let's see...master...


 * Poe: The most useful for ground attack in our forces, comes equipped with a large gatling laser dedicated to shredding tanks, with a large double flying wing formation allowing for both stability and high speeds. Although its turning is relatively bad compared to our planes, it can be both the fastest and slowest of our planes, either coming equipped with explosive shrapnel bombs, fuel-air bombs, or anti-air sniper missiles. A interceptor-type and a ground attack-type plane, all mixed into one package.


 * Palusincola: The cloak and dagger of our forces. Its cloaking system, while taking a ton of energy, and is ancient, is very effective in plane combat. Based off the Patefacta concept, this system is quite different from normal cloaking; it projects the image behind the engines (the distortion of the air made by the engines), and projects what would be a "invisible barrier" around the ship, covering just the ship. It also abuses ECM capabilities, and although they are to a bare minimum due to power constraints, they can at least take the plane off an enemy's radar, allowing for complete invisibility, other than the distortions. Still, such distortions would only be visible to the keenest eyed of aces. The Palusincola also comes mounted with two HVR (high velocity railguns), dedicated to punching through a plane with one shot. Comes with missiles and normal gatling guns, of course. Its maneuverability is quite good, able to keep up with ST-1s.


 * Quorum: A plane meant to be used in swarms, they come with standard airplane guns and missiles. But what makes them tick is the gigantic laser on their top, which can swivel around, and aim up or down as needed. Its AI is specifically designed to point the laser at fast-moving things, weak spots, and environmental objects; this allows it to perform missile interception quite easily. A swarm of these, binded to follow a single plane, can make that plane almost immortal, until all the Quorums are shot down. Their small size and large wings does make for quite the quick maneuvers, and they are fast at accelerating, making them quite the pest. A particular note is that, due to the AI being based off a hornet's, rather than a human or logic, they seem to have no ethics, and in simulations have been observed taking humans bailing from planes as fast-moving objects...leading to some trauma for those who get directly shot with the laser.


 * Pendragon: The true multirole of our planes, and based off the Despair chassis with some modifications to make it cheaper. Instead of the laser that the first version had, it comes with burst missiles, that light up the sky in a large radius, making opponents extra weary of where they dodge. Pendragons are excellent in misdirection and laying traps, commonly shooting a missile to force an opponent a certain way, then gunning them down with high-caliber guns. The burst missiles can be used for both anti-ground and anti-air functions. The Pendragon, being based off the Despair, is no slouch at all in aerial combat, and can pull off many of the advanced maneuvers that the Despair can, albeit slower, and less efficient. It is up there with some of the more advanced planes of our time.

And that is my summary of our planes, master Darksire."

"Excellent. By the way, Delusion, how is that temporary body going for you?"

"It is decent. A Slav poked my optics, so there is a fingerprint in my peripheral vision, but I cannot complain about being given a proper body that isn't a GPS for the moment."

"Good. Now, moving on, where is the Despair right now?"

"Almost to the ruins, sir."

"Good. Prepare for complaints from the CCCP. Many of them think our simulation is rigged, and they will yell and throw things when they fight the Despair."

"People fear what they do not know, sir. And the Despair, is no exception."

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OOC: Both of you, make a final post counting your soldiers and discussing the past events, before I reveal the last plane.