Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Kite Warrior

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The Kite Warrior is the flying infantry of the Elsword Empire. Planned to be voiced by.

Overview
Kite Warriors are Empire soldiers who specialize in rapid responses to heavily armored enemy threats, entering battle either by dropping directly into the action via Y-8 or in long leaps using their Jump Packs.

As soon as a target is sighted, the Kite Warriors engage their shock-absorbing armored boots and let fly with their portable "Shenlong" flak autocannons.

The brutal ferocity of the foot-long, armor-piercing shells they unleash will blast apart anyone caught in their path and force even the most stoic enemies to seek shelter from the murderous firestorm.

History
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Seeing the results of the Rocketeers, Rocket Angels, and the IS units (prior to the theft) in action. The EMpire, like some of the other superpowers, began to invest in the creation of flight-capable infantry.

Of course, like the others, the Empire had found difficulty in actually making one, and making a jetpack that is powerful and light was the first of many problems. That was until the IS theft incident.

Like many of the Guardians, barring the Protectorate as it was stolen from them, the Empire had joined the Syndicate auction of the IS data they had salvaged, though renamed/plagiarised to avoid suspicion, and began using the data they got to create.

The data they had salvaged was the plans for a 3rd generation prototype only known as "Shinryū", built for CQC combat with powerful medium-range cannons. And in comparison to the rest, they struggled the most. The main issue lies in the Empires preference for heavy firepower and armor, a holdover to their days as part of the Voshkod, the latter of which was not suited for the IS, which relies on powerful shielding (which was the data the Syndicate failed to steal), due to the weight making it too heavy to fly, and making a jetpack that can lift it would be horrible inefficient (even with nuclear fuel), and was closer to the Coalitions Assault Marine but inferior in every way. And thus multiple trials and errors were made, most of which ended with the pilot crashing (thankfully there were no fatalities) or having to land after half an hour of flight (while going as fast as a sloth) to refuel. Until eventually a solution was found in the least likely place.

It was on a "take your child to work" day, a particularly windy day too, when one of the scientists had managed to bring his daughter to the laboratory, though she was only allowed to wander around the entrance and courtyard, who began to play with her kite when the scientist struck an idea. Rather then make a powerful engine they can make strong enough wings to lift them like a kite.

Thus, after months of more tests, the team was finally successful, in sense.

Thanks to the new form of flight, using the powerful jets to lift a set of gliders rather than propelling itself, the Empires Kite Warrior, the initial test name for the unit that (embarrassingly) stuck, can now fly for an average of eight hours, long enough to fight in a battle, despite its ridiculously heavy armor and frankly huge autocannon and swords. Though as a trade-off it was exceptionally slow for a jetpack with little to no maneuverability, and in reality, it's not flying but gliding really slowly with the trooper having to periodically make powered leaps once they land. but the Empire sees that as a fair trade.

And in battle infantry are forced to dive for cover, their advance grinding to a halt lest they be blasted limb-from-limb. Even armored fighting vehicles are swiftly wrecked as the concentrated hail of shots blows out motive systems, fills crew compartments with lethal spall, and touches off fuel and ammunition in catastrophic detonations.

By the time the bodies and wreckage hit the ground the Kite Warriors are already gone, leaping away on blazing rocket trails to take up their next firing position and slaughter the foe anew.