Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Aira

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Aira is the Shroud Attack Force Commando. This unit is planned to be voiced by.

Tactical analysis

 * Visions of a Dark Future: Project GYAIRA was a horrific experiment to see the weaponisability potential of the human species by the Hierarchy research divisions and organisers. Most died in horrific conditions or proved unable to psychologically handle the augmentations; with every single adult proving uncontrollable or outright dying without a significant slowdown in augmentation and implantation that was unacceptable to the Councils. Children were taken instead, with more success. The result was a mating of many fields of science and weapons design to create living psychic weapon able to be directed by her handlers like a bomb, armed with shifter weapons and a morphic battlesuit rated for the ecumenical military that have far greater effectiveness than the observational fleet's equipment. It means she is able to attack just about everything and between her armor, her shields, her augmentations, her regeneration and self-repair; she is extremely hard to incapacitate and seemingly impossible to actually kill.
 * Pained Screams!: While her control over her psionics is still a work in progress to put it delicately, she is able to release wide area screams that cause everyone who hears them to instantly break their morale while also scrambling most every form of targeting, leaving the enemy unable to fight while men and women abandon their positions in a mindless panic and equipment refuses to acquire targets properly.
 * Madness beneath: Aira, like all the creations of project GYAIRA is a fundamentally broken person who was torn apart and rebuilt again and again like a model kit. Her weapons get more lethal the closer she is to her target, so she does need to get close for her maximum effect, but most concerningly if her morale ever gives way; old memories relapse and fight their way to the surface and she goes berserk until her morale has fully recovered, attacking the Hierarchy troops preferentially as she remembers all that was done to her by them, requiring her to be immobilised and contained until she cools down and her programming reasserts itself.
 * Primordial Fear: When Aira has killed enough in a particular battle, her psychic presence acquires an immense undertone of unreasoning terror that makes it hard to maintain one's courage when looking at her, nevermind aim properly at her. At this point, her psychic scream also produces a shockwave of psychic electricity that heavily damages anything caught by it, especially if they are already panicked by her aura.

Overview
* TBA*

History
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Project GYAIRA is a product of the Hierarchy's true malice, raw and naked. With every new species encountered by the Hierarchy starts a dreadful process, where they seek to determine all the possibilities of a species, physical, mental, social. A cruel series of experiments over decades where they will tear apart people, communities, even whole cultures simply to see how they can rebuild them towards the Hierarchical "Civilised Sophont" ideal. Nothing is sacred, nothing is forbidden to scientists and often simple sadists with a habit of taking down notes in charge of the research divisions. Humans are no exception, as one of the many species in Orluk's region of responsibility spanning an eight-kiloparsec sector centered around observational armada 413-AS headquarters around Eridanos they are already deemed property of the Hierarchy to be toyed with as they see fit.

Humans were deemed a figure of "prime interest" due to their physiological and genetic similarity to the intergalactic fugitive known as Kane as well as to ancient depictions of the long-dead Hyksos, especially when so close to what had been the capital of the great Hyksos Commonwealth so long ago. Experiments to find what humans could be under the right conditions were approved almost immediately and decades of some of the most horrible experiments imaginable were commenced. Abductees of every age, nationality, gender, or state of health were taken, broken down, and remade. Many did not survive, particularly in the early phases where their knowledge of human physiology was... Crude. The logs of those early experiments are the stuff of the darkest nightmares, and very often were done purely to satisfy basal sadistic urges by crank scientists who simply wanted new toys to break.

But there was clear promise, clear potential, within what seemed at first to the primarily Ukrazol scientists in charge of the project to be a stupid, weak, short-lived, ugly, and psychically dull species in truth had the seeds of greatness within. Seeds that if properly nurtured, would give humans a great place of honor in their alien legions as they found that mankind had tremendous potential for psychic power and physical might. Perhaps because they had some deeper connection to Kane and the Hyksos than was first realized, perhaps by pure coincidence, but it would take less work to create Category Aleph supersoldiers out of humanity than with a great many species already serving as bedrocks in the Alien legion. And with their physical similarities to the Zeelich who had definitely demonstrated great prowess of mind and body, this only further intrigued the head of the Biological wing of the Militant Research Division; Zolgiro Joshii.

With approval from the supreme observational command Yrodakh; or "superior council" in their language; project GYIRA was conceived of, named for a Hieratchy legendary spirit of storms. GYAIRA would go through hundreds of thousands of subjects stolen from their homes, purpose-bred or grown for experimentation like white mice sold in bulk to laboratories, or taken from the arms of screaming parents who had children aboard the craft of Orlukk's fleets as a result of being crammed into what amount to human terrariums stripped of garments and basic privacy. The failures were innumerable and often horrific, but they made progress. And in the midst of the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War the Faber family would be dragged into these horror fleets, plucked from their home in Oregon in the midst of the "battle of portland" where the on alert anti-air gunners of Oregon's largest city spotted Hierarchy aircraft emitting strange lights in their EM shield mode.

While the anti-aircraft weapons were distracted by the odd lights, stealthed aircraft would descend much lower and steal fresh subjects for the needs of the research division, targeting neighbourhoods farther away from the air defence stations. James and Patricia Faber, urging their four children to stay near them for protection, but the powerful abduction rays simply dismantled the house to take them with it. Within the large abduction craft, they were restrained, divested of their possessions and itemised under the auspices of their Ukrazol leaders along with many others who had been taken during the raid. While the Ritecaluns were mostly just curious as always, the Ukrazol leadership aboard the craft were cold at best, outright demeaning and mocking at worst, their mechanical a organic guards and the state of the prisoners ensuring nobody would be capable of escape even with being allowed to roam around the "menagerie" at will.

As toddlers, Tasha and Jack were perhaps the calmest about their situation once they got used to their bizarre surroundings. Their twin older siblings; Sarah and John; did their best to try and remain calm for their younger siblings even as their parents were in the midst of a breakdown. Everything about this was a nightmare, an impossibility, and the fact that the aliens could communicate with them but would generally simply choose not to added greater anxious uncertainty to interactions with them than if they stayed entirely silent. Tasha and Jack however, were too young to have learned to fear their captors, even the towering Drakuls who would occasionally descend into the menagerie to do a check on the prisoners, drawing the notice of Security Commander Arkulka who made note of their lack of fear to the Saucer commander; Kalza. Project GYAIRA was looking for those who could retain... Some level of courage, and there was a merit reward for providing subjects.

As the craft docked with a larger vessel known as the Zazzarax, beyond the orbit of the moon, a "medium" sized vessel six kilometres long by three kilometres wide by one and a half deep that was one of many such ships that served as motherships for forces on excursion. The Zazzarax would be an even less welcoming place, as the abductees taken from different parts of the world were driven naked, confused, and afraid, not all of the abductees were even human, many being animals, many being other things entirely, but unless their physiological needs precluded being mixed with the humans they were all thrown in together anyway. All save for the Fabers who would be pulled away from the general masses being processed, with the mustard highlights of the Militant Research Division's armour marking their adjutants as they steered the Fabers to a separate quarters with other GYAIRA candidates.

Questions would be asked, personal, invasive, sometimes professional, often insulting, some with false friendship. Tasha would be offered a toy herself, the Ukrazol scientists wanting to first see how the toddler would respond. Though James at first tried to stop her from taking it, Sarah would push her father's hand away and give the gift to Tasha, where each of them showed some ability to manipulate the psychoplastic even without psychic enhancement. Proof then, that they would be well suited without preliminary augmentation; a worthy prize worth a substantial reward. And once the captives were transferred onto the mobile research station Shalgak kept in the Van Allen belts of Eridanos the true nightmare would begin.

The entire family was tested and experimented on, their bodies altered through means genetic, surgical, femtomechanical, psychic, cybernetic, and often outright esoteric. James and Patricia were deemed to be of relatively minimal value as subjects, but the children were of more interest. Particularly the youngest who were easy to alter towards their needs.

Short story
Order of Saint Dominic

Official Report To: the holiest Triumvirate

Subject: Excerpt of copied Hierarchy documents regarding "Aira", translated for your reading

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Subject 2442023 of project GYAIRA has shown more than satisfactory response to augmentation procedures listed under Proposal Modification ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha despite the escape of her older siblings (Count: Gamete Donor, Gamete Receiver[1]) in the Breakout Incident of Hierachy Date Era 142.8756 (Refer to report "Concerning Grey Steel Order operations amidst abducted population" with the attached link), if anything the removal of the older siblings from the variables allows for greater control of the subject, named Tasha Faber (As per protocols memory of birth name has been erased during Neural Reformatting) and subject 2442022; "Jack Faber"; as the complication of familiarity no longer threatens neural formatting. We have seen further progress in conditioning after separating subjects 2442023 and 2442022 onto the Gas Giant 1[2] primary military station, and on GG1-Ice Moon 1[3] base primaris. However, we are aware that your superiorities are uninterested in such minor details and instead wish to know of the weaponisibility report.

It is thus our pleasure to dispense with the formality of context and show that in simulated battles with local indigenous military captives that Subject 2442023 has demonstrated overwhelmingly satisfactory performance. Against test variable 5 ("Imperial Katsuragi Army 331st Mecha Regiment") Subject was able to achieve 100% casualties within 84032 Rels[4] without any substantive damage even when variable 5.121 (Superheavy Mechanical Combatant "King Oni", 3 units) were introduced to the test upon Gas Giant 1 Prime Anticyclone[5] station Karatalak. Follow-up tests against variable 6 (Remainder of "Peacekeeper 333rd Brigade" leftover from prior Yarghul infiltration tactics drill) did demonstrate some vulnerability to Cryogenic weapons meant to reduce subject mobility, but ultimately it was able to break the thin ice containment and effect 100% casualties. Hesitation shown when medic in the unit attempted to negotiate in her original language was problematic, but this flaw seems to have been corrected following termination of remaining medic.

Variable 7 test (Voskod 301st women's armoured regiment) showed intriguing and innovative counters to attempts to immobilise with tesla and magnetic weapons and successful usage of audio-blockers to filter out attempts to surrender by captured personnel. Simulated tests with its neurology have shown a possibility of reformatting failure if placed under extreme stress, and given the circumstances of Subject 2442023's alterations, it is likely it will attempt to attack its handlers until reformatting reassertion. To counteract this, psychic personnel are recommended to stay near subject 2442023 to ensure a constancy of neural programming and to regularly return Subject 2442023 to Neurowiring facility to maintain integrity of programming. Attempts to verify containment procedures were denied by Experimental Overseer Ixatarak unfortunately, and will thus remain hypothetical for the time being.

Please refer to attached documents for technical details on variable testing, though Overseers will likely be pleased to note that the subject has show performance that would allow for recruitment into regular military special forces and organizer squadrons for further enhancements. Given our more limited means at the present, this is highly encouraging and shows that the human species has significant potential as a resource if subjected to similar processes. Given the complication factors introduced by their family units, we recommend destroying memories of these in subjects so that subjects may partake in their duties with clear minds. However the forms to release the Organizers' hesitation removal surgery technology have yet to be approved, so for the time being Subjects are only within standard indoctrination degrees of compliance. We would like to, again, request the expedition of the approval of these forms though are understanding that this is an Organiser matter.

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Variable 519 test ("James and Patricia Faber") is successful despite introduction of Subject 2442022 to test cooperative potential. Subjects showed no recognition of gamete origin point and when given proper sensory alteration, were able to proceed with orders to terminate. Attempt by Variable 519 to appeal to familiarity when Subjects were asked to prolong termination to demonstrate full loyalty were successfully resisted despite Subject negative emotional response. Requesting Neural data purge to strengthen conditioning.

Variables 519 were committed to digital formatting for possible re-use.

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Field Test of Subejct 2442023 showed unacceptable hesitation with carrying out order to terminate research obstacle designation "Nomad"'s immature population (See Living Document: Mongolian Migration), Organisers were required to finish population reduction as ordered by Amarani Llektor. Disciplinary measures requested by rejected by Experimental Ethics Council, as such we request your override of the Council's unreasonable rejection if we are to see this experiment through to completion.

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Disciplinary measures after approval allowed for removal of calming implements including CI-13 ("Teddy Bear"), mandatory reflection, and forced participation in further termination tests. Memory alterations have shown further improvements and it has been decided to block Subject memories of incidents that are potentially traumatic or problematic for Subject commandability.

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We are honoured to accept your Superiority's approval to move Subjects into Observational Military formation command, and look forward to participating in many further experiments upon the local populace as is commanded by your genius.

- The universe is cruel; it's sad but true.

[1]To our knowledge your holiness, Gamete Donor is their term for "Male" and "Gamete Receiver" is their term for "Female", having no concept of maleness or feminity amongst themselves.

[2]Their preferred means of referring to the planet Eridanos.

[3]This is the moon of Gogra, where they are busy in a protracted conflict with the native Ssekmarakh beneath the moon's ice floes.

[4]Roughly 36 minutes.

[5]The Great Dark Spot.

Aura of Dread
Causes all enemies with line of sight to her to take a massive amount of morale damage over time and lose most of their accuracy, Terrorise does psionic damage.

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