Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Defiance Flying Junk

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The Defiance Flying Junk is the ultimate airship built by the Viceroyalty. Planned to be voiced by.

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History
"Beam me up."

-Passenger aboard Defiance Flying Junk

Following their success in establishing a foothold in orbital space, the Celestial Viceroyalty looked to its next goal. Their homeland was reduced to a scarred wasteland by the Empire, the Celestial Viceroyalty has nowhere else on Gaiaterra to go. With that fact in mind, there is only one place they could escape to--space. Their ambitious plan; to build a space fleet and leave Gaiaterra for another star system. Building the fleet alone would be a monumental task, given the resources that would be undoubtedly required. The spacecraft would need enough supplies to last several thousand people for generations; immense quantities of reaction mass would be needed to get the Corona to their destination in a reasonable amount of time; even the spacecraft themselves would consume a staggering amount of resources.

And surprisingly, in spite of the technical challenges that stand in their way, the Corona seems to have been progressing well. In part, this is thanks to their outlandish technologies; duplicators that can print out spaceship components in a fraction of the time it would take a factory to manufacture them; labor is no problem, with Corna's abundant supply of automatons, and fission and anti-matter provide propulsion systems powerful enough to allow the Corona to accelerate to the velocities they desire.

Even when they were only starting construction of their fleet of spaceships, it was clear that technical challenges were not the only ones that stood in their way. Aware that the intervention of another space-faring power could through a wrench into the works, the Viceroyalty sought to make sure that others could not interfere with their planned exodus; for that, they would need military spacecraft; since they did not have any already, they created their own.

The smallest of these spaceships are the Defiance Flying Junks, vessels capable of both spaceflight and atmospheric flight, though this understandably makes it less effective at either task than dedicated spacecraft or aircraft. Even so, they are fairly massive, easily dwarfing airplanes and even some airships. They are armed with destructive anti-matter torpedoes and high-power ray guns, heavily protected by layered planar shields, and held aloft by solid-state anti-matter engines capable of defying Gaiaterra's gravity. In addition, the Defiance's cargo hold allows it to act as a transport. Though it is far from luxurious, many prefer it to teleportation, which for all its advantages has various quirks and inconveniences of its own. Fortunately for the Celestial Viceroyalty's enemies, no one yet has had the honor (or misfortune) of meeting one of these spacecraft in battle. However, few doubt that it will be a formidable opponent in battle.