Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Balloon Bombs

Balloon Bombs is one of the Protectorate's support powers.

Overview
"Look comrades, the Katsuragi's think they can match our zeppelins!"

-Last words of a Voshkod field commander

In the waning days of the war, Emperor Tatsu realized that, for all the Protectorate's technological advancements in nanotechnology and mecha systems, the navies of the Voshkod gajin and Coalition nanban were rapidly cutting off Protectorate supplies from the home islands, straining the war effort. Though the Protectorate nanomachines could, theoretically, "transmute" soil into refined metals, Emperor Tatsu decided on a more surprising path for the technological genius. He asked the Protectorate's schools to start constructing fabric balloons and ordered the munitions factories to start making high-explosive impact-detonated bombs. Calling together his council, he gave a short speech about how his father's wisdom was invaluable to the Protectorate. How Emperor Yoshiro had brought life into a dying destiny. That was when, behind Tatsu, hundreds of balloons suddenly lifted off from the Protectorate garden.

Days later, the shogunate read that dozens of Coalition and Voshkod positions were suddenly under attack from a balloon-based weapon system.

Though these early balloons were brilliant terror weapons ("That can't be an airplane, must be an error."), commanders in the field realized the anti-structure potential in each bomb and decided to refine the concept. The balloons now had plotted courses with the air currents in the area, and on command, would vent their hydrogen bags to drop onto a pre-determined position. Now, one of Tatsu's simplest creations is also some of his most deadly.