Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Razor Sub

"Drill torpedoes loaded!"

-Razor Sub

The Razor Sub is the main attack submarine of the Minutemen Survivors. Planned to be voiced by ...

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Overview
The Razor Sub is based off the older Aselian submarines. Razor Subs, like all submarines, are invisible on radar, and are excellent harassers, in and out of the seas. The Razor Sub is armed with Drill Torpedoes and Drill Bombs. Drill torpedoes are deadly anti ship weapons that damage the opponent after the sub has left by continuously drilling into the enemy. The Drill Bombs are for use against ground targets and act in a similar manner as Drill Torpedoes. However, Drill Bombs are less accurate and can be dodged by faster moving targets.

History
"In each submarine there are men who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to each other. These men are ultimately responsible to themselves and each other for all aspects of operation of their submarine. They are the crew. They are the ship."

-The Submariner's Creed

Submarines. Of all the innovations in naval warfare, it is submarines that the Alliance have been most reluctant to develop until recently. Voshkod submarines during the GVAW became justly hated and feared for the terrible damage they inflicted, and for the total surprise with which they struck. Submarines became mixed, in fact, that the Alliance' own development and deployment of the Aselian GSV-53 Razor-class submarine quickly became an ugly, inconvenient fact of the war rather than a proud innovation of the Alliance rather than the conventional Gatos that Aquila using it, and most of the ships were quickly and quietly scrapped and replaced by the Amphion-class submarines or lend-lease from Aquila during the war and after the war's end. Today, the Alliance are still using submarines, mainly the Minisub and the Hailfire. The one lasting benefit of the Razor submarine was to pass on its name as a designation for Alliance attack subs: to the confusion of some, a "razor sub" is simply shorthand for an Allied anti-ship submarine to distinguish it from an "attack sub", which is an enemy vessel. Well, it would be confusing if the Alliance employed any razor subs.

However, the design was picked up by an obscure Aselian corporation after the war that specialized in deep-sea engineering. Submarines were useful platforms for helping construct oil platforms in the (insert Gaiaterran North Sea equivalent), and the same corporation developed the mole torpedo during the inter-war period. These destructive little machines were purely intended for civilian usage, to make pre-drilled holes for pipelines and provide some degree of delicacy in undersea demolition work. Brackman Deep Sea Solutions found that the same technology could be applied to missile technology as well, but that would be pushing the Alliance' suspension of disbelief. The corporation could likely have done well for itself to sell the technology to the Syndicate, but the corporation's brilliant - if exceedingly eccentric - founder, Dr. Gustaf Brackman, considered the Syndicate far too irresponsible.

What drew Dr. Brackman into becoming involved with the Minuteman movement, on the other hand, was more simple: friendship. Dr. Brackman had considered the nation of Embry a friend - a more than mildly eccentric friend, to be sure, but a good man, and Brackman thought of the people as excellent as well. Coupled with Brackman's belief in self-determination, he decided to lend support to the Minutemen movement by giving them something they lacked: a fleet of combat-ready submarines, with his successor following suit when he and a small team mysteriously disappeared when they went to Matsushima island "To find that peculiar signal". With the suspiciously fast and easy conversion of these submarines to military service, every misgiving and fear the Alliance harbored about both submarines and the mole torpedoes was justified: these ships are tremendously destructive, and simply surviving a torpedo strike is no cause for relief as the torpedo begins to chew into the target and rip it apart from the inside out, not unlike a short-lived terror drone with a more dynamic entrance. Worse still, the mole missiles are fully operational, and these submarines are well on their way to becoming one of the most infamous weapons of the rebellion.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * SSN (Aquila)
 * Minisub (Alliance)
 * ... (ADI)
 * Yumi Submarine (Protectorate)
 * Astute-class Submarine (Andora)
 * Yuan Submarine (Empire)
 * Jang Bogo (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Typhoon Attack Submarine (Voshkod)
 * ... (Brotherhood)
 * Horde Mini-Sub (Horde)
 * Red Sea Submarine (MLA)
 * Piranha (Collective)
 * Alfa-class Submarine (Encantadia)
 * ... (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Cyrene-class Submarine (Coalition)
 * Chaos Typhoon (Heralds)
 * Sea-Yeoman Submarine (Order)
 * Razor Sub (Survivors)
 * Siren Sub (Syndicate)
 * ... (Conglomerate)
 * ... (Legion)

Bonus Faction

 * Daedalus Submarine (ASA)
 * Sauro-class submarine (Bastion)
 * Attack Sub Creep (Rangers)
 * U-Boat (Pirates)
 * Alfheimr Victor-class Submarine (Ascalia)
 * Naga Patrol Submarine (Elona)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Security)
 * ... (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * Angelshark (Federation)
 * ... (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * Mitosis Sub (Skynet)
 * Snezhnaya Submarine (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * ... (League)
 * ... (Swarm)
 * Kilo-class Submarine (Confederation)
 * Karv Submarine (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Todaro (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * S-189 (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * Gelt-Class Submarine (Theocracy)
 * Cachalot(Insurgents)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * ... (Ecumene)
 * Endeavour Submarine (Concordat)
 * ... (Contingent)
 * ... (Eden)
 * Megalodon (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * Gato (Commune)
 * Nautilius (Clique)
 * I-56 (Guild)
 * ... (Threat)
 * ... (Traders)
 * ... (Entente)
 * ... (Oblivion)
 * ... (Corporation)
 * ... (Covenant)
 * ... (Institute)
 * ... (Commonwealth)
 * ... (Netstorm)
 * ... (Carnival)