Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Bluejay Transport

"Air cav on call!"

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The Bluejay Transport used by the Survivors. is planned to be voiced by *TBA*

History
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When the Aquilans joined with the Allies around 1955 V.C., they brought along with men and supplies a whole new branch of warfare. Within days, the Voshkod feared the Aquilan 5th Airborne Cavalry. Voshkod tank units couldn't fight helicopters when they flew above them, nullifying the Voshkod main advantage. MiGs or the older Yaks could shoot them down, but at this point, the Allies were gaining air superiority.

Voshkod bases often fell when Allied soldiers were dropped into the center of them. At other times they hovered above battlefields, where soldiers inside gunned down Voshkod troops who were unable to effectively respond. The air cavalry units often conducted operations to rescue Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, raising morale and saving skilled soldiers and pilots. The air cavalry's mount was the Bluejay Helicopter, one of the first transport helicopters ever made.

After the war, the Aquilans and the Alliance excelled at the air cavalry concept, mounted in the modern UH-1 Iroquois and Cardinal respectively, so the 5th Airborne Cavalry was sent back to their home base in Idaho, where they were sent to help the New California Commonwealth in Embry, fighting a war that had little strategic worth. The 5th's commander, Brigadier General Collins, saw this as a mild insult, but nothing compared to his forces getting nearly wiped out by the nukes at the end of the war, despite the Aquilan having ample time to warn them to evacuate. The 5th sped to escape before the bombs made impact, but still lost a good chunk of their forces in the ensuing explosion and radiation sickness, though the 5th did evacuate the few civilians left. Before order finally came back from Aquila, despite having ignored him till the bombs dropped, asking them, if they survived, to return back home.

Refusing the order to leave Embry and rejoin his nation after their betrayal, and fully supported by his men, Brigadier General Collins and the former 5th deserted from duty, moving whenever the Aquilans came near and scavenging supplies any way they could, though they refused to harm or steal from settlements like the raiders who now dot Embry. When they heard the Minutemen were rising up against the Allied occupiers, the former 5th flew to the Castle to join them.

Almost immediately, Aquilan forces in Embry were being hit by airborne cavalry attacks when they advanced without air cover. LAV-AD Blazer had to be transferred to protect endangered units, which themselves were vulnerable to Minutemen ground troops. While currently the rogue military unit is wanted by the Aquilan Army to be court-martialed for dissertation of their posts, to this day the former 5th is a fast, hard-hitting punch to the Minutemen cause, and even one helicopter can be enough to turn the tide against the Allied aggressors.