Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Seawing/Skywing

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The Seawing/Skywing is an unusual one, a submarine/fighter hybrid used by the Katsuragi alongside the straight forward F-2 Viper Zero from the SDF. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*

History
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Doubtlessly one of the more impressive feats of Protectorate engineering to date, the Sea-wing is a stealthy submersible whose sealed hull and specially-designed locomotors let it rise up and out of the water in the form of an anti-surface strike craft. This makes it perhaps the most maneuverable craft in the Protectorate military, which, considering the extreme mobility of many of the Protectorate fighting forces, is saying a lot.

What's more, neither the Voshkod nor Coalition military possesses a counterpart to this type of never-before-seen dual-role craft. With the discovery of the Sea-wing, it seems not even the seas are safe from the Katsuragi Protectorate ambush forces. A gyroscopic cockpit prevents Sea-wing pilots from tumbling upside-down when switching to Sky-wing form.

It is rumored that pilots prefer the skies to the seas, in general.

While lurking undersea, the Sea Wing is nearly undetectable to scanners, and could almost be mistaken for a large mechanical devil ray. Once it has detected enemy aircraft, it surfaces to unleash a rapid seeking missile barrage against its foe. The missiles are disturbingly accurate even at range, and Sea-wings seem to carry no shortage of them either. An entire top ace squadron of Voshkod MiG-35 fighters once was decimated by a Sea-wing patrol in only a matter of minutes.

While the Sukhoi incident left Voshkod Air Command in a state of near-panic, only later was the Sea-wing connected to the Sky-wing strike craft, which was previously assumed to be a completely different unit. In Sky-wing form, the vehicle seems to use variable sea/air boosters to help keep it aloft, while using a single swivel-mounted energy weapon to attack surface targets.

The weapon causes intense burns and has proven deadly against unarmoured targets in particular -- especially ones ill-equipped to take on a fast-moving aircraft like the Sky-wing. Because of its flight capability, the Sea-wing is arguably the most versatile element in the Protectorate Navy.

The way in which the Sea-wing transitions to the Sky-wing and back again, is almost bizarre, in that the vehicle simply turns end over end like a coin-flip. How Sea-wing pilots are able to withstand this, in addition to the g-forces of subsonic rises and submerges is anyone's guess, though the cockpit of the vehicle is believed to be suspended in a sort of gyroscopic mounting and the pilot capsule is filled with a Breathable Liquid withstanding the impacts and the sudden pressure changes.

At any rate, piloting such a craft must take incredible skill, especially since the Sea-wing's slender form means it is relatively fragile and dependent on its mobility for protection. The Katsuragi Protectorate, having a considerably smaller population than its rival world powers, must be training only the best of the best to commandeer these unusual vessels.