Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Turbine Grenadier

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The Turbine Grenadier is the Andoran Republic's aerial infantry. Planned to be voiced by.

History
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The jetpack has been a popular icon of pulp science fiction stories ever since the early years of aviation and during the first half of the 21st century, a number of companies have managed to design and produce the first truly reliable and practical models for commercial purposes, advertising their jetpacks as a modern alternative to individual transport vehicles or high-tech sports equipment. One of the first military units to, formally and publicly, adopt their own version of the jetpack was the Alliance Rocketeers (though it was the secretive Grey Steel Order who first used the jetpack back in the Renaissance with their thermobaric jumpjets) with other nations, mainly Guardians following suit, secretly using IS data scraps they bought off the Syndicate, such as the Alliance Icarus Raider, ADI Jumpet Infantry, Protectorate Rocket Angels, and the Canthans Javelin series. Having seen action in peacekeeping operations in Kalimdor and Askaira, the elite paratroopers of Andora quickly became one of the most rapidly deployable unit of the Republic thanks in no small part to their purpose-built Jupiter jetpacks which turned them into an entirely new kind of airborne infantry.

Armed with a pair of automatic grenade launchers mounted directly on their flying suits, the Turbine Grenadier quickly attained a fierce reputation among the Voshkod forces who learned to fear their lightning-fast airborne raids on several occasions. They are also exceptionally nimble and fly under the radar of heavy air defenses whilst lighter anti-air guns can still engage them by eyeballing it. However, due to the relatively intricate training process, Turbine Grenadiers are only deployed as a special task force, where they serve as a fine complement to the Republics other special infantry weapons and tactics.