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Name of applicant: Sky Commander Djastom Vec
Biography: To be candid, very little out of the ordinary can be said of Djastom Vec's personal history. Like all others born native to the Hadron Corps, he was raised a patriot to the Corps, and furthermore turned out to be no less than a natural child of the clouds. Boundless in his bravery (and charismatic bravado), he leapt at the chance to enlist as a soldier proper when he came of age, joining a Vulture squadron the moment he left Altus Academy and swiftly earning a name for himself as a pilot prodigy.
Gear: Djastom pilots a heavily customized Screech Vulture, a vehicle capable of swiftly transforming between a ground-attack VTOL jet and a flight-capable assault mech. Among the weapons and devices wielded by this formidable machine are:
- 2x Deadfeather Rotary Autocannons with 60 seconds of firing time per gun - Basically two stubbier Avengers, these guns deliver beastly amounts of blinding plasmophoric brrrt at relentless rates of fire.
- 16x Vision Flare ASMs - Heavy anti-armor air-to-ground missiles, each capable of liquefying a heavy tank in their plasmatic explosions.
- 64x Scathe Guided Rockets in 2x rocket pods - Devastating antipersonnel munitions with a tendency to leave behind burning sheets of incandescine. Like Napalm, but better.
- 2x Sunshear Hadron Cannons - Particle beam weapons that fire quasineutral streams of subatomic particles (not all of which are actually hadrons) that are remarkably efficacious at vaporizing and/or turning to plate glass everything they touch.
- 2x Talon of Ra Hadron Claws - Alternatively, the Hadron Cannons can transform into these apparatuses mounted on the hands of the mech, being claw-like mechanisms that saturate everything they contact with various highly energetic particles and electromagnetic waves in what might be called a "brutal death soup".
- 1x Troposphere Electrokinetic Shield - A quasienergetic force barrier effective at blocking fermionic matter, but conversely permeable to light-based weaponry.
Abilities: Djastom is an exceptionally skilled pilot of his Vulture, which in turn is quite diverse in its capabilities. Above all, it is an offense-oriented craft that relies on unleashing ungodly amounts of dakka on a target until it stops moving, using its two available modes to facilitate this doctrine. As a ground-attack jet plane, it is capable of reasonably swift and agile forward flight, as well as sustained VTOL with omnidirectional movement capabilities. As a mech, it is likewise fairly responsive and quick, to the point of emulating a well-trained human in movement.
Advantages: As before mentioned, the Vulture is at its strongest when attempting to annihilate everything within its forward line of sight. Moreover, Djastom is well-versed in pushing his craft to the limits of its performance margins, resulting in some truly impressive maneuvering .
Disadvantages: Chief among the Vulture's design weaknesses is defense. While it is relatively well-armored as far as attack jets are concerned, that's not saying a whole lot in the grand scheme of things; its physical armor can withstand sustained fire from small vehicular weapons and not a lot more. Most of its protective capability is centered around its Troposphere EKS, which while quite capable is nevertheless power-intensive. Against a particularly potent attack, power from some cover angles may need to be redirected elsewhere, leaving those angles open to surprise attacks. Moreover, it is largely incapable of defending against photonic attacks.
Compounding this is the fact that, in both of its modes, the Vulture is only moderately fast, although Djastom's piloting abilities do rather make up for this in being able to haul the Vulture's bulk around with remarkable celerity. Nevertheless, its relative vulnerability to enemy retaliation leaves it weak to opponents able to withstand its initial onslaughts.
And finally, on the subject of its pilot himself, Djastom is unquestionably the picture of a hotshot maverick flyboy. Though otherwise a friendly and good-natured fellow, incredible amounts of cocky overconfidence, egotism, and a propensity to show off have stymied his rise through the ranks more often than any other factor. Invariably he will behave rashly and recklessly in any fight he enters, and a canny opponent will deliberately present themselves in a way prone to underestimation to take advantage of this.
Melee rating: 7/10 - Giant death claws count for something, but they're all the Vulture has, and at melee ranges the EKS is much easier to circumvent.
Ranged rating: 10/10 - No such thing as enuff dakka, but this thing comes real damn close.
Defence rating: 6/10 - The EKS is the only major defensive system present, and it can be circumvented or even brute-forced through.
Agility rating: 7/10 - Middling in terms of aircraft speed and maneuverability.
Intelligence rating: 7/10 - Though hardly a mastermind of the field, Djastom in concert with his onboard systems has a surprisingly good head for tactics.
Expertise rating: 9/10 - He has consistently shown himself to be one of the most skilled Vulture pilots in the vehicle's operational history.
Endurance rating: 10/10 - The Vulture's Cirrus reactor provides a virtually unlimited source of energy for all onboard systems.
Stealth rating: 0/10 - This fucking thing is more flamboyantly ostentatious than a gay-pride parade.
Psi rating: 6/10 - Though it has no offensive synedetic capabilities, the Vulture's cockpit is hardened against psychic incursion. Combined with Djastom's deadzone neural implant and psy-warfare training, he is very well defended against mind-to-mind attacks.
Environment rating: 6/10 - Battlescape engineering is generally too roundabout for Djastom's combat tastes. However, his Scathe rockets provide a particularly effective method of area denial by saturating the space around detonation with incandescine, a particulate compound that leaves lingering clouds of hazardous plasma.
Overall challenge rating: 6.8/10 - Battles against him tend to be swift and decisive.
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