"Blackwing" (AC inspired art by me)
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"Blackwing? [Unintelligible] That's they're calling them now, huh? [****], everyone's bummed out about Farbanti except them, what with a spiffy new name and everything. Anyway, yeah... I was there, I was there when it happened. We used to call them 'Hush' before just so you know, never knew them that long though.
They recently transferred to our unit, one among many from dead squadrons. It happened midway through the siege, we've taken dozens of losses from the OpFor, including the captain and his wingman. So there we were, all that's left of Draugr flight, when an Osie Viper tails Hush and fires a SASM on them. Hush jinks the shot and pops flares, but they couldn't get away enough and the shot bursts left of them, taking out a stabilizer and screwing up their flaps and aileron. They were a good pilot (from what I've seen at least), but a shot like that would've taken even the best out, but I swear on my soul I saw what I did. After that maneuver they pulled, they managed to keep their bird up like nothing ever happened, flying like normal, even with smoke trailing off of their wing.
[****] me, gives me chills just thinking about it. They downed 2 more Osies after that, even the Viper that tagged them. The rest of us formed up and retreated west after Sol Squadron showed up, tried lightening things up with banter about what just happened, but Hush, they stayed dead silent, I chocked it up to shellshock; everyone was pretty down about the whole op including me. But once we touched down, they shrugged the whole thing off like it was nothing. [****], whatever they've seen or done in their old unit must've been nothing compared to this."
[Long pause]
"Look, I'm no man of God, not for a long while at least. But seeing that, [****] like that, I'm inclined to believe the man upstairs plays favourites."
—Interview transcript from Draugr 4, callsign: "Bonehead"
(Had an idea for an ace akin to the MC you play in every game but for the opposite side.)