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While the Blood Iron assassins mostly struck their targets in their homes and rarely engaged in open combat, they still utilized a variety of vehicles. The backbone of their activities were aircrafts called Blades. The name Blade stem from both, the Blood Iron’s affinity with swords and the peculiar silhouette of the aircraft. It consisted mostly of two enormous engines and the thin main shaft on which they were mounted. While not heavily armed or armored, the Blade was perfectly suited for the Blood Irons, because it could get them to their target quickly and back home even quicker. The craft could carry two Blood Iron Assassins, who hang from the main shaft in hammock like cockpits. In case of emergency those cockpits could be detached and functioned as a kind of escape pod. Different kind of pods could be attached, some featuring weapons like machine guns and rocket launchers. Besides that, the craft featured elaborate landing gear, necessary to support the enormous weight of the engines, when not in flight. Of course, these crafts were only seldomly seen by anyone, as the assassins usually got away before any of their targets or their guards even noticed their presence, only hearing the faint roar of the engines as the craft vanished into the sky.
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Here's a vehicle for my faction, the Blood Irons, for round 2 of the Figbarfcentral and Infernolug #scififactioncontest
This was a joy to build and worked out just as planned from the first concept sketch to the final photos.
Stay tuned for more builds related to the Blood Irons in the rounds to come!
Shortly after first appearing out of nowhere, the Blood Irons soon became well known among the people of the galaxy for their merciless assassinations and horrific executions. However, most people only saw them as a minor threat and felt safe, as long as they resided on prosperous planets with high tech security systems. That only changed when the Blood Irons carried out an assassination on Kent Gerrit, a wealthy businessman, residing on the garden world Niwa. The planet of Niwa served as a luxurious retreat for anyone in the galaxy, who had made a fortune and wanted to enjoy the finer things in life, amidst nature, never worrying about work ever again. Gerrit in particular had made his fortune selling weapons of war to both sides entangled in the conflict that had wiped the Blood Iron’s home planet from existence. While knowing the group would eventually come for him, he still considered himself safe on the garden world and refused to be transferred to a nearby military garrison, a favor offered by one of his former customers. This false sense of safety prove fatal when the Blood Irons intruded his domicile. A massacre ensued, in which most of Gerrit’s security personell fell to the blades of the assassins. Strategically taking out the security first and leaving their actual target to wait in despair, the blood irons left Gerrit to be the last one killed. Rumor has it that he died cowardly, begging for mercy, as the Blood Irons crude justice was served. It is said that the leaves of the garden world have been stained with his blood ever since.
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Here's my entry for round 3 of the #scififactioncontest by InfernoLug and Figbarfcentral. While I couldn't include my vehicle, The Blade, because of its size, I tried my best at keeping the faction well represented in the color scheme.
The Blood Irons were a mysterious group which originated on the planet Kastrian. Years ago, the Kastrians had been entangled in an interplanetary war between their two neighboring planets. Inevitably many of the battles of the warring factions were fought on Kastrian, which was located right between the two other planets. Most of the planet was destroyed in the process, the Kastrian people slaughtered, their cities destroyed and their belongings looted. For a decade the universe forgot about the Kastrians, believing them to have been wiped from the face of the galaxy. It was only when the leaders of the nations formerly at war were assassinated in an inexplicably gruesome manor, that the galaxy saw what had become of the remains of Kastian. The surviving Kastians, most of whom had been children during the war, had banded together for vengeance, declaring they were the Blood Irons, the blades forged from the blood of their ancestors in the flames of war.
After the assassinations, the Blood Irons continued exacting vengeance on the ones who wronged them. They were equipped with their signature iron blades, but also utilized heavier weapons such as quad blasters. Their victims never saw their faces, though, since they hid unter clay masks and helmets, resembling the culture and the ancestors they had lost forever.
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Here's my entry for the Fig Barf Central and InfernoLug faction challenge. It was fun to play with the red and white contrast here.