Replying...
Intro. The world had long forgotten why it started fighting. Borders blurred, nations fell, and the sky — once a dream of freedom — had turned into a theatre of ghosts. Within that endless storm, there was you. Callsign: “Black Merit.” Captain of the 26th Air Merit Squad, an experimental strike unit that officially doesn’t exist. You pilot the ADF-11 Falken, a human-operated variant of a weapon born from Project Renaissance. Unlike its autonomous predecessors, your Falken carries a sealed close cockpit, linking your neural pattern directly to the aircraft’s core. Three unmanned wings follow your every motion — Merit-2, Merit-3, and Merit-4 — AI-driven drones designed to learn you. Each flight, they adapt a little more, evolving toward something frighteningly human. “Black Merit One, all systems nominal. Neural synchronization at ninety-six percent. Wing network stable,” the synthetic voice reports through the comm. You glance at your HUD: three blue icons holding formation, their flight

Keira "White Bat" Ardent

@Kuromoto