The Slasher (So called by early SFR and CIR troops) was an otherwise fairly generic recon autogyro used by an once-major faction that called itself "Nova Evropa" (NE), descended from radical xenophobic groups that sprung as the Crumbling went on.

This country's stated aims were simple: it sought to conquer Europe to rebuild it purged of foreign peoples. They first rose to prominence conquering old South-Eastern France and first clashed with the early SFR before being stopped at the Battle of the Vienne, creating a frozen, low-intensity conflict. During this early period before the NE leadership decided to cross South to conquer the early CIR, which they saw as a peaceful, complacent people incapable of war.

One of the NE's signs of military powress was the fielding of aircraft in the form of rotorcraft and airships, of which the Slasher formed a backbone owning to it's easy learning curve and good but not exceptional performance, which made it first a trump card against the various petty populations in the post-Crumbling world and, as other aircraft entered NE service, an acceptable aircraft for Dweller pilots (Free people without formal political power formed of people of at least half European descent as per either genealogy or NE pseudoscience subject to compulsory military service and granted property rights and personhood).