The Snail-Eater is one of the signature aircraft employed by the Confederation of the Iberian Region (CIR). This faction's roots lay in the progressive decay of the old Spanish government, which caused many of it's inhabitants to resort to resurging activist and mutual aid groups to make their ends meet, leading to the formation of a bottom-up society loosely in the anarchist spectrum.

They tend to use bizarre contraptions because of a mixture of a tendency to reuse components and build on existing designs to compensate for the limited infraestructure at their disposal, which is enabled by the open source-esque nature of their aircraft; and a rather peculiar organization that provides much autonomy to individual squadrons. This has caused many of their airframes to employ modular construction, thus diminishing the logistical footprint of the practice of splicing together at-times almost unique airplanes. In particular, the Snail-Eater's fuselage is one of the most popularly reused sections.

The Snail-Eater's main role is to be a long-range attack aircraft capable of hitting the enemy logistics train behind enemy lines. It's armament consists of 2 rifle-caliber MGs in the cockpit wing roots; 2 18 mm cannons and a 27 mm gun in the nose.

In keeping with this, the pilot is set apart form the rest of the aircraft to both protect them in case of a fire (the fuselage contains all of the internal reserves) and provide a better view. As seen, the side cockpit also enables it to effectively have a clean nose for gear.