Technical Specifications:

Airframe: ACN-33
Variant: R
Codename: "Knave"
Engines: 2
Thrust to weight: 2:1
Top speed: Mach 2.3
Cruise speed: Mach 1.2
Service ceiling: 69,000 feet
Climb Rate 65,000 Feet Per minute

Affiliation: FDF (Fatui Diplomatic Forces)
Home Base: House of Hearth Aviation Combat Academy (Fontaine Division)
Country of origin: Snezhnaya

Special Division: Harbingers

Backstory:

An Experimental Shezhnayan fighter assigned to the Fatui-Owned House of the Hearth Aviation and Air Combat Academy, a Shezhnayan Top Gun of sorts.

The ACN-33R, better known as the "Knave" was designed as a multirole semi-stealth fighter, with a primary air superiority role and a secondary attack role. The fighter has been kept secret from the public and the lower ranking Fatui members.

However, the trainees and pilots from the House of the Hearth often train with the Knave to master their dogfighting and BFM. The ACN-33 boasts thrust vectoring, which makes it a formidable foe in close quarters combat, while its advanced electronics and avionics make it a formidable foe in BVR situations.

Within the House of the Hearth Academy, two of the top pilots who were siblings, Lyney and Lynette mainly performed in air shows, but would occasionally serve under the House of the Hearth for Fatui investigations

Until a certain incident involving Lady Furina, the ACN-33R was unknown to the public

The Incident:

On a night when Lady Furina would take a solo flight to patrol around the Opera Epiclesse airspace. Lady Arlechinno would also take off and intercept the patrolling "Archon" for the sake of taking the Hydro Gnosis.

The Knave engaged the FRN-014 in a dogfight but noted that the aircraft just didn't fight as hard as an archon would fight, barely even utilizing the power of the gnosis in the fight.

Later the Fatui Fighter just let the Fontainian be, it wasn't the fight she was looking for, and the battle just proved that the so called archon does not even possess the ability to wield and utilize the Gnosis.
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It was later revealed in a conversation with the traveller that the Arlecchino's motives in attacking Lady Furina during her patrol was to steal the gnosis to save Fontaine from the prophecy of being flooded with Primordial seawater....

Instructions:

AG 4 - Thrust Vectoring
AG 5 - Afterburner
AG 6 - Arm missiles
AG 7 - Dump all missiles
AG 8 - Lights

PSM Instructions:

below/around 35% Throttle

Speed must be below 160 Knots IAS

There is no Fly by wire.... YOU are the fly by wire

Additional Trivia:

• Serial Number: FH-2704-04 (The FH in the Serial Number indicates the aircraft is built for a Harbinger, the last two numbers indicate the rank of the Harbinger)

• Aircraft was inspired by the XFA-24A From Ace Combat

• I focused more on the flight dynamics than appearance here