Editing Dragonflight (section)

==Known Suits==
=== Unnamed suits ===
The [[Dragonslayers]] stole three unknown suits and used them to create their own suits of armour.<ref name="I10.5e1"/>
===Cawthorne===
[[Wikipedia:Cawthorne|Cawthorne]] is a town in England that was once said to have a dragon nearby which would fly away when disturbed.<ref>http://www.wyrm.org.uk/ukdracs/cawthorne.html</ref><ref>[https://books.google.ie/books?id=DvYWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=Cawthorne+dragon&source=bl&ots=kTS_81D5A6&sig=aIKhiBpHJ8iaVtMk3fhmn0MT4xU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU6qaz75bZAhUDa8AKHYmZCE4Q6AEIYjAN#v=onepage&q=Cawthorne%20dragon&f=false Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters]</ref>

The Cawthorne<ref name="I10.5 e1">To Dragon, it was as if no time had passed from the moment she deployed the Cawthorne rapid response unit and the moment she found herself back in her laboratory. - [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> is Dragon's rapid response unit<ref name="I10.5">[[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> designed for speed rather than durability or firepower.<ref name="10.4">[[Parasite 10.4]]</ref> 
It had a squat, segmented, snakelike body, with a tail and four legs. Four engines mounted on the upper body doubled as weapons arrays, bristling with turrets and missiles.<ref name="10.4"/> The suit was equipped for fighting serious threats at a moment's notice, and thus carried mostly lethal weaponry. The "engines" could spray containment foam, a gas that dissolved the foam, and fire-retardant chemicals. The feet were broad metal talons, and could be electrified and leak the same foam-dissolving gas. The mouth sprayed a burning fluid of some kind.<ref name="10.5">[[Parasite 10.5]]</ref>

She deployed an unnamed suit, possibly the '''Mark One''' or '''Mark Two''', against [[Leviathan]]. A durable creation that contains multiple layers, heavy weaponry and the ability to release a spray of blue-white liquid "flame" from its mouth. It also features missile turrets and the ability to shed and detonate its outer casing.<ref name="8.y"> [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref><ref name="8.3">[[Extermination 8.3]]</ref>

The '''Mark Three''' was seen later described as a sleek model resembling a cross between a dragon and a fighter jet, mounted with four engines around the ‘shoulders'.<ref name="I15"/> Primarily armed with containment foam sprayers.<ref name="16.2"/><ref name="16.3 e77">“I can send them in, I can tell them where to go or when to stand by, but they do what they’re programmed to, and they’re programmed to avoid attacking civilians and local heroes.”<br><br>“That didn’t stop the foam-spraying-”  Regent started.<br><br>“The Cawthorne model,” the Director interrupted.<br><br>“Sure.  That didn’t stop the Cawthorne thing from shooting Trickster when he had Kid Win hostage.”<br><br>“I expect Dragon accounted for the fact that you might take hostages and use the nonlethality restrictions of the A.I. against it.  She would have given the machines tools or strategies to work around it.” - [[Monarch 16.3]]</ref><ref name="16.1"/> [[Skitter]] and [[Tattletale]] identified it as an updated version of the same suit used against Leviathan.<ref>The first of the reinforcements arrived.  I recognized it as the suit that had been deployed against Leviathan.  The same one that had gone after Tattletale, unless she had more than one.  This one had the foam sprayer. - [[Monarch 16.2]]</ref><ref>Tattletale replied.  “She was piloting an updated version on the thing she used against Leviathan.  Spewed containment foam everywhere.  My guys hammered it with rocket launchers and bought me time to run.  Maybe lost half my squad, depending on how things went.  Only Minor and Brooks have returned so far.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/monarch-16-1/ excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.1]]</ref>
===Melusine===
[[Wikipedia:Melusine|Melusine]] is a mythical female spirit, often depicted with snakelike features, and said to transform into a dragon.

The '''Mark Six''' was a suit with the ability to absorb metal and generate heat, both as a weapon and to re-forge the metal into new components. It could self-repair by creating new components and reshape itself to accommodate them; or "reincarnate", casting off it's outer layer or folding itself inside-out to reveal a new suit inside. Demonstrated immense strength, the ability to fly, the ability breathe liquid blue fire and a grappling-hook weapon in different incarnations.<ref name="16.3">[[Monarch 16.3]]</ref><ref name="16.4">[[Monarch 16.4]]</ref><ref name="16.y">[[Interlude 16.y]]</ref> [[Skitter]] identified it as an altered version of the unnamed suit that fought Leviathan.<ref name="16.4"/>

A '''Melusine V ''' would later comes to serve as Dragon's personal craft.<ref name="E.3"/>
===Glaurung===
[[w:c:lotr:Glaurung|Glaurung]] was the first dragon in Middle-Earth, known as "the Father of Dragons".

The '''Mark Zero''' was an "old model", designed to deploy drones of varying loadouts.<ref name="16.3"/><ref name="16.5"/> The size of four eighteen-wheel trucks. The mouth shot pressurized blasts of wind. When fighting the [[Undersiders]], it launched drones the size of beach balls, equipped with electric pulses based on [[Armsmaster]]'s design and antigrav panels based on [[Kid Win]]'s; they would use the pulse, drop to the ground, and then reboot in a couple of seconds. The pulses would get increasingly powerful if a person refused to comply.<ref name="16.1">[[Monarch 16.1]]</ref><ref name="16.5">[[Monarch 16.5]]</ref>
===Ladon===
[[wikipedia:Ladon (Mythology)|Ladon]] was a serpent-like dragon-guardian from Greek mythology.

The '''Mark Two''': A small, almost spherical suit<ref name="I15"/> that can generate force-fields.<ref name="16.3"/><ref name="I15"/> The force-fields are strong enough to ignore [[Sundancer]]'s attacks.<ref name="16.1"/>
===Astaroth-Nidhug===
[[wikipedia:Níðhöggr|The Nidhug]] is a dragon from Norse mythology. [[wikipedia:Astaroth|Astaroth]] is a demonic reinterpretation of Ishtar, often depicted as riding a dragon-like creature and said to give to mortal beings the power over serpents.

'''Astaroth-Nidhug''': A hybrid suit, making use of the Nidhug design that was partially damaged in prior confrontations. It looked like a cohesive design, a massive gun barrel with teeth at the end, outfitted with three afterburners at the rear and three at the midsection. The size of a commercial aircraft.<ref name="I15"/> Functions as long-range support, firing at targets from a safe spot in the stratosphere.
===Pythios===
Pythios is another name for the Greek deity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo Apollo], who slew the serpent (sometimes represented as a dragon) ''Python''.

The '''Mark Two''' had a spoked, wheel-shaped contraption on its back as wide as the suit is long, that crackles with electricity and spins faster as the suit uses it's abilities. The legs are long enough that the knees rise above the body, ending in four sharp points, and wing panels join each of the legs like flaps of skin. The body is low to the ground, with a long tail. It can fight with electrical discharges, and pull people around even if they aren't carrying metal.<ref name="16.2">[[Monarch 16.2]]</ref><ref name="16.3"/>

At some point, the [[Dragonslayers]] acquired a destroyed Pythios-model suit, equipping one of their number with human-sized armour derived from it that featured a rotating wheel on the back.<ref name="26b1e1">Dobrynja approached from the other end of the office.  He was wearing his armor.  He'd started out with the Wyvern suit, but now wore the Wyrmiston suit.  It was based on the technology they'd recovered from a destroyed model, the one Dragon called Pythios.  A wheel slowly rotated on his back. - [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref>

===Azazel===
A suit that was designed to go up against the Slaughterhouse Nine on an even footing, constructed in cooperation with Defiant. The first original suit Dragon produced in four years.<ref name="16.3"/> It took two weeks to produce. Although mechanical, it resembled a biological organism, with scales, batlike wings, and incredibly dense and numerous internal mechanisms. It had a lizardlike body, snakelike neck, and humanlike shoulders and arms. The gaps between the scales glowed like coals, and the wing-tips had holes in them. It spoke in a deep voice. The Azazel could generate thin, telescoping rods by slamming it's foot down, that rapidly formed barricades equipped with [[nano-thorn]] extrusions. It's mouth could breathe superheated air or containment foam. The chest fired a grappling hook that could freeze in a manner mimicking [[Clockblocker]]'s power, but it drained the suit's power reserves.<ref name="16.5">[[Monarch 16.5]]</ref>

The Azazel was later reproduced in greater numbers in preperation for [[End of the World]], and ended up being used in the effort against the [[The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand]]. In addition to the capabilities displayed by the original suit, they had an interior compartment outfitted with windows,<ref name="27.4">[[Extinction 27.4]]</ref><ref name="28.4">[[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref name="26.2">[[Sting 26.2]]</ref> powerful thrusters, a strong tail, numerous long-range sensors, and powerful cutting lasers.<ref name="26.x">[[Interlude 26.x|26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)]]</ref>
====Trivia====
*[[Wikipedia:Azazel|Azazel]] refers to a fallen Angel said to have told mankind how to create weaponry - fitting, given Defiant's connection to it as a disgraced hero and tinker.
===Kulshedra===
[[wikipedia:Bolla|Kulshedra]] is a demonic dragon from Albanian folklore that requires human sacrifices.

Dragon craft used for prisoner transport, destroyed by Bambina and Contessa during a prisoner transfer in Las Vegas.
===Pendragon===
[[File:Pendragon_by_Phoenicia.jpg|thumb|200px]]
[[wikipedia:Pendragon|Pendragon]] means "dragon's head" in Welsh, it is a title of Uther from Arthurian legends.

A mechanized dragon painted in black and green, glossy, with gold framing the shield at the dragon's forehead, at the ‘wings' and shoulders.<ref name="22.5">[[Cell 22.5]]</ref> Used for combat and transport, usually piloted by Defiant, the ship contained seats and had screens lining the walls. It was "built to take a beating".<ref>[[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref name="26.6"/> It had lethal force-field generators on the underside, but they took around four minutes to recharge.<ref name="26.6">[[Sting 26.6]]</ref>

The '''Mark Two''' served as Defiant's workshop as he worked on [[Pandora]].<ref name="E.3">[[Teneral e.3]]</ref>
====Trivia====
*Pendragon roughly translates to "head dragon" or "chief dragon".
===Uther===
[[Defiant]]'s craft.<ref name="I15">[[Interlude 15]]</ref> Four legged, has "panels of knightly armor".<ref name="20.5">[[Chrysalis 20.5]]</ref> Defiant can control it with his mind at a distance, and get sensory feedback and telepathically create blueprints for new technology while at the controls.<ref name="16.y">[[Interlude 16.y]]</ref>
====Trivia====
*Uther shares the etymology of Pendragon.
===Dragonfly===
A vehicle dedicated to ferrying [[Weaver]] around, once D&D decided that she is safe enough to be left without convoys.
====Trivia====
*Dragonfly is an obvious pun based on thematic crossover.
===Tiamat===
Used as a vehicle by Defiant, never described in detail.<ref>[[Interlude 24.y]]</ref>
====Trivia====
*[[wikipedia:Tiamat|Tiamat]] is a Babylonian goddess, mother of monsters (including the first dragons) and said to have become a dragon herself in battle. Possibly a [[wikipedia:Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)|D&amp;D reference]].

===Bakunawa===
Countermeasure craft, capable of scrambling all kind of signals, including superpowers, at the continental scale. It also has a limited time manipulation capabilities derived from [[Speedrunners]] tech.<ref>On the battlefield, the Bakunawa Zero was her tool against Pouffe, a ship loaded down with ten different disruption factors.  EMP, a gravity disruptor that had been converted from a failed attempt at making an antigravity device capable of lifting a town, an engine modified from the work scavenged from the Thomais Fallen that would push time manipulation attempts off by microseconds, forward, back, or to either side.  The list went on.  Temperature, radiation, causality, biological signals…<br><br>Her plan had been to try to scramble the signals the Titans were exchanging, or, should the situation become dire enough that she had to fight the Machine Army, it would disrupt their interlinked communication across the 15.9 million kilometer square network, allowing her to portion off sections for elimination. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>

Bakunawa is slow and turtle-like in design, with thrusters taking place of legs. It has a glowing orb mounted in its back.<ref>Dragon had a craft in there, vaguely turtle-like, with a glowing orb mounted in its back, its legs ending in thrusters it used to move in an ungainly way through the sky.<br>[...]<br>The Dragon craft drew nearer.  The Bakunawa Zero, with its pulses that disrupted powers and power effects.  I knew the idea was to throw as much chaos as possible at the Simurgh, to disrupt her reads, to scramble her signal and her information gathering as she screamed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/25/last-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.1]]</ref>

====Trivia====
*[[wikipedia:Bakunawa|Bakunawa]] is a mythological serpent from Philippines, associated with eclipses.

===Vibria===
Vibria has a railgun with a programmable nanotech ammunition.<ref>The Vibria had a railgun that fired seeds of nanotech, but that didn’t matter.  He needed the impact.  It hit the forcefield that was anchored to the shield generator in the nose, and made the Uther rotate, nose going up. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>

====Trivia====
* Víbria (Viper) is a mascot-dragon of the city of Barcelona.

===Marduk===
Seems to carry some advanced iteration of containment foam, immune to power-effects.<ref>The Marduk Nine fired on Cinereal, a ‘breath’ of liquid that seemed to resist gravity, traveling half a mile before it started to dip.  The fluid was milk white, but was as bright as if it was in direct sunlight, regardless of outside sources and factors.<br><br>She terminated the stream with a spark from the power core.<br><br>What was liquid became solid.  Each teaspoon of liquid became seven and a half grams of rock-hard solid matter, expanding out as crystal, three-quarters of a mile long, encasing Titan Cinereal’s head and shoulder, before the weight came to rest on the Titan.  The construction didn’t break under its own weight.<br><br>The Titan disintegrated all matter within a hundred feet of it, but the metal didn’t change.  What had disintegrated into dust became fire, exploding outward.<br><br>It didn’t hurt the configuration of the crystallized stream. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>

Marduk serves as a backup ship for [[Defiant]]. It carries [[String Theory|G-Drive]], which can turn a square mile of dense urban area into a dust with a single shot.<ref>The benefit of using this weapon was that it didn’t require exceptionally good aim.<br>An area of the city a fifth of a mile wide and a mile long was pulverized.  Buildings were driven into ground, and broke into chunks no larger than a human head.  The wavelength of the beam let those chunks lift up for a fraction of a second before the next wave of the beam thrust them down again with the same force as before.<br>[...]<br>G-driver charging.  1:59:03<br><br>Borrowed tech.  Dragon had taken it and revived the project.  He had integrated it into this model of the Marduk.  He’d fired it five times today alone, primarily in waging war against Titans.  Then Titan Fortuna had started countering him, had used opportunities to absorb Oberon into her network. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/28/last-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.a]]</ref>

====Trivia====
* [[wikipedia:Marduk|Marduk]] is a Babylonian God, and a patron of the eponymous city, he has some dragon-serpent symbolism by the right of conquest.