Foster

Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

Name: Kie Feng
Callsign: Short Round

Age: 28
Sex: F
Height: 160 cm
Weight: 53 kg
Nationality: Chinese

Aircraft: CAC Super-7 (Chengdu J-7 with improved nose-fairings and a GE F404 turbine found in later blocks of F-16)

Appearance:
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Black

Likes: Strawberries.
Dislikes: Being called inferior on account of being shorter
Personality: Short-tempered and abrasive to go with his stature, very prideful of her nation's role in the great war.

Personal History

Born sometime around 1988 in China's Gansu Provinence, Kie just happened to be at the forefront of the conventional Russo-Sino border-conflicts of 1992 and continued to live in the war-weary region even as the event went nuclear in 1998, when she and her family fled to Pakistan following the Haifa incident.

However, during the retreat, a mushroom-cloud was seen in the distance just as they were about to cross the Pakistani-border. She was only eleven years old.

They re-settled in the Nanjing Military Region, where she volunteered to help the war-effort by working the fields by day and repairing planes whenever they returned. After awhile she learned how to fly the JJ-7M, and made it into the newly raised 14th Fighter-Division of the PLAAF flying and testing an extensively modified version thereof.

In 2006, she had the opportunity to actually fly into combat against the North Koreans, trying to turn the tide to their favor by steadily moving away from the attrition of a People's War and more towards a better equipped professional all volunteer fighting force.

After fighting the Americans and their allies for over a year, the Chinese government switched sides and redeployed what remained of her shattered division on the northern-front just a few kilometers north of her hometown as they unleashed newer and newer weapons of mass destruction upon the Soviet-Union.

After the war, the government thanked Kie for her service, and simply let her go. The economy was so shattered they could not offer her a job, and to help fund the war she and her family had literally purchased her own plane. So with so much money invested in fighting, and that being the only worthwhile job she ever had, Kei answered an advertisement for a unit in the Bahamas.

It even had a name similar to what the Pakistani refugees called her plane when it went on night-time raids: "Black Thunder".

Personal Weapons and misc. Gear:
Type 85 submachine gun (7.62x25 TT)

Aircraft Sheet
Name: Chengdu Air Corporation Super 7
Profile Link: Modification of the J-7M, Gun armarment: GSh-23-2L and a single GSh-30-1

Appearance:


Paint Job: Navy-blue on sky-blue with anti-flash white undercarriage

Owned or loaned: Owned

Thunderbolt Black - Aerial Combat, Near Future

I'm tempted to chuck a flying brick like the MiG-35, F-4, Su-34, or even the F-18F 2-seater into this.

A-4AR. Ridiculously simple and served well during the opening days of the invasion of Kuwait (they lost 1 of their 24, then sold them to Brazil). Although it has been largely replaced by the Harrier in a certain country.*
-A similar upgrade for it was Project Kahu, which means "Swamp Harrier".

If it were set in WW2, I'd be flying the Yak-7 or CAC CA-1 Wirraway.

*Also, as of mid-2013, Israel is pretty much selling their 217+ A-4s to civilians, apparently.

Long story short, the A-4 is the sort of plane currently being fielded by PMCs.

Mech Designer Competition: Corporate Warfare

*Foster goes back to designing a pulsejet that runs on coal*

*Hires a few college-interns to do 90% of the work in an abandoned lead/copper-mine*

*Straps a tac-nuke to it*

Bing. Done.

Seeking Friendly Partner to RP With

Space prison sounds like a good challenge.

And sure thing there will be some nasty stuff that goes bump in the night out there [here be dragons].

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

<Snipped quote by Foster> If I were really worried about my home being busted into, such as when a fugitive is on the loose in this area (Baltimore) or we have a spate of home invasion robberies, the best place to have a gun is within reach. So put it in a holster and stick it on your belt. But leave them laying around? Fuck naw. In most jurisdictions, you can legally carry on your own property, that includes outdoors and indoors. If you're that worried about getting jumped that you're planting guns, I'm sorry, it's time to get realistic and safe about it and just holster one.

@HeySeuss

Kinda hard to holster a shotgun or a Mosin-Nagant (and it being a 91/30, not very fun to carry it slung in the confines of a home; the bayonet on the other hand...). Not stored loaded because it isn't up to holy-shit levels of violence, plus I know quite well how fast I can load a gun. It's just stored nearby-ish enough so I don't have to leave the room I'm most likely sleeping in to get to it. Alternately, in a room were I can very reasonably flee to. Having a gun hanging on every wall of every room would be kinda silly and expensive, especially if they're all loaded. "Unconventional" would be pretty much Jackie-Chan levels of improv-fu in the lower-levels, in which case I'd already be rightly fucked; but at least I know where the sharp and heavy bits of my home are. You may also be forgetting I'm pretty deaf and blind on my left, so getting into a household firefight would be only delaying the inevitable. --- It also still takes about 20+ feet to draw a pistol from your belt and fire, assuming they aren't entering your home with guns drawn, that's the distance you'll need to go from sitting and watching a movie to gun-up. Where I am, the distance is about 150 feet they'll have to cover (just barely enough to grab some shells, get to the gun-vault, and ready a weapon), assuming they don't just pull-up and shoot through the exterior-walls. -In which case, loading a gun after a flashbang went off is probably going to be double-plus-un-fun prelude to getting shot at. --Although the use of a flashbang is a good indicator that going for a firearm would be a bad idea... maybe.

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

How many people believe in the concept of a gun in every room of your residence?

@Revans Exile

Surprisingly close to supporting it. Never know when Putin will come a 'knockin. But no; not a gun in EVERY room. Some are designated dead-zones for reasons of not letting the person who just busted a $150 door get a hold of a $400 gun. Usually the idea is to somehow use that distance it'll take for them to get closer to load the gun. If you don't have the distance, you don't have the time. So... how fast can you run? Care to wager your life on whether or not I can load a rifle in the time it'll take to sprint up two flights of stairs? Even if you are "pretty sure" I was asleep and will bother to put on a fresh pair of trousers first? Another assumption is that I can probably run as fast as the fella chasing me. Problem is I get tired of running pretty quick when I realize they're just trying to scare me away from my property long enough to ransack it. Although this is ignoring the possibility that I could already be injured prior to fleeing.

Games you wished existed/Video Game Ideas

So NOT the first-person online-shooting fiasco?

Games you wished existed/Video Game Ideas

More Shadowrun.

@OneEyedChurro

Which one?

Things you Google while writing.

Mostly combat-formations, history, and period attire (including any unstated inconveniences they provide). Oh, and popular science articles and discussions of speculative-fiction. Slight chances I may even be googling specific procedures of little relevance to my normal day... like how to prep a Baulton-Paul Defiant for battle and the finer points of precision dive-bombing. And then, very rarely, do I look up popular animes and such on TvTropes.

I need to stop biting my nails. Throw some advice at me

I started carrying a nail file around. Any time I caught myself biting my nails I would stop and switch to the nail file. Eventually you'll learn to use the file. And just so you know I'm a guy so the whole looking pretty kind of thing didn't play a factor.

@t2wave

Similar solution is a small 3-function swiss army-knife's scissors can be used to trim toe and fingernails. And anvil (wood or metal) and knife/chisel or just about anything sharp can also be used to trim the nails more effectively than teeth, although I recommend the contact-chopping method where the bit of the blade makes gentle contact and one merely applies the necessary pressure to finish the cut. Being a swiss army knife, it had many other uses, such as removing splinters, cutting rope/cordage, stripping wires, re-assembling computers, and plucking bits of popcorn kernels out of your teeth. Oh, and tightening hose-clamps. Foster was trained well.