Box Kite

Two huge green and white wings box in a small yellow body, like a kite someone forgot to fly home. Red hexagons are painted on the top wing, and a green flame sputters from a stubby nozzle near the cockpit. Fast white shots spit from its nose in a steady stream. Box Kite looks like a toy. That is exactly the point. The soul inside was a nine time kite festival champion named Rio Tamsin, who believed anything could fly if you built it right. When his home colony needed a defender, he Upleveled into a ship that looked like the thing he loved most. Now he flies with the Cosmic Collective, guarding the supply routes to The Directory. His defense is surprisingly tough, because those big wings are made of layered shield panels. His signature move is the Updraft. He catches the solar wind in his wings, rises above an attacker in a single leap, then rains down fire from a position nobody saw coming.