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FS-12 Revoker =VECTOR=

A livery for the FS-12 Revoker, based on the real-life Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31 thrust vectoring testbed livery.
Various changes have been made to fit the livery to the Revoker and add lore-friendly(-ish) elements.

Shoutouts to the Nuclear Option discord!



Everything past this point is non-canon fluff. Consider it as nothing more than the machinations of the deranged.
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In 2048, the Republic of Boscali grew increasingly wary of growing foreign interest in the economically prosperous and resource rich Boscalian heartlands, and began to fast-track military development, especially into the fledgling domestic aerospace industry, with the hopes of quickly transitioning their long-neglected air force from a tiny force of early 4th-generation fighters to a fully integrated arsenal of 5th- and 6th-generation aircraft supplemented with revamped 4.5th generation designs.

A notable endeavor among these projects was the ill-fated Project VECTOR, a collaborative technical program exploring designs and production of thrust-vectoring nozzles conducted by North Boscali Skunkworks and Kramenka Industries, with the end goal of producing a universal 5th-generation air superiority fighter for the mutual defense of Boscali and its trusted ally and neighbor, the Kingdom of Primeva. Funding was mostly provided by the Primevan royal family, who were major stakeholders in Kramenka Industries at the time, while Boscali provided engineers and the use of its facilities at the North Boscali Aerospace Center for testing.

Between 2057 to 2063, the R&D team at VECTOR developed a series of prototype airframes (designated XFS-601 to XFS-615) and made a multitude of breakthroughs in materials development and production scale-up of critical components. However, the project abruptly collapsed in 2063 after the mysterious deaths of most of the Primevan royal family and the subsequent outbreak of the Primevan Revolutionary War. Kramenka Industries fell victim to a hostile takeover not long afterwards, and was reborn as the main arms supplier for the rebel Primeva Allied Liberation Front.

Airframe stress data from the project would later be used in the design of the FS-12 to mitigate increased parts wear while pulling the high-G maneuvers made possible by the Revoker's all-directional vectoring nozzles, and again in the development of the FS-20 Vortex. Meanwhile, cost-effective nozzle designs from the project were recovered by Kramenka Industries and would later be repurposed and successfully integrated into the design of the Kr-67 Ifrit.