The Eagle Pilots are the Asuryani Aspect Warriors who follow the Warrior Path of the Phoenix Lord Amon Harakht, the path of the fighter pilot.
Like their fellow airborne Aspect Warriors, the Swooping Hawks, the Eagle Pilots take exultant pleasure in the arts of aerial combat. These Aeldari are superb pilots of any type of Craftworld Aeldari aircraft or spacecraft, but especially excel in the aerial arts of war.
Their skill and artistry in flight is nearly unmatched by the combat pilots of any other species, as they take to the skies in their Nightwings interceptors or Phoenix strike aircraft.
Combat Role
Eagle Pilot Aspect Warriors flying Aeldari Nightwings.
Eagle Pilots serve as the combat pilots of the Asuryani craftworlds, performing combat air patrols and fulfilling air superiority and ground attack support roles for Asuryani military forces in the field.
Eagle Pilots possess the ability to fly nearly any aircraft but they primarily fly the Aeldari's Nightwing Interceptor and the Phoenix strike combat aircraft.
The Nightwing interceptor is the primary fighter aircraft of the Asuryani, combining a speed and manouverability that no Imperial fighter aircraft can match, with considerable firepower and the sophisticated energy field protection that is common among Aeldari vehicles of all types.
The Nightwing is a variable geometry aircraft capable of altering its wing position to shift between subsonic and supersonic speeds.
The Asuryani Phoenix is a heavily armed strike aircraft that is intended to engage both enemy infantry and armour on the ground, while its sophisticated force field protects it from enemy fire.
Phoenix Lord
The Phoenix Lord of the Aeldari Eagle Pilots is Amon Harakht, a term in the Aeldari Lexicon that literally translates into Low Gothic as "fighter pilot."
Little else is known about this Phoenix Lord other than that he founded the Eagle Pilots Aspect.
Sources
- Shadow Point (Novel) by Gordon Rennie, Part One, Ch. 3, pg. 42
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