Scinfaxi

Weapon Information

 * Purpose: Underwater ballistic vessel; able to carry on missions as a submarine, a ballistic missile platform, an aircraft carrier and even as a warship.


 * Manufacturer(s): Yuktobania.


 * Date Started: 1980s.


 * Date Completed: 1991-2010.


 * Date Destroyed: Oct. 10 2010.

Armaments

 * AK-630 30mm CIWS x8 (AA Gun)


 * 9K35 Kindzhal launchers x8 (SAM)


 * Burst missile launchers x2 (MPBM)

Specs

 * Width: Unknown, but size comparison indicates its max width from 220-240 feet wide (m 73).


 * Length: Unknown, but size comparison indicates its max length from 1000-1200 feet long (m 366).


 * Height: Unknown, but size comparison indicates its max height from 50-80 feet high (m 24).


 * Weight: Unknown, but size comparison indicates its max displacement from 82,000-94,000 tonnes.


 * Max Speed: Unknown, but its fastest known speed, found through speed comparison, is from 9-12 knots.


 * Damage Tolerance: Heavy.
 * Energy source: Nuclear reactors.
 * Firing Range: Unknown; however, it's burst missiles seem to have continental range (about 700-1200 miles, has effect on everything under 5000 feet.).

Development
During the midst of the Osean-Yuktobanian Cold War in the 1980s, the arms race had began to come to its top form. Osea began to fully develop its Self Defense Initiative (SDI) program, which usually included laser weaponry and kinetic energy weaponry. Yuktobania began to research the "Arsenal Ship" concept. In a sense, a ship which could deliver massive amounts of fire power with no support needed.

The original design was intended to be put around a stealth SLBM system. This system of course, had to be stealth due to the Osean SDI Program. Later the ability to act as an AEGIS system and also to act as an aircraftcarrier, while being highly mobile had become defining abilities for the vessel.

The completed product of this program was known as the Scinfaxi-class Submarine. The first model, known as the Scinfaxi, had the ability to act as an AEGIS-class ship, launch Multi-Purpose Burst Missiles, instead of the SLBM, was extremely stealthy and was capable of launching and recovering VTOL Aircraft. Later, it would be able to launch UAVs.

September 2nd, 1991 brought the first publication of any information on this mega battleship. Though it was still in development, it was hailed as "a battleship of the new age", but the Osean Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time noted that the ships were similar to that of the Dragonet-class nuclear submarines which were in possession of the FCU on the Usean Continent, which at that time, Osea did not see as a threat.

However, Osea's "Arkbird" was being developed and completed at that point in time. Each weapon became a part of each country's "propaganda" in the 80s, but eventually lead to a relation of harmony in the nineties. With the collapse of the "Cold War" the Scinfaxi-class submarine was all but forgotten.

History
The first deployment of the power of these ships came while the Oseans were deploying their main naval force, the Osean Navy 3rd fleet. This fleet consisted of the aircraft carriers Kestrel, Vulture and Buzzard, which were converging on Eaglin Straits after a failed Yuktobanian assault on the naval facilities in Port St. Hewlett. As Osea moved its aircraft carriers to launch a counterattack through the Eaglin Straits, the Yuktobanian Navy deployed the Scinfaxi to stop them. A squadron of anti ship aircraft attacked the Osean fleet, but they were intercepted and destroyed by Osea's Wardog Squadron and the carriers' fighter aircraft.

The Scinfaxi then made an unexpected move: to launch an assault with its Burst Missiles on the fleet. Two of the three carriers, Vulture and Buzzard, were critically damaged and sank, leaving the Kestrel as the only Osean carrier left in the fleet. The pilots of the 108th TFS Wardog & Capt. Marcus Snow - callsign Swordsman - also barely managed to escape the attack. After having seen their fleet devastated by the Scinfaxi's attack, Osea deployed the A-SAT system to the Arkbird to counter the Yuktobanian naval power. Just a few days later, Yuktobanian forces launched an amphibious assault on Sand Island as a prelude to the Osean invasion with the Scinfaxi as their spearhead unit. Sand Island defense forces lead by Wardog Squadron were deployed to stop them, alongside several trainee pilots, who'd never engaged in real combat, which explained the staggering death toll. When the Scinfaxi joined the assault using its burst missiles, Osea deployed the Arkbird to launch laser attacks from outer space, evaporating the missiles in mid-air. The Scinfaxi was engaged by a combined assault of Wardog Squadron and the Arkbird, and eventually destroyed, ending the actual plans of a Yuktobanian invasion. The final cutscene was of wreckage of the Scinfaxi sinking to the bottom.

However, in the FMV post-battle, a second submarine, similar to the Scinfaxi, was seen navigating through the recently sunk submarine's remains.

Miscellaneous Notes
The Hrimfaxi and Scinfaxi submarines take their names from Norse mythology. In Norse mythology, Skínfaxi and Hrímfaxi are the horses of Dagr (day) and Nótt (night). The names Skínfaxi and Hrímfaxi are bahuvrihis, meaning "sheen mane" and "rime mane" [or "frost mane"], respectively. Skinfaxi pulled Dagr's chariot across the sky every day and his mane lit up the sky and the earth below.

The myth of Skinfaxi is believed to originate in the Nordic Bronze Age religion, for which there is strong evidence of beliefs involving a horse pulling the sun across the sky. The Trundholm sun chariot is drawn by a single horse, and was possibly imagined to be pulled back across the sky west to east by a second horse.