Scinfaxi

- The Yuktobanian Underwater Super-Carriers -

Weapon Information
Purpose: Underwater ballistic vessel; able to carry on missions as a submarine, an aircraft carrier and even as a warship. Manufacturer(s): Yuktobania Date Started: 1980s Date Completed: 1991-2010 Date Destroyed:

Armaments
Machine Guns; SAM Launchers; Burst Missile Launchers Firing Range: Unknown; However, its Burst Missiles seem to have continental range (about 700-1200 miles) Energy Source: Nuclear Reactors

Development
During the midst of the Osean-Yuktobanian Cold War in the 1980s, the arms race had began to come to it's top form. Osean began to fully develop it's 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 Aircraft Carrier, 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 UCAV Aircraft.

September 2nd, 1991 brought the first publication of any information on this super ship. Though it was still in development, it was hailed as "a battleship of the new age", but the Osean Minister of Foregin 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 "Ark Bird" 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, 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, the Yuktobanian Navy deployed the Scinfaxi to stop them. A squadron of anti ship aircrafts attacked the Osean fleet, but they were intercepted and destroyed by the Osean's Wardog Squadron and the Kestrel's fighter aircrafts.

Then, the Scinfaxi made an unexpected and powerful move: to launch an assault with its Burst Missiles on the fleet. As a result, two of the three carriers, Vulture and Buzzard, were sunken, leaving the Kestrel as the only Osean Carrier left on the fleet. The pilots of Wardog Squadron barely managed to escape the attack too. After seen their fleet devastated by the attack from the Scinfaxi, Osea deployed the ASATs 'Arkbird' (a large maneuverable spacecraft capable of attacking from orbit), to front line 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. Sand Island defense forces lead by Wardog Squadron were deployed to stop them. When the Scinfaxi joined the assault using its Burst Missiles, Osea deployed the Arkbird to launch laser attacks from outer space, stopping the Yuktobanian fleet. 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.

Weeks later, the Oseans managed to locate the Yuktobania's second underwater carrier, Hrimfaxi. As the Arkbird has been disabled by a special operative's attack, Wardog Squadron launched an assault to sink the Hrimfaxi. After a long enduring battle, the now called "Demons of Razgriz" managed to take down the submarine's defense systems and air support, and destroyed the Hrimfaxi, thus, finally eliminating the threat of more Burst Missile attacks.

With the Yuktobanian super marine weapons gone, Osean ground forces begun to launch massive offensive throughout Yuktobania.

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 Sinfaxi is believed to originate in 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.