Crash Site Lore

== History ==
The AV-585 "Warrior II" crash site (also simply called the VTOL Crash Site) is the current location of the AV-585's remains. Warrior II was known to stop responding to contact at 15:41 GMT time on 8/5/2171, however it is unknown when exactly the VTOL crashed.
The Warrior II was originally built as the successor for the AV-571 "Warrior" VTOL. Like the rest of its cousins, it was originally built to provide air assistance to combative AEGIS personnel and also acted as logistics for the AEGIS sites (including the ones outside of the Border wasteland).
It is highly suspected that the Warrior II was shot down during the War of the Machine (the war between the Core, a powerful raider faction, and AEGIS).
== Discovery ==
The Warrior II was originally discovered by ARD Expedition Epsilon-7 when mapping the wasteland on 9/28/2171. Due to the fuel engine used in the modern AEGIS VTOL (AV), the fires are still going 4 years later.
It is known that the VTOL crash site contains a Fedoratomic Battery.
== Crash ==
While not too much is known about the process of crashing itself, as comms were distorted and outright cut at times, what is known is that the Warrior II was returning from a mission where AEGIS personnel were sent out to an old AEGIS factory, abandoned after the Nuclear War, to extract the remaining resources and parts. They were returning with several parts, primarily parts of Fedorium Batteries, when they crashed. It's believed that early problems could’ve been detected half way through the flight home, however went either unnoticed or undealt-with by the pilot. When the plane began entering the wasteland surrounding the border, they ran into the immediate issues. Reports show that they at first lost control over the engines, though they were still able to control the gliding. Next it's believed the engines caught on fire, as several other parts of the aircraft exploded or were damaged, effectively cutting off most control. While not much else is known about the crash itself, what is known is that while 2-3 are believed to survive the immediate crash, they were then burned alive by the massive fire forming around it.