Black Dragon

The Black Dragon is a mythical spaceship that evolved out of spacers telling tall tales 
The existence of the craft was almost leaked to the world when two of the first test pilots - Bob "Lucky" LeVier and Mikhail "Bad Dragon" Anokhin - decided to challenge each other to a race around the Earth in SY 107. Until then, the craft had only been pushed to Mach 19; each of them nearly achieved Earth's escape velocity and kept neck and neck with each other for the majority of the four hour race. Anokhin beat LeVier back to their starting point by a very narrow margin of only a few seconds. Despite being threatened of being stripped of both their security clearance and Aerowings, their fellow test pilots were able to convince the Consortium program director that they were each too vital to be fired, and that their race actually represented the greatest achievements of the program yet. Both LeVier and Anokhin would pilot the crafts during the Solar War and participate in the Battle of Earth.
By the time of the Solar War, the original test pilots of the X-11 had been training with the craft for almost three decades, while the youngest pilots had just under ten years of experience flying the craft. 
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