Hemlock Wraithfighter
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The Eldar needed a fancy jetfighter to allow them to gain air superiority and dogfighting prowess with all their usual stylishness. Enter the Hemlock Wraithfighter. This fast-flying vessel is manned by a Spiritseer assisted with spirit stones. This allows them to use some nifty psychic prediction to get the best targeting. This is good, because armed with two heavy D-scythes, this thing can do swift hit and run attacks to wreck another army's shit.
As with other Wraith constructs, the Eldar tend to dislike using these forces unless absolutely necessary because the souls of Eldar dead are being used to power the thing, and that is looked upon as necromancy, but cleaner and a lot less direct. Also, the pilot apparently faces the risk of somehow having his soul transfer into the aircraft itself, leaving his body behind. So there's that, too. Finally, the main weapon of this vehicle works by literally separating enemies' souls from their bodies; while this is obviously very effective for the purpose of ending lives, the Eldar consider this technology unnatural and dislike using it.
An alternate form of aircraft that shares this body-type, the Nightshade, is used by the Crimson Hunters Aspect.
It looks like the experimental SU-47 Berkut. More like the old Monogram F-19A Specter model kit.
