Flight Zako

Neo City is well known for its rascal rogue mechanics, strange individuals who stalk the streets performing wild engineering experiments on unattended vehicles. Fresh graduates of elite corporate engineering courses pour out into a wide city with absolutely no domestic engineering work available. Executives determined that had they mentioned that they had already moved all the work overseas, income from tuition fees would drop. Many of these rogue mechanics idolise Contra Force, inspiring them to incorporate weaponry into the upgrades they perform on junkyard vehicles. Ironically, these armed automobiles provided a perfect resources for the bio-mechanical manipulations of the Red Falcon traitors.

The original design of the Flight Zako was born when Colonel Bahamut checkmated one of his lieutenants using a bishop, giving the traitorous Red Falcon leader the idea of attacking his Contra Force nemeses diagonally rather than purely on a horizontal plane. Refinements in design have allowed this battle-bot to travel in almost any direction using its thrusters, especially after pilfering some advanced cyborg code from Contra force, though for some reason some recently constructed Flight Zako units are expressing a desire to "Party like it's 1994".

An alien cyborg supposedly modelled after the visually intimidating but tactically ineffectual Alien Centipede, the M78 has advanced "artificial insidiousness" to make it a true battlefield predator. Its undulating body is raised on tall legs to supposedly protect it from grounded threats, Contra Force have nonetheless found that these machines are very vulnerable to being run over by a truck. Reluctantly lauded by Red Falcon infantry for its prowess on the battlefield when providing fire support, the M78 is despised for the really annoying sound it makes when it walks.