Junkyard Car

50% alien, 50% robot, and 100% physically merged with their Motoroid hoverbike, Hellriders have no choice but to accelerate at max velocity into combat (apparently cyborg technology has not yet developed to the point that brakes can be added to this union of alien-man and machine). Undoubtably dangerous, Hellriders channel their rage at being unable to take a slow, scenic drive into deadly efficiency on the battlefield.

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".