What if GDI and Nod failed to defeat CABAL during the Firestorm Crisis? With both organizations destroyed by CABAL, nothing was stopping the rogue AI from conquering the world, replacing humanity with cybernetics. The Forgotten, out of the way for much of the Firestorm Crisis, now find themselves being hunted down, conflicted between fortifying their sanctuaries and actively waging a guerrilla war for their own survival. The years of unchecked Tiberium growth would also eventually attract the Scrin, expecting Earth to be devoid of hostile life. Their ignorance would only end up thrusting them into the war between CABAL and the Forgotten mutants, a dangerous situation due to their unpreparedness but their desire for the Tiberium Ichor drives them to destroy anything that stands in their way. A new Tiberium War is about to begin between CABAL, the Forgotten, and the Scrin. Conquest, survival, addiction. For whom will you fight for?
Due to the rarity of Dragoon-specific spare parts, it has become increasingly costly to deploy the fighter bomber for active combat. Instead it is now reserved for special operations only, flown by the very few elite pilots. The Forgotten's mechanists wasted no time in building a replacement for the mainstay army, using whatever aircraft parts they still had lying around. The resulting contraption came to be known as the Smoker. As expected, it was nowhere as close to the Dragoon in terms of performance given it's haphazard construction. It was slower and more fragile but parts for it were more abundant and it could still carry out it's role decently well. Rather than using precision bombing, it instead drops it's payload of five liquid Tiberium bombs in a carpet bombing fashion, causing widespread damage to enemy clusters and structures caught in it's path. Large amounts of Tiberium gas is also created in it's wake, hence it's name.
original voxel by: MadHQ
NOTES: This aircraft replaces the Dragoon but otherwise fulfills the same role of The Forgotten's tier 3 aircraft. The Dragoon might come back in one form or another in the future...
Smoking hot.