 The players controls the members of Esk 's rebel force , who each have a distinct aircraft . The main character of the game is a sixteen @-@ year @-@ old pilot trainee named Keid , from Tadaga Village , while the second playable character is Payer , a female senior pilot of the same age . She volunteers to defend Tadaga from enemy armies and meets Keid , who becomes enlisted in the rebel force as an officer . The third playable character , Havilan , is a veteran piloting a flying gunboat . 
