Boye

Boye joined the FJRT community in late March of 2021 and has competed in Fighter Jet Roundtable S2, Fighter Ace Showdown S2 and Fighter Jet Roundtable S3.

KSP Background
Boye first acquired Kerbal Space Program through a good irl friend of his, who, almost unprompted, presented him with the game installer for version 1.5 through a Google Drive link. The pair immediately looked into mods and over the following week, they incrementally increased the game version to accommodate better mod compatibility and allow more modern ones to be used. This ended at version 1.10.1, where [REDACTED] discovered they could have been using a far more up-to-date version of a mod called BDArmory.

The two hadn't delved too deeply into the mod by this point in time, until Boye suggested that they both build a jet fighter and share the craft files, to allow them to fight each other, as they shared a common interest in aircraft, military or otherwise. This fight proceeded as expected, with both parties watching with baited breath. This was until [REDACTED]'s craft unceremoniously exploded due to forgetting to add countermeasures. This was the first step into a rabbithole that saw Boye make numerous experimental craft, testing the aerodynamic model of the game, asking questions such as: "How fast can I go using just air-breathing engines?" and "How fast can I make my aircraft turn?", and trying to improve his understanding of all the parts that BDArmory provided at the time.

Introduction to Competition
A night of YouTube research led him to discover TAPE's (then defunct) Fighter Jet Showdown series and enquire more into fighter design, finding Son Of Smith's aircraft design tutorials. However, already knowing 95% of the information contained within, Boye explored his channel further to find "Fight a Subscriber Season 3" and with it, his inspiration to perfect his own fighter design and enter competitions to test his skill. Boye learned quickly from the linked Discord server and more specifically, from Legodlak, who taught him the basics of dynamic PID tuning. He quickly became a force to be reckoned with in Smith's mailbag streams, taking on and narrowly beating established designers in the community shortly after his tuition from Legodlak. When season 4 eventually began in August 2022, Boye looked to apply his knowledge from FJRT to Fight a Subscriber, with success, making the finals. He came second only to Stardust, who took a convincing 2-0 victory with a modified version of the FF-215 Aquila.

A ping one day from the Son of Smith discord server in the self-promotion channel would suddenly provide Boye with a brand new building challenge. After watching FJRT 2 Round 7, he became interested in both Procedural Wings and the unique custom weapons that the craft in the video used to devastating effect. The craft that had the greatest effect on his early FJRT designs was Script's F-SX 212 Ascian from that episode, which featured complex pwing shaping (for the time) and leaned heavily into stealth capability as a way to fire first and gain an advantage before the opposing craft even make the merge.

Fun Facts
- Boye is one of only three active (or previously active) Britsh members of the FJRT community (or more specifically Southern-English) and has been called on several times by Pie for advice on British derivations of words, slang and voicelines.

- Due to underlying social anxiety, Boye's first FJRT submission was only his 17th message on Jimmy's discord server.

- Boye is the founder of Polar Industries.

- Boye failed to make the finals of any Fighter Ace Showdown II episode, despite submitting to every single one, much to his continued annoyance.

- Boye's designs often coincidentally resemble existing designs by Stardust and Jimmy Firyh in build style or features and he has previously been referred to as "The China of FJRT" as a result.

- Boye was one of the few people to offer voicelines for themselves in the FAS II Finale.

Quotes
- "Why would I go to space in KSP, fucking cringe"

- "Bristol can fuck off"

- "What no andussy does to a mf" Caption to an image of the Daeson Aerospace DF-21 Tyche Vengeance.

- "Do not say lmao in a sentence" Response to Timmy in a vc session.

- "Why don't you invest in these nuts"

- "What the fuck is that" Boye on the existence of the supposedly British toast sandwich

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