The Cuttlefish was the first truly long-ranged airship built in CIR workshops. A semi-rigid aircraft that took hints from both captured Nova Evropan airships and the Patrié II-class together with some innovations such the engine placement in push-pull nacelles. Cuttlefish were capable of reaching the Italian Peninsula, which had major repercussions in the Mediterranean region's post-Crumbling history: not only was the CIR now capable of linking up with other, similar anarchic polities that appeared in parts of Italy and Greece in the wake of the Crumbling, but they could also link with previously isolated North African coastal cities and form alliances.

As pirates had proven to be a considerable obstacle to trade and travel along the Mediterranean Sea, the arrival of long-range aircraft such as the Cuttlefish provided a means of communication beyond their grasp, at least until Nova Evropan splinter groups joined the pirate groups that have taken over several Mediterranean islands, bringing their technology with them.

These pirates were the product of an old, terrible memory: the Crumbling-era European border controls. During that period, the European countries took up ever more extensive measures against the mass migration induced by climate change, from just increasing the size of border guards and financing coastal guards and client States in the collapsing North African coast to covertly funding xenophobic groups to attack refugee camps in the region. As these States crumbled, these former security bodies turned to piracy to survive, first targeting the North African coast and then turning to European coasts when that region was left too depopulated by desertification, water conflicts and pirate activity to be profitable. In particular, they have been the most common threat against the Iberian Confederation ever since the erosion of the Spanish State.

While normally a transport aircraft, this Cuttlefish has been outfitted as a bomber. These conversions were usually employed to attack pirate harbors that couldn't be reached by heavy bombers, often in support of other collectives. The paintjob of this individual cuttlefish also shows a purple-red-black paint scheme that is derived from the battle flag of the Confederal Military formed during the Nova Evropan Wars; itself based on a pre-Crumbling flag dating to the Spanish Civil War.