What kind of battleship is the strongest? One that can surpass all current sailing battleships? This question had been troubling the young engineers of the Wehrmacht's battleship design bureau.
After the fall of the Gilmania Kingdom, the Elves were left with a blank slate in the field of building airborne warships. Over a thousand years of discontinuity was even more tragic than that suffered by the German Navy due to the Treaty of Versailles, starting completely from scratch.
A blank slate was certainly tragic, but at the same time it allowed them to avoid any inherent ideological constraints and international arms control treaties. They could build a state-of-the-art airborne battleship to create the strongest air fleet, leapfrogging the great powers in one fell swoop.