Earth Bound: 2973 A.D. (OOC)

[Arkay]

MARB

Mercenary Assignment and Ranking Board

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>2 Private Messages
>4 Job Offers

U: [Job Offers]

>Escort Client through former Shang Hi
• Client: VITACOM

>Infiltrate Stirgo Science Technology, Dubai facility
• Client: FA (Foundation of the Americas)

>Assist Holy Forces at Auckland [closest]
• Client: Order of Bellator Sacerdos

>Assist Independent Forces at Auckland [closest]
• Pacific Regional Militia

U: [Assist Independent Forces at Auckland]

Briefing:
The militia of Auckland is requesting assistance repelling the extremist assault on the city of Auckland. We are heavily out gunned and lack the resources right now to hold the city. We don’t usually request mercenaries to assist us in our fights, but we are presently desperate with the rest of our main force in Hawaii. We heard you don’t usually disappoint. We hope to hear a favorable reply soon.
Estimated Cost: 20700 Cr
Reward: 50000 Cr

>Accept
>Decline

U: [Accept]

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Background Information

More than, 60% of the world’s military force is made up of independent mercenary groups. Most governments have either collapsed or have fallen to the whims of corporate dominance. There are few countries that try to keep the fire of nationalism alive, though the allure of big business is all too appealing. Each company works to acquire resources on the partially war-torn Earth. People find a living where they can, working in the huge energy and recourse plants owned by the companies, providing goods and services for those who work in these resource super structures.

Although people have long dreamt of the stars, they find it hard to grasp the stars. Large space colonies were constructed in the late 2800’s to help with the terrible over crowding of the cities and they continue to float around the earth, holding much of the planets population. There is still hope amongst the stars, though this hope if for those who are both rich and restless. Alien species have traveled into our solar system, however at great cost to their own resources. Unlike in many science fiction novels, the aliens did not come with some sort of extremely superior technology and wished to conquer our tiny planet. They came wary from space travel, offering signs of peace and a simple knowledge of how they achieved long-range space travel. An element, usually native to planets with higher gravities or at the cores of dead suns, holds the potential of high amounts of energy. Unfortunately, the element is hard to come by in our solar system, and many of the alien ships came with empty drives. The companies welcomed the new species with open arms, offering jobs and living space for the travelers. Although their cultures were extremely different to ours, the races assimilated quite simply into society.

Day to day, mercenaries are hired by the companies and countries all trying to survive and expand on our tiny little planet. These mercenaries are highly skilled fighters, usually using the newest and most expensive weapons, vehicles, drones, and gadgets. Some mercs may try to stay loyal to a certain company, while others weigh the moral pros and cons of the various missions. Some may just in it for the money. Each mercenary’s reasons are his or her own; however they all have to make a living on this planet. We are pretty much earthbound anyway…

Order of Bellator Sacerdos: This order of “Warrior Priests” fight to expand their idea of the “Kingdom of Heaven.” Much like the crusaders and missionaries of the past, this extremist group goes to conquer lands in the name of God. Normally this group would not have been a problem, however their first assault was on the Vatican, making sure to capture the treasury. The city was sacked and the Pope was killed, along with much of the Church’s structure. Soon after, the group used the money they acquired to forge an extremely bulky, yet strong armor. The armor limits the wearer’s mobility, however they can take a large amount of punishment. Standard ammunition will usually not pierce the hard plates of these walking tanks. “Those who show their faith may also adore our warrior’s garb.”

FA (Foundations of the Americas): This multi-trillion dollar company, birthed from the large companies of both North and South America. Their research and development has many different sectors and divisions handling many technologies. Armors, weapons, and implants tend to be extremely balanced, not preferring on style of combat. Operators, who use their armors, tend to be able to adapt to many different environments with little trouble. A large amount of the company’s recourses goes toward taking on their largest competition, Stirgo Science Technology. The company commonly hires mercenaries to try to secure a larger foothold in the economy.

Stirgo Science Technology: This European company, although notably smaller than most of it’s competitors, concentrates on efficiency. Factories and power stations run by Stirgo usually produce double production, compared to one of its corner parts. Their armor designs take on the same ideals, being sleek, energy efficient and extremely mobile. Their newest model is a revolution in both weaponry and energy efficiency, manipulating the suit’s excess energy as weapon to be wielded. The suit’s potential is still being unlocked, but operators have been able to create shields and even large blasts of force. Stirgo continually uses the mercenary system to keep their small bit of economy intact.

Algebra (formally Eqbal): Algebra, based in former India, has had a rocky past to say the least. A string of heavy losses casted them dearly and almost drove them into bankruptcy and destruction. But by the closing days of the 29th century Algebra had rounded the corner and it’s once massive manpower had returned stronger than ever. Algebra relies on mercenaries for most of its engagements and focuses most of its resources on production and development. Because of this only has a moderate personal army only one known armored fortress. They specialize in light to light medium stealth and CQC gear including energy blades, active camouflage, sensors, SMG's, and shotguns. Algebra also produces light mechs, aircraft, and other vehicles. While they do make cheap gear you could burn a hole in your pocket on some of their higher-end models.
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VITACOM: A sister company of Stirgo Science Technology, VITACOM, as its name suggests, is a medically based company born from the North of Europe. They commonly study the human condition and seek ways to improve it. Of course, innovation sometimes comes at the price of ethics. Orphans usually serve as perfect vessels to run experiments for anything, from genetics to high-end implants. Many cannot speak for the mental state of the orphans, since they tend to remain silent and generally only speak when required. Many of these orphans become mercenaries when the come of age, thinking that their pains may give them an edge on the battlefield.

Bernard Felix Fanatical: Founded in 2732 ‘BFF’ quickly rose to become one of the largest companies in existence originating out of China. Though not what the once were, BFF is still holds more than enough on the battlefield and in their coffers to strike fear anyone unlucky enough to become a target of their aggression. Boasting at least nine naval fleets, three armored fortresses, a number of fearsome space craft, and several “orbital assets” those mercenaries lucky enough to be in their pocket are WELL taken care of. Bernard Felix Fanatical specializes in some of the most high-end and precise weapons in existence though they tend to be bulky and expensive. They strive for perfections and craft their armor's to be flawless.
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MARB (Mercenary Assignment and Ranking Board): Soon after the mercenary system became more and more popular, companies and mercenaries alike wanted a services that allowed mercenaries to make informed decisions on what jobs they were taking as well as companies wanted to know the reputations and general information on the person they were hiring. MARB was created as a result of this. MARB itself is a partially automated system the constantly ranks mercenary activities while looking for potential jobs. This large server is located on a satellite colony, housing a extremely advanced AI. A merc’s MARB ranking allows companies to see how efficiently a mercenary does their missions, based on the reports and video footage collected satellites. A MARB ranking can be a mercenary’s meal ticket.

DA RULES
1. Don't be a jackass. To put it in plain, simple words; criticism is okay, but open and hostile altercation is not.
2. No Bullying. If you don’t like another person there is no reason you need to constantly make them feel miserable. Be the better person and show some tolerance.
3. Please post your character in the OOC or PM me the character before you throw it in the character bin. Also you may not have a Rank one merc right off the bat. Work your way to your rank!
4. Use logic when your making your character. Keep it balanced please. ‘Nuff said.
5. If you want to add another company or race into the rp, send me a PM with an appropriately sized summary of the idea.
6. Have fun! Praise the Sun!

Character Sheet

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]MARB Designation:[/b] (MARB sign-in with serve as your call sign)
[b]MARB Rank:[/b] (1- amount of registered Mercenaries)
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b] 
[b]Sexuality:[/b] 
[b]Race:[/b]
[b]Race Description:[/b] (Not required if human. Very much so if anything else.)
[b]Appearance:[/b] [spoiler] PUT URL IN HERE! [/spoiler]
[b]Organization:[/b] (Name of mercenary group)[Everyone must have work with a team, however they may be NPC’s. Your team usually will only consist of 3-4 people to pilot your ship, maintain and upgrade your gear, and brief you on other matters. It is not unheard of for two mercenaries to work under the same banner, but that only means the pair of them have to make more money to maintain their gear.]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b] (I’ll let you decide what is appropriate length.)
[b]Armor arche-type:[/b] (Designer of your gear)[Feel free to make up a company]
[b]Arche-type Description:[/b] (State armor’s weaknesses and strengths)
•	[b]Strengths[/b]
•	[b]Weaknesses[/b]
[b]Armor Appearance:[/b] [spoiler] PUT URL IN HERE! [/spoiler]
[b]Implants and Augmentations:[/b]
[b]Skills:[/b] (Training and specializations of the mercenary) 
[b]Arsenal:[/b] (Weapons your mercenary has at their disposal)
[b]Drones:[/b] (Optional. Limit one per mercenary)

Link to In Character Thread: IC
Link to Character Dump: Character Dump
Link to Mission Thread: Mission Thread
Collab site: Sync.in

[Whiteblade]

Reserve me a spot.

[FoxSVK]

Travelling from college right now, but I will start working on a CS as soon as I get home and eat something. Also Arkay, how about our mercs being pals in the heat ?

[Arkay]

Your words confuse me Foxy. Elaborate my friend.

[FoxSVK]

It is not unheard of for two mercenaries to work under the same banner

Yours and mine merc could work under the same banner. It is always nice to have someone cover your back.

[Whiteblade]

Major questions lore wise.


1. What weapons are used? Are we still using bullet magazine guns? Or are we more advanced.

2. Seeing as the year is 2800 how is the world not polluted to shit? Did something happen in the mid 22nd century that fixed the ozone layer? Or am I missing something?

3. How are countries set up? Does the world look even remotely the same? Where do the aliens live, among us, A different planet, Or in their own country?

4. How is society and transportation set up? Does the internet still exist? How do people talk? What's the dominant language?

5. For the heavier armor thing, What material is it made out of? How did this material come to exist? I only ask because we don't have anything like that now.

[Soldier]

http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...=1#post6821736

^This is the character I want to propose, I can easily adjust him if needed just want you to see the character.

[MoonlightWalker]

I'll have one up later tonight.

[dk123]

Name: Kyle Livingston
MARB Designation: Grey Hound
MARB Rank: not sure what to put here
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Strieght
Race: Human
Race Description: Human
Appearance:

Organization: The Silent Brotherhood
Personality: Kyle tends to keep his head down, he has a reputation for getting things done in many different kinds of missions. He prefers things like smuggling where there's little combat involved but if the money's right he can kidnap VIPS steal information or even assassinate people. Kyle's not really a sociable person unless you catch him in the bar of course, this pretty much the only social outing he will partake in as he has a dislike of most people.
History: Kyle doesn't really have a home as he was born on a ship passing from Earth to a space station where both his parents worked. While he attended school on Earth his parents continued to work and he lived with his godfather who was the founder and owner of Piccolo Ltd.(see appropriate section). After ending his education Kyle soon realised there was next to no work available apart from either in the military, a PMC or as a mercenary and deciding that he didn't want to take orders from anybody he decided to choose the mercenary lifestyle. For a little while he was a hired thug for the corporation that his parents worked for until an accident in one of the labs they worked in left his mother paralysed, after that he left the company and became a freelance mercenary.
Armor arche-type: Piccolo Ltd.
The company: Piccolo Ltd. is a modern and relatively small manufacturing organisation founded by Kyle's godfather Piccolo Rickshaw that builds unique and tailor made items, be it spaceships, weapons or armour, if you've got the money they can build you anything. After Kyle decided he was to become a freelance mercenary he used his savings to buy the gear he would need, he also made a special request that Piccolo construct a crew consisting of androids each with different specialities. With this technology Kyle was able to begin his path to becoming quite a well known mercenary.
Arche-type Description:
• Strengths Light and flexible, inbuilt nanites can repair it over time.
• Weaknesses Can't withstand much damage for sustained periods of time.
Armor Appearance:

Implants and Augmentations: Bionic augmentations that allow him to run faster, jump higher and generally improves his athleticism.
Skills: Stealth, speed, acrobatics, close range.
Arsenal:

Can be used to stun or to wound.

These specially made blasters can either fire lasers to wound or to stun and these modes can be switched using a small switch on the side of the weapon. It is powered by the same battery that powers the rest of his suit and so if he over uses it he only has his knife as a weapon.

Drones:

Ship name: The Silver Devil
Appearance:

Crew:

Left to right:
•Mark Hasteings (Engineering/Close combat specialist)
•Collin Jacobson (Navigation/Sniper specialist)
•Eva Hunt (Medical and mission organisation/Basic fire arms training)
•Steve Baker (Pilot/Heavy weapons specialist)
Ship specialities: Stealth and speed, small scale space combat.

[Roran Hawkins]

Name: Alicia Grant
MARB Designation: White Wolf
MARB Rank: (1- amount of registered Mercenaries)
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Unknown
Race: Human
Race Description: Unrequired.
Appearance:

Spoiler

Organization: Wolf Pack is a group of 4 mercenaries. They include 2 back-up personel taking care of the ship and a 2-man sniper team. White Wolf is Alicia, the sniper. Black Wolf is Brandon, the spotter. Grey Wolf is Markus, the pilot, and Dire Wolf is Anton, the back-up driver. They are usually hired for sniping missions, as in taking out priority targets and guarding over certain persons. They are quite expensive but very professional.
Personality: She is a very cold and effective person, thriving purely for effectiveness. She is very perfectionistic and smart, but obviously lacks social skills. The only persons she knows are her 3 comrades. Thereby, she never has to do anything with people in general either, being a sniper. However, once you'd pierce her self-defending bubble of cold distanciating, she is very protective and caring, as she is for her wolfpack.
History: She was born in an unimportant place, far from the large powers. However, when the FA discovered ores in their environment they started digging, creating work for her parents. The FA attracted workers, wealth and the rest of the society, but also war. During a brutal firefight her house was razed, and as she sat in the ruins, staring at the corpses of her parents, one of the mercenaries decided to adopt her into his small Wolfpack. Denzel was a very respected and widely-renowned mercenary, having done countless of sniping jobs. He learned her the craft and outfitted her. Quickly it became apparent she was at least equally skilled as Denzel, who accepted her as a true member from that day on. They did many missions together, untill one day, Denzel died. Shot by another sniper. She was devastated, and had done everything she could to find out who killed Denzel. As of today she has already managed to find the other mercenary's nickname. Unicorn. She is lusting for vengeance to kill Unicorn, and avenge her 'father'.
Armor arche-type: BFF
Arche-type Description:
• Strengths

• Silent
• Camouflaged
• Doesn't gleam
• Blends with environment
• Fast
• Light

• Weaknesses

• Weak armour
• Vulnerable
• Power supply not suited for direct combat

Armor Appearance:

Spoiler

Implants and Augmentations:
Skills: Alicia is trained as a long-range sniper. She is a lethal shot with most weapons, but prefers to stay away from any harm. She is a master of camouflage and sneaking, which are vital skills required of a sniper. She is not only trained in marksmanship and stealth alone, but also in recognising other snipers. She can look at a forest edge two times and notice a branch has moved, probably indicating the presence of something. For closer ranges she is only medicore. She uses a silenced automatic weapon, easy to carry, and a combat knife to complement with her sneaking skill, and as a basic tool.
Arsenal:
-M189 'Pegan' 20mm Anti-Material rifle

• Semi-automatic
• Effective range: 5150m
• Normal, AP, incendiary and HEFS rounds. (normal ones devastate living things, converting all force upon contact, while AP is designed to penetrate instead. Incendiary rounds are obviously incendiary. High explosion fin-stabilized rounds are filled with highly explosive material, enabling targeting hard cover and other otherwise impenetrable materials. Less range though: 4750m)
• Stabilised bipod
• Digital visor (Night-vision mode, IR mode, connected with range computer)
• Laser range computer and weather calculator (mostly to calculate bullet drop and influence from wind and weather over the long range shots, shown on the digital visor)
• 10 round ammo clips

-M41 'Vanguard' 9mm automatic rifle

• Silenced
• 30 round ammo clip
• Effective range: 450m
• Digital visor (Night-vision mode and IR mode included)
• Normal rounds and incendiary rounds

-M91 'Bulldog' 12.5mm handgun

• 7 round clip
• Semi-automatic
• Silenced
• Effective range: 75m
• Normal rounds

-Camouflage blanket

• Hides from IR and thermal view
• Hides 4 S's of spotting: shape, shadow, shimmer, silhouette

-Binocular:

• Range: 13250m
• Doubles as laser pointer
• Range computer included
• Night-vision and IR vision included
• Capable of 'storing' locations in memory.

Drones:
None.

Anyone is free and encouraged to join this merc group as my spotter!