Great. Thanks, also, what kind of magics would I be able to use? Like very destructive? Or like a shield from bullets?
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Great. Thanks, also, what kind of magics would I be able to use? Like very destructive? Or like a shield from bullets?
Magic tends to be very innate and minor. The creation of a temporary thing such as a mild forcefield would be fine. Destructive abilities I am more cautious with and generally are very limited.
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Though, if you are making an Arlanian, there is already the ability to use a non-destructive gift as a destructive ability through your mech's systems, the King Hand system allows any gift to be used as a destructive energy bolt, though it is very exhausting to use.
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Name: Hugo Bauznos
Age: Twenty five
Gender: male
Gift: n/a
Birthplace: Thunderchild
Profession/Rank: Captain of the Thunderchild
Kensai Piloted: The seventh Moon
Affiliations: Thunderchild
Physical Appearance: Well muscled and of a nicely toasted skin tone. He is appropriately roguishly handsome given his situation. He likes to wear dark blue worn duster that has its sleeves worn and missing over a plain brown shirt, matching colored pants and some sturdy boots.
Weapons: Non-eutectic goose quill sword, Rifle, pistol
History: Hugo is as tied to the Thunderchild as much as he is tied to the Thunderchild. Amidst the aftermath of the tragedy known as The Merging that destroyed the Earth as the Earthlings knew it and furthered only more hatred and distrust against the Arlanians. The greatest minds of various old Earth countries converged together for an extremely top secret project that was an attempt to develop technology and weapon to not only defeat and send away the Arlanians but also reverse the destruction this magic caused to the world. However with how the CIA were managed and their growing tyranny as they became the De facto head of power for the old world countries dissent and the seed of rebellion not only was planted but grew.
On a secret shard base where this was happening was the also the sight of another project named The NAUTILUS. A would be state of the art mobile offense platform cross kensai transport and maintenance vessel. The various workers on this project had been linked together in ideological common grounds: This technology would not be in good hands and would only further the fighting destruction with no concern to the precious and rare land that had been rendered apart with magic. And namely how this technology should be used to find a way and heal the land. On the week before the ship would be demo'd to the various bigwigs of the CIA the base was sabotaged with facilities being bombed out as well as any information physical and digital being destroyed.
The Nautilus know being rechristened the Thunderchild a name full of meaning and hope for a new life and future. Went to plunge into watery depths of the new core. Here nestled amongst this blue pearl they would simply disappear. A new life of piracy awaited for the rebellious crew as they preyed on the ravens and the various countries for for information and materials but also people. Recruiting from the disaffected, the exiled, anyone with no home and who didn't agree with what was going on; their manpower would keep fairly stable and grow as the Thunderchild became its own community. Hugo being some of the many people born and raised on the ship inherited his father's passion and ideals and love for music. Now having become worthy to have the title of Captain he commands his crew through the great blue pearl of the core and raids as they look for a way to heal the damage done.
Other:His favorite animals are the chameleon and llama and as such has his quarter with two plush animals in their form.
Kensai Name: 7th Moon
Kensai Pilot: Hugo Buaznos
Kensai Weapons: The remembrance Zauber: A bigger version of the sword Hugo uses but scaled for a bot.
4x Point defense systems
Sonic Disruptors: Takes the form of gigantic armored speakers that can break apart
Chaff launcher.
Stun burst launcher: like a giant mecha tazer mean for disabling systems and capture without destroying viable parts.
Generic rifle
Kensai Armor: A medium armor coverage to give good enough protection while not hampering agility.
Kensai Engines: A Violectrolysis displacer reactor assembly or VDR propulser system that was developed in the Tunderchild to help make the best out of the new operating environment as well as traversing the rift between shards. Also comes equipped with standard comm system and long range scanners and detection systems.
Kensai Appearance: A blue colored mech with silver and black trimmings and stripe of red. It's shape is rather streamlined rounded in appearance
Kensai History: A heavily modified ATA-series armor modified to Hugo's tastes. Like all ATA-series armors, is waterproof, and capable of amphibious operation
Kensai Other:
Name: First Mate Farrokh Bulsara
Age: 37
Gender: MAN
Birthplace: Thunder Child
Profession/Rank: First Mate
Kensai Piloted: Black Betty
Affiliations: Princes of the Universe
Physical Appearance: Farrokh is an absolutely RIPPED Indian dude with close-cropped black hair and eyes that burn with pure machismo. Also, he has an amazing 'stache and remarkably large teeth.
Clothing/Armor: An immaculate all-white suit, complete with opera gloves.
Weapons: SHEER GUTS
History: To know Farrokh one must first know his father, Rajas. Rajas was one of the project supervisors on the CIA's top secret PROJECT: NAUTILUS, meant to build a superweapon capable of ending the war once and for all. What Rajas and the other project heads soon realized, however, was that the weapon, while terrifyingly effective, would kill off most of the civilian population as well. Desperate to prevent such a massive loss of life, Rajas and the other heads convinced those on the project to steal the weapon and flee, erasing all records and data that pertained to the project and those who worked on it and becoming nomads to prevent the weapon (which they have since decommissioned) from ever falling into the wrong hands. Over the years they destroyed many other such superweapons, looting and cannibalizing any technology they came across in order to stay ahead of the militaries they fought against. As time wore on, the crew had children, raising them to carry on the crew's legacy as vigilante defenders of Earth.
Other:
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Kensai Name: Black Betty
Kensai Pilot: First Mate Farrokh Bulsara
Kensai Weapons:
Sonic Disruptors: The Black Betty's primary armament takes the form of gigantic armored speakers that can break apart fortified structures in minutes.
Mr. Farenheit: The Black Betty's other primary weapon is, essentially, a giant superheated mining drill meant for boring through solid rock which has been repurposed into a lance.
Kensai Armor: The Black Betty is an extremely heavily-armored chassis, to the point where it has a hard time stopping its momentum once it begins moving.
Kensai Engines: The Black Betty has a subpar engine/weight ratio, but makes up for it with powerful rocket thrusters on the back of the mech that boost it to extreme speeds. As a result, it has a very hard time slowing down or changing course once it starts moving. The Betty, like all ATA-series armors, is waterproof, and capable of amphibious operation.
Kensai Appearance: Black Betty is essentially a giant block of armor with bulky rocket boosters on the back and shoulders painted in grey-blue camo for operation in oceanic environments.
Kensai History: A heavily modified ATA-series armor, Black Betty has undergone serious modification from both Rajas and Farrokh to match their respective fighting styles: First Rajas' preference for mass drivers (thus the increased weight for stability and armor for survivability) and then Farrokh's preference for lances (thus the boosters).
Kensai Other: The Betty's design is that of an upgraded ATA (All-Terrain Amphibious) series armor, and as such it contains a replenishable air supply for the cockpit.
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Name: Arthur Paddington
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Gift: n/a
Birthplace: Shard 18
Profession/Rank: Chef of the Thunderchild
Kensai Piloted: Whiplash
Affiliations: (Princes of the Universe) Thunderchild
Physical Appearance: Arthur is a tall and rather muscular man who is always in his heavy protective armor, which is dark grey. He wears a large trench-coat over his metal armor, and drapes onto the floor. On the back of his trench-coat he has a giant sheath which holds his giant war-mace, with the head of it pointing upwards. He wears a black hood and sports a black gas-mask with dark red lens, with bright white tubes attached to it. On his sides he has two simple leather holsters which hold his two pistols (which are a fairly high caliber).
Weapons: Besides using his own natural strength, he uses a large spiked war mace, and two pistols.
History: Arthur was born on Shard 18, where he lived a normal life. Well, for a small time, before he was kidnapped by a group of evil scientists, who performed inhumane experiments on him, and augmented him with various technological parts, which did help his neural expressions, and augmented his strength. Arthur was taken by the scientists as part of a plot to create a “Perfect Kensai Pilot”, whether or not they succeeded is a question that has not truly been answered. However, one day Arthur managed to kill the scientists who kidnapped him, and it was that day he was inducted into the crew of the Thunderchild, after the current crew noticed him and decided he would be a good fit for the crew. It is there where he currently serves as the Primary Chef of the operation, fueling the crew for another day of Piracy and Vigilante acts.
Other: Paddington is an amateur bee-keeper, and uses the honey that they make in his dishes he cooks for the crew.
Kensai Name: Whiplash
Kensai Pilot: Arthur Paddington
Kensai Weapons: Sonic Disruptors: A powerful weapon that takes the form of gigantic armored speakers which emerge from the mech’s shoulders, alongside the palm of his mech’s arms, which are incredibly dangerous when activated.
Long Arm of the Law: Whiplash’s arms are built out of a strange material and design which allows for him to extend his arms for several meters, and quickly bring the extended arms back to the original position.
Tendrils: Whiplash’s back are covered in a large series of robotic claws which can be used to claw deep into thick substances.
Kensai Armor: Its armor is medium quality, so that it is fast enough to get up close to other Kensai to engage them in close-combat, but still provide a good level of protection.
Kensai Engines: His engine is a standard issue ATA engine.
Kensai Appearance:
Kensai History: Whiplash is a modified ATA-series armor which was modified to be used as a dangerous grappling opponent. Paddington made sure it was like that as he deemed other combat forms, “impolite.” And if there is one thing Paddington is, it is polite.
Kensai Other: Arthur refers to his Kensai as “Sir Whiplash”.
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Name: Wang CuiJian, known primarily as Dr. Wang
Age: Unknown, probably really old
Apparent Age: Early 70s
Gender: Male
Gift: N/A
Birthplace: Unknown
Profession/Rank: Medical Professional on board the Thunderchild
Kensai Piloted: 假行僧 (Fake Monk)
Affiliations: Thunderchild
Physical Appearance: What anyone would expect out of an old Asian doctor, one would see out of Dr. Wang. He has a stature no greater than six feet. He has a wrinkly old face on which his eyes are almost indistinguishable from his deeper wrinkles thanks to his squint. A long white beard covers drapes down his chin and a fu manchu mustache hangs over his lip. The top of his head is completely bald. Though his back is straight due to his own medical knowledge, Dr. Wang must still support himself with a metal walking cane.
Clothing/Armor: Dr. Wang is normally seen in a white doctor's coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck. He wears no sandles, and chooses to walk around wearing wooden sandals.
Weapons: A special button on Dr. Wang's cane folds back the metal and reveals a beam sword.
History: As far as anybody on the Thunderchild knew, Dr. Wang was one of the few people who lived on the secret shard that the Thunderchild's crew held, and the only person alive who was actually born there, before it became a shard, that is. Dr. Wang grew up as a normal person raised on the shard, his parents doing what they could to rotate crops to grow food for him and the rest of his family. It isn't known whether or not Dr. Wang actually had any siblings, though he will occasionally mention an older brother he once looked up to. It is also unknown where Dr. Wang received medical training. The crew widely speculates that he actually self studied by means of the myriad of books he keeps in his personal shelf, some of them littered over the floor of his room on the Thunderchild, all written in Chinese.
He had apparently been with the Thunderchild's original crew when he was younger, then helped raise the current crew as the ship's doctor and medicine man. Though he often used strange and sometimes questionable cures, he almost always found a way to make the crew feel better. It is also known to the crew that Dr. Wang's parents once had him study music in the form of violin, piano, and zither lessons. He was also known to have studied Chinese acupuncture and martial arts at some point.
Dr. Wang received his Kensai from the original crew of the Thunderchild, the Kensai looted from a UN dump yard and retrofitted with different parts the crew was able to come up with. Dr. Wang named it himself, and was even once known to have been an amazing pilot. However, as he grew older, Dr. Wang became less and less able to use the Kensai.
Other: Dr. Wang refers to Kensai as Fu ZhaiQuan, and talks with a thick Chinese accent.
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Kensai Name: Fake Monk
Kensai Pilot: Wang CuiJian
Kensai Weapons:
Kensai Armor: A heavy mecha which moves slowly but gracefully.
Kensai Engines: A Violectrolysis displacer reactor assembly or VDR propulser system that was developed in the Tunderchild to help make the best out of the new operating environment as well as traversing the rift between shards. Also comes equipped with standard comm system and long range scanners and detection systems.
Kensai Appearance: Has a sort of a Chinese monk aesthetic with thick armored plates running down the Kensai which appear like long flowing robes. The Kensai's crest was taken out, replaced by six dots over the forehead which can receive radio signals. It is also quite bulky, retrofitted so that it would work in all-terrain as an amphibious vehicle.
Kensai History: The Fake Monk was salvaged from an old UN reject unit that was tossed aside in the trash, fished out by the Thunderchild's original crew. They fixed up the machine and implemented their own technology. With no one to pilot it, however, they gave the Kensai to Dr. Wang as a token of gratitude for tending to the crew's medical needs.
Kensai Other:
Age: Unknown, probably really old
Apparent Age: Early 70s
Gender: Male
Gift: N/A
Birthplace: Unknown
Profession/Rank: Medical Professional on board the Thunderchild
Kensai Piloted: 假行僧 (Fake Monk)
Affiliations: Thunderchild
Physical Appearance: What anyone would expect out of an old Asian doctor, one would see out of Dr. Wang. He has a stature no greater than six feet. He has a wrinkly old face on which his eyes are almost indistinguishable from his deeper wrinkles thanks to his squint. A long white beard covers drapes down his chin and a fu manchu mustache hangs over his lip. The top of his head is completely bald. Though his back is straight due to his own medical knowledge, Dr. Wang must still support himself with a metal walking cane.
Clothing/Armor: Dr. Wang is normally seen in a white doctor's coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck. He wears no sandles, and chooses to walk around wearing wooden sandals.
Weapons: A special button on Dr. Wang's cane folds back the metal and reveals a beam sword.
History: As far as anybody on the Thunderchild knew, Dr. Wang was one of the few people who lived on the secret shard that the Thunderchild's crew held, and the only person alive who was actually born there, before it became a shard, that is. Dr. Wang grew up as a normal person raised on the shard, his parents doing what they could to rotate crops to grow food for him and the rest of his family. It isn't known whether or not Dr. Wang actually had any siblings, though he will occasionally mention an older brother he once looked up to. It is also unknown where Dr. Wang received medical training. The crew widely speculates that he actually self studied by means of the myriad of books he keeps in his personal shelf, some of them littered over the floor of his room on the Thunderchild, all written in Chinese.
He had apparently been with the Thunderchild's original crew when he was younger, then helped raise the current crew as the ship's doctor and medicine man. Though he often used strange and sometimes questionable cures, he almost always found a way to make the crew feel better. It is also known to the crew that Dr. Wang's parents once had him study music in the form of violin, piano, and zither lessons. He was also known to have studied Chinese acupuncture and martial arts at some point.
Dr. Wang received his Kensai from the original crew of the Thunderchild, the Kensai looted from a UN dump yard and retrofitted with different parts the crew was able to come up with. Dr. Wang named it himself, and was even once known to have been an amazing pilot. However, as he grew older, Dr. Wang became less and less able to use the Kensai.
Other: Dr. Wang refers to Kensai as Fu ZhaiQuan, and talks with a thick Chinese accent.
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Kensai Name: Fake Monk
Kensai Pilot: Wang CuiJian
Kensai Weapons:
Arm Zithers: Several strings on the Fake Monk's left forearm, capable of being played by the right hand of the mecha to produce a sound typical to a zither. The strings can be detached at one end to create an 18 tailed whipping energy weapon.
Powered Speaker: The Fake Monk is equipped with an advanced sound system capable of receiving wireless signals from other Kensai belonging to the Thunderchild, namely those which operate the Sonic Disruptor, and can amplify the sound over ten fold.
Powered Speaker: The Fake Monk is equipped with an advanced sound system capable of receiving wireless signals from other Kensai belonging to the Thunderchild, namely those which operate the Sonic Disruptor, and can amplify the sound over ten fold.
Kensai Armor: A heavy mecha which moves slowly but gracefully.
Kensai Engines: A Violectrolysis displacer reactor assembly or VDR propulser system that was developed in the Tunderchild to help make the best out of the new operating environment as well as traversing the rift between shards. Also comes equipped with standard comm system and long range scanners and detection systems.
Kensai Appearance: Has a sort of a Chinese monk aesthetic with thick armored plates running down the Kensai which appear like long flowing robes. The Kensai's crest was taken out, replaced by six dots over the forehead which can receive radio signals. It is also quite bulky, retrofitted so that it would work in all-terrain as an amphibious vehicle.
Kensai History: The Fake Monk was salvaged from an old UN reject unit that was tossed aside in the trash, fished out by the Thunderchild's original crew. They fixed up the machine and implemented their own technology. With no one to pilot it, however, they gave the Kensai to Dr. Wang as a token of gratitude for tending to the crew's medical needs.
Kensai Other:
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Such bio influx. Gecko and I will review as soon as we can.
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"A bigger version of the sword Hugo uses but scaled for a bot."
Unless there is something special about this sword, it is inferior to even a rookie Shisso in melee capabilities. Just a heads up. Is it an EDB or specially shielded?
"4x Point defense systems"
That work... How? More detail please. In a setting with multiple types of point defenses, specification is necessary.
"Generic rifle"
Just so we are both on the same page, this means it is a ballistic weapon.
"ATA-series armor"
There is constant mention of a ATA-series armor, but other than being waterproof, I know nothing about it. Is it just so nondescript as to not be worth our time?
"the weapon, while terrifyingly effective, would kill off most of the civilian population as well."
The U.N. has never gotten even vaguely close to having designed such a system once, much less multiple times. The U.N. is generally a step behind in the tech race.
"and the only person alive who was actually born there, before it became a shard"
As old as he is, he is not that old. We apologize for not establishing that the merging was 150 years ago.
"capable of receiving wireless signals from other Kensai belonging to the Thunderchild, namely those which operate the Sonic Disruptor, and can amplify the sound over ten fold."
So, if I understand it correct, the Fake Monk is equipped with a system that receives the sound based attacks from the other Kensai and then projects it out multiplied.
If this system existed, it would make far more sense to simply design all your speaker systems with this multiplication effect already installed.
Also, in the natural progression that will happen eventually, if someone lines up two Powered Speakers systems from the Fake Monk, suddenly you have exponential attack power growth.
Exponentially growing power is a bad thing. Powered Speakers, if I understand it correctly, is denied. You are welcome to use the same normal designs as the other mechs, however.
General Notices-
Unless I missed them, none of your Kensai have any noted weaknesses in their armor, unlike every other Kensai in existence. This is ok, but means that your average case performance will be slightly worse due to having no lower end to balance it out.
Unless there is something special about this sword, it is inferior to even a rookie Shisso in melee capabilities. Just a heads up. Is it an EDB or specially shielded?
"4x Point defense systems"
That work... How? More detail please. In a setting with multiple types of point defenses, specification is necessary.
"Generic rifle"
Just so we are both on the same page, this means it is a ballistic weapon.
"ATA-series armor"
There is constant mention of a ATA-series armor, but other than being waterproof, I know nothing about it. Is it just so nondescript as to not be worth our time?
"the weapon, while terrifyingly effective, would kill off most of the civilian population as well."
The U.N. has never gotten even vaguely close to having designed such a system once, much less multiple times. The U.N. is generally a step behind in the tech race.
"and the only person alive who was actually born there, before it became a shard"
As old as he is, he is not that old. We apologize for not establishing that the merging was 150 years ago.
"capable of receiving wireless signals from other Kensai belonging to the Thunderchild, namely those which operate the Sonic Disruptor, and can amplify the sound over ten fold."
So, if I understand it correct, the Fake Monk is equipped with a system that receives the sound based attacks from the other Kensai and then projects it out multiplied.
If this system existed, it would make far more sense to simply design all your speaker systems with this multiplication effect already installed.
Also, in the natural progression that will happen eventually, if someone lines up two Powered Speakers systems from the Fake Monk, suddenly you have exponential attack power growth.
Exponentially growing power is a bad thing. Powered Speakers, if I understand it correctly, is denied. You are welcome to use the same normal designs as the other mechs, however.
General Notices-
Unless I missed them, none of your Kensai have any noted weaknesses in their armor, unlike every other Kensai in existence. This is ok, but means that your average case performance will be slightly worse due to having no lower end to balance it out.
If you want complicated statistics, try implementing an actual system. Otherwise this is just pointless minutiae.
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Gecko said The U.N. has never gotten even vaguely close to having designed such a system once, much less multiple times. The U.N. is generally a step behind in the tech race.
Okay, I have one question. So if the U.N saay... governs MOST of the world, and invented (at least the general idea I am getting from) Mecha, and relies most on technology behind in the Tech Race. That, really doesn't make any sense. I don't get it. Could you explain to me how this mighty technological empire is behind in the tech race, when if they are governing most of the world (at the very least should have REALLY good communication lines, a rather difficult feat) and are the most tech heavy out of all of the factions?
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No, the UN did not invent mecha. Nor do they have the advantage of magically enhanced super-geniuses like their opponents in the tech race. You seem to be basing your conclusions off of information that is not included in this thread.
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Dr. Wang's past is only known in rumors. He could have been much, much younger than that and only look 70 because of stress.
I want to say that the reason why the Fake Monk has an amplifier but the others don't is because the tech is limited since, after all, the Thunderchild crew are just a bunch of annoying pirates.
I want to say that the reason why the Fake Monk has an amplifier but the others don't is because the tech is limited since, after all, the Thunderchild crew are just a bunch of annoying pirates.
Innue said ...What truly made them up is unknown, but the potent power was clearly displayed by the UN's new weapons – the kensai...
Also the reactors they run on.
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But how are they the dominant force when these other super-geniuses exist? Wouldn't those much more gifted force be ruling over the land? As they are clearly the superior ones, they should have no problem stomping down the enemy, especially if the UN is behind in the tech race. I'm confused on this matter, and how the UN is dominant.
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"I want to say that the reason why the Fake Monk has an amplifier but the others don't is because the tech is limited since, after all, the Thunderchild crew are just a bunch of annoying pirates.
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Just because you don't CURRENTLY have the resources to reproduce an overpowered technology doesn't mean you won't always. I'm not going to give you an overpowered technology, let you guys raid one base successfully to get materials, and then produce a superweapon capable of leveling the world.
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Just because you don't CURRENTLY have the resources to reproduce an overpowered technology doesn't mean you won't always. I'm not going to give you an overpowered technology, let you guys raid one base successfully to get materials, and then produce a superweapon capable of leveling the world.
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"...What truly made them up is unknown, but the potent power was clearly displayed by the UN's new weapons – the kensai...
Also the reactors they run on.
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Said Kensai and reactors were BOUGHT from a neutral party that now hates them. Which is on the front page.
Also the reactors they run on.
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Said Kensai and reactors were BOUGHT from a neutral party that now hates them. Which is on the front page.
Nope.
You are demonstrably wrong.
Innue said
The UN, in an attempt to finally gain supremacy, created the CRS, a reactor that use the created crystals as a power source. What truly made them up is unknown, but the potent power was clearly displayed by the UN's new weapons – the kensai.
You are demonstrably wrong.
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Professor_Wyvern said
But how are they the dominant force when these other super-geniuses exist? Wouldn't those much more gifted force be ruling over the land? As they are clearly the superior ones, they should have no problem stomping down the enemy, especially if the UN is behind in the tech race. I'm confused on this matter, and how the UN is dominant.
If I build one King Tiger, and you have 100 T-34, who do you think will win?
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Parser said
Nope.You are demonstrably wrong.
"RinCo created most of the underlying technologies for the original and modern day kensai."
RinCo was, at that time, part of the UN. They are no longer, now being a neutral party that hates the UN's guts, and the UN hasn't gotten a new development in technology since the RinCo's dual CRS system.
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