Name: The Illuminus

Scale: The Illuminus are a system wide Human Supremacist group. Because of their tactics however, they can cover a large area with a small amount of resources.

Capabilities: The Illuminus are capable of wide scale destruction through covert operations, forceful base acquisition, and biological warfare through proliferation of the SEED virus*. They have various guard machines, and control a small number of large creatures. Such as the De Ragan.(essentially a space dragon. Breathes fire, wings, reptilian, essentially no difference from an average dragon, except it's IN SPACE!!!)

On top of this, one of the sub leaders, Helga Nuemann has slight control over SEED forms, being able to organize and control them.

*the SEED virus is capable of infecting weaker minded life forms, wildlife, and machinery, to turn them into SEED forms. Intelligent organic beings, such as humans or otherwise non human but sapient creatures, can be infected through injection or surgical implants, to be transformed into a SEED form at the infectors discretion.

Goals: Use the SEED virus to subjugate or destroy all non-humans, and set humans up as the dominant force. They see all non-humans as mere tools for humans to use. Since discovery of the multiverse, their membership has grown, and they seek for humans to be the dominant force controlling the multiverse.

Members:

Currently:(should they be accepted)

Absolis: Helga Nuemann

Armaments: Twin katanas mounted on its forearms, which seem simple but are capable of cutting right through inferior mechs. It also possesses a powerful beam weapon known as the Executor, which is stored in its tail binders. The Executor typically serves as a beam gun, but its adjustable power settings mean it can serve as a large scale cannon or even produce a massive beam blade several times larger than the mech itself, although this last mode rapidly drains the Linebarrel's power.

Armor: Linebarrel is constructed of thick, tough alloys which are only penetrable by large anti-tank munitions. As can be seen from the photos, it also has bulky armor to deflect or stop attacks before they reach important components.

Movement: Linebarrel's bulk would normally cause a mech to move slowly and deliberately. However, the Machina is much faster than would be expected, allowing it to be a strong contender in hand-to-hand combat. Despite having no apparent wings or external thrusters, Linebarrel is also capable of flight. In underwater environments, Linebarrel's movement is unhindered - perhaps due to the mysterious force that allows it to fly.

Override Mode: Dramatically increases performance and allows for the pilot to utilize Linebarrel's teleportation abilities both offensively and defensively, a normally impossible feat. In Override Mode Linebarrel can perform both short range, line of sight teleportation and long range, coordinate-guided jumps and can weaponize its "transmission field" by compressing it into its right hand, creating a shining effect that can tear through defenses even the Executor cannot. Override Mode is, however, extremely taxing on even a Factor's body and use of its teleportation abilities makes it even more so, to the point where extended use can tear the pilot apart from the inside, beyond the nanomachines' ability to repair.

Regeneration: Nanomachines integrated within Linebarrel can repair damage taken automatically. Repairs begin as soon as the damage is taken, meaning Linebarrel can repair itself mid-battle.

Rocket Fist: What kind of self-respecting giant robot doesn't have a rocket fist attack? Linebarrel's fist returns via Linebarrel's teleportation capabilities once the attack is completed.

Name:
Banha Akiyama

Age
34

Species
Batarian

Gender:
Male

Personality:
One that does not know the crime boss personally may say he is cruel. Evil. A torturous man that has killed thousands and ruined millions of lives. They may say that he is deserving of being Enemy #1, a threat that only the Reapers and the more recent "Great Tide" could dwarf in treachery. These people are the innocents, the carpenter, the doctor, the normal men and women that walk the streets, feeling safe in their "perfectly normal" lives. These are people ignorant of Banha's true nature.

Among his people, he is a symbol of righteousness and rebellion, a fighter against oppression and corruption. Among enemies, he is one to be feared and run from, Enemy #1. Among friends however, he is a man under stress, handling the lives of millions of people under his command. With the recent arrival of the Dominion and their horrors, he struggles to find peace. He is stressed, he is tired, he is worn down. But Banha is the symbol of the New Yakuza, a strong people with a strong leader..

Bio:
Banha was born on the planet of Anhur in the Eagle Nebula. Though damaged by the Reaper Invasion, the Human-Batarian colony has since prospered, their natural wealth carrying them through the hardships. Born in the capital New Thebes, little Banha didn't know much about his biological parents. At the age of four, he was dropped on the steps of the head of a once powerful gang. Shinku Akiyama, the so called "Last Yakuza", a title that have confused many aliens and humans who weren't aware of the name, was definitely surprised when he saw a small, sniffling Batarian child on his doorstep.

He sighed, his cold eyes renewed by the sight of such youthfulness. "Ahh, you are like me, eh? Left behind, sticking around while people move on. You're a loner like me." Shinku, then a comparatively young 44 year old, scratched his beard. "How about us two loners hang out for a while." The Japanese man took the young Batarian in. This changed both of their lives, for better or for worse? Well, depends on your perspective.

The years spent in the Akiyama household flew by, it was the childhood Banha never had really. His life became a happy blur and his days turn into a routine. He dropped into a routine with his technically adoptive father. The Batarian wakes up at 7:00 every morning and jogs around the block. When he arrives at 7:15, he will usually have to spray water at Shinku to wake him up for Iaido training. If the man was with Aleia, an Asari that could be called Shinku's girlfriend and someone who Banha affectionately calls mother despite the bone crushing hugs he receives afterwards, he would drag his surrogate father out of bed and cover Aleia's modesty.

After an hour of training with Shinku, Banha gets ready for school. This early morning routine repeated day after day, not that he minded. Until one day.

Banha returned from his final day of High School. The school he attended wasn't bad, it was quite an alright school. He wanted to tell his father about his test results. He had studied for the test extremely hard with Aleia, having wanted to become some sort of biologist when he grew up. It was something to strive for, so worked he did. Graduation was also a blast. He entered the living room to see a horrifying sight.

Shinku had committed seppuku. At least that's what it seemed like. A letter was on the ground next to his dead body.

If you are reading this, then I am dead. I have gone the honourable way, the way of the samurai. I do hope that you who are reading this is Aleia, not Banha. Aleia, you are my love and the only woman that could ever stand being with me. Take care of Banha for me please? Banha, if you are reading this, I am sorry. I cannot live with living this life anymore. Being a loner. Forgotten by the world. The word Yakuza was supposed to be a feared name and I ruined it by continuing my cowardly ways. My dad was a Yakuza and my whole heritage were Yakuza. Really, if you think about it, there is no place in the galaxy for a Yakuza. But I want to give the reigns to you, Banha. Don't make the same mistake I made where I left the Yakuza name to die. I beg you to make a New Yakuza. Better, fiercer and more feared than the last. If you don't, you're rejecting a dead man's wish :P.

Hugs, kisses and all that shit. Shinku.

Banha left the scene of the seppuku, openly crying and breaking down, calling the local hospital to pick Shinku's body up. He assumed that Aleia hadn't come back from work so he didn't bother with going to her, only leaving a small note on the door. She wouldn't like what the Batarian was going to do, and he didn't have the courage to deny her to her face. He packed up and scoured the city for a new home, somewhere to live and build up his legacy. His brotherhood. His New Yakuza.

Banha started out small, doing the odd job or two, robbing small stores and pick pocketing. He also began to spy on his opposition. There was the "8 Street Saints", a primarily Human group led by a man named Jay. They were quite a big gang, lots of territory and lots of money. They pale of course to the biggest gang in New Thebes, "Drummond&Co", an off world syndicate wanting to dip their fingers into Anhur's natural wealth.

It started off slow due to Drummond&Co beginning to take out any competition. The so called "Gang War" erupted in New Thebes between the 8 Street Saints and Drummond&Co, famously known because of the police effectively turning a blind eye to the various battles erupting in the mega city. Because of this, being the leader of an amateur gang wasn't the best. Gangs were absorbed left, right and centre, both big shot gangs wanting to get bigger and bigger to defeat the other.

As the war escalated, Banha began to seek for some men of his own. Because of the way the war was going, there were a lot of previously powerful gangs left in tatters, leaving them looking for some sort of glimpse of the old days. The Batarian slowly started to gather some allies, making some sort of army of his own. One day his right hand man Urdnot Varhak, an ex-Blood Pack member and now part of the New Yakuza, suggested something. "Sir." The Krogan said "I believe we should create some sort of uniform or emblem for this New Yakuza. His motley crew of varren needs to be separated from the rest of the varren." He gestured to the group of Batarians, Humans, Vorcha, Geth, Turians and so on. The New Yakuza wasn't just made up of Humans, there was a whole lot of different races.

Banha eventually agreed to the Krogan's ramblings of a uniform. Though not in a way the Krogan expected. He made it compulsory to wear a red headband around the head at all times to signify their alliance with the New Yakuza. There was Japanese Kanji on every single one of them, saying their rank and name. Rank worked like a number system. The higher respect and honour you have, the higher your number. So on Banha's red band, it had the Kanji for 58 on it while some of the new recruits had the number 1 on it. It was also compulsory to learn the ways of Iaido, even those who complained that it was a dying art and "obsolete" in the age of mass effect. He smacked them with his bokken.

The New Yakuza grew under the other two, feeding from their crumbs and growing in power. They got most of their revenue from drug trafficking, money laundering and transport of illegal goods. They only snipped away at the other two big gangs, stealing a container there and stealing from a store they were getting income from. The gang eventually grew and grew until a huge 5000 members made it that they couldn't hide any longer.

Banha released the horde. From every chapter house, club and store the New Yakuza hid in, poured member after member, surprising the various 8 Street Saint chapters. They were eventually overwhelmed and in two days, the 8 Street Saints were no more. He turned to Drummond&Co but found that they were no more. They upped and left Anhur.

Years afterwards, the New Yakuza has spread it's influence drastically. Anhur became the capital of this empire. They were found all over the Attican Traverse and the Terminus Systems. Chapters popped up everywhere and the New Yakuza reached a golden age. They were essentially a nation in all but name. Where a chapter popped up, the Yakuza essentially took over that planet. With the Council forces worn down from the fight with the Reapers, Banha made an empire. Free from the unfair rule of the Council, of their oppressive rulers. He offered freedom. They had many allies but even more enemies. From the different factions of Batarians, the different mercenary groups and even more.

This all changed. The Dominion, an offshoot of humanity, showed its face to the galaxy. They were ruthless. Activating a dormant relay, spewing ship after ship. They were there to conquer all. Banha was worried of this new threat. He knew that the Council was unfit to fight this new threat, and there was no Shepard to help them. As the Dominion ravaged world after world, destroying ragged and broken fleets with ease, he knew that the Yakuza would not be safe. His forces were spread out across the galaxy. As the Yakuza Grand Leader, he called for all chapters, and willing followers, to escape to the Eagle Nebula, to fortify their homeland.

As Yakuza escaped from every world not in the Eagle Nebula or worlds untouched by the Dominion's blind wrath, they brought supplies, vehicles and lots and lots of guns. The Eagle Nebula became Yakuza territory and became a safe havens for refugees. As the Dominion took over the Citadel, they turned dormant. Like a river that hit a dam. The attacks stopped and the Dominion, faster than they came out, went back into their relay. The Milky Way is silent once again, the sounds of an even greater threat emerging from the once dormant relay.

Banha restricted all civilian travel to other nebulae and sectors, making the Eagle Nebula a fortress. He sends explorers and scouts to scour the Nebula for resources and worlds. Fortunately, every dormant relay did not contain a Dominion. Merely a few more systems and resources. He made his Yakuza militarised and created a pseudo-state. The Supreme Grand Leader disappeared every now and then, leaving his five commanders in charge. The Milky Way isn't safe anymore. The Great Tide is coming.

Abilities:

Skills
4th Dan Iaido
-Banha is a practitioner of Iaido, probably the lone Batarian to study a Human martial art. His adoptive father, Shinku Akiyama, was a famous master of the dying art. When he found the little 4 year old Banha, he naturally adopted him and taught him the ways of Iaido. The Batarian can now practice his Iaido through all of the katas, preferring the standing kata to the sitting ones. Iaido calms Banha in a spiritual sense, letting himself sink into the kata. With a flash of his blade, the samaritan can slice a man in half.

Shooting
-As the leader of the fledgling New Yakuza, he has been labelled as a criminal by multiple factions (mostly Batarian led ones) and many bounties have been made for his head. Naturally, Banha needed to defend himself, his father and their foundling mercenary band/drug empire. The Batarian has a preference of a semi automatic assault rifle coupled with a sub machine gun. Though he does love the Terran C-14 rifles.

Weapons

Modified Terran C-14 Gauss Rifle
-Red Dot Sight
-Explosive Round Mod
-Grenade Launcher Mod
-Emblazoned with Asari in lewd poses

Heavily Modified M-99 Saber
-Assault Rifle Magazine Upgrade II
-Adjustable Thermal Scope
-Incendiary Rounds
-Omni Blade Mod
-Digital Camo

M9 Tempest
-Advanced ACOG Scope
-Explosive Round Mod
-Bright Pink Panther Camo

ML-77 Missile Launcher

20x5 packs of C7

70 Inferno and Cluster Grenades

Tools

Layered Kinetic Shields

Omni Tool
-Omni-Shinken
-Fitted on hand instead of arm, better use of Shinken
-Listens to Earth Jazz, Batarian Classical Music and Salarian Rap

Universe of Origin:
Starhammer Effect: A Batarian's Galaxy

1. MegaCorp Blitz Cannon : Mass-produced for asymmetric warfare, the Blitz Cannon combines a cloud of deadly shrapnel with a storm of lightning to create a hideously dangerous shotgun.
2. Dead Echo Boneduster : With four barrels and absolutely no safety features, the Boneduster is a shotgun with enough kickback to rip any normal human in half.
3. Panther XL : A semiautomatic man-portable anti-materiel rifle that fires explosive rounds, the Panther XL is fantastic for armored targets.
4. Quikscell Crusher SH Cannon : A gift from the Wolf Empire, the SH Cannon launches HEAP rounds from up to 180 meters at a high rate.
5. X-COM Hovertank-Class Plasma Cannon: By launching an enormously hot ball of plasma at high speeds, the Plasma Cannon comes into its own as a designated anti-armor weapon.
6. Nephilim Alliance Laser Array : Emits either a horrendously-inaccurate battery of lasers that ricochet around the room or a single concentrated beam.
7. Piledrivers : Not actually a gun. Uses hydraulic force to drive a large metal spike forward at deadly speeds. Comes in pairs.
8. Grappling Claws : Surrounds the Metal Wolf EX's "hands" with durable alloy claws, allowing it to grip and tear enemies' guts with ease.
9. Ceres Arms Smasher PPC : Officially known as a Particle Projection Cannon. Launches a concentrated stream of protons or ions at a target, causing enormous amounts of damage through both thermal and kinetic energy. When a PPC strikes its target, the target is simultaneously vaporized and vibrated apart.
10. Culter Deus .444 Bear Killer : This armor-piercing pistol may not look like much, but it is deadly accurate, fire special .444 armor-piercing rounds, and can blow nearly any target away with trivial ease. Has a maximum effective range of 1 km and has a clip capacity of 4 rounds.

The final iteration of the heavily-armored humanoid R-series machines, only two Hyllos units were ever manufactured. The Hyllos-1 was a tremendous boon to the Space Corps in their war against the Bydo Empire, and one of the few units to survive the full length of the conflict. The Hyllos-2 unit was thought lost in a Bydo ambush, though in reality it was warped away in the same accident that transported Ray and his escort.

Transformation: The Hyllos can change freely between a large aerospace fighter and a mecha that stands at 26 meters tall. In mecha form, the craft's afterburners are reconfigured into large beam claws that can slice through most solid materials. Both forms can operate equally well in air, water, and space.

Vulcans: The Hyllos is equipped with a pair of plasma-based vulcans capable of punching through heavy armor. Though the firing rate and power are high, the weapon's field of fire is very narrow.

Bit Conductors: The Hyllos is equipped with two bit conductors, capable of controlling shield or shadow-type bits. Shield bits have the same defensive abilities as a Force unit and can absorb shots, while Shadow bits carry the offensive capabilities of a Force's Bydogen structure and inflict damage on foreign matter they come into contact with.

Lightning Wave Cannon: A Wave Cannon model originally developed for the R-13 Cerberus, it fires homing bolts of Wave energy that can freely ricochet off walls to reach targets behind cover. A Wave Cannon requires full reactor output to charge, so the pilot cannot use Force abilities or fire the vulcans while it charges.

6-Way Homing Missles: The Hyllos is equipped with homing missles that eject from the rear of the unit. They have a very high rate of fire and accuracy, but their stopping power is low.

Forces: The Hyllos is capable of equipping any one Force unit at a given time. A Force unit is a pilot-controlled satellite unit formed from a sphere of embryotic Bydo cells kept from maturing by control rods. When attached to a parent unit, a Force is used to focus energy through a laser crystal for attacks. A Force can also be ejected from the parent unit and fight independently, though without the reactor output of an R-series craft it is forced to rely on blasters built into the frame of the unit. Most importantly, though, a Force is by nature an extremely efficient catalytic convertor. It will break down and absorb any and all foreign materials that contact the central sphere and diffuse energy that comes into contact with it due to the unique physical properties of the Bydogen that makes it up.



TP-2S Cyber Nova: Additionally, the Hyllos is followed into battle by a support craft, based on the standard-issue TP-2 POW Armor. The AI-piloted armor is equipped with the Supernova Wave Cannon for fire support, as well as the ability to carry up to two Force units and reserve supplies for the Hyllos, allowing the primary machine to change weapons mid-firefight.

A 16 meter (about 52 and a half feet) state of the art Mobile Fighter developed by Neo Germany, its lightweight construction allows it to perfectly replicate Schwarz’s ninjutsu skills. Mobile Fighters, despite their relatively small size, are deceptively powerful and capable of shrugging off punishment that would devastate other Gundams. Combined with the superhuman skills of their pilots directly adding to their performance, Mobile Fighters are in a class of their own as far as the Gundam metaverse goes.

Weapons:
-Spiegel Blade: The two large blades mounted on the Gundam’s forearms, which the Spiegel can project forward to use as tonfas. Capable of cutting Mobile Fighters apart and blocking all manner of attacks.

-Messergranz: Small throwing knives which the Gundam seems to have in limitless number. They aren’t the most powerful weapon but the ability to produce them seemingly out of thin air is quite useful and they can be thrown with enough force to damage other mecha.

-Iron Net: A large, electrified net with which the Spiegel can trap targets to restrict their movements if not outright subdue them.

-Wire anchor: Added to Spiegel upon crossing worlds. The Gundam’s hands can now fire a small pointed projectile connected to the mobile fighter by a thin but ridiculously sturdy wire, which it can use for both utility and offensive purposes.

-Needle launcher: Another addition to the Gundam’s arsenal. Mounted in the knee joints, the Spiegel can launch small but very dense needles as projectiles or extend one to add impact to a strike. Not particularly useful against heavy armor when fired, especially at a distance, but it’s an effective surprise weapon.

-Cloaking technology: The Spiegel possesses tremendously effective stealth technology which allows it to move around undetected even when in the presence of two highly skilled Gundam Fighters and their state of the art machines when combined with Schwarz’s expertise in ninjutsu.

-Core Lander: Most, if not all, Mobile Fighters have a detachable cockpit section which serves as a hover vehicle. It’s a convenient means of personal transportation, a potential safety measure against attempts at Gundamjacking and it also functions as a practical escape pod as it preserves both the pilot’s life and the machine’s combat data.