T A H L I A S T Y L E S
Tahlia is a mixture of nationalities thanks to the invasion of the Asian continent into the Australian region during the Third World War. Her eyes are slim and direct with a dark brown iris, a trait familiar to the people from the far east; while her hair and face resembles a more Australian/European look with the light, sandy brown braided locks and pale white skin. With an average height of about 5" 8' she tends to blend into the crowd, only appearing out of place when appearing around others not from Australia.
Most of Tahlia's clothes will consist of long, heavy jeans with a set of checked converse style shoes. She has a hooded jacket that is coloured in a deep reddish brown with various design markings on it that have no particular meaning except for the large black star that positioned on the back itself (She can't help that the best piece of clothing she was ever given for cold climates was issued out by Red Star themselves). Underneath this jacket she has a simple white tee-shirt and around her left wrist she has a variety of bands and beaded bracelets that she, herself, spent time making while sitting on watch.
AGETwenty Seven years old
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PERSONALITYTahlia likes to think that she is a helpful protector of others, but sometimes her outback Australian tact can come across otherwise, leaving people to think that she is a bit abrupt and a little bit of a straight shooter at times. Being originally from a town located in the middle of 'fucken woop-woop' she tends to like the peace and quiet of the outback landscape, allowing her time to tactically plan her moves and enjoy the scenery around her. She is also a bit of a drinker, bit of a smoker, and a bit of a swearer; a definite trait of your typical outback Australian.
BACKSTORYTahlia grew up in the Australian outback region of Broken Hill. The old mining town back in it's day was a gold mine (metaphorically speaking) for the Australian country with it's raw ore mines and offered most of it's wealth to the world. During WWIII however the town was invaded from the north by Asia and thus began the split of Australia into different continental regions. The new owners of the region went crazy over it's hidden wealth, mining as much as possible to eventually help fund and form the Red Star Corporation.
Tahlia was a daughter of a renown Red Star design engineer, growing up and entering the corporation to eventually become an NC Pilot. Using her position and skills she eventually was awarded the menacing machine known as AFW-Mk.8, designed in inspiration of the Australian Funnel Web Spider. From there she stood guard over the town within her death machine, glaring out to the flat horizons and taking out any targets with it's highly powered artillery cannon, known as Armageddon's Rain.
Eventually things started to change when supplies and funding began to dry up. Red Star wasn't using the town's resources any more and rather than support it's locals, they pulled the plug, letting the colony eventually collapse in on itself to form a simple Ghost Town. Tahlia was one of the last residents to leave. She wanted to protect everyone for as long as possible but when it came apparent that all she was protecting were old heritage buildings then she made the choice to move on.
Many years passed, many battles fought, many countries visited, and Tahlia had started to grow weary of her ventures. She began to see how much of the world was run by these corporations until she somehow ended up in the frozen wasteland of New Anchorage, previously known as Smith's Rest. She doesn't really know what it was that drew her to this unknown location. It could have been the man that said his adopted daughter had fought for them for a period of time, it might have been the stories of a group of people fighting back. Whatever the case was she walked up to the front door with her now damaged and severely in need of repair NC, just to ask one simple question.
"Does anyone here need someone to help protect them?"
TACTICAL PREFERENCE & SKILLSTahlia is analytical, cautious, and an observer by her very nature. Years of standing over the town and picking off targets from over 10 kilometres away allowed her to learn very early on that if you avoid combat at all cost, you will either eliminate your target or drive them away to go hassle someone else. This trait is both her strong point and her weakness as she will break her position if she happens to be flanked by another attacker. Since other NCs in her Broken Hill Team were allocated the job of close quarter combat, she never learnt how to deal with those sort of situations.
NOTES- Tahlia has a 97% Sync Ratio in her AFW-Mk.8 due to how she usually enters it in relatively quiet and empty environments.
- ... However only a 39% in the borrowed Mad-e while the AFW-Mk.8 is being repaired
- She has a tattoo of the southern cross on her wrist, a mark in order to show that she views herself as more Australian than Asian.
- On her she carries small hand held PDA that is synced up to her NC. This allows her to make system changes without being in the NC itself.
- Tahlia owns a gasmask which she used to protect herself from the occasional irradiated dustorms that would sweep across the Australian Outback.
- Theme song: The Tower
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A F W - M k . 8
S P Y D E R
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APPEARANCEBelow is a demonstration on the Bipedal and Quadpedal design transformations.Most of the NC is covered in a brown and gunmetal grey colour with a half scratched off Star design from the Red Star Corporation. It is trimmed with red highlights and covered in a variety of battle wounds and damaged auxiliaries. The interior is a sleek design with keys and warning labels writting in various Asian languages along with a screen that acts like a FPV visor to the outside world. BODY & TYPE The AFW-Mk8 is unique, specially crafted NC that takes it's design from the Australian Funnel Web Spider. This spider is both highly aggressive and potent with a venom toxicity strong enough to kill a human within 15 minutes. The AFW-Mk.8 prides it's design on the fact that it can beat this time when faced against another NC.
Whilst inactive and during both air and ground transit the NC is usually positioned in a standard bipedal design. It is only during heavy combat that it will lower itself into it's second state by lurching down and exposing a secondary set of legs that have been folded up within it's chest cavity. The back mounted cannon will also slide down it's back (it's now top) in order to center itself within the torso. This aspect of the AFW-Mk.8 means that it is highly qualified for long range, heavy artillery combat as it's stability is greatly increased tenfold when compared to many of the other NCs in the battlefield.
The AFW-Mk.8 is a highly governed synapse machine and will often mean that the user within will appear completely still while concentrating on their duties. Their eyes however are still free to look around the room within in order to retain all the reliant information, but breaking concentration will allow physical movement at the cost of a slower processing time.
EQUIPMENT & ARMAMENTS- Main weapon: Armageddon's Rain - Damaged
This torso mounted weapon is the AFW-Mk.8's primary weapon of choice. The specially built quad barrel is carefully designed so that each shell that is fired from the NC will land in a square format of approximately 100m from corner to corner when at a firing range of 10km. The shells are a mixture of both a cluster bomb design and thermite, meaning that if the shells themselves didn't destroy the target the following fire would cause some severe problems. Reloading is quite slow so care must be taken when choosing and firing.
- Chest: Dual Gatling cannons - One Seized
These semi fixed cannons have a firing angle of about 30 degrees and can be used both while the NC is in Bipedal mode and Quadpedal mode, during which they fire from just under the body housing as their aim is redirected in order to still allow forward firing.
- Shoulders: Twin MIRV Launchers - Damaged (Only a few ports can fire)
Both shoulders contain a pod with 25 individual ports with each port contain a Radar Guided MIRV missile that can be fired in a fast, quick succession. These missiles are a useful medium range device but have the unfortunate trait of overshooting their targets when fired too close.
- Trakdar: Long Range Scanner and Surveillance Bot - Regular System errors
Trakdar is a speciality scanner that utilises a 3D mapping technology in order to give a detailed view of the environment around the NC. This map is additionally enhanced by a drone bot that can be launched from the AFW-Mk.8 in order to give details on areas that can't be fully scanned by the NC itself. Each target that is discovered is painted with a marking which allows proper calculations to be make for the Armageddon's Rain.
