Name: Anderol Taylor

Age: 23

Gender: Male

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Skills: Having spent his time in college working towards an accounting degree he knows a bit on the subject, but he was never certified and it has been years since he took a course. Similarly he achieved a black belt in his teen years, but never found time to get back into it after college. He’s spent the last three years improving himself as a pilot and scraping together scientific knowledge as it relates to to the “Lightning Cannons” as his team calls them and no one field in particular

Appearance: Anderol is slightly short standing at five feet and nine inches tall. He has brown hair that sort of domes down to around the tops of his eyes. His face is round, he’d say pudgy, and clean shaven. His casual attire is a mix of red and black clothes either made of plastics or light cloth. For piloting the PTM05 he wears a company issue form fitting suit in yellow, red and orange, with the Morkal company Raven emblazoned in black on the chest.

Personality: Some would Say Anderol is too hard on himself. Anderol would say he’s just being honest about his abilities, thoughts and actions. He strives to get better in his life, but on exactly what can sometimes get muddled in his desire to correct his deficiencies. Socially he is more reserved around new people preferring to analyse them first, but is quite capable of being boisterous and outspoken when he feels comfortable. Even if it’s the wrong move.

History: Anderol grew up as mostly a normal kid. Sure there were a few fights here and there and a few other spats with school administrations over their short sighted ambitions, but nothing stopping him from going onto higher education and living a healthy and productive life. College was hell. He failed to find motivation for his work and his first love left him emotionally destroyed after the break up. It was like a purgatory that Anderol just had to keep plodding through in the hopes of a better future on the other side. After two years he got an internship to work as an accountant with the large Morkal corporation. It was a welcome break from classes, but it still didn’t feel right.

Then one day he literally bumped into a tall man with a lab coat who grabbed him, looked him over and told Anderol to follow him down to the sub levels. The sublevels turned out to be a massive complex of various endeavors being tested and refined for commercial use from refrigerators to HFV’s. Anderol was put into tryouts with a prototype mech and to his own surprise could control it quite competently. Not nearly as good as the other test pilots gathered, but it would be expected that they’d beat him. Really it was a sort of revelation that this was a thing that Anderol could do and maybe derive enjoyment from for the first time in a long time.

What was not expected though was that the scientist lined them all up and chose Anderol to be their pilot. A confusing decision that has never been properly explained. Since then Anderol has been piloting various HFV’s and especially new models of the tempest.

Model: PTM05 (Project Tempest Model 5)

Specialty: Long range bombardment and sieges.

History: The tempest project is an attempt by the Morkal Corporation to develop highly destructive energy weapons for use by HFV’s. However early into the project it became apparent that the weapons would need a specialized HFV for housing of the weapons themselves and the power generators needed to power them. The PTM05 is the first HFV made with this goal in mind that R&D at Morkal believe is ready for combat testing.

Appearance: The PTM05 stands 20 meters tall yellow, red and orange HFV. Notably from standard designs are the mech’s forearms, giant cylinders made to house its primary weapons that extend forward proportionately, but extend back behind the elbows considerably. Instead of ending in a hand each arm ends in a long deadly claw arrayed around the barrel of the cannon. On its back it has a backpack of sorts containing its primary jump jets, but this is pushed farther down the back than expected to make room for a huge bulge behind the shoulders containing a relatively massive reactor.

Features:

Advanced armor: Very resistant and lightweight, but it only covers the forearms and the upper back where the electro cannons and power core are located respectively.

Long range optics and sensors

Recording equipment for measuring cannon statistics.

Multi-directional jump jets

Beam-treated armor

Armaments:

2x Electro Beam Cannons: Mounted in the forearms of the Tempest are massive energy cannons. Charging over 15 seconds for one shot the cannons gather a huge amount of energy to fire beams of lightning that pierce through multiple enemy HFV's and or buildings.

2x Three finger armor shredding claws

Shoulder mounted rocket 550mm rocket launcher: Can fire a salvo of 8 rockets simultaneously. The unit is detachable in combat.

Weaknesses: The Tempest’s claws keep it from being able to carry normal weapons from other HFV’s which limits its versatility in combat.More importantly the tempest is a walking bomb. The power core on its back and the cannons in the forearms are protected so well because if they are damaged there is a considerable likelihood that they will explode. If one of the cannons are destroyed while charging a shot it will create a localized explosion that will total the tempest. If the power core on the back is destroyed then it will explode with the force of 11 tons of TNT causing almost certain death with 96 meters, possible internal damage of the ears and lungs out to 421 meters and negligible affects out to 1048 meters. Moving out of the way of significant harm can be easily accomplished. Regardless in space the shrapnel of the exploded HFV is the only concern.

Name: Eran Toast
Age:23
Gender:Male
???: Y
Skills:
Eran is versed with most things that involves his mech and combat tactics of mechs. He's more of a jack of trades when dealt with most things that would come his way. A little skilled in all, but a expert at none.
Appearance:
Eran is a short tanned man. About 5'8" with short black hair and eyes to match. The only noticeable feature on him is the scar that travel's from his lip down to his trimmed beard. That and that unsettling yellow smiley face on his neck.
Personality:
A firm but fare man. Eran has high discipline and follows a code of "Honor" that sets him apart from most modern day fighters. That's not to say he is a killjoy and unpleasant to be around. Eran has a good sense of humor, mostly dark due to his time in service. He also is usually what he refers to as "disappointing optimist", letting others see how good they have it, even when they don't.
History:
At the age of 19 Eran Toast joined signed up to be one of the new units the UN designed. The unit was an experiment to use HFVs on the ground. He was a apart of the "Ground Shakers" 1st HFV division. After 4 years of service and some education, he was accepted into the OSDT to fly a space bound HFV. Lucky enough for him it was similar to his older model.

He took a liking to the new concept and has never had so much time in his life. He wishes that the OSDT and it's personnel weren't so...formal. Maybe it's just him due to the "Characters" that were in his last unit.

Model: GS-Mk2 "Riptide"
Specialty: Fast speed Support.
History:
GS-Mk2 is the child of the much older G-Mk1, a Mech only used as ground support. It's frame and cockpit have stayed the same, only adding features that would allow the Mech to survive spacial confrontations. It's design can easily tell its age by its boxy design of the first HFVs created. The Purpose was to keep a fast small sized Mech that can be used as a EWAR platform. Its weapons systems only useful on weaker Mechs or critical parts of Mechs.
Appearance:

Standing at 6 meters.
Features:
-Long Range Sensor
-Electronic Counter Measures(ECM)(Disengage lock on, disrupt radars, change targets, Sensor Dampener, Communication jammer)
-Target Painter(Allowing tracking turrets and Missiles to more easily hit its target.)
Armaments:
50mm Autocannon(x1) Magazine fed
550mm Missile Launcher(x1)
Weaknesses:
GS-mk2 has fast speed compared to the average mech, but is also comparably fragile. Not much armor has been added due to the Mech's role and the speed it uses as it's defense. It also has a chance of screwing up it's own systems if too many Targets have been selected for its ECMs.