Name: Garret Taylor Veerol

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance: Garret 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 Tempest he wears a company issue form fitting suit in Monthas yellow with the company raven emblazoned on the chest.

Gear: N/A

Abilities: A good, but untested pilot. He has not been allowed to pursue much else of note.

Personality: Some would Say Garret is too hard on himself. Garret 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 all of his deficiencies. Socially he is more reserved around new people preferring to analyze them first, but is quite capable of being boisterous and outspoken when he feels comfortable. Even if it’s the completely inappropriate.

History: Garret grew up as a lower class citizen in a mining village. The mechanical frames that his family and the rest of the community relied upon for their livelihoods fascinated the young boy and drove him to learn as much about them as he could, both their civilian and older military roles. He wasn't aware of it at the time, but a rebel group was gathering weapons and supplies nearby. Around the age of ten a Monthas group with aid from several nearby security agencies descended upon the mining site and began destroying everything indiscriminately to draw out the rebels and bury any evidence of their existence. Soon after a battle broke out as the rebels got to their own machines and fought back. It lasted for hours, but to Garret it felt like years as he hid in the rubble of what used to be his home.

Eventually the shooting did stop and Monthas personnel looked for survivors for execution, but Garret was fortunate that he was discovered by the young Dr. Veerol. A scientist in Monthas R&D. Veerol gave the boy one look over and saved him from execution by adopting him into the Veerol Family. Since then he's been formally educated and allowed to express his love for mechanical frames. Its fortunate that Garret wants it as Veerol would force it on him otherwise, having saved him mostly to be used as a mentally malleable test pilot.

Extras: N/A

Name: Tempest

Appearance: The Tempest stands 20 feet tall yellow machine with interspersed red armor pieces and red highlights with angled armor. Notably from standard designs are the mechanical frame's right forearm a giant cylinder made to house its primary weapon that extends forward proportionately, but extends back behind the elbow considerably. Instead of ending in a hand the arm ends in three long deadly clawed fingers 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 bulge behind the shoulders containing the new twin monthian reactor.

Height: 6.1 m

Weight: 12 tons

History and Development: The tempest project is an attempt by the Monthas Corporation to develop energy weapons for their line of external Mechanical frame weapons.. However early into the project it became apparent that the weapons would need a specialized machine for housing of the weapon itself. At least for its early prototypes. The lead scientist, Dr. Veerol, pushed to make the gun more and more powerful to the point it actually drew more power at a time than a single reactor could handle and twin reactor was developed specifically for this purpose. The whole system proved to be a significant monetary investment so to protect it the team splurged for special armor for the reactor and energy cannon to protect them.

Weapons and Equipment: The primary armament of the tempest is the Fulmine cannon, a brutish energy weapon that fires raw energy in a long beam that pierces armor. Because of its energy requirements it can only be fired once every 15 seconds and only five times before the capacitors are burned out. Secondary equipment includes a 6 barreled rocket launcher over the left shoulder and a Monthas high capacity sub machine gun in the left hand. Due to the nature of the Tempest’s other arm this weapon cannot be reloaded in the middle of combat. For close quarters the Tempest relies on its claws to try and crush and pierce armor.

The armor of the Tempest is average except around the Fulmine Cannon and the twin monthian reactor, which is particularly well protected by a rare lightweight armor. The Tempest, like its armor, is of average maneuverability, but its EHPS allows it to make short dashes and long jumps.

Name: Nicolai Astrovia

Age: 26

Gender: M

Appearance:

Gear: Battle harness (chest plate used to secure Nicolai into the Mech)
Combat Helmet (Protect the pilot's head and neck from injury and provide a detailed HUD with Aim assist systems, vision systems Infrared+low light, and radar systems)
Rebreather (ensures safe supply of air for up to 2 hours in the event of toxic fumes or smoke)

Abilities: Well trained in heavy assault tactics and medium-short range combat, utilizing sustained bombardment of gunfire and missiles to pummel his target into submission.

Personality: Nicolai is an aggressive tank of a man, happy in the thick of mech combat or in a bar room brawl. He is rowdy and will stir up trouble whenever he can, but he is most at home in the Atlas mech suit, shrugging off damage and savaging the enemy with bullets.

History: Nicolai was a junior mech pilot working security for the Nexus corp. He joined fresh out of school and patrolled R&D hangars at the Nexus corp HQ to ensure that they where not attacked or sabotaged. The work was well paying but quite dull, he decided to have a change in career and joined the Kell Hounds Mercenary group. A tiny corporation by comparison, but they managed to farm out security and the occasional black ops assault jobs. The Kell Hounds quickly earned a name for themselves both in the combat games and in the field where Nicolai also earned his stripes with them.

While the Hounds where still a small corp they where rapidly expanding as one of the go-to security companies if a corporation couldn't afford their own security Mechs, pilots, and training. Nicolai earned an accommodation while protecting some small corporation's assets. he was at a warehouse that was attacked by a pair of light black op mechs, the lightly armed and armored mechs where not prepared for the Atlas and where quickly dispatched. This event earned Nicolai a promotion as well, making him the Kell Hound's pilot in the arena. A veteran of combat missions, but a fresh face in the arena.

Appearance:

Height: 18ft
Weight: ~35 tons fully loaded

History and Development: The Atlas MK-IV was designed by the Kell Hounds Mercenary Corp specifically to run guard and assault operations, the Kell Hounds primary role. The Atlas does not have terribly impressive firepower but can survive combat that would leave most mechs in a heap of flaming wreckage. The idea began as a simple heavy mech with everything except a gun stripped down to make room for armor. As the armor evolved the Mech was scaled up and built bigger and tougher. the MK-IV was the final iteration of the mech, reaching an elegant simplicity that worked well in all situations. With the development of an extremely durable alloy it made an excellent front line battle mech that could protect the more vulerable artillery from everything but the most serious assaults. The Atlas for the arena was also equiped with several minor enhancements such as speed boosters, UAV, and higher yield missiles.

Weapons and Equipment:
MRM 5 rocket pod x2 - Medium range missiles with lock on, fires 5 High yield missiles per salvo (10 salvo capacity)
Rotary cannons x2 - Large caliber belt fed guns with high rate of fire and armor piercing ammo.
Endo-Steel Armor - the Atlas is extremely heavily armored with a special alloy developed for this mech, it is capable of surviving severe bombardments of damage. 200mm Endo-Steel Plates make up the primary body armor.
Radar
Short fire boosters - thrusters that give the heavy mech some limited mobility
UAV assist - Launces a small UAV with radar and thermal imaging to aid the pilot in situational awareness

The Kell hounds are a young security company, only about 60 years old, and have been carving out their niche with a philosophy of brutality and uncompromising resilience. These philosophies have permeated the Kell Hounds mech design, financial and diplomatic decisions. With their impressive resilience they have ground several competing security companies to oblivion without ever firing a shot. They have also bankrupt a few competators by low-balling contracts and gouging the profits away from others.

Their Mechs come in several designs: The atlas, their primary mech. the Catapult, A walking missile barrage. and the Goliath, a Black ops/scout mech. using these designs together makes the Kell hounds a formidable force albeit much smaller than the mech forces that any of the mega corps could field.