@Dynamo Frokane How are mechs transported and whatnot? Would they be stored somewhere or should I expect them to be running rampant like cars and bicycles?
@Dynamo Frokane How are mechs transported and whatnot? Would they be stored somewhere or should I expect them to be running rampant like cars and bicycles?
Professionaly they are transported with airships, but regular folk in the freelands cant usually afford that so they are running/flying around and what not. But Mechs are very expensive and only a small percentage of the Fortune State own them.
Work in progress, but let me know what you think so far.
Name: Leonardo "Leon" Falco
Age: 32 Origin: Second Generation citizen of the Fortune Region. Height: 5'10 Weight: 165 Backstory: Antonio Falco was Hyloan by blood, but lived in a swamp town in the Fortune Region. He worked as a technician, making repairs on the orbital solar farm that was in geosynchronous orbit over the continent. Being a spacer, Antonio was gone for huge lengths of time, and his son, Leonardo, grew up largely without his influence. It was dangerous work, thankless, and not terribly well paid. Leonardo was always told that his father was gone so that his community could have electricity. But if that were true, then why was power so expensive, so heavily rationed, in their town? It seemed paradoxical, that one of the men who worked so hard to maintain the power system, was woefully unable to actually pay for the service that he ensured.
Spending long stretches of time outside of Orio's atmosphere, Antonio was exposed to an unusual amount of radiation during the course of his job. He developed an aggressive form of cancer in his brain. The tumor might have had something to do with the last few decisions of his life, or maybe facing death awakened a recklessness he never acted on in life. Antonio risked the ire of Sol Industries, and indeed the nation of Hylo, to steal the mech that he flew for his work.
His intention was for his son, then a young adult, to sell it on the black market, later, when the heat had died down. But Leon had a broader view. He saw the mech not as a one time payoff, but as a means to many payoffs throughout his life. A mech is worth money, true, and a buyer can always be found. But a pilot is worth money too, and employers are equally easy to acquire. Leon had his father teach him to fly it before he died, and Leon went through the shadiest channels he could to find work. An employer saw value in the mech's ability to hover and fly, and helped Leon to equip it to poach solar energy being beamed down from the farms in orbit.
Sol Incorporated, a Hylo based company, owns one of the only solar farms over the entire Fortune Region. They therefore have a monopoly on the most efficient source of electricity in many of the Region's city-states. The station keeps track of how much power is beamed down from the space station, and the ground collecting station measures how much arrives. There is an acceptable margin of loss that SI will take accountability for, and this is where Leon works. He flies, high enough that he's difficult to see from the ground, and hovers in the microwave beam, skimming power until his reserve battery is full. He has to be careful to do this slowly enough that SI doesn't notice an increase in the loss margin. When his battery is full, he'll take his mech to some out of the way village or town and plug it into the power grid, selling the power at a markdown.
His mech is equipped with black market weapons at this point, and he has been known to take on more violent work in lean times. He is well known in underground circles as being trustworthy, if a bit stingy.
Tactical Preference & Skills: Prefers to keep a distance and use trickery and agility to keep one step ahead of opponents. Quote: "Robin Hood, Smuggler, Thief. Call me what you like, so long as you pay me."
Name/Title: Sol Industries Orbital Mechanic Apparatus. "Sioma." Appearance : Body & Type: Humanoid Bipedal Equipment & Armaments :
Hand Slot 1: Tools. It is still equipped with the tools of its intended trade, a series of tools folded into the mech's arms. They can be used to make repairs on machines, or even other mechs.
Hand Slot 2: Plasma cutter. The "blade" has a range of only inches, but it is on a longer shaft, allowing it to be used at a longer range than the tools in the other hand.
Sub Weapon Slot: A Sub Machine gun. It's actually an infantry-sized light machine gun, but on a mech it's a pretty small weapon. It is modified to be held easily by the Sioma's claw-like hands, and comes out of a compartment on the side when needed.
Shoulder/Back Spot: A pair of automatically loading 150 mm smoothbore guns, loaded with laser homing anti tank rounds. The guns in question do not have any independent movement or aiming, and simply fires whatever direction the Sioma is facing. It relies on the homing for fine tuning of its aim. This failing is a direct result the makeshift nature of the weapons. They have a total payload of 45 rounds.
Gadget Slot: Microwave receiver. A sophisticated mod allows the Sioma to commandeer the energy beamed down from orbital solar farms, to charge either it's own primary battery, or its rather large reserve battery.
Sensor Suite. It is similar to military grade, but instead of being a single cohesive unit built for combat, it's jury rigged from whatever parts Leon and whatever mechanics he employed could find. Typically, he uses it to find microwave beams to siphon power, but he also needs it to watch the ground while he's at work, in case hostile mecha are closing in on him.
Stats Scale
Light/Heavy Body: 3
Accuracy & Tracking/FIrepower: 1
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 3
Solo/Skirmisher: 4
Flavour Text: Not at all originally built for combat, the Sioma was actually meant for space borne mechanics to work on large orbital installations, like the solar farms or various satellites. It features an impulse thruster for flight, meant for use in space, but adequate to get it off the ground and to rather high altitudes given time.
Age: 38 Origin: Therux State Height: 6'2" Weight: 140lbs
Backstory: Age Seventeen: Nathaniel follows in his fathers footsteps (General Nathaniel J. Mason) and volunteers for the Therux Mechanized Armed Forces (TMAF). Completes boot camp and continues on into advanced training as Therux MM32 (Mechanized Mechanics).
Age Eighteen:War is declared. Nathan requests transfer into special operations MSO-44 (Mechanized Special Operations) training. Enters into MSO training a few months later and begins training in mk2 Prysm class mech for 8 months.
Age Nineteen: Sees combat first hand in the Epsilon District of Therux 121 miles away from capital. Earns first kill and Purple Heart
Timeskip
Age Twenty-four: Has now earned himself 14 kills and has been rewarded request for a MKIII Phantom class mech, Codenamed "Spectre". Five months later is transferred to the 98th Recon Battalion, J Company, Team 4
Age Twenty-Five and on:Classified
Tactical Preference & Skills: 17 Years Combat experience, 54 Missions, Confirmed 148 Kills (28% High Value Targets), Excels in stealth and infiltration operations.
Gadget Slot: -GenTech AS-860i OPCES (5th Generation Combat systems with built in jamming system, low output radio and long and short range scanners. Comes with multiple optical settings; Infared, Night-vision, Thermal and zoom and offers the classic) -
Stats Scale:
Light/Heavy Body: 4
Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower: 3
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 5
Solo/Skirmisher: (Solo) 2 Flavour Text:
Spectre was originally designed to replace the current MkII Nero Class heavy weapon assault mech and the MkII Blitz Class assault mech because of its lighter yet stronger frame and its dual hybrid reactors giving the mech a larger payload while allowing for greater mobility and speed. However, due to the cost of making said mech (Roughly 2.5 Billion Theros) only around 100 were made compared to the 10,000 that were ordered. Pilots of these mechs had to have a near flawless record and pass the necessary tests to even be considered for said mech. Thousands of pilots had applied and trained for said mech but only one hundred were chosen, most of rank first lieutenant and up who had experience on the field.
Super shite W.I.P. but I'm done for the night. I have a lot of things to work out for his backstory, flesh out some motivations etc. and figure out who was at war with whom when. I'm taking liberties with some worldbuilding type stuff, but I think that was encouraged-if it's a problemo or anything needs to change, let me know. I'm pretty much assuming that dozens and dozens of conflicts were taking place during the Hylo-Therux war and the Great Orio (oreo?) War.
Name:Renzo Adamar
Age: 31 Origin: The Hylo Empire, currently Fortune Region Height: 6'0 Weight: 170 lbs
Backstory: As tensions increased between the Northern Frontier and the Hylo Empire, the Adamar family contemplated immigrating to the Fortune Region where many manufacturing jobs were available as the two great nations began stockpiling weapons. When the corporations discovered deposits of the miracle-fuel Elementum in Fortune, they decided to leave the Empire. They settled in a small industrial city where Renzo's father found work as a welder and mechanic. His mother, a school teacher back in the Empire made money tutoring children of the slums and translating letters.
When war finally erupted between the Northern Frontier and the Hylo Empire, Renzo was 16 and on a track to engineering school, but those plans were derailed after the Colossi Day Attack by unmarked mechs that targeted 6 industrial cities in the Fortune Region. Various terrorist cells took credit for the attacks that killed 87,000 civilians, but many pundits and online sources suspect the Hylo Empire may have had a hand in the attack-which mainly targeted 3rd party industrial sites that were selling arms, ammunition and Elementum products to Northern Frontier Corporations. Renzo's father and mother were both killed.
After a year of grieving, Renzo joined the Fortune Region Gendarmery, A militia of armed soldier-citizens that provided their own weapons and mechs to patrol and protect the border. Renzo would gain basic knowledge of combat and combat tactics in the Gendarmery, after which he found himself back in the Hylo Empire working with a defense contractor that was doing major operations within the Northern Frontier and covertly in the Therux Region.
Operation Artichoke Artichoke was a highly classified mission bought and payed for by the Hylo Empire to enter Therux Airspace, antagonize a military response and then slip back into Hylo Territory. Because of the treaty signed between the two nations, Operation Artichoke was a highly classified mission. The mission was to last 18 weeks and detect response times at 8 different boundary locations. The Empire employed the private defense contractor CLASSIFIED for the operation with limited success.
After Artichoke and the dissolution of the CLASSIFIED company, Renzo signed on with the newly formed Fortune Freedom Army that was combating separatists in Desert Sector. After 9 months, Renzo received a Combat Valor recommendation for wounds sustained.
Tactical Preference & Skills: Quote:
Text Color:3CB371
War Glove
Rygel-Noma Corporation
Body & Type:Humanoid Bipedal Equipment & Armaments :
Hand Slot 1: Hand slots are big enough for Medium Sized Rifles, Shoutguns, Small Rocket Launchers, Large Melee Weapons, Large Shields, Small Grenade Launchers Etc and up to 8 small explosives
Hand Slot 2: Same as above. If you wish to hold a Large Weapon such as a Minigun, LMG, Multi Missile Launcher, Or High Powered Rifle or a Plasma Cannon you will have sacrifice both hand slots for one of these weapons.
Sub Weapon Slot: This slot can carry pistols, small submachine guns, small melee weapons, buckler shields and up to 2 small explosives.
Shoulder/Back Spot: Can hold a shoulder mounted weapon such as a small missile salvo, gatling gun, or an EMP launcher etc.
Gadget Slot: This can be something like a smoke bomb, misslile flares, Laser Cutter, Or an enhanced tracker etc
Stats Scale
Light/Heavy Body: 5
Accuracy & Tracking/FIrepower: 7
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 5
Solo/Skirmisher: Solo
Flavour Text: A litt bit of background on the Mech, development history or specifics.
And I think Im finished with mine. Was going to put it out as a WIP here, but Google Documents covered for me. How does it look?
Name: Александр Максим Семён (Alexander Seymon Maxim)
Age: 41
Origin: The Northern Frontier
Height: 6'3 Feet; 1.9 Meters
Weight: 212 Pounds; 96 Kilograms
Backstory: Alexander Seymon Maxim was born in The Northern Frontier on November 28th, 2194, and as one can expect, it was far from easy. His parents were average middle-class citizens, whom were simply surviving in such a harsh environment. However, life was rather kind to the Seymon family, as they were able to buy a proper house, have a good amount of food, and so on. Alexander’s father, Erik Maxim Vadimir, was a colonel for the army and provided a rather good source of income for the family. While he didn’t participate in much action, he was still talented enough to become the rank of colonel and lead a regiment of armored mechs as a defense force.
However, in 2215, the Great War of Orio began, and Colonel Valdimir was forced to fight on the frontlines for his nation. By this time, Alexander was already a fully legal adult and had been finishing up with his training. His mech of choice was a huge but glorious mech he calls “Brutiska” (or Bruticus in the English language), in which he fought alongside his father for most of the war. But Erik would never see the war’s end, as in 2222, his mech was ripped apart by an enemy ambush, his mech cockpit being blasted by a rocket. Alexander was distraught to see his father die right before him and it was said that he ripped through the entire squad of mechs with his bare hands.
Despite losing his father, Alexander still kept fighting on and on, eventually becoming a first lieutenant and lead his own platoon through countless battles, some famous. When the war finally ended, Alexander was already exhausted from the years of fighting he had endured. But alas he had finally made it through. And by that time he was known as a rather popular war hero of the Northern Frontier, having spent most of his adult years molded by brutal battles, tragedies, and victories. By war’s end he has went over 17 years of brutal combat experience, has 224 confirmed kills (at least twelve of them being high ranking officers and sergeants), been over 50 missions, is at the rank of lieutenant colonel, and is an expert on Heavy Weapons and a master powerhouse in close quarters.
Tactical Preference & Skills: Sheer strength is what Alexander does best. He'd go head first into any enemy mech and punch the living hell out of them until they are nothing but scrap metal. Of course, the second best thing he likes to do is mow them down with his custom N-1147 Proton Minigun. He can also act as a defense bullet/blaster shield if need be.
He is however, a rather skilled technician, being able to do rather advanced repairs on his mech by himself or with a small repair team.
Quote: "In the end, we persevere like strong bear in blizzard."
Text Color: ”Brown, blyat.”
Name: Heavy Weapons and Close-Combat Initiative Model-1890 Mark II [Codename: Brutikusa “Bruticus”]
Body & Type: Humanoid Bipdeal
Equipment & Armaments:
Hand Slot 1 - 2: - D-8966 Omega Gatling gun: A giant, highly-advanced, minigun, this monster of a weapon can gush out a hefty hell of damage by firing 200 mm rounds at almost 7,000 rounds per minute.
Sub Weapon Slot: - Shield Wrists: Bruticus’ wrists are outfitted with special beam-shields in which they can be used as deflectors against incoming fire and physical attacks. Edges can be used to dish out some additional blunt damage. Can last for 3 minutes powered up in battle.
Shoulder/Back Spot: - Twin Multipurpose Tri-Launchers: These launchers can fire bombs, missiles, flares, smoke, and incendiaries. - ”UMEF” (Ultra Missile Eliminating Field): Jams missiles from targeting the mech. - Emergency Ammo Pack: Extra 7,000 rounds stored in back compartment. Can detach to be inserted on the Gatling Gun.
Gadget Slot: - Tri-X384 Kvant Sila (Quantum Force) Generators - Droid Quantum Shielding Generators: These activate the wrist shields.
Stats Scale
Light/Heavy Body: 7
Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower: 5
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 4
Solo/Skirmisher: 2
Flavour Text: A personalized Model-1890 Mark II mech, this powerhouse of a mech is both huge and utterly massive. It was created as a heavy weapons mech and a mech situated in close quarters combat and harsh weather. It’s armor allows it to take multiple beats with little damage and keeps the elements out as well. But due to it’s size and high-tech gadgets, the mech was painstakingly expensive, and not more than 50 were made. One of them made it into the hands of Alexander and he personalized it a bit to fit his likings. One of those personalizations was the installation of the shield wrists, which were used to block incoming projectile fire and physical damage, while packing an extra sting in combat.
@FallenTrinity Not directed at me, but I'm gonna say I highly doubt it, unless you two are planning some sort of deadly rivalry dynamic between your characters.
@FallenTrinity Not directed at me, but I'm gonna say I highly doubt it, unless you two are planning some sort of deadly rivalry dynamic between your characters.
I like that idea or maybe Nate let's Alex in on a dark plan he's got. I gotta talk to the gm about it first but it will differently make for an interesting plot/twist/addition? Idk it might be good
Tactical Preference & Skills: Experience in Guerilla based combat. Consistently moving or hides in the frozen tundra for ambush. Prefers blitzkrieg like assaults.
Name/Title: HVAM-3342 Mk3 Codename: "White Glint" Appearance : Body & Type: Humanoid Bipdeal/Flyer type Equipment & Armaments :
Hand Slot 1: Hand slots are big enough for Medium Sized Rifles, Shoutguns, Small Rocket Launchers, Large Melee Weapons, Large Shields, Small Grenade Launchers Etc and up to 8 small explosives
Hand Slot 2: Same as above. If you wish to hold a Large Weapon such as a Minigun, LMG, Multi Missile Launcher, Or High Powered Rifle or a Plasma Cannon you will have sacrifice both hand slots for one of these weapons.
Sub Weapon Slot: This slot can carry pistols, small submachine guns, small melee weapons, buckler shields and up to 2 small explosives.
I know the rules as I saw them in an earlier post hence why the hider says what it is intended for because I'm literally bored out of my mind as my other rps I'm in are on pause, moving too slow or have just died.
Age: 38 Origin: Therux State Height: 6'2" Weight: 140lbs
Backstory: Age Seventeen: Nathaniel follows in his fathers footsteps (General Nathaniel J. Mason) and volunteers for the Therux Mechanized Armed Forces (TMAF). Completes boot camp and continues on into advanced training as Therux MM32 (Mechanized Mechanics).
Age Eighteen:War is declared. Nathan requests transfer into special operations MSO-44 (Mechanized Special Operations) training. Enters into MSO training a few months later and begins training in mk2 Prysm class mech for 8 months.
Age Nineteen: Sees combat first hand in the Epsilon District of Therux 121 miles away from capital. Earns first kill and Purple Heart
Timeskip
Age Twenty-four: Has now earned himself 14 kills and has been rewarded request for a MKIII Phantom class mech, Codenamed "Spectre". Five months later is transferred to the 98th Recon Battalion, J Company, Team 4
Age Twenty-Five and on:Classified
Tactical Preference & Skills: 17 Years Combat experience, 54 Missions, Confirmed 148 Kills (28% High Value Targets), Excels in stealth and infiltration operations.
Gadget Slot: -Terra Scan "POLO" Long Range Scanner Sensors -Dual M431 AC "Synister" Elementus Reactor -AN/ALQ-888 Infrared Jamming Systems -MOES (Multipurpose Optical Enhancement System) -LFHO (Low Frequency-High Output) Radio Systems -Affirmative Targeting Solution System -Advanced Sound refraction suspension and mechanics -Selective response "Aberrant" shielding
Stats Scale: 6.3
Light/Heavy Body: 4
Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower: 9
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 5
Solo/Skirmisher: (Solo) 8
Flavour Text:
Spectre was originally designed to replace the current MkIII Nero Class heavy weapon assault mech and the MkII Blitz Class assault mech because of its lighter yet stronger frame and its dual elementus reactors giving the mech a larger payload while allowing for greater mobility and speed. However, due to the cost of making said mech (Roughly 2.5 Billion Theros) only around 100 were made compared to the 10,000 that were ordered. Pilots of these mechs had to have a near flawless record and pass the necessary tests to even be considered for said mech. Thousands of pilots had applied and trained for said mech but only one hundred were chosen, most of rank first lieutenant and up who had experience on the field.
I think I'm good
A few things, Backstory is still too thin, 'classified' isnt going to be acceptable I understand not revealing everything. but we need to know more about your character, two meaty paragraphs please. So far you have a timeline like description just telling me about his military career.
Too many listed in the Gadgets slot, really should only be 2, apologies if I didnt make that clear.
In your gadget slot you have an 'elementus reactor' which is unlikely seeing as your Mech is a Mk2, youll have to pick 2 of the gadgets and stick with them I'm afraid.
Also if your solo/skirmisher rating is 8 he would be more of a skirmisher, I put Solo first for a reason
