Character Sheet for General Creft
Title: General, representative of ground based military operations on Ragnarov Fleet.
Height: 177cm without exoframe, 202cm with exoframe.
Weight: 51kg without exoframe, 367kg with exoframe.
Age: Adult, no longer a young one at the age of 78.
Race: Scrounger.
Scroungers are a species that by the will of nature should well and truly be dead. Once back in the day, before they invented cloning, they were lanky humanoids with big heads and eyes, their bodies comparatively rather small. However, nobody will ever see a scrounger like that with the exception of searching deep into the fleet's archives, for things have gone far south. While cloning was a technological miracle in own right, the species as a whole did not exactly see eye to eye and continuous wars needed to be fed somehow. This was done by cloning en masse, but in the end the process turned out to not be as perfect as had been thought it was. Their genetic code deteriorated, leaving each generation progressively weaker than the other. By the time they noticed this, it was already too late. White flags were risen in unison as, for once, the species began to work together to save themselves.
Nowadays when one speaks of a scrounger, the first thing that comes to mind is the exoframe. There are many different kinds of them, something that can be used to differentiate them from each other in addition to their sickly bodies that can sometimes be seen from outside the frame. While a scrounger could technically live without one, it would be a life of pain, suffering and stillness. Their bodies just are no longer cut for the job. In general, a Scrounger can live to around 200 years old with their frame and it has been hypothesised that without one they could maybe survive to 70. A new upcoming generation of exoframes might support life all the way to 500 years.
Tier/Influence: 4 (Medium)
Creft is not too threatening of an opponent in single combat, but when faced as the military general he is, things go up a notch. With the arsenal of Ragnarov Fleet behind his back as well as one of the sharpest wits one has seen on a military commander, his strategical awareness coupled with resources makes him a deadly enemy.
Group(s): Ragnarov Fleet
Appearance: The General's body itself is well hidden within his exoframe, to see it will more than likely spell death to him so it will not be described in detail. The frame, on the other hand, is quite remarkable. One of the newer line combat models in testing, the bulky frame which is metallic green in colour has many sharp ends to it. While the shoulders and head are free of spikes, each of his fingers ends in a sharp point as well as the toes of it, accentuating his at times aggressive behaviour nicely. The suit has a built on cybernetic face to for discussions, allowing other species to feel at least somehow at ease around him, but even that face is of a serious man with a jagged chin. All of the frame is clearly artificial, since Scroungers do not mind hiding the fact.
Personality: Many would call General Creft a headstrong man and he himself would agree with them. There are not many who can sway this particular Scrounger once he has his mind set on a course of action, but that is only because he makes decisions based on thorough thought. On the ground it is much harder to get the numbers advantage, so every move has got to be well planned. This attitude has made its way into his civil life as well. Beyond all his cold logic, Creft is a merciful man. But if it is for the best, he will not hesitate to make the hard decisions.
Abilities, Talents, Traits, Powers:
- ( 2 ) Superhuman strength and stamina, as supplied by his exoframe --Capable of toppling cars, but not even close to throwing over a lorry. As for stamina, as long as the frame does not run out of charge, the General will not run out of breath.
- ( 2 ) Advanced exoframe manipulation skills -- Creft is somewhat more capable in using his frame when compared to your regular Scrounger soldier, allowing him to draw just a bit more power and precision from it.
- ( 4 ) Military tactics -- When it comes to tactics on the surface of a planet, Creft's expertise has yet to be matched. The tactics of the Scrounger have won them a few battles they had no business in winning, but ever since he has moved higher on the ladder, this principle has advanced to the war in general. For now, he stands undefeated. The greatest strength to be noted in his strategies is his adaptability. It would not be the first time a potential setback had been used as a springboard to further victories by turning it into an effective diversion.
- ( 1 ) Ground based combat -- When his exoframe's two mechanical feet touch solid ground, Creft is quite the fighter. Nothing beyond what a normal Scrounger soldier could be, but he takes care to maintain these skills in their peak condition, affecting things such as fire accuracy, ability to lead a squad personally and judge situations on the field.
Items:
- ( 3 ) Experimental ground combat exoframe -- Creft's personal frame is a model built specifically for him by his sister, who is in the lead of ground weaponry R&D, as well as military applications for exoframes. The bulky plating of it can withstand most standard issue handgun fire, as well as endure handheld assault weaponry for a good while. Anything beyond that quickly starts punching through the plating, but by sacrificing mobility he has the possibility to add more blast shielding onto himself. As for the proactive capabilities of the suit, it can run, climb, dig and perform other athletic feats among the best of them, although not much faster than an Olympics level human athlete. The frame also houses several more specialised functions, which are on this sheet treated as different items for the sake of organising. Apart some of those modules, the frame is EMP proof as all exoframes are.
- ( 2 ) Advanced Camouflage system -- As is the case with most of the soldier frames, Creft's is capable of masking most light, making them effectively impossible to see with naked eye and even making advanced tracking tools less useful. This system is prone to electromagnetic interference as it relies mostly on the masking system on the surface plating.
- ( 2 ) Shoulder weapon mounts -- If Creft was ever to end up in a fight himself, likely in a boarding situation, this is where his most effective line of defence would be. On his shoulders. The twin mounts, one on each side, allow for attachment for a variety of weapons, his most common choice being either linear cavitation cannon and it's extra battery or twin plasma chainguns. The former has yet to fail to punch through troop armour as it can penetrate up five metres of solid steel, whereas the twin chainguns are much more useful for just flinging more dakka at an approaching horde of lightly armoured units since their penetrating power is rather low. These shoulder mounts link into his combat visor, letting him see and control exactly where the barrel is pointed.
- ( 3 ) The "Swiss army knife" exchangeable module -- At the back of his frame, Creft has a standard issue "backpack" port, to which many different modules depending on need can be attached. His most common option is the nanocloud module, but few other options are also detailed here.
- Flypack: A simple thruster+wing system for short distance flying, able to reach speeds up to 75km/h and reach heights up to 300m.
- Nanocloud: A cloud of flight capable nanobots, both for distraction and attack purposes. Individually are only capable of making wounds resembling papercuts, but in a swarm they could get some more serious damage done due to sheer numbers. The pack contains and releases about 20.000 of these bots at once, appearing in a buzzing black cloud.
- Nanofoam: A supportive option to nanocloud, these bots are not capable of flight, so they form a travel group that resembles foam, the colour of which being white. These bots attempt to stay out of harms way and perform on scene repairs on downed units.
- ( 3 )Self-detonation device -- If ever comes the time when Creft would be captured and there was a real risk of him divulging information to the enemy, he would activate this module. Standard to all frames to protect the Scrounger ingenuity from getting into wrong hands, this device, in Creft's case, causes a detonation strong enough to level a small town. This, of course, is gross overkill, but capture of someone of his status has to be punished.
History: The General, like many other Scroungers, was born on Universal Nova, the giant spaceship that took the place of their original home planet. For all intents and purposes, Universal Nova was as much of a planet as a real one ever was, only that it started artificial from the ground up. His childhood is not really that important, give how all Scroungers go through the same education, but as his career brought him to military, he began to turn heads. With the help of his sister, Vropda, he got more out of his exoframe than others and thus excelled in many ways, leading him to be chosen for a leadership role. Slowly but surely he climbed the ranks over many a planet conquest, nowadays standing on the council of Ragnarov Fleet as the General of ground based operations, the military being too afraid to lose his tactical genius otherwise.
A fair amount of medals sit in a display case within his office, but usually he won't bother to talk about them. It is not a secret that more than a few of those come from strategies that involved sending troops to their deaths in the name of greater good. A spot in the ground forces is not a death sentence, but Creft has never veered away from ordering a suicide mission if it is the most secure path to success. And the troops follow his orders for they know such an order was not made lightly.
