Pilot

Name: Holly Pritchard
Appearance: A woman in her late thirties, with mid length, graying brown hair, often tied into a neat bun behind her head. In place of her right eye, there is a smooth metal patch with a series of gold electrical contacts on it. Her right arm is synthetic from just above the elbow, though in her combat jacket it’s usually mostly hidden.
She dresses in a gray pilot’s jumpsuit and harness, with the navy blue jacket of her old military regiment. The jacket is fastened with an offset zipper, usually partially undone with the front folded down. Her shoulder has a patch with a chess’s knight on it, under the number “205.”

Weapons:
~A short barrelled bullpup SMG that she can hold in one hand.
~The Bitch, a human sized version of the bastard sword that Cavelier wields. It’s collapsable and sits on the small of her back when not in use.
~A thermite gel launcher. It lobs fist sized globs of sticky, burning gel. It burns intensely enough to dig into armor plates.
Gear: Eye of Odin. Her helmet has a direct link to her optic nerve through her missing right eye.. At its simplest, she can see with regular binocular vision when wearing her helmet. She can also switch the feed between any other cameras she networks herself with(including Cavelier’s visual processor).
Background: Holly and Cavelier(originally designated CV-322) were paired together in military service with Orion’s Two Hundred and Fifth Mechanized Cavalry. She served during a bloody, planet-wide civil war that, last she heard, has not ended to this day. Holly was a young hotshot at the time, and ruined her military career in a moment of cockiness. Her squad was taking control of a lightly armed farm that was in enemy hands, Holly decided she could manage the fight on foot, with CV-322 standing by behind. A surprise improvised grenade was thrown(or launched, it was never clear) from the nearby barn, igniting in mid air a few feet to her right. CV-322 rushed in to scoop its incapacitated pilot into the cockpit, and in an uncharacteristic display of nearly human anger, leveled the barn.
Holly’s helmet and armor saved her life, but she lost an arm, an eye, and has had a long road to recover from brain damage. She was set to be decommissioned, and her titan reassigned. She stole it(and for its part, CV-322 didn’t make much effort to avoid being stolen), and took a smuggler’s ship from the planet. She’d already lost her arm, half her eyesight and her job, she couldn’t stand to lose her partner too.
Holly and Cavelier(as her mecha has come to be known) have been doing mercenary work on out of the way worlds ever since.

Titan

Name: Cavelier
Appearance:

Class: Heavy
Armament: The Lance and The Bastard. The Lance is a high powered rail gun, good at medium to long distances, but hard to bring to bear in closer quarters. Smaller, lighter enemies trying to get in close for hit and run tactics will be surprised, however, when the Bastard comes out. A double edged bastard sword, it collapses to about half its length when “sheathed” at Cavelier’s side. Cavelier can hold the Lance with its left hand to quickly grab the Bastard with its right and start swinging.
Utility: Full Plate. Additional armor plates unfold and slide into place over joints and vital areas. Drastically increases damage resistance against ballistic and explosive weapons, though it reduces movement and visibility.
Last Stand: Glorious Charge. Enormous power is routed to the ion boosters on Cavelier’s back, and it launches forward with incredible speed and power. It can move in a wide curving pattern, but other than that once the charge starts, it’s a little too late to stop.
When Charging, there isn’t enough power to run the rail gun, so Cavelier will put it away, and swing the Bastard with both hands.
Notes: When linked in the cockpit, Holly can control Cavelier’s right arm as if it were her own, thanks to the neural infrastructure she already has in place for her prosthetic arm. When nearby, she can see through its eyes.

Pilot

Name: Ephraim Karras
Appearance: Years of military service have calloused Ephraim’s hands and given him a robust, well-defined build. His hair is cropped close to his head and he wears a full beard. Striking blue eyes pierce from under a thick brow. His skin is tanned as a result of both genetics and days spent under the sun. His left hand is prosthetic, a constant reminder of wartime rigors.

Weapons:

• FAN-6 carbine - multiple configurations shown. Ephraim prefers a vertical foregrip and holo-sight, with other attachments as necessitated by the current operation.
• P23 semi-automatic handgun - standard-issue sidearm carried by Gliesian Army forces.
• A small collection of folding knives and a tactical machete.

Gear:

• Pilot suit, with chest rig / armor plate carrier.
• Ballistic helmet with integrated HUD and night/infrared/thermal vision filters.
• TBA

Background: Prior to settling on Actaeon, Ephraim served with the 16th MFR - Mechanized Force Reconnaissance of the Gliesian Army. His detachment operated along a theoretical border between several fringe Gliesian colonies and home territories. For much of his service history, Ephraim's unit conducted patrols in the region, scouting for signs of buildup to a rebel offensive and screening incoming and outgoing traffic in Gliesian-controlled space. The signs pointed to an outbreak of hostilities, following military coups and declarations of independence by these frontier colonies.

By the time war had broken out, Ephraim's unit was among several dispatched to put down an insurrection on the colony Jubilant. When they arrived, fighting between the Gliesian military and separatists erupted. The rebel fighters operated as a patchwork of entities, fighting with both guerrilla and conventional means. Years of gruelling warfare passed by, with control of the colony teetering from one side to another and back. When it was clear that the rebels would not be defeated in a conventional war, Gliesian High Command devised a brutal operation to root out and destroy the separatist guerrilla movements.

Ephraim's unit was unknowingly armed with a deadly chemical agent under the pretense of a powerful anesthetic for the purpose of knocking out civilians and making it easier to transport them from the fighting to safety. In reality, Gliesian High Command planned to use the gas to wipe out the colony’s population, thereby eradicating all separatist activity. Ephraim and his unit was shaken to their cores when they witnessed the effects of the chemical agent. The operation was a success at the cost of all life on Jubilant. At the conclusion of the operation, Ephraim and his unit were awarded with decorations for “defending the integrity of Gliesian space,” and forced to keep a strict silence regarding the details of their mission.

Ephraim's unit struggled with a wavering sense of loyalty in the wake of the event. The fact it had been used to perpetrate a war crime lingered on the shoulders of its pilots. Some tried to forget, bottled their emotions and continued serving. Others tried to justify their actions to themselves. A number left the service or defected. Ephraim decided to abandon Gliese altogether, resentful of his former loyalty. Time and wanderlust led Ephraim to Actaeon, where he settled for military contractor work and tried to put the past behind.

Titan

Name: HC-82 Voltigeur
Appearance:

Class: Medium
Armament:

• X330 chain gun - A 30mm, single-barrel, electrically-operated autocannon. Electrical power, instead of recoil or gas, cycles the weapon at a rate of 625 rounds per minute. The ROF can be altered in increments of 25. Advanced recoil mechanisms allow this weapon to be accurately fired with one hand. The most common round used by the X330 contains an explosive charge sealed in a shaped-charge liner. The liner collapses into an armor-piercing jet of metal that is capable of penetrating more than 2 inches of rolled homogeneous armor. The shell is also designed to fragment upon impact, with a lethal range of 10 feet from the point of impact against unprotected targets.
• SGM-89 AT missile - The SGM-89 uses a fire-and-forget infrared homing system to find targets. The missile travels in an arc, designed to knock out armored vehicles with a top-down approach. Their range exceeds 4,000 meters and they are powerful enough to defeat 600-800 millimeters of rolled homogeneous armor. The missiles are fired via tubes mounted on the mech’s shoulder.
• Head-mounted machine gun - A pair of .50 caliber machine guns mounted on the mech’s head provides it with anti personnel and small missile defense. They are fed via a linked 400 round magazine.

Utilities:

• Countermeasures - The mech is fitted with smoke and chaff launchers, which discharge tiny particles to confuse the detection systems of guided missiles fired at it. The smoke blocks both vision and thermal imaging. A Windbreaker active protection system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming missiles and rockets with a blast of buckshot-like projectiles. A 360-degree field-of-view fire-control radar detects incoming warheads, immediately calculates its vector of approach and the elevation and time required to intercept it. Once it’s done so, two rotating launchers release a blast of projectiles at the missile at a safe distance from the frame.
  The mech is also equipped with a passive infrared countermeasure system to defeat missiles guided by IR signals.
• MTADS / PNVS - The Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight and Pilot Night Vision Sensor are separate units, but mounted together in the same housing. MTADS contains stabilized electro-optical sensors, a laser rangefinder and laser target designator, thermographic camera and a full-color daylight television camera. Images from the MTADS can be projected on the pilot’s helmet-mounted HUD or overlaid on the cockpit screen.
  The Pilot Night Vision Sensor links an infrared camera slaved to the pilot’s helmet.
• IHADSS - The Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System allows the pilot to slave the X330 to their helmet. The weapon will track the movement of the head, pointing where the pilot looks. The gun can be controlled this way, or via the MTADS.
• GFAS - The Ground Fire Acquisition System detects and targets ground-based weapons fire sources. It does so in all-light conditions with a 120° visual field. Muzzle flashes are located via thermographic camera.

Last Stand: An electronic stealth system that, when activated, disrupts enemy sensors and radars. This renders the Voltigeur invisible to electronic detection, although does not affect its physical appearance.

Notes: The Voltigeur can achieve a maximum speed of 82 kilometers per hour at dry load via wheels mounted in the feet. The engines produce roughly 395 horsepower. Its armor is resistant to small arms fire and rounds up to 14.5 mm.