So in the fighter jet mode, you can see that gray tube thing underneath the aircraft- that's the Valkyrie's primary weapon, a 55mm triple barreled gatling gun placed inside a gun pod.

And here is the Valkyrie in its humanoid configuration, the gunpod is removed and held like a rifle.

The Raptor's probably doesn't stick out of the fuselage quite as much (and preferably isn't as plane jane and round looking), but thats the concept behind the way it works. Also, the Sparrowhawk is 'technically' a custom, but I wanted to portray it as essentially the stock Raptor with some color modifications, and maybe a bit of thruster tweaks.

Name: Beryl "Otter" Harken

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Profession/Rank: Test Pilot

Appearance:

Personality: Beryl is a woman of rather extreme emotions. Thankfully for those around her most of those emotions very, very positive. The kind of older sister many an orphan only dream of having. She takes a personal interest in the well-being of those around her. Quickly forming friendships or almost quasi-family bonds with particularly close friends.

Of course those emotional extremes apply to her less pleasant feelings as well. In particular her anger. Oh she gets annoyed more or less the same as anyone else, but if something makes her truly angry it triggers a deeply set rage that won't rest until the source has been dealt with.

Skills: Beryl Harken is the consummate athlete. She excels at anything including hand/eye coordination, three dimensional awareness or physical acuity. But what she particularly excels at is swimming. To anyone watching she seems more like an aquatic animal rather than a land born mammal. In fact that's where she got her nickname from. One of her fellow swim team members called her that back at the academy and it's stuck to her ever since.

It's those natural talents that earned her spot in the seat of an Assault Walker more than any booksmarts. While she got passable grades in military school it was her ability to translate her physical ability and personal awareness into highly fluid Walker movements that earned her a spot in the cockpit.

Weakness: If she isn't careful Beryl's rage can consume her. Driving her with single minded determination to the point where she ignores her own well-being. Additionally, while she is extremely caring towards friends and allies. She has trouble extending that same mercy towards those she considers enemies. Even if the rules of war calls for it.

History: Beryl was abandoned in the steps of a church while she was still a baby. Not even old enough to remember the faces of her parents. So as she grew up she considered herself more a daughter of the orphanage than anything else. The Father who cared for her and her many siblings was her father as far as she was concerned. While she was eventually adopted the young woman never forgot her first home, a significant portion of her paycheck still makes its way there through various gifts and donations.

It was from her newly adopted mother, Lasai Harken, that she received her last name. The years the two spent together were happy ones even if they aren't particularly wealthy. Lasai had enough financial leeway to raise a child but not much more. So when Beryl turned eighteen she join the Federation Armed Forces. It wasn't a very hard decision, a steady job, free higher level education and at the time the military was doing a lot more civil work than military. Helping out disaster victims held a certain appeal to her distinctly Christian morals.

The next four years were spent as a ground pounder at a quiet military base while she got her psych degree from one of the nearby colleges. After that, Officer Training School where she switched to the Walker Corp. Her natural talents made picking up Scout piloting easy. Or as easy as learning how to pilot a giant multi ton humanoid mass of advanced electronics and machinery could be. When her commanders were convinced she could actually walk in the advanced war machines she was shipped off to Horizon to act as a test pilot for experimental Scout designs.

Equipment:
Keys
Wallet
Phone
9mm pistol
Multitool
Belt knife
Boot knife
Backup knife

Arsenal Walker:

Base Model: FAWX-09 Scout

Designation: Stream

Appearance:

Armaments: Two AWSMG-14s. Smaller weapons designed send out a hail of tightly aimed 30mm rounds at targets in medium to close ranges. Stream's primary load out is comprised mostly of explosive armor piercing rounds. Despite their relatively small calibers they are adept at eating through heavy battle armor and wrecking delicate internals. In case of infantry and unarmored vehicles a couple magazines of shrapnel rounds also usually finds their way into various ammo feeds.

In the spirit 'Stick all the experiments in the same place and see what happens,' Stream's close quarters weaponry is also different from the norm. Rather than the traditional short sword or knives one might expect from a Scout chassis it carries a bandolier of silver spikes. At the push of a mechanical button at the base of the weapon each spike will warm to armor melting levels. After either ten seconds or upon receipt of an encoded command from the wielder the spike will detonate an extremely stable and heat resistant compound.

Since it's rather difficult to dodge missiles Stream has a pair of cranialy mounted 20mm autocannons. Each has a small degree of individual movement to allow for the simultaneous engagement of multiple targets.

Experimental Systems: Scout class Federation Arsenal Walkers cannot take much in the way of damage. This constitutes a problem for a three story tall war machine. Without even taking into account the possibility of hostile Walkers the battlefield is still full of threats that can theoretically take down a Scout. Unsurprisingly, it is not a very popular Walker frame. So of course the folks at Horizon's AWOL team couldn't help but take a crack at the problem.

Rather than add armor and make it a light Warrior they decided to focus on the frame's already present strengths. Namely the high levels of agility granted by the lack of protective armor coupled with the impressive onboard sensor and computer suite. A series of EM thrusters were placed in strategic locations around frame to allow for sudden and extreme busts of speed. Not enough for flight but enough to make the thing more of a gymnast than anything that size had any right to be.

Next was a set of highly advanced tracking and prediction algorithms. Incoming fire and potential incoming fire was tracked and the best escape route mapped out for the pilot. The end result was an insanely agile Arsenal Walker with a limited ability to dodge bullets.

Weakness: As a Scout class Walker frame the Stream has very little armor. While it won't die from a single hit the operator handbook strongly advises against taking unnecessary damage.

In addition the experimental systems pose a series of additional problems. It takes a very special type of pilot to handle such a nimble machine. Both extremely quick reflexes and the ability to handle some nasty g-forces. Both traits more likely found in a fighter pilot or one of the new Raptors.

And just to make it a genuine headache to pilot, the Incoming Fire Prediction Systems have some pretty serious problems in both the software and user interface areas that will need to be worked out before it can be shipped to the rest of the Federation's forces. While it works great in small scale engagements or one on one fights, put the system on a full battlefield and the influx of information starts to overwhelm both computers and pilot. Efforts have been made to deal with the problems by limiting the range of the system to about five kilometers around Stream. That or active targeting radar.

Pilot(s): Beryl Harken

Name: Mikhail Pyotr Nestor Brukhanov
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Profession/Rank: AW Pilot, 2nd Lieutenant, Historian, Farmer

Appearance: Standing at just below six feet, Mikhail sees the world through two cheerful eyes peeking it from under his messy mop of hair. Years working in his communal farm has darkened his skin and filled out his frame with lean muscle.

Personality: Raised in a commune sheltered from the outside world, Mikhail has learnt to be cooperative and understanding and, despite his years outside the Free Territory, still assumes others to do so as well. This has taught him the ability to make form friendly working relationships with almost all types of people. Hard-working and inquisitive, Mikhail views his service in the Federation Walker Corps as a necessary burden and an opportunity to learn more about the Federation.

Skills: Mikhail is a crack shot with most categories of guns oven some time to familiarise, having picked it up from his time hunting what little wild game survived in the Free Territory post-war, as well as, more relevantly, driving off armed intruders sent by enemies of the Territory. He is also possessed of a wealth of historical knowledge and agricultural experience picked up since young.

Weakness: Growing up in an environment where his peers were taught to cooperate and work together, Mikhail is too trusting of strangers, and finds difficulty in forming close, exclusive friendships with others. With no real combat experience he is also the definition of a greenhorn.

Biography: Born in the Free Territory of the Ukraine, Mikhail was raised in an agricultural anarchist commune, one of dozens dotted around the Ukrainian plains, grouped together with nearby worker-run industrial centres following Syndicalist principles in a mutual assistance pact in the form of the Free Territory. Having existed informally since the devastation of Russia's western border in the Third World War, Mikhail was born barely a decade after the Free Territory was recognised as an independent polity, separate from both of the Ukrainian States, by the Federation. In return for recognition and protection from the two Ukraine's, the Federation required only regular deliveries of industrial goods and the crops the region was famed for being able to produce in large numbers.

Mikhail grew to be a precocious young boy, eagerly learning the history of the region and the sociological framework that set the Free Territory apart from its bitter neighbours. Learning to work with his commune in bettering their lives, Mikhail realised that while he was satisfied with working in the farms, his real passion was that of history, to understand the historical forces that brought his home into being, and agricultural research, to better increase the efficiency of the Earth's dwindling arable land and make the essential agricultural work of his commune more efficient. He resolved to gain entry to the region's premier university in order to pursue these passions.

But the world was not so indulging. As he left home to experience the outside world, the two Ukraine's began to discuss ways of brining the Territory under their control, one of very few points of matter they agreed on. In a scant few years, the Federation Parliament, pressured by the Ukraine's and their respective powerful backers, passed higher and higher quotas on the Territory, giving them the option to forego the higher quotas if they could afford other expanded obligations to "better reflect the development the Territory had undergone in the past decades". One of these was the option for residents to join and aid the Federation's administration, including its military, mirroring the higher militarisation rate the Federal Armed Forces were undergoing in other regions in anticipation of possible armed conflict with the Ark Union.

It was in this climate that Mikhail, deciding to put the good of his home over his short term desires, volunteered for a term of service with the Federation's AW Corps after graduating from university, hoping to prove to the Federation that the Free Territory was able to pull its weight not just in agricultural production, but also in bodies for its military. Besides, he wasn't going to be dramatically changing the lives of his fellow communards anytime soon, or so he reasoned. Now recently commisioned, Mikhail hopes to make a name for himself in the coming years...

Equipment: AW pilot suit, small pendant containing pictures of his family and home, several history and agricultural engineering books

Base Model: FAW-007[G]

Designation: KR-01 Tachanka

Appearance: The green and coral Tachanka is a long range sniping unit, armed and assisted by systems that dimrive this mission profile. A redesigned version of the old "Cyclops" head module is the first notable difference, as opposed to the standard "Knight" heads, using the mono-channel sensor cluster to great effect to focus targeting on single targets. Additional targeting sensors on the XC-01 Campion Rifle and the torso of the Tachanka help to triangulate data. Anticipating possible counter-artillery suppression the Tachanka is noticeably bulkier than the average Warrior, and is armed with a shoulder shield to deflect incoming tank shells or medium fire while firing downrange. Thrusters mounted underneath the greaves and on its backpack allows for the Tachanka to attain limited jumps and hops across terrain, ideal for setting the Walker up in hard-to-reach sniper nests.



Armaments:

United Armaments XC-01 "Campion" 84mm Sniper Rifle - The Campion Rifle is a limited production sniper rifle, the first of a new series of dedicated sniper weapons built for Arsenal Walkers. Built from the base up to be a sniper's weapon, the Campion was first planned to be a smaller version of the standard 150mm Gunner Railgun, possibly utilising coilgun technology instead. However, Federation GHQ decided to fast track the production of conventional chemically propelled AW snipers as a stopgad measure until they could acquire efficient miniaturised coilgun technology. This resulted in the creation of the Campion, now recently assigned to pilots with notable accuracy

GAL H-18 Vibroblade- A standard medium blade slightly longer than the length of an AW's forearm. It is capable of slicing apart armoured vehicles and most types of AW armour

Tajcorp iS-3a Ballistics Shield- Standard AW-sized shield mounted on the shoulder. Capable of folding along its central pivot to cover portions of the Tachanka from different angles of attack

Shoulder-mounted spikes- Intended for close range defence the spikes are a last resort intended for AW-to-AW combat

2x General Engineering M79 Pisces 20mm Cannons- Standard head-mounted autocannons provide close range defence from missiles, infantry or vehicles in close range combat

Robco LR-313 55.6mm SMG- An AW-sized rapid fire, close range firearm, the LR-313 is intended to complement the Pisces cannons and H-18 of the Tachanka to fend off close range opponents

Weakness: Built for long-range combat and short-range defence, the Tachanka is not ideal for conventional AW mission profiles, especially hypothetical close range AW-on-AW combat, a contingency that might become an eventuality too soon...

Pilot(s): Mikhail Pyotr Nestor Brukhanov