Name: Dante Virmire
Age: 27
Physical Description: Dante is a short (4'7") woman with a fiery disposition. She has medium length black hair and green eyes. Spaced out every few inches across her arms, legs, spine, neck, and both sides of her head are quarter sized cybernetic nerve implants that allow her to interact with Inferno. Sometimes when she is working on the ship you can see images of what she is reading back-lit in her optic H.U.D.


Important items:

INFERNO: Inferno is a ten foot tall Artemis Class artillery suit chassis. The suit requires a neural hookup to the user to function. New users can also find that there is a slight ping between when they tell the suit to move and when the suit actually does. This slight error in the design of the suit eventually fades as the Inferno computer systems slowly get accustomed to the operator's specific neural input. The Inferno chassis comes equipped with several weapons, some that are standard and some that have been improvised or improved by Dante, it also has air-tight seals and boosters allowing the suit to survive short trips or battles in space, and of course very Heavy armor to protect from Ship or land based cannons, shells, or lasers. Overall the suit is slow and has difficulty hitting close targets in favor of more long range or high impact destruction.

(the suit without any weapons on it)

MICRO-GRAVITY DISTORTER FISTS: The Inferno chassis comes equipped with several small Micro-Grav distorters in its hands that can be activated to take out buildings or high armored targets by distorting gravity in a small vortex in close proximity to whatever it is you want destroyed. Due to the slow speed of the overall armor this weapon is not good at hand to hand combat with other units, unless they are units of the same speed or slower than the Inferno armor. the Micro-Grav distorter in each hand can also be shot as a small projectile and then detonated, causing massive damage, but this is a last ditch effort tactic as the distorters are rare, expensive, hard to make, and there are only two on board the entire suit.

MID-RANGE PLASMA GRENADE SILOS: The Inferno chassis comes equipped with 40 plasma grenade launching silos located in the shoulders of the suit for when trouble get just a biiiit to close. the launcher can fire up to its whole payload, a maximum of 120 grenades, in a few seconds. The range of the launcher is about 120 yards and is not very accurate, only being able to aim within a twenty yard radius. however the launcher cannot fire the grenades within twenty yards of itself. The launcher, when activated, peppers whatever twenty yard radius you choose within range until either the operator stops it or it runs out of ammunition. The grenades themselves have a radius of about four yards each.

150mm SHOULDER MOUNTED RAILGUN: The Inferno chassis comes equipped with a 150mm shoulder mounted Railgun that fires high explosive plasma shells designed to bring down the biggest ships in the least time. When in firing mode the gun, which is normally pointing straight into the air, rotates over the shoulder and moves into firing position. While to Inferno armor is in this mode most of it's other systems are offline and it is vulnerable to attack. It is possible to fire the thrusters to move in the case of incoming fire, but most other systems will not be available.

H.U.D.: Dante has an implanted Heads Up Display in her eyes that allows her to connect to the Inferno's systems and get real time info on whats going on with the suit. They also allow her to view pretty much anything her omni-tool could connect with, as well as giving her firing positions and helping her aim both in and out of the Inferno armor.

OMNI-TOOL: Miniature Computer that allows for communication, calculation, augmented reality navigation and small-scale hacking.

COIL-GUN PISTOL: For the rare occasion that she is caught up in combat outside her suit Dante keeps a coil-gun pistol on her.

Short Bio:
Dante was born on the frontier world of Prodius on the edge of Ascendancy space. Prodius was a beautiful world full of life, nearly classified as a Paradise world. her father had been an engineer for the colony's mechanical systems, and she was poised to replace him. Her father would bring her along on jobs and show her the ins and the outs of how these machine's functioned. Dante loved her life and was excited about being part of the Ascendancy and what that would mean. She wanted nothing more than to take on her father's role and build the future of her people.

Then it was discovered that Prodius was rich in precious and rare metals. The Ascendancy took note of the small frontier world and began extracting the metals and rare materials for use in the was against the Coalition. Mines, factories, and cities began to sprout up around the planet. They spreading pollution, carving out forests, hollowing out mountains digging deep fissures into the earth. Dante watched as her home slowly was turned into a barely livable wasteland over the course of only a few years. Her father's job was automated and he was forced to take up work as a miner. Dante got shoved into a child labor union assembling machines of war in the factories. life went on this way for what seemed like forever. Until her father died.

The mountain her father worked at had been scanned and came back positive for gold, silver and possibly naturally occurring electrum. It was honey combed and mined and hollowed out until finally one day it caved in. the whole mountain just fell in on itself, with her father inside. Dante wasn't the only person to lose a family member in that collapse, far from it. But hearing that her father was gone... that he wasn't coming back and that it was because the Ascendancy had just pushed. to. far. It broke something in her. Dante drifted in this hell that had been created by The Ascendancy of Man for years. She did nothing but build their machines of war, and drift hopelessly through life.

Then they left. After the mines emptied and the mountains collapsed under their own weight; after the factories closed their doors and all those who had come seeking opportunity had moved on to the next thing. After Prodius was a barren hellscape with nothing to offer anyone, The Ascendancy just turned their backs and moved on like a swarm of locust.

It was then, standing in the ruins of the factory she had worked for the past twenty years, staring at the empty husk of a building that seemed so similar to how she felt inside; that's when she found it. The Artillery suit was half finished and partially buried by fallen mechanical equipment, but the frame was in one piece and she knew how to finish it with her eyes closed. The only problem would be finding the materials to finish it. So over the course of the next year Dante Scavenged and searched and worked on the suit. It was the only thing she could think to do. Every now and then she would make a modification she thought was necessary or would change something because it was easier with the materials she had available.

Eventually she needed to test the suit to see if it was working. A healthy black market had sprung up in place of the metropolis that had left and abandoned this place, so Dante decided to head there and get a few upgrades. She had never really spent the credits she made with the Ascendancy or the credits they had given her after her father died, it wasn't as if she had been saving them for anything, she just had never needed anything to buy; and while The Ascendancy didn't pay very much, twenty year of not very much adds up to more than you'd think. She purchased illegal implants to let her interact with the suit so that she could test it, and make sure it was working. She purchased eye implants and an omni-tool to make sure the computer systems were operating correctly, and she purchased a coil-gun to make sure she wasn't bothered by other scavengers.

Dante continued to toil, not knowing why she was doing this, or what she would do when it was finished. She had bought all of this equipment, but it was all only to finish the suit. for some reason she felt that if she could finish this one last suit, everything would be okay. She would talk to it sometimes. When she was working, just to break the silence. She told the suit about her father, she talked about how she missed him and he wasn't ever coming back. She talked about her home and how she wanted to see the forest, or taste fresh clean river water again. She talked about her childhood and how she wanted it back. Dante would talk and talk, and the suit would be her ever present listener, never interrupting, or judging her for what she said. It was her stalwart companion, her shoulder to cry on, in more than a few instances it was her punching bag or the brunt of her rage at the universe, but in the end it was undeniably and irrevocably... her friend.

Then... after a few years, a lot of heartache, and a lot of money later; it was finished. Dante didn't really know what to do. She had just kept going knowing that eventually she would find a purpose or a drive or something after this was done... but she was empty. Building the suit had BEEN the purpose. To distract her... but it hadn't distracted her had it? It had honed her, made her clear and sharp. All those hundreds of hours working and talking and releasing her feelings and her wishes and wants; she stood in front of this impressive machine of war she had built, her Inferno of rage and pain and fury, all her emotions embodied in a single entity. She knew what she was going to do. She was going to tear down the Ascendancy of Man, and burn it with this Inferno and leave nothing but ash and debris.

The next day she blew the rest of her credits on ammunition for the suit and a charter on a ship off world for her and the suit. She had heard in the black market about a resistance movement called Moonstrike, and a few whispers about a ship named the Xuanxang. As Dante charted her course in the hidden cargo hold a bright red military grade Artillery suit with 'INFERNO' painted in bright white letters on it's back waited to be unleashed.

Exceptional Skill List:
Exceptional Engineering x3
Exceptional Gunslinging
Exceptional Navigation
Exceptional Piloting x2
Exceptional Endurance

Name: Drakenians (Other name: Draconians or Dragons)

Status to Humans:

1. Friendly - The humans, which live on Draken’vina they are friendly towards. Mostly because of the fact the war between the clans were ended by the most unlikely of candidates. They are now called the Draken’vinans but before the unified nature of the humans, they called themselves the Vinans since the Drakenians are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. They trade with the Draken’vinans, is the only reason they have a friendly relationship.
2. Neutral - The humans, which don’t live on their homeworld of Draken’vina. They are neutral to them since they see no point in involving themselves with the greater Ascendancy of Man.

Life expectancy:

The Drakenians live very long lives, the Great Wyrm Dekriem is said to be 35,000 years old. He lived through multiple generations of humans, which landed on his world and decided to colonize it. He watched them grow into what they are today, which is a unified clan of Za. The Drakenians only can live these unnaturally long lives because of the fact they can tie themselves to a human family, which lives on Draken’vina.

The longest a Drakenian can live if he/she doesn’t attaches himself/herself to a Za Clan Member or any human for that fact, is at least 2,500 years at most. However, they do live longer than humans.

Genders:

The Drakenians are outright a gendered society. The genders they have are male and female. They have similar gender roles that human societies have for the specific genders in question.

Full Description:

The Drakenians have two specific forms. The form that is usually hidden from the humans living on the homeworld, which they call Draken’vina alike the humans would later call it as. Is the most shocking of the two forms, since it is hardly seen outside of their culture or society. This form is their ‘true’ form and they are highly secretive of what they truly look like.

The form is more or less alike the people who colonized their homeworld all those years ago, the humans who migrated from their cradle to colonize the stars. They specifically are very similar to humans with a few exceptions. They have horns growing out of their head above their ears and usually can grow at any shape or size. However, whenever a Drakenian is born, they don’t have their horns at birth, it takes awhile for the horn to take shape.

The Drakenians grow their horns in, when they reach a sufficient age in this case, when a child turns 14. Their horns start out small but their, it looks like bumps on their head and it goes into a more defining feature when they turn 16 years old. The shape of the horn is defined by the specific parents, the boy/girl was born from. The Birthing cycle of a Drakenian is a total of a year, which is three months longer than a human. The other highly distinctive features of a Drakenian is they have the rarer hair colors for humans, which means there’s a bit more Redheads or gingers. The hair color sometimes go through a change, naturally instead of having to dye your hair constantly.

If a Drakenian child was born with black hair, they can have any hair color under the sun, which means they could have rainbow colored hair, which would match if they were rainbow dragons for instance. They have dragon scales of their birth mother on their back. The Drakenian eyes are quite unique, which they are complete dragon eyes in shape at all times. There’s no need for biotech upgrades to get these eyes, alike the humans that are on the planet. The unique colors of eyes usually are get from the father or mother, it’s just whoever had the more dominant traits. In the case of it, you can have golden eyes with dragon slits for eyes as a Drakenian humanoid.

In addition, the height range of the two genders that are in the Drakenians. The female’s height range is 5’0” to 6’5”, while the male height range is 7’0” to 8’5” since the male Drakenians are always two feet taller. The other thing that stands out on a Drakenians is a special necklace around their neck, which allows them to use their more dangerous form. However, they are easily able to use their Drakenian Dragon Form abilities in their civilian form easily.

The Drakenians are highly considerate of another person’s feelings, and they give boons to humans that make them see that not all humans are born to be cruel. It is how they are raised. The Female Drakenians are paler and whiter than their male counterparts. A very rare few have a different skin color, in terms of the Female Drakenians, every 5 out of a million births. The Drakenians have two names, the first is their ‘birth given name’ and the other is a Dragon name they pick out, which would fit them perfectly.

The Birth given name is similar to the same way that any human names their kids. While their Dragon name is specifically given a terrifying twist to what they should do if they are threatened or need to defend themselves from monsters and demons. The Dragon name is what they use only in their dragon form. It gives every single Drakenian pride to be what they were along time ago, before they evolved into what they are today, humanoid dragons that look very eerily similar to humans.

The Drakenians in their human-like form have slightly better hearing, better eyesight compared to humans, in terms they are all 20/20 perfect vision. They can see perfectly in the dark since their eyes glow a shade of the color of eyes they have. If you ignore the important features on a female Drakenian, which is their shape of their irises and having horns on their side of the head. They would look like literally a 16 year old human very hormonal mess of a teenager. The most painful thing a Drakenian female can do is literally trying to ‘cut’ off their horns. If they do that they can pretty easily pass for a human, all they have to do is buy biotech upgrades.

The Drakenians are attuned with multiple forms of magic. However, they are pretty much attuned with specifically World or Mind Magic. However, their world magic is not as powerful as the Tork. They can use mind magic to hide their specific features so they can easily blend into human societies, however, this is only when they trade specifically with the Za Clan on the planet of Draken’vina.

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The Drakenians second form is literally their Dragon form. It is the more vicious and terrifying form of them since there was plenty of legends on Terra. They have vast teeth, claws, two vast wings, which can move them all over the skies. They have terrible breath attacks of what magical element, they are born with. In that case, the most deadly of these Drakenians is Dekriem, the Soul Destroyer. Which he can destroy a person’s soul, just by using his breath attack on them, which has a color similar to him being a half black and Holy Dragon, which makes his breath attacks the color of Gray. If he is able to get off that breath attack, he’ll utterly destroy the soul and leave an empty shell.

There’s multiple different Drakenian species on this world, the most exotic variances. The humans usually call them Dragons. There is multiple different dragons in question, all different shapes and sizes. The Drakenians don’t correct any of the humans that call them Dragons, since that’s what they are in certain ways. The Drakenians in Dragon form can see two times the distance that a normal human can, without biotech upgrades. While the biotech upgrades that humans can get, they can match a Dragon’s sight pretty well.





Type of Society:

The Drakenians society has regressed much. However, that’s mostly because they are a democracy that doesn’t vote their leaders in via mob rule. The leader of said republic are called the Elder Voice of the Drakenian People. He speaks for all the people, even though some people are sick and tired of the system in place that disallows the Elder Voice from running more than three terms of three years each. The Incumbent Elder Voice has a slight disadvantage in the polls, if they didn’t keep their promises. All Elder Voices keep their promises, the latest Elder Voice is a male Drakenian that wants to keep the people protected and usually keeping his policy of outright only trading with the Za Clan on the Draken’vina.

The Democracy in Question is called the Drakenian United Republic. They were classified as an interstellar republic but regressed where they no longer want to explore the stars. Because of a certain thing, which they hardly talk about anymore because they don’t want any mention of it. The entire society of the Drakenians have two names and they are proud when they finally pick a proper Dragon name. The Military branch of the Drakenian United Republic is called the Drakenian Brood Defense. They only ever use their military technology for better and better technologies to hide themselves on the planet. They don’t feel right to show themselves in how they ‘truly’ are to the Za Clan.

However, there’s many people within the Society that has been getting a bit itchy to explore the known reaches of space once again. To this end, they have been leaving the safety of their homeland in the Vagus Plains and trying to find a way off the planet in the Za Clan cities. The Za Clan didn’t really notice anything different to any of the new people entering their city, since they looked like them but felt slightly different or off about them. However, these few individuals helped the Za Clan reach the stars. That was a complete mistake, since the ones who helped the Za Clan reach the border of their system found the worst thing, the Ascendancy of Man. None of the Drakenians were in the Za Clans cities when the Ascendancy of Man helped rapidly develop the Za Clan to a better space flight and the Za Clan’s Solis Reaches. However, their advanced technologies protected themselves from the wrath of the Ascendancy.

Drakenians are very highly sophisticated and can enjoy a casual Fridays too. However, that’s mostly because of the fact they have a full free market and don’t crush competition and innovation in their area on the planet. Which usually equals opportunity because the jobs are pretty much very competitive. They don’t get outside workforce since they are pretty much solely only Drakenians in the Vagus Plains.

Technological Advancement:

The Drakenians have no technological advancement in spaceship technology since they outright forbade its use, which equals their FTL is in an underground vault under lock and key.

They are still developing better and better scanner technology, which is top notched, on top of that they have been inventing ways to keep themselves protected via using that trick on the rest of the planet and only really letting the Humans be able to use Solis Reaches as their only territory.

The building technology is about three times better than the Za Clan when they first arrived on the planet. Mostly because the Drakenians lived on this planet for a long time. The stealth technology, reflected back scanners to starships in orbit to only read an uninhabitable wasteland, even though underneath that field isn’t an uninhabitable wasteland. A Perfectly brimming and beautiful landscape that has many of the anmenties that a human city would have on Earth or Mars at this point.

However, they don’t really know how advanced the Ascendancy of Mars is. Since they don’t really deal with them, they only deal with the Za Clan, who are Core Sector Members of the Ascendancy.

The only thing that is really outdated in their technology is the communication infrastructure, they haven’t built a new communications center in ages. They still use carrier pigeon and has no real radio or other type of broadcasting software. However, every single Drakenian on the planet in the Drakenian United Republic as the best quality of life.

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