.::It's the year 2225 and America has become a hellhole. Due to a massive spike in national criminal activity many years ago, the prison system had become extremely overcrowded. The financial burden of keeping up the prisons was so heavy on the government that a number of the nation's largest corporations had decided to step in and acquire nearly all of the prisons in the country as assets. Though the prisons were now privately owned, that did nothing about the surplus of inmates.

A few of the more eccentric owners saw a unique opportunity for a bold and exciting endeavor. The idea was for a contest held for inmates to win their freedom. And so, in 2150, the Absolution Wars were born. Every five years, fifty inmates are selected by lottery to participate in the Wars. Entry is eligible to lifers and death row inmates -- both male and female -- who have served at least ten years in confinement.

Participants in the Wars are given a small team to build a mech for a battle to the death on a massive deserted island. The last surviving person wins total amnesty and a home on Redemption Row, a private and secure archipelago owned by the sponsoring corporation where liberated inmates can live out the rest of their lives outside of confinement::.




.::Reaper Island's specific location is undisclosed to the public for obvious reasons. At around 70 square kilometers, the island is quite large. The island was once inhabited before the corporations bought it and evacuated the population. The structures were left intact and over the years have fallen victim to the destruction of the Wars. New structures are built for each Wars (mostly for looks). Among these are supply stations equipped with fuel and ammo for the mechs and food for the competitors. The island is also surrounded by a massive impregnable electric forcefield to prevent both escape and entry::.




.::A remote archipelago that most people would kill to live in...but that's kind of the point, isn't it? The winners of the Absolution Wars reside here in semi-freedom. They are each under a contract with one of several companies as indentured employees. They are free to do and own whatever they please but are not permitted to leave the Row::.




The Absolution Wars are open to both male and female inmates of all ages.

Name
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Height
Weight
Appearance (description or picture)
Location and Date of Confinement
Crime (be careful here...nuff said)

Mental Health State (how does your character feel about confinement/being in the Wars?)

Personality/Habits

Skills/Talents

Background (a few paragraphs about personal history both before and during confinement)



There are three mech configurations and three battle classes. The configurations are Bipedal, Quadrupedal, and Vehicular while the classes are Omega (Tank - heavy armor, slow movement, brute force), Delta (Speed - light armor and weapons, quick attacks, possible stealth), and Gamma (Power - versatile weapon systems, mid armor and speed, lots of utility)

Each mech is allowed a special ability which can be of one of the following types:
Enhance (amplifies mech or weapon for a short period)
Disable (impairs enemy for a short period)
Blast (large explosive ability that does a ton of damage at once)
Transform (changes the form of mech)
Shield (increases defenses for a short period)
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Name
Configuration (Bipedal, Quadrupedal, or Vehicular)
Class (Omega, Delta, or Gamma)
Height (Maximums: biped - 4m; quad - 2.9m; vehicle - 2.5m)
Weight
Fuel
Piloting Method (sit or stand? how does it steer? voice command? touchscreen? motion sensors?)
Appearance (description or picture)

[Outfitting]
Armament (melee or projectile? ammo? material?)
Defenses (what kind of armor?)
Auxilaries (any non-weapon equipment?)

[Special Ability]
Name
Type
Description