Appearance:


Name: PAEU-MT-001, short for Polar Arms Experimental Unit Modification Type Model 001, nickname "Hikari"

Combat Role: Varies based on loadout

Data Center: Wizdom - North

Equipment & Gear: Currently, three add-on packages have been designed for Hikari to equip, running the gamut of robot classes.

Personality:

Background: Hikari was designed as an experimental unit to test what could be a paradigm shift in combat robot design: Add-on combat loadouts. Hikari's body is basically a blank slate, resembling something similar to a skinless human from the neck down, with the muscles replaced with blatantly-artificial synth-fibers. In his stripped-down state, he has enormous strength relative to a human and running speed exceeding that of a fully-fledged light-class robot, but can only fight with his bare hands.

He is almost dependent on add-on packages to fight, usually supplied by Polar Arms, though Polar has not patented the technology in the hopes that others will adopt its approach, allowing other corporations and other planets to, in time, develop a wide swath of add-ons for MT ("Modification Type)" robots to use. Currently, however, the concept is still being tested, and Hikari, after having his AI run through a simulated childhood that condensed 25 years into a single week, has been dispatched to assist the war effort against the Swarms while collecting data for Polar Arms to analyze and improve the future iterations of his line.

Name: BU-SHI-D0 (aka Bushido)

Combat Role: Close Combat - Medium

Data Center: Wizdom - North



Personality: Bushido has a near-perfect knowledge of ancient Japanese culture. Her memory banks contain terabytes of information on things like how to perform a tea ceremony, according to eighteen different schools dedicated to teaching the subject, and how to properly make a bonsai, and how to craft an authentic katana, and how one should properly use honorifics, and what ancient anime are the best, and so on ad nauseam. This knowledge is almost never actually used by her. She keeps it in her memory banks only in the vague hope that it might be useful someday, but that day has never actually come.

She has a strong sense of justice and self-improvement (instilled by her weeb creator in an attempt to capture Japanese ideals), and a knack for art, but at the same time has crippling self-confidence issues due to years of social missteps leading to constant belittling by her peers growing up. Creeps don’t make the best A.I. programmers.

Background: Designed as more of an art piece than a child, by a blatant Old Earth culture enthusiast whose obsession was downright pathological (the ancient term was “weeaboo”), Bushido was quickly taken away from her maniac “father” and raised in the robot equivalent of a foster care system on Wizdom.

While Bushido kept her old programming, giving her an inherent appreciation for ancient Japanese culture and peerless swordsmanship, she had a serious problem growing up: She was built with an adult body, by someone who might as well be a grown teenager at best. This led to numerous social missteps, as she had to effectively learn social skills and how to live in society through both special tutoring and trial-and-error.

Eventually, she managed to learn enough to be a functional adult, but the fact still remained that she had been designed with close-combat ability in mind, with milspec parts that her creator had acquired through shady means. She might as well be tailor-made to join the military. And so she decided to go through with the process and join the Wizdom armed forces, where she received proper military upgrades that augmented her strengths instead of the black-market hack-job she had before.