[OOC] Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

[Cultural Titan]

A few generations ago much of humanity left the surface of their world for grand floating cities in the sky. Virtual utopians of the modern age, pristine in beauty and with every convenience. If you can pay for it. Down bellow on the planet's surface the poorest of humanity are left try and scrounge out a living by mining for raw materials and in particular a glassy, black substance called monthium, a magnificent power source of great energy and lifespan. It is used in power plants to float the cities above the planet, power all consumer devices and propel vehicles indefinitely. So long as the mining continues energy will remain a non-issue to the upper classes above.

Society is divided into three main castes. The lower class who mine resources for the cities above, the middle class who populate the cities and make up the workforce of various mega corporations and the corporate officials who control everything. It is possible to move up in these castes, but it is rare and a promotion is almost always equalized by someone else's demotion.

The everyday citizen need not worry about open conflict between any great powers. War would disrupt business so the mega corporations settle disputes with mock battles and tournaments that are televised to the whole world for entertainment. These battles are fought with mechanical frames, humanoid vehicles designed for combat and powered by monthian reactors. They replaced most conventional fighting vehicles, but are still early on in their development and the populace is entertained as much by their violent combat as their technological advancement. Occasionally however, grand tournaments are held with fortunes for prizes. Such events are open to anyone who wishes to enter and the third of these tournaments is to be held soon with the grandest prize yet. Your very own flying city for your own personal use. Perhaps a way to escape the slums bellow a private getaway for you and your richest friends or perhaps a staging point for a revolution. Its all up to the winner.

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So yeah mecha tournament put on by mega corps to pacify the citizens of magnificent sci-fi floating cities. We'd probably start things off shortly before this tournament and possibly continue past it to maybe a war or something. I want mechs to be more on a lower end of power in general. feel free to have some crazy thing in say a prototype, this tournament would be a great place to unveil new technologies, but try and limit to maybe one or two cool advanced things, like turning invisible, having energy weapons or transforming. Additionally I'm going for a height for these more like 20-30 feet rather than 20-30 meters.

Rules

1) All Guild rules and regulations apply
2) Activity is appreciated
3) No character limit, but only make characters if you can keep them active.
4) No god mod, metagaming or bunnying - we all know the drill.
5) Smut and sexy type stuff goes to PM. Kissing is okay, touchy feely goes.
6) Proper grammar, spelling and punctuation is much appreciated. I won't be a tyrant, but at least try to keep your posts readable.
7) Please ask before making any large events, so they can be planned and announced with minimal confusion.
8) Post characters in OOC, IC or PM to me for submission. I will respond as soon as I can.

Mega Corps

Monthas Corporation

The oldest and most powerful Corporation. It owns the right to and collects royalties on all floating cities and Monthian reactors in the world solidifying its power. Monthas was founded in the early days of the age by Richard R. Monthas. It originally sold only the monthian reactors, but now finds itself competive in most consumer markets.

Nexus Corporation

Nexus Corp is a relatively young corporation that sells mostly civilian design machines, from machines for construction to leisure vehicles for the rich. Due to its age it is not as highly regarded as the other corps, though they have ousted a few other smaller corps out of their piece of land. Their designs are mostly known for their reliability instead of aesthetics, which does make the Luna Fighter a bit of an anomaly. Johann V. Baker is the current head of the corp, a 30 year old bear of a man who looks like he belongs more in a forest wrestling dangerous wildlife. -Created by GreenGoat

Krupp

Krupp is a very old name in alloy, artillery and munitions production. The venerable corporation was one of the most productive corporations during the early 20th century, Krupp has since continued their stable and impressive history of a reliable manufacturer with vast numbers of contracts for private security supplies and new construction materials. Although technically older than Monthas, Krupp fell out of favour during the last great war. Economic collapse caused the great industrial giant to recede back into a smaller role, only recently expanding to that which they were before the crisis. While Montha and Krupp are in a contract deal regarding the sales of materials and reactors, Krupp has been striving to produce their own variant of the Monthian Reactor to little success. It has lead to more than one legal battle and a few known under-the-rug scenarios with failed tests, but the company has been able to stay afloat so far. It now manufactures a wide array of Mechanized Suits that are employed in many roles, from industrial lifters to Mobile Artillery.
Krupp has a vision, the future is now. - Created by Cayden Black

Hell Hounds

The Hell hounds are a young security company, only about 60 years old, and have been carving out their niche with a philosophy of brutality and uncompromising resilience. These philosophies have permeated the Hell Hounds mech design, financial and diplomatic decisions. With their impressive resilience they have ground several competing security companies to oblivion without ever firing a shot. They have also bankrupt a few competators by low-balling contracts and gouging the profits away from others.

Their Mechs come in several designs: The atlas, their primary mech. the Catapult, A walking missile barrage. and the Goliath, a Black ops/scout mech. using these designs together makes the Hell hounds a formidable force albeit much smaller than the mech forces that any of the mega corps could field. - Created by Sorphus

More will be added later, but which ones will be added depend on whether or not people add particular mega corps

History

Richard R. Monthas: The late Richard R. Monthas discovered the glassy black substance we used to power the world as it is known. He founded the Monthas corporation to market monthium reactors. This basically solved all energy concerns for mankind and made him fabulously wealthy. However when wars started to brake out using mechanical frames powered by his reactors he ordered the construction of the first floating city. Utopia.

Utopia: The original Floating city it is however better known as the greatest tragedy of the Last War. Despite Monthas insisting on remaining neutral in the conflict his greatest achievement was eventually targeted as an act of terror. The city was ruined, its people slaughtered and Richard R. Monthas was publicly executed before the whole thing crashed into the earth and permanently scarred the planet. afterwards Richard's son Dominick Lead a second generation of mechanical frames to destroy all other factions in the war.

The Last War: Named as it was to be the final war of humanity it saw the introduction of mechanical frames to the battlefield, the scarring of the planet's surface and the destruction of all world governments. Since then all conflict has officially been done through mock battles to keep the peace though shadow raids and rebellions and not uncommon. They just get wiped from the public record.

Character Sheet

-Character Sheet-

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Appearance:

Gear: (Any significant personal equipment or important personal effects go here, but this section may not apply to your character.)

Abilities:

Personality:

History:

Extras: (In case there’s something important that doesn’t fit anywhere else or any trivial details you want to add for any reason)

MECH GUIDLINES: Looking for more of a lower power baseline. Slower mechs that do not have perfect articulation for say hands or swordplay, they walk fine. The standard height will be 20 feet with a variance of about 10 feet, but if you want to go further talk to me. Weapons are ammunition based and you can describe weapons more like analogs to firearm categories like pistol or assault rifle. They will be much less effective relatively because of armor, but I feel like most mechs should be able to take a good number of hits before going down. Armor is at its worst assumed to still be lighter and more durable than the most heavily armored tanks of today. Jump jets for quick bursts of speed and longish distance jumps are common, but not standard. You are welcome to have a prototype with advanced technology, but I would prefer that mechs only have one advancement each for now. things that may be considered an advancement are energy weapons, flight, a transforming frame, controlling the mech with your body or mind etc. If I didn't mention it and you are worried about wether or not I'd consider it an advancement please talk to me.

Mech Sheet

-Mech Sheet-

Name:

Appearance: (Pictures or text is fine)

Height:

Weight:

History and Development:

Weapons and Equipment:

Example Mechs

MMF Enforcer

Name: MMF Enforcer

Appearance:


Height: 6m

Weight: 20 tons

History and Development: The Monthas Mechanical Frame Enforcer, originally the MMF Scrounger, was conceived originally as a mining machine aid in the acquisition of more Monthium, but it was pressed into military service days after Utopia crashed into the planet as the bread and butter mech of the Monthas Corporation. The main advancement of the Enforcer was in its hands. They were able to grasp and fire upscaled versions of infantry weapons eliminating the need to carry ammunition inside the frame and allowing each mech to serve many roles. The enforcer was not designed to withstand the rigors of war and often malfunctioned on the battlefield, but despite this it was manufactured in numbers great enough to dwarf other armies. Production stopped after the war and the surplus was sold off to various mining communities so that the Enforcer could serve its intended purpose. The mech is sometimes used today by security forces and is relatively popular among rebels and other dissidents because of how easy they are to come by.

Weapons and Equipment: Most enforcers were armed with a single assault rifle, but rocket launchers, cannons, anti-air missile pods and rail guns were not uncommon.

MMF Judgement

Name: MMF Judgement

Appearance:


Height: 6.1m

Weight: 24 tons

History and Development: The modern day upgrade to the Enforcer with better armor, speed and able to handle the stress of extended combat, the Judgement was built for security forces and is typical protection for most cities where Monthas controls the majority of the market. This model was paired alongside the Monthas Mechanical Arms line of weapons, upgraded and commercialized versions of the weapons employed by the enforcer during the Last War, but sold as generic weapons for any frame with advanced enough hands to use them, which isn’t very advanced these days. Lastly the Judgement was the first mech to use an EHPS (Electronic Hyper Propulsion System).

Weapons and Equipment: Typical Armaments include a MMA assault rifle, but many multi barreled grenade, missile or rocket launchers. The grenade launcher is most common and is often used for tear gas grenades and other crowd dispersal tools. Additionally it has an EHPS, which converts power from its monthian reactor into thrust, allowing it to jump great distances in one burst of movement or simply dash out of the way of an attack.

Hellfire

Name: Hellfire

Appearance:


Height: 7.62m

Weight: 40 tons

History and Development: An early design that saw action throughout the Last War the Hellfire served as a mobile artillery piece to support offensives from wherever it needed to be. The design was eventually adopted and adapted to all sides in the war. With the change to the nature of combat the Hellfire has become mostly a museum piece these days, but the prolific nature of its use in the war means that quite a few remain in operation or lie abandoned somewhere to be scavenged for parts.

Weapons and Equipment: The Hellfire’s armament varied from military to military, but it was often simply given a single large artillery gun and some machine guns for defense. Sometimes however they would be armed with multiple smaller artillery pieces a single gun and two massive Long range rocket pods.

Golem

Name: Golem

Appearance:


Height: 7m

Weight: 26 tons

History and Development: The Golem is a mining mech popular across the world’s surface for its robust and reliable build. It has been in use for decades and is still top dog thanks to its modular design which limits the number of machines required by a community and allows for easy upgrading on the occasion that new parts hit the market.

Weapons and Equipment: The Golem’s standard arms are capable of wielding non-integrated weapons such as theMMA or similar lines, but when forced to fight it will often still be equipped with drills or other mining equipment.

Catapult

Name: Catapult

Appearance:


Height: 20ft

Weight: 50 tons

History and Development: Designed by the Hell hounds for heavy fire support of the Atlas. It is in grave danger if engaged, it is reasonably armored but does not have short range weapons. They are kept safe by their Atlas counterparts and their punishing barrages of missiles. The missile racks are built for easy reloading in the field, so that infantry teams can load additional missiles into the mech during combat.

Weapons and Equipment:
LRM 30 X2 - A missile rack with 30 tubes of long range missiles with a heavy payload, carries enough missiles for 3 full salvos

MRM 15 X4 - chest mounted missiles with 15 tubes each, they carry medium range missiles with a heavy payload. They carry enough missiles for 4 full salvos

Boosters - Light boosters to dodge a missile or artillery barrage, short range but better than the Atlas

I am interested in expanding the lore based on what people wish to include and I'll try to fill the remaining gaps when everyone else is all set with things. hopefully things aren't too vague to begin with. Again feel free to suggest anything and everything for new elements. I am also not attached to the name and suggestions for the name are welcome.

Oh, if you're interested in making more of a villain PM me because I have ideas.

Characters:

Cayden Black: Jon Carter / PANZER JAEGER XVIII/C - Krupp Corporation

Cultural Titan: Garret Taylor / Tempest - Monthas Corporation

GreenGoat: Clarence Belle / Luna Fighter - Nexus Corporation

Sophrus: Nicolai Astrovia / Atlas - Hell Hounds Mercenary Corp

Urbanliner: Brian Archer / Snowstorm - Monthas Corporation

[Cayden Black]

I'd very much like to have a go at this if that's alright. I won't be able to get a Character sheet done until later today/tomorrow morning as I'll be working shortly. Just curious what sort of mech suits you're thinking about too, Anime'esque or Realistic?

[Cultural Titan]

@Cayden Black

That's a question. I guess it depends on the mechs. Monthas corp mechs are going to look anime'esque, but other corps' mechs may have different styles and more "realistic versions" are almost certain to appear out of older models or less marketed models. Beyond aesthetics I am personally a fan of the feel of Hawken's mechs. Kinda slow and clunky, but with jump jets for bursts of speed and maneuverability, but I'd still like to incorporate anything that can be made to fit.

EDIT: added some loose guidlines to the main post.

EDIT AGAIN: Put a better guidline to mechs right above the mech sheet

[GreenGoat]

So about those competitions, would they be some sort of duels, or duels with some different events like team battles randomly happen, or just plop the contestants in a large arena and watch them pummel each other?

[Cultural Titan]

the Tournament may be any and all things depending on popular opinion, but if no opinions exist by the time characters are made I will come up with something that will hopefully allow all of the mechs given to shine. At least at some point. Basically I haven't set it up yet as an attempt to allow a wider range of applications. Effective or not, for better or worse.

[Sophrus]

Im down for this!

(assuming the application is still open)

[Cultural Titan]

@Sophrus

It is open for applications until people tell me to stop.

[Sophrus]

Ok! so i am probably going more of a MechWarrior vein rather than Anime mechas.

so ill be clunky and slow, but pack a punch lol. (missile pods, rotary cannons etc.)

Edit: and i have nothing to do here at work so ill probably write my CS now.

[Patient 43Delta]

@Cultural TitanI'm in let's do this

[Sophrus]

WIP

Character Sheet

Name: Nicolai Astrovia

Age: 26

Gender: M

Appearance:

Gear: Battle harness (chest plate used to secure Nicolai into the Mech)
Combat Helmet (Protect the pilot's head and neck from injury and provide a detailed HUD with Aim assist systems, vision systems Infrared+low light, and radar systems)
Rebreather (ensures safe supply of air for up to 2 hours in the event of toxic fumes or smoke)

Abilities: Well trained in heavy assault tactics and medium-short range combat, utilizing the pulse beam to melt his target's armor and then chew through it with a punishing barrage of missiles or bullets.

Personality: Nicolai is an aggressive tank of a man, happy in the thick of mech combat or in a bar room brawl. He is rowdy and will stir up trouble whenever he can, but he is most at home in the Atlas mech suit, shrugging off damage and

History:((WIP))

Atlas

Appearance:

Height: 18ft
Weight: ~25 tons fully loaded

History and Development:

Weapons and Equipment:
MRM 15 rocket pod - Medium range missiles with lock on ability, fires 15 High yield missiles per salvo (10 salvo capacity)
Rotary cannons x3 - Large caliber belt fed guns, not terribly damaging, but will cause damage to weak points or with sustained fire. (several thousand rounds each)
Pulse Beam cannon - An overclocked version of a mining laser, only able to fire for a few moments before the capacitor needs to recharge and the weapon needs to cool. Used to superheat armor making it weak to other attacks. (low damage alone)

Endo-Steel Armor - the Atlas is extremely heavily armored capable of surviving extreme bombardments of damage.

[ArenaSnow]

Gah... I keep poking back in here...

[Cayden Black]

I hope this is alright Titan, I designed a new company using an existing one that has history in WW2 for german tank production. If I need to change or tweak anything please let me know.

Character

Name: John Carter

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Images

Civilian Style

Miltary Attire

Gear: No unusual Equipment.

Abilities: Uncanny resilience and a good understanding of the MECH systems he pilots due to experience. He may be considered valiant, but John just see's himself as another soldier.

Personality: Strong silent type is not quite an accurate description for John. He's mellowed over the years due to skirmishes and the odd 'private war' between companies. He's made friends, and lost them, but he keeps going. Even with his experience leading men, John prefers to just do a job than give it.

History: Carter has been in skirmishes most of his adult life. After becoming a private in KRUPPS, a German company that focused on producing machinery of all sorts, Carter soon found himself in private wars against other small earth bound factions, some of his most notable battles being the 'Alps Dispute' over Alpine mining contracts that exploded into a small break off attempt by angry populace. His military service indicates that he lead a small group to penetrate enemy lines and neutralized their artillery. To John, it was the day he watched half his friends get killed. Back then most of the KRUPPS mechanized Armour were little more than tanks on legs, yet he was able to not only operate one without training but place the luckiest of shots on an exposed munitions cart that initiated the chain reaction which destroyed the artillery emplacements.


After the incident Krupps landed with favoured security contracts, and Michael eventually became a part time test pilot for Armoured units, giving feedback on his experiences with KRUPPS designs and how well they performed in military scenarios, while maintaining his duties for skirmish operations. In that time he did manage to settle down for a time and even have a son, but it was a short lived dream for John. After another Caste Riot he was informed that his wife had been killed in a terror attack, and that his son was now living with his grand parents while Carter was on operation duty. In this time he did was he could to stay focused, turning from a somewhat typical soldier to a more quiet and reserved figure. The final tragedy was his falling out with his son Dominic, who had decided to join a private firm himself as his father had. The fight went on for weeks until the two just stopped talking. John hasn't heard from his since, and that was 3 years ago.

Extras: John does carry an aged photograph of a young woman and a child with faded writing on the back.

Mech

Name: PANZER JAEGER XVIII/C

Appearance:
Height: 21ft
Weight: 68 Tonnes

History and Development: Jaeger XVIII, or just Hunter by most in the field, was a development by KRUPPS to counter enemy light units on the field. The Original design featured a back mounted 88mm twin cannon but the inertia from firing caused significant damage to the frame and was thus removed on the first models. A variants, the first to be produced, were armed with standard armour piercing vulcan rounds on an internal housed chain fed rota cannon fitting onto the left arm, with a single use missile launcher to long strikes against aircraft.

B variants were later adjusted with a grenade launcher module instead and the back mounted cannon was re introduced, but the 88MM guns were down graded to a more functional twin firing 40MM self loading Anti Tank system, with the need to remain in a starting race position to brace during firing. If the unit were to remain standing, the suit would topple itself from the force.

C Variants tried to become the jack of all trades system. Retaining the grenade launcher of the B Variant but having numerous additions made to the overall performance. In short, the C variant got a much needed face lift.

The Hunter has now been serving in skirmish and patrol duties for over 9 years and is still going strong as a mainstay Mech.

Weapons and Equipment: Twin belt fed Vulcan Cannons with Anti-armour/tracer rounds featuring both primary and reserve magazines giving a total of 92 seconds full auto before ammunition expenditure. Grenade Launcher with duel fed barrel system for two firing modes, High Explosive and Fragmentation with 12 rounds for each type. The back mounted system is a 55MM self loading Anti Armour piece, but only has the one barrel and no reserve systems along with only 6 rounds/1 clip before ammunition expenditure.
The Jaeger is plated in 240mm thick plating, with CHOBHAM Armour on vital sections of the frame. Limbs are easily removed for maintainence and replacement for rapid repairs on field deployments. Jaegers are also built with a small power unit aside from the Monthian Reactor, allowing weapons to still function in the event of a power failure. The suit will only function for approximately 3 minutes in such an occurrence and can not move. Giving pilots vital time to set an auto firing system and evacuate the suit.

[Cultural Titan]

@Sophrus

No lasers unless the purpose of your mech is for testing energy weapons. They aren't a thing yet. They may however be as part of a mid season upgrade after the tournament if we get there.

@ArenaSnow

Should i take that as interest then? =)

@Cayden Black

Just going to bring up complaints as I come across them.

You say he has an understanding of MECH systems, but I am currently running with the official term being mechanical frame. You are welcome to convince me to change that though.

Him being a military man is a little odd in a world that hasn't know war for 40-80 years (I haven't quite decided exactly when then uninventively named "Last War" was) and the corps do not openly fight each other. Now that said he could still hold himself in a military demeanor, but unless he's going to have served in the Last War, in which case he'd be like 60 or 80 or something, then all of his combat would be against rebels and terrorists, probably all derived from the lower classes rising up and trying to use their mining mechs for combat. At least from my perspective that wouldn't change much about your backstory if you went with that. If you do just know that such rebellions are kept on the down low and John isn't allowed to talk about it.

Its a little short, but that's not an issue, but it sure does weigh a lot. Now I can be convinced that things should weigh more and yours can certainly weigh more than average if you'd like, but I was thinking something more like 10-12 tons would be average. I get that from vaguely extrapolating out what a knightmare frame from Code Geass would weigh if it was 20 ft tall. they're actually shorter than that to my surprise. So assuming you don't convince me it should weigh that much you should knock it down a bit.

For the record how powerful are you imagining the vulcans to be? That may or may not have any barring on John being accepted. Where is the grenade launcher? The left arm? What exactly is the back mounted system? you mention the armor and while its fine to be specific, I personally need to know if it is supposed to be more or less armored than "average," Which I realize hasn't been specifically defined and maybe I should try to do something about that. Its Monthian Reactor. With an n. I should probably go look over my own work to make sure I didn't fuck that up somewhere myself.

Some other things I want to know are. How mobile is this machine? and why is John Carter in the tournament? Then separately I need a paragraph write up about your corp so I can add it to my slowly growing list. You will be credited.

[Cayden Black]

MECH is just a far simpler way of saying Mechanical Frame. That seemed too much of a mouthful for a division of fighters who would be in the thick of combat to yell out. Considering it's just an abbreviation I see no issue myself.

Military roles, regardless of time periods, would still exist. They don't have to be at war to have a military after all, and the whole purpose of machines like these seemed to imply the idea of a "deterrent" to war. Again not much of a difference to today, every country still has an army regardless of being at war or not.
As for the combat history, it wasn't a whole situation of "World War, RARGH!", more of small scale operations, again looking at situations of today and the cold war era. The combat he's been in would be much like the Syrian combat of today and the noted skirmish he was in was a sort of near brush to open conflict that nearly spiraled out of control. He's not been in a full scale war, but his combat record shows he's been in a lot of conflict on Earth. And don't worry, he's not exactly a man who brags about combat, he's supposed to find it distressing if nothing else, but does it because it has to be done.

As for size and weight, I actually based it very much off real tanks, only looking at sizes and weight and trying to accurately increase them on a somewhat reasonable level. Again, following that the company was the real one that made tanks during WW2, the weight is a fictional increase of that of the TIGER 1 model. Height wise I was trying to follow the guidelines you set, being on average around 20ft. If it needs to grow that's not an issue for me, but it's not meant to be the biggest of the bunch for certain. I can look back on the idea and try to adjust, but the armour will sort of explain the weight here.

The Vulcan cannons are rather bog standard for a suit designed primarily with an anti-personnel role in mind, but they can chew through armour at a decent enough pace with the AP rounds they are loaded with, so small and light vehicles are easy targets. It's a suit not designed to all out attack a heavy target, but do so in groups. The Grenade launcher is tucked into the same arm as the Vulcan's, sort of a one two punch deal there. The back mounted system is just a large cannon that can't be fitted to the arms (they'd be pulled off by the force) that allows it to become a sort of anti armour weapons platform during engagements against heavier opponents. This works best in the grouped formations they are deployed in field operations. The Image has the rocket pod where this cannon would be. The Armour is modern standard for plating, but the Jaeger employs it all across the chassis, contributing to a significant weight ratio compared to other sized suits.

I saw it spelt Mothian in one of your paragraphs, but that's no biggie.

His excuse for being in the tournament? Well it's not really his first choice, but his company want to 'field test' their standard suit against everyone else. See how it handles over the 9 years it's been in service and take that info to the newer models. It's more obligation than ambition that drives him here.

I'll update height and weight if you like, can always add another 3 feet to the thing and slim it down a tad on the weight side, but do you want me to add the company info in my character sheet or another post?

[Cultural Titan]

@Cayden Black

I'll get back to you on MECH if I finalize any kind of abbreviation. It can stand for now, just don't be surprised when I come back at some point and ask to change it to something else.

Seems good on everything you say on the military stuff, just make sure to remove mention of him fighting other corps because that doesn't happen and understand that his not talking is very much a contract regardless of how okay he is with that. So just a minor change to remove mention of corps and that's dealt with.

The height is fine I'm just mentioning it. not sure why I guess. If that's how much it would weigh based on tank stuff than maybe its fine. I'd generally want the armor to be better than that of a tank though. My running assumption is that the mechs are baseline more well protected than modern tanks and going up from there which may change how you view its armor. That said if you want it to have older armor or at least older styled armor than its weight would make a lot of sense.

I knew Mothian was my fault... damn it.

So yeah just remove the bit about fighting other corps and add his reason for being in the tournament and I think I can accept it. It would be nice if you added in the other details in, but it should be fine. Alter the weight if you want, but if its built more like a tank than modern mechs then its weight makes sense so it can stay, I still want to know how fast/maneuverable it is, but I just want to know that for me and it doesn't have to be in there, but it would be nice if it was for the sake of other players. The paragraph about your corp should be separate from your sheet. Just put it somewhere I can copy it and add it to the first post.

[Cayden Black]

I would like to convince you to leave in the skirmish between companies if I can. It was to lean to the factor that the floating cities are not a perfect world, even if the whole skirmish was covered up so its a red tape matter (aka never happened on record). It would also mean that should we progress far enough into the story that the war does break out it can give some reasoning as to why the corporations may turn on each other. Also means John has a reason to be so silent, since the fight that cost him his friends never happened on public record, their just down as "KIA" and nothing more.

The armour side is actually pretty thin compared to modern Abrams tanks of 600mm. I didn't want to go too thick or it wouldn't make sense how the thing moves, but accompanied by Chobham armour most ballistics would hurt it but take more than one round to fully punch through unless it was a high AP round from a direct hit. In most cases I'm pretty sure that kind of hit would kill most vehicles, luckily the shape of the frame helps direct a lot of energy away from the chassis instead of absorbing the whole impact. It's not one solid piece either, it's a layer by layer style, so the impacts do get absorbed over the whole plating instead of focused on a single point. It's a whole lot of science stuff that gets complicated, but think of it as jumping into a net, the whole thing shares the strain not just one point. The primary focus is what that armour plating is forged from. Abrams use a type of depleted uranium mesh, but I'm not sure what kind of metals you have in your world for armour.

I've adjusted the height by a few feet and decreased the weight by 10 tonnes, to try and make it more reasonable.

As for the Corporation description, I'll post that below.

Krupp is a very old name in alloy, artillery and munitions production. Dating to over 400 years ago, and one of the most productive corporations during the early 20th century, Krupp has since continued their stable and impressive history of a reliable manufacturer with vast numbers of contracts for private security supplies and new construction materials. Although technically older than Montha, Krupp fell out of favour during the last great war. Economic collapse caused the great industrial giant to recede back into a smaller role, only recently expanding to that which they were before the crisis. While Montha and Krupp are in a contract deal regarding the sales of materials and reactors, Krupp has been striving to produce their own variant of the Monthian Reactor to little success. It has lead to more than one legal battle and a few known under-the-rug scenarios with failed tests, but the company has been able to stay afloat so far. It now manufactures a wide array of Mechanized Suits that are employed in many roles, from industrial lifters to Mobile Artillery.
Krupp has a vision, the future is now.

[Cultural Titan]

I cannot budge on the corps fighting each other. That is a point of the setting that they settle their problems in sanctioned fights. In theory they could try and hit each other in secret like in Shadowrun, but then you'd be operating as more of a hired criminal or terrorist than an official military man and every company around would deny having anything to do with you and they certainly wouldn't send you to the tournament so they can keep a plausible deniability. You could still enter on your own though. You could have fought these shadow forces of another corp, but it would be hard to prove to what corp they belonged to if any.

I can't say I've thought out armor that well, and let's be frank if I did then we wouldn't be running a mech campaign because the more real science we apply the less useful they become. Let's face it mechs are't actually practical. I am just running under the assumption that at its worst, this universe's armor is lighter and stronger than the most heavily armored of modern tanks.

You didn't need to touch the height, but okay.

I'm going to keep Krupps age more vague than 400 years, because I don't want to be tied to a particular time period and add the s to monthas, but the description is otherwise good to go as soon as we are in agreement on the corps fighting each other issue.

[ArenaSnow]

To get an idea of where Soph's coming from, have a look at this.

sarna.net/wiki/Adder_(Puma)

Edit: I'm a bloody idiot who put the wrong name down. >.>

[Cultural Titan]

@ArenaSnow

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that enlightened me in any way. Could you help me out a bit on that? As a side note Sophrus has that mech as his picture in his WIP character sheet. That doesn't have anything to do with this, but whatever.

EDIT: I have seen your edit.

[Sophrus]

I don't know what he is talking about either.

That is the picture I'm using, but appearance will probably be the only resemblance as I don't have energy based weapons. I expect that I will use a (fast) hydraulic Lance instead, with a tank size cannon, missiles and some chain guns.