[OOC] 3 Nations: The World Of Mecha

[Liotrent]

@Feyblue

Glad you're stayin' the conflict between our two characters would've been interesting to see unfold hahaha!

[Pathfinder]

I'm pretty sure I'm done here, I'm pretty darn tired as I write this so who knows.

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Toulouse Voltaire

Name:
Toulouse Voltaire, "The Wrath of Amoranto"... though most people know him as T.

Appearance:

A Tired Man

Off Duty

On the Prowl

Age:
43

Origin:
Therux

Height:
6'0

Weight:
190

Backstory:
Toulouse grew up on the rural community of Amaranto, far removed patch of land from the growing tensions between Hylo and Therux. Life was quiet and uneventful, families mostly working on small time farms and selling what they didn't subsist on in the town proper. However with most quiet beginnings Toulouse's world was rocked when the Western War broke out, the now eight year old boy's father leaving home to join the front while leaving the farm to his wife and child.

In the coming years of the war food and money became scarce as much of the able bodied men and women joined the fighting, Amaranto becoming a land of children and elderlies. However in spite of the hardships these factors brang the community couldn't have been more together, everyone sharing what they could when they could and eventually the war ended and things returned to normal. While some of those who left never returned, most did and Toulouse's father was among them. On the day of his father's return, Toulouse vowed to become a soldier and defend the people of Therux just like his father.

His father never really approved, laughing it off when Toulouse was a boy but becoming more worried as the boy grew into a man. Eventually it came to a peak, Toulouse filled with national pride and youthful invincibility and his father who knew of the true horrors that war brought. However when it became clear to his father that Toulouse would never budge from his path he gave ground, instead telling the young man about what war was like without the patriotic filter. Toulouse wavered for just a moment but held strong in his convictions and eventually his father gave up and through some string pulling from some friends still in the military was able to send Toulouse to the military academy on scholarship.

Tempered by his father's stories and his desire to protect, Toulouse excelled in the academies mech simulations and quickly found himself pushed into that field by his teachers. It wasn't long until he found his calling inside the hull of a Bulwark and through graduation. Toulouse was then placed into the 207th Mechanized Infantry as fire support, while what would be known as the Orio War began.

For a nearly a decade and a half he was dragged to conflict after conflict, almost always on the defensive as the Northern Territories threw their soldiers into the wall of his weapons fire. Toulouse was about ready to call it quits when he was mobilized to the burnt out husk of his hometown, a once beautiful and peaceful place now reduced to ruins. There were no recorded survivors.

Toulouse was absolutely devastated, every pile of rubble was a home with a family, each of their names etched into his memory. He was well into shock when he saw his own home, a burnt out ruin with only the foundations betraying the location of a house ever being there. Toulouse didn't cry for a long time, he was a soldier and enemy units were moving through Amaranto tomorrow. There would be time for tears later.

That day was the only known use of a BWP-52 in close quarters combat as Toulouse broke ranks and charged into the mobilizing lines of the Frontier mechs. The surprise was enough to shatter four mechs before shock wore off, weapons returning fire at the charging castle. While the ambush was ruined it ultimatly turned out for the better, Toulouse's comrades pushing the attack as Toulouse kicked and thrashed like a wild dog. Reaper cannons fireing into the cores of Frontier mechs as titanic feet crushed the life out of their pilots. Toulouse alone was responsible for 14 confirmed kills before his Bulwark was critically damaged. To this day those who were apart of the "Battle of Amaranto" will tell you of the man in the Bulwark, screaming name after name through the vox channels.

Toulouse himself left the battle with two broken ribs, three bruised ribs, a punctured lung, various contusions, a mild concussion, a shattered femur, catastrophic internal hemorrhaging, a purple heart, and a medal of valor. The only thing that saved him after the fact was an experimental cybernetic suit that now holds him together even to this day. Toulouse himself remembers very little of the fight itself but ever since then he's been catalogued as a war hero, something he resents immeasurably.

For the next six years Toulouse served the state faithfully, always the good little soldier, and eventually the war ended. When it came time to rebuild however Toulouse found nothing but a bitter taste in his mouth, having only blood and ash to show for their efforts. After three years of this growing unease Toulouse was able to pull some strings with some friends in high places, allowing him to take his mech outside of the State and into the Freelands ostensibly as an informant of the going ons of the area.

Tactical Preference & Skills:
The Bulwark was used most often as defenders and fire support, entrenching down somewhere defendable and drowning targets in a tsunami of weapons fire. However caution to those who engage in close quarters combat for the legs of a scarab are incredibly strong and much swifter than one would think, knocking aside smaller mechs and crushing them into dust.

Quote:
"You can't look at all the children growing up without parents, living in these ruins, digging through scrap, and say any of this was worth it."

Text Color:
aba000

BWP-52 "Bulwark"

Name/Title:
Toulouse's Bulwark was known as the "Bannerlord"

Appearance:

Stalwart Defenders of the State

Body & Type:
Beast Type Crawler

Equipment & Armaments:

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Hand Slots:
AKP-09 "Reaper Cannon" - A medium to long range cannon that fires 60mm explosive, armor-piercing rounds. These "Reaper Rounds" were made to punch into and explode within enemy mechs but it wasn't unheard of for them to slip right through weaker mechs. The recoil from these guns is massive and requires the user to entrench for accurate firing.

Sub Weapon Slot:
ATK-44 Fusion Blasters - Smaller than the ones attached to Paladins, these fusion blasters work on the same principle as it's larger cousin. Short range but devastating against enemy armor and any poor schmuck caught in it's sights.

Shoulder/Back Spot:
Fly Swatter Protocols - Look to Gadget Slots.

Gadget Slot:
Advanced Targeting Systems - These systems allow Toulouse to see most mechs and hit them with pinpoint accuracy.

Fly Swatter Protocols - Instead of another weapons system on the top of the Bulwark there has been installed an anti-missile defense system. Using an array of lasers to "swat" these missiles out of the air it is difficult to land a hit without swarm type missiles. Though not their intended purpose the lasers can deal minor structural damage to a lightly armored mech.

Stats Scale:
Light/Heavy Body:
9

Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower:
2

Air Mobility/Thrusters:
5

Solo/Skirmisher:
4

Flavour Text:
Repurposed mobile oil rigs, the Bulwark was used in conjunction with Paladins and Cavaliers as fire support. While they aren't as renowned as their Paladin and Chevalier counterparts, the Bulwark has nonetheless been instrumental in the defense of many battles during the war and has endeared themselves to the public in smaller fashions.

[Wildman13]

Can I still join?

[Dolerman]

Woot woot.

@Skepic

[Dolerman]

@Wildman13 yes, but I'd have to ask for a CS fairly quickly, as I'm going to have the IC post up very soon

[Dolerman]

@Pathfinder big badass heavy machine is approved :)

[Wildman13]

pilot

Name: Silvius Grey More known as luggage.

Appearance:
Not serious and joking


Serious


Age: 17

Origin:
Northern frontier [Raised in the Fortune Region]

Height:
5'5

Weight:
149 lbs

Backstory:

Born in the year 2217 Silvius grew up and lived most of her life in the northern frontiers but due to unprepared and unwilling parents she was abandoned by them while they were visiting one of the fortune region towns, she was then raised in an orphanage in the fortune region, though she was always silent and well behaved at first, when she learned about the truth, a switch inside her flipped.

The first of many changes was her fondness of masks and a particular voice modulator that one of the social workers who work at the orphanage uses whenever she was reading one of the story books during story time in their class, wanting to have the voice modulator to herself she asks the woman for it in exchanged for reading a bed time story every night.

Fast forward to the year 2221, when she was at the age of 4, when she was wearing her clown mask she was gleefully reading a bed time story to the other children and a fault in the wiring causes the orphanage to catch on fire, ill prepared for this they panic as the door couldn’t be opened because the door became too hot to open by hand, eventually the firefighters arrived but it was already too late for the others, only she survived.

Due to the incident the orphanage closed down, leaving the young girl to fend for scraps in order to survive day to day life until one fateful day while she was stealing from a small mechanic’s shop, she found a small broken voice modulator on one of the shelves, this piqued her interest, she tried to fix it with the mechanic’s tools and the materials available.

After a few hours of tinkering she was able to make it work again coincidentally at the same time the mechanic, an old man with no family to call his own, called out to her, she was just about to run for her life when she heard, "You grab the hammer and help me out with this and I'll give you a good meal." Words from the old man that gave the girl hope once again.

In the year of 2232, the once orphaned six year old child became well known as the fifteen year old masked mechanic (though everyone thought she was a guy) she was renowned throughout the region, cheap affordable prices, good quality repairs, this all changed when she got her first taste of combat after two mechanized divisions clashed for the final time in the Orio war, Northern Mk2s’ and Therux state Mk2’s.

While the battle didn’t last long, the battle dealt a hefty blow to the civilians population as well as inflicting casualties to each other. Infrastructure, economy, and livelihoods were severely damaged in the town, though she was exposed to a small portion of the combat, the sight of the massive machines of destruction made her want one for herself, so while the clean up crew made their way to clear away the mess, she and a few of her employees took one of the unidentified Mechs and from that she made ol’ faithful.

After this event things were turning out well for her as the town rebuilt and prospered and formed its own militia to make it safer for everyone, but one day the town was attacked by another larger force; though the initial wave killed many of the militia before the military arrived they were able to hold them off.

Around the third wave, the criminals decimated them, but before the town was completely overrun, she powered up old faithful and with its primitive weapons and damaged state she was able to repel the invaders an act that started her career as a militia leader of the town.

Though labelled as luggage by her men due to no one ever witnessing her work and because they see her as a lazy sloth of a man they could not deny her support here; though troublesome, she has contributed to successful defenses in what seems to be hopeless battles.

After the death of her father she left the town with old faithful, bringing her the tools and the gear that her father owned as she decided that it was finally time to start exploring the dark world that her father had a small part in lighting.

While she worked as a freelancer for three years, she has never failed a single contract growing her old faithful in size as another win equals new parts for her ever growing mech.


Tactical Preference & Skills:

Whenever she is not serious she will not fight or avoid it and when she is serious and no one is around she will fight seriously.

She likes to be defensive preferring sneaking up to other mechs and firing at their critical points or parts.

while she likes to play really weak she is a good fighter because of all the experience she has gained throughout her career as a freelancer because of this her combat style became something similar to a combat technique called ‘drunken fighting’.

For the mech she has a very hard hitting battle mech but as she is always not serious she has adopted an artillery mech role as as she buries herself as she charges up her back cannons and fire at the enemy from a distance.

though has close and mid capabilities she will always adopt a siege tank role in combat or panic and try to be as much of a luggage.

Quote:

Not serious: COMMANDER MY HELMET IS MISSING! *Is wearing the helmet already* / CARRY ME TO THE BATTLEFIELD! *Waits for someone to carry her enormous mech*


Slightly serious: COMMANDER HELP ME! *Moves the controls in a way that she her mech hits a critical target*


Serious: It was fun but... *shoots her target three times in the chest* It wasn't enough.


Dead Serious: *Background Static* I… *Shoots the targets arms* don't feel… *Shoots the targets legs* like joking around anymore. *Shoots you point blank in the head*

mech

Name/Title: Pl 1657 or otherwise known as ‘Old faithful’
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Appearance :

Body & Type: Humanoid Bipdeal.

Hand Slot 1 & 2:
Broad riot shields, used mainly for defensive purposes, however they taper down to a point and can be used as a make-shift melee weapon.

Sub Weapon Slot:
Revolver type pistol, a last resort weapon for the pilot.

Back Spot:
2 Large twin 150mm high velocity artillery cannons that can be used by other people outside the Mech or it can be controlled via the mech’s in-built control set.

Gadget Slot:
Particle shield generator: The mech focuses more on survivability and armor, the particle shield adds a second layer of protection, it is basically tank like the hulk buster… But bigger...

Advanced targeting: The big guns need some sort of accuracy, and an advanced targeting computer allows Ol’ Faithful to volley shots long range allowing it to function like an artillery unit but with enough mobility to be like a medium Main Battle Tank.

Stats Scale:

Heavy Body: Armor and big guns… Just lots and lots of armor and very very big guns.
9

Accuracy/Firepower: Though it can use different ammunition like HE and AP rounds it can use special rounds like air-burst shells for flying enemies and grape-shot for infantry, accuracy depends on type of ammunition however with the advanced targeting computer system it can calculate, distance range, and angle of fire along with other data to make it effective thus striking a balance between accuracy and firepower..
5

Thrusters:The mech uses thrusters unconventionally, instead of using it for flying, Ol’ faithful uses it to give more momentum to its punches making them more devastating though very rarely used.
9

Solo: Ol’ Faithful is so survivable that it can usually outlast opponents that attempt to fight it, and with its large shields and guns it can basically obliterate any target the pilot wants to obliterate without the fear of being shot in the face.
6

Flavour Text:
Old faithful isn’t any ordinary mech, it is a combination of MK 1 and MK 2 components, as you can see in the schematics it shows two large fuel tanks besides the main core of the machine and other kinds of outdated and used materials.

But don’t be too fooled by its rugged design, it has killed many who have underestimated the strength of its melee brawling capabilities.

[Liotrent]

@Wildman13

Basically... A tortoise... With cannons... Blastoise... Blastoise vibes? Yup I like this mech.

[Skepic]

EDIT: @Skepic I see I'm not the only batshit crazy pilot with a penchant for smashing my targets with a giant sword who was pieced together after a near death experience. Guess I'm going to be harder pressed to carve out a niche for myself than I thought.

@Feyblue

To be fair, your's is the reckless, descending into madness crazy while Alexi is more of the born a ruthless psychopath and hasn't stopped stabbing her way to the top ever since. xD

Plus, who needs your fancy pansy "laser show" sword? Why not slash and smash with a good ole fashion hunk of metal?

[Feyblue]

@SkepicIt's not a laser. It's a railgun! :D Because if stabbing someone is good, stabbing someone and then magnetically accelerating a projectile several times faster than the speed of sound through their body is better, right?

[FallenTrinity]

@Skepic

God I missed your Alexis :D

[Dolerman]

@Skepic

God I missed your Alexis :D

@FallenTrinity

Dont we all??

[Dolerman]

@Wildman13 looks good, approved

[Dolerman]

I added a 0th post to the characters tab, working on the IC now

[Pathfinder]

Hmm, I'm trying to work through Toulouse's thoughts/first impressions with the other pilots. Frontier types will always be looked at with suspicion but ultimately T is a little too old to hate a whole people, only a government and specific persons, so he can be won over. He isn't going to be too fond of the crazies but Aster might awaken some hometown memories, though that seems like a pretty intense plotline.

I guess Toulouse is going to be pretty indifferent to most people, a little friendlier to those of the Therux State, a little terse with Frontier types, and a mix of the two if you're Hylo.

[snake153]

No one seems to like Hylo :(

[Feyblue]

No one seems to like Hylo :(

@snake153

I WORK for Hylo.

[Pathfinder]

@snake153
I mean they are fanatical, paranoid jerkfaces who dragged everyone into a meatgrinder.

[Liotrent]

@Pathfinder

True, but you have to admire their skill and tenacity for combat, a stalemate for half a god damn year against someone like Robin is impressive.

[Pathfinder]

@Liotrent
Nah, just stubborn zealots who don't have the good sense to just die and leave everyone else alone.