[CHAR] BeeNCQuest - A Mecha RP: Abberant Dawn (Ran with Permission)

[Letter Bee]

Name: Andrew Avalon - Field Captain

Appearance:


Age: 26, but looks 20.

Personality: Andrew is a man dedicated to a goal that is hidden from other people, including his team. A kind person who generally wants to seem optimistic due to a need to keep up a positive apperance, Andrew wishes to be loyal to his team while expecting them to be loyal to him. Though he wants to be fair, Andrew admits that despite his age, he has many inadequacies and flaws, including vanity in his good looks. Surprisingly, despite his usage of advanced science to maintain said looks and longlivety, Andrew opposes transhumanism beyond a certain point; he will not accept the alteration of fundamental human drives using scientific means.

Backstory: Andrew Avalon was born in Australia, in an Independent settlement that used to pay tribute to Red-Star before Haven emerged from its hidden Burrow and threw out the tribute collectors and their collaborators and brought relative peace to the surface. The next years were spent in education, as the Democratic Union Party of Haven organized mass literacy programs among towns and villages. Andrew found that life was happier there than it was in his early childhood, and committed himself to Haven as soon as he was old enough to be tested as an NC Pilot.

Finding himself with a fair Sync Ratio of 85%, Andrew Avalon was soon recruited into Haven's NC forces, piloting a Mech as part of the Havenite People's Protection Units in various actions against Red-Star's raiding forces. And after a string of successes and even counter-raids against the Asian MegaCorp, Andrew was 'scouted out' by a company of Mercenaries who were looking for new talent among the Independents of the world. Theodore Narra, General Commander of Haven, allowed said Mercenaries, the Electrum Company, to hire him as one of their members; the commander's rationale was that he wanted a liason in the 'mercenary scene', someone who would increase relations between Haven and various 'Merc Guilds'.

And with that, Andrew now had the perfect way to increase his experience...

Tactical Preferences and Skills: Andrew is a jack of all trades, but has mastered only few. Swords, guns, bare fists, Andrew has dabbled in many styles of fighting but is most comfortable with ranged weapons. When fighting with NCs, Andrew prefers to help his team as much as possible, shooting from mid-range, boosting Utility and Support Mech's systems, and occassionally going into melee range should circumstances be dire or he be provoked into an assault. As for non-combat skills, Andrew is a cook, a singer, and knows how to maintain his own guns and his NC.

Notes: Andrew is Bisexual.

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NC Character Sheet:

Code-name: Angel of Kobane.

Appearance:


Body Type: Bipedal/Hover

Type of NC: General-Purpose

Equipment & Armaments: Gauss Blaster that shoots both regular bullets and explosive gel, a meta-material blade that can encase itself in an energy field, and a dagger and chest-mounted set of machine guns for close combat. But the trump card of Kobane are two things: A 'Quantum Signal Booster' that increases the speed and encryption of Inter-NC communication, and a 'Wireless Energy Transmitter' that allows it to provide extra power from its fusion reactor to other NCs on its team. Said fusion reactor is also extra-efficient compared to other NCs...

[Letter Bee]

CS for Villain

Name: Osamu Akiyama

Appearance:


Age: Chronologically 5, but physically 18.

Personality: Osamu, though technically a genetically engineered artificial human, acts much like a natural-born person, though a very abnormal one. Sadistic, theatrical, and given to an outsize sense of his importance to Red-Star, the 'Coordinator' nevertheless maintains some form of self-preservation, especially when sent to 'watch' over Red-Star's subordinate commanders, who don't like him much. When around prisoners of war, Osamu loves threatening them with torture and enslavement, taking glee at the looks of terror or defiance this elicits.

Backstory: Osamu Akiyama was 'born', or rather, created, in Red-Star territory, in the Tokyo Burrow, now since taken over by Chinese Hegemony. Said takeover had been bad for the Japanese, except for the 'elites' that were co-opted by Red-Star, and those who can climb up the corporate ladder. The Scientist who had created Osamu had been one of those climbers, a scientist by the name of Suichiro Yuki, who harbored secret plans of 'liberating' Japan. And so he created Osamu, ostensibly as a new 'Superweapon' for Red-Star. Osamu would be the first class of a line of infiltrators and soldiers, who would replace 'regular' NC Pilots, being more obedient and capable all at once. However, Suichiro planned for them all to be loyal to him and him alone, so that they can take over Japan together.

Alas, it was not to be, because the secret 'bio-chips' created by Suichiro to keep his artificial humans loyal were discovered by one of his rivals, and the scientist was tortured to death just after completing Osamu. The android himself was going to be scrapped, but the Red-Star executives saw use in him, and so activated and programmed him to be their 'secret weapon', an instrument of terror to wreak havoc on the other corporations. And so it has been his life ever since.

Tactical Preferences and Skills: Osamu Akiyama is an Artificial Human equipped with a 'biological computer' that can control a single NC remotely through the Neural-Net; the drawback to this is that people in NCs who are strong-willed enough can resist his control, and even 'hack back' into Osamu's brain in order to gain information from him. Osamu keeps this a secret even from his superiors, although how successful this is is up for debate.

However, Osamu does have weaknesses. Despite all the knowledge that can be downloaded into his head, he lacks practical experience, and due to the implanted memories he received from Suichiro, he tends to go for 'dramatic' solutions as well as 'rational' ones. Also, his power can, again, only control a single NC at a time, and Actual AI (not that any exist) can also counteract him.

Notes: Yes, Osamu is bisexual.

[Conscripts]

I present to you, your antagonist

Name: Dai Anson - Lieutenant General

Appearance:

3-star General Dai Anson

Age: 38

Allegiance: Red Star Shelter Solutions

Personality:

Dai possesses an utopian personality. His utopia is basically a world of classless and safe society, where lineages or social status do not matter. They still exist, but does not boost or hamper their progress in life. A place where the people work more for the benefit of the commons and less for themselves, and every individuals would be evaluated according to their ability, and rewards are distributed accordingly to that aspect. An ideal that is almost dead in this world, with the rampage of self-interests, greed or just plain ignorance or laziness.

He is a true egalitarian, rarely prejudiced and would not accept social biases. His motivation for his generalship is to fight, not for the Red Star corporate, but rather for the world he envisioned. It just so happens that the Red Star has a relatively similar ideology. And because most people consider such views naïve, he is initially very disappointed of various aspects of life. As he progress on in his studies and travels of the world, he eventually grew to distaste many of the corporates handling the world, either because he thinks their ideologies, despite looking effective at first glance, will turn back and bite them in the long-run, or just plain disgusting (i.e Denver-Vegas's prison games). But on the other hand, he had grown to be more pragmatic, but still fighting for his ideals.

Dai will work tirelessly to make his utopian dream come into reality, or at least a fraction of it, or die trying. And with it, he is not above committing acts like brainwashing or propaganda to keep his people in check. But he mostly do this out of care rather for personal interests. He also regards immoral evil acts very critically, and will not hesitate to punish them brutally if they refuse to rehabilitate

To his army, Dai appeals the most to the common soldiers, with each soldiers referring Dai intimately, and their commander loving them as if they were his sons, but were not afraid to send them to their deaths if it proves a necessity. In both combat and non-combat scenario, he is a strong-willed, calm yet sensitive and considerate person.

Backstory:

Dai was born on Paracel Islands, a group of island in South China Sea, to a quite well-off intellectual yet total commoner family. He is, as expected of his family lineage: an intelligent and non-linear thinker, with keen interests in economic (he dreamt of being an economist when he was a little kid) and military strategies, allowing him to earn enrollments in many places around the world. The Red Star Corporate soon took notice of him, and promised to back his education abroad in Military Academies. And there...is when his disappointment began.

He first visited the North American Corporates and was disgusted at how the ruling classes acted. So he left and stayed at Paragon Industrial. His stays was alright, but the condescension to his commoner status drives him away too. His only prolonged stay in his trip is to Al Amir, to which the only faction he sympathizes, at least to his standard. He disliked the genius tax policy, but learnt his pragmatism there. He did not go to other places, but learnt extensively of their situation there.

Returning to Red Star Shelter Solutions after the long study trip, the now 27 years old Dai, from all the problems of Corporates worldwide, Dai was convinced that only a centralized, authoritarian but benevolent and open-minded government would be able to solve these problems, and that the citizens should not contain the characteristics of self-interest. But then, the war happened between Volkov and Red Star, a forgotten war, concealed by media coverage.

Volkov and Red Star is commonly known to be allies and trade partners, but inside, there were overall dispute and hatred for each other over foreign policy, and were concerned of each other's advancement in military technology. Border clashes occurred more and more frequently until one day, after a failed agreement, Volkov's board of directors decided to initiate a massive attack on the Red Star's North Eastern border, a move in which they perceived as 'punishment'.

Dai enlisted for military service as a result. He was initially placed for NC pilot testing, but his sync ratio was fairly low. Normally, Red Star would try to modify him to fit, but because of his educational background, Dai was placed in the officer role, and received proper training. He is granted the rank of Captain by the age of 29. His first successful victory is at an occupied village called Hien, where he personally, on the field himself, led an NC vs NC attack on the Volkov forces. The attack was completely unprecedented, with Red Star forces managing to hang on to their close ranged combat tactic. All Volkov's NCs were disabled, their pilots captured, with no Red Star casualties.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for his outstanding action. He proceeded to execute a variety of raid attacks across the occupied Red Star territory in Volkov's hand, thus furthering his ranks and reputation among Red Star officials. The peak of his career occurred during the battle of Seoux, the only large engagement and publicly-known battle in this 'taboo' war.

In this particular battle, the Volkov initially entrenched themselves in this particular valley, attempting to employ the Al-Amir style of defensive tactics, in response to Dai's raiding tactics. They expected the Red Stars to be unable to employ their usual tactics, but they were proven very very wrong. Dai secretly redesigned and deployed his carriers directly into combat with the NCs. So instead of having the NCs being deployed elsewhere and then move up close for combat, the carriers went straight into combat, acting in conjunction with the NCs. The newly improved design slightly decreased the speed, the load capacity of the carriers, but with a higher protective armor and fast firing secondary guns that allow for close range brawls. This shocked the Volkov, as their forces were unprepared for the firepower that came their way. They were swiftly wiped out, and many were taken prisoners. Some perished in those enclosed and brutal prisons.

The Volkov and Red Star discreetly came to a peace treaty. For Dai, this ensured an instant promotion to Lieutenant General, and was passed the baton of command of his newly improved army he led at Seoux, along with one more army corps.

Tactical Preferences and Skills:

Dai is an establish tactician, capable of adopting many different strategies and tactics. He has studied many battlefield theories from the great military generals in history. He firmly and highly emphasizes the value of 'logistics', that his army must be well-supplied both in terms of the physical and the mental. One of his principals of war includes: attack quickly if you know your enemy can sustain themselves better than you, and slowly when your enemy cannot. In an encounter battle, Dai prefers a close ranged attack strategies, the same strategies employed at Seoux, sending in his carriers and support ships to work in conjunction with the NCs to overwhelm his opponents.

Outside of generalships, Dai is a capable foot soldier, capable of using his guns well. In other fields, he is also pretty good at administration and economy.

Miscellaneous: He is currently single

[ArmorPlated]

Adam Philips

Name: Adam Philips

Appearance:

Hider

Age: Roughly 33 years old.

Personality: Adam is hard to read, and harder to get close to because of his cold professional attitude. He is suspicious of outsiders he perceives to be "snooping", often including anyone purposefully seeking him out without an easily discernible reason. He has been observed warming up to comrades outside of battle, but remains skittish until a friendship solidifies. He shows approval for anyone who actively seeks self-improvement, and will provide indirect support if the opportunity arises. He seeks to remain busy or linked to his NC, otherwise he remains quiet and reflects.

Backstory:Born to parents into the Smoke Bears bandit-clan of Denver-Vegas controlled Appalachia, Adam's life was nomadic and fraught with danger from it's very beginning. As a child he often heard the tale of his people from the Elder, that their home had been beneath the mountains since before the destruction of the world, their rise to power in early years of the nuclear winter due to the gifts handed down from their ancestors, and their tradition of martial prowess and practice before the return of the Corporations. He learned their land, and their peace, had been stolen by Denver-Vegas in their unending greed. Hunted, Adam's people became bandits and raiders, using their ancestral knowledge of the mountains to ambush DV's convoys, their preference for vehicles a hindrance in the rugged terrain where NCs reigned supreme. He grew up to admire the Elder, who guided the Smoke Bears' crown jewel, All Nerves as it's Companion.

As Denver-Vegas' hold on the land strengthened, the Smoke Bears declined. Their supplies dwindled as their enemies changed paths, sent greater numbers of NCs and began hunting for their camps. With the future looking bleak, the bandits lost their leader, their idol dormant without it's companion. The Bandits divided, those who sought to stay would hide their identities, burn their flags and become just another settlement. Those who would keep the mantle of the Smoke Bears would seek out among their number the Elder's replacement through the Trials, and would flee their home in the hopes that their brothers and sisters might survive, even if they were run down. All those young enough to, tested themselves in the Heart of the Mountains, and three candidates stepped forward to be tested against All Nerves itself. Only Adam could withstand the link, the others rejected because they could not change. They would serve the Smoke Bears as pilots of captured NCs, but they would not come near All Nerves of their own volition again. The Trials complete, they chose to bide their time in order to give those fleeing a chance to slip into safety unnoticed.

The time had come, and the Smoke Bears sped away from their home under cover of night, beating a hasty retreat east, the knowledge that their mission would protect their people was wind at their backs. Their destination was a port on the Atlantic, where they would steal ships from the unsuspecting Corporation and flee their homeland. In the fighting, many of the Smoke Bears fell defending their brothers and sisters, yet still more made away into the night on their pilfered crafts to lands they had only heard of, to "Haven". Things were not so simple, and the Smoke Bears had difficulty adapting to life, stifled by promises of freedom turned lies. Haven was no home to them, demanding tribute just as the corporations did to live on the land. Money was needed to see his people free, and so Adam found himself a Mercenary. Once more, All Nerves and it's companion would protect their people.

Tactical Preferences and Skills: Adam's experience makes him suited to Guerilla Warfare and Offense-oriented strategy. During combat, Adam remains mobile at all times, and has learned to maintain accuracy on the move in order to compensate for his NC's lack of melee and to utilize it's much greater speed.

Outside of combat, Adam is a skilled hunter, tracker and trapper. He also is also a capable butcher thanks to her early service to his "family". Adam greatly enjoys poker, stakes or no, and is notoriously difficult to beat among pilots and mechanic crews.

Notes: Adam is intensely protective of his "family" and his NC, protecting them above all else.

All Nerves

Code-name: "All Nerves"

Appearance:

Hider

Body Type: Bipedal Reverse-Joint, Non-Humanoid

Type of NC: Configurable between Light Artillery and Support roles depending on munitions loaded.

Equipment & Armaments:

-[Modular] Pod-mounted Rotary autocannon sporting variable ammunition for use against most targets depending on needs. Variable-Fuze HE rounds are the go-to, and can be toggled en-masse to be used against most "softer" targets to great effect.

-[Modular] Pod-mounted Magnetic Accelerator Cannon for use against Heavily-armored targets. Can be charged to increase projectile velocity and impact strength.

-[Modular] Back-mounted tactical missile pod.

-[Integrated] Back-mounted Radar/LASER designator sensor equipment

-[Integrated] Co-axial chaingun

-[Integrated] Torso Chaff/Decoy/Smoke launch tubes

-[Integrated/MODIFICATION] Modified reactor vents on torso, able to vent reactor plasma in short, weaponized bursts.

-[Integrated] manipulator arms attached to forward torso underneath sensor-cluster.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Name: Pumpkin Slicer

Appearance:

Age:Early 30s

Personality: A paranoid and eccentric man, Slice believes that there is an underlying pattern to all things and if he can just find and correctly interpret the sighs and portents he can stay on the "golden" path through life. Unfortunately for him he sees signs and portents everywhere and has a list of false predictions a mile long, but that's just because he's still practicing, he'll get better, honest. He's also extremely superstitious, believes strongly in things like luck and magic, dosen't trust NCs, and is terrified of his own in particular because he thinks it's plotting to devour his soul. The only reason he keeps piloting it is because "it's an evil machine, and if I stop piloting it it will just find someone more pliable to sate its bloodlust with."

Backstory: No one really cared about prisoner #62487 or where he came from before he was selected for the Denver-Vegas games. Shoved into a mask, into a shoddy mech, and let loose to be hunted like an animal in the wilderness for the entertainment of the masses, his story was supposed to end in a sad and pathetic death. No one though he would do the unprecedented and actually manage to steal one of the Hunter NC's. No one thought he would have the knack for piloting in took to not only evade but actively hunt the hunting team that he was supposed to die pathetically to, nor the Corporate NCs that were sent in after he killed them all. No one thought he would be able to break through the containment around the game area. No one thought he'd be able to get out of Denver-Vegas territory. Somehow, though, history slipped off the rails and this nameless nobody managed to slip the noose that was tightening around his neck.

In the end George Allen couldn't even be that mad. It was incredible television. Still, the fugitive the public was now adoringly calling "Pumpkin Slicer" after his mask and weapon had made a fool of his company. That was something that couldn't stand. He had to be hunted down and killed, no matter where he went. Slice was forced to keep fighting, signing on to different Corp and merc squads just to get some protection from Denver-Vegas. The latest and most long lasting of these relationships is the Electrum Company.

Tactical Preferences and Skills: Slice doesn't prefer fighting at knife fight range, but he recognizes that's what he excels at and it's what his NC wants. He prefers stealth, ending fights with a surprise attack that the enemy never saw coming and breaking away if he can to hit them from another angle if the first strike fails. As for personal skills he calls himself a "fortune teller and medium" and claims to be able to perform "black magic." In practice this means he's familiar with all kinds of folklore, occultism, and ghost stories. More practical are his skills as a NC mechanic, with a intimate knowledge of their inner workings that could only come from a professional education on the subject and an uncanny ability to fine tune them in order to get maximum efficiency.

Notes:

- Only takes off his mask when alone and there's no chance at seeing his own reflection. This is to keep his NC from finding out what he looks like.

- On the personal Shit List of Denver-Vegas
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NC Character Sheet:

Code-name: Black Magic

Appearance:

Body Type: Bipedal

Type of NC: Assault

Equipment & Armaments: The most notable piece of equipment Black Magic possesses is a powerful electron jammar that renders in effectively invisible to radar. It's primary weapon is its Crescent Moon Blade, a super heated blade whose sharp edge and weight enabled it to remove an enemy NCs limbs with a single strike. It's fallback weapons are a pair of "Stake Guns" it carries of its hips, sub-machine gun like weapons that fire super heated stakes. Thought the mech possesses great speed and agility, it is practically naked when it comes to NC armor meaning its only option when faced with a heavy weapon is to dodge and pray.

The NC is also equipped with the most advanced recording hardware in the world. The recording suit in the head allows it to perfectly capture video and audio in a 360 degree area around the mech that is saved to a server inside as a VR movie that can be copied and played in any Denver-Vegas brand VR Entertainment system.

[6slyboy6]

Hank Redford and Grumpy 1

Name: Hank Redford

Appearance:

Age: 41

Personality:

Hank is an old and grumpy man with a serious drinking problem. And he also has a missing leg. Two, actually. He's touchy about those. Even grumpier than he is usually. He believes that one must stand adamant against the grievances of life alone, and he respects strong individuals. However, time to time again, he comes to realize he cannot achieve this goal given his condition that binds him to his wheelchair. Pointing this out is a good way to get on his bad side. He can also be quite reckless at times, a trait that has already cost him his legs and previous NC.

Backstory:

Hank's childhood is lost to the ever changing river of history, as well as much of what happened before his accident. Hank calls it "amnesia", but whether he is lying or telling the truth is only for him to know. What little of those early times remains is the fact that he used to be a Corp NC pilot. A pretty good one at that. Back when he was a reckless, young hotshot. But fate didn't have his ways aligned with Hank's, and he suffered an accident he can "hardly recall". The obvious fact that he lost his legs however might not fully cover the truth. If to was the enemy or ally who wounded him remains a mistery to this day.

All Hank knows was that he woke up from a coma in a hospital, tied to a bed. Whatever the Corp planned on doing with him, he wanted none of that. He freed his bounds and after no small amount of hardship that he seems to vividly remember, he escaped the confines of the compund and went wandering into the world. Much has happened to Hank during this time, most of which is unimportant to his story. What is important however is his affinity with NCs ever since his accident. Hank craves to drive an NC, as it gives him back the feeling of his legs. This deep emotional drive manifests in both an astounding 97% sync rate and constant phantom pain in the place of his non existing legs.

Currently Hank's final staying place is with the Electrum Company, where his unusually high sync rate might just be enough to compensate for his other disabilities, like walking and advanced teamwork.

Tactical Preferences and Skills:

Hank's current NC is very versatile in the range of abilities it can utilize, yet Hank prefers simplicity. Always on the and offensive, he is the first in and last out when it comes to battles. Using his ranged capabilities when afar, Hank's ultimate goal is to get up close and finish off the enemy by either emptying his mags or knocking them out with a series of professional punches that he learned back in his Copr days.

Outside of combat however, he has troubles dealing with even some of the most mundane tasks, his wheelchair severly limiting what he can do.

Notes:

Hank's perspective of reality is quite twisted and demented, not enjoying much in day to day life. The lack of his legs reminds him of an unfortunate past and the feeling of not being wanted, which drives him to sometimes sleep in his NC, and go AWOL for a stroll or two.
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Code-name: Grumpy 1

Appearance:


Body Type: Bipedal (duh)

Type of NC: Assault/General Purpose

Equipment & Armaments:
- 30mm Assault Cannon chambered in 30mmx167mm APFSDS munitions with 3 mag cahnge
- Automated twin mount 50. Cal on right shoulder joint
- 6x2 Sidewinder AA rockets against fast movers
- 8x2 70mm Hydra rocket pods with 1 mag change each
- IR painter for long range targeting
- INU sensors equipment and counter-measures compartment on back