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Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Lucas was left in shock at the opponent's deftness and agility. Most titans, even Ronins and the Stryders before them, were still relatively unwieldy compared to a pilot on the ground, and yet this one leaped and moved in a way that he could only compare to other pilots. It seemed almost like a blink of an eye before the hostile titan had broken through the dust and smoke and was directly in his face. What the hell kind of machine was this thing?

He couldn't help but simply sit there for a moment, staring back at the Madrys' sensors through his own. "Tsk..." Lucas clicked his tongue in annoyance as the voice of Alms demanded his surrender. Cocky son of a bitch. He was confident enough to demand his titan from him, and Lucas didn't like being underestimated. Taking the opportunity given to him by the brief reprieve of Alms' demand for surrender, Lucas gathered his thoughts. He still had roughly half of his shields left over, which gave him an opportunity to do something at the very least, before Alms' counterattack would likely take him out of commission. He didn't recall Alms seeing him take damage, so it was entirely possible that he had no idea that he still had this final layer of defense, though he couldn't recharge it in such close proximity without suffering consequences. Turning this into a protracted battle would not be to his favor, he knew that much. This gave him a single opportunity and nothing else. Lucas brought one hand over to the emergency ejection lever as a smile spread slowly across his face. The Militia were far too fond of 'bonding' with their titans. As always, they lacked discipline, and while forming such neural links like with the Vanguard titans certainly held its advantages... The willingness to use and discard titans brought with it other advantages.

"Alright, gearhead..." Lucas replied over open comms so that his opponent could hear. "You win..." He releases his grip on his weapon, letting the chaingun fall to the floor with a loud clatter, and raises his titan's hands slowly, as if in an act of surrender. "I know when I'm beat, but-" With a snarl, the Monarch lunges forwards, arms reaching out to grab hold of the Madrys. The weapons Alms threatened him with bit into his shields, shattering them as his titan called out its automated warning which Lucas ignored. The blades found purchase upon the Monarch's titanium skin, digging deep into the armor, but without the room for wind-up, they wouldn't be able to do much else. "That doesn't mean I won't take you down with me!"

Lucas roars as his Monarch digs its heels into the ground, anchoring itself there as it holds the Madrys tightly, and he yanks on the ejection lever. Rather than simply falling apart and self-destructing, as with a normal ejection, the Monarch began to glow, light emitting from its innards as its reactor began to go nuclear and Lucas himself is shot up high in the air, far enough to avoid the fallout of his titan's nuclear detonation, even as his cloak kicked in to shield him from any onlookers hoping to take him out mid-air.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Oh, sorry. I didn’t think it’d be my turn to post again so soon. I’ll get something up quick.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

@Foster

Welcome to the team. Glad I'm not all alone.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Lucas saw the Madrys titan shift to face him, and he gives a click of his tongue in annoyance. He'd hoped for his element of surprise to last longer, if only to close more distance with the sniper weapon in its hands. The weapon is pointed at him and his brazen charge, firing off with a boom. Lucas reacts, moving to dodge to the side, but the entire frame of his titan shudders as the round clips his leg, shields flaring to life to absorb the impact. "Warning. Unknown titan engaged. Recommend caution." Rattled off the digitized voice of his Titan OS. Lucas swallowed the urge to simply tell it to shut up, and instead focused his attention on his indicators, seeing his shields had dropped by over half from that single hit, and grimaced instead. His eyes flickered back up towards the Madrys, briefly debating for a moment his options, before continuing his charge. To retreat now would only spell defeat, he had to press.

"Let's see how good you really are..." Lucas mutters quietly as the acolyte pods on the shoulders of his Monarch raise up, and the man lets off a volley of missiles that spiral through the air. Rather than aimed at the titan, however, the volley of explosives is aimed at the spire that the titan stands on, hoping to knock the machine off balance and give him more time to get in close. The XO16A2 chain gun rattles off a hail of rounds in Alms' direction, aiming to scour him as he's forced to rebalance or dodge.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Apologies for the double post, but just here to say that I posted. It's a bit longer than I normally would do, but wanted to set the scene for the IMC guys, and the battle everyone is having. Gave a bunch of titans for Savvy to tear into too.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Lucas could remember over five years ago, when the worst they had to worry from the Militia were guerrilla strikes and raids, striking at newly established outposts or cargo vessels while attempting to capture titans. Ever since Demeter, the Militia had grown bold, confident in their ability and supremacy of the Frontier, now targeting well defended manufacturing facilities like this one. Now they all had to be hardened, with the majority of facilities installed underground, like a bunker, and with numerous defensive measures throughout.

The alarm had been called not even an hour ago, and already Lucas was suited up and inside of his titan. The facility was easily capable of producing titans on the fly, and containing more than enough spare parts for repairs, meaning so long as the pilots played it safe, they could retreat to come back with a new titan later. In a battle of attrition, the IMC held the advantage here, but Lucas knew the militia would not strike if they didn't feel confident in their ability to overwhelm them. That meant the opening parts of this battle would be crucial, as every extra minute they held out would allow for the momentum to swing evermore in the IMC's favor. Soldiers and spectres both were already deploying to man defensive lines, and he could hear the sound of anti-aircraft fire overlapping each other to fill the air with fire and steel as they attempted to intercept the incoming Titanfalls.

Lucas was the lead of his own small squadron of titans, moving forward along with several other squadrons to attempt a counteroffensive to blunt the Militia's advance, only just a little ways away from the defensive lines behind them, already engaged with skirmishing forces. Their advance had yet to meet any Militia resistance, which left the team on edge, more so than if they'd already traded fire. This tension was broken when someone called out in warning over the radio, "Titanfall, incoming! Mumford, watch out!" All eyes turned upwards as titans burned through the atmosphere, somehow unmolested by the anti-air fire trailing after them, and slammed into the ground like meteors all around before them. One, a red painted Legion, clipping the back of a Tone who had taken point, and taking him out in an instant. The Legion unfolds, seeming to take only the briefest of moments to survey its surroundings before booking it towards a rocky outcropping as it sought out cover. "All units, return fire! Push them back!" Barked the voice again, and immediately rounds were being traded between IMC and Militia forces.

Lucas cursed, raising his Monarch's rifle to fire at the Legion that had been making a run for it, rounds scoring a few glancing hits, but he was forced to duck aside as several other Militia titans quickly sighted in on his chassis, rounds rattling off of his shield until he recharges it by firing off a beam that sapped the energy from an opposing Ion. As good of a titan the Monarch was, it certainly painted one hell of a target of Lucas' back.

Another Titanfall in the distance caught his attention, a little further away from the fighting. Lucas blinked as he watched the titan in question rise to its feet, and he quickly magnified in on it. At first it seemed like a heavily modified Stryder, but as the dust settled, Lucas could only be taken aback by the sight of it. "Is that... a Madrys?" The Madrys was designed decades ago, and had never entered production phase. There was only one person known to pilot one... He twisted the corner of his mouth up into a snarl underneath his helmet. "Fucking simulacrum, don't know when to just die..." he muttered. If that man had stayed in the ground the first time he'd been put down, he wouldn't be such a thorn in the IMC's side. Pilots were almost were universally acclaimed as the best of the best, but even among pilots, there were those that excelled and exceeded their peers. Aces among aces, and among them was a dead man named Fredrick Alms. He needed to go down, now.

"Cover me!" He called out to his men, before pointing a finger towards the Madrys in the distance. "I'm going after that one!" Without waiting for confirmation, he quickly breaks away from the fighting, looping around the skirmish as he makes a dash from cover to cover and heading as fast as he's able towards his target.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Sure, that works.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

@superservo27

Yes, I suppose it's fine, but I don't really see how people would know how many kills Cross has. Swapping between titans a lot means he doesn't paint kill markers very often, and I don't really see why how many kills someone has is that important for the scene.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

Cross would probably recognize the Madyrs, but since it was only ever in the design phase decades ago, I dunno how much he'd actually know about Alms or what it can do. I imagine he'd at least have heard about it though, and I'll include that in the post.

As for your new bio... He defeated several titans in close quarters using a Northstar? With weakness in hand-to-hand being listed? Seems a little off.

Pilots Wanted! A Titanfall RP

@Foster
In case you're still interested in the game, I ended up typing up this summary for you since a lot of stuff is scattered throughout the wiki.

Infodump

So starting off with the two most important things, pilots and titans. Pilots are, of course, people who pilot the titans, and there are numerous 'gradings' and certifications of titans, most of them for civilian use since that's what titans were originally designed for. The hardest certification to receive is the combat certification, which involves a lot of physical and mental tests and exams, and mean that you're fit, smart, and capable of using things like jump jets and piloting a titan as if it was an extension of your body. Pilots get this way through a combination of hard training and augmentation, more training for the Militia who lack a lot of more sophisticated things without stealing them, and more augmentation for the IMC who can quickly churn out more pilots to match their massive industrial war machine.

Titans, as stated before, are mechs originally designed for civilian use and originally designed by the IMC, and have since been introduced to warfare as they are extremely dexterous for several hundred tons of hulking metal, and capable of putting out firepower equivalent to that of main battle tanks. Titans are designed in a bipedal form to also act as an extension of a pilot's body, and likely require extreme amounts of spatial awareness and dexterity in order to be piloted effectively in combat (which also lends to a pilot's maneuverability and ability to use jump jets). By and large, titans only have basic AI with canned personalities called a Titan OS, and are really only capable of limited individual movement and combat ability. This is prevalent through first generation titans (the Atlas, Styder, and Ogre) which were civilian titans quickly repurposed for war, up to second generation titans (more specialized and less flexible than first generation titans, but much more suited to fighting). Third generation titans, of which there currently only exists the Militia-designed Vanguard, take it a step further by giving the titan a truly intelligent AI, and forming a neural link to its pilot. This means that pilot and titan are bonded on a whole different level, which makes them both much more effective when fighting together, but also means that you can't simply swap between titans on the fly. Any experienced Vanguard pilot can mop the floor with entire squadrons of 2nd or 1st generation titans, but are also much more costly and only issued to Militia special forces, (the SRS).

More Infodump

Onto a brief timeline:
The IMC (Interstellar Mining Corporation) which dominates the Core Systems was involved in a series of wars called the Core Systems Conflicts, and after the wars were over, basically funded a bunch of colonization efforts out into an area of space called the Frontier, giving land and money to a lot of the soldiers who had fought for them as recompense for their service. The Frontier is a massive stretch of extremely habitable planets full of life and alien ruins, but was at the time an extremely long distance from the Core Systems, requiring years upon years of travel, likely decades at its most distant points. The IMC would fund these colonization efforts for a while, before their interest dried up due to the distances involved, and turned inwards to recover from the wars they'd fought.

This meant the Frontier was left to develop on its own for a very long time, developing its own culture and civilization independent from that of the IMC, as well as being a place of great lawlessness. The Wild West in space. With the advent of the Jump Drive, however, a much more effective form of FTL, the Frontier quickly became much closer, and the IMC regained interest in its vast and largely untapped natural resources in order to feed increasing demand in the Core Systems, which had long been depleted of such vast reserves. Claiming that since they had originally funded colonization efforts into the Frontier, the IMC claims the majority of the Frontier as their own, and quickly moved in with their forces to boot off colonists and set up mining and production centers. Tensions rise between the Frontier and the IMC, slowly escalating into armed conflict called the Titan Wars (likely because this was where titans were first introduced into warfare). The Frontier organizes into a ramshackle military called the Militia made up of farmers with guns, pirates, and outlaws, in order to combat the IMC. Due to the Militia's lack of organization and the IMC's willingness to use cutthroat tactics and massive logistics and supply advantage, as well as likely being the ones to first introduce titan warfare, the war ends in an IMC victory, although the Militia continues to wage guerrilla operations throughout the Frontier.

Over fifteen years pass before the Militia begins an offensive that starts what is called the Frontier War. The Militia's offensive ultimately culminates in an attack on Demeter, the IMC's "half-way point" between the Core Systems and the Frontier, a refueling station for ships making the long jump from there to here. It would cut off the Core Systems from the Frontier, and leave IMC reinforcements years away from coming into the Frontier. This is the 2nd to last mission in the first Titanfall story, and is basically the ultimate victory for the Militia over the IMC during that game. The IMC splinters somewhat, forming the Remnant Fleet, led by an AI called Spyglass that was essentially in charge of operations in the systems, which remains an obscure threat that hits not only Militia aligned targets, but also IMC facilities, and the Remnant Fleet has largely since been declared rogue by the IMC.

Roughly five years later, the IMC is finally capable of reinforcing the Frontier once more, which sparks the Frontier War off in earnest again, with the Militia having since reorganized into a much more professional military, though still by and large united only by their combined dislike of the IMC, and having designed their third generation Vanguard titan. The campaign of Titanfall 2 plays out, which really doesn't have all that much impact on the war, other than the main character stopping a super weapon, but otherwise the war remains.

Hope this helps, and I can provide any further information if you need it.