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Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

Din Sharp Aredrick

Grand Baron

29/R.C. 470/Zern Empire/Martian/Male

Physical Appearance

Din is a 5 foot 10 man with faintly muscular features, more akin to a distance runner or actor than a strongman. His sharp orange eyes and strong facial features are framed by a rather lush mane of shoulder length orange hair. He holds himself with a dignified and somewhat demanding way.

Din has a rather varied wardrobe, including his red and white officer uniform, some professional black and white suits, his pilot suit, and white button-up shirts for more comfortable clothes

Personality Traits:

Proud
Dignified
Demanding
Hungry for power
Respects underlings and partners that do good work
Inferiority complex
Hints of sociopathy
Controlling

Biography:

I was born in 470 R.C. to the rather illustrious Sharp family. My parents were both overjoyed and took great care to raise me and gene modify me to be a proper heir to the Sharp company. Mother had been having trouble conceiving, and it was considered a miracle that I was born at all.

However, less than two years later my mother gave birth again, this time to my beloved younger brother Arthur Sharp. Strange how fate works is it not?

My younger brother and I were both raised similarly and gene-modified to be intelligent individuals. There was something of a competitive streak between us. Though we loved each other deeply, I admit beating one another at various sports and competitions was one of the main joys we had.

As we grew older father took more time to teach us the ways of the company and business. And as intelligent as we both were, my brother had a talent for business that I never had. I’m afraid that around that time my competitiveness grew fiercer and fiercer. I took up many sports, namely fencing and running, to have something I could still claim to be beat at.

It gradually became apparent that I had a different path than what my father intended. It became clear that I was not suited for business. I was more suited to being an athlete, but another job requiring physical and mental strength and dexterity was calling me. The life of a soldier.

I joined the officer academy when I was 17 and spent a few years there training and giving my combat and leadership skills. It took time and effort, but I graduated near the top of my class. Serving the Zern Empire instilled me with purpose and pride and soon after my graduation rebirth of Piracy began.

My history in the military was fairly unremarkable but consistent. My squad was rated as one of the safest for soldiers to be a part of, and my failures and retreats can be counted on one hand. Perhaps I wasn't the most flashy or successful generals, but I was consistently performing well. Over time I began to accumulate renown and received several promotions. Eventually reaching the rank of Legate.

Not all was good, however. The pirates were vicious and caused much damage to Zern property and goods. And a few years into the war I received the news that my father was dead, and my little brother was taking his place. I couldn’t take time away from fighting pirates to attend the funeral. I grieved in private and kept fighting.

When the war was over I returned to Mars and continued to serve the royal family and rise in the ranks. It was around this time that I received my noble titles of Baron. With my newfound free time on Mars, I revitalized my interest in sports, including my new favorite, Falconry.

The Venue is set to leave for Venus quite soon, and I will be on board as one of the senior officers. Nothing honors me more than being trusted with such an important task.

-excerpt from an interview with Din

Skills and Abilities

Refined human: as the first born of the Sharp family Din was rather extensively refined. While by no means super human, Din owes a great deal of his physical and mental strength and agility to his genetic refinement

Athleticism: Din participated in a large number of sports when he was younger, as a result he’s very athletic. He’s physically strong, quick on his feet and very dexterous.

Swordsmanship: Din is an accomplished fencer, but it was never his best sport. He has a history of making it halfway to the finals before losing a match and dropping out. He did make it to the semi finals once however, so don’t discount his sword play.

Falconry: Din’s favorite sport and the one he shows the most promise in. He and his falcon Soren have snatched victory in every falconry competition they have participated in these last two years.

Officer training: Din received officer training during his early days in the military, including lessons in marksmanship, tactics, leadership, and more.

Tactics: it’s not quite fair to call Din a master tactician. He’s just a very good one and all for one reason. Consistency and efficiency. Throughout the rebirth of piracy Din’s squads consistently took less damage than comparable squads, and downed more pirates per battle than average. He rarely scored a crushing win that instantly defeated a ship of pirates, but he also rarely lost a mobile suit of his own.

Personal Items and Equipment

Officer’s Sabre: A curved plasteel Sabre with an elaborately designed metal sheath that Din keeps on his belt. It is a sign of his authority and a close-range self-defense weapon. It has never drawn in self-defense before.

Self-defense pistol: a high caliber semiautomatic pistol with an unusually high penetration for a self-defense weapon. It holds 12 shots and has simple iron sights.

Soren the Peregrine Falcon: a well trained, well behaved, and all-around gorgeous peregrine falcon who has been Din’s partner for about 3 years. She’s notable for being very affectionate around humans, liking to climb on their arms and rouse to show off her plumage. It’s advised not to let her climb on you without appropriate protective gear.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Din is an extremely skilled and intelligent person with good marksmanship, swordplay, piloting, and tactical skills. All of this combines to produce a man who, at the top of his game is extremely dangerous to his foes, and extremely helpful to his allies. That’s not to say he is without faults though

Din thrives on success and being the top dog. When on the back foot or disadvantaged he takes extreme steps to correct that, sometimes to the detriment of himself and others. He can come off as arrogant and demanding and has a cruel streak to people that cross him. For all his skill, he’s still one man whose expertise lies in on foot swordplay and leadership. There are many aces with more skill and prowess than him

Chosen Mobile Weapon

Tommy Commander Type

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

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"The only animals that can threaten an adult hippo are other large mammals like elephants, Rhinos and other Hippos. Part of the reason for this is their very thick skin and large size. Most predators in the region rely on causing bloody wounds with their claws and teeth. But a Hippo's skin is too thick to easily puncture by the predators of the region. Furthermore, a hippo can weigh as much as two tons, more than enough to outweigh every predator on the savann- The sound cut out as Lucas pressed a button on the side of his personal computer and the screen went dark

"Thick skin huh? That doesn't really help me any. I can't just make armor thicker and thicker. Sower is already big and heavy. If he was much bigger it would be a huuuge loss on mobility and it would take a lot of resources… It’s interesting to learn about though"

Lucas placed his personal laptop on his nightstand and stood up from his bed, yawning as he stretched. He had spent the last hour lying down on the bed in his private quarters, watching various reports, records, and documentaries on old earth animals, as was his custom. After an hour of lazing around watching documentaries, it was time for his daily walk

He exited his room, locked the door, and started walking around aimlessly. He found that some of his best thoughts came while his body was moving and his blood was pumping.

Most of the large mammals had been a complete bust. Apparently the things that made elephants and bears so strong couldn’t be replicated with metal, only with flesh and bone. For the most part, the only animals that had given him something to work with were insects, arachnids, and other fairly small creatures. That’s because those animals couldn’t just outweigh their opponents and assert dominance like that. It looked like he had to focus on animals with neat tricks and body structures instead of raw weight and muscle

“Maybe I could take a look at birds next? They use wings instead of jets, but I could probably learn something from their bodies. Like their bone structures or their talons. That ought to be useful.”

Lucas absentmindedly turned a corner and ran directly into Lycoris and fell flat on his butt.

”Ow. Sorry about that I wasn’t paying attention.”

Lucas looked up and saw a familiar purple-haired girl. He immediately stood back up and started jabbering

”Oh hi Lycoris! How are you? Are you working on anything interesting? Want to hear about what I learned today?”

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Despite its fanciful name, The Grand was a somewhat dingy medium-sized bar tucked in the corner of the habitat. The only people there were disgruntled miners there to dull the pain, or on rare occasions, soldiers with shore leave or Merchants coming to stock up on booze before the journey home.

Sitting in a dark corner of the Grand was Denzel Zenith, pouring over several documents and notes. He took a small sip of alcohol as examined a rough sketch of patrol routes in the area surrounding a Martian owned warehouse.

Truth be told Denzel was getting impatient. It had been quite a long time since his last proper act of rebellion. The warehouse was full of machine parts big and small for Mobile Workers and suits. The Mekon movement wouldn’t get any full suits or workers, but they would obtain a lot of replacement parts.

The influx of replacement parts would allow the movement to repair more downed suits, enemy and friendly. As long as the movement still had friendly repair shops to help out it would more than double their combat potential, and give them something of a safety net…

With that potential we could attack the Venue- Denzel shook his head and rejected the thought. Of course, he would like to stick such a huge blow against the empire but there are many, many reasons why it wouldn’t work. It was too heavily guarded, it was too big, it would get everyone killed. You don’t really want to hurt the princess, considering her thoughts on Venus… yeah that too.

But for now, he had the outline of a good enough plan to take the warehouse, he just needed to get the boys together first. Denzel took out a notecard and wrote a short message.

"Meet at the hideout, as many people as you can get, within a few hours. Thanks, cinnamon bun." -The Crusher

“I would like another drink please.” Denzel quietly slipped the waiter the note as they brought over another mug of beer

A few minutes later, one of the Venusians at the counter left with the note after “paying his tab” and went to deliver the message. Denzel wasn’t in a big hurry though. It would take a bit for the message to her to Johanna, and then a few hours to get the gang together. He had time for a few more drinks.

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

Denzel Zenith

“The Crusher”/Rabble Rouser

29/470 R.C/ Mekon movement/ Venusian/Male

Physical Appearance

Denzel is an extremely tall man with deeply tanned skin and huge rippling muscles. His long unruly hair is red at the root but turns a dark orange towards the tip. He has the square face of a thug, but his sharp brown eyes seem unrelentingly alert

Denzel’s clothing of choice are tight muscle shirts of various color, mainly grey and dark green, and plain pants, again usually grey. He has thick tan gloves to protect his hands from rough surfaces

Personality Traits:

Cool-headed
Focused
Pragmatic
Determined
Violent
Clever
Detached
Functioning Alcoholic

Biography:

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Denzel was born in the year 470.

Denzel’s early life was mostly defined by his family and their struggles to stay alive. He was the eldest child of a Mobile Worker pilot and a stay at home mother. The Zenith family was cursed with a terrible mortality rate on their children. In the years between Denzel being born and his mother’s death in 480 Denzel had watched 5 brothers and sisters be born and all but one brother die to malnutrition or sickness

After his mother’s death, he was forced to grow up and take on the role of caretaker for his sickly younger brother, while his father continued to be the breadwinner. People interviewed claim that Denzel was extremely protective of his younger brother.

When Denzel was 17 years old his father was crippled in a mobile worker accident and had to return home. Suddenly bereft of a breadwinner Denzel decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Mobile Worker pilot for the good of the family. He endured harsh and difficult working conditions without complaint

However, at some point in time, the cash flow from his job became too little… and he began to engage in Venus’s criminal element. The period of time is unknown but confirmed to be sometime after he joined the workforce.

Denzel began participating in illegal Mobile Worker brawls and street fights, engaging in the Venus nightlife. There’s no evidence that Denzel engaged in the drug or weapon trade, but the fights are confirmed and his cash flow greatly increased

The money from his many brawls were spent to educate his younger brother and find a safer job. Denzel was rarely home with his job and illegal dealings.

In 496 there were a number of riots and protests led by the Mekon movement, several of which broke out into violence. In one such riot, Denzel’s brother and father were counted among the dead. It is unknown if the were actively supporting Mekon, or merely in the area.

For a period of time, Denzel dropped off the radar. He quit working and rarely appeared in public. It is believed he immersed himself fully in the criminal underworld.

The next time Denzel appeared in public was 497. A Mekon riot was being suppressed by two redcoats kept for riot control purposes. An illegally modified Scutson emerged from out of sight and ambushed the two redcoats. Both were totaled in the confrontation, but by the time reinforcements arrived the Scutson has already left. Its pilot was Denzel

After that first appearance, Denzel has appeared numerous times to support Mekon, and it is believed that they are working together. He is considered extremely dangerous and should be disabled as quickly as possible

NO OTHER FILES FOR DENZEL ZENITH FOUND

Skills and Abilities

Street fighting: Denzel is a clever and vicious fighter in hand to hand, with or without weapons. In addition to his fast and powerful punches, he has a multitude of grapples and throws to rely on. His fisticuffs have earned enough renown that most thugs and criminals will back down without a fight.

Mobile unit piloting: Denzel has been piloting mobile workers for over 10 years and is familiar enough with them to move and act with great precision and speed. After he turned to fighting he honed his piloting skills to be on similar levels to an experienced mobile suit pilot. Unlike a properly trained pilot, his movements are very direct but fast and efficient.

Guerrilla tactics: After a couple years with the Mekon movement Denzel has become very skilled at Guerrilla tactics. Ambushes, raids, diversions, and other trickery. Compared to a properly trained tactician his plans are very ragtag and risky, but he’s led Mekon to success in missions before

Human Kai (latent): Denzel is a Human Kai, and as such occasionally experiences a mild form of precognition. His form of Kai manifests as battle instinct, allowing him to predict the next second or two of movement from his opponent. In addition, it allows him to “feel out” the mood and style of an opponent within minutes of the battle’s start. However his Kai doesn’t probe particularly deep, and it most often activates while in danger.

Personal Items and Equipment

Brass knuckles (with knife) A knuckle guard that has faithfully served as Denzel’s weapon of choice since the very beginning of his brawling days. This simple metal guard allows Denzel to punch full force with less chance of hurting himself, and deal more damage with his punches. Attached to one end is a straight-edge knife that can cut through wires, flesh, and fabric with ease. It’s very sturdy and holds an edge well, but it’s not long enough to be much use at anything other than extremely close range.

Sawed-off shotgun: an old-fashioned shotgun with most of the barrel sawed off. As a result, it’s range has been heavily reduced, but it can be more easily carried and wielded with one hand. Despite that, it packs enough punch to shred unarmored flesh, and knockdown armored humans just with the stopping power.

Satchel bag: a large satchel with a strap that Denzel carries. It usually contains spare ammunition, any additional tools required, and his shotgun when it needs to be concealed

Strengths and Weaknesses

Denzel is a very focused and determined person. When he has a goal he considers important he will focus on with all his might. He has the determination, willpower, and raw spirit to endure hardship and bad situations all in the single-minded pursuit of his goals. As a fighter Denzel is stronger and tougher than anyone short of a martial arts master. As a pilot what Denzel lacks in proper training, he makes up for in experience. In short, Denzel is dangerous.

However, Denzel has some weak points. Despite his skill and power, he has little experience with repairing or modifying Mobile Workers and Suits. He has to rely on someone else to maintain and upgrade his gear. Despite his cleverness, his tactics are fairly basic compared to skilled tacticians. Finally, his skill with guns is only recently acquired, and he’s not a very good shot.

Chosen Mobile Weapon

Rubble Rouser (Scutson custom)

Rubble Rouser (Scutson custom)

2nd Generation General Purpose Mobile Worker (modified)

Codified Mass Production/ Denzel Zenith

Unit Appearance

The Rubble Rouser doesn’t look too different from its Scutson base, but there are differences. It appears to be even bulkier because if the addition of more armor, and it’s right forearm has several large armor plates that have been beaten into the shape of a crude shield. It’s bright orange paint is scuffed and scratched in dozens of places, along with an assortment of cosmetic damage that tells you this worker has seen some battle

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only, ejectable curved-screen cockpit located in back.
Dimensions: 15 Meters
Powerplant: Low-power Wilberforce Reactor “overclocked” to Medium output (obtained from a COOL-Te)
Equipment and Design Features

•Scutson Base
-The Rubble Rouser has the same features as a Scutson unless noted otherwise

•Reinforced Plasteel Chassius
-The Scutson’s Plasteel body is already quite sturdy, but the additional armor applied to this one makes it quite durable, capable of taking a barrage of bullets without taking any internal damage. That said heavier ordinance can still cause significant damage

•Mounted Shield
- A rectangular Plasteel shield mounted onto the Scutson’s right arm. The shield is durable and can protect the front and right side of the Scutson, but it isn’t large enough to protect more than part of the suit

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

•Hammer
A large hammer with a collapsing handle custom made to fit Denzel’s fighting style. It can be used as a one-handed or two-handed bludgeoning weapon and hits hard enough to break armor and cause internal damage in anything unlucky enough to be hit by it. It would be heavy and unwieldy if it wasn’t being used by a reinforced Scutson. Mounted on one of the Hardpoints on the Scutson’s upper leg

•H-VIPER
A MAG revolver recovered from an enemy Tommy Commander type. Partly as a weapon and partly as a trophy. It retains the same high penetration, accuracy and power of all H-VIPERS, but it charges at a slower rate due to the lower output of the Scutson’s reactor compared to a Tommy. As such care must be taken to not fire the two charged rounds too quickly. Mounted on one of the Hardpoints on the Scutson’s upper leg

Fixed Armaments

•Demolition Charges x 5
Five disk shaped demolition charges that have been modified for use as weapons. Although it isn’t what they were designed for a demolition charge exploding at very close range can destroy or cripple mobile workers and suits.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The Rubble Rouser takes what was good about the base Scutson and makes it great. It’s been reinforced to become rather durable, and the inclusion of a shield gives it a defensive option. It’s hammer makes it very dangerous in close range and the H-VIPER gives it a good medium range weapon

However at it’s very core the Rubble Rouser was not built to be a combat machine. It can be somewhat clumsy, and its armor is only as effective as it is because it has a lot. At longer ranges it has few options, charge in or retreat. It’s optimized for surprise attacks and guerilla tactics, not warfare. It’s reactor is unstable and if struck can put the suit down in no time at all, not to mention the ejection seat means the Scutson has no additional back armor.

Technical History

The Rubble Rouser started as just another Scutson used for a variety of tasks. It was stolen from its place of work by Denzel Zenith.

After being stolen the Scutson was illegally modified with a COOL-Te’s Wilberforce reactor, increased armor, a shield, and equipped with a custom made hammer, as well as stolen demolition charges.

The Rubble Rouser made its combat debut soon after these modifications were finished, in skirmishes with Martian mobile suits. During one of these battles, it obtained its final armament, a stolen H-VIPER, When a commander got too uppity and assumed it was only a problem to the lower class soldiers. He was wrong

The Rubble Rouser has earned a reputation for being a dangerous machine due to Denzel’s semi-frequent ambushes of Martian machines. It has been confirmed to have downed at least 7 mobile suits in the past year.

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

JCP-009 Gundam Sowerberry

3rd Generation Heavy Armor-Close Range Prototype Mobile suit

Unique/Zern Empire

Unit Appearance

The Sowerberry is a large, heavyset, earthy brown colored unit with an extremely large and wide body. The vast majority of its body is covered by a layer of red segmented rectangular plates that overlap with each other like a carapace.
Both of the unit’s arms are large and cylindrical, ending in large hands with circular holes in their palms. The suit’s head is somewhat small compared to the rest of its body and covered on the left, right and back by the same segmented plates as the rest of its armor, with only a small opening revealing the two optics

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only, Cockpit in the chest
Dimensions: 20 Meters tall
Powerplant: High-output Wilberforce Reactor
Equipment and Design Features:

•Replaceable reactive armor system:
-The core of the Gundam's defense is its self-replacing reactive armor. Most of the Gundam's outer body is covered by a shell made of rectangular plates of nanocarbon reactive armor. When struck the shaped charges on the armor activates and explodes, shooting any shrapnel from the attack flying away from the unit and redirecting the force elsewhere. This armor grants it great protection against long-range ballistics, missiles, and melee attacks. The real beauty of the system comes in after a plate is spent, however. After a plate’s shaped charge explodes, the plate is dropped from the Gundam's outer armor and replaced with a spare, of which the Gundam has many in reserve

•Heavy-duty servomotors:
- the servomotors in Sowerberry’s limbs are based on prototypes made by Lucas. The servomotors require much more power and are much more expensive than those in normal mobile suits. But their output is much much higher, so much that Sowerberry is capable of wielding its heavy weaponry unimpeded. Even without its weapons Sowerberry has the physical prowess to lift, grapple, and restrain mobile suits.

•Heavy Duty Thruster
-The thruster mounted at the base of the Sowerberry’s back is larger and more power-hungry than the standard model. But it’s high output makes it capable of propelling the Gundam at high speeds even when it is fully loaded on armor plates. The Gundam still has a hard time stopping and starting quickly, but when given room to maneuver its top speed is surprisingly high.

•Heavy Armor Tower shield
-a 20-meter tall curved tower shield made of solid nanocarbon. It’s solid structure and inward curve make it extremely durable, but its large size means few units are strong enough to hold one-handed. When in use the shield can completely cover the front of the mobile suit, and when not in use it is attached to the back of the suit, preventing any sneak attacks.

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

•50 Ton HEAT Anti Armor Mace
A fifty-ton long-handled mace stored on the Sowerberry’s hip. The head of the mace uses the same principles as the reactive armor, reactive plates covered in shaped explosives. A single swing has enough force and weight behind it that even an attack that fails to break through the armor might cause internal damage just from the force of the blow, and the explosion on the top of that can cripple even heavily armored suits. Directly below where the mace is stored in a container with two replacement mace heads, for when the reactive plates are all used up.

Fixed Armaments

•Interior Pile Bunkers x2

The Sowerberry possesses two pile bunkers with nano carbon spikes inside its cylindrical arms. Due to its pathetic range, the typical use of this weapon required the user to either perform an open palm strike or grapple with the enemy unit. At melee range the bunkers fire with devastating force, enough to smash through plates of armor and pierce the inner workings of its opponent. A solid shot to the cockpit is almost surely an instant kill. The bunker requires a short period of time to reload after every shot, but by cycling between the two bunkers this downside can be reduced.

•Nanocarbon net launcher

Built into the right forearm of the Sowerberry is a net launcher that fires nets reinforced with nanocarbon fibers. These nets can be launched a short distance to weigh down and entangle foes. The nanocarbon fibers make the nets heavy and difficult to break, but they alone are not enough to completely disable an enemy mobile suit.

Strengths and Weaknesses

In close range, the Sowerberry is an absolute monster. A swing from its mace is enough to completely cripple most mobile suits. Even without it the pile bunkers can puncture lighter armor and damage the inner workings of enemy suits. It’s net launcher and large hands make it particularly good as a disabling and grappling weapon, bringing opponents to the ground where they can easily be finished off. Furthermore, the Sowerberry is extremely well armored, with the reactive armor protecting it from almost every angle and it’s tower shield picking up the slack in the meantime

However, Sowerberry has some weaknesses. Even with its advanced drive system and heavy-duty thruster it moves noticeably slower on the ground than the other Gundam and has trouble quickly changing directions while in flight. A skilled enough opponent could potentially play keep away long enough to wear the Sowerberry down. Even though it’s reactive armor works to replace lost plates, it only has so many spares and repeated attacks in the same place might land before the spare plates can come into place. Finally, energy weapons such as plasma and laser weapons can easily burn through large amounts of reactive armor, and even melt plates together, requiring the Sowerberry to manually remove those plates

Technical History

In the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, the character Sourberry was a greedy middle-class undertaker and coffin maker. Which was perhaps not the most encouraging name considering the head designer was Lucas Ryder, only a part of the project because of his good work in a mechanics program sponsored by the royal family.

The early development went very smoothly. From the very beginning, the frame was meant to be large and heavily armored with a focus on close-range weaponry. The inner frame, including the net launcher prototype mace and pile bunkers, was created almost without event, the problems first arose from the outer armor.

The outer armor was heavy and bulky but fell short of making the Gundam significantly more well-defended than the others. It became clear an outside the box idea would be required if the Gundam was supposed to reach the heights of a Heavy Armor Gundam. Numerous ideas were considered including reactive armor and a large tower shield. The shield was eventually decided upon as Sowerberry still only needed one hand, but Lucas took it upon himself to design a new armor system

After weeks of pouring over dozens of sources Lucas returned with a prototype for the replicating reactive armor system (supposedly inspired by shark teeth, animal carapaces, and a type of layered plate armor popular in old earth) after some trial runs and testing the reactive armor was added to Sowerberry’s design greatly increasing its durability. This also fixed the problem with placing shaped charges onto Sowerberry’s mace, which was then designed to hold the same moving plates as the outer armor.

Satisfied by the design and happy with his contribution, Lucas and the rest of his team finished development without incident and after several combat tests, Sowerberry was on track to appear at the expo alongside it’s fellow Gundam.

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

Denzel Zenith

Denzel Zenith/“The Hammer”/Rabble Rouser

29/470 R.C/ Mekon movement/ Venusian/Male

Physical Appearance

Denzel is an extremely tall man with deeply tanned skin and huge rippling muscles. His long unruly hair is red at the root but turns a dark orange towards the tip. He has the square face of a thug, but his sharp brown eyes seem unrelentingly alert

Denzel’s clothing of choice are tight muscle shirts of various color, mainly grey and dark green, and plain pants, again usually grey. He has thick tan gloves to protect his hands from rough surfaces

Personality Traits:

Cool-headed
Focused
Pragmatic
Determined
Violent
Clever
Detached
Functioning Alcoholic

Biography:

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Denzel was born in the year 470.

Denzel’s early life was mostly defined by his family and their struggles to stay alive. He was the eldest child of a Mobile Worker pilot and a stay at home mother. The Zenith family was cursed with a terrible mortality rate on their children. In the years between Denzel being born and his mother’s death in 480 Denzel had watched 5 brothers and sisters be born and all but one brother die to malnutrition or sickness

After his mother’s death, he was forced to grow up and take on the role of caretaker for his sickly younger brother, while his father continued to be the breadwinner. People interviewed claim that Denzel was extremely protective of his younger brother.

When Denzel was 17 years old his father was crippled in a mobile worker accident and had to return home. Suddenly bereft of a breadwinner Denzel decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Mobile Worker pilot for the good of the family. He endured harsh and difficult working conditions without complaint

However, at some point in time, the cash flow from his job became too little… and he began to engage in Venus’s criminal element. The period of time is unknown but confirmed to be sometime after he joined the workforce.

Denzel began participating in illegal Mobile Worker brawls and street fights, engaging in the Venus nightlife. There’s no evidence that Denzel engaged in the drug or weapon trade, but the fights are confirmed and his cash flow greatly increased

The money from his many brawls were spent to educate his younger brother and find a safer job. Denzel was rarely home with his job and illegal dealings.

In 496 there were a number of riots and protests led by the Mekon movement, several of which broke out into violence. In one such riot, Denzel’s brother and father were counted among the dead. It is unknown if the were actively supporting Mekon, or merely in the area.

For a period of time, Denzel dropped off the radar. He quit working and rarely appeared in public. It is believed he immersed himself fully in the criminal underworld.

The next time Denzel appeared in public was 497. A Mekon riot was being suppressed by two redcoats kept for riot control purposes. An illegally modified Scutson emerged from out of sight and ambushed the two redcoats. Both were totaled in the confrontation, but by the time reinforcements arrived the Scutson has already left. Its pilot was Denzel

After that first appearance, Denzel has appeared numerous times to support Mekon, and it is believed that they are working together. He is considered extremely dangerous and should be disabled as quickly as possible

NO OTHER FILES FOR DENZEL ZENITH FOUND

Skills and Abilities

Street fighting: Denzel is a clever and vicious fighter in hand to hand, with or without weapons. In addition to his fast and powerful punches, he has a multitude of grapples and throws to rely on. His fisticuffs have earned enough renown that most thugs and criminals will back down without a fight.

Mobile unit piloting: Denzel has been piloting mobile workers for over 10 years and is familiar enough with them to move and act with great precision and speed. After he turned to fighting he honed his piloting skills to be on similar levels to an experienced mobile suit pilot. Unlike a properly trained pilot, his movements are very direct but fast and efficient.

Guerrilla tactics: After a couple years with the Mekon movement Denzel has become very skilled at Guerrilla tactics. Ambushes, raids, diversions, and other trickery. Compared to a properly trained tactician his plans are very ragtag and risky, but he’s led Mekon to success in missions before

Human Kai (latent): Denzel is a Human Kai, and as such occasionally experiences a mild form of precognition. His form of Kai manifests as battle instinct, allowing him to predict the next second or two of movement from his opponent. In addition, it allows him to “feel out” the mood and style of an opponent within minutes of the battle’s start. However his Kai doesn’t probe particularly deep, and it most often activates while in danger.

Personal Items and Equipment

Brass knuckles (with knife) A knuckle guard that has faithfully served as Denzel’s weapon of choice since the very beginning of his brawling days. This simple metal guard allows Denzel to punch full force with less chance of hurting himself, and deal more damage with his punches. Attached to one end is a straight-edge knife that can cut through wires, flesh, and fabric with ease. It’s very sturdy and holds an edge well, but it’s not long enough to be much use at anything other than extremely close range.

Sawed-off shotgun: an old-fashioned shotgun with most of the barrel sawed off. As a result, it’s range has been heavily reduced, but it can be more easily carried and wielded with one hand. Despite that, it packs enough punch to shred unarmored flesh, and knockdown armored humans just with the stopping power.

Satchel bag: a large satchel with a strap that Denzel carries. It usually contains spare ammunition, any additional tools required, and his shotgun when it needs to be concealed

Strengths and Weaknesses

Denzel is a very focused and determined person. When he has a goal he considers important he will focus on with all his might. He has the determination, willpower, and raw spirit to endure hardship and bad situations all in the single-minded pursuit of his goals. As a fighter Denzel is stronger and tougher than anyone short of a martial arts master. As a pilot what Denzel lacks in proper training, he makes up for in experience. In short, Denzel is dangerous.

However, Denzel has some weak points. Despite his skill and power, he has little experience with repairing or modifying Mobile Workers and Suits. He has to rely on someone else to maintain and upgrade his gear. Despite his cleverness, his tactics are fairly basic compared to skilled tacticians. Finally, his skill with guns is only recently acquired, and he’s not a very good shot.

Chosen Mobile Weapon

Rubble Rouser (Scutson custom)

Rubble Rouser (Scutson custom)

2nd Generation General Purpose Mobile Worker (modified)

Codified Mass Production/ Denzel Zenith

Unit Appearance

The Rubble Rouser doesn’t look too different from its Scutson base, but there are differences. It appears to be even bulkier because if the addition of more armor, and it’s right forearm has several large armor plates that have been beaten into the shape of a crude shield. It’s bright orange paint is scuffed and scratched in dozens of places, along with an assortment of cosmetic damage that tells you this worker has seen some battle

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only, ejectable curved-screen cockpit located in back.
Dimensions: 15 Meters
Powerplant: Low-power Wilberforce Reactor “overclocked” to Medium output (obtained from a COOL-Te)
Equipment and Design Features

•Scutson Base
-The Rubble Rouser has the same features as a Scutson unless noted otherwise

•Reinforced Plasteel Chassius
-The Scutson’s Plasteel body is already quite sturdy, but the additional armor applied to this one makes it quite durable, capable of taking a barrage of bullets without taking any internal damage. That said heavier ordinance can still cause significant damage

•Mounted Shield
- A rectangular Plasteel shield mounted onto the Scutson’s right arm. The shield is durable and can protect the front and right side of the Scutson, but it isn’t large enough to protect more than part of the suit

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

•Hammer
A large hammer with a collapsing handle custom made to fit Denzel’s fighting style. It can be used as a one-handed or two-handed bludgeoning weapon and hits hard enough to break armor and cause internal damage in anything unlucky enough to be hit by it. It would be heavy and unwieldy if it wasn’t being used by a reinforced Scutson. Mounted on one of the Hardpoints on the Scutson’s upper leg

•H-VIPER
A MAG revolver recovered from an enemy Tommy Commander type. Partly as a weapon and partly as a trophy. It retains the same high penetration, accuracy and power of all H-VIPERS, but it charges at a slower rate due to the lower output of the Scutson’s reactor compared to a Tommy. As such care must be taken to not fire the two charged rounds too quickly. Mounted on one of the Hardpoints on the Scutson’s upper leg

Fixed Armaments

•Demolition Charges x 5
Five disk shaped demolition charges that have been modified for use as weapons. Although it isn’t what they were designed for a demolition charge exploding at very close range can destroy or cripple mobile workers and suits.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The Rubble Rouser takes what was good about the base Scutson and makes it great. It’s been reinforced to become rather durable, and the inclusion of a shield gives it a defensive option. It’s hammer makes it very dangerous in close range and the H-VIPER gives it a good medium range weapon

However at it’s very core the Rubble Rouser was not built to be a combat machine. It can be somewhat clumsy, and its armor is only as effective as it is because it has a lot. At longer ranges it has few options, charge in or retreat. It’s optimized for surprise attacks and guerilla tactics, not warfare. It’s reactor is unstable and if struck can put the suit down in no time at all, not to mention the ejection seat means the Scutson has no additional back armor.

Technical History

The Rubble Rouser started as just another Scutson used for a variety of tasks. It was stolen from its place of work by Denzel Zenith.

After being stolen the Scutson was illegally modified with a COOL-Te’s Wilberforce reactor, increased armor, a shield, and equipped with a custom made hammer, as well as stolen demolition charges.

The Rubble Rouser made its combat debut soon after these modifications were finished, in skirmishes with Martian mobile suits. During one of these battles it obtained it’s final armament, a stolen H-VIPER

The Rubble Rouser has earned a reputation for being a dangerous machine due to Denzel’s semi frequent ambushes of Martian machines. It has been confirmed to have downed at least 7 mobile suits in the past year.

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

JCP-009 Gundam Sowerberry

3rd Generation Heavy Armor-Close Range Prototype Mobile suit

Unique/Zern Empire

Unit Appearance

The Sowerberry is a large, heavyset, earthy brown colored unit with an extremely large and wide body. The vast majority of its body is covered by a layer of red segmented rectangular plates that overlap with each other like a carapace.
Both of the unit’s arms are large and cylindrical, ending in large hands with circular holes in their palms. The suit’s head is somewhat small compared to the rest of its body and covered on the left, right and back by the same segmented plates as the rest of its armor, with only a small opening revealing the two optics

Technical Details

Accommodation: Pilot only, Cockpit in the chest
Dimensions: 20 Meters tall
Powerplant: High-output Wilberforce Reactor
Equipment and Design Features:

•Replaceable reactive armor system:
-The core of the Gundam's defense is its self-replacing reactive armor. Most of the Gundam's outer body is covered by a shell made of rectangular plates of nanocarbon reactive armor. When struck the shaped charges on the armor activates and explodes, shooting any shrapnel from the attack flying away from the unit and redirecting the force elsewhere. This armor grants it great protection against long-range ballistics, missiles, and melee attacks. The real beauty of the system comes in after a plate is spent, however. After a plate’s shaped charge explodes, the plate is dropped from the Gundam's outer armor and replaced with a spare, of which the Gundam has many in reserve

•Heavy-duty servomotors:
- the servomotors in Sowerberry’s limbs are based on prototypes made by Lucas. The servomotors require much more power and are much more expensive than those in normal mobile suits. But their output is much much higher, so much that Sowerberry is capable of wielding its heavy weaponry unimpeded. Even without its weapons Sowerberry has the physical prowess to lift, grapple, and restrain mobile suits.

•Heavy Duty Thruster
-The thruster mounted at the base of the Sowerberry’s back is larger and more power-hungry than the standard model. But it’s high output makes it capable of propelling the Gundam at high speeds even when it is fully loaded on armor plates. The Gundam still has a hard time stopping and starting quickly, but when given room to maneuver its top speed is surprisingly high.

•Heavy Armor Tower shield
-a 20-meter tall curved tower shield made of solid nanocarbon. It’s solid structure and inward curve make it extremely durable, but its large size means few units are strong enough to hold one-handed. When in use the shield can completely cover the front of the mobile suit, and when not in use it is attached to the back of the suit, preventing any sneak attacks.

Weapons and Combat Capabilities

Handheld Armaments

•50 Ton HEAT Anti Armor Mace
A fifty-ton long-handled mace stored on the Sowerberry’s hip. The head of the mace uses the same principles as the reactive armor, reactive plates covered in shaped explosives. A single swing has enough force and weight behind it that even an attack that fails to break through the armor might cause internal damage just from the force of the blow, and the explosion on the top of that can cripple even heavily armored suits. Directly below where the mace is stored in a container with two replacement mace heads, for when the reactive plates are all used up.

Fixed Armaments

•Interior Pile Bunkers x2

The Sowerberry possesses two pile bunkers with nano carbon spikes inside its cylindrical arms. Due to its pathetic range, the typical use of this weapon required the user to either perform an open palm strike or grapple with the enemy unit. At melee range the bunkers fire with devastating force, enough to smash through plates of armor and pierce the inner workings of its opponent. A solid shot to the cockpit is almost surely an instant kill. The bunker requires a short period of time to reload after every shot, but by cycling between the two bunkers this downside can be reduced.

•Nanocarbon net launcher

Built into the right forearm of the Sowerberry is a net launcher that fires nets reinforced with nanocarbon fibers. These nets can be launched a short distance to weigh down and entangle foes. The nanocarbon fibers make the nets heavy and difficult to break, but they alone are not enough to completely disable an enemy mobile suit.

Strengths and Weaknesses

In close range, the Sowerberry is an absolute monster. A swing from its mace is enough to completely cripple most mobile suits. Even without it the pile bunkers can puncture lighter armor and damage the inner workings of enemy suits. It’s net launcher and large hands make it particularly good as a disabling and grappling weapon, bringing opponents to the ground where they can easily be finished off. Furthermore, the Sowerberry is extremely well armored, with the reactive armor protecting it from almost every angle and it’s tower shield picking up the slack in the meantime

However, Sowerberry has some weaknesses. Even with its advanced drive system and heavy-duty thruster it moves noticeably slower on the ground than the other Gundam and has trouble quickly changing directions while in flight. A skilled enough opponent could potentially play keep away long enough to wear the Sowerberry down. Even though it’s reactive armor works to replace lost plates, it only has so many spares and repeated attacks in the same place might land before the spare plates can come into place. Finally, energy weapons such as plasma and laser weapons can easily burn through large amounts of reactive armor, and even melt plates together, requiring the Sowerberry to manually remove those plates

Technical History

In the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, the character Sourberry was a greedy middle-class undertaker and coffin maker. Which was perhaps not the most encouraging name considering the head designer was Lucas Ryder, only a part of the project because of his good work in a mechanics program sponsored by the royal family.

The early development went very smoothly. From the very beginning, the frame was meant to be large and heavily armored with a focus on close-range weaponry. The inner frame, including the net launcher prototype mace and pile bunkers, was created almost without event, the problems first arose from the outer armor.

The outer armor was heavy and bulky but fell short of making the Gundam significantly more well-defended than the others. It became clear an outside the box idea would be required if the Gundam was supposed to reach the heights of a Heavy Armor Gundam. Numerous ideas were considered including reactive armor and a large tower shield. The shield was eventually decided upon as Sowerberry still only needed one hand, but Lucas took it upon himself to design a new armor system

After weeks of pouring over dozens of sources Lucas returned with a prototype for the replicating reactive armor system (supposedly inspired by shark teeth, animal carapaces, and a type of layered plate armor popular in old earth) after some trial runs and testing the reactive armor was added to Sowerberry’s design greatly increasing its durability. This also fixed the problem with placing shaped charges onto Sowerberry’s mace, which was then designed to hold the same moving plates as the outer armor.

Satisfied by the design and happy with his contribution, Lucas and the rest of his team finished development without incident and after several combat tests, Sowerberry was on track to appear at the expo alongside it’s fellow Gundam.

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

Let me go ahead and apologize for putting Lucas in Characters before he was accepted. I only read that part about not putting them in Characters until they were accepted after I already put him in Characters. I'm sorry

Mobile Suit Gundam: LIFELINE

Lucas Ryder

Head developer of Sowerberry

18/481 R.C║Zern Empire║Venusian║Male

Physical Appearance

Lucas is tall and somewhat lanky for his age at 6 feet tall but is noticeably thin and devoid of both muscle and fat. His dirty blond hair is usually unkempt and sticking up, but before important events such as meetings he will at least wash and brush it. He has bright green eyes and somewhat sharp facial features that might make him look intense if he didn’t have a perpetual grin and easygoing personality

While working on designs Lucas likes to wear plain shirts and shorts under a white lab coat, of which he owns several (it makes me feel like a scientist.) He has a nice white button-up shirt and pants for any formal events. He wears large circular glasses because of his poor eyesight

Personality Traits:

Somewhat socially awkward
Easily distracted
Creative
History lover
Animal lover
Very friendly
Easily stressed

Biography:

Hello fellow Martian Institute of Technology Education students! I’m Lucas Ryder. Let me tell you a bit about myself, and wish you luck in your endeavors.

I was born in the year 481RC on Venus. My parents ran a family machine shop that worked on mobile workers in the area. It wasn’t very big or exciting, but it was the family business you know? I thought my destiny was to inherit it when I became an adult, and I was happy to.

The neighborhood had all these documentaries and books on old earth in our library. Not many people seemed to want to check them out, but I loved them. I learned all about the animals that went extinct there and old earth history. I think that’s what inspired me to try and make my first creation

I started helping around the shop when I was about six or seven years old, just retrieving parts and carrying messages from Mom to Dad and back. But the longer I was in the machine shop the more interested I became in all the machines that constantly surrounded me. One day I asked my parents if I could try and make something with some of our spare parts, and they agreed as long as they could keep an eye on me.

It was like a budding artist getting their first easel and buckets of paint. All of these ideas came to mind, stuff like replicating bone structures and making my own sort of robot. It took a week before I decided that I wanted to make a quadruped. It took a few months and a lot of beta testing before it could even walk.

Honestly, the robot was no use to anyone. It was too weak to lift anything and it didn’t have any of the equipment that would make it an effective miner, or repair bot. But it was baby’s first robot you know? I was proud of it, and from then on when I wasn’t repairing something I was happy to sit down and draw up designs and mess with spare parts.

When I was eight, the machine shop closed down. We were in the way of some new factory or something, so the government stepped in, paid us a pittance for our machine shop, and then evicted us from it.

A huge chunk of our money was gone the very next day getting us somewhere to stay. The rest withered away on food and amenities before we knew it.

This was probably the darkest period in my life. I was too young to work but Mom and Dad could barely earn enough money to support all three of us. If it was just the two of them they would have been alright, but they had me to support as well. Sometimes one of them would go hungry just to make sure I was fed.

When I was about twelve years old a mining company put out a request for a new servomotor design, with a huge prize for whoever made the best. I remembered my old tinkering days and decided to enter in secret

I lost obviously. Since I was just one kid competing against teams of designers, but I did pretty well. Fourth place. I thought that would be the end of it, no monetary reward and I would return to the grind of living in poverty. Until I received an offer from the Outreach program, who had heard about me from the mining company:

There wasn’t much to consider. I was going to be headed to top schools on Mars with unique research opportunities. More importantly, I would be cut off from my parents financially and they could support themselves without worrying about their leech of a son. So I got on the ship and set off

I knew that the princess was sponsoring the program, but I didn’t expect to meet her soon after arriving on Mars. That only made it stranger when we touched down on Mars and she was there to greet all the new arrivals. Meeting her was a huge honor.

Saying that I like the princess would be a huge understatement. She’s really kind and supportive, and you would think a princess would want nothing to do with the common folk but she seemed.... pretty personable. She asked everyone what our dreams were, and when I said something like “improving life for the people on Venus” she smiled and told me that was a wonderful dream

Compared to my old life MIT was amazing. I had three meals a day, a comfortable room to call my own, and a database full of information at my fingertips.

MIT wasn’t all fun and games though. I was homeschooled growing up, so I needed some remedial courses in some subjects, and the classroom setting stressed me out. If your grade drops too low on a merit scholarship it’s possible to lose it. This scholarship was the only thing keeping me from becoming a leech again. I took school pretty seriously.

A few months ago I put in my Magnum Opus. The top robotics students were given grant money and more or less given free reign to put our minds to the test and design a tool or component for a mobile worker. I created a heavy-duty servomotor for mobile workers. It took some work but I think I did one of my best jobs yet.

But there’s something that kinda bothers me…. They were walking about how my servomotors would be perfect for use in mobile suits, weapons. The princess always said violence wasn’t the answer but...

The offer for the project is too good to pass up. I’ll do my best this one time, even if it is for a weapon. If I make something good enough to patent, I won’t have to worry about money anymore, I can send some home to Mom and Dad. I won’t have to accept projects unless I want to...

Anyways sorry for talking everyone’s ears off. I just thought I would send this out to all the new and returning students before I set off for my project. Let’s all do our best to study hard and create a good future.

From Lucas Ryder.

Skills and Abilities

Mechanical affinity: Lucas has an affinity for all things mechanical, mobile workers, mobile suits and all of their smaller components. He can easily work with them in order to repair and construct similar mechanical objects, although his specialty is in the direct weight and movement of such pieces.

Martian Institute of Technology Education: Lucas has been educated by one of Mars’s top schools in the fields of engineering and mechanics. His base affinity and knowledge of mechanics has been enhanced by this education to make him a truly talented designer

Unorthodox designs: Lucas has a certain… talent for designs that on the outset make little sense or are mostly unrelated to previous designs. According to him, his first leg was designed after extensive study on the bone structures of people and animals from old earth. Apparently he likes turning to the past to come up with ideas for the future...

Personal Items and Equipment

Personal Laptop: Lucas’s personal laptop holds a lot of information about all his projects old and new. It’s also what he uses for a lot of his design and research work. It’s very important to him and it would be a real shame if it got stolen or hacked...

Strengths and Weaknesses

Lucas is a mobile suit designing prodigy with a lot of very unorthodox ideas and designs that might lead to revolutions in mechanics. In particular, he’s already produced an extremely powerful servomotor and design for Sowerberry Gundam’s armor bared around mechanical movement. After all, that’s his specialty

Lucas’s main problem when it comes to design is his tendency to start with an idea, and then have to do extensive testing to get it to even remotely have a chance of working. It’s not unusual for him to run through a dozen ideas before he strikes one that has some promise. Aside from that, Lucas is a tall and scrawny nerd without most of the traits that make someone an effective pilot or soldier

Chosen Mobile Weapon

None

Original Mobile Suit Gundam Roleplay/Mecha Roleplay

I'm interested

Of Crosses and Collapses: A Crossover Adventure of Survival on a Patchwork World.

@agentnumalol
personally, I think part of the fun of crossovers is figuring out how the powers and systems would work in other worlds. and it doesn't have to be story stuff either it can be as simple as Snake's food going down quicker because that's how it works in MGS3. I love little nods to gameplay and story in stuff like this

Although I admit that the honor system might not make sense since the world got torn to shreds and stitched back together by someone who has no idea how a needle and thread works. Although since we are building a town he might get his chance later anyway.