Ramzam

CWP-4

The minimum age for anybody joining Vader's military is eighteen, and becoming a walker pilot qualified for missions takes about three years. So if you include a solid age with your character, they should be twenty one or older.

CWP-4

Right. I added a little note into the character sheet about it, while I fill in a short section on the two countries' populace.

Along A Different Path (Robotech/Macross inspired anthro-optional RP)

I can sympathize with the weather part! I was out walking to and from a doctor's appointment most of yesterday and it was noticeably below freezing with a horrid wind chill if you were unfortunate enough to walk through the shade or a wind tunnel. I couldn't feel my throat and my eyes watered whenever a gust started blowing.

CWP-Four (mechs!)

It's here! Sorry I didn't get this out the day before, I wasn't expecting my visit to the doctor's office to take so long.

CWP-4

Decent reference points for this game include Armored Core and Hawken, but without any rocket thrusters.

Yeah, I don't talk much. Ask questions though, that'll make me talk more—and I'm sure I missed something in this text.

The central continent.

The world where the game takes place, currently, has no name. It’s an earth-like planet with five continents, arranged in a cross of the four basic directions, north, south, east, and west, with the fifth continent sitting in the center. The central continent, host to the two warring countries of Vader and Murtaw, has very few access points to the sea.

As a result of agreements to preserve the wilderness and terrible weather, much of the continent’s development has, for centuries, been subterranean. The underground world is a massive network of tunnels and domes that house entire cities and industrial plants. While there are surface settlements, their purpose is often to just mark an access point to the underground facilities and tend any nearby surface farms or industries.

The biggest exports of the two countries come from mines and high technology. While fossil fuels are an abundant resource, they are rarely, if ever actually used beneath the surface and are largely used to generate income.

Residents

All intelligent life on the planet comes in the familiar humanoid form.
In this setting, humans are just another of the many species. While minorities and majorities do exist on a local level, it’s not, “Humans vs. Furries,” rather, “Dingoes vs. Wallabees.”
In the cases of Vader and Murtaw, the general populace consists of mostly inland species, being landlocked nations with maybe a river somewhere on the surface. A large number of folks are invested in mining, tech, and factory work.

Combat Walkers

Most often abbreviated to, “CW,” or just called, “It’s a walker! Aaaaaah!” the combat walker was created by the desire for heavy armor in the tight, closed environments of the central continent. Traditional tanks had for a long time, proven to be very susceptible to attacks

The first generation of CW was very slow and cumbersome. They were very basic, legged tanks that were astoundingly easy to knock off balance—at which point, they would be unable to right themselves and become virtually useless. After falling victim to the same pitfalls they were intended to avoid, the combat walker’s evolution began to trend more and more toward agility than raw armor.

The current generation of combat walkers is believed to have hit the peak of agility. Their movement capabilities outstrip those of other vehicles by an impressive amount. In comparison to the tanks they were conceived to replace, they have higher top speeds, greater ability to deal with inclines and other vertical elements, the ability to accelerate to moderate speed and change direction almost instantly, and some models even jump several feet upwards and land with no mechanically adverse effects. Despite this mobility, due to the lightweight materials used, modern combat walkers retain enough armor to shrug off small arms and withstand hard collisions. Most walkers only weigh in the area of eight tons and are considered excessively large after five yards tall.

Combat walkers are powered by a rotator core, a self-sustaining, electrical power source that can, in theory, run indefinitely. In practice however, cores have broken themselves after a couple weeks of constant use and have to be reset before they expire. In the case of a sudden failure, walkers have a battery pack that can last for a few hours—long enough to retreat and have their primary power source repaired.

Armament on a walker varies depending on its role and objective. Most commonly used weapons include large machineguns, direct-fire cannons, and shrapnel launchers. Explosives such as standard grenades, shells, rockets, and missiles have less favor due to their increased likelihood of collateral damage, which can be and has proven disastrous, depending on the surrounding structure. Missiles and rockets are small and pack just enough punch to wreck a walker, though they have advanced guidance that allow them to avoid obstacles and even go around corners when the planets are aligned.

Layout of parts is relatively the same from walker to walker, with the cockpit inside the turret-shaped top, just above the center of mass. A single, wide angle display is connected to the, “head,” of the machine, which is generally a rotating ball with camera lenses somewhere on the front. Legs and utility arms come in many configurations, and the turret features several places for mount weapons and equipment along the sides, back, and top. Most walkers feature thick, retractable, rubber pads on the feet that allow them to grip the metal and concrete surfaces they’re commonly deployed on. Interfaces are generally driven by buttons and other tactile instruments—touch screens are used for internal computer operation, but can’t distinguish between the pilot’s gloved fingers or a loose object.

While there is several platoons’ worth of walkers in an army, they are uncommon and valuable. Pilots afford enough respect/leeway to place their own markings on their walkers. Camouflage has proven to have little effect when applied to the machine’s form.

Other Military
Other than walkers, the armies of Vader and Murtaw are primarily infantry wearing full body armor, basic drones, and wheeled vehicles (like Humvees). The underground nature of the theater does not lend itself well to any large, flying units.

Pilots

A direct result of their small numbers is that the pilots of combat walkers are highly trained individuals that have had both a significant amount of time to handpick their personal machine and become acquainted with the quirks of its operation. If a pilot lacks real combat experience, they will, at the very least, have hundreds or even thousands of hours in the seat.

A walker that moves with organic (or near organic) fluidity is the mark of an ace pilot that has mastered their machine’s controls. Conversely, a pilot that has just graduated from the academy or obtained a new walker can be singled out by their stiff movements. The smoother the movement, the more dangerous the pilot.

The ranking of a pilot is separate from the rest of the army, with their own, distinctive markings for the ranks of private, corporal, sergeant, and lieutenant.

4th Combat Walker Platoon, Blackcard

Blackcard is the second smallest walker platoon in Vader’s army, composed of three squads: Karma, Litmus, and Moss. Currently, the player characters are a part of Moss. As a platoon, Blackcard is on call for the southern border of Vader—which is also the northern border for Murtaw, a competing country with an unfriendly rivalry.

The game will begin just before Moss is called into battle at a recently constructed mining facility and its surrounding work residence.

Blackcard

"What're you talking about? These restraints are secure as fuck!" Said an instructor to a nervous trainee. The trainee promptly broke their leg while practicing maneuvers.

Character Sheet

[.i]pilot[/i]
[.b]Name:[/b]
[.b]Species:[/b] (Human or any anthropomorphic animal.)
[.b]Sex:[/b]
[.b]Appearance:[/b] (Clothes don’t count for much, the characters are all going to be wearing uniforms.)
[.b]Personality:[/b] (You can keep this one short.)
[.b]Bio:
[.b]Specialties:[/b]

[.i]walker[/i]
[.b]Model Name:[/b]
[.b]Model Class:[/b] (superlight, light, medium, heavy, superheavy)
[.b]Primary Role: [/b]
[.b]General Information:[/b]
[.b]Appearance:[/b] (No pics. Keep in mind the general appearance of a CW)

Current members of Moss

Moss 1, Calri Cross (Ramzam)

Moss 2, Sarah Feryana (datadogie)

Moss 3, Jinry Lattimer (Silverwind Blade)

Moss 4, Chet Sparks (Zaresto)

Moss 5, Mike Nawlin (HopelessIncubus)

Along A Different Path (Robotech/Macross inspired anthro-optional RP)

Oh, I had better ask before I forget. Is it Selachi or Selachai? The hider says one thing, but it's spelled the latter way almost everywhere else and I just wanted to be surely sure.

CWP-Four (mechs!)

Nope. It's that way so I can cross my eyes and say everything looks consistent. The OOC thread will be up later today, so I'll post again to let everybody know.

Along A Different Path (Robotech/Macross inspired anthro-optional RP)

See, nothing to worry about. He's just—

MAH KOO RAAAAAAAAWSS

Along A Different Path (Robotech/Macross inspired anthro-optional RP)

How many slapfights do you think it'd take?

Anyway, pl;zdfblb;zdfn I forgot what I was actually going to say, so I'll just take a nap. After that I'll make a couple adjustments to my character and get back to work on my own game.

Along A Different Path (Robotech/Macross inspired anthro-optional RP)

Name: Mino Coralstar
Age: 26
Race: Sentinel
Species: Selachai

Appearance: Mino’s body is primarily a light, faded brown, with a broad, white stripe down the belly and along the underside of the tail, with perfect, black stripes on the tip of each fin and fingertip. Beneath both eyes are three, perfectly symmetrical, white dots that he swears up and down are completely natural. Not particularly muscular, but a low amount of body fat at least gives the illusion that he spends most of his time working at staying in shape. His tail seems to have grown for a body a foot taller and can barely be kept out of the way. He wears a few of his discarded teeth on a necklace.
doodle

Personal Info: It’s no secret that being forced to live in a toxic environment with no end in sight has made Mino into a stressed, frustrated individual. He recognizes the value of being polite, but his temper is easily set off by anyone who pushes his buttons. The anger is generally short-lived and limited to abrasive shouting, but that shouting can quickly turn into biting.

Personal History: Mino was there to see what he felt to be the destruction of his homeworld. His ultimate goal is to live to see his home reclaimed, but he doesn’t have any ambitions beyond that. His skills with a variable fighter are just above average and, while not particularly clever, his willpower and quick reflexes have allowed him to survive quite a few losing battles.

Mecha: SV-VII (When not impractical, this switches over to the SV-X instead.)

Weapons and equipment:
APDW2: It’s a PDW that shoots bullets that can actually cover distance underwater. Like little torpedoes.

A tomahawk with a hammer on the back end and a serrated edge and spike on the top.

Personal Theme: So So Bad
”'Retreat' is just another way of saying 'attack'!”