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Kain

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Humanity's old home, Earth, was always a fairly crowded place that just seemed to get more and more crowded as time went on. Between people, plants and every other creature there just wasnt a whole lot of room left after a certain point. it was fortuneate that man had eventually gained the ability to go out into space and manipulate the traits of a planet into order to make it more suitable for human life. Soon enough an even known as the Great Exodus occured as a mass migration left earth and began establishing colonies on other worlds and adapting them to suit the life of our world allowing man to extend it's reach throughout the solar system, and eventually throughout the galaxym Throughout this colonization and expansion earth mainted a large scale governing body whose authority extended through all of it's colonies maintaining order. The expansion allowed for further advances as well as the discovery of various new metals and resources on other worlds which were stronger than any found back on earth. It was through the pursuit of one of these mineral rich planets that our story truly begins. A galactic mining company known as the Kel Moria Combine, hailing from the colony world known as Kel Moria, had focused allof it's efforts on finding as many mineral rich worlds as possible before other rival companies could la a claim to them. Through these expeditions they had located a planet far outside of the limits outside of the Galactic Federation which their surveys detected a large amount of rare metals as well as new metals not found within the federation borders. They claimed the planet and christened it Terra Neros due to the dark coloration of it's terrain and financed a a colonization expedition to the planet. Should the project be successful they would gain a twofold victory by gaining a thoroughly rich planet and possibly gain credit for triggering a second Great Exodus. And thus they dispatched a massive colony ship full of Kel Moria workers and their families, a load of terraforming gear, other colonists looking for work, people that knew how to work the land and a load of plants and animals. With a full Galactic Federation military escort they left federation borders to start of their new lives in Terra Neros.

To put it simply, things did not go as planned. It began with bits of sabotage from a small rival company trying to keep Kel Moria ffrom monopolizing mining operations causing the colony ship to get their in twice the projected amount of time. To make matters worse more technical difficulties popped up when they descended to the planet's surface causing damage to the terra forming equipment, many injuries, damaged the communications equipment, the loss of a little less than half of the supplies. Immidiately after wards those that had survived the crash and were able bodied immidiately began fighting over who got control and how the supplies got divided up. The greedy military officiers attempted to horde the supplies but were opposed by the tough and well built miners who found them at fault for letting the problems get this bad. The other colonists blamed both sides for the problems as well as each other. As far as leadership went the miners and military clashed yet again as the military personnel immidiately tried to seize the reigns but were repelled yet again as the others flat out refused to listen to them are their overly strict regulations. The Kel Moria workers were also rejected as they were more focused on making money than anything else. Fear and paranoia ran rampant, within the panic was a group who believed that this was some sort of divine punishment for distancing themselves from their ancestral home, these people became known as the Returners. another group arose and found itself simply unable to deal with the rules and regulations of either side and left to form their own group which wouldsomeday grow into the Libertas Confederation. The Kel Moria workers did just what they came to do, began mining operations in order to prepare ore for when the home office finally came for them. The military personnel formed into a group known as the Vanguard which dedicated itself to establishing a sort of orderly governing body that could survive the rough times to come.

The four factions separated and ran things in their territory in their own ways but as time went on and the need for more territory grew the factions ended up running into each other again, and this time more violently. Not wanting to give up whatever land they found each faction fielded humanoid combat vehicles simply named mechs with designs brought with them from earth which thanks to their cheap and easy construction managed to produce in large numbers for the territory wars. The large scale wars raged on and the sttlments founded by the four factions ended up being ravaged reducing many areas to simple junk towns. While none of the factions wished to just give up the all agreed that full on warfare was only doing more harm than good. On that historic occasion a new method of deciding what faction got what pieces of territory on the planet. A small scale version of mecha warfare known as the Sector Royale where each faction would field a team of four mechs piloted by four of their best pilots every ten years. A series of team vs team matches where a sector of the planet was offered up as the prize. The winners would get to keep that area and control it as they saw fit, and the losers citizen's would have to leave and relocate or swear loyalty to the winning faction.

It has been a few hundred years since that fateful day, and the four factions still clash for control using this method. And spectators from all four always gather to watch their team fight for them. Foul play is common place inside and outside of the arena and is often encouraged by the higher ups in the various factions. The fights have rules but often no matter how a match starts tends to descend into an all out free for all which just fires up the crowds even more. The pilots become immortalized when they score many victories, and scorned when they give many losses. They sometimes even die before the competition ends and are promptly replaced like a pair of batteries. In the end though even if it still isnt pretty, its still a favorable alternative to war, and thats how it is gonna stay.

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The Four Factions:

Kel Moria Combine:
The Kel Moria Combine which is more or less the remnants of a mining company which had originally funded the colonization of Terra Neros. They are more or less focused in on the many varieties of ores on the planet, specifically Jezemite which is one of the more durable metals known to man. Aside from minining they also focus many of their efforts on contacting the home office to revitalize interest in Terra Neros and possibly bring some stability to the planet, and deliver a nice big fat load of money for the work they had put into it. Their heavy mining operations tend to put a heavy toll on the planet as they dig through as much of it as possible to fill up their stores of the varying metals. Thanks to their exclusive access to the Jezemite ore which makes sensors go a little wonky and is all around tough their mechs tend to be tougher than those of the other factions.

Faction Bonus: Jezemite Armor

The Vanguard:
The Vanguard is made up of the remnants of the military force that escorted the colonists to Terra Neros. Like the Kel Moria Combine they havent maintained contact with their main point of origin but still maintain it's ideals. Their sectors tend to be more orderly and their mech teams much more organized. Their goal is to unite the planet under their somewhat totalitarian banner. They tend to forcibaly subjugate their citizens for the sake of maintaining order but their sectors remain relatively crime free though a little lifeless and robotic. Their mechs boast better sensors and more accurate weapons and their pilots are more organized and are capable of more complicated manuevers and formations

Faction Bonus: All-seeing sensors

The Libertas Confederation:
The polar opposite the Vanguard, Libertas Confederation is a society society pretty much does whatever it wants. They tend to dabble a little in alot of things but in their attempt to create a free society they tend to have little control over their citizens and they tend to be quite disorganized. Their mechs tend to be all around good but not great in any one area either.

Faction Bonus: All around boost

The Returners
And finally we have the Returners who just want to leave Terra Neros behind and return to earth, but lacks the resources to achieve that goal with the few sectors they control. They operate according to a religous doctrine which states that it was wrong for man to leave earth and that they must return to earth to save their souls. Their society is based within and around the crashed colony ship that brought them to Terra Neros as they as they focus much of their effort on reparing it. Their mechs tend to focus more on offense than anything else and thus have stronger than average weaponry.

Faction Bonus: Boosted weapons

The mechs:
Each faction posses access to all of these designs, though certain parameters depend on the faction they are from. They are cheap and easy to assemble and many tournament fighters purchase their own and add further customizations. Can be color customized according to owner's preferences. all come stanard with an AI assitant but some pilots prefer to work without them


Bear Series mechs:
Kodiak
A versatile, tough and well armed machine typically used by team leaders. Posses twin missile pods, machine gun a grenade launcher and a vibrosword. Thanks to it's armor and weapons it is weighed down quite a bit and thus requires a good team to support it in order to get the most out of it. Its heaviness is slightly offset by the treads on it's feet which. Due to it's heaviness it was built without jump jets as they would be useless.

Grizzly
A model based on the Kodiak but modified to be lighter and faster. It maintains similar effectiveness in combat but sacrifices much of it's versatility limiting it's armaments to a vibroaxe, bazooka and a machine gun. Unlike it's "brother" unit it posses jump jets which give it more mobility and it retains the foot treads of the Kodiak giving it better mobility than the Kodiak. It is also a favorite of team leaders and like the Kodiak works best when fielded with a proper support team.

Beast Series:

Mammoth
Essentially a great big walking tank optimized for defense. It tends to be big and slow but makes an excellent defender. It posseses a missle pod and a grenade launcher to keep enemies at a distance along with a vibrosword just in case an enemy gets too close.

Boar
Another heavily armored unit that utilizes heavy weapons which do alot of damage. Not meant to be used as a blocker and is more of a mobile turret.
As such it ditches the vibrosword and uses mostly powerful ranged weaponry while relying on it's armor to hold out if enemies get to close. While the mammoth tends to be near the front in formations the Boar tends to be near the back.

Leopard
A unit made to rush in with guns blazing to hammer the enemies as much as possible. With it's medium strength armor it can take some hits but often relies on it's mobility to dodge as many hits as possible while blasting away.

Bird Series:
Hawk
A unit that thrives on it's superior mobility, high powered sensors and hit and run tactics. Thanks to it's light armor is capable of some limited flight with it's jump jets allowing it to pop up from behind an object, fire and then take cover again really quickly. It posses a shotgun and machine gun and relies on dodging in order to stay alive in combat. When ffighting models that use Jezemite ore in their construction it is forced to rely on what the pilot sees.

Falcon
A rebalanced Bird series model which gives some thicker armor as well as less sensitive sensors which make dealing with Kel Moria models a little easier than with the Hawk. Has less powerful jump jets but more powerful weapons.

Serpent series:
Cobra
A smaller and harder to hit model whose distinctive feature is it's long range sniper rifle and limited stealth abilities. Also posseses a machine gun and a vibro knife.

Anaconda
Made with a similar method to the Grizzly, the Anaconda is a bigger variant of the Cobra which ditches the sniper rifle and uses more traditional heavy weapons. It has thichker armor but retains the limited stealth equipment.

Maintenance:
Spider
A non-combat model used to maintain other mechs.

Player Character Roster:

Kel Moria Combine:
Joseph Brenner: played by me

Vanguard:
Regal Bradford: Zaku

Libertas Confed:
Lia Kingston: Denjin Zaboga23

Returners:
Brittany Marlowe: Gatack Striker

NPC Roster
Coming soon

Here is my character as an example:

Name: Joseph Brenner

Age: 26

Appearance:
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Faction: Kel Moria Combine

Mech Details:
Model:Kodiak
Primary Color: Red
Weapons: Standard
Faction Bonus: Jezemite Armor
Other: No AI-assitant, reinforced joints and engine casing, jagged vibrosword, heat sensors in eye-cam
Name: Aesir

History: Within Kel Moria territory there really are only a few proffessions that people could really pursue, the men are limited to mining, while the women are limited to farming within the territories, though mech dueling was also open to all but far more dangerous as well. Within those societies a person's worth went hand in hand with how well they excelled in either profession. It was only natural that Joseph found himself in the role of a miner which meant his value was determined but what he dug up and how much of it he dug up. Many chose to take a more easy route mining more mundane metals which allowed them to rely on more advanced mining equipment and was all around easier, but there were still plenty who chose to exclusively mine the Jezemite ore despite the fact that it rended most of their equipment useless making the best way to dig it up was good a good old fashioned pickaxe and the best way to find it was with a flash light and one's own two eyes. It was tough to say the least but it paid off for those who could handle it. Since the age of 16 he worked down in the Jezemite mines during the day and at night gathered together with buddies to watch mech fights which were being broadcast throughout the area. When it came to more dangerous and difficult proffession of Jezemite mining the miners were practically like brothers who looked out for each other down there to ensure that they would come back alive, and if one should die on the job, the nearest one would see to it that whatever was left behind was taken care of. Sure it wasnt the most exciting life but it was an honest and satisfying one. But that balance got up set during one day. It seemed normal enough as he, a good friend and a new guy of his were digging out the ore as usual when the new guy pulled something out of his uniform and chucked it further into the mine. Moments later it was revealed that the object was an explosive after the loud explosion was heard, causing the tunnel to begin to collapse. In the end the stranger bolted and vanished in the resulting chaos, and his friend was unfortuneately crushed in the collapsed tunnel.

As a result of the code he was obligated to see to it that the friend's infant daughter Brianna was taken care of, especially since her mother had passed away due to her poor health. He chose to take her in and raised her like she was his own actual daughter. Since that time he has been quite hesitant to even step in a Jezemite mine after the incident, and hasnt once forgotten the face of the one who caused the collapse either. Aside from doing his best to take care of his new found family and make sure he had enough to feed the both of them, he also sought out info on the bomber, learning he was a Vanguard citizen who was sent in to try and sabotage the Jezemite mining operation, hoping to cause a shortage of the Jezemite ore within the Kel Moria territories.

He didnt know if he could strike back at that person specifically, but he knew he could strike back at the Vanguard for what happened. In time he dropped his pickaxe and mining uniform and donned the bodysuit of a mecha fighter. He used his savings to buy himself a Kodiak model mech and began going through Kel Moria's sectors fighting in various small scale tournaments using his winnings to pay for modifications on his mech which he named Aesir. Five years later he has continued fighting on the circuit to earn money, and his adopted daughter now at the age of 6 watches his fights from home, cheering him on. Thanks to his zeal and the skill he has built up over time it was only natural that the Kel Moria Combine selected him to be one of their representatives in the Sector Royale tournament.

In addition to balancing act of fighting in mecha fights, and making time to com back home he has been doing what he can to find a woman to at least act as a sort of mother figure to Brianna as he knows that he by himself probably isnt quite enough to raise her right, though he hasnt been able to do that well in that field as he tends to be pretty damn busy when away from and at home. Not to mention the fact that the female fans that tend to find their way to him tend to not be the kind he would want Brianna to model herself after.

Note: If you have a question go ahead and ask my via PM or IM so the thread doesnt get too cluttered.
 
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Name: Lia Kingston

Age: 24

Appearance:
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Faction: The Libertas Confederation

Mech Details:
Model: Falcon
Primary Color: Red and White
Weapons: Standard
Faction Bonus: All around boost
Other: AI-Assistant represented as a young pink-haired girl with a rather abrasive attitude, has lighter parts for better dodging, also has dual vibro knives.
Name: Peregrine

History: The Libertas Confederation is a place where anyone can pursue any job they want, which gives people a good amount of freedom. However, this same freedom is open to scammers and swindlers, and one has to be careful or you could lose everything. That's exactly what happened to Lia's family, as her Father took some bad financial advice from a few shady fellows and lost practically everything he had. Relations between her parents soured and Lia, not wanting to put up with this for long, decided to run away from home when she was barely 18 years old. Surviving on the streets with a very limited amount of money was hard, however, and Lia had to find work...and it wasn't good.

Due to her looks, she was roped into becoming an exotic dancer and went at that for 3 years, where the place she worked at was shut down due to her boss having connections with rather shady elements himself. Once more without anywhere to call her own, Lia was again on the streets when she was able to get work at a bar. It was basically a dive, but it was better than nothing and it was there that she eventually would get a better, if more dangerous, job. After a bad day at work, Lia was stuck with cleaning duty and was really wishing to something, anything else. Luckily for her, a patron forgot his wallet, which she found in the course of her cleaning.

Now, if this was Lia back when she was 18, she would have gotten it back to it's owner...but since this was a much more jaded Lia, she took the money for herself and left the place to take a shot at a more exciting job: Mecha Fighting. Using the money she pilfered, she got herself a Falcon model and found herself to be rather good at piloting, doing very well in the tourneys she started out in. Eventually, and much to her surprise, she was chosen as a representative for Libertas, which she thought as quite ironic...but hey, if the pay was good and the fights were good, she would do it...

Lia is a rather nice, if jaded individual, and is rather easy-going overall. She hates boring jobs most of all and for this reason likes high energy fights that are rather close. Though she kind of disliked her time as an exotic dancer, she still wears revealing outfits, mostly as a means to make male pilots lose their focus, knowing full well that she can use her body to her advantage...
 
Finally! This time I'm keeping myself logged on. I'll have my profile prep later this evening, since I've got work
 
Name: Brittany Marlowe

Age: 20

Appearance:
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Faction: The Returners

Mech Details
Model: Leopard
Primary Color: Tan and Red
Weapons: Standard
Faction Bonus: Boosted Weapons
Other: AI Assistant represented by a 20-something woman with long, flowing purple hair, wearing a blindfold over her eyes but with the same attitude as her deceased older brother -- caring yet firm. The mech's rifle is equipped with a cartridge containing specialized bullets that can pierce the toughest of armor, and at best can leave dents on a Jezemite armor.
Name: Jagan

History: A Prominent face among the Returners, who have made their home close to the wrecked colony ship away from the three other Factions, Brittany was the younger sister of one of the fighters that represented the Returners in the Sector Royale tournament, which happened every ten years. Brittany was only a ten-year old girl back when the war ravaged all of the territories, including her own, allowing her to bear witness to the destruction caused by the war. Though scared to death by the violence that had ravaged her neck of the woods, Brittany held strong to the belief that one day, she and her brother would be able to return to Earth and live peaceful lives. To do that, however, the group needed supplies and parts to repair the one thing that can bring them back to Earth in order to seek redemption for the egregious sin of having left the planet for Terra Neros in the first place. Brittany could only watch as her brother -- a strong, fit young man of 19 -- would join the older men in piloting mechs to battle the other Factions to raise money, as well as possibly pick up the much needed parts that will finally render the colony ship operational. It would be a given, however, that such a quest would be an ultimate struggle, as tragedy would strike the young girl in the form of her Brother dying in combat. Though he was replaced by another fit young man in the team, Brittany knew that no one could replace him as a person, and could only mourn his death. During that period of grieving, Brittany made a one way promise to her brother -- a promise to train and become a fighter like him, so that she may one day return to Earth and carry out the promise they made to each other when she was younger.

Now a lovely young woman, Brittany does whatever she can to support the faction. Within a small plot of land, she does her best in raising food crops along with the others, which serve as a source of sustenance for the entire group. Whenever she is not fighting along with the other men in her semi-customized Leopard, which she called Jagan, she is either training herself in piloting the mech, or training herself in martial arts, knowing full well that the other factions have a few unscrupulous characters that won't hesitate in attacking them outside of the battle arena. Other duties she performs, besides growing the food crops they eat, include delivering the tools and supplies the engineers need in order to repair the wrecked colony ship. Finally, it is to be noted that whenever Brittany takes command of her mech, she mouths a little prayer before the match, hoping that the gods will ensure the safety of her opponent.
 
Name: Regal Bradford

Age: 25

Appearance:
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Faction: Vanguards

Mech Details
Model: Mammoth
Primary Color: Slate Gray/Light Blue
Weapons: Heavy Assault Type
Faction Bonus: All Seeing Sensor

Other: AI Assistant represented by an older military veteran in his 40s.

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The AI’s attitude is somewhat that of a mentor, with a carefree; go learn it yourself in a hard way attitude. Unit is a well balanced defensive assault type, extra reactive armor plates attach on top of the already heavy behemoth. A specialized spread shot ammunition is carried in its bazooka, if the round hits dead on it acts like a normal round, but if it misses the target, it may burst spraying shrapnel. A shotgun is added as an attachment to the bottom of its bazooka for extra close range encounters. This type of armament is only used for Storm trooper units. Longer Spikes are added to the shoulders for closed in ramming attacks.
Name: Titan


History: Regal Bradford is a second lieutenant within Vanguard ranks; he has recently been inducted into the military as a graduated of its top academy. Regal joined the military to become and engineer, but his talents were better known for mech combat and thus this caused him to be relocated to the mech corp. Disappointed his attitude changed from hardworking to carefree and lazy, Regal is the youngest son to the famous Bradford family, its household head Regal’s grandfather is one of the commanding officers of Vanguards.

His Grandfather saw that his talents was being wasted and made the decision to relocate him to be with an Assault unit. Under the Assault unit Regal was forced to keep order and forcefully suppress any who goes against the Vanguard’s ideals. Somewhere within all the battles and the death Regal stopped caring totally, eventually he became more machine like the robots which the Vanguards had, regal’s hobby is to take apart his mech and other mechs, this is seem to be the only thing he maintain in his engineering interest. Regal would have already died many times over, but his true skills show when his life is threatened, therefore usually Vanguards keep Regal in the back as a trump card. Regal chose a Heavy armored unit mostly because he feels the safe inside one. He rather not do any battle unless he has to, Regal’s current attitude usually aligns with a whatever feel.
 
Name: Aiden Johnson
Age: 24

Appearance: Kaze.avif

Faction: The Returners

Mech Details:
Model: Anaconda
Primary Color: Dark Orange
Weapons: Instead of a missle pod on the left shoulder there is a gatling gun, and instead of the missle pod on his arm there is a auto loading shotgun.
Faction Bonus: Boosted Weapons
Other: The Ai system appears to be that of a teenager with blue hair. The Ai even though helps Aiden is also very sarcastic and angers him during battle.
Name: Gyaos

History: Aiden was born as a Returner in a family of farmers. While others headed off to fight in the tournaments they held Aiden and the other members of his family would stay settled. While growing up all Aiden ever truly did was raise cattle and crops, but thankfully in the end the farmwork gave him a bulky and strong body. Some viewed Aiden as a goliath for he was six foot nine and weighed almost three hundred pounds. Though when some heard how much he weighed they soon heard of his nine percent body fat and then their fear grew. This farm boy though had one dream, and that was to pilot a mech with the same greatness of himself.

With that said the farm boy at the age of eighteen joined the returner's military force, and began to train as a mech pilot. Aiden wanted one that would be great for close quarters combat and that is why he chose the Anaconda. This mech was customized by Aiden with a shotgun on its right arm and instead of a missle pod on the left shoulder Aiden had it be replaced with a gatling gun. The reason behind this was so that he would be able to spray the gatling gun to push his enemy to wherever he wanted them, then to fire the shotgun to cripple them or destroy them, and if they were still able to move he'd take them out with his large axe. After six years of fighting Aiden has only had a couple of incidences where he lost a arm or his mech Gyaos's leg was damaged, but nothing serious. And so now as everyone looks down at him as if he is a titan Aiden now wishes to end the war with the other factions and just go back home.
 
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Name: Angel Koizumi

Age: 25

Appearance:
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Faction: Kel Moria Combine

History: Within the Kel Moria territory there are a few professions people could really pursue that men taking on more laboring tasks as mining, while women were limited to farming within the territories. Mecha dueling was not one of the professions limited by gender (or age), but consider just as a dangerous one like mining. It was only natural for Angel to take up farming specializing in abundant growth during harvest time and animal care. Though her skills do not lie solely in farming, but also dabbled in maintaining in mining and mecha equipment. A strong and kind-hearted woman would not turn away from those in need (no matter where they are from.)

One might say that Angel’s values derive growing up perhaps too prematurely to enjoy her childhood. The youngest daughter born into a struggling family trying to make ends neat by taking on the responsibility of seeing to the fields and livestock. Unlike her half sisters (from a previous marriage) did not mind for it helps evaluate some of the work from their mother and often would cook meals. Even more hard times fell on them after her father fell into a slump as he was laid off work. Angel watches as his kind-hearted nature spiral downwards in both physically and mentally. A reminder of this is the two scars on her back.

It was a few weeks after her sixteenth birthday found herself being blame for their misfortune by her father. Angel’s father could not shift the blames to his other two girls for they were not his biological children whereas with her it was easy. If she had been born would be working out in the mines bringing them more income. In an attempt to appease her abusive father studied hard and watches the miners closely to help get them out of the financial rut. Angel’s father had different idea in mind before she could even carry her plan out. Having been told about his daughter growing into a fine young woman and farming skills made her a perfect hired hand to her father’s friend estate.

Outraged and betrayed Angel waited until the transaction was completed before fleeing her new master. For the man was consider devious and shady each time she went with her father seeing the lecherous nature within. By changing her last name and moving further away was able to find some decent living work just to get her off. Now several years down the line has become an independent, learning from the past to break the cycle.
 

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