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[~Neri]

Normally if Kiren decided that he doesn't like a team contract, he explains his reasoning to the team, if they are in combat then finishes the combat with them, and then leaves the group.

[Rolepgeek]

He explains reasoning in the middle of combat?

I...want to see that actually.

Imagination Spot:
"Hey so guys I think we should really-on your left!- I think we should really talk about this"
"Talk about wha-oh shit that was close fucking missile buggies-what, Kiren?"
"So I wasn't really liking the way -sniper on the ridge, keep your mechs low- the way Dennissa was always railing on me like sh-oh god I think the giant one saw me what the fuck- like she does"
"Oh, you know she doesn't mean anythi-ha fucker! suck it!- anything by it. Just blowing off steam."
"May-goddamn it, not again, I need to take care of that goddamn actuator soon-maybe, but if she doesn't stop criticizing me for my life choi-FUCK YOU JET PLANE GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE DAMNIT GAHHH- life choices, I don't think I can stick with you guys."
"*sigh* alright Kiren, I'll talk to her about it. Oh, and I think someone just put a sticky bomb on your laser."
"Shit, again? that's the third time this week. And thanks, I just hope she listens..."

[Sirus]

Waitlistin' it up. Sounds like a spot or two might open soon >:3

Spoiler: Cuz every game needs a Russian (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexi Tsarkoff
Appearance: A solidly-built man (much like his mecha) with a large beard. Alexi is nearing his 50s though he is still spry enough to mix it up in combat if he must, a fact he credits to his daily exercise regimen (true) and plenty of vodka (unverified).
Biography: Alexi grew up in what used to be Western Russia, now a collection of nation-states after that country's fragmentation in the mid-22nd century. Still, he is the very soul of a husky ruskie; claiming to wrestle bears (which went extinct in that region before he was born), drink vodka like it was water (often without a rise in blood-alcohol levels, indicating very dilute or possibly non-alcoholic drink), and wearing a ushanka (one of the few genuine things about him, being a family heirloom). He enlisted in a mercenary outfit charged with protecting his particular nation-state and showed a particular aptitude in the art of mecha combat and blowing things up. He retired after several years, unsatisfied with the occasional low-level skirmish common to the region, and took his prized mecha Torterror with him on a journey to the stars.

Skills:  (Divide 60 points amongst these)
    - Reflexes : 10
    - Piloting   : 10
    - Engineering : 15
    - Targeting : 17
    - Communications: 8

Traits: (Between 1-4. Specific bonuses for your character. Serves as a balancing mechanism for your mech, so expect less if you have a really good one.)
   - I see veekspot!: Bonus when attacking armored targets. The heavier the armor, the greater the bonus
   - In glorious Arstotzka, turtle faster than you!: Bonus to piloting when attempting to bring a weapon system to bear on an enemy
 

Not too sure about the traits, would like some input on those.

Spoiler: Torterror (click to show/hide)

A low-slung mecha designed purely for combat, the Torterror is easily capable of destroying enemy armor ahead and behind itself. Whether it is demolishing lightly-armored targets with its autocannon, taking out heavy armor with precision shots from the howitzer, destroying enemy structures with HESH bombardment rounds, or even disabling valuable targets with a variable-power electrolaser, the Torterror does it all. For smaller threats, the head-mounted swivel machine gun unleashes a hail of full-metal jacket rounds capable of punching through light cover with ease, and missiles can be shot out of the sky using laser emitters placed in strategic points on the body. Any infantry or other small target attempting to get close can be repulsed - often with deadly force - by grenade projectors.

The low, turtle-like design allows the Torterra to take cover behind buildings or landscape formations with ease. It has zero melee capability however, and must keep its distance from such threats.

Using the sophisticated AR control system, the Torterror's pilot can easily locate and designate targets and can be informed exactly where any damage is taking place as it happens. The Torterror becomes almost an extension of the pilot's own body, reacting as quickly as the pilot does.

Size: Medium
Role: Main Battle
Posture: Sprawling Quadruped with Digitigrade feet.
Engine: Nuclear Reactor
Armor: MEXAS Composite
Additional Defenses: Laser-hardkill APS (I assume this stands for Anti-Personnel System)
Optics: Sonar Imaging

Weapons: 2 Main Shoulder, 1 Main Torso, 1 Secondary Head
Right Shoulder: 40mm Rotary Cannon
Muzzle Brake, Chain-Autoloader
HEI Rounds

Left Shoulder:
85mm Medium Howitzer
Computer-Assisted Gyroscopic-Stabilized
Standard Ammo: Guided AP
Bombardment Ammo: HESH

Torso (rear-facing, forming the "tail" of the mech):
8.9MW Oxygen Iodine Electrolaser

Secondary Weapon (head-mounted):
10.4mm Heavy MG
Limited Traverse
Full-Metal Jacket ammunition

Extras: Multirole Grenade Projectors, AR Headset System
Traits: Low Profile

[Rolepgeek]

APS is Active Protection System.

It's basically point-defense. You shoot missiles with lasers.

Don't forget to roll for MW of the Laser. Caliber/10.

[~Neri]

Kiren would explain after the combat or in a calm period if we are defending something, not midcombat.

Although that would be hilarious and now if we get into that situation, I feel like making that kind of interaction canon.

[Sirus]

APS is Active Protection System.

It's basically point-defense. You shoot missiles with lasers.

Don't forget to roll for MW of the Laser. Caliber/10.

Argh. I'd rather have anti-personnel lasers :/
Now are you talking about the Main Electro-laser when you say to roll for MW?

[Rolepgeek]

I imagine him firing literally every weapon on the mech and probably throwing something at the cockpit window as well when he talks about the jet plane, by the way(and missing, of course). I imagine it had been harassing them and just generally being annoying for hours or weeks by that point. Probably did a fly-by next to Violet Night's optics while flipping the bird, too.

Also, updated sheet with proper pronouns for traits, a mech description, etc.

NINJASKEDIT: Yes, yes I am.

[Sirus]

Alrighty, edited my mecha. Now features grenade projectors instead of an ejection seat (which probably seals my doom) and the Main laser has a nice 8.9MW of power.
According to wikipedia, electro-lasers can disable or destroy electronic devices. Might come in handy.

[Rolepgeek]

LIGHTNING GUNS ARE AWESOME BRAH

But I don't think anyone has an actual normal laser. Plenty of electrolasers, no lasers.

[Sirus]

I was thinking about a normal laser, but I wasn't sure just how powerful or useful it would be. I mean, most potential military uses of lasers has them doing what the APS does: shoot down missiles. For a main weapon laser, are we talking something powerful enough to destroy another mecha or just burn infantry?

[10ebbor10]

The laser range on a power of 1-10 MW.
The strongest military laser today is around 1 MW, while many average only around 100 Kw.

Now, your lasers are thus more powerfull, and they fire much longer bursts. A 10 MW laser will penetrate most armor.

Speaking of which, all these lasers are chemical. So they should have ammunition. Might rebalance that actually.

As for the Gauss gun, currently it's noted as a weapon that fires heavy slugs at supersonic speeds. It will pierce the armor of most things it hit, and if it doesn't, it's will knock them back a few meters and ensure their armor is utterly broken.

I can change it to being a supersonic version of a machine gun, but that will reduce it's impact quite a bit.


Now, onto Kevan. There are things I'm willing to accept, both you having a self destruct trigger (which sadly, due to the nature of a Nuclear engine, will do little more than FUBAR your mech. Nuclear reactor =/= Nuclear bomb, after all), and the UGV system  that works using a chip inserted in your brain. (Which you know, would explain a lot).

That does however mean that if you're ever find yourself separated by something that would block radio signals, including being more than a kilometer or something away, that your mech will self destruct. (brain based radio transmission has terrible range. Something to do with not boiling brain cells.)

On a side note, you guys do know that you are going to be destroying a mercantile vessel, right? And that your job is to trash the hangar bay. (Also known as the place where, hypothetically, the evacuation shuttles would be located.)

I have a series of reasons why they're utilizing you guys though. Mostly them being quite desperate.

[~Neri]

.. So lets avoid blowing up the shuttles? Cause we want off the ship?

[10ebbor10]

That is, indeed, an option.

[Sirus]

Huh. I thought the goal was to capture the liner, not destroy it.

* Sirus has not been keeping up with the IC thread

[~Neri]

I don't think we really are sure what the goal is.

What the hell are we supposed to be doing anyways?