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Military Base
You've sworn your life, however disingenuously, to the New Earth Empire. Your duty was the old platitude "to protect and serve", one that entailed toiling away with your unit along an seemingly endless series of drills punctuated by the occasional parade, with, whether you liked it not, little to do with serving or protecting.
Well, not until today at least.
Perhaps you waited a tad too late to desert. Or perhaps, you, knowing the survival rates, are willing to lay your life down, if not for your ideals, then for your world and your people, however flawed they may be.
| | Armor Frame Pilot
You are a rank and file soldier of the famous Mechanized Warfare Divisions, the greatest hope and asset of the NEE. Though you lack combat experience, and though you are outnumbered, you may at least find some cold solace in the fact that your weapons actually work most of the time, something which cannot be said about your System League counterparts.
| | 092AIAR
A Vestige bullpup assault rifle famed for its versatility and reliability. It uses an electronically-fired superposed load system with no moving parts save for the trigger, fire-select dial and the bullets themselves.
Now, maybe using a weapon manufactured a potentially hostile coalition might not be the best idea. Maybe. But it has yet to fail you. Besides, Vestige is quite reasonable as long as no-one threatens its profit margins.
| IW05-ALCYONE
A compact NEE personal defense weapon designed for close quarter combat. It uses specialized magic rounds that fire subsonic bolts of solid air which burst in small explosions upon impact.
Though lacking in penetration power, and ineffective on vehicles, its whisper quiet rounds are highly accurate and completely unaffected by gravity making it a fearsome weapon for most applications that require a bit of stealth.
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| | AF01-LUPUS
A shiny armor frame a couple decades past its prime and extensively retrofitted in a half-hearted attempt to stave off obsoletion. This bulky machine stands at a height of 5 meters with a flat top littered with anchor points for transporting infantry and supplies.
For combating armor frames and casual warcrimes against infantry, it has its considerable strength, and a mechanically-integrating high-caliber chain gun for those who want to keep at least some pretense of civility.
| AF01-PHAROH
A prototype of sorts that integrates Dead Hand's infamous high-impact weaponry into a heavily modified LUPUS frame. Though intended to function as powerful main combat frames, they quickly gained a reputation for being cursed after several of their pilots died under mysterious circumstances during routine drills.
Its name comes from how its arms are kept crossed over its chest by a set of chains, only ever released for melee combat. For ranged engagements, it comes with a back-mounted auto-cannon operated through unknown means.
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Maintenance Facility
Things break, they always do.
Be it from the user's incompetence, or the relentless attrition of time, and when they do break, someone has to repair it. In the case of government-owned equipment, particularly that which is owned by the military, that someone is you. It's a thankless job, and, judging by some of the repairs you've had to perform in the past, it's probably better that you never meet the fools you clean up after.
In the coming days, you will be needed more than ever, the trick is to survive those days.
| | Flight Systems Engineer
Working with members of the Loremaster Consortium, you repair the flight systems of the larger armor frames. You reconnect the literal black boxes of their Alcubierre Drives, replace armored plating and dislodge whatever beer bottles and sex toys have clogged the thrusters - a frighteningly routine task that, seemingly without fail, is required after every parade.
| | Plasma Torch
A portable direct current transferred arc plasma torch. Designed to cut away damaged armor with ease, this handheld device emits a short burning jet so bright that it can cause blindness without proper eye protection.
Probably not the best weapon, considering the awkward grip, somewhat cumbersome generator and required face shield. Probably, but it isn't like you have many other choices if soldiers do charge in, and at the very least, you can ensure that they'll have a bit of retina damage.
| Fire Hose
This is a bad idea. This a very fucking bad idea.
In fact, this 15 meter length of synthetic fibers and rubber may as well be the reincarnation of the serpent. If said serpent had suddenly decided that instead of tempting humanity's progenitors to eat the forbidden fruit, it would rather convince a panicking idiot to try and whip a squad of heavily armed of soldiers who may or may not come charging in through the door within the next five minutes.
| Fire Axe
An axe with a head colored crimson save for the blade. Though designed to break down doors and windows during emergencies, it would serve quite well for the purposes of killing your fellow man...
Not that you've been thinking about anything like that, of course.
An axe perhaps isn't the best weapon for use against squads of armed soldiers, even with the element of stealth, but the same could be said about your other options at this point.
| Fire Extinguisher
A fire extinguisher filled with dry chemical powder for quelling any minor fires that may occur.
Though usage in confined spaces is ill-advised due to their tendency to obscure vision and trigger breathing problems, when a fire starts giving meaningful glances to a potentially explosive fuel tank, they're probably the least of your concerns
Against System League infantry, the only real assets it has are its weight and your foolhardy hopes that perhaps such divisions are comprised of the severely asthmatic.
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| | Flight Systems Workshop
Despite its name, this is less of a workshop and more of a series of cubicles formed from armored blast walls that retract into the floor because even though you don't work in a dreary office, the higher ups thought that you'd rather imagine that you did.
Mechanical limbs busily transport and secure various parts - thrusters, fuel tanks, plating oblivious to the coming turmoil. This is your jurisdiction, what your PDA can control. Looks like a lot of creative misuse is in order.
| AF02 Assembly
A chamber lined with mechanical limbs and walkways, with the husk of a LATRANS Armor Frame suspended in the center.
Such frames are relatively small (though still one size class larger than LUPUS frames) and ares equipped with thrusters designed with armored drive-bys in mind.
Though undergoing disassembly, this damaged machine is still functional, provided it gets put back together before you die from being horribly murdered by then. You might even have enough time to make a few improvements of your own.
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Colony Center
Congratulations, whatever goals and concerns you may have had, have just been fucked.
Suppose the New Earth Empire wins this little battle of theirs. Suppose you get to live through all this shit. So what? A war isn't something a colony recover from quickly and chances are, you house would have been burned and looted by the time this is over.
This might not be the cheeriest of prospects, but it's still the better of two incredibly shitty options. And maybe, that in itself makes it worth fighting for.
| | Civilian
You fled for the center of the colony. Though not explicitly designed to shelter people from warfare, now that you think about it, it seems like the designers certainly had that in mind regardless. This is the most heavily fortified section of the colony, and therefore also the ugliest. And until this is all over, this will be your new home. Try not to go crazy from boredom in the meantime.
| | Revolver
A double-action revolver manufactured for self-defense.
With its lower frame is constructed from various polymers for recoil absorption and the barrel is aligned with the lowermost chamber to reduce muzzle rise, this weapon is able to accurately discharge numerous hollow-point rounds in rapid succession.
| Automatic Knife
A double-action spring-loaded blade. Unlike the stereotypical stiletto switchblade, this implement is capable of both cutting and stabbing, though at the cost of being a tad too large to function as a concealed weapon, not too surprising seeing as it was apparently manufactured for use as a utility knife more than anything else.
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| | Mysterious Matchbox
A monochrome matchbox of unknown origin that you must have grabbed in your haste during the evacuations. In lieu of any recognizable brand, it instead bears an minimalistic eye insignia. Close inspection with the right lighting reveals another image - a complex fractal curve reminiscent to a smoke pattern, inscribed in pigments that barely differ from the coloration of the box itself.
Strangely, whilst the clear plastic wrapping remains intact, the noises made from shaking it indicate that few matches actually remain within it.
| Suspicious Syringe
An autoinjector pen that you have no collection of owning or acquiring. Its pale casing bears the words "NO HEROES WITHOUT MONSTERS" in calligraphy written with the kind of immaculate precision that implies mass production.
The overall shape and design is also somewhat odd, consisting of a slender cylinder formed from a single continuous piece of plastic which thus lacks any button or plunger to actually commence the injection.
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Topic: Perplexicon - Down the Foxhole - Raining Mecha (Read 179461 times)