Mercy Smith "Caliber" [Reach Heaven] - (VermilionSkies)
Name: Mercy Smith
Call sign: Caliber
Appearance: Young and bright-eyed. Wears a dusty, cordite-stained apron over various sets of sweaters and jeans.
Personality: Obsessed with the beauty of a well-maintained gun in action. Is very willing to tell you about how cool their collection of firearms is.
Backstory: Born to a pair of corporate cleanup agents, Mercy was guided towards following through with the family business by both their parents and a desire to fire the big gun.
Traits:
[Negative] Severe Astigmatism - -1 Pilot Skills and Job Skills at night or in low light conditions
Mercy Smith's eyes tire more easily than most, and she is occasionally subject to migraine headaches. Although she is used to it, her symptoms worsen at night and impair her activities. She might be able to cure her condition if she can scrounge up enough money for a surgery.
[Positive] "Cleanup" Expert - +1 Combat Skill +1 Medicine Skill / has friendly contacts in the underworld
Mercy Smith's line of work has given her certain insights with weapons and the human body, and how they interact together.
Pilot Skills
Melee (Shock/Dodge): 0
Medium (Assault/Position): 3
Long (Artillery/Jamming): 0
Job Skills
Combat: 2 (+1)
Exploration: 1
Medicine: 1 (+1)
Mechanics: 2
Electronics: 0
General Data
Registration Number: Reach Heaven
Attack Class: Assault
Weight Class: Standard
Arm Load: 0
Leg Load: 0
Hit Table
1-2: Head ○○
3-5: Core ○○○
6-7: Arms ○○
8-10: Legs ○○●
Attributes
Pursuit: 3
Evasion: 0
Detection: 3
Profile: 7
Handling: 1.5
Skill Modifiers and Caps
Melee: -1/4
Medium: 2/4
Long: -1/4
Parts
Weapons: [HG] WMB Assault Rifle (○(x2) / +1 Pursuit)
Head: [HG] WMB Standard Head [Sensor] (+3 Detection / ○○)
Core: [HG] WMB Light Core (○○○)
Arms: [HG] WMB Standard Arms (Standard ArmLoad / ○○)
Legs: [HG] WMB Standard Bipedal Legs (+1 Position / Standard MaxLoad / ○○●)
CPU: [HG] WMB Standard Specialized CPU [Medium] (+2 Medium -1 Melee -1 Long)
Thrusters: [HG] WMB Pursuit Thrusters (+2 Pursuit)
Set Bonus: WMB 4-Parts (-2 Handling)
- (Prophet)
Name: Rom-333 [Prefers Drifter]
Call sign: Drifter
Appearance: Once one looks past the prematurely graying hair and patchwork of scars, Drifter appears to be roughly in his mid twenties. Short, stunted from a life of malnutrition, and lean, but noticeably muscular from a life of back breaking labor.
Personality: Distant and blunt. Dislikes crowds and strangers. Likes MUs, salvaging parts, mechanical maintenance and construction, and smoking, usually from his old captain's pipe.
Backstory: Born, and orphaned soon after, as one of countless 'Corporate Salvaging and Recycling Workers', affectionately known as Debt Slave Scrappers, his small size and disinclination towards complaining would see his childhood filled with dangerous work and hard labor. When he was teenager he would be conscripted by a pirate crew raiding his work site, spent a few years fighting and shipratting with them. Until the captain died, the crew divided and fought over what he left behind, and then split off their own ways. A life of experiencing one hardship after another. Home, Family, Friends... don't try to hold on, it's all ashes in the solar winds.
Traits:
[Positive] Experienced Salvager - +1 Mechanics / +1 Electronics / increased chance of salvaging parts
When it comes to finding value in a piece of scrap, "Drifter" is your man. His many years of experience has given him a knack for finding value in the most broken things.
Pilot Skills
Melee (Shock/Dodge): 2
Medium (Assault/Position): 2
Long (Artillery/Jamming): 0
Job Skills
Combat: 2
Exploration: 1
Medicine: 0
Mechanics: 2 (+1)
Electronics: 1 (+1)
General Data
Registration Number: BAD JOKE
Attack Class: Shock
Weight Class: Standard
Arm Load: 0
Leg Load: 0
Hit Table
1-2: Head ○○
3-5: Core ○○●
6-7: Arms ○○
8-10: Legs ○○●
Attributes
Pursuit: 1
Evasion: 1
Detection: 0
Profile: 8
Handling: 0
Skill Modifiers and Caps
Melee: 1/4
Medium: 1/4
> Position 2/4
Long: 1/4
> Jamming 2/4
Parts
Weapons: [HG] [Melee] WMB Pulse Sword (○●)
Head: [HG] WMB Standard Head [Jammer] (+1 Jamming / ○○)
Core: [HG] WMB Standard Core (○○●)
Arms: [HG] WMB Standard Arms (Standard ArmLoad / ○○)
Legs: [HG] WMB Standard Bipedal Legs (+1 Position / Standard MaxLoad / ○○●)
CPU: [HG] WMB Standard Balanced CPU (+1 Melee +1 Medium +1 Long)
Thrusters: [HG] WMB Balanced Thrusters (+1 Pursuit +1 Evasion)
Set Bonus: WMB 4-Parts (-2 Handling)
- (Hawk132)
Name: Zereth
Call sign: Sovereign
Appearance: A dark-haired young man in his early twenties, clean shaven and generally sharply dressed during the day-to-day, though he prefers his pilot suit. He's rather tall and of an athletic build.
Personality: Relatively serious, though with a sarcastic edge. Prone to letting loose during times of 'revelry'.
Backstory: A once prodigal son of one of the many Zereon families, Zereth was blessed and cursed with the privilege of being far, far down the inheritance order. With no real responsibilities, nor any true status, he coasted along with his life, making it through one of the prestigious military academies (though his father had to pull some strings to fast-track him through the marksmanship courses due to his atrocious aim), but all along, he was met with constant disrespect from his peers, siblings and family - all because he was born too late to matter. Having enough and taking up some drastic action, Zereth hijacked one of his family's Modular Units and escaped, relinquishing his family name before becoming a merc in a bid for glory and recognition... eventually ending up drifting to Begreris.
Traits:
[Negative] Runaway Aristocrat - negative relationship with the ZSO. Very negative relationship with a certain house of the ZSO.
The bonds of blood have a strong importance in the Zereon Star Order. To renege on these bonds is seen as a criminal offense...
[Positive] Relic Expert - +2 Exploration / increased chance of positive outcomes in ruins / might be able to identify relics
Zereth has lived his whole life surrounded with technological marvels of the old era. He is familiar with all these systems, to an uncanny degree, as if they were drawn to him.
Pilot Skills
Melee (Shock/Dodge): 0
Medium (Assault/Position): 2
Long (Artillery/Jamming): 2
Job Skills
Combat: 0
Exploration: 2
Medicine: 1
Mechanics: 1
Electronics: 2
General Data
Registration Number: SOVEREIGN
Attack Class: Mixed (Artillery/Assault)
Weight Class: Standard
Arm Load: Standard - 0
Leg Load: Standard - 0
Hit Table
1-2: Head ○
3-5: Core ○○○
6-7: Arms ○○
8-10: Legs ○○●
Attributes
Pursuit: 1 (2 with WMB AR)
Evasion: 1
Detection: 2
Profile: 6
Handling: -1
Skill Modifiers and Caps
[MU+Pilot/Cap]
Melee: 1/4
Medium: 1/4
> Position: 2/4
Long: 1/4
Parts
Weapons:
[HG] [Medium] WMB Assault Rifle (○(x2) / +1 Pursuit)
[HG] [Long] WMB 4-cells Missile Launcher (○(x4))
Head: [HG] WMB Light Head [Sensor] (+2 Detection / ○)
Core: [HG] WMB Light Core (○○○)
Arms: [HG] WMB Standard Arms (Standard ArmLoad / ○○)
Legs: [HG] WMB Standard Bipedal Legs (+1 Position / Standard MaxLoad / ○○●)
CPU: [HG] WMB Standard Balanced CPU (+1 Melee +1 Medium +1 Long)
Thrusters: [HG] WMB Balanced Thrusters (+1 Pursuit +1 Evasion)
Set Bonus: WMB 4-Parts (-2 Handling)
- (The Canadian kitten)
Name: Derek
Call sign: Sting
Appearance: Slightly overweight, loose clothing, with tangled lengthy brown hair and brown eyes
Personality: Cowardly, Cautious, fearful, and everything to do being afraid generally
Backstory: A lifetime of near misses of horrible death/crippling injuries has turned this man cowardly. Don't worry, still a capable Mech' pilot, just one who values their life slightly above earning big.
Traits:
[Negative] Coward - -1 Offence Skills when Engaged / +1 Evasion
In a fight or flight situation, Derek grows wings. He will give it his all to flee, but he will turn into a nervous wreck focused on self-preservation under pressure.
[Positive] Danger Sense - +2 Combat / increased chance of avoiding negative outcomes during exploration
Derek can smell danger to a paranoid degree, which proves very handy in the everyday life of a mercenary. In a fight our of the safety of his Modular Unit, he will use the dirtiest tricks if it will help him survive.
Pilot Skills
Melee (Shock/Dodge): 0
Medium (Assault/Position): 0
Long (Artillery/Jamming): 3
Job Skills
Combat: 3 (+2)
Exploration: 0
Medicine: 0
Mechanics: 1
Electronics: 1
General Data
Registration Number: Long Tom
Attack Class: Artillery
Weight Class: Light
Arm Load: 1
Leg Load: 3
Hit Table
1-2: Head ○
3-5: Core ○○○
6-7: Arms ○○
8-10: Legs ○○○
Attributes
Pursuit: 1
Evasion: 1 (+1)
Detection: 2
Profile: 5
Handling: 2.5
Skill Modifiers and Caps
Melee: -1/4
Medium: -1/4
Long: 2/4
Parts
Weapons: HG] [Long] WMB Kinetic Cannon (○○●●)
Head: [HG] WMB Light Head [Sensor] (+2 Detection / ○)
Core: [HG] WMB Light Core (○○○)
Arms: [HG] WMB Standard Arms (Standard ArmLoad / ○○)
Legs: [HG] WMB Light Bipedal Legs (+1 Dodge / Light MaxLoad / ○○○)
CPU: [HG] WMB Standard Specialized CPU (+2 Long -1 other Pilot Skills)
Thrusters: [HG] WMB Balanced Thrusters (+1 Pursuit +1 Evasion)
Set Bonus: WMB 4-Parts (-2 Handling)
- (Egan_BW)
Name: Lu [REDACTED BY CONTRACT]
Call sign: Wrecker
Appearance: A rather beautiful woman with blood-red skin, pure black eyes, and a pair of horns jutting from her brown hair. Wears a white "body-hugging" space suit sans helmet, with blue and golden fabric strips added for regal distinguishment and to give the skintight garment some added modesty.
Personality: The Wrecker thinks most like a Corporate suit, maximizing profit at all cost. Only, she's not seeking profit for the sake of luxuries or influence. The only thing she cares about is the feeling of destroying a machine in a blaze of fire and consumed life, accompanied by the flow of LC into her wallet. Money buys destruction, and destruction buys money in a never-ending cycle of consumption. If anyone wants a world without this life cycle, Lu is against them.
Backstory: Progeny of [REDACTED BY CONTRACT] note: affiliated with Zereon. She found herself unimpressed with court intrigue and bloodline pedigree.
Traits:
[Positive] Engineered Resilience - +2 Combat / less likely to suffer harm during exploration
Lu has been specially engineered for life in space, granting her radiation resistance and an innate ability to photosynthesize. In addition, her reward receptors were modified to deliver increased amounts of dopamine on a kill.
[Mixed] Engineered Aggression - +1 to Offence and -1 to Defence after a successful kill (duration: 1 turn)
Lu's reward system was modified to deliver increased amounts of dopamine on a kill, urging her to seek the next one with psychopathic drive.
Pilot Skills
Melee (Shock/Dodge): 1
Medium (Assault/Position): 1
Long (Artillery/Jamming): 2
Job Skills
Combat: 3
Exploration: 0
Medicine: 0
Mechanics: 0
Electronics: 0
General Data
Registration Number: RD-RM 959129563
Attack Class: Artillery
Weight Class: Light
Arm Load: 1
Leg Load: 3
Hit Table
1-2: Head ○
3-5: Core ○○○
6-7: Arms ○○
8-10: Legs ○○○
Attributes
Pursuit: 0
Evasion: 2 (+1)
Detection: 0
Profile: 5
Handling: 2.5
Skill Modifiers and Caps
Melee: +1/4
> Dodge: +2/4
Medium: +1/4
Long: +1/4
> Jamming: +2/4
Parts
Weapons: [HG] [Long] WMB Kinetic Cannon (○○●●)
Head: [HG] WMB Light Head [Jammer] (+1 Jamming / ○)
Core: [HG] WMB Light Core (○○○)
Arms: [HG] WMB Standard Arms (Standard ArmLoad / ○○)
Legs: [HG] WMB Light Bipedal Legs (+1 Dodge / Light MaxLoad / ○○○)
CPU: [HG] WMB Standard Balanced CPU (+1 Melee +1 Medium +1 Long)
Thrusters: [HG] WMB Evasion Thrusters (+2 Evasion)
Set Bonus: WMB 4-Parts (-2 Handling)
REGISTRATION
HUB: Welcome to HUB. Do you wish to register as a mercenary?
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HUB: Please fill the following documents.
We thank you for your cooperation.
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HUB: Your registration has been fully processed.
Registration number ██████
Call sign ██████
Modular Unit Registration Number ██████
Are the informations correct?
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HUB: Excellent. Welcome to HUB, esteemed mercenary.
As a newly registered pilot without prior history with HUB, your status is: Associate.
Which will give you access to HUB and its affiliates basic support services.
Bounty board access.
Basic parts catalogue.
Modular Unit maintenance.
HUB network access.
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HUB: Congratulations.
Additionally, as part of a limited offer.
Newly registered mercenaries of Begreris are offered a free hangar.
Sponsored by WMB Industries.
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HUB: We look forward to your hard work.
HUB: HUB. Created by and for mercenaries.
BOUNTY BOARD
> There are
> 5 new urgent contracts
>
>UrgentName: Eliminate Protesters
Reward: 5000 VC
Objectives: Defeat the enemy MU
Theater of operations: WMB Weapon Factory
Description:
Dear mercenaries, valued customers. Civilians have set up a barrage at one of WMB Industries weapon factories. The Begrerian Independent Administration has refused to intervene, on account of silly notions such as respecting the right to protest. Further delays in the production and delivery of our products cannot be tolerated. Teach these misguided customers a lesson about who is in charge.
Additional details: None
UrgentName: Defend Civilians
Reward: 5000 VC
Objectives: Defeat the enemy MU
Theater of operations: WMB Weapon Factory
Description:
This is a message to all mercenaries. We have received intel from collaborators that the suits at WMB Industries are hiring mercenaries to attack a peaceful protest at one of their weapon factories. You will be paid to defend the civilians. We are counting on you.
Additional details: None
UrgentName: Destroy BIA scouts
Reward: 8000 VC
Objectives: Defeat the enemy MUs
Theater of operations: Outskirts of the HEA (Hostile Ecosystem Area)
Description:
Hey hey hyenas from HUB! We got work for you! The corps of the BIA seem to have caught wind of one of our "trade hubs" located near the HEA. We need mercenaries to intercept the scouts while we relocate somewhere else. We don't want your fighting to attract the critters from the HEA.
Additional details: None
UrgentName: Destroy Arballister scouting parties
Reward: 8000 VC
Objectives: Defeat the enemy MUs
Theater of operations: Great Rust Field - Zone E
Description:
Mercenaries. The Arballister group is trying to encroach on our legal operations. They are barbarians, and we will pay you handsomely to take care of one of their scouting parties.
Additional details: None
UrgentName: Destroy Tokiyuki excavation party
Reward: 8000 VC
Objectives: Defeat the enemy MUs
Theater of operations: Great Rust Field - Zone E
Description:
Listen mercenaries. We found a new ruin, but the Tokiyuki Corporation got ahead of themselves and claimed the area. Show these dogs they should dig elsewhere.
Additional details: None
HUB NETWORK
You may all contact the following faction liaisons:
- Kate M. the HUB liaison
- Anna E. the WMB Industries liaison
- Edgar V. the BIA liaison
Mercy Smith "Caliber" may contact an unaffiliated friendly acquaintance from the underworld.
- Chun C. the cleanup expert
Everyone starts at RL (Relationship Level) 0 with the known factions, with the exception of Zereth.
Zereth starts at RL -10 with the ZSO.
Zereth starts at RL -20 with a certain house of the ZSO.
MECHANICS
MU Hangar: a place where to store an unused Modular Unit. Each Hangar can hold one Modular Unit.
New Hangar: 10000 VC
Bounty Board: a board that centralizes all available contracts. Some contracts are only available to mercenaries who fulfill certain conditions, such as having positive relationship with a faction, or having a contact with a liaison.
Maintenance: after every mission, damaged parts are fully repaired for free. Destroyed parts however incur a cost per destroyed point of durability.
Repair cost for destroyed parts: 100 VC per durability point / 200 VC per armored durability point
HUB Network: a planetary network that allows mercenaries to contact other mercenaries, as well as the faction liaisons.
Urgent Contracts: time limited contracts with better rewards than other contracts of the same type.
Low-Priority Contracts: contracts available for a longer duration than urgent contracts. Some of these can be repeated.
You gain faction relationship as you complete contracts or go through events involving the factions.
Gaining relationship with a faction will open up their catalogue and will give you better deals. The faction is likely to call on you for special missions as well.
Losing relationship with a faction will have the opposite effects, and they might start trying to hunt you down if they consider you an enemy.
Relationship levels
-21 or less: Enemy
-20 to -11: Hostile
-10 to -6: Unfavourable
-5 to -1: Cold
0 to 5: Indifferent
6 to 10: Amicable
11 to 20: Friendly
21 or more: Allied
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Topic: Modular Units: a Mercenary tale of Mechs, Missions, and Money (Read 2862 times)