Talk:StriXern: Red Sea Intervention

Amanda Antioch

Name: Amanda Antioch
Age: 17
Origin: Student
Image Song: not sure yet
Priorities: Mecha, Deus Ex Machina, Schima, Attributes Skills
Background: From the disputed regions of West Asia, Amanda's family became refugees after her town was destroyed by fighting between Neo-Byzantine Units and the locals. Her entire family was killed and she became a refugee. Wounded in the battle inhaling toxic fumes, she traveled to space as part of a resttlement program. Now she's trying to put her life back together.

XP: 1

Attributes

• Power: 1
• Grace: 1
• Smarts: 2 (PTSD twitch reflexes)
• Knowledge: 2 (Intern at Turkish optics company)
• Charisma: 1
• Rhetoric: 2 (Debate Team)
• Perception: 2 (PTSD Danger Sense)
• Integrity: 5 ("I will not fall down!" "I am not afraid of you!")

Willpower: 12
Initiative: 2
Friends: 2 (Megumi: Rich girl who's take Amanda under her wing. Uncle Adina: last surviving relative)
Style: 2 (School uniform. Headscarf outfit with trousers)

Skills

Survival against the odds 2

Mecha

VPM1 Indra
24 points

A tall silver humanoid of mirror bright material with four arms. It stands rather bigger than most robots, with various saphire designs across it. These clear sections reveal intricate circuits within.

Amanda totally fell into the cockpit. It's sort of a shame Amanda isn't Indian, then again getting a mecha that exactly matches your ethnicity is pretty suspect.

Melee 1 (Active defence vectors)

Skirmish 4 (Indraastra Projectile Mode, Indraastra Energy Mode)

Long-Range 4 (Indraastra Solid Light Mode, Shaurya Helix CPB)

Parry 3 (Defense vectors, energy shield)

Defend 4 (Anti-beam armour, Defense Vectors)

Intercept 3 (Black Light ECM, Defense Vectors)

Special 2 (Hyper Maneuver System, Veil Stealth System)

Pilot 3 (AID system, neural link up)

Schema

Sole Survivor 2

Will have her Vengeance One Day 2

Actually from an important family 2

Deus Ex Machina

5

Cosa Sakharov

Age: 18
Eyes: Gold/India Green heterachromia
Hair: Periwinkle
Origin: Student
Priorities: Attributes, Deus ex Machina, Schema, Skills, Mecha
Background: A totally ordinary student who's also a psychic Russian experimental New Man.

Attributes

• Power: 3 (Sporty)
• Grace: 3 (Quick reflexes)
• Smarts: 3 (Off the cuff)
• Knowledge: 3 (Perfect recall)
• Charisma: 3 (Looks great in a pilot suit)
• Rhetoric: 3 (Master bullshitter)
• Perception: 3 (Pentachromat)
• Integrity: 3 (Shounenry)

• Willpower: 12
• Initiative: 3
• Friends: 3
• Style: 3

Skills

Newtype Bullshit 3 [Remotes]

Mecha

Sukhoi Su-R17bis

As the Russian Federation crumbled under the socio-economic onslaught of the Union of Trans-Siberian Commonwealths, a secret plan was hatched to repel them militarily via the use of psychodriver-piloted mobile suits. This is not one of those mobile suits.

Melee 3 (Dual beam sabers)

Skirmish 2 (250mm shotcannon)

Long-Range 1 (Long-range missiles)

Parry 3 (Armor, Parry)

Defend 2 (Armor)

Intercept 2 (ECM)

Special 1 (Afterburner)

Pilot 0

Schema

Parents [5]

Novy Zvedya Project [1]

Deus Ex Machina

5

"Captain" Yekaterina Du Lac

Player: 100thlurker
Age: 36
Origin: Military
Priorities: Skills, Attributes, Schema, Deus ex Machina, Mecha
Background: Yekaterina Gerard Lapoint Du Lac is a rather (in)famous war hero from the Hegemony of Russian nationality (and French descent). As a teen she witnessed the Russian Federation come apart at the seams and her world slide into chaos. She quietly escaped her parents and fled down the Dnieper to the Hegemony, where she successfully lied about her age to join the famed all-Russian tágma tōn varángōn special forces unit, commonly known as the Varangian Guard. It was only after a literal chest full of medals and a promotion to the rank of dekarchos, or captain, that the truth came out. Her story was spun into inspirational gold in the skilled hands of the hegemonia propaganda machine and became something of a media sensation.

The captain defected(?!) for unknown reasons. Many in the intelligence community question the sincerity of this change of heart, and her sanity, given her that she has made certain comments and gestures at inappropriate moments despite visibly struggling to restrain herself. Determined to make up in some small way for the damage she's caused, but unable to join organizations like the Salvation Project for obvious reasons and unwilling to sign onto a G.33 military, she drifted into a spiral of depression. That ended when she was picked up by the Valiant Arms Inc as a consultant regarding Hegemonia weapons and as a bodyguard for the company's young heir.

As a result of being traumatically wounded quite frequently throughout her career in the hegemonia's service - including one spectacular bomb incident when fighting in a village in West Asia only a few months prior to her defection - it's rumored one of her limbs is entirely prosthetic. It doesn't help that she insists on wearing gloves and seems to suffer troubling lapses in memory.

"Stupid braid came loose."

Sometimes wears an eyepatch. What's up with that?

Attributes

Power: 4 ( Endurance Training, Robot Arm )
Grace: 4 ( Always lands on her feet, Instinctive Action )
Smarts: 4 ( Cool under fire, taktika )
Knowledge: 2 ( Officer's Education )
Charisma: 3 ( I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it. )
Rhetoric: 1
Perception: 4 ( Clear head, Solid Eye )
Integrity: 1

• Willpower: (4 + 1)*2 [10]
• Initiative: (4 + 4)/2 [4]
• Friends: (1 + 3)/2 [2]

- Amanda Antioch (Soul Crushing Guilt)

- Roman Valiant (какая лапа!)

• Style: (3 + 4)/2 [3]

- Leather Jacket and whatever she feels like underneath

- Stylish Business Suit. With space spidersilk.

Skills

Amazingly Multilingual: 1

Close Quarters Battle: 3 (Kopis)

Military Equipment: 2

Mecha

"Okay, look, I know what you're going to say, and in my defense I never did get a driver's license...What?" (14)

HaHC-01-p-a akontistai
As the Hegemony's war efforts began to heat up, combat studies and hard won experience indicated that outdated, generalist heílotes was becoming increasingly ineffective even as a mass-produced second rate machine. A plan was put into motion to iterate the aging but quite substantial heílotes fleet into a family of cheap, mutually supportive specialist designs collectively known as the psiloi. Three variants have been fielded thus far: the toxotes with long range coilguns for mass suppressive fires, the sphendonitai armed with cruise missile launchers to destroy specific targets, and the stripped down light skirmisher akontistai. For such a large scale project much of the details were successfully kept a state secret until war hero Yekaterina Du Lac unexpectedly defected in dramatic fashion by crashing one of the akontistai variant prototypes undergoing atmospheric flight trials into a hillside - and not a few windmills - in Dutch territory.

Melee 2 (Frequency kopis)

Skirmish 4 (Chest-Mounted Scramjet CIWS, akon semi-automatic SRM launcher)

Long-Range 0

Parry 2 (physical parmē buckler)

Defend 3 (Reactive Armor, Chest-Mounted Scramjet CIWS)

Intercept 1 (Flares)

Special 1 (Thruster Packs)

Pilot 1 (Special Forces training)

Schema

"I taught a few of the young whelps they put through officer school..." 2

Totally a War Hero (on the wrong side) 4

Deus Ex Machina

2

Roman Valiant

Player: BM

Concept: Rich arms manufacturer turned pilot.

Background: Civilian (+3 skill)

Prioritization: Schema, Mecha, Skills, Deus, Attributes

Bio: Roman is heir to the Valiant Arms Inc., a multi-national mecha manufacturer that specializes in Pilot interfaces and onboard AI. While he comes of age, he pursues his eduacation, and works amid the company as a test pilot for one of the test models.

Roman is a young, bombastic man with light brown hair and green eyes. He's often well-dressed outside of his mecha, and tends to be quite friendly.

Roman's constant companions include his minder, Anastaysia du Lac, employed to train him in the practical side of mecha combat, and his personal combat AI, Calico VA, a cat-eared girl who serves as his unit's onboard combat/pilot AI as well as a PDA.

Attributes

Power 1

Grace 1

Smarts 2 (Innovative Uses of MMI)

Knowledge 2 (AI Technology)

Charisma 4 (Everyone's Friend)

Rhetoric 2 (Model Executive)

Perception 1

Integrity 2 (Unrelenting Spirit)

Willpower: 6

Initiative: 2

Friends: 2 (Anastaysia Du Lac, minder; Calico VA, Experimental Personal/Mecha AI)

Style: 3 (Flight jumpsuit with head-mounted MMI headset; three-piece suit with fur coat draped over shoulders, red waistcoat and striped shirt with pocketwatch)

Skills

Business & Finance (Complexity) 2

AI Design (Mastery) [Mecha AI] 3

Negotiation (Ability) 1

Mecha Design (Ability) 1

Mecha

Name: Valiant Arms “Julius” Test Model

Role: Experimental Demonstration Model/Electronic Warfare

Description: The Julius is the original test unit for Valiant Arms R&D, used to test their new weapons and onboard systems for commercial production. It was designed around two primary experimental systems: The Static Field system, which generates a charged field useful for electronics disruption and melee attack, and the ability to support advanced Artificial Intelligence systems. These systems synchronize with a human pilot, allowing for far more advanced piloting and direct MMI integration, with a human mind working in perfect tandem with an artificial intelligence.

It's notable for its wide, disc-like upper torso and spindly limbs and legs, with a thin lower torso.

Melee: 1 (Static Screen)

Skirmish: 3 (Experimental EMP Blaster, Scatter Missiles)

Long Range: 3 (Experimental Sniping Mini-rocket system, Focused Particle Beam)

Parry: 1 (Repulsion Field)

Defend: 2 (AI-Governed Thruster System)

Intercept: 3 (Focused Particle Beam PD, Electronic Countermeasures Suite)

Special: 4 (Self-learning AI, Static Screen EMP)

Pilot: 3 (Experimental Virtual Mind-Machine Interface, Artificial Intelligence Synchronization Score 100%)

Schema

Heir to Valiant Arms (5)

Upper Class Education (2)

Revolutionary Pilot AI Calico VA (3)

Deus Ex Machina

Points: 2

XP

First Arc: 1

Bought:

Charisma to 4 (1)

The Red

Name: 27th Hero of the People, the Red (Baron)
Age: ???
Origin: Military (+3 attributes)
Priorities:

• Mecha (24)
• Attributes (20) +3
• Skills (4)
• Schema (4)
• DEM (1)

Appearance:
Red is a young, though deceptively tall girl of apparent Middle Eastern/North African origins, with long, red hair usually done up in a ponytail and dark brown eyes. (the hair may or may not be dyed) Tends to wear her flightsuit most of the time.

Background:
"I have no regrets."

The Red. The 27th Hero of the People, travelling Earth and the Plates alike, seeking to right wrongs, correct injustices and fight for the cause of world peace. Predictably, this is not a job with high life expectancy. (as the fact that there have been 27 Heroes in less than twice as many years shows)

The Heroes of the People are soldiers without a nation, warriors without a lineage, mercenaries that work pro bono - unbound and free to act against injustice and war damages that are all too common in this era, where war has spread all over the Solar System and entire nations are torn down on Earth. The only qualifier for the title is one's skill and one's dedication to its ideals - several times, there were multiple Heroes active at the same time, though that state of affairs rarely remains for long.

A lot of Red's history is unclear - even her true name is not known, the girl herself being a war orphan picked up by her adopted father, the 26th Hero of the People, from a warzone, surrounded by dead bodies in a purged village, her past life mostly forgotten amidst the trauma. She grew up in the homeland of her father, Poland, and in time regained her happiness - and eventually followed in her father's footsteps, taking on the name of Red. Ethnically, she appears to be of Middle Eastern or North African origins, however.

Red being an adopted daughter of a former Hero, who fell in the line of duty, is rather unusual, as is her young age. However, so far, she has managed to prove herself deserving of that mantle, using her machine and the training she received to follow her dream of a peaceful world - her blood hot and her spirit soaring, even if in practice the path she walks is lonely and dooms her to an early death. She feels that it is worth it, however, although she sometimes feels inadequate - both because she still lacks many of the non-combat skills essential to a hero, and because her upbringing ultimately has left a large hole where a person's normal life should be.

It is also known that she is associated with the organisation known as the Salvation Project - a large international non-governmental organisation, focused on providing humanitarian aid in war-torn regions, both on Earth and in space, and minimising war damages that ensue when nation states and various mercenary groups clash. It is mostly known in public for cooperating with other NGOs with similiar goals and certain independent journalists, providing them with transportation to various hot spots in the Solar System, further resources and ultimately security - occasionally even playing the somewhat surreal role of a pro bono PMC in particularly troubled regions, acting in order to put an end to ongoing war crimes. (as long as they are not war crimes committed by major governments, of course, though Red doesn't seem to care much about that point)

The Salvation Project has been associated with the Heroes since the times of the 11th Hero and Red continues this close relationship, making use of Salvation's vessels and intelligence to travel around the Solar System. It is rumoured that Rudy itself, a bleeding-edge Bumar-Dassault mecha, had been provided to her by them, though exactly how the organisation had managed to acquire a highly sophisticated G.33 military prototype is not known, although the theories are many and varied, especially since Bumar-Dassault itself seems very reluctant to comment on the matter at this time.

Ironically, despite her ideology and the history of the Heroes themselves, which often flirt with communism and always strongly condemn imperialism, she adopted both the nickname and the aesthetic of the greatest of the aces of ancient history, a soldier of the Imperial Germany - Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Her flightsuit is heavily stylised after World War 1 pilot uniforms, and, of course, the omnipresent colour red are the most obvious examples. (although her by-now infamous memory material scarf is, in fact, white and red, in honour of her father's homeland) She does not seem particularly self-aware about this, however.

Attributes:

• Power: 2 (Space CQC)
• Grace: 3 (Space CQC)
• Smarts: 3 (I'll Just Improvise)
• Knowledge: 2 (Ideologue)
• Charisma: 3 (Sky Knight)
• Rhetoric: 4 (Passionate Speaker, Ideologue)
• Perception: 2 (AR Flight Goggles)
• Integrity: 4 (Hero of the People, Unbreakable)

Total: 23

Derived Attributes:

• Willpower: 12
• Initiative: 3
• Friends: 3 (???)
• Style: 3 (Red Baron Flightsuit, Salvation High School Uniform, Red Riding Hood Costume)

Skills:

• Flying: 3 (Aircraft)
• Firearms: 1

Mecha: Rudy

Red's combat machine, named after an old hero from a distant war. Bleeding-edge military equipment that she had been familiar with and trained on ever since she was a child; it is basically an old familiar to her, more a friend and companion than merely a tool, with its AI drones, themselves highly sophisticated military machines built as miniature versions of Rudy, serving as both friends and pets to her. (as actual living friends rarely stay living for very long in this line of work)

• Melee: 1 (Space CQC)
• Skirmish: 5 (High-Maneuverability Missiles, Beam Laser, Szarik-class AI Drones)
• Long Range: 3 (Alte-Schmied Heavy Anti-Ship Railgun, Long-Range Missiles)
• Parry: 1 (Beam Shields)
• Defend: 3 (Hyperalloy Armour, High-Maneuverability Verniers)
• Intercept: 3 (Sun Flare Flash Bombs, Szarik-class AI Drones)
• Special: 3 (Szarik-class AI Drones, Starbow Break Thruster System, Self-Repair)
• Pilot: 5 (Red Baron, Old Familiars, AI Support)

Total: 24

Schema:

• The Hero of the People: 3
• Echoes of Salvation: 1

Progress: 0/1 XP

• Upgraded DEM from 1 to 2. (1 XP)

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