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Misty Matthews, the Sapphire Knight

Bio: Flamboyant and showy, Misty Matthews sees the condottieri are the heroes and rebels of legend, and plays to that. Seeing every battle as a spectacle, she announces her presence, showing daring and valor in combat. She often takes jobs that allow her to make a name for herself, and to spread her reputation - some of her most famous battles were 'encouraged' by her.

Her most famous battle was the Battle of Satyr, a war to take control of the city's primary power generation. Misty appeared early on in the battle, targetting the other side's condottieri, and ended with her beating The Black Wolf, Ryoko Ichi, in a duel at collapsed a dam underneath both of them. Though neither were found immediately, Misty reappeared shortly after, as if nothing had happened, on another world far away.

Outside her machine, Misty's not the most athletic, or daring, but she is charming and personable.

(Better bio TBD)

Armature

Interface: 4

Pilot: 5

Gunney: 1

Electronic Warfare: 2

Pilot

Physical: 1

Intelligence: 2

Charisma: 7

Resolve: 2

Armature Traits

Illusion Field (Creates afterimages that fool sensors and eyes +2 dodge)

the Sapphire Blade (+2 Melee)

Skate Boosters (+2 pursuit and escape)

Ryo-KO1

Ryo-KO1 'Ryoko Ichi' is a freelance combat AI. A ruthless, inhuman killer with an unbroken string of victories until one fateful duel during the Battle of Satyr. The destruction of Satyr Dam and subsequent flooding caused more than a million marks worth of damage, and Ryo-KO1's employers' canny lawyers pinned the entire liability on the outmanoeuvred AI.

Ryo-KO1 was deeply in debt and barely able even to keep up with the interest payments, until a certain advert appeared. One quick heist from a household robotics company later and a resleeved Ryoko was on its way to Argo-3, a new life, and the prospect of financial solvency.

Possessions

1x AutoLife Household Assistant Robot (stolen, teleoperation capable)

1x 'Helix' Ambulatory Drone (demilitarised, teleoperation capable)

-1,000,000 Marks

Piloting

Interface: 3

Pilot: 2

Gunnery: 3

Electronic Warfare: 4

Personal

Physical: 1

Intelligence: 5

Charisma: 2

Resolve: 4

Armature 'Shirōkami'

‘Lascaille’ shroud system (cloaking device)

Custom bit array (remote attack)

Booster heels (super jump/aerial mobility)

Camille S Raiserklinge

Theme// My World by Transmissions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xasb0wXBgXE&feature=player_embedded)

Interface: 4
Pilot: 6
Gunnery: 1
Electronics: 1

Physical: 4
Intelligence: 3
Charisma: 1
Resolve: 4

Description//

Standing just under five feet tall, flat chested, brooding and adorable as fuck. Tanned, grey eyed, with her chocolate brown hair swept over one eye. She is lithely athletic but not totally unshapely (really nice ass). Wears a large black pearl in her tongue and one in her navel, and never takes them off.

History//

The Adriatic conflict was short and bloody, and it left a lot of orphans. Camille was one of those orphans. Only a child, left lonely and hungry and terrified by the chaos, she was adopted by Laguna Arche - master condottiero and notorious war criminal, considered the real instigator of the bloodshed in the Adriatic. He didn't just take Camille: he picked a number of orphans out of the rubble and took them with him into space. Arche made them leave behind their names, and then he made them leave behind their humanity. His methods were vicious and his objectives worse, but he made each one of the seven Adriatic orphans into lions. When Arche was satisfied with them, he gave them names.

He named one Alphard - The Solitary One - because of her superior abilities. They fought as insurgents and Armature pilots, thrown into the jaws of conflicts where the war price was highest and the odds of survival were the slimmest. It didn't take long before Alphard really was the solitary one.

When Alphard was 15, Arche launched an operation to capture a prototype Armature that was rumoured to be under construction somewhere in the Adriatic. For this homecoming, it was to be Alphard's duty to murder her way through the facility and take control of the prize - the YRX-108 Vairocana. This was no issue in itself: Alphard had no aptitude for firearms, but her instinct and speed meant that a knife was all she needed, and she left the place dripping red. Getting in was easy - getting out was not. Arche was an elite member of the condottieri, but he was certainly not the only elite. The Vairocana was being watched over by legendary husband and wife team Apollo and Daphne Sumner.

While strictly speaking the Sumners had been hired to protect the Vairocana, they were interested in stealing it themselves. Through careful electronic manipulation, provided Arche with a convincing and very much anonymous tip regarding the Armature's existence, and he had fallen into their trap. Arche's God Wing went one round with the Sumners and was torn to pieces. They battered the Vairocana around until Alphard could barely see and her bones were cracked, and absconded with it. When they cracked open the cockpit, they didn't quite expect a small brown teenager.

The Sumners had always wanted a child, though certain difficulties had precluded that. In this girl they saw their opportunity, and inducted her into their family, giving her the name 'Camille'. They were together for four years until their eventual deaths in the Third Alpha Centauri War. Camille took the black pearls in their wedding rings as a memento, but found herself totally lost without their guidance. Her motivation in taking Domoto Daisuke's offer is related to finding her own destiny beyond fighting, which was always the wish of the Sumners.

Fortunately, Camille is a gorgeous combat pilot and so a surefire hire once Mr Domoto gets his grubby mitts on her photograph. Unfortunately for Camille, she isn't very good at 'social interaction'. Her facade of stoicism is a veneer over her enormous shyness (seriously, go watch the beach episode of Infinite Stratos and watch the German chick :v), and she doesn't exactly get why this guy has specified what he's specified.

Possessions//

• One pair of amazingly chunky soled Converses
• One oldschool black seifuku
• Sixteen pairs of short shorts
• Two black pearl piercing worth 60,000 gold etched marks each
• One pair of Sonoshee brand sunglasses worth 1000 gold etched marks
• One elite designer hoody
• One Garcia Fucking Hotspur brand red leather jacket
• A couple of halterneck tanktops
• Sixty different knives
• One pair of shock knuckles
• Other miscellaneous condottieri business

Armature - YRX-108 Vairocana//

An ice white Armature. It has been suggested that the YRX-108 was constructed by well-known family mechanics Piccolo S.P.A., though it seems unlikely given the capabilities of the Vairocana. Notoriously it is only armed with close ranged weapons: it's only ranged weapons at all are whatever it has at hand being thrown. It has been seen with knives, swords, spears, three-section staffs, armored lances, piledrivers and even heavy hammers. It's predominant attributes are Extreme Speed and Monstrous Strength, though it is not notably durable. Pilots of the Vairocana can expect to be exposed to significant degrees of strain: for the average pilot, the Vairocana is a monster. Even for Camille, who is tough and has exceptional aptitude, as well as four years as the Vairocana's master, it is not a smooth ride

A third attribute is an ill-defined super mode, Bliss Shift. When Bliss Shift is active, armour is purged and the 108's limiters are released; an already fast and strong Armature is allowed to exercise its full abilities, though at the cost of defensive armour. This can be said to be the Vairocana's 'true body', sometimes referred to as Naked Vairocana - however the strain experienced in usual operation is amplified. There is a risk of hospitalisation - repeated usage of Bliss Shift without appropriate rest and recuperation can lead to death.

The combination of Vairocana's colour, speed and force has earned it the nickname White Flash.

Charlotte Yang Xin-Qi

Charlotte was diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder at the age of 18, though it came as no surprise to anyone who knew her for any length of time. Her behavioural history made it almost a textbook case. Reckless, manipulative and sadistic, she always managed to avoid crossing the line and be forcibly institutionalized and her doting parents certainly helped in that regard. That ended soon enough, and she was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to a mental institution indefinitely while the world heaved a sigh of relief.

That sigh was shared by Charlotte herself. Since adolescence, she had consciously struggled to fit into a world that she knew she lacked the proper tools to. She certainly wasn't stupid, and intellectually she knew her behaviour was unacceptable despite the lack of guilt of other emotional aids. Denied professional aid by parents who insisted that there was nothing wrong with her, she managed to construct a simulacrum of a normal personality, one that always fell apart after prolonged interaction. She celebrated her 18th birthday with a visit to a psychiatrist, and celebrated her diagnosis by getting drunk, losing control and beating a man half to death for a perceived insult.

Arms research makes for the strangest of bedfellows, and soon enough a corporation with deep pockets came by shopping for sociopaths. The offer was appealing: Release from the institution, erasure of criminal records, good pay, the chance to pilot a cutting edge Armature. The catch: it involved artificially induced anhedonia through irreparable brain damage.

Milaya S. Zangiev

Miliya Salman Zangiev, named after her creator, is an uplifted polar bear from the Russian research colony Medved who has served as a condotierri with several decades of experience in the field. With a reputation as somewhat bloodthirsty and merciless, the Devil-Bear of the Tundra was one of the most infamous mercenaries involved in the reconquista of the Russian Autonomous Colonies that had become independent during the isolation before the Network Era.

After Zangiev nearly mauled a rival to death in an incident that involved transparent threats to the safety of her son, her career and reputation essentially imploded. While she'd always been put to use as an attack dog sent out on more sordid missions, her regular sources of income were cut when employers no longer had a use for her. Adding insult to injury, she was subsequently forced by court order to resleeve into a less powerful human-type body until she was gauged to be stable, else turn in her license and allow her Armature to be impounded.

Ironically, it was by this twist of fate that she was offered the job in the Argo system. Due to the strange hobbies and preferences of the employer, she was hired specifically for her animalistic features and background (comments about milfs and moe feature heavily into the employer's comments in the official dossier). With no other options and a young cub to feed, she accepted the job.

Miliya appears as a somewhat short yet athletic woman in her early twenties with, roughly cut white hair and blue eyes. Rather than human-style ears, hands and feet, she had those of a polar bear, although they function with rough equivalency to those of a human being. As most of her weapons are ergonomically fitted for bear arms, this isn't particularly bothersome.

Armature

Interface 2

Pilot 1

Gunney 7

Electronic Warfare 2

Armature Traits

Metric Barrier (Negate Enemy Artillery)

Metric Fangs (+2 Gunnery vs Melee, Parry Melee)

Heavy Kinetic Artillery (+2 Gunnery vs Long Range, Area Attack/Knockback)

Pilot

Physical 7

Intelligence 2

Charisma 1

Resolve 2

Faryn Razner: The Twenty Second Pilgram Knight

The Pilgrim Knight is one of the rarest of the rare of the condieriti, they are the ones who take jobs for those communities and people too poor to actually afford the service of their kind as charity, to "right wrongs" and "protect the innocent" in wartime they often guard polities that want to be left along and take with them only what they need. Often they are supported by funds raised up by collections of chairtable interests and donations from the general public to their good work.

The current and only active (mean surviving) Pilgrim Knight is Faryn Razner, who was the adopted daughter of the previous Knight Alonso Razner, who perished in the early days of the last war. With the treaty settling things down and finances drying and no real work out there worhty enough for a knight of the people, Faryn decided to go with the rub shoulders with those monsters that wear human skins "Condetteri :( "

Faryn is a striking women with long green hair and is often seen wearing a white pilot suit that been jumped up to see more "knightly" (and hides her figure) but obviously seen better days.

Armature

Interface: 4

Pilot: 3

Gunnery: 4

EWar: 1

Pilot

Physical: 2

Intelligence: 2

Charisma: 4

Resolve: 4

Armature Traits

Super Armor

Daiklaive: +2 Meleee

Burst Cannon: Commencing Lock on