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[krogothwolf]

I like the idea of a high-powered shotgun, a Gatling style just doesn't sound shotguney enough. Although a High-powered double-barreled one would be cool.

[Dracorion]

Name: Maxwell "Max" Raymond
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Specialty and Mech Armor Type: Melee Specialist. Max drives a medium mech: a slightly modified Saint Walker Mk IV.
Mech Description: Max's Saint Walker Mk IV is painted crimson and gold. It's a bipedal mech that contains all the standard equipment: communications array, radar, all the usual stuff; a rifle that fires high-powered plasma bursts and thrusters on both feet and the back. The thrusters have been modifyed to be stronger than standard thrusters. Another addition is a battle pole, the tip of which opens up revealing a four-pronged claw attached to an extendable line.
Bio: Max has always been a good guy. The Raymond family company was involved in creating the shield that protected Geneva, as well as several other major scientific advancements. This made the Raymonds one of the richest and most influential families in Arlia, and Max was next in line to inherit it all. But he grew tired of the lifestyle, and left, knowing that his brothers could take care of everything. Because he wanted to help people on a personal level, so he joined the army and became a mech pilot. An excellent mech pilot. He could've ascended the ranks quickly, but he didn't for three reasons. First, there was his general lack of ambition. Second, he was happy with his current position. And third, his current position meant he could be out there, protecting people and saving lives. Max it 5'7'' with blonde hair and green eyes.
Requests: Just the stuff in the description. Tell me if there's one thing too many and I'll take something off.

Yeah, I like my mechs traditional. So what?

[PyrosNine]

Len Staryl
Age: 22
Gender: ??
Specialty and Mech Armor Type: Long Range, covering fire, scout
Mech Description: A normally pea soup green mech equipped with enhanced optics for long ranged vision and picking out targets at a distance from heat, light, and sound (laser microphone) information, and equipped with a visual camouflage that covers the mech in a thin layer, which takes on similar colors and patterns of its' environment to blend in.

Furthermore, it possesses special design to keep it's own heat and sound to a minimum, and a "dead fire" mode, where the mech shuts down all major functions save for minute weapon functions, for careful and invisible sniping.

Main weapons are the 1200KM KAUSTIK sniper rifle, and a modified standard issue assault rifle fitted with a scope and a longer barrel.

Possesses scout level armor and its incredibly light, and requires the back thrusters to compensate for recoil when firing it's sniper rifle from a hovering/standing position.

Bio: Len is a veteran of war on the field in the infantry, after being shunted off the Mech piloting training when his personal habit of being incredibly lazy made him an unappetizing choice of pilot. He continued to be incredibly lazy to the point of insubordination as a field sniper, but his skill at ranged combat is nothing short of amazing, performing no scoped shots that those with x30 scopes need a few seconds to focus on the target. It seems his personal sloth is actually a result of his calm, cool demeanor which does not waver in the face of death, or when an enemy is in his sight. When a new long range combat model mech was created, despite his insubordination (falling asleep in a warzone), he was the prime pick for it's use. Len comes back to the use of Mech's a little different when he first learned how to use them, having had a friend in the medical war profession who was infamous for black market transplants and a weak grasp of a surgeon's license, and was present when Len suffered being blown thirty feet by an enemy carpet bombing. Len is considered said friend's "masterpiece", being lucky to not only be alive, but to also possess a body made up of above 50% black market body transplants, male, and female. Len has not let this get him/her down, since all the sick leave he's been given to allow his body to not declare civil war on itself means he can sleep all day and watch movies. S/He was a little annoyed when he got picked from a comfortable couch and shoved into a female officer's uniform and dragged up to the moon.

Requests: Every specification of my mech is a request.

[CABAL49]

Edit: Pyros totally did the character I was working on. I'll try to have a new one tomorrow.

[Geminex]

Great minds think alike, it seems. We now have two snipers. ^^

[Overcast]

Alrighty I'm going to start big so I can be steadily reduced to reasonable.

Name: Spencer Noon
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Specialty and Mech Armor Type: Specializes in rapid assault with a penchant for aerial and underwater maneuvering over typical ground warfare. Medium.
Mech Description: The Exocet about average sized for a medium mech with a slightly thinner build and notably round, smooth, and streamlined appearance from top to bottom for capable underwater movement. Extending out of the back are a set of stabilizers that surround a pair of mobile jets allowing for capable battle in air, sea, and space. It is a bipedal mecha, with both legs set with noticeable shocks to compensate for the stress of landing while under common gravity situations. The left arm is a long sharp drill set primarily to deal with well armored opponents and to give glancing blows when a direct thrust seems unreasonable, the right arm is a common hand capable of operating most common one handed weaponry for mecha. Typically a rapid fire weapon for abusing the enemy and wear them down. It's color scheme is primarily black and dark blue simply out of preference from Spencer and has a sliding cyclopean visual output with red eye. In the end it moves like magic to support its assault build but finds difficulty cruising with such grace on solid ground.
Bio: Some people are born into the life of a pilot. Some work toward it their whole life. Spencer...he stumbled into it. There was a slight family history in the military but nothing too grand, most of them in fact ended up getting kicked out due to some reason or another. Still he figured it was enough of a reason to join up, really needing something to get his life in order after high school. He worked his way into becoming a pilot area due to the vast financial opportunities that came with it, and while he might not have seemed entirely as inspired as some of his classmates he put all he had when it came time to test his skills. It got him noticed. By some strange stroke of effort he ended up the top of his class, known best for his critical thinking and fast reflexes when in the seat. Of course this is ignoring his lax attitude and shoddy military bearing when you get him off the seat. In the end the fact he is here is just as much a surprise to him as it should be to anyone else, he doesn't believe he is qualified for such a responsibility no matter how his skill proves him wrong. He never let it go to his head, and is really still that reasonably attractive brown haired, green eyed kid who joined the military looking for some sort of guidance. Only now he gets to regularly pilot an amphibious war machine built to his personal strengths as a pilot and risk said skills as well as his life against anyone else who would dare to test them.
Requests: Alrighty lets see what I have strapped on the Exocet.
Heavy Duty Shocks: Installed in the legs to survive terribly harsh landings with minimal damage to the mecha this little item allows the Exocet to commit hit and run maneuvers from air to land and back to air without great worry of the legs giving out eventually.

Drill: Because I could not help myself. It serves as the primary weapon of the Exocet since more often than not the off hand weapon doesn't have the finishing power to really take down anything above a light mech. With piercing tip and sharp edges it serves it well for fly by swipes or that nice finishing thrust.

Advanced Propulsion/Stability System: This is the bread and butter of the Exocet, the item that allows it to waltz in the air/vacuum and sea with speed and grace. Essentially thrusters to make it move and wings that allow it to control that rapid movement.

I'm open to suggestions of what else I should add to it without messing too much with the whole assault formula.

[PyrosNine]

Mine is transsexual Solid Snake Mech. Or a Raiden Mech. Or just Tieria Erde wearing a Bandanna he got from Regene Regetta or something.

[Geminex]

We totally need someone to go spy.

You know, light mech, high-powered stealth field, fairly quick, with the ability to place explosives, sensors, land mines.
Maybe a really lethal close-range attack with long cooldown.

Yes, I'm just describing what the TF2 Spy would be like if he was a Mech. Still would be awesome.

[Astral Harmony]

Originally Posted by Geminex

We totally need someone to go spy.

You know, light mech, high-powered stealth field, fairly quick, with the ability to place explosives, sensors, land mines.
Maybe a really lethal close-range attack with long cooldown.

Yes, I'm just describing what the TF2 Spy would be like if he was a Mech. Still would be awesome.

And a katana. If it's going to be a spy, it might as well be a ninja, too.

[Arcanum]

Name: Hector Rook
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Specialty and Mech Armor Type: Frontal assault, anti-infantry, anti-mech, suppressive fire, distraction. Heavy armor.

Mech Description: The Ragnarok class mechs are devastating machines, with their most notable features being their bulky appearance and their ability to take and dish out incredible amounts of damage. The Ragnarok's appearance and endurance comes from thick armor on nearly every part of the mech, which gives everything from it's shoulders to it's arms and legs a squared-off design. The downside is that a lot of power is routed away from the shield systems in order to increase boost output to help make up for all the extra weight. The Ragnarok's shields can be boosted to increase their strength, but this requires the mech to be stationary, or moving at a much slower pace.

Hector's Ragnarok is painted a dull gunmetal gray, with blood red accents on the shoulders, chest, and legs. His mech also has a Gatling gun attached to the underside of each forearm, with a firing handle protruding up within easy reach of the mech's hand, and the barrels extending well beyond the reach of the mech's arms. His Ragnarok has also been outfitted with two back-mounted swarm-missile launchers.

Bio: Hector comes from a modest working-class family. His parents never had much money, nor the greatest of jobs, which is why they always pushed him to be the best that he possibly could be. Initially Hector aspired to become a civilian pilot, and he worked himself to the bones in order to be accepted to a piloting school. Unfortunately, even after he was accepted, his family didn't have the money to pay for the school, so Hector took the next best thing and enrolled to be a military pilot. Once he graduated from high school he spent three years in military college and another two in flight school.

He excelled in his flight training classes, but was noted to be rather aggressive, and at times violent, around the other trainees. He would have been discharged from the army had the relationship between Arlia and Geneva been better than it was at the time. However, the top brass were expecting for things to go south, so Hector was given another chance as a mech pilot. He spent two years in training, learning all the details and peculiarities of piloting a heavy mech. Upon finishing his training he was given his own Ragnarok mech, which he has piloted in several live-fire training exercises, as well as real wartime scenarios once all out war was declared against Geneva.

Hector is a large, muscular man with a very intimidating appearance. His black hair is buzzed to the point of almost being shaven, and his blue eyes have a piercing stare.

Requests:
Two high-powered Gatling guns with six rotating barrels each. These guns fire a denser plasma slug than the standard battle rifle, which gives each shot more stopping power. They are also Hector's Ragnarok's primary weapon, and are powerful enough to take out other heavy mechs.

Two swarm-missile launchers. One of these launchers can fire ten to twenty mini-missiles per salvo. Once launched, the missiles arch up into the air and then scatter and bombard the target. They are designed to cause small explosive damage over a widespread area, and are exceptionally good at taking out groups of infantry or lightly armored targets.

A short range targeting laser mounted on the side of the mech's head. The laser can guide a salvo of swarm-missiles to a single target for a devastating attack. The downside is that the laser needs five seconds to acquire and paint a target, and even then if the laser breaks contact with the acquired target then the swarm missiles will automatically default back to their spread function. In other words it is only effective against stationary or slow moving targets.

Extra thick armor. The Ragnarok class mech sacrifices movement speed in order to give itself increased protection without needing to divert extra power to it's shields.

Heavy boosters. To compensate for it's decreased mobility, the Ragnarok uses powerful boosters to increase it's movement speed. However, the energy drain caused by the boosters normally leaves the Ragnarok's shield much weaker than other heavy mechs.

Automatic power rerouting system. The Ragnarok is outfitted with a set of programs that automatically diverts energy away from its shields and into its booster and weapon systems. This allows the mech to make up for its slow mobility, as well as maintain a steady and reliable damage output. This system can also be overridden in order to boost shield strength, but the other systems will suffer noticeably compared to when the system is active.