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Falling Skies: Tigres Team


It is year 2899. Humanity has long since conquered the stars around them. The resources and riches from their conquests had brought the human race into an Golden Age of technological advancement. Powerful self sustaining AI's were developed to aid humans and their machines, and cyborg parts allowed cripples and the weak to continue working for society.With the advent of AI, biotech and cybertechnology several centuries prior, the advancement of humanity has grown exponentially. Starships of massive proportions were built, floating worlds in space were created, massive Utopia cities on lush green planets were erected. Worlds beyond even what humanity thought were possible were discovered. Wars weren't fought, the human race was too busy expanding at a breakneck pace. Life was perfect. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

And then it did. By the year 2480, Humanity had overextended itself; the great sprawling empire it had forged had become too large for it to support itself. The empire collapsed onto itself. In the course of 20 years, the mighty empire humanity had established splintered into thousands of factions. The fall of the Empire resulted in a massive power vacuum and the Galaxy erupted into a large feudal war. Some factions grew power by warring with other factions, taking them over; others stayed secluded for as long as they could. Many were taken back by the earth empire, and just as many were lost in deep space.

By the 25th Century, most of the numerous factions had consolidated into 3 major powers: The original Earth Empire, the largest and most numerous of the 3 powers, made up of most of the core empire planets; The Coalition, a group of separatists strictly opposed to the Earth Empire, spanning across most of colonial space; and the Krellian Republic, a reclusive, bizarre group focused mainly along the outskirts of known space. The Earth Empire and the Coalition fight bitterly, the Empire seeking to reclaim their lost territory, and the Coalition fighting for a new order in the galaxy. The Krellians choose to stay out of the conflict, their faraway frontier colonies too far away to be bothered by the other two factions.

By the turn of the 26th century, the Earth Empire and the Coalition had suffered dreadful casualties on both sides, and just as many worlds lost in the splintering had been razed by both sides. The two superpowers agreed to an uneasy truce. That marked the start of an intergalactic cold war, as the two superpowers begin a buildup of military strength and engage in proxy wars with smaller nations and colonies.

As the end of the 28th century drew near, unprovoked attacks by the UEE against Coalition planets has sparked up and reignited the flames of war. After almost 300 years of peace, war between the Coalition and the Empire had renewed in earnest. Millions of people from both sides are drafted as fleets of starships and planets are thrown into vicious war. The Coalition forces take advantage of the Empire’s overextended lines to take victory after victory by utilizing a new type of fighting machine: Mobile Armor Suits, a humanoid fighting machine much more maneuverable than conventional aircraft and ground units, and effective in most environmental situations.

In an attempt to counter the new threat and reorganize their military efforts, the Empire attempts to assemble their own Mobile Armor Suits, and succeed, and while are technologically superior to some of the aging Coalition designs, still lacks effective pilots and abilities. Still, a combination of their new Mobile Armor Suits, and the Empire's superior infrastructure and greater numbers have forced the war into yet another standstill.

Task Force Omega, an elite unit from the Coalition Mobile Armor Division plans a daring series of attacks against a thinly spread UEE in an attempt to turn the tides of the war. The Tigres Team is tasked with disrupting a transport convoy and capturing a member of the Imperial Family.




Hello everyone! Welcome to the second interest check for "Falling Skies: 7th Tigres Team"! This particular RP will follows the adventures of a group of men and women from the Coalition's Mobile Armor Division. I will be accepting up to four players, so this is not first come first served. This is a Robo-Suit-like RP, reminiscent of Gundam and Robotech, Front Mission and Super Robot Wars. Unlike typical Gundam series, I aim to make this RP seem more realistic and gritty and have implemented several systems to make these giant robots feel more like advancements of technology rather than than over-the-top, with super maneuvers capable of destroying dozens of enemies at a time.


Plot and Context:

We the players will play the role of the Tigres Team, an elite squadron from the Coalition C-MAD, as they assault a valuable UEE target in order to turn the tides of the war. Our story will be dramatic and tense as we attempt to prevail over insurmountable odds. Our characters will face daunting challenges, testing their wit and willpower, as well as their morals as they are pushed to their absolute limits in this RP that blends the humanity and melodrama of a space opera, with giant robots.

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Mobile Armor Suit Builder:


Commonly Encountered MAS's:






Character Sheets:

The following are the Character Skeletons for the Tigres Team. The CS's are a 2 part set. The first part is your character, the pilot. The second part is your MAS, which you can make using the builder above.


Player Roles

I am a personal fan of smaller scale RPs, as such, I will only be accepting 4-5 other players to join me in this adventure. While you are free to make your character however you like, acceptance to this RP will be judged by me, and is not on a first come, first served basis. While not necessary, there are several roles I would like to see filled:
  • The FNG (The Fucking New Guy) - This player should be among the youngest members of the team, as well as the least experienced. He has many roles, such as serving as the pseudo focus of the RP as the 'impressionable youngster', as well as likely having a brighter, likely more positive outlook than the rest of the gritty, scarred veterans that make up the rest of the team. He also serves as a convenient reason for characters/npcs to explain and describe the lore that, while known to the characters in the world, is otherwise new or unknown to the players themselves. He will either be broken down mentally and physically and reforged into a newer, stronger person through the fires of war, or serve as a beacon of hope for the rest of the team. - The new guy will also begin his career piloting a MAS of my choosing, though he will be the first to receive an upgraded unit.
  • The Scarred Veteran - in contrast to the New Guy, the veteran will be among the oldest- if not the oldest member of the squadron. He/she will likely be the most jaded and cynical member of the team, and will likely be the reliable backbone of the team. The veteran will also be given some special responsibilities later down the line, and will also be privy to some information before the rest of the group.


The rest of of the roles will be normal squad members, with preferably varied personalities to keep this RP fresh and unique.

Who's game?

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yes, yes, oh my god yes, I want to be the fucking new guy.
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Cool cool, go ahead and make a Character sheet, I've also updated the OP with an example character.
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@vietmyke Do I need to make a MAS sheet if you're picking it?
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@The Dow Dragon Oh oops, I forgot to change that bit around, but the as the FNG you can choose to get either the AK-47 Of MAS: the Ferir II, or a Fafnir with his choice of combat package.
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Two questions: are we supposed to pick an existing MAS or make a custom one, and is there no drawback or limitation to having a bigger engine? The engines don't seem to have any weight at all, but I'm sure you didn't intend for people to run around with 20-core engines.
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@vietmyke i'm in. lets go kill some shit. Ill be the french guy.
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@Maxwell you can pick an existing one or create one of your own. And yes, a bigger engine holds more power, but each chassis size tells you what size engine they have, so there will be no 20 core engine.

Generally,
Light = 3 core
Medium = 4 core
Heavy = 6 core

If you notice, the next-gen models have generally more powerful engines than when compared to current gen machines, which gives them an advantage, which is sort of the point- but most of my pre-made units are purposefully unoptimized, in order to balance that out. All player made machines will be current gen machines.
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Oh fuck yeah I'm in! I'll get to work on my mech right away
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Name: McCauley, Tim
Age: 21
Gender: male
Callsign: Denial
Kills:7
Personality: Smart, quite, cool, calculating, Loyal, caring but sadistical. Tim was one who would follow orders but alwaysed put his own spin an a plan, this got him into trouble with his superiors at first but this style was perfect to test a new state of the art prototype suit.
Military record: coming from a long line of prominent politicians, his family took a hard hit when Tim decided to join the military. Tims style of combat, and creative tactics once led to a cortmarshalling, but the charges where dropped when the evedince on the case pointed to an extremely effective use of reasorces. Tim has always bee. A free thinker, and this comes in handy when stuck in a situation that wasent prepared for.
Equipment: Ivory handled feild knife, .44 Magnum Revolver(always fully loaded)
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I hope you don't mind me sticking this here for the time being, as I just don't have time to finish it. Plus, I also kind of want to check out the talent before I commit to anything. Feel free to rate my build.


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@vietmyke On second thought, I'm not gonna be able to fit this in. Have fun!
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The Coalition side this time?
Yuu:"....what kind of toys do they get to right around in~?"
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Any sort of timeline when this may be getting started? I'll be writing up a CS for the Scarred Veteran, but in the mean time I'm kind of waiting to see if an RP I joined on another site will drop off the face of the planet (Which it seems it will) and allow me have enough time to dedicate to this (If I were to even be accepted).
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@FrostedCaramel this rp has fairly open time frame- this rp is something of a brain child of mine so I'll wait for as long as it's needed to rope in a base of dedicated players.

My posting speed is about once a week, so this rp is meant to be a slower paced long term game if that makes anything clearer.
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...this rp is something of a brain child of mine...


Oh I know, I was a part of the 7th MAS RP when you tried to start an iteration of it on Iwaku (Captain of the Lincoln was my character). But it evidently died shortly there after, and I'll admit that I used to lurk in the 7th MAS run that you have going on here from time to time since the other died so I've kind of been watching it grow and such but I haven't really followed along with the story too much.

My posting speed is about once a week, so this rp is meant to be a slower paced long term game if that makes anything clearer.


That works great for me, I live in JP at the moment so my time-zones are really off compared to others so having a while to post helps out a lot, especially for collabs.

I should be writing up a CS this weekend.
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@FrostedCaramel oh wonderful, so you know what's good lolol, it's good to see you've returned to us.

Hmm.. I haven't been to iwaku in a while, and the changes to its format are a little too wonky for me now
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I'll be making a CS tonight.

Waiting on question to be answered below.
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All player made machines will be current gen machines.


Am I to assume that "current gen" refers to "next gen" machines based on your example character which I also assume is an actual character you will be playing?

Because I noticed that the building pieces you listed are suited towards, comparability, the older gen and not the new gen. In which case, I feel it is much more likely you intend us to use what you have laid out.

Assuming you will be playing the example character, is there a purpose to under powering the rest of us?
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