[@vietmyke] Just gonna break this down into numbers for ease.

1. That's just a failure on my part. I meant for them to have always been engineers not pilots, so I'll make sure that is more clear.

2. I was hoping Izic might be a sort of sympathized deserter. He seems the type to actually rebel and hate the UEE. The Coalition are his kind of people working class down to earth. Alice meanwhile is high military ranking and it is bizarre to be leaving the UEE. Honestly though I can work this story however we need.

3. Izic tried to be a whistleblower first. He went to his commander and told him that the scientists didn't want to continue developing these sorts of weapons. The commander saw it as treason/rebellion, so he got military back up (the security staff was also split by the weapons.) With the fact that his own military came in and wiped out any resistance/possible rebellion. As for telling normal people he didn't think he'd be able to get anything done that way. He didn't have any power or push in that world, especially not against the UEE military.

4. I suppose that is true. I definitely don't want him to be some sort of hot shot ace, but if he needs more skill I can balance that in. I want his strength to be that while he isn't some prodigy his personal experience with MAS lets him do things other pilots can't.

I'm thinking now that I could kind of rework that into him being very quick to understand and analyze MAS, so that he can fight better. He picks up how the pilot is working. He notices specific strengths and weaknesses of individual MAS. He isn't the best pilot, but he can take advantage of other MAS better than others. If he's on the front line he can engage enemy MAS find their weak points develop a diagnostic and give that to the better pilots.

It's very much why his MAS is ALL defense. he's not supposed to be the direct threat.

5. The thought was that he'd use it with the robotic arm, but I can ton that all back. Figured I'd go bigger for the sci-fi nature of the setting. So long as it keeps the blunderbuss feature I'm happy.

6. I wasn't certain if I wanted to go with that or not. Medium had enough weight for all the defense items available, so I went with that. If I can put on more defense with a heavy I'd happily jump up to it. The point of Atlas is to be massive front line MAS. It is a pain to deal with even while it won't deal that much damage. I had the image of Atlases running into missiles and heavy fire to cover allied units. First and foremost it is there to take abuse so everyone else can work better. Something I think fit the engineer idea.