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Classic battletech artwork by Steve Venters depicting a lance.

TL;DR Summary:
- The year 3050 in the Battletech Universe
- The primary weapon of war is the Battlemech, a class of heavily armored robots piloted by a human's nervous system.
- Characters are Mechwarriors in the lance (four to six -- I am willing to augment the lance) or support personnel (there's about a platoon of those, including infantry/security and aerial reconaissance for the mechs.) However, three charactrers is all I need to start this.
- The characters top military academy students from the Federated Commonwealth, in their final year of training at the New Avalon Institute of Science (NAIS) College of Military Science or The Nagelring, and are doing field work in experimental battlemechs in conjunction with the College of Engineering at NAIS, who are trying out various new technologies.
- The unit and their support staff find themselves out in Steelton in the Lyran Commonwealth side of the FC, doing field tests of sensor and targeting systems in dense sandstorm conditions and other inclement weather specifically.
- Inner Sphere tech only; it's 3050, right before certain things happen. (Not spoiling)
- Characters should be members of the AFFC -- Lyran or FedSuns side.
- Please post character sheets in the Sheets thread.


In Character Info:
3050; humanity has gone to the stars. But human nature hasn't changed much.

Graduation is a heady time for any student, but particularly for senior students at NAIS and the Nagelring, the best of whom are on a detached duty in the far reaches of the Lyran Commonwealth, finishing up a joint maneuver with regional militia and the 12th Star Guards, a mercenary unit, and testing new and different systems for the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth. It's a cool assignment where the young mechwarriors get to use unusual and new pieces of technology and battlemechs in a variety of interesting field conditions as test pilots. They get to run exercises with an elite mercenary unit and, in general, be free of the day to day discipline of academy life. It's almost like a working vacation, a reprieve for all the hard work of four years of the Academy and the hard years before that, preparing to enter the Academy.

In 3050, the Inner Sphere is in a good place -- technology is improving rapidly, a reversal from the fall of the Star League and the destruction of the Succession Wars when so much technology was lost that some planets were brought back to a 21st century standard of technology. With the marriage of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, it seems inevitable that the unified Federated Commonwealth will eventually be able to bring the other three great houses to the negotiating table to revive the Star League. It feels like humanity turned a corner.

They don't see the storm on the horizon. No one does.

Out of Character Info:
I can answer any and all battletech universe questions, but here's the essentials; your characters are Mechwarriors, and are most likely from a feudal class or wealthy background. While the militaries are becoming more egalitarian with the rediscovery of Lostech from the Helm Memory Core in 3028 the average mechwarrior is still the product of a feudal family and their retainers that have been piloting mechs, sometimes the same mech inherited from family, for generations.

I designed the unit, a small unit of mechwarriors working with technology types, so that the characters would have a good reason to be very inexperienced characters with very advanced equipment -- realistically, anything in the Inner Sphere could show up on these scientific studies -- including mechs that belong typically to other factions. I wanted to keep it flexible.
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OHHHHHHHHH A legit Battletech/Mechwarrior RP! Fuckin'-A count me in!

Wait, Inner Sphere tech only? Dammit, I was about to call dibs on a Timber Wolf. Is the Hollander an IS mech?

Shit, it was made 5 years after the timeline of this RP. I guess I can fall back on a Raven if nothing else.

Actually, I quite like the Talos' design. Too bad it's way outdated. God, you picked a really shitty timeline as far as mech selection goes.

No, I think I'm going with a Jenner.

Am I nerding out?
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A Jenner makes sense in that NAIS or the AFFC in general would probably want to run as many tests as possible on a captured Drac Jenner.
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I'll keep an eye on this HeySeuss, but as of right now, it does not look good for me. :(
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I know what you mean. Doesn't have a lot of draw. Might want to go for a slightly more ambiguous title.
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I'm leaning towards the Phoenix Hawk as my 'Mech.
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Finally finished my CS. I'll apologize in advance for any continuity errors I may have made in association with the general Battletech lore.
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He's good to go, except as an AFFS character, he'd be enrolled in NAIS, not the Nagelring. The Davions are actually more egalitarian about who enrolls in their academies anyway; the Lyrans have a much more entrenched culture of favoritism.

addendum: And a Phoenix Hawk is a very good choice. The lights and mediums should be maneuverable. I'll also mention that seeing as these are testbed mechs, you can have them extensively modified as you see fit. Considering the sort of enemies the characters will be dealing with, I think that's fair.
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Alright, thanks. I wasn't aware there was a difference. The way you worded it in the OOC made it come off as just a nickname for it, since there's an alliance between the Lyrans and the Davions.

Just realized I should probably young him up a bit, too.
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No prob. The character's good. Also, knee-deep in succession war politics.
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Also worth noting; Mechwarriors tend to dress down in the cockpit.

Unless specified otherwise, mechwarriors have a neurohelmet and a cooling vest, which is rigid, bulky and so forth. Mechwarriors in a cooling vest tend to do without much in the way of other clothing because of the heat factor. There are cooling suits, and DCMS mechwarrior combat suits that are full body rigs, but they are expensive and hard to find.

An example of mechwarrior dress can be found in this gallery: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Uniforms
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HeySeuss said
No prob. The character's good. Also, knee-deep in succession war politics.


Wait, what exactly do you mean by that? I never really was well-versed in the politics of the Battletech universe.
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Just that he's experienced life in the Capellan Confederation, went to a Davion school and is now in Steiner space.
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Supposedly, we have two other people submitting characters, but I'm starting to doubt that at this point.
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Lol, right. Man this sucks, I haven't ever been in a Battletech RP and I was really holding out for this one.
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Lacking players, we'll have to put this on hold. Sorry.
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