Name: Jean-Baptiste Bertrand

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Appearance: A gaunt, pale-skinned, clean shaven man with cold blue eyes and blonde hair cropped short in a military manner. Can always be seen dressed in a plain white and blue military uniform with golden epaulettes, thinking the clothes give him a more authoritative, military air. He also tends to wear a pair of glasses made out of smoky quartz imported from China to hide his eyes, perpetually surrounded by dark circles.

What Am I Fighting For?: To teach the peasants a lesson in respect, to protect my position and my wealth.

Personality: Bertrand is not a likeable man. Arrogant, lazy and self-centered, he is sure of his own superiority by virtue of his noble birth and oversells his (admittedly respectable) skills in combat to try and further his own greed and ambitions of living large beyond the scope of what his family’s funds can provide. He is also paranoid and, should one prod for a while longer, at least somewhat approaching psychopathy, though he takes good care to try and hide these traits with an exterior of some intelligence and cunning. While not squeamish, Bertrand is at heart something of a coward who dislikes finding himself in the heat of battle, especially when the odds aren't stacked in his favor.

Revolutionary?: nope

Background: The firstborn son of a rather minor noble family, Jean-Baptiste has lived a life of vice and violence, a regular in disreputable places best known for the vast number of duels he engages in and his swiftness and lethality with the several pistols he always makes sure to carry primed and ready. Although he’s a perfect example of the kind of nobleman that the revolutionaries despise the most, his skill with firearms and willingness to head into battle to “swat down the dirty flies”, as he put it, earned him and his family a somewhat enhanced social standing, culminating in the creation of his personal Navirez, the Implacable. Although originally a model designed as an invasion machine, to be used in scorching enemy lands, the desperate situation of the nobility and the Bertrands’ own urgings finally cleared the incendiary monstruosity for production and use against the encroaching vermin.

Mecha?: Navirez

Name of Mecha: Implacable

Mecha’s Appearance: [url=http://imgur.com/bJY5J8N]This bastard stands at a good 35 feet[/url]

Features: 
-Heavy armor: The Implacable is heavily armored even for a Navirez of its size, capable of receiving gross amounts of punishment before succumbing to enemy attacks and being particularly resistant to extremely high temperatures. The pair of shields mounted on its forearms are especially tough and can be used to effectively fend off melee attacks and cannon barrages without fear of damaging the unit at all. The tradeoff for this increased survivability is a general slowness of movement. Though it can maneuver into position to aim its guns quite easily, this Navirez will not be giving chase or outrunning enemy units, though as a much, much smaller craft it can still chase down large warships in the water.

-Piledriver shields: The shields on the Implacable’s forearms are mounted on mechanical sub-arms that can piston them into targets with incredible force, making for practical close range weapons that can put the hurt on navirezes and structures alike but are primarily used to push enemies away into more comfortable firing range for the main weapons to come into play.

-Dromon guns: The Implacable’s most outstanding weapons are a pair of large cannons mounted on the forearm shields that fire hollow round shells loaded with a highly incendiary substance. On impact, the shells break open and cause something resembling greek fire to pour out, which instantly ignites and burns hot enough to consume even other navirezes. Though the substance is not the original byzantine formula, a closely-guarded state secret lost to the ages, it remains a deadly weapon that continues to burn even on water, requiring the fuel be covered with sand or dirt in order to be extinguished. The weapon’s secrets are closely guarded and nothing short of capturing the Implacable and wholly disassembling it for study will yield results on replicating it.