[This app has been cleared by the GM in order to fill the role of your [s]taxi service[/s] cool starship] Name: Kaila Skye Age: 16 Appearance: [hider=Kaila Skye][img=http://www.famitsu.com/image/1836/s213_xDoxblyBSHVY6I2Y47S6zz4n9NOv57Jh.jpg][/hider] Personality: Kaila does her best to be upbeat and cheerful, always attempting to look at the bright side of things. She also sees herself to be an older sister figure to the other mech pilots, both due to her position as "their voice in the sky" and as the more gentle figure in contrast to her adoptive father. To other conventional military personnel, she will act proper and befitting of her rank - including lecturing and scolding if necessary - but to the Framework pilots, even to those who are of the same or even higher age than her she will act as the kind, loving older sister figure to Rear-Admiral Skye's strict, demanding, unpleasable and scolding personality. However, in her downtime an interesting to note is that despite the fact she is a helmsman, not a mech pilot she will often spend hours upon hours on a simulator, attempting to feel even a fraction of the original thrill, adrenaline and speed of piloting the Totsuka. She won't lie and claim that she would rather be "outside", per say, and be fighting in a mech with everyone else but she will still claim that her piloting skills probably still made her "The best helmswoman this ship could have". Battle-Style: In direct ship to ship combat, Kaila will put the Izanagi to her limit, handling her as if the ship was a nimble starfighter. She will keep the ship moving at top speed or do extremely sharp rotation turns in the midst of combat in order to evade enemy fire. Hospitalized Special One: She has a younger brother who is currently hospitalized. Background: Born to a military family, Kaila's parents were both members of the military who served in the war against the alien menace. Taking care of her younger brother while their parents fought, their colony world was soon attacked by the Cruxi when she was nine. Dragging her brother through the streets, she desperately ran through bombarded streets for shelter or evacuation only for a bomb to explode near them, throwing them both onto the ground. When she came to, both she and her brother were on a human shuttle for evacuation. She was lucky - the bomb only gave her minor burns. Her brother, however, had to be taken to a better equipped hospital on earth, which was now impossible to communicate to reliably. It was then that the military finally delivered another piece of news that it could not do so earlier due to information problems - both her mother and father had died in the service of humanity's defence. Distraught, in hysterics and clearly not in her right mind, it was then and there that then-Commander Airick Skye, then twenty, found her. Introducing himself as someone who had served under her parents, he explained that it was his last request to have her cared for, and to fulfil his commanding officer's last wishes he offered Kaila adoption into the Skye family. Accepting it, she soon became a candidate for Framework piloting and showed extremely high synchronization with the Framework Totsuka. However, before she could graduate, a training mech she piloted suffered a malfunction caused by an engineering error and crashed. Although she survived, she lost her right leg, disqualifying her from mech piloting qualifications. However, the Totsuka never synchronized with anyone else to satisfactory levels, and so one ship designer proposed the idea to use the Totsuka as a power source for an experimental ship that would become the powerful, fast and trustworthy ship to carry the Frameworks into battle: The [i]Izanagi[/i]. In order to compliment the Totsuka, she was reassigned as the ship's helmswoman in order to make at least some use of her piloting skills and to ensure satisfactory synchronization with the Framework. Other things: She has a prosthetic right leg which have disqualified her from frontline piloting. She is also helmswoman and executive officer of the [i]Izanagi[/i] XXXXX Framework Name: [i]Totsuka[/i] Appearance: [hider= Framework Totsuka][img=http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120723190852/muvluv/images/d/d7/XFJ-01a_Shiranui_Second_Phase_2_unit_1_anime_ver.png][/hider] Primary Weapon-Type: None - the Totsuka has no weapons ( to be explained later) Secondary Weapon Type: None (see explanation for Primary) Special Ability: Perpetual Energy Generation - the Totsuka is capable of generating power from its synchronization with its pilot. Originally intended to power an extremely powerful mech held laser, the Totsuka now instead powers the Battlecruiser [i]Izanagi[/i] after her pilot was crippled. [b]XXXXX[/b] Name: Rear-Admiral Airick Skye Age: 27 Appearance: [hider=Rear Admiral Airick Skye][img=http://www.famitsu.com/image/1836/s214_zZvgIvxe362y99p3nKwzlJ87q9Ua9HaS.jpg][/hider] Personality: Rear-Admiral Skye is the military officer who acts with a time-honed patience and caution - along with a fair bit of luck - forged through countless battles against humanity's enemy. He will micromanage, read and listen to every single report, consider every single possibility and make contingencies as much as possible. On the command bridge, he refuses to allow any personality to come through, maintaining an impassive face in which his training and experience takes over him completely in order to direct and complete the operation as smoothly as possible. Outside of the bridge, he will be strict, demanding and impassive to the pilots of the Frameworks, acting as the voice of authority and demand for improvement, never being satisfied with what they accomplished but instead pushing them to strive to be better. Very rarely will he give a compliment, but when he does they can be sure that they've earned it. Despite his tough exterior, he does feel a sense of protectiveness for the Frameworks and admits that he is feeling a great pressure due to the fact that he was, essentially, entrusted with the last hopes of the human race. He sometimes wonders what his previous superiors would do and what sort of advice they would give him if they were with him today. Battle-Style: Rear-Admiral Skye prefers the tactic from a fictional series which was called "Great Strength, Great Strike" - to strike the enemy with a concentrated strike on a few, carefully selected and particularly dangerous or important targets with all of one's might from the start in order to cripple or impede the enemy's ability to make battle from the get-go. However, although this is his favoured tactic he understands there may be circumstances where this tactic is ineffective and is willing to adjust or improvise as a battle progresses. Hospitalized Special One: One? he has friends, family, peers, commanders and subordinates all wounded or dead through his (relatively) long career. Background: Rear Admiral Skye was one of the many patriotic, eager youths who enlisted in the military under their propaganda under the idea of serving to protect the human race. With the aid of a great academic record, he was given the opportunity to attend the naval academy from where he graduated as an officer. Serving in many ships and seeing many battles - some of which ended with him in escape pods fleeing a crumbling ship, his experience and application of such soon elevated him to the rank of commander serving as the executive officer under a career Captain. Five months on board the battleship, they were beset by alien forces and forced to abandon ship. However, the Captain had been badly injured and knew that he would not survive even if he made it onto an escape pod. Making one last request, the Captain begged then-Commander Skye to take care of a son and daughter he had on a colony on the fringes of human-held space. Taking leave after the destruction of the battleship he served in, he followed the captain's last request and found Kalia and her younger brother. Ensuring that her younger brother was sent to a proper medical facility where he would be cared for, he offered Kalia the opportunity of adoption as an alternative to being placed in an orphanage - an opportunity she accepted. Seven years later, to his soft amusement, surprise and resignation he found his adoptive daughter serving under him as his executive officer on board the [i]Izanagi[/i], one of the most advanced and powerful warships humanity had built. XXXXX Name: Battlecruiser Izanagi Appearance: [hider=Battlecruiser Izanagi][img=http://i47.tinypic.com/az6nhd.jpg][/hider] Battle-Style: Carries the mechs into battle like a glorified taxi. Gives out orders, directions or information to the mechs and provides artillery support with missile bombardment. In space, the Izanagi remains in a rear role, dishing out damage from afar with her primary weapon. Primary Weapon-Type: The Wave Motion Lance A laser based weaponry that is embedded along the length of the Izanagi, the Wave Motion Lance is a powerful long range laser cannon which fires a long, powerful stream of energy. Based on experimental Cruxi technology and is one of the few human weapons capable of matching a Cruxi weapon. Secondary Weapon Type: Vertical Launch Rocket System - A multitude of rocket launchers with three distinct types of missiles: "Tyrant" Space to Ground Missiles - Missiles that act as artillery fired from the ship, either from in the atmosphere or from space, capable of hitting a target with a 100 meter margin (can be reduced to 10 meters if the target is marked by forces on the ground) "Avenger" Point Defence Missiles - Missiles fired en masse in lieu of traditional anti-aircraft/point defence turrets in order to defend the Izanagi against small Cruxi - or hostile human - aircraft. "Atlas" Space to Space Missiles - powerful missiles fired from the ship that acts as the ship's only other way of attacking Cruxi ships. These missiles carry powerful warheads capable of unleashing a force equivalent to 38 kiloton bomb. Things of note : The Hangar Bay - Hanger bay in which the Frameworks are stored and from which they are launched into combat. Special Ability: Despite her immense size, the Izanagi is extremely maneuverable and fast compared to previous ships of her size (at least in human standards). In the hands of a skilled helms officer she is capable of rotating on the spot through the aid of thrusters located across and around the ship.