Fuck it, reserving a slot.

Writing up CS immediately, but just reserving it right now.

Edit: Wham bam motherfucker.

[hider=Character][center][b]Joshua Ray[/b][/center]

[center][b]Appearance[/b][/center]
[center]Joshua Ray is a twenty-seven year old young man with brown eyes, long black hair in a pony-tail, and a somewhat lanky frame. He stands about six feet tall and weighs approximately 150 pounds. While he is somewhat squishy, he isn't weak in terms of strength. His skin is notably pale for a 'Surface-Dweller' due to his sheltered upbringing, and he carries himself as if he doesn't want to make a scene at most times.[/center]

[center][b]Age[/b][/center]
[center]27[/center]

[center][b]Role[/b][/center]
[center]Joshua Ray fits into both a 'Heavily-armored heavy weapons specialist' and 'High mobility demolitions' role. Due to this, his NC can fit both.[/center]

[center][b]Personality[/b][/center]
[center]Joshua Ray is a kind, optimistic young man with fire and hope in his eyes, possessed by a desire to make the world a better place and wander around. That's what he'd be doing if he had any say in the matter, but a man with an NC has to eat. He dislikes doing extremely 'dirty' operations, yet is just fine being a more cunning or surreptitious sort. He's not one to talk often, but he does appreciate company, as long as they're also of the more silent type.

He's easily noted for his somewhat deadpan, snarky humor and mild self-deprecating tendencies, yet maintaining a fairly friendly demeanor. However, for all of his love of justice and morality, he's a bit of a coward.[/center]

[center][b]Backstory[/b][/center]
[center]Joshua Ray grew up in one of the many scattered surface settlements, in a still somewhat irradiated, yet peaceful area in one of outlying Denver-Vegas territories. Living a somewhat sheltered life, he developed a love of reading pre-war and modern stories, documents, and religious writings, not to mention a strong sense of righteousness and morality that stands with him to this day.

When he was of age, he began wandering the world with his own two feet, going from continent to continent by salvaged boat or independent aerial transporters. Doing odd-jobs as needed around the world, he never lost his thirst for justice nor his hope to play a part in creating a better future for all of mankind. One day while working in a medical facility, what appeared to be an error in some minor group or another's "Neural-Combatant Compatibility" detection hardware revealed that he had the necessary mental or psychological asset that gave him the capability to control one.

Calling in favors with friends and extended family, he soon found himself controlling a custom-built lightweight NC known as the Apollo, after an absolutely ancient group or project that apparently resulted in men landing on the moon overhead. While originally built from scrap at a junkyard and using hand-me-down Neural Nets and software, over three years the Apollo turned into the heavily armed and armored beast it is today.

Eventually, however, he accepted all the independent contracts that he was any interested in, and decided to finally fall into a larger group. Going from one corporate army to another, he now waits to see if New Anchorage wants him or not.[/center]

[center][b]Tactical Preference & Skills[/b][/center]
[center]Ray is highly adept at high-speed pursuit and maneuvering, managing heavy weapons, and bracing/fidgeting before impact to reduce the lethality of enemy attacks. His best skill, however, is his ability to determine the situation he's in and the safest way out if need be.[/center]

[center][b]Notes[/b][/center]
[center]Joshua Ray's favorite pastimes include star-gazing, reading ancient and modern documents and stories,  and finally contemplating with others about the universe and humanity's place.

Not to mention video games.[/center]

[center][b]Text Color[/b][/center]
[center][color=ff4c4c]ff4c4c[/color][/center]
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[hider=NC First Form][b]Apollo 'Heavy'[/b]

[b]Appearance[/b]The red Apollo 'Heavy' is a somewhat bulky heavily armored unit with many reaction control verniers and weapon mountings. While a thicker example of an NC, it is still a fairly sleek and well-rounded unit, armor able to render most non-specialist weapons fairly useless.
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[b]Body & Type[/b] The Apollo is a heavily armed and armored bipedal type, with additional jets compared to most other heavy NC's, giving it a decent amount of maneuverability for its weight class. Although, it's still not particularly quick in a straight line. The NC itself stands at a mighty 26 meters, towering over medium weights and lightweights, although just a bit on the short side for fellow heavies.

[b]Equipment & Armaments[/b] The Apollo 'Heavy' is very well armed, with weapons and equipment including:
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[*] One right-hande custom-built heavy particle rifle, firing deadly globs of hydrogen based plasma. It has a very high rate of fire for a weapon of its class and individual shot-strength, and has additional heatsinks compared to your standard plasma weapon. Due to these qualities, it's a very good suppression and anti-NC weapon, although its long range abilities are moot, and it can only reasonably fire at slower speeds. Made out of a combination of Paragon, Volkov, and Magen parts.
[*] Six 1 meter diameter missile racks on the back 'wings', these can take many types of warheads and missile bodies, although Ray usually loads them with long-range anti-armor missiles.
[*] 1 Heavy siege-shield, fitted with heat-resistant coating and sharpened to the point it can be used similar to a 'Pile-bunker' gauntlet. Fitted on the left arm with a gauntlet, leaving the hand free.
[*] 1 left-handed kinetic sniper rifle with a five-shot magazine. Based using Denver-Vegas parts, this rifle has a very long operational range and can easily damage most NC's and slow, armored targets like bunkers or naval ships.
[*] 2 hip-mounted Thermal Cleavers, each with a pointed tip, allowing them to slash and stab with equal ability. They are generally folded up like a butterly knife on each hip, unless in use. One is as long as the NC's arm, and the other is about half as long, similar to a Katana and Wakizashi pair, although the blades are straight and less fancy.
[*] The Apollo is also equipped with an array of chaff-launchers, fitted with four charges of a special type of chaff that interferes with infrared and RADAR targeted weapons, while also reducing the capability of laser or particle arms.
[*] Finally, all of the units' ammunition is stored on a large backpack right beneath the units' thruster 'wings', with two feeds connecting to the Apollo's plasma caster and sniper-rifle, pumping hydrogen and sending large caliber bullets respectively. Fuel is stored inside tanks within the Apollo's legs and the sides of the chest.
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[b]Unique Feature[/b] In an emergency, the heavy armor plating, extraneous thrusters and power-routing cables powering them can be ejected by the heavy clamps and occasional electromagnets that hold them in place. This results in the Apollo 'Heavy' effectively turning into the Apollo 'Light', with changed features below.[/hider]

[hider=NC Second Form][b]Apollo 'Light'[/b]

[b]Appearance[/b] The Apollo Light is a thinly armored NC that is in all actuality just the frame for a much larger one, yet able to act independently. Standing two meters lower than its original form, the Apollo-Light is still taller then most average NC's, yet less so. The Apollo Heavy's shield divides in two at the middle, and combines with the now armorless wing-portion to form two large 'binders' on the backside. The motions of these in flight can severely enhance the rotational and maneuverability based capabilities of the NC.
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[b]Body & Type[/b] The Apollo-Light is nearly armorless in comparison to the Heavy form, but the power generator, now having to feed a smaller amount of turbojets maneuvering a lighter NC, can overdrive the aforementioned for even more speed. Of course, the now 'needlessly heavy' systems installed do weigh it down to the point it's not as fast as it could be if optimized.

[b]Equipment & Armaments[/b] Much less heavily armed compared to the Apollo 'Heavy', the inner frame of which is only armed with its sniper rifle and plasma-caster, but its ammunition backpack is still in place, alongside its shield, although technically. Of course, with the armorless wings being able to move, they can still assist in defense. Theoretically, if need be, the connection ports powering the other weapons can send electrical arcs through the air like a tesla-coil, but Ray never tried that before in mild fear.

[b]Notes[/b] Compared to the 'Heavy form', the 'Light' Apollo is much more worthy as a scout or any other  position that requires stealth, with a boxier and thinner design. If needed, it could be outfitted with RADAR-absorbent coating and act as reconnaissance unit.
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