Cyneric Abelli
"Command this is Tosser Blue One, Alpha team has located and secured a... small baby vertebrae. Permission to keep 'Courtenay the Vertebrae' after mission complete, sir?"
Name: Cyneric Abelli
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Enhanced Hume
Former Allegiance: The Skullfire Fangs, The Snowstone
Role: Scout
Personality: Cyrenic is sociable man, open minded, and tolerant of many different beliefs and cultures. He enjoys embracing new ideas and trying them out, particularly the cuisine of other cultures, but also the way they celebrate, the way they say sorry and thank you. He truly wants to learn as much as he can from other people. He's friendly, always willing to help, always curious, but he understands if someone doesn't want to tell him. He gets that, some things are not meant for outsiders, or for him. Cyrenic is laid back and often makes sarcastic remarks during an operation, he also has a tendency to make understatements, but has since learned that saying 'we have a problem' doesn't help much. During Snowstone peacekeeping operations he often mingles with the civilian population, exchanging friendly gestures, foods, tokens, and has amassed quite a collection of good luck charms, trinkets, and other oddities.
Cyrenic has strong ideas as to what a peacekeeper should be. Always ready, strong enough to take the hits to save the innocent, and he shows it. He is almost always in his scout armor, when doing physical training, during down time, the only time he isn't wearing it is when he's sleeping in his barracks or is ordered to take it off and keep it off. He's often seen doing physical training of some kind, or practicing his fire discipline.
At first he may seem so sure of himself, but underneath he's scared. He keeps his body in top shape because he's afraid that one day he'll get exhausted and fail to save someone, or he won't be strong enough to lift a wounded trooper out of a combat zone. He doesn't like the idea that if he does something wrong and an innocent family loses a member, he won't be able to say sorry correctly to them. He keeps his mind sharp so he can call in accurate artillery and air strikes without harming civilians, and he keeps his body strong to make sure he can do the things he has to do.
Physical Description: Cyrenic is a short man, standing at 5 feet 4 inches, but don't let that fool you. He's surprisingly strong and his body is built as if all of him were high grade advanced cybernetics, compact and toned. His skin tone is light as a result of staying covered in his armor for extended periods of time. He keeps his dark hair buzzed to keep it from getting in the way, and maintains a clean shaven face. If he's out of his equipment, he'll often be seen with a beanie over his head to keep it warm. He'll often wear black tinted ballistic goggles, usually issued to troops with open faced helmets, or black tinted sunglasses. He does this to conceal his cybernetic eyes, which he doesn't like very much. His cybernetic eyes are very clearly cybernetic, the eyeball is steel grey and the iris is noticeably a lenses. His other cybernetics, both of his arms have recently been rebuilt and remodeled, instead of the steel colored arms he once had, they're now indistinguishable from unmodified arms, save for a very slight different in skin color. Cyrenic hasn't yet found the time or funds to replace his eyes with more human like enhancements.
Out of combat armor, Cyrenics sense of fashion doesn't stray very far from 'military'. He owns very few civilian clothing, sweat pants, a few shirts and jackets here or there, otherwise he will be wearing his standard issue Snowstone combat boots and battle dress uniform.
History: Cyrenic was born in the territory of the Skullfire Fangs, his parents were fanatical worshipers of Zephrot. Once Cyrenic was capable of fending for himself, his parents would leave for weeks on pilgrimages to Zephrots temples, every time coming back less and less organic. Cyrenic became independent, hating his parents for leaving and neglecting him for so long, and changing so much that he hardly recognized them. When he became 16, he left home while his parents were on a pilgrimage and joined the Skullfire Fang military, accepting Zephrots gift like all the other soldiers. His arms, eyes and mind became cybernetic. He felt connected, a part of something. He had brothers now, and he trained with them to become faithful warriors of Zephrot.
It wasn't long before he had his first taste of combat. Cyrenic and his brothers flooded over the Iron Jackal troops like an ocean. They won victory after victory in the first of the two years that Cyrenic fought. Until the Iron Jackals brought their armor to bear, the massive machines of war towered over everything on the battlefield, with weapons that blasted dozens of Zephrot soldiers with a single volley. Cyrenic and the regiment he was in fell back to a hill, dubbed Hill 120. They were only given a few days of respite however, the Iron Jackals armor pursued them, laying siege to the hill. Cyrenic fought with his all, but some commander higher up the food chain decided to cut their loss and leave Hill 120 for the Jackals. Leaving Cyrenic and eight hundred other soldiers to their fates. While most of the soldiers there glorified their death sentence as a last stand, a chance to give the rest of the Zephrot military to regroup, Cyrenic was distraught. He had given up his eyes, his arms, his mind for Zephrot, he had lost friends and the love of his parents. Only to be abandoned again, this time by his God, on a muddy hill with only a number for a name.
He decided to leave, and three dozen of his comrades agreed with his sentiment. The rest called he and his three dozen cowards, traitors, and worthless piles of scrap. Telling them that the Jackals would hunt them down like the worthless animals they were. Cyrenic lead his three dozen away the next day, and the day after the Iron Jackals launched a massive assault on Hill 120. Laying waste to the Zephrot base atop it. Cyrenic didn't look back. They all knew of the The Snowstone, and of Shirod. A neutral zone, sanctuary from the war, and a God Child of reason and peace. They all knew where they had to go if they wanted to escape. It took them two more years, and a dozen of them died, to reach the border of The Snowstone.
When they arrived they were detained and subjected to a wide variety of tests and invasive scans, as well as some modification. Cyrenic was held in a cell alone, separated from his brothers. A week passed until they were finally released, and all of them agreed that while it was unpleasant, they felt more freedom than before. Like an immense weight had been lifted from their shoulders. But now their next challenge would be to rebuild their lives. For Cyrenic, who longed to hold a rifle in his hands, the choice was clear.
He joined the Snowstone peacekeepers. His brothers jokingly called him a hypocrite, but they all understood. Basic training was a breeze for Cyrenic, after being trained by the Skullfire Fang military. He came to the Snowstone army a broken person, betrayed and left to die, but training to become an enforcer of peace gave him a new purpose. As he progressed through the camp, his instructor offered him more specialized training, and he took it. Specializing in marksmanship, survival, diving, until the Snowstone Special Forces Command took notice of him and contacted him. They offered him a place as a special forces trooper, and he accepted. Cyrenic would train to become a Special Forces Scout, going through many different schools, eventually joining the Snowstone Special Forces community as one of its youngest and staying active within it for years.
When the Sixth God Child awoke, Cyrenic felt nothing special. In fact he first heard about it several days after its awakening from another scout in his unit, talking about what a historic event it was. He and that scout made a bet. Cyrenic said that the Captain, Elric Zaitsev, would not volunteer and go to the new God Child to investigate it, while the other scout said that Elric would. Whoever lost would have to be one of the first volunteers to go patrol its lands. Cyrenic lost the bet, but no assignments in the Lotus Mirage came. Until 1,016.
Skills:- Stealth - Cyneric was once called a coward, a fool, weak and powerless. But in his weakness, he learned to control his breath, hide underneath corpses and lay still as they did. He learned to blend with the shadows and hide in the environment, becoming one with the nature or industry around him. He learned how to hide.
- Combat Controller - Cyrenic has gone to Combat Controller school and graduated. Learning how to direct air traffic, how to call in fire support ranging from mortars, artillery, air strikes, bombing runs, and more. His duties as a controller included establishing drop zones, extract zones, and humanitarian aid such as establishing airfields for planes landing supplies. While most controllers are attached to a wide variety of special forces teams, Cyrenic had specifically requested to be attached to recon, search and rescue, and humanitarian teams.
- Marksmanship - Cyneric has found peace in marksmanship. He was offered a position as a sniper, but he passed it to become a reconnaissance trooper. That doesn't mean he isn't good with a gun however, having won several marksmanship competitions during his training, and exchanged tips and tricks with actual snipers, Cyneric is capable of putting shots where he wants it and when he needs it. Though not at the extreme ranges snipers are known for.
Absolver Tech: - Slot 1 - The Abelli V44A2E1-AMR is a custom crafted anti material rifle designed by a group of gunsmiths, scouts, and snipers to fill the role of an anti material rifle. Each V44 is a weapon tailored specifically to its owner, making the V44 abhorrently expensive to create conventionally. But the Absolver Suit makes this possible. Cyrenic's V44 has gone through two major updates and one minor update already, mainly updates to the ammunition. The 25mm cannon shells that the rifle fires is what Cyrenic believes makes it special, the EEAPFSDS, Energy Explosive Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot, is a modification of an old type of cannon shell with incredible armor piercing capabilities. The EEAPFSDS features a number of micro plasma explosives lined inside of the 'arrow' which detonate upon puncturing the armor of the target, the explosives shatters the arrow into splinters and the heat turns them molten. Following the same principle as another old style of cannon shell, APHE.
- Slot 2 - The P55A1 Plasma Pistol is a powerful plasma based sidearm, firing bolts of weaponized plasma. The pistol itself is inaccurate, only good for shots up to a few dozen meters, but the plasma bolts are effective at melting away armor and taking down shields quickly. The more perceptive users of the weapon will use the plasma bolts to inflict indirect damage to their target if they're unable to land a direct hit. Landing bolts of plasma near the target can cause the plasma to splash onto their target, or the heat could cause heat trauma or heat stroke over time from sustained fire. The A1 variant of the P55 has upgraded heat sinks, allowing the weapon to be fired more often. Overheating the weapon will cause the emergency panels to open up, lifting and exposing the heatsinks to allow it to dissipate heat quickly. It is not advised to fire and overheat this weapon without an armored gauntlet.
- Slot 3 - The Strider A53 Photoreactive Stealth Cloak is a tried and true stealth system, albeit somewhat outdated to the more advanced and more power draw heavy stealth emitters that some other scouts use. The Strider A53 is a cloak as opposed to a field, allowing for more versatile use over the more modern stealth systems. Cyrenic essentially uses it as a fancy tarp. In addition to its lower power draw Cyrenic can specify the size of the cloak, although larger cloaks require more power to create, he can drape it over multiple allies and equipment. Each cloak is created with an independent power source, set hourly, so the user doesn't have to pay attention to a continual power drain. Like all stealth systems the cloak is sensitive to impacts and since the cloak is a physical object, it can be subject to tearing or ripping. If not fastened correctly, the cloak could blow right off of the user. The benefit however is when properly positioned and fastened the user can fire a weapon with only a split second disruption to the cloak.
Equipment & Accessories: - The L90 Laser Battle Rifle is a standard issue laser based energy weapon issued to many special forces scouts and designated marksmen within the Snowstone military, its robustness despite being a laser rifle coupled with its high power and accuracy make it a favorite for mid range combat encounters. However its strength and accuracy come at a fairly high cost, the bright blue laser it fires is visible to the naked eye, and it drains the Zyphan batteries with relatively few shots compared to other rifles.
The weapon has two firing modes, high power semi automatic and low power fully automatic. The high power setting drains more power per shot and only utilizes the top barrel of the twin barreled gun, whereas the low power automatic setting makes use of both barrels firing one after the other. The topside of the weapon has a short rail for optic mountings which can be extended to add other attachments. With its high production cost and drawbacks, armorers rarely issue this weapon to troops who have not proven themselves to be good shots. - The Oculyst Scout Armor is a light armor designed for mobility while not sacrificing too much protection. The armor has three layers, the underlayer is the battle dress uniform that the user always wears. The softshell armor is a layer of tough heat and shrapnel resistant leather like fabric, while it won't protect the user from direct hits from energy weapons, the softshell layer will protect the user from shrapnel and heat from nearby energy weapon impacts. The last layer is the hardshell armor, covering the arms, shoulders, torso, head and lower legs. The hardshell is ballistic and energy resistant, made up of a composite of material to cover a wide variety of threats. It's primary drawback is the thickness of the hardshell, making its protection of the user limited.
The armor comes with a rucksack when issued, it holds a survival kit, battery packs for the helmet operations, compressed air tanks, and has space for more. Large portions of the hardshell plate is covered in grid webbing for the user to attach pouches, velcro, or whatever else the modular grid allowed for. The most impressive segment of the Oculyst armor is the helmet, which features three options for breathing. When the helmet detects no threat in the atmosphere the helmet allows the user to breathe the outside air, if there are contaminants, the air is filtered through a gas mask, and if the atmosphere is completely inhospitable to the wearer, all vents are shut and the suit draws air from the tanks built into the back of the armor, offering enough air for the user to escape from the inhospitable area. The helmet features a holographic heads up display showing the vitals and situation of squadmates, ammunition and magazine count for the users weapon, and a compass. The optical systems has a built in zoom going upwards to 4x, night vision and thermal vision settings. - Cyrenic's Scout Kit. Cyrenic carries a set of binoculars, a pen, notebook, camera, a laser rangefinder, a laser designator, and a tripod. The most recent addition of the kit is an SCR-33M, a larger, more powerful radio than the standard issue Personal Radio that is issued to every trooper. The SCR-33M is reminiscent of older radio kits.
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-Cyrenic always keeps a few snacks in his pockets, candy, dried fruits, jerky, and whatever else grabs his interest.
The Sixth Child's Gift:A cake.
A six inch athrow layer cake, two soft layers with a chopped arirac fruit and cream filling, frosted with a lightly sweetened white athrow frosting, letting the flavor of the arirac fruit pop out and take the stage. The top of the cake is garnished with sliced arirac layered into a circle, covered in a light sugar glaze to give it shine. On the side are an array of different flavored round wafer cookies. This cake is traditionally eaten with the cookies used as a spoon, then finished with normal utensils.
Athrow is a flavoring extracted out of a species of flower that grows natively in the north Skullfire territories. Extracting the flavor is a laborious and lengthy process, which made athrow an expensive spice in the past. Now the flavor is easily extracted through machine, and is widely available thanks to the eco-dome breakthrough. Today the spice is widely popular, and is seen as a staple, classic flavor in many pastries, baked goods, beverages, sauces, and desserts. The flavor itself is difficult to describe, it's floral, a gentle flavor, and is widely accepted as delicious across all of the species that inhabit Encephalon. The flavor is popular in the culinary world for its versatility, complimenting many other different spices and flavors.
The arirac fruit is a fruit native to the central Snowstone valleys, once incredibly rare, requiring very specific conditions that only a few Snowstone valleys provided. The species of tree nearly went extinct before the eco-dome technology came along. The tree that produces the fruit is small, hardly impressive, with long green leaves. The fruit itself is round, pink, with soft succulent white flesh, sweet and refreshing. The fruit is popular among Humes, eaten by itself or added in deserts, beverages are common as well. It is less popular in Rivani communities, often calling it an acquired taste.
