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- 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 reconnaissance for the mechs.) However, three characters 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.
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3050; humanity has gone to the stars. But human nature hasn't changed much. In the last three hundred years, since the Star League Defense Forces jumped out of the Inner Sphere and into the beyond, the Inner Sphere has been wracked with a series of destructive wars to determine the succession of one of the Great Houses to the First Lordship of the Star League, a seat vacant since the Amaris Coup three hundred years ago. The only thing that's been accomplished is the near-destruction of space travel technology.

Right now, however, the Inner Sphere is in a good place. Thanks to Grayson Carlyle's recovery of the Helm Memory Core in 3028, 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, possibly without having a destructive war in the process. It feels like humanity turned a corner.

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 near the Periphery. Though there is little action to be had besides dealing with potential pirate attacks, 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.

They don't expect what's coming for them from the Periphery. No one does.

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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.

They are on soft duty, so they think, but there is about to be a huge disruption to the Inner Sphere's status quo and it's going to come at them from the Periphery. They will not be prepared for it but they will have to deal with it.

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.

I realize that the amount of lore in this RP can be daunting, but I've been in on the lore stuff for this setting since childhood and I can cut through the confusion. If you are confused or not familiar with the setting, you can throw me a concept and I can work out a sheet for you that handles the history portion -- and I am willing to do this. I can assign titles, planets, and a degree of background sufficient to set up your character as credible in their position and then let you fill out the rest.

Samewise, I have a list of acceptable battlemechs to start with that make it easy; since the starting battlemech is just that and characters will be switching in the process of the RP, it's not hugely important to get the most perfect, bestest, awesomest mech from the outset, because your character won't be in it long (unless you love it). I am recommending light and medium mechs because this is still a training unit and because the maneuverability is important. It's not like you'll stay in them unless your character is just a big fan of the chassis.
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Name: Harper Rall
Rank: Cadet
Allegiance: Federated Suns
Planetary Origin: Canopus IV
MOS: Mechwarrior
Synopsis of Role:

Harper is a self-proclaimed periphery rat that somehow, quite miraculously, managed to snag a coveted position at one of the most prestigious military academies in the Inner Sphere.

To the great chagrin of more than one aristocratic classmate hoping that she would wash out, Harper has thrived at the NAIS and even manged to convince her instructors that she might be something of a MechWarrior prodigy. The young woman is a natural pilot, showing a talent for high speed gunnery, reckless maneuvers, and turning her BattleMech into a flying projectile when ever the opportunity presents itself.

Unsurprisingly, she prefers to pilot BattleMechs that let her go really, really fast and she often jokes that she should have been an Aerospace Fighter pilot instead of a MechWarrior.

Harper is in her fourth and final year at the NAIS and is doing her best to angle for a job as a test pilot, having long since realized that military discipline isn't her bag, but having the tragic misfortune of being far too poor to possess her own BattleMech.

Battlemech: WVR-7M, with a black cat, teeth barred, and fur standing on end, painted on the shoulder.


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I swear you got this idea from my conversation on discord.

I think about hopping in on this. Let's hope this is a long run. Fingers crossed.
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Name: Harper Rall


Going forward, folks, please just post the sheets in the sheets tab. This one's approved.
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totally not where I put my character sheet initially

A quick question, what kind of visuals does everyone prefer? I know a lot of people who like MWO's style, but iirc there's about half a dozen different styles of art that exists or something

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As a side note, I think my character will be among the tallest of the cadets.

This is totally the unedited comment.

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@Skyrte Just so you know Hey just said to just post sheets in the sheet tab. :P

As a side note, I think my character will be among the tallest of the cadets.


Oh! Whoops, I'm just going to edit that post so its not a... character sheet. Yeah.
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Oh! Whoops, I'm just going to edit that post so it's not a... character sheet. Yeah.


And I'll edit the first part of my post. It will be like it never happened. o.o

Also, I kind of see Lyris adopting a big sister attitude with those in her lance. I can foresee her having gone out of her way to defend Johan against bullies in the past. Possible friends?

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And I'll edit the first part of my post. It will be like it never happened. o.o
Also, I kind of see Lyris adopting a big sister attitude with those in her lance. I can foresee her having gone out of her way to defend Johan against bullies in the past. Possible friends?


Sure, they could have first really talked after one of the war games that they did. Year 1? Since it seems like most of us are Year 4 more or less.
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Sure, they could have first really talked after one of the war games that they did. Year 1? Since it seems like most of us are Year 4 more or less.


I can see that. She can probably relate given her own house is on a small unimportant planet in the boonies and shes probably faced her own ridicule from other cadets.

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I can see that. She can probably relate given her own house is on a small unimportant planet in the boonies and shes probably faced her own ridicule from other cadets.

Nice, teamwork makes the dream work. Our two characters would have been buddies for a while then.

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Nice, teamwork makes the dream work. Our two characters would have been buddies for a while then.




For sure.

Also ironically, both of their mechs would work well in conjunction. Both do well at long range, but if something does get close a Gif makes for solid hand to hand when needed. Something Lyris loves anyway.

I also find it funny how their roles are reversed on the field in terms of size.

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Sheets up to here are approved. I have a specific planet that they are going to be on, and I sort of envision their current AO as an arid sort of place.
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@HeySeuss So out of curiosity when can we expect the IC?
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Finally posted my app in the characters tab. Let me know if that's fine!
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@HeySeuss So out of curiosity when can we expect the IC?


I hope to have it written in the next two days. Friday should be slower in the afternoon as business dies for that week.

Finally posted my app in the characters tab. Let me know if that's fine!


Approved, though I would change the artillery pieces over to Thors or Thumpers, and maybe put the Arrow VI on Padillas. As this is a testbed unit, these star league era vehicles may have been produced on a special run to spec for this unit to evaluate for general deployment with the AFFC.

Also, as house rules, I think we are going to be deploying drone units as well as that makes a lot of sense.

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Making the changes now! Will mention the presence of UAV drones in the recon section, too.
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I love me some Battletech. I think it's interesting (and a bit disappointing) that the recent video games have eclipsed the tabletop game as the franchise's flagship focus. Would love to see an updated return to the wargame, unless there is one and I suck at keeping up.

I'll catch myself up with the OP.
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Name: Edric Burns
Rank: Cadet
Allegiance: Lyran Commonwealth
Planetary Origin: Donegal
MOS: Mechwarrior

Synopsis of Role: Edric was born on Donegal, the son of 24th Lyran Guards mechwarrior Charles Burns and Anna Rosenbaum. While not of extraordinarily high birth, service in the Lyran Guards ensured the Burns family a measure of prestige, enabling Edric to enroll at the Nagelring.

Edric aspires to honor his father's service to the Commonwealth, succeeding not by blood, but by merit. With the merger of the Federated Commonwealth, "social generals" have become less of a hindrance to the Lyran military, a shift in direction Edric approves of.

Currently, Edric operates a VLK-QD Valkyrie, gathering post-deployment data on the variant as part of his duty in the joint Nagelring/NAIS experimental program.

Battlemech: VLK-QD
The QD Valkyrie is a major overhaul of the design debuting in 3049. The chassis has been re-engineered to use Endo Steel construction and the armor has been upgraded to Ferro-Fibrous with CASE. This allowed the variant to update the laser to a Sutel Precision Line Medium Pulse Laser and an Artemis IV fire control system added to the Devastator LRM-10.

Following the formation of the Federated Commonwealth, its nascent military force was faced with the problem of combining two entirely separate militaries into one unified whole. Part of the solution was commonality of equipment, and the Valkyrie was chosen to be the standard light 'Mech of the AFFC. Following the discovery of the Helm Memory Core, the New Avalon Institute of Science was able to restore the Valkyrie industrial complex to its full Star League era production rate, while Corean was able to utilized lostech components to construct the new VLK-QD model starting in 3049.

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