[hider=ECHO] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZuRTb8u.png[/img] [color=steelblue]"Fire mission received. Executing- *BRRRRRRT*"[/color][/center] [color=steelblue]Name:[/color] ECHO DOMAIN - PLATFORM #2884 EIHWAZ OF GREHENIA PRIME [color=steelblue]Age:[/color] 190, Constituted in the year 4047 [color=steelblue]Species:[/color] Unztadtlige​ [color=steelblue]Appearance:[/color] The Echo Platform commonly displays itself in one of three forms: Warform, Endoform and Microform- though other shapes may be formed as necessary, depending on the situation. [hider=Warform][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZuRTb8u.png[/img] The Echo Platform's 'Warform' is its primary form, consisting of the entirety of its colony's constituents. The Warform appears as a massive, hulking cybernetic platform, propelling itself on 6 trunk-like legs, reminiscent of some sort of beast or centaur. Towering above the battlefield at 16 feet in height, the Echo Platform is less a single soldier, and more the equivalent of an armored unit. Covered in thick alloy plating and bristling with weapons, the Echo Platform's body also incorporates a series of ladders, catwalks and nests to allow humanoid allies to climb and ride upon it, either for transportation of combat maneuvers.[/hider] [hider=Endoform][img]https://i.imgur.com/7mqrKVW.png[/img] Deploying from the 'skull' of the Echo Platform's Warform, the Endoform is more reminiscent of its humanoid compatriots. Its constituents consist of the primary governing organisms of the Echo Platform's 'mind', and takes the form of an 7 and a half foot tall mechanoid. The Unztadtlige​ organisms themselves are nestled deep within the heart of the heavy armor plating, its robotic manipulators allowing it to interface with humanoid scale weapons. The Endoform is employed when the Echo Platform requires access to areas too small for its Warform's bulk, primarily within the confines of buildings or ships.[/hider] [hider=Microform][img]https://i.imgur.com/hKQEjEM.jpg[/img] Consisting of the more 'independent' organisms within the Echo Platform's constituents, the Microform is reminiscent of a small quadruped, both lightly armed and armored. Fast and small, the Mircoform stands at little more than a foot tall, and is designed for more noncombat roles, such as reconnaissance or maintenance. [/hider] [color=steelblue]Background:[/color] Constituted in 4047, the Echo Platform traces its origins to various Unztadtlige platforms in the Grehenia system, a rough frontier system on the fringes of Yrrkadian Dominion space. Grehenia Prime was a near inhospitable world, basically a frozen, ice covered rock at the edge of the system. The Echo platform spent most of its early years within a small community of mixed species settlers, carving out and building expansive tunnel networks caverns underneath the warmer crust of the planet. Though life was simple, it was far from peaceful, as the Echo Platform would also find itself occasionally venturing out of its caverns with its fellows, engaging in brush wars and skirmishes with other Unztadlidge platforms and their respective communities as they fought for space and what little resources the icy world possessed. After a hundred and some odd years of skirmishes and tunnel building, Grehenia finally reached some odd measure of peace. The surviving communities had expanded, and their Unztadlige guardians had grown enough to finally fight themselves to standstills. With that uneasy peace came eventual cooperation, as tunnel networks joined with one another, sharing processes and technologies that allowed the world underneath the surface to reach some standard of living. Trade began to flourish, and as production increased, interested merchants from the core of the Yrrkadian Dominion finally began paying attention to the frozen frontier. Prosperity came with its own drawbacks however, Grehenia was now on the map and its Yrrkadian overlords decided it was time to collect their dues. The Dominion needed resources, taxes, and soldiers. The Echo Platform, was one of those selected to join the Dominion ranks, joining the ranks of one of the Dominion's many armored corps. There were rebellions to be put down, land to be subjugated and terraformed, and planets to be conquered. The Echo Platform took part in conflict all across Dominion space, its unique talents allowing it to both help build operating bases and the foundations for new colonies, whilst simultaneously laying waste to forces that would oppose them. Over his many decades of service to the Yrrkadian Dominion, the Echo Platform found itself fighting and building within the Helios Expanse during its subjugation, as well as participating in all 29 years of the Veiled War between the three burgeoning powers in various capacities. The Echo Platform found itself at within the ranks of an armored engineering corp, operating with several of its own kind alongside the various races of the Yrrkadian Dominion and their new human allies in the Dolsevics. Proxy wars were the norm, quick flashpans of violence, Echo and its compatriots rolling over unprepared lines with their armored bulk before conventional forces took to the field to hold their new positions. As open war finally broke out between the superpowers, The Echo Platform found itself engaged in particularly vicious fighting in the Helios theatre, fighting a losing war as enemies closed in on them from all directions. Frankly, it was a miracle that the Echo Platform finished the war still in one piece, if many of its constituents had been shattered during the conflict. With its unit utterly decimated over the course of its fighting with the League, the Echo Platform found itself adrift, with no allies around it, and no flag to keep it loyal to the Dominion. In an act of open rebellion- or self preservation, the Echo Platform decreed itself independent, and sought out greener pastures. The Echo Platform emigrated for space untouched by at least its own weapons, where no one knew of it, finally settling on the Black City Knossos. While initially trying to keep its proverbial head down, engaging in more developmental tasks than combat ones, it wasn't long before the agents of the Intransigence sought them out. Unztadlige were rare to come by in Intranszjednota space, and word had quickly spread of a particularly large one settling down within their borders. Their promise to it was a simple one- a few decades of service, in return for a small expeditionary force to rebuild and recolonize one of the destroyed worlds within Intranszjednota space. What was a few more decades of warfare? [color=steelblue]Character Evaluation:[/color] Calm and polite, the Echo Platform is cordial and accommodating, if a bit cold and reserved. Even after decades, it finds verbal communication an odd, and frankly unnecessarily complicated form of conveying ideas and commands, though recognizes that it is the primary method in which non-Unztadlige interact with one another. A bit robotic, the Echo Platform has a habit of repeating commands given to it before carrying them out to the best of its ability. The Echo Platform respects authority and rarely questions orders, and while it may occasionally bring up its own opinions or ask for clarification, it rarely if ever outright ignores commands given to it- sometimes just working to fit the spirit of the order, if not the exact wording. The Echo Platform is rather gullible, and is only recently understanding the concept of 'lies', comparing it to a form of asymmetric guerilla warfare, only with words. It is steadfast and loyal, fully expecting everyone within its operational ranks to be so as well. Echo does not respond well to emotional outbursts, more out of a lack of understanding than disregard, and has a tendency to misinterpret idioms, often interpreting them literally. [color=steelblue]Skills:[/color][list] [*]Conventional and siege warfare [*]Armored and mechanized infantry tactics [*]Construction and Engineering [*]Remote Reconnaissance [*]Gunsmithing and arms repair [*]Mining [/list][color=steelblue]Loadout:[/color] [hider=Warform][list] [*][color=steelblue]High Output Siege Beam Cannon[/color] - Taking the form a massive turret mounted to the top of the Warform, the 200mm Siege Beam Cannon is a powerful anti-armor and anti-installation weapon meant to project overwhelming concentrated fire over a tremendous field of engagement. Though it suffers in rate of fire and ease of use, it makes up for it by doing what it does best- putting a big hole in whatever it points out from outside of reach [*][color=steelblue]Light Autocannon x2[/color] - Mounted on either side of the Warform's head are a pair of belt-fed chainguns, firing guided birounds. These Autocannons serve as the Warform's secondary or general purpose weapons, firing at infantry and armored targets alike, and are also effective for suppressing enemy positions. [*][color=steelblue]Short Range Low Output Anti-Personnel Beam Cannons x10[/color] - With 4 mounted directly on the head, and the other 6 on various parts of the Warforms sides and rear, the AP Beam Cannons are meant to provide the Warform with precise, close ranged defense against enemy infantry and missile targets. The four cannons mounted directly on the head can serve a credible threat to close in armored targets as well in a pinch. [*][color=steelblue]Reactive Heavy Nano-Composite Armor[/color] - A unique blend of Unztadlige bio-cybernetic tech, the incredibly thick armor plating on the Warform is capable of shrugging off considerable amounts of enemy fire, and can even repair itself- though the rate of repair is too slow to be notable during combat operations. [*][color=steelblue]Mounted Heavy Machinegun[/color] - A simple, turret mounted heavy machinegun, meant to be operated by infantry hitching a ride on the Warform. Even thousands of years into the future, some things never go out of fashion. [*][color=steelblue]Armored Canopy[/color] - A retracting armored canopy allows the Warform to accommodate about a small number of operators upon its back. An energy shield provides riders with excellent awareness and the ability to fire their own weapons from relative safety. [*][color=steelblue]Anti-Grav Field Propulsion[/color] - While the Warform's primary mode of locomotion are its six stabilized legs, each leg also comes equipped with an Anti-Grav projector, allowing it to hover, or 'skate' across the battlefield at moderate speeds. Firing on the move is possible, but the effects of weapon recoil are more pronounced. [*][color=steelblue]Fabrication Array[/color] - A set of large scale tools and machinery can be deployed to perform large bulk work, from drilling to cutting and mining, or prepping land for field fortifications. With the proper materials, it can also bulk manufacture materials like ammunition or weapon barrels. [/list][/hider] [hider=Endoform][list] [*][color=steelblue]Light Autocannon[/color] - Deploying from the Warform, the Endoform comandeers one of the Warform's autocannons for use as its primary weapon. [*][color=steelblue]Short Range Low Output Anti-Personnel Beam Cannons x2[/color] - In its Endoform, the Echo platform mounts one of the Warform's many AP Beam Cannons on each of its forearms as secondary weapons. [*][color=steelblue]Squad Energy Shield[/color] - In its Endoform, Echo also cannibalizes the Warform's energy shield projector from its back, allowing the Endoform to project a directional shield in front of it to provide protection to its comrades. [*][color=steelblue]Anti-Gravity Cudgel[/color] - Taking the form of a steel kanabo style weapon, this heavy cudgel serves as the Endoform's melee weapon of choice, when not using its powerful limbs. Gravity manipulators built into the weapon allow it to strike with incredible- if ungainly weight. [*][color=steelblue]Reactive Light Nano-Composite Armor[/color] - A unique blend of Unztadlige bio-cybernetic tech, the thick armor plating on the Endoform is capable of shrugging off considerable amounts of enemy small arms fire, and can even repair itself- though the rate of repair is too slow to be notable during combat operations. [*][color=steelblue]Anti-Grav Field Propulsion[/color] - While the Endoform's primary mode of locomotion are its legs, each leg and its back also comes equipped with an Anti-Grav projector, allowing it to boost, or 'skate' across the battlefield at relatively quick speeds. [*][color=steelblue]Construction Suite[/color] - A set of tools, arms and machinery allowing the Endoform to assist or take lead in building field fortifications. [/list][/hider] [hider=Microform][list] [*][color=steelblue]Short Range Low Output Anti-Personnel Beam Cannon[/color] - In its Microform, deploys takes one of the Warform's many AP Beam Cannons as its primary weapon. The weapon is mounted beneath its 'jaw'. [*][color=steelblue]Reactive Light Nano-Composite Armored Forearms[/color] - A unique blend of Unztadlige bio-cybernetic tech, the ars of the Mircoform are is capable of shrugging off a small amount of enemy small arms fire, and can even repair itself- though the rate of repair is too slow to be notable during combat operations. Built in claws also allow the forearms to be used as melee weapons. [*][color=steelblue]Engineering Suite[/color] - A series of small arms and tools allow the Microform to perform intricate work on structures and systems. [*][color=steelblue]Reconnaissance Suite[/color] - A set of cameras and sensors smart linked to both the main host's awareness and the squad's HUD. [/list][/hider] [/hider]