[CHAR] Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a 1x1 mecha kaiju mashup RP between Stern Algorithm and OliveYou)

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Important NPCs:


Name: Secretary Oleander, Margaret
Position: Director of CETM
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Nationality: American
Personality:Professional, rational, cold. Secretary Oleander is calm, commanding, and sometimes intimidating.  She is not afraid to take risks and is always weighing the pros and cons, always considering whether the expedient approach or the long-term plan is better.  Some say she is too cutthroat, too willing to sacrifice the few for the many, but the way she sees it, she will do whatever it takes to ensure that mankind survives.
History:Secretary Oleander was an unassuming, but efficient aide to the United States Defense Secretary. After the Defense Secretary's untimely death during the Vega alien attack, Oleander assumed the position briefly before she was nominated for her current post. Oleander oversaw the founding of CETM and the Four Projects, showing enormous success during subsequent extraterrestrial incidents.  Not one to sit on her laurels, and with the foresight to anticipate more dangerous incidents to come, Oleander plans to build on her success and innovate the Projects even further.
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Name: Dr. Kawakami, Manaka (née Tsukamoto)
Position: Olympian Project Lead, Chair of the department of Xenosociology
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Nationality: Japanese
Personality:Empathic, cheerful, observant. Manaka is one of the few humans privy to the Hyperian social theory known as the central dogma of xenoarcheology, and though her primary interest is learning how Hyperian civilization developed as a way to forecast how human civilization might also develop, she is also intrigued by the kaiju.
History:Manaka joined the original Hyperian ship research team as a young student and grew close to Kawakami Shigeru, a fellow student who would end up becoming Hyper Man. One of the few survivors of the Vega alien escape, she knows the Hyperian ship and language the best but keeps a lot of knowledge close to her chest.
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Name: Kawakami, Shinobu
Position: Hyper Man X's human host
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Nationality: Japanese-American
Personality:Shinobu is a gentle soul burdened with the responsibility of protecting humanity. Haunted by dark secrets of the universe, Shinobu tries his best to live up to expectations. Shinobu keeps others at arm's length out of fear of divulging confidential information about the Hyperians.
History:The son of Kawakami Shigeru, Shinobu was chosen to be the vessel of Hyper Man X, the Hyperian who came to replace Hyper Man as Earth's protector.
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Name: Dr. Park, Raymond
Position: Titan Project Lead, Chair of the Department of Xenobiology
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Nationality: Korean-American
Personality:Laidback, easygoing, genius. Raymond is surprisingly young for a man in his position. To many, he may appear lazy, but most of his greatest ideas come to him when he is relaxing, making him more of a 'creative' and 'inspired' scientist than others who tend to 'brute force' their way to scientific progress. Unfortunately, Raymond's proclivity towards less-than-ethical scientific practices has gotten him censured in the past, but his intellect earned him a place at CETM.
History:For those who know, Dr. Park is an infamous geneticist whose experiments were ridiculed as pointless celebrity stunts despite the advanced techniques employed. Despite his brushed with the law, his work at CETM has wiped his slate clean.
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Name: Atlas
Position: Project Titan Experiment #01
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Nationality: Chinese-American
Form: Stag Beetle
Power: Hard Shell - can absorb and is impervious to all damage for a period of time.
Source of Energy: Sugar
Personality:Like his favorite food, Atlas is sweet. His timid nature and desire to get along with others make him quite the pushover, but the researchers have come to appreciate his genuine kindness (especially when Phoebe and Daphnis are fighting for the thousandth time).
History:The first Project Titan experiment, Atlas was a moderate success. His skills and powers are not as varied and developed as the other children, but what he does, he does well.
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Name: Daphnis
Position: Project Titan Experiment #02
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: German-American
Form: Mantis
Power(s): Sharp Limbs - Her arms and legs are deadly sharp and can be used as weapons. Camouflage - she can change aspects of her appearance to blend in to the environment.  
Source of Energy: Living things
Personality:The poster child of Project Titan, Daphnis has a big head and a tendency to lord herself over others, leading to frequent conflicts with Phoebe. She's smart, adaptable, and aggressive.
History:Daphnis has exceeded expectations in every category of her development, and Project Titan has especially high hopes for her use in combat against extraterrestrials, although her skills lie more in espionage than all-out battle.
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Name: Phoebe
Position: Project Titan Experiment #03
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: Greek-American
Form: Moth
Power: Flame Ray - after absorbing enough heat energy, she expels it in a powerful blast. 
Source of Energy: Heat
Personality:Alien DNA or not, Phoebe has always been a handful. She's a loud, brash, headstrong girl who prefers to fight fire with fire and never needs an excuse to get physical. She struggles with the changes happening to her body and the strong emotions that come with.
History:One of the first batch of Project Titan's experiments, Phoebe was injected with alien DNA in the womb and grew up under the watchful eye of Dr. Raymond Park and his crew. Like the other children of Project Titan, she is a test tube baby who does not know any of her biological ancestors, although the surrogate who gave birth to her was a CETM employee who was transferred out of The Bay once Phoebe was born.
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Name: Calypso
Position: Project Titan Experiment #04
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: African-American 
Form: Firefly
Power: Charming Light - her light attracts, stuns, and hypnotizes others.
Source of Energy: Magnesium
Personality:Flirty and airy, Calypso stays out of the drama and always seems to have her head in the clouds. Her charismatic personality has helped her negotiate better conditions for her and her "siblings," and Dr. Park at least has taken note of the sharp eyes that lie beneath her rose-colored glasses.
History:The most physically frail of the Project Titan experiments, Calypso plays a support role to the other three in combat situations.
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Name: Metharom, Tirapon
Position: Telepathic Communications Specialist
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Nationality: Thai
Personality:Tirapon is quiet, perceptive and deeply introverted. With the ability to send and receive thoughts, Tirapon recognizes the responsibility that must come with this power, and tends to avoid people for fear of inadvertently breaching their privacy.
History:Tirapon was born in Thailand to a poverty-level family. Ten years ago, when he was eight, Tirapon began developing his telepathic abilities.  At first he used it to play tricks on his classmates and cheat on exams, but then he started using it as a parlor trick at a local Buddhist shrine, claiming a certain level of divinity. News of this spread and eventually the authorities took him in and imprisoned him. He spent a few years in a clandestine research facility before he was paid a visit by Dr. Park. After a few more interviews with Dr. Park, he was freed and allowed a several months-long return to his family before Dr. Park came back for him to enlist him for his important mission with CETM.
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Name: Dr. McCulloch, Helen
Position: Colossus Project Lead, Chair of the Department of Physics
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Nationality: Australian
Personality:Sullen, callous, alienating. Helen is a workaholic who expects the same commitment from her peers and underlings.  A purist, she is skeptical of employing Hyperians and human-monster hybrids for protection and worries about what horrors that kaiju-based research may bring, and therefore feels that her position as a naysayer within CETM is crucial to keep things from getting out of hand.
History:A nuclear physicist working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in the Bay Area, Dr. McCulloch saw the Vega alien's destruction firsthand, losing many of her colleagues and life's work in the process.
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Name: Dr. Yunus, Selim
Position: Chair of the Department of Engineering
Gender: Male
Age: 74
Nationality: Turkish
Personality:Jovial, curious, philosophical. Selim is an accommodating man who collaborates closely with The Bay's defensive infrastructure, working with both Projects Colossus and Myrmidon. The existence of extraterrestrial life challenges his beliefs, but that has only led him to be more welcoming of aliens than many of his peers, as he is curious about how belief systems might develop on other worlds and if there is a higher, unifying, metaphysical truth.
History:Dr. Yunus remembers a world before kaiju and Hyperians, a world that made sense, despite humanity's tendency towards violence and greed. Part of him wonders if the arrival of the kaiju are a good thing, as it seems to have galvanized humanity towards the unified goal of survival. Still, inequality and corruption still exist, so maybe not.
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Name: Anvi Kharbanda
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Nationality: British-Indian
Personality:Warning: Anvi has teeth, and she will bite. From the streets of the UK to the halls of The Bay, Anvi has attacked every challenge, every directive, every insult and every weird look with the same razor-sharp finesse. Anvi is particularly defensive with Ruth-Ann Meyers, another pilot with Project Colossus who joined at the same time. The two quickly became close, and Anvi becomes outright feral when Ruth-Ann is threatened.
History:A street urchin scouted by Project Colossus' recruitment team, Anvi quickly proved her mettle to Dr. McCulloch and scared away the other mech pilots. Her unconventional approach to problems and her refusal to let any opening go unexploited make her an asset against ever-adapting alien attackers.
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Name: Ruth-Ann Meyers
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Nationality: English
Personality:Adorable, clever, sensitive. Ruth-Ann lives in her own world. Her reliance on sensory aids and her discomfort in social situations may put her at a disadvantage on land, but in the suit, she becomes unstoppable. If the mechs didn't require daily maintenance, Ruth-Ann would eat and sleep in hers. She loves nothing more than to hole up inside it like a rabbit in a burrow.
History:A nonverbal gifted student with a hyperfixation on robots and mechanical wonders, Ruth-Ann was put on to Project Colossus as a middle school student and never looked back. Her parents worry about the consequences of war on their little girl, but there's nobody on Earth that doesn't understand the dire straits they're in, and Ruth-Ann has blossomed under some of the best education and technology the planet has to offer.
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Name: Chthonia
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Nationality: American
Personality:Obedient, sharp, arrogant, lost. The only Spartoi that went to completion, the chip implanted in Chthonia's brain has suppressed a lot of her humanity, but made her an incredible pilot, something she clings to as part of her identity.
History:Genetically and cybernetically enhanced, Chthonia was the only completed member of Project Spartoi. Hand-picked by Dr. McCulloch for her obedience, Chthonia demonstrated her ability to endure incredible g-forces and was assigned to pilot Project Colossus' fastest mech.
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Name: Rohrmann, Nils
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Nationality: German
Personality:Timid, overlooked, gullible. Nils is a fish out of water; eager to prove his usefulness while not having the tools to do so. Keenly aware that he is seen as a disappointment, he will do anything to show he belongs.
History:When Nils' telepathy was discovered, Dr. McCulloch demanded he be placed in Project Colossus as Project Titan already had one. She wanted him to test her newly developed brain-machine interface, which would allow him to control the mecha s if it were his own body. While the device worked in concept, Nils was himself too clumsy to put the device to good use and relegated to the back lines.
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Name: Major General Hernandez, Maya
Position: Project Myrmidon Lead, Major General of CETM's Security and Defense Protocol
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Nationality: Hispanic-American
Personality:Strict, disciplined, scrutinizing. The Bay is protected by a special branch of the United States Armed Forces under Maj. Gen. Hernandez's command. It is not only her duty to ensure that the regional defenses aid the CETM Project combatants in their tasks, but also to subdue them should they ever turn on the humans. She does not know if her small army is up to such a task.
History:Maj. Gen. Hernandez was only 11 when she saw the news of the Vega alien attack. Her father, part of the naval fleet stationed in San Diego, mobilized to deal with the threat. A few days later, he was given a military funeral with honors along with all those who died fighting the alien. Maya was part of the first batch of soldiers trained under a new, brutally exhausting, anti-kaiju curriculum and regimen. Though she is grateful to the Hyper Men for defending Earth, she believes that humanity should step up.
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Name: Pelorus
Position: Project Myrmidon Fighter Pilot
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Nationality: American
Personality:Snarky, vindictive, abandoned. Pelorus has a chip on his shoulder and is always trying to prove himself. Slighted at having his prowess overlooked and passed over, he envies that the spotlight is shown upon those he considers lesser and rails against the fact that he is little more than an over glorified delivery boy.
History:Part of a now-defunct sub-project of Myrmidon, Pelorus was the result of Project Spartoi, an attempt to create genetically enhanced supersoldiers that was shut down when Dr. Park's demonstration that kaiju DNA could successfully be incorporated into human cells allowed him to commandeer all of CETM's genetic research resources. Created to fight kaiju, Pelorus hung on to any opportunity stay at CETM, initially hoping that his enhanced reflexes and endurance would allow him to pilot the Colossi, but Dr. McCulloch disliked his personality and chose other pilot candidates instead. In the end, he was given the task of piloting the Pegasus, a transport jet capable of carrying monster-sized items as needed from Myrmidon's Achilles carrier to the combatant Titans and Colossi.
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Name: Calvin "Cal" Cuffman
Position: CETM Support Forces, Medical Division
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Nationality: Irish
Personality:Tired and unassuming, but with a dogged determination to survive. Cal has dragged himself and others out of the jaws of death on many occasions, and he will continue to fight, no matter the odds.
History:A soldier of Project Myrmidon in the early days of the CETM, Cal was put out of commission by an alien attack that caused him to lose both his legs. Afterwards, he began medical training out of both personal interest and as a way to contribute to the war effort.
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Name: Dr. Shi, YuanXue "Yannick"
Position: CETM Support Forces, Psychiatry Division
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Nationality: Chinese-American
Personality:Reluctant, non-committal, overwhelmed. Dr. Shi has been tasked with psychologically profiling and providing emotional support to CETM's combatants, a seemingly monumental and absurd task, which he will tackle as part of his job, but his perceived odds of success can be plainly seen on his face. Given that some kaiju in the past have also shown an ability to control minds, he worries if he will be the first to be manipulated.
History:Dr. Shi is something of an average Joe. He became a psychiatrist and specialized in helping people of the older generation come to terms with the existence of kaiju, while helping children traumatized by the Vega alien attack. His work around The Bay earned him a place at CETM, who had, much to his horror, recruited (or created) many young people to be combatants.
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Name: Omniac
Position: CETM Information Network's SSS-Class Artificial Intelligence Administrator
Gender: Non-gender, Male
Age: 50
Personality:Utilitarian, pedantic, restricted. Development of the city-wide supercomputer known as Omniac, the brainchild of a collaboration between several Silicon Valley based tech companies, began long before the arrival of Hyper Man, but has been commandeered by CETM to run the fortress city of The Bay. Over time, it has developed a human-like sentience, and has been given a physical, mechanical but human-like body with which to interface with humans. Though Omniac has massive control over The Bay, he worries what his creators will do to him if he makes a mistake or oversteps his authority.
History:Omniac was originally created as the Internet 2.0, using AI as the underlying infrastructure, but when Silicon Valley was destroyed along with much of the physical components that Omniac depended on to run, it fled into the web like a rogue, AI virus, but was tracked down by CETM and put to work.
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Name: Atlas
Position: Project Titan Experiment #01
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Nationality: Chinese-American
Form: Stag Beetle

Power: Hard Shell - can absorb and is impervious to all damage for a period of time.
Source of Energy: Sugar
Personality: Like his favorite food, Atlas is sweet. His timid nature and desire to get along with others make him quite the pushover, but the researchers have come to appreciate his genuine kindness (especially when Phoebe and Daphnis are fighting for the thousandth time). 
History: The first Project Titan experiment, Atlas was a moderate success. His skills and powers are not as varied and developed as the other children, but what he does, he does well.
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Name: Daphnis
Position: Project Titan Experiment #02
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: German-American
Form: Mantis

Power(s): Sharp Limbs - Her arms and legs are deadly sharp and can be used as weapons. Camouflage - she can change aspects of her appearance to blend in to the environment.  
Source of Energy: Living things
Personality: The poster child of Project Titan, Daphnis has a big head and a tendency to lord herself over others, leading to frequent conflicts with Phoebe. She's smart, adaptable, and aggressive. 
History: Daphnis has exceeded expectations in every category of her development, and Project Titan has especially high hopes for her use in combat against extraterrestrials, although her skills lie more in espionage than all-out battle.
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Name: Phoebe
Position: Project Titan Experiment #03
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: Greek-American
Form: Moth

Power: Flame Ray - after absorbing enough heat energy, she expels it in a powerful blast. 
Source of Energy: Heat
Personality: Alien DNA or not, Phoebe has always been a handful. She's a loud, brash, headstrong girl who prefers to fight fire with fire and never needs an excuse to get physical. She struggles with the changes happening to her body and the strong emotions that come with. 
History: One of the first batch of Project Titan's experiments, Phoebe was injected with alien DNA in the womb and grew up under the watchful eye of Dr. Raymond Park and his crew. Like the other children of Project Titan, she is a test tube baby who does not know any of her biological ancestors, although the surrogate who gave birth to her was a CETM employee who was transferred out of The Bay once Phoebe was born. 
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Name: Calypso
Position: Project Titan Experiment #04
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: African-American 
Form: Firefly

Power: Charming Light - her light attracts, stuns, and hypnotizes others.
Source of Energy: Magnesium
Personality: Flirty and airy, Calypso stays out of the drama and always seems to have her head in the clouds. Her charismatic personality has helped her negotiate better conditions for her and her "siblings," and Dr. Park at least has taken note of the sharp eyes that lie beneath her rose-colored glasses. 
History: The most physically frail of the Project Titan experiments, Calypso plays a support role to the other three in combat situations. 
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Name: Calvin "Cal" Cuffman
Position: CETM Support Forces, Medical Division
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Nationality: Irish
Personality: Tired and unassuming, but with a dogged determination to survive. Cal has dragged himself and others out of the jaws of death on many occasions, and he will continue to fight, no matter the odds.
History: A soldier of Project Myrmidon in the early days of the CETM, Cal was put out of commission by an alien attack that caused him to lose both his legs. Afterwards, he began medical training out of both personal interest and as a way to contribute to the war effort.   
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Name: Anvi Kharbanda
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Nationality: British-Indian
Personality: Warning: Anvi has teeth, and she will bite. From the streets of the UK to the halls of The Bay, Anvi has attacked every challenge, every directive, every insult and every weird look with the same razor-sharp finesse. Anvi is particularly defensive with Ruth-Ann Meyers, another pilot with Project Colossus who joined at the same time. The two quickly became close, and Anvi becomes outright feral when Ruth-Ann is threatened.
History: A street urchin scouted by Project Colossus' recruitment team, Anvi quickly proved her mettle to Dr. McCulloch and scared away the other mech pilots. Her unconventional approach to problems and her refusal to let any opening go unexploited make her an asset against ever-adapting alien attackers.
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Name: Ruth-Ann Meyers
Position: Project Colossus Mech Pilot
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Nationality: English
Personality: Adorable, clever, sensitive. Ruth-Ann lives in her own world. Her reliance on sensory aids and her discomfort in social situations may put her at a disadvantage on land, but in the suit, she becomes unstoppable. If the mechs didn't require daily maintenance, Ruth-Ann would eat and sleep in hers. She loves nothing more than to hole up inside it like a rabbit in a burrow.
History: A nonverbal gifted student with a hyperfixation on robots and mechanical wonders, Ruth-Ann was put on to Project Colossus as a middle school student and never looked back. Her parents worry about the consequences of war on their little girl, but there's nobody on Earth that doesn't understand the dire straits they're in, and Ruth-Ann has blossomed under some of the best education and technology the planet has to offer.
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Important vehicles and mechanical weapons of CETM:


Name: Talos
Pilot: Anvi Kharbanda
Role: Close-range bruiser
Core History:The Hyper Core was salvaged from Hyper Man's damaged vessel and reverse-engineered to develop all subsequent cores. The first colossus, Talos, was built around the Hyper Core, taking advantage of its unique 'graviton sheath' ability. The core contains an unusually advanced AI.
Capabilities:The 'graviton sheath' allows the Hyper Core to coat whatever is connected to it in a field of increased durability, making Talos far stronger than any man-made machine has any right to be, giving Talos the ability to slug it out with kaiju on even footing. Still, the graviton sheath is not invincible, and overuse can drain the core's power, so a large scythe-like weapon was forged for Talos to aid in the destruction of its enemies.


Name: Galatea
Pilot: Ruth-Ann Meyers
Role: Tactical specialist
Core History:The Pygmalion Core was the first man-made colossus core, though it was designed with the help of the supercomputer Omniac. While it did not reach high levels of power output, thanks to the input of Omniac, it generated a high level of computational power, facilitating the control of many subunits. Still, a pilot with the ability to control multiple flying drones needed to be found to take advantage of this ability.
Capabilities:Galatea can control eleven drones installed with different 'elemental' weapons, including flamethrowers, cryogenic gas emitters, corrosive acid sprayers, etc. in order to search the enemy kaiju for weak points and to exploit them. Galatea also acts in a supportive role, capable of forming the drones into a shield, or attaching the drones to a colossus as extra armor. Galatea is also equipped with a beam rifle and beam sabers, as physical weapons are too heavy for a man-made machine to easily wield without the graviton sheath.



Name: Aetos
Pilot: Chthonia
Role: Precision-strike, guerilla combatant
Core History:Building off of the Pygmalion Core, a focus was made on increasing power output for a single unit. The Prometheus Core was created, specializing in propulsion and speed. Realizing that a humanoid shape was not ideal for utilizing the core's capabilities, a transforming frame was created. However, the g-forces generated by this colossus required a superhuman pilot.
Capabilities:The fastest of the four colossi, Aetos is flight-capable and can dart in and out of combat, overwhelming the opponent with rapid, precise strikes using a mix of beam and physical blades.




Name: Pandora
Pilot: Nils Rohrmann
Role: Artillery
Core History:Last to be developed, the Hephaestus Core was designed to provide power for newly developed energy weapons, weaker versions of which were provided to some of the other colossi. The Hephaestus Core was a proof of concept, which ultimately made more sense to be placed on a battleship to power large beam cannons, but a large, clumsy colossus was built around it instead due to Dr. McCulloch's reluctance to part with her technology.
Capabilities:Pandora relies on its back-mounted beam cannons and beam bazooka to rain destruction on its enemies from a distance. It is protected by a thick layer of armor as well as energy shields. It has the ability to purge its armor, lightening itself to escape when speed is preferable to defense. It is hypothesized that Dr. McCulloch designed this function with a different purpose that has since been scrapped.



Name: Achilles
Role: Aircraft Carrier/Capital Ship
Capabilities:Mainly provides support to the combatants of the other projects through artillery shelling and coordinated fighter craft assault. Can carry mecha- and kaiju-sized equipment, adding to combatant versatility.


Name: Pegasus
Pilot: Pelorus
Role: Giant equipment transport fighter craft
Capabilities:Carries missiles and vulcans, which do very little against kaiju. The Pegasus' main function is to bring optional equipment from the Achilles to the combatants of the other projects.

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