In the early 21st century, humanity was given the answer to one of its longest held questions: Are we Alone in the Universe?
A runaway experiment at a university in northern Florida resulted in a sundering of reality, tearing open portals in the fabric of space itself. They looked like mirrors, floating in the air and oddly serene in appearance.

They spread across the surface of the planet, connecting Earth and humanity with other worlds across the galaxy - perhaps even beyond.
Within days, these worlds affected human life and safety. Hostile environments and life forms began to spread their influence, causing a danger to the lives and well-being of the people of the various countries and communities where the mirrors - as they had come to be known - had come to rest. The situation was already public knowledge, as the spread of the mirrors was random and had not been able to be tracked, and the sheer scale of the destruction wrought in the wake of the experiment gone wrong - especially since it was at a civilian facility in the middle of an urban area - had not been missed.

The worst was yet to come, as by the end of the first month at the original rift in space at the Florida site, the place becoming known as ‘Point Zero’, the fabric of space tore even greater. It became a yawning void that grew until it was large enough that it stretched high into the air.
Through this rift in space, marched an army. They quickly overwhelmed the forces in place, monitoring the area, and expanded into the surrounding cities, towns, villages and countryside. Their intent seemed obvious, as they stripped and consumed the surrounding resources, tearing buildings apart with automated drones and machinery, while bringing through more from the other side. Everything they consumed went toward reinforcing their positions and numbers. They started to capture and enslave the people as they spread out further, while building an ever increasing tower at the point of their origin, that seemed to have control of the rift, interacting with it and taming its’ wild energies.
Soon, within weeks, other mirrors in other parts of the world started to expand in the same way, and more of these same aliens emerged, acting in the same way.

It quickly became apparent over the months that followed that no one nation on Earth could hold them alone. While human weapons worked against them, the casualties taken in such efforts to fight them in both lives and materiel were unsustainable, and worked only as a holding action. Only overwhelming firepower and numbers seemed to do anything to hold them, and even then; it was to buy time - as there always seemed to be more of them, as they consumed resources, both non-organic and otherwise, to manufacture more of their own. Especially disturbing was the revelation that their ‘line troops’, their basic soldiers and fighting forces, were surgically and chemically altered, brain-washed beings and even humans that had been captured earlier.
As they advanced, the aliens, having absorbed many humans and their technology into their own ranks and forces, started to issue broadcasts of their intentions: the occupation of Earth and the integration of its resources and people into the Totality as part of their Empire, to serve their ‘beneficial expansion’. With them, the enemy finally had an official name.
Messages fitfully began to come from those trapped behind the advancing wall; the Totality had occupied the cities and lands they advanced, moving people into contained settlements and putting them to work as slaves in building more of their armies and producing more weapons, equipment and devices; processing the consumed resources, and other such menial tasks. Some were inducted into their occupation forces as police for the others, and seemingly indoctrinated by brainwashing, and by chemical and surgical alteration to be more ‘compliant’. And any resistance discovered was crushed, ruthlessly, and totally in brutal police actions.

As these hostile forces spread out further and further, the situation grew more and more desperate. It wasn’t long until the use of nuclear weapons came into the equation, and it was Russia that utilised theirs first, as the portal that had opened in Eastern Europe and the area occupied by these hostile aliens threatened more and more of their territory and people.
The nuclear strike halted the advance - for several weeks, at least… and then the invaders responded with their own powerful weapons, something that tore matter and reality itself asunder and obliterated a massive swathe of the opposing forces.

The first break came almost a year into the conflict, when through another of the portals, contact was made with other sapient, sentient alien races. It was a shock, and there was miscommunication at first. But soon enough, it was realised that they had a common foe.
This loose alliance of species called themselves the Coalition. Composed of races that The Totality had already invaded and either fought and defeated or were still fighting against, they were the interstellar resistance.
They were fighting to retain their very existence as independent races from the Totality’s empire, and their assimilation of their racial identity, culture, and individuality and reclaim their freedom from the oppressive and dominating influence and power of The Totality.
Their worlds having been stripped and processed for resources and their peoples having been enslaved and consumed to further the forces of the interstellar empire, working as cogs in their machine, components in part of the much larger Totality system. They had been fighting the same resistance tactics and striking minor blows against their oppressors for decades, or even longer. They had knowledge of how they worked; of their technology and how it worked, and of their weapons and their various troops and forces, and how to fight them effectively.



Humanity was still free; they still retained much of the control of their world, and were still able to manufacture weapons and technology en masse. They still had access to other worlds freely that were not occupied by the Totality’s forces, and had managed to slow down the advances of The Totality - even if briefly.
By combining their knowledge with humanities’ resources, as well as advanced aspects of their own indigenous technologies, they could forge more effective weapons and organise a strategy to fight back.
But all the while, the battle still ranged worldwide, and countries and governments had had to band together to even stand a chance, but constant frictions and disagreements made this difficult. Some powers and nations refused to work with others, or to co-ordinate their strategies and share their knowledge, or act on what had been shared.

Those nations that were allies and had made peaceful contact with the friendly extra-terrestrial Coalition carefully orchestrated a plan. Already, information provided by their new allies had given them more success in battle, managing to strike several critical victories with less loss of life, and even turn back assaults.
But this had all been buying time for new weapons and systems to be in place, and for plans to reach full fruition.
It took months of planning, but eventually; three years after the first contact with The Totality, and eighteen months after first contact with the Coalition, the operation commenced.
Utilising their new weapons systems and daring tactics and strategy, the allied forces co-ordinated a massive attack on the monolithic tower at the centre of The Totality’s held territory in Florida. The battle was tremendous, and involved members of militaries from numerous nations, and even races, as well as hundreds of non-military resistance fighters, people who had fought back during the spreading occupation.



The battle raged for hours, but the end result was that the Monolith at the centre of the occupied area was destroyed, collapsing from its tremendous height - much taller than any previously existing building or structure on Earth - in a massively destructive event. The resulting release of exotic energies caused repercussions for the rest of the portal network across Earth’s surface. Some opened wider, some closed, and some were altered and shifted.
The success of the attack, paused the advances of The Totality around the world. Some of them were cut off from their homeworld or other worlds, and the armies facing them used the opportunity to push back. In many cases, they regained territory, though others were not so lucky, and faced further defeat.
But in all cases, the expansion stopped. For the first time, an enemy of The Totality had stopped them in their tracks, dealing them a blow that they had noticed.
The world - and many other worlds - held their breath as they waited for the next step, the next act in the ongoing story.
And elsewhere, other eyes were drawn to this event, summoned by the energies unleashed by the disruption in reality, and the blow against such a powerful force. And they took an interest…

Humanity joined the Coalition in full; at least, the allied nations that had fought alongside them did. Some nations stubbornly and petulantly refused, citing all manner of reasons and excuses for their own self-interest. The presence of alien life became an accepted part of life - and many went on to try and find out how they could take advantage of it, and use it to their benefit.
All the while, many still lived under the oppressive regime of the Totality, in cities and communities still occupied by the empire and its’ forces, biding their time and communicating with the Coalition as they acted as a resistance - and avoided informants and the ‘Pacification Forces’ of the Totality.

It was clear that this situation couldn’t last for long. The Totality would always be expanding, and it wouldn’t be long before they went into action again. And while the Coalition had managed to catch a break, it had been by the narrowest of margins, with much loss of life and with a great risk and an even greater deal of luck.
If they were going to win, they’d need more than luck and risk. They would need more and better weapons, more information, more knowledge, and more advantages over their enemy. And besides The Totality, there were other issues: hostile flora and fauna that spilled through the portals, other alien races or organizations that were causing issues, and even internal conflicts to take care of. All of these were things that took resources from the bigger battle and issue at hand, but still needed to be dealt with.
The Coalition had to get organised, put to work its’ best people for a fighting chance for all their races to not just survive, but to win and defeat their enemies.

That was six months ago, and six months after operation: Shattered Mirror, where the tower finally fell.
Now, the first of the new units are about to take to the field, and that’s where this story begins, and the next chapter of history is about to start.

Earth is the current front line in the battle, the contested ground where The Totality has been held in check for the first time in a long time, thanks to humanities’ perseverance, ingenuity and creativity. While the other races of the Coalition have fought long and hard, their worlds are already occupied or destroyed.
Earth and humanity have been comparatively lucky. Nations across the globe are still free, their people living day-to-day lives without the oppressive presence of The Totality hanging over their lives, dictating their routine and crushing their freedom to live.
Some have elected to work willingly with the aliens, turning on their fellow humans as enforcers, willingly subjecting themselves to alteration in exchange for some measure power, freedom, and quality of life and comparative luxury, while their fellow humans struggle under the brutal, repressive regime enforced by The Totality, worked relentlessly and endlessly, subjected to endless propaganda.

But even for those that are fortunate enough to be free, the world is irrevocably changed: humans know that they are no longer alone in the universe. Earth now harbours non-human residents, regularly interacting with them in their day-to-day lives. Non-human, advanced technologies have made their way into various aspects of life, changing the way that many aspects of life function. Human society and culture have benefitted from access to off-world resources and knowledge, relieving many of the pressures it faced only mere years earlier - despite the ever-present threat from the Totality and from other worlds.
Mirrors opened all across the world in the wake of the Florida Incident and the following conflicts which have been dubbed the Mirror Wars, and the alien flora and fauna that have come through have led directly to loss of life, or other hardships and struggles for those living near them, or affected by them.



The occupied areas still under control of The Totality are in Eastern Europe; centered on the region around Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. A large area of Central South China and bordering parts of Burma, India and Bangladesh and, a portion of South America between the borders of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. They had begun to open a Mirror rift in Africa, but it collapsed after the aftershocks of Op: Shattered Mirror. All of the occupied areas are notable by the towering monolithic citadels erected by the Totality at the centre of the occupation zones that enclose and control the Mirrors at their heart. Surrounding settlements seem to be slowly and methodically consumed and demolished to further contribute to the construction of these mighty edifices, and vast webs of power lines and other cables connect them to their surroundings, for unknown purposes. Pacification Corps personnel patrol the surrounding cities, that have become hollow, shells of themselves and turned into half-abandoned ghettos for those forced to work in Totality facilities, while their helicopters and observation drones patrol endlessly, monitoring for any signs of rebellion and uprising.

Mirrors are open across the world, and in a variety of countries. Not all of them are dangerous, and not every country has one - or more. Not all of them are in known locations - Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and several other countries have refused to disclose if any Mirrors are present on their territories, and there are possibilities that others remain secret, hidden away in remote locations, or kept secret by those that discovered them in an attempt to use them for their own gain. Such things have resulted in disaster before, such as when a Mirror kept hidden in a rural village in Mexico under the control of a criminal cartel resulted in an outbreak of a parasitic fungal infection that turned the villages’ residents into zombie-like creatures that spread the fungus further.
Other such incidents have come about, such as corporations trying to retain control over Mirrors to exploit the worlds on the other side for resources.

The various races of the Coalition have integrated somewhat into society as well. While they are not present in huge numbers worldwide, within nations that are part of the Coalition and work alongside humans, they have settled down. Others have been given space to live on Earth as refugees from the Totality, and started to work alongside humans and become parts of their communities, slowly but surely. Some people from these races have started to adopt human phrases, mannerisms, and culture, finding it fascinating and exciting. Often with somewhat comedic or amusing results for onlookers.
Some aspects of their cultures have in turn begun to influence humans - slang phrases, terms, and concepts - especially expletives - have started to appear in common conversation, along with the various technological innovations.

The Coalition itself is a military and political alliance between certain nations of Earth as well as several non-human species.
They are united in their aim to stand against The Totality and secure freedom from their oppression and control, and for the people and worlds under their control. This is part of the military aspect, with members of all races involved fighting shoulder-to-shoulder in mixed units and formations, with a mix of technology and equipment jointly produced and utilised by all involved.
The organization behind the ‘active’ side is also composed of all involved; with joint research and development, intelligence, planning, logistics and other aspects all being through joint planning and collaboration.
As humanity has the greatest resources and ability to contribute, they currently hold the deciding vote in most affairs, and in the allocation of resources. However, this is a point of contention at times, especially with how much the other races have suffered and how much they have already lost.

The Earth nations involved in the Coalition are (though, this is not an exhaustive list):

• The United States
• The United Kingdom
• Canada
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Bolivia
• Argentina
• Peru
• Chile
• South Korea
• India
• Australia
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• The EU Countries
• Israel
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• The Phillippines

Some other nations have not become full members, but supply materiel and logistical support, or contribute small numbers of personnel in limited capacities.

The Totality are an interstellar empire. They are not a singular species, but a union of numerous beings, all of whom have specific roles or ‘castes’ within the greater whole of the Totality, and with a chain of command or seniority among these various beings.
The ultimate head of the Totality where the power is wielded is unknown, with few of their highest-ranking members seen. They appear to rely highly on Artificial Intelligence and computer systems to organise their forces, and this is in concert with extensive use of cybernetic implantation.

The variety between the different species ‘utilised’ by the Totality is vast. At the base of the organization are the wholly mechanical drones used for tracking, observation and surveillance. They work in concert with other units as part of their operations as a whole; though have little to no offensive ability themselves.
Above them are the least augmented and most basic troops; the Pacification Forces, or Pacification Corps. A form of internal police force, they are minimally augmented and enhanced, primarily only to enable them to connect with the Totality’s networks, but otherwise retaining much of their personality and character. However, these augmentations and implants slowly brainwash and alter their minds and personalities. The Pacification Corps have little access to heavy weaponry and are primarily for riot control and urban pacification, using small arms and other such crowd control weapons, lightly armoured, utilitarian vehicles, as well as faceless, intimidating riot armour.
As personnel advance throughout the ranks of the Pacification Forces, they receive more and more augmentations, until they are thoroughly under the sway of the Totality - at which point, they enter the ranks of the Suppression Forces.

The standing army of the Totality, the Suppression Forces are bonded with their armour for life support and enhancement of their physical abilities, along with integrating communications and other sensory systems into them. Suppression Forces soldiers still retain some individuality and personality, but their compliance is assured by the extensive alteration of their bodies and minds. Suppression Forces soldiers have access to military-grade weaponry and heavy vehicles and aircraft, adapted from designs and equipment from the races they have suppressed and dominated, while incorporating other advanced technology such as energy weapons and other devices.

The other side of this augmentation, however, is the brutal and horrifying process of creating Drones. Such beings are mere functionary creatures, carrying out menial tasks like robots. Drones have much of their body crudely amputated and replaced with crude cybernetics, with their brains and organs being supplemented or supplanted by technological devices. They have no individual personalities or character, and very little reaction to external stimuli, seemingly being controlled by the Totalities’ AI. Sometimes when heavily damaged or subjected to accidents, this control slips, and the creatures express nothing but visceral, instinctual emotional reactions, primarily in the way of pain, due to their horrifically crude augmentations.

The majority of the heavier, more powerful and elite forces though are Synths. Somewhere between machines and living beings, the line is hard to determine. They are technically by definition cyborgs, as they have living organic tissue that is intertwined with artificial systems and components, and neither can function without the other. However, the organic part of the biotechnological beings are engineered specifically for the role they inhabit, extensively modified and engineered from creatures long ago dominated by the Totality, their original forms long lost to time, and now part of the ‘functional’ ranks and organization of the interstellar empire. Synths serve particular roles and functions, much like particular vehicles, weapons, and equipment are devised and employed for specific functions in other cultures and societies. Their individual intelligence is hard to determine, as they are so heavily intertwined with machine components and thus the Totality’s networks and control systems.

Above those Synths are the Supervisors; the most alien of aliens encountered. Non-humanoid, slug-like beings that are covered with cybernetic implants and capable of imposing and terrifying feats of mental power, such as telekinesis and telepathy. Their cybernetically enhanced bodies can project forcefields, and the cybernetic limbs they have are powerful enough to crush limbs, while their telekinesis can crush metal and tear apart structures.
Fighting a Supervisor relies on a lot of co-ordination and firepower, and a healthy dose of planning and strategy, or blind luck and daring.

The number of planets under the control of the Totality is unknown, as is their point of origin. Whether they have a fleet of space vessels is equally unknown. Their ultimate goal, beyond ‘expansion and sustainment’ of their Empire is also unknown. Much of their language used for orders, doctrines and strategy treats the Empire as a whole like an ‘organism’, with threats as ‘infections’, further reflecting the blurred line between technology and biology within the Totality as a whole.

Their level of technology is much in advance of Humanities’ in many aspects, but it is hard to put a firm cap on it, as they use such a variety of technologies.
While they possess access to energy weapons, forcefields, and the control and regulation of Mirror portals, as well as using exotic power sources and generation; they also use recognisable technology, devices and machinery. Gunship helicopters, boats, tanks, armoured vehicles, projectile weapons and robots.
Their ability to manipulate genetics and meld the technological and biological is incredibly advanced, yet at other times seems incredibly crude and brutal, such as in the case of Drones.
This use of technology seems to be in a tiered system of proportional response to external threats and challenges, and the greatest and most advanced types of their technology are as yet unknown.

Once your character sheet is completed, please post it in the OOC for review and approval.
Once it has been approved by the GM, please post in the Characters tab.
Please follow the formatting as shown below, and remove any comments/tips/etc after the heading titles.

Name: The name of your character

Nickname: Any nicknames they may have acquired (optional)

Age: Minimum early 20’s. Maximum equivalent of later middle-age
(Optional - date of birth)

Species: Human, or one of the other Coalition species.

Appearance: A combination of an image and a short text description is preferred. Anime or illustration-style artworks are preferred, rather than realistic photography.
If you cannot find an image, a ‘close enough’ with a more elaborate text description is fine.

Personality: A short paragraph or two that describes the way your character relates to others, and their general emotional and psychological outlook on life. This is important for how well they will fit in with the rest of the group. This does not need to be exhaustive, more an overview.

History: A short personal history of key events that explain or illustrate their experience and suitability for inclusion in a SPEAR team. Does not need to be extensive or exhaustive in detail; a bullet-pointed list of key events is ideal.

Key Skills & Abilities: What makes your character useful to the SPEAR Team; are they an expert marksman, a leading scientist in their field, a gifted mechanic or engineer, a demolitions expert, a master hacker, or some other such unique function and talent that is beyond or aside from any 'special' abilities they have.

Special Abilities: If you character possesses any abilities above the norm (for their species) or any cybernetic enhancements, they can be included here. If you are unsure about abilities, please discuss it with the GM and other players, as this is a tricky area to determine how much is too much.

Personal Weapons: Any usual weaponry your character uses. Their MAS weapons can be listed elsewhere; this is only for personal arms. Real-world weapons are preferred, and you may list their attachments and modifications too. Nothing too obscure or vintage - they are meant to be practical fighters. And they do not need to be a walking arsenal. Obscure and bizarre melee weapons will also be rejected.

Personal Equipment: anything else they carry that is relevant to their potential tasks on a mission, or that you think is notable. Note that mission-specific equipment does not need to be included here - this is just personal things that they carry on a normal basis. Some assumption is also expected, such as standard-issue gear like body armour, holsters, spare ammunition, field rations, a personal medical kit, water supply, and so on and so forth.

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MAS details:
An MAS has - as discussed above - modular weapon systems, that can be equipped on its’ hardpoints.
These can be swapped out between missions. A list of all options will be provided in the 0th OOC post, along with the basic details of the MAS Suit that is used by the SPEAR unit.
Your loadout can be posted in the OOC for each mission. This also extends to hand-carried weapons, which can be swapped in the same way that your character can carry different weapons in their hands.

Every character will use the same base model of MAS with different weapons or equipment depending on the operators’ preferences and the mission objectives. However, characters can customise their MAS’ appearance with personal logos, colours, or other such ‘tweaks’ and customisations - within reason.

Name: Feanulde Naraciel

Nickname: Any nicknames they may have acquired (optional)

Age: 107

Species: Light Elf
Appearance: Feanulde is a fair-skinned individual with hair and eyes colored in a light green tone. Large eyes and rounded cheeks give her, much to her chagrin, a bit of a babyface, a state not helped by her utter lack of ability to control her own facial expression.

In what some might believe is an attempt to compensate for this, she tends to dress in heavier clothing that covers her from chin to toe, tending toward a sort of stylistically harsh aesthetic with stark lines and only small amounts of color. She would not be caught dead in a dress, at least as far as anyone knows. Feanulde is clearly uncomfortable in more casual clothing and tends to look awkward if actually dressed for combat, and she is quite aware of this.

Personality: Feanulde is the very picture of the stereotypical vain prodigy: high-strung, perfectionistic, and irritable, with a razor-sharp wit and tongue both. The elf takes her anxieties to nearly paranoid levels, being a notoriously easy startle and quite literally looking over her shoulder at every opportunity. She dislikes chaos and superfluousness, seeming disconcerted by the idea that something might not have a distinct purpose.

Despite her many flaws, she is unfailingly dependable, always accomplishing anything she promises unless it proves to be impossible. Additionally, while quick to criticize, she is equally quick to recognize another person’s expertise in a given field and works smoothly when tasks have been delegated properly.

History:

• Born in Totality-held territory off Earth as youngest of three siblings
• Noted as gifted early in life
• Attended educational program/college-equivalent for biotech engineering & communications
• Moved into advanced training program for military engineers
• Fled after partial completion of said training program
• Went into hiding for several years before encounter with Coalition forces
• Volunteered with Coalition military
• Selected for SPEAR team after training period due to knowledge of enemy workings

Key Skills & Abilities:

• Comms & code-breaking specialist
• ECM/E-war expert
• Excellent knowledge of enemy capabilities, weak points, etc
• Field engineering

Special Abilities: Feanulde’s electrical manipulation abilities are very well-developed. While not exceptionally powerful by most metrics, she excels in fine control, able to carefully modulate output frequencies, currents, and voltages. Given sufficient knowledge of the target, a moment of time to calibrate, and a bit of luck, her abilities can even be used to induce fairly specific malfunctions in electronically controlled devices, such as opening a locked door or force-restarting a directed energy weapon.

Personal Weapons:

• FN P90 personal defense weapon
• FN Five-seveN handgun
• Air rifle modified to fire fragile payloads
• Miniaturized electronic devices for various (usually intrusion) purposes
• Utility knife

Personal Equipment:

• Field repair kit for MAS systems (heavy)
• Designer earmuffs
• Multitool
• Pebble
• Extra screwdriver set
• As many half-inch and 13mm sockets as she can reasonably fit into a pocket before she starts jangling when she walks

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Name: Kerris Dagorath

Nickname: Slim, Sleek, Salamander (Both the myth and the amphibian, at once.), and other references to her height and general build.

Age: 106, considered a young adult

Species: Dranfel

Appearance:

Starting with the image above (Kerris being the one on the LEFT), you can tell why they started with 'Slim' and 'Sleek'. Kerris is an offshoot or subspecies of Dranfel, like her brother. Her scales are more subtle than normal, making her more flexible in movement and in tail use. Her balance and poise would jawdrop an Olympic Gymist, but we'll get to that later. Dranfel like her and Maxon lack the muzzle, in favor of instead a sloping visage from the forehead and shape of the nose. The eyes seem to glow faintly, though that is likely due to a higher-degree of light intake from being evolved from a nocturnal subspecies. They absolutely do not glow in the dark. Kerris' attire is a combination of Dranfel-made and human-made attire, as some of the things do seem to fit, though she is seven feet tall, not including the horns. The horns do make this difficult, sometimes, but at least her toe-claws a subtle enough that they don't tear through her boots. (Essentially, her arm bracers, shin guards, and belt are Dranfel and the rest is human-made clothing.) Out of the two of them, she is the nimble-fast one that takes the enemy down quickly and even quietly, though she is not against a bit of the ultra-violence.

Personality:

In certain ways, she and her brother are certainly alike. They both value strength and fighting prowess, like any Dranfel. They like new and shiny weapons to try out and maintain, as it is as much a fun pasttime as it is something of practical purpose. They both enjoy a certain level of classic humor, with a preference in wordplay and physical comedy. However, they are quite different, in reality. It's not just the physical differences. Kerris is like a sheet of ice over a volcano, like the one in Iceland. She likes to maintain the placid calm as a form of control and a means of keeping others guessing so that she does not become predictable. This is usually so that the enemy cannot goad her into making a mistake and that she may maintain focus in the heat of the mission, but it also prevents her from just crushing an irritable pain in the ass' face with her bare hands, especially if that person happened to be a higher-ranking officer. It is often difficult to get her to admit that someone is necessarily superior to her or Maxon unless they show great promise. It is possible to impress Kerris, and the most you have to do to be at least acceptable to her is not deliberately annoy her...because she WILL give you clear warning not to do that...and then take matters into her own hands if you do.

History:

• Kerris and Maxon were born and raised from the same clutch of eggs on the Dranfel Colony Planet, Makintol, in the Nightsong Continent.
• Due to the long nights and heavy of the area, Dranfel of this world were equipped with or born with the genes of the Nocturnum Subspecies to adapt to the darkness.
• Both of them were raised in the traditions of their people and the knowledge of the homeworld, but at a young age would soon experience the hardships of war...when the Totality attacked.
• Their family dead and Makintol in the grips of constant battle with the enemy, the two siblings became war orphans, forced to survive on their own amidst the terror and bloodshed...but as they were Dranfel, they began to thrive in combat.
• Kerris began to develop herself in stealth and secrecy, the deft move and the cuttthroat attack. She would kill, sabotage, create situations that would tip matters in the favor of the Coalition.
• She was a survivor and a cunning warrior, taking from her foe whenever she could, whether it be life or resources, and living on the battlefield, like her brother.
• In the end, she was found and adopted by the Coalition itself when an evacuation of the planet was ordered, to continue her education and training with them.
• She would, in time, be inducted into SPEAR alongside her brother, whom she preferred to work, playing her speed and cunning against his strength and endurance in battle.

Key Skills & Abilities:

• Experience in Assassin-Style Combat from her pre-SPEAR days, working best in speed, stealth, and cunning strikes.
• Trained in Sabotage, Espionage, and Jury-Rigging. This may include planting explosives.
• Trained in marksmanship and melee fighting, well-rounded in both from Coalition Training and experience.
• Able to pilot ground vehicles (including MAS Suits), stemming from her past involvement in stealing them.

Special Abilities:

Nocturnal Predator - Naturally suited to stalking, fighting, and hunting in the night, with an edge on seeing through darkness.

Personal Weapons:

• Monomolecular Bladed Tonfa (Pair), based upon the original versatile weapon, but with blades. (Still waiting on the energy version.)
• M41A Pulse Rifle
• Supressed .45 Magnum (Current Model), her equivalent of a small suppressed pistol.

Personal Equipment:

• Multitool and Wires for jury-rigging or sabotage.
• Rangefinder binoculars with flare compensation zoom function installed.
• Pebble
• Strips of meat jerky (Various)

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Name: Maxon Dagorath

Nickname: Tank, Monster, Mr. Deathclaw

Age: 106, considered a young adult

Species: Dranfel

Appearance:

Using the picture above as reference (him being the one on the RIGHT), Maxon is clearly the more robust of the two. Though he is shorter than Kerris by a foot, his stance sometimes has him even lower to the ground, being one that has mastered his size, shape, and center of gravity to become either an unstoppable force or an immovable object, dependent on his inclination. Like Kerris, he has more subtle scaling and a lack of muzzling, with a curious eye-glow in the light that's typical of one who has evolved from a nocturnal form of the Dranfel's ancestors. Maxon's core body tends to grow more rigid in scaling, however, probably due to a higher level of testosterone in his system. Maxon's attire is a more traditional Dranfel armored vestment with reinforced open-toe allow boots and metallic gauntlets made to fit his more-pronounced clawed hands. His build makes it next-to-impossible to fit anything human on him that would also be practical, so he doesn't go for the comfort level that his sister enjoys. Of course, it also offers more protection over the amount of punishment that their bodies can take, but then he was always the one who could crush an enemy by hand.

Personality:

There are some similarities between Maxon and his sister. Though they are hardened fighters, to a degree, they also care about one another, as family should. Very few arguments erupt between the two, and it seems to always settle, as though there were an unspoken agreement never to escalate any disagreement too far. There is also a certain quirk about the two that may be personal upbringing or may be some exterior influence, but there is a certain classical edge to their mode of speech, like listening to a monologue or conversation from a Legacy of Kain game. That said, there are several stand-out things that separate Maxon from Kerris in mannerisms. For instance, though he is the same age - same generation of eggs - Maxon views himself as the 'big brother' type. His sister is just as capable as he is, but there is a fraternal instinct there that just won't quit. He is generally easy-going with others, as long as they don't make fun of him. Then, his temperment will show a clear sign of anger, which is your glaring hint to STOP. Maxon may share in his sister's gift for retort, but he prefers to enable somebody else's humility first, and THEN say something witty. Naturally, he saves his TRUE rage and violence for the enemy, so that any normal person crossing him knows that he was going easy on them.

History:

• Kerris and Maxon were born and raised from the same clutch of eggs on the Dranfel Colony Planet, Makintol, in the Nightsong Continent.
• Due to the long nights and heavy of the area, Dranfel of this world were equipped with or born with the genes of the Nocturnum Subspecies to adapt to the darkness.
• Both of them were raised in the traditions of their people and the knowledge of the homeworld, but at a young age would soon experience the hardships of war...when the Totality attacked.
• Their family dead and Makintol in the grips of constant battle with the enemy, the two siblings became war orphans, forced to survive on their own amidst the terror and bloodshed...but as they were Dranfel, they began to thrive in combat.
• Maxon was a natural-born battlecharger. When he saw an enemy, he weighed his growing strengths against it, and then fought it with great ferocity.
• He knew that while still young, he was not a true match outright, but he would destroy what he could in the name of Drenfel, as all things break under pressure eventually.
• He thought of each encounter as a training experience, examining his situation constantly to figure out to how to perform better while strengthening his body.
• Working alongside Kerris, he did his part for the war effort, but in the end, the planet had to be evacuated, and they were both adopted by the Coalition.
• Their training and development continued under the tutalege of Coalition until the time in which they were to join SPEAR.

Key Skills & Abilities:

• Practiced in Gladitorial-Style Combat from his pre-SPEAR days to increasing not only his physical combat prowess, but his awareness of the immediate surroundings in battle. This was then augmented by Coalition combat training.
• Trained in heavy weapons exclusively, both melee and ranged, to suit his natural strength and build.
• Low-Key Tactical and Strategic Thinking, assessing a situation in the heat of combat quickly to turn it in his favor.

Special Abilities:

Nocturnal Predator - Naturally suited to stalking, fighting, and hunting in the night, with an edge on seeing through darkness.

Personal Weapons:

• Heavy Power Gauntlets, coupling Jaws-Of-Life mechanical force with natural strength and fighting prowess, modified with alloy claws.
• Rocket Launcher, front-loaded with laser guidance, ammunition stored on belt. (Alternatively, it could be a rotating-barrel Micro-Missle Launcher, but he can only realistically take one of these out on missions at a time.)
• Modern-Forged Monomolecular Gladius used as combat knife, modified to pass an electric charge through the blade.

Personal Equipment:

• Small Maintenence Kit ('So, you own a powered mechanical device...')
• Vitamin/Energy Suppliment Drink to replenish stamina quickly in the field.
• Flavored Meat Bars (Spicy!)
• Pebble