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Outcasts Of Fortune: A Mecha RP

I gave it a different weapon in the second hand.

And sorry that I'm not really around on weekends, it's a busy time for me usually.

Outcasts Of Fortune: A Mecha RP

@Dynamo Frokane Okay, I think I have it finished, if you want to take a look now.

Outcasts Of Fortune: A Mecha RP

Work in progress, but let me know what you think so far.

Character

Name: Leonardo "Leon" Falco

Appearance

Age: 32
Origin: Second Generation citizen of the Fortune Region.
Height: 5'10
Weight: 165
Backstory: Antonio Falco was Hyloan by blood, but lived in a swamp town in the Fortune Region. He worked as a technician, making repairs on the orbital solar farm that was in geosynchronous orbit over the continent. Being a spacer, Antonio was gone for huge lengths of time, and his son, Leonardo, grew up largely without his influence. It was dangerous work, thankless, and not terribly well paid. Leonardo was always told that his father was gone so that his community could have electricity. But if that were true, then why was power so expensive, so heavily rationed, in their town? It seemed paradoxical, that one of the men who worked so hard to maintain the power system, was woefully unable to actually pay for the service that he ensured.

Spending long stretches of time outside of Orio's atmosphere, Antonio was exposed to an unusual amount of radiation during the course of his job. He developed an aggressive form of cancer in his brain. The tumor might have had something to do with the last few decisions of his life, or maybe facing death awakened a recklessness he never acted on in life. Antonio risked the ire of Sol Industries, and indeed the nation of Hylo, to steal the mech that he flew for his work.

His intention was for his son, then a young adult, to sell it on the black market, later, when the heat had died down. But Leon had a broader view. He saw the mech not as a one time payoff, but as a means to many payoffs throughout his life. A mech is worth money, true, and a buyer can always be found. But a pilot is worth money too, and employers are equally easy to acquire. Leon had his father teach him to fly it before he died, and Leon went through the shadiest channels he could to find work. An employer saw value in the mech's ability to hover and fly, and helped Leon to equip it to poach solar energy being beamed down from the farms in orbit.

Sol Incorporated, a Hylo based company, owns one of the only solar farms over the entire Fortune Region. They therefore have a monopoly on the most efficient source of electricity in many of the Region's city-states. The station keeps track of how much power is beamed down from the space station, and the ground collecting station measures how much arrives. There is an acceptable margin of loss that SI will take accountability for, and this is where Leon works. He flies, high enough that he's difficult to see from the ground, and hovers in the microwave beam, skimming power until his reserve battery is full. He has to be careful to do this slowly enough that SI doesn't notice an increase in the loss margin. When his battery is full, he'll take his mech to some out of the way village or town and plug it into the power grid, selling the power at a markdown.

His mech is equipped with black market weapons at this point, and he has been known to take on more violent work in lean times. He is well known in underground circles as being trustworthy, if a bit stingy.

Tactical Preference & Skills: Prefers to keep a distance and use trickery and agility to keep one step ahead of opponents.
Quote: "Robin Hood, Smuggler, Thief. Call me what you like, so long as you pay me."

Mech

Name/Title: Sol Industries Orbital Mechanic Apparatus. "Sioma."
Appearance :
Body & Type: Humanoid Bipedal
Equipment & Armaments :

Hand Slot 1: Tools. It is still equipped with the tools of its intended trade, a series of tools folded into the mech's arms. They can be used to make repairs on machines, or even other mechs.

Hand Slot 2: Plasma cutter. The "blade" has a range of only inches, but it is on a longer shaft, allowing it to be used at a longer range than the tools in the other hand.

Sub Weapon Slot: A Sub Machine gun. It's actually an infantry-sized light machine gun, but on a mech it's a pretty small weapon. It is modified to be held easily by the Sioma's claw-like hands, and comes out of a compartment on the side when needed.

Shoulder/Back Spot: A pair of automatically loading 150 mm smoothbore guns, loaded with laser homing anti tank rounds. The guns in question do not have any independent movement or aiming, and simply fires whatever direction the Sioma is facing. It relies on the homing for fine tuning of its aim. This failing is a direct result the makeshift nature of the weapons. They have a total payload of 45 rounds.

Gadget Slot: Microwave receiver. A sophisticated mod allows the Sioma to commandeer the energy beamed down from orbital solar farms, to charge either it's own primary battery, or its rather large reserve battery.

Sensor Suite. It is similar to military grade, but instead of being a single cohesive unit built for combat, it's jury rigged from whatever parts Leon and whatever mechanics he employed could find. Typically, he uses it to find microwave beams to siphon power, but he also needs it to watch the ground while he's at work, in case hostile mecha are closing in on him.

Stats Scale

Light/Heavy Body: 3

Accuracy & Tracking/FIrepower: 1

Air Mobility/Thrusters: 3

Solo/Skirmisher: 4

Flavour Text:
Not at all originally built for combat, the Sioma was actually meant for space borne mechanics to work on large orbital installations, like the solar farms or various satellites. It features an impulse thruster for flight, meant for use in space, but adequate to get it off the ground and to rather high altitudes given time.

Outcasts Of Fortune: A Mecha RP

We should have height on the mecha page, so that we have a good reference for how they compare in size.

And sorry I haven't gotten anything written yet, I worked, but today's an early shift for me and I'll probably get something this afternoon.

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

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This would be a Hylo Noble who is working outside the law?

EDIT: I'm going to start work on the OOC, just to keep it all nice and clean, if you could submit the Minister and Royalty ideas in this interest check, and then when I approve them I'll post them in the OOC main thread.

@Dynamo Frokane

Oh, no, that idea wasn't meant to be related to my write up for nobles and such.

Probably my main character, and they would be a sort of black marketeer in the Fortune Region.

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

Oooh, character idea.

Solar poacher: Has a mech with a large built in battery, and on board equipment to receive the microwave beamed energy from orbital solar farms. Hangs around the solar receiving facilities, illegally siphoning off power from space, and selling it in out of the way villages.

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

Swell, I'll throw some things together for those.

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

So if there's a Prime Minister, I take it there is a series of other ministers(Minister of Defense, Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture etc).

If you like, I can come up with a series of short bios for such people as them and various nobles in Hylo. Just to kind of fill the ranks, you know?

EDIT: Is there gonna be an aesthetic differentiation between mechs from different countries?

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

Timelines are great, and so is a division between the upper and lower classes in Hylo.

So is there a sort of nobility in addition to the Royal Family?

Where does the religion get it's priests? Are they nobility, or do they specifically look for people who could be taught to build and repair Colossi?

What sort of power does the Colossi Priesthood have? They must be in some level of control of the military, if we're going with their role as the technicians in charge of the their mecha.

So priesthood brings some prestige with the upper classes(though, possibly some disdain from the lower in recent years). Imagine poorer, desperate people "selling" their children(after extensive intelligence and aptitude tests) to the priesthood. They would have a better life, and would cease to be a strain on the family. But in return, they are disconnected from(and possibly even completely rejected by) the lower class community that they were born into.

So how does the Hyloan royalty keep their control of the lower classes? Or, maybe they don't. Maybe in the last eight years they have been quickly losing control of the populace, and are resorting to military measures to keep the peace in their own borders.

EDIT: Oh, and what exactly did the Outcast Guild start up for? What's their mission statement, and who started it?

Outcast Mecha RP (about to start, open to a few more CS)

@Dynamo Frokane That's alright.

So the Hylo Empire has a sort of religious connection to Mecha, yeah? Maybe they have a different vernacular and actually call them Colossi, giving them a verbal quirk that's pretty easy to spot out.

Do you have much fleshed out for their religious beliefs?

I would suggest that they have an order of monks who maintain and repair their mecha(or Colossi, if you take my suggestion on that). It may even be that a Hyloan(?) would refuse any other mechanic who wasn't a member of that order.

EDIT: Maybe they believe that every advance in mecha technology brings the world one step closer to the return of their gods. Maybe for that reason they are particularly aggressive toward any foreign culture that is hoarding technological knowledge or data.