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3 Nations: The World Of Mecha

Not my best intro, but it got the job done.

3 Nations: The World Of Mecha

Toulouse Voltaire

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The air was quiet as Toulouse sat atop the Bannerlord, taking a moment to enjoy the sunrise as he ate his breakfast. Nutrient paste wasn't the most palatable meal on the planet but the coffee in his mug washed it down well enough and the horizon let his mind wander enough so it didn't matter anyway, the grasslands before him slowly bleeding into sand as the sun rose behind him. It was the quiet, picturesque moments like this that reaffirmed his decision to come to the Freelands. Toulouse was considering going below deck and grabbing a cigarette before a klaxon stole away his attention, updating him on the new bounties and missions that were posted.

Deciding against it for today, Toulouse scanned each of the missions as he finished his food. He immediately skipped the highest paying job over, his desire to stay away from home winning over the paycheck. He took a little longer on deciding between the Elementum retrieval and the Mech testing, weighing the odds before deciding to lay claim on the Elementum job. He's too used to this old beast anyway to give something like that a good run for it's money. Plus he was closer to the Desertlands anyway.

Slipping below decks, Toulouse laid his claim on the Elementum job with a premade script as he started to awaken the old beast. "This is T. I'll be near the Iron Canal within the day, heading in on the north side of the area. Any tag alongs are welcome." The script was sent and logged into the system as Toulouse and the Bannerlord stomped their way towards their objective, opening channels to whoever decided to join in.

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@Liotrent
Nah, just stubborn zealots who don't have the good sense to just die and leave everyone else alone.

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@snake153
I mean they are fanatical, paranoid jerkfaces who dragged everyone into a meatgrinder.

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Hmm, I'm trying to work through Toulouse's thoughts/first impressions with the other pilots. Frontier types will always be looked at with suspicion but ultimately T is a little too old to hate a whole people, only a government and specific persons, so he can be won over. He isn't going to be too fond of the crazies but Aster might awaken some hometown memories, though that seems like a pretty intense plotline.

I guess Toulouse is going to be pretty indifferent to most people, a little friendlier to those of the Therux State, a little terse with Frontier types, and a mix of the two if you're Hylo.

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Toulouse Voltaire

Name:
Toulouse Voltaire, "The Wrath of Amoranto"... though most people know him as T.

Appearance:

A Tired Man

Off Duty

On the Prowl

Age:
43

Origin:
Therux

Height:
6'0

Weight:
190

Backstory:
Toulouse grew up on the rural community of Amaranto, far removed patch of land from the growing tensions between Hylo and Therux. Life was quiet and uneventful, families mostly working on small time farms and selling what they didn't subsist on in the town proper. However with most quiet beginnings Toulouse's world was rocked when the Western War broke out, the now eight year old boy's father leaving home to join the front while leaving the farm to his wife and child.

In the coming years of the war food and money became scarce as much of the able bodied men and women joined the fighting, Amaranto becoming a land of children and elderlies. However in spite of the hardships these factors brang the community couldn't have been more together, everyone sharing what they could when they could and eventually the war ended and things returned to normal. While some of those who left never returned, most did and Toulouse's father was among them. On the day of his father's return, Toulouse vowed to become a soldier and defend the people of Therux just like his father.

His father never really approved, laughing it off when Toulouse was a boy but becoming more worried as the boy grew into a man. Eventually it came to a peak, Toulouse filled with national pride and youthful invincibility and his father who knew of the true horrors that war brought. However when it became clear to his father that Toulouse would never budge from his path he gave ground, instead telling the young man about what war was like without the patriotic filter. Toulouse wavered for just a moment but held strong in his convictions and eventually his father gave up and through some string pulling from some friends still in the military was able to send Toulouse to the military academy on scholarship.

Tempered by his father's stories and his desire to protect, Toulouse excelled in the academies mech simulations and quickly found himself pushed into that field by his teachers. It wasn't long until he found his calling inside the hull of a Bulwark and through graduation. Toulouse was then placed into the 207th Mechanized Infantry as fire support, while what would be known as the Orio War began.

For a nearly a decade and a half he was dragged to conflict after conflict, almost always on the defensive as the Northern Territories threw their soldiers into the wall of his weapons fire. Toulouse was about ready to call it quits when he was mobilized to the burnt out husk of his hometown, a once beautiful and peaceful place now reduced to ruins. There were no recorded survivors.

Toulouse was absolutely devastated, every pile of rubble was a home with a family, each of their names etched into his memory. He was well into shock when he saw his own home, a burnt out ruin with only the foundations betraying the location of a house ever being there. Toulouse didn't cry for a long time, he was a soldier and enemy units were moving through Amaranto tomorrow. There would be time for tears later.

That day was the only known use of a BWP-52 in close quarters combat as Toulouse broke ranks and charged into the mobilizing lines of the Frontier mechs. The surprise was enough to shatter four mechs before shock wore off, weapons returning fire at the charging castle. While the ambush was ruined it ultimatly turned out for the better, Toulouse's comrades pushing the attack as Toulouse kicked and thrashed like a wild dog. Reaper cannons fireing into the cores of Frontier mechs as titanic feet crushed the life out of their pilots. Toulouse alone was responsible for 14 confirmed kills before his Bulwark was critically damaged. To this day those who were apart of the "Battle of Amaranto" will tell you of the man in the Bulwark, screaming name after name through the vox channels.

Toulouse himself left the battle with two broken ribs, three bruised ribs, a punctured lung, various contusions, a mild concussion, a shattered femur, catastrophic internal hemorrhaging, a purple heart, and a medal of valor. The only thing that saved him after the fact was an experimental cybernetic suit that now holds him together even to this day. Toulouse himself remembers very little of the fight itself but ever since then he's been catalogued as a war hero, something he resents immeasurably.

For the next six years Toulouse served the state faithfully, always the good little soldier, and eventually the war ended. When it came time to rebuild however Toulouse found nothing but a bitter taste in his mouth, having only blood and ash to show for their efforts. After three years of this growing unease Toulouse was able to pull some strings with some friends in high places, allowing him to take his mech outside of the State and into the Freelands ostensibly as an informant of the going ons of the area.

Tactical Preference & Skills:
The Bulwark was used most often as defenders and fire support, entrenching down somewhere defendable and drowning targets in a tsunami of weapons fire. However caution to those who engage in close quarters combat for the legs of a scarab are incredibly strong and much swifter than one would think, knocking aside smaller mechs and crushing them into dust.

Quote:
"You can't look at all the children growing up without parents, living in these ruins, digging through scrap, and say any of this was worth it."

Text Color:
aba000

BWP-52 "Bulwark"

Name/Title:
Toulouse's Bulwark was known as the "Bannerlord"

Appearance:

Stalwart Defenders of the State

Body & Type:
Beast Type Crawler

Equipment & Armaments:

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Hand Slots:
AKP-09 "Reaper Cannon" - A medium to long range cannon that fires 105mm explosive, armor-piercing rounds. These "Reaper Rounds" were made to punch into and explode within enemy mechs but it wasn't unheard of for them to slip right through weaker mechs. The recoil from these guns is massive and proper entrenchment is needed for accurate firing.

Sub Weapon Slot:
ATK-44 Fusion Blasters - Smaller than the ones attached to Paladins, these fusion blasters work on the same principle as it's larger cousin. Short range but devastating against enemy armor and any poor schmuck caught in it's sights.

Shoulder/Back Spot:
Fly Swatter Protocols - Look to Gadget Slots.

Gadget Slot:
Advanced Targeting Systems - These systems allow Toulouse to see most mechs and hit them with pinpoint accuracy.

Fly Swatter Protocols - Instead of another weapons system on the top of the Bulwark there has been installed an anti-missile defense system. Using an array of lasers to "swat" these missiles out of the air it is difficult to land a hit without swarm type missiles. Though not their intended purpose the lasers can deal minor structural damage to a lightly armored mech.

Stats Scale:
Light/Heavy Body:
9

Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower:
5

Air Mobility/Thrusters:
5

Solo/Skirmisher:
4

Flavour Text:
Repurposed mobile oil rigs, the Bulwark was used in conjunction with Paladins and Cavaliers as fire support. While they aren't as renowned as their Paladin and Chevalier counterparts, the Bulwark has nonetheless been instrumental in the defense of many battles during the war and has endeared themselves to the public in smaller fashions.

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I'm pretty sure I'm done here, I'm pretty darn tired as I write this so who knows.

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Toulouse Voltaire

Name:
Toulouse Voltaire, "The Wrath of Amoranto"... though most people know him as T.

Appearance:

A Tired Man

Off Duty

On the Prowl

Age:
43

Origin:
Therux

Height:
6'0

Weight:
190

Backstory:
Toulouse grew up on the rural community of Amaranto, far removed patch of land from the growing tensions between Hylo and Therux. Life was quiet and uneventful, families mostly working on small time farms and selling what they didn't subsist on in the town proper. However with most quiet beginnings Toulouse's world was rocked when the Western War broke out, the now eight year old boy's father leaving home to join the front while leaving the farm to his wife and child.

In the coming years of the war food and money became scarce as much of the able bodied men and women joined the fighting, Amaranto becoming a land of children and elderlies. However in spite of the hardships these factors brang the community couldn't have been more together, everyone sharing what they could when they could and eventually the war ended and things returned to normal. While some of those who left never returned, most did and Toulouse's father was among them. On the day of his father's return, Toulouse vowed to become a soldier and defend the people of Therux just like his father.

His father never really approved, laughing it off when Toulouse was a boy but becoming more worried as the boy grew into a man. Eventually it came to a peak, Toulouse filled with national pride and youthful invincibility and his father who knew of the true horrors that war brought. However when it became clear to his father that Toulouse would never budge from his path he gave ground, instead telling the young man about what war was like without the patriotic filter. Toulouse wavered for just a moment but held strong in his convictions and eventually his father gave up and through some string pulling from some friends still in the military was able to send Toulouse to the military academy on scholarship.

Tempered by his father's stories and his desire to protect, Toulouse excelled in the academies mech simulations and quickly found himself pushed into that field by his teachers. It wasn't long until he found his calling inside the hull of a Bulwark and through graduation. Toulouse was then placed into the 207th Mechanized Infantry as fire support, while what would be known as the Orio War began.

For a nearly a decade and a half he was dragged to conflict after conflict, almost always on the defensive as the Northern Territories threw their soldiers into the wall of his weapons fire. Toulouse was about ready to call it quits when he was mobilized to the burnt out husk of his hometown, a once beautiful and peaceful place now reduced to ruins. There were no recorded survivors.

Toulouse was absolutely devastated, every pile of rubble was a home with a family, each of their names etched into his memory. He was well into shock when he saw his own home, a burnt out ruin with only the foundations betraying the location of a house ever being there. Toulouse didn't cry for a long time, he was a soldier and enemy units were moving through Amaranto tomorrow. There would be time for tears later.

That day was the only known use of a BWP-52 in close quarters combat as Toulouse broke ranks and charged into the mobilizing lines of the Frontier mechs. The surprise was enough to shatter four mechs before shock wore off, weapons returning fire at the charging castle. While the ambush was ruined it ultimatly turned out for the better, Toulouse's comrades pushing the attack as Toulouse kicked and thrashed like a wild dog. Reaper cannons fireing into the cores of Frontier mechs as titanic feet crushed the life out of their pilots. Toulouse alone was responsible for 14 confirmed kills before his Bulwark was critically damaged. To this day those who were apart of the "Battle of Amaranto" will tell you of the man in the Bulwark, screaming name after name through the vox channels.

Toulouse himself left the battle with two broken ribs, three bruised ribs, a punctured lung, various contusions, a mild concussion, a shattered femur, catastrophic internal hemorrhaging, a purple heart, and a medal of valor. The only thing that saved him after the fact was an experimental cybernetic suit that now holds him together even to this day. Toulouse himself remembers very little of the fight itself but ever since then he's been catalogued as a war hero, something he resents immeasurably.

For the next six years Toulouse served the state faithfully, always the good little soldier, and eventually the war ended. When it came time to rebuild however Toulouse found nothing but a bitter taste in his mouth, having only blood and ash to show for their efforts. After three years of this growing unease Toulouse was able to pull some strings with some friends in high places, allowing him to take his mech outside of the State and into the Freelands ostensibly as an informant of the going ons of the area.

Tactical Preference & Skills:
The Bulwark was used most often as defenders and fire support, entrenching down somewhere defendable and drowning targets in a tsunami of weapons fire. However caution to those who engage in close quarters combat for the legs of a scarab are incredibly strong and much swifter than one would think, knocking aside smaller mechs and crushing them into dust.

Quote:
"You can't look at all the children growing up without parents, living in these ruins, digging through scrap, and say any of this was worth it."

Text Color:
aba000

BWP-52 "Bulwark"

Name/Title:
Toulouse's Bulwark was known as the "Bannerlord"

Appearance:

Stalwart Defenders of the State

Body & Type:
Beast Type Crawler

Equipment & Armaments:

---

Hand Slots:
AKP-09 "Reaper Cannon" - A medium to long range cannon that fires 60mm explosive, armor-piercing rounds. These "Reaper Rounds" were made to punch into and explode within enemy mechs but it wasn't unheard of for them to slip right through weaker mechs. The recoil from these guns is massive and requires the user to entrench for accurate firing.

Sub Weapon Slot:
ATK-44 Fusion Blasters - Smaller than the ones attached to Paladins, these fusion blasters work on the same principle as it's larger cousin. Short range but devastating against enemy armor and any poor schmuck caught in it's sights.

Shoulder/Back Spot:
Fly Swatter Protocols - Look to Gadget Slots.

Gadget Slot:
Advanced Targeting Systems - These systems allow Toulouse to see most mechs and hit them with pinpoint accuracy.

Fly Swatter Protocols - Instead of another weapons system on the top of the Bulwark there has been installed an anti-missile defense system. Using an array of lasers to "swat" these missiles out of the air it is difficult to land a hit without swarm type missiles. Though not their intended purpose the lasers can deal minor structural damage to a lightly armored mech.

Stats Scale:
Light/Heavy Body:
9

Accuracy & Tracking/Firepower:
2

Air Mobility/Thrusters:
5

Solo/Skirmisher:
4

Flavour Text:
Repurposed mobile oil rigs, the Bulwark was used in conjunction with Paladins and Cavaliers as fire support. While they aren't as renowned as their Paladin and Chevalier counterparts, the Bulwark has nonetheless been instrumental in the defense of many battles during the war and has endeared themselves to the public in smaller fashions.

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@Feyblue
I have an idea of sharing hometowns with Aster and was wondering if you had a name for the place before I went any further with my own characters backstory.

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@Dynamo Frokane
I've been wrestling with my character for awhile now and I've decided to do a little rebuild, mostly focused on the mech and Travis' backstory. I don't really want to play a character that I'm forcing myself to like.

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@Dynamo Frokane
Yeah sorry for the wait, I got preoccupied last night. I should be done tonight though.