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Design date: October 2nd, 822 A.S.
Designer: Michael Glass
Composition: Titanium-Carbon Polymer
Purpose: Front-Line Combat
The A-1 Heavy Battle Armor was designed to be the next step in the MWS (Modular Warfare System). Utilizing a reinforced MWS frame, hermetically sealed G suit, FS optics, standard nano-tech scrubber/air bladder build internally instead of externally, the suit was intended as a superior variant of the C-1 Combat Armor, the base of the MWS. A significantly more powerful exoskeleton, complemented with micro thrusters for added mobility, the suit is significantly larger than its predecessor. The built-in Combat assistant AI (optional) and modified frame required the wearer to receive extensive bodily augmentation and implantation. This process added reinforcement points to the users skeletal structure, as well as direct interface implants for HUD visualization. The first fifteen to undergo this process had nearly all succeeded, barring an incident with one particular subject. Report added below. Unfortunately, as of April fourth, all subjects are deceased. Further work of this variant is on hold.
Armament included the Type-40 Particle Accelerator Rifle, which uses a magnetic rail accelerator to rapidly fire a titanium-gold charged particle projectile at high velocity. The rifle is composed of a carbon alloy to allow for easy mobility and less carrying strain on the user. Standard magazine size of forty (40) rounds with an easy reload design. Easily disassembled for maintenance access. RPM (Rounds per minute) is upwards of fifteen-hundred (1500).
The round is modified with a small particle generator, creating a charged field upon firing, surrounding the projectile with an energy field, generating significant amounts of heat, causing significant burn trauma to the target. The heat of the projectile is also capable of penetrating and melting light cover.
Estimated cost/unit: 650,000 SC
[INCIDENT REPORT NO. 037 - MONTGOMERY, IVAN AGE 29]
"Surgical process undergone at 0600 Hours, November 20th. At 0730, subject awoke post general anesthetic injection and panicked. Attempted removal of automated surgical equipment. Subject was subdued and given second injection of Midazolam. Attempted correction, then removal of augments and implants. Attempts unsuccessful. Predicted implant complications within five days."
Signature - Michael Glass.
[INCIDENT REPORT CLOSE]
The C-1 Combat Armor is the first in a steadily growing line of combat armor variants. The very first suit designed, the C-1 is the foundation for all variants of the Modular Warfare system. Composed of a light titanium polymers, complemented with ballistic ceramic plating, and a Kevlar mesh suit. Flexible, yet durable, the C-1 excels in all aspects of combat and infiltration. Being a modular template, the suit is easy to modify for any field. Three primary head/helmet modifications to suit any and all needs, be it comfort, or effectiveness. Provided with a standard powered exoskeleton, as well as external nano-tech air scrubber/bladder, the C-1 is also amphibious, with an added re-breather unit. Wrist-mounted combat PDA/Console, for armor control and communications. Standard C-1-C Helmet includes IR Cameras, for thermal projection and identification.
Standard armament is the concealed M2 SOPMOD Sub-Machine gun which fires a super-heated tungsten AP round at high velocity via magnetic accelerator within the barrel structure, or Type-31 Particle Rifle, which utilizes a lower caliber than the Type-40. Additionally, concussion grenades are also commonly supplied. One of the more common modifications C-1 users like to add to their armor, is the SP-2 Chameleon Unit. The C-1 is the choice armor for anyone looking to be comfortable, protected, and lethal.
The S-1 is the most recent development on the MWS. Designed specifically to be used by one individual, the S-1 uses the SP-2 Chameleon mod to further compliment it's mobility and light frame. The S-1 exoskeleton was modified to function more efficiently with leg bionics, thus making it one of the ideal suit for its creator. Hermetically sealed G Suit with helmet mounted IR cams, standard nano-tech scrubber/bladder with toxin filters, built off of the standard C-1, thus giving the suit amphibious capabilities with a re-breather unit. The SP-2 paint coating for color modifying, this suit is also complemented with a special kind of cloak, made of a metallic fabric, allowing it to be painted with the SP-2 coating, giving it color changing capabilities with the rest of the suit, allowing it to effectively 'blend' with it's surroundings.
The NTR-2 is a 25mm Long Rifle, with a 12x magnification Thermal sight, Direct uplink Targeting, folding bipod and added carrying handles for easy mobility. A powerful rifle, capable for anti-vehicle purposes, the barrel collapses inwards, to adjust for close quarters. Semi-Automatic with an 8-round Magazine. The rifle is composed of lightweight materials, allowing for easy mobility. It's fired projectile is a twenty-five millimeter (25mm) High Explosive Armor Piercing (HEAP) round. See image below.
Design date: December 19th, 822 A.S
Designer: MIchael Glass
Composition: NxRA/DERA
Purpose: Support Vehicle
The MBA-2 is the next step up from the now obsolete MBA-1. Specifically created to provide the armored and mobility edge over standard ground forces, the MBA-2 employs an Integrated flight system, with the option of manual, over strict manual flight control of it's predecessor, plus additional thrusters for stability and control in Zero-G environments. The MBA-2 is also able to be entirely automated through AI/VI/Remote control. Armed with utility arms for field repairs of larger vehicles/spacecraft, including flood lights for dark areas and on the field repairs. Armaments include a shoulder-mounted Anti-Material rifle, 1x 20mm/8mm automatic gun pod, 3x RPMS (Rocket Propelled Munitions System). The hull is consisting of a reinforced Titanium-Alloy, supplemented with Non-explosive Reactive Armor, combined with Direct Energy Reactive Plating, dispersing energy projectiles in case of shield failure.
The AMU was designed by a Rheinland engineer, as an improved mobile assault vehicle for the Military. The design, once completed, was intercepted by Augustin Pierce. Built off of the foundation of 90-ARKM-N45 "Wraith" Fighter. Either manned by a two-person crew, or automated by a VI/AI, the AMU is capable of orbital drop deployment in to an active combat zone. Able to isolate targets with dual-mounted particle cannons, and Firestalker/Cannonball pods. Reactive Armor plating on all sides to alleviate explosive damage. A unique vehicle, only four are in existence, as production was halted after the loss of Navarro.
Design date: January 3rd, 823 A.S
Designer: Michael Glass
Composition: Steel/Paramagnetic paint
Purpose: Color modification/blending
The SP-2 uses electroluminescence to send electrical charges through a specific coating of paint, allowing it to effectively change the color of almost any object or material. The device its self is often added internally of the C-1 armor variant, and was the prime motivation for the S-1. Connecting directly with the MWS Console, users control the device via the wrist-mounted PDA, with other suit functions. This device has proven useful for infiltration and concealing users from prying eyes, but does not render the user totally invisible, thus thermal imaging can still identify whomever might be using it. It's predecessor, the SP-1, was given a timer to prevent heat damage to the device. Now, with an added cycled coolant system and heat sync, the SP-2 can remain active for over twenty hours, before the cooling fail safe is triggered. The device is powered by a miniature particle reactor, generating it's own energy, rather than relying on the MWS Power System. This allows the suit to retain full functionality without complications, while retaining full SP-2 chameleon abilities.
HLX-7 was designed by the Legion splinter group known as Task Force Gladius for use on civilians within Liberty, with the intent of causing mass hysteria and genocide. Consisting of a wide combination of Tetrodotoxin (TTX), Chlorotoxin (Cltx), Caramboxin (CBX), and Bloomed Cyanobacteria, HLX-7 is an extremely fatal toxin in a gas or liquid state. Quickly overwhelming the senses with paresthesia, muscle numbing/weakness, nausea, reduced neural communication, subsequent loss of motor and sensory function, paralysis via ion channel disruption, ischemia, peripheral and central nervous system failure, seizure and cardiac arrest. HLX was used on Bretonian war refugees who were used to test its potency, at a hidden facility which was destroyed during the collapse of Gladius. All containers and research were recovered by Alan Stacker. No further testing has been done or is planned. Extreme caution and safety equipment is required before handling HLX-7 Canisters.
Age: 27
Hair color: Brown
Iris color: Green
Height: 5'11
Weight: 189 lbs.
Birthplace: Planet Los Angeles, California System, Liberty
Parents: Edward and Milly Stacker
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: Class 2 Neural Interference Inhibitor, Standard Issue.
Bionic level: N/A.
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: Alan Stacker needs a psych evaluation to be added to his medical file. Suspected of mental difficulties due to depression.
Fleet Captain Alan Stacker was born and raised into a well off family. His father was a very successful independent contractor for the Bounty Hunters Guild, before his untimely death at the hands of the Liberty Rogues, shortly after Alan graduated from college, with a Bachelors in Business. Stacker, frustrated with the pace of the investigation the Liberty Police were conducting, Stacker met with his classmate Desmond Noble, who encouraged and aided Stacker into taking matters into his own hands.
Afterwards, Desmond convinced Alan to join the Hellfire Legion, and as they climbed the ranks, Desmond was given command of a Task Force, in which he named Alan Stacker head of Logistics, and an aid to R&D. This is where it gets interesting. Desmond came to Stacker looking for an edge over Liberty. A means of showing the Republic that they meant business. Desmond Noble, and Sterling Metford, Gladius' head of R&D, came up with a bio weapon, dubbed HLX-7. A neurotoxin that overpowers the nervous system and induces cardiac arrest. In order to test their latest creation, Desmond devised a plan to use War Refugees from Bretonia as live test subjects. As head of Logistics, Alan coordinated the extraction from Leeds.
Weeks into testing, the Uprising happened. A smaller force, under orders of Fleet Commander Harland Voss, attacked the research section of Point Exodus Orbital Colony, killing Desmond Noble, and extracting thousands of refugees. The facility was destroyed, but not before Alan and the Remnants who remained loyal to Noble fled to a backup facility, with several hundred refugees in tow. It was there he met Augustin Pierce, and was recruited in to the Initiative.
Age: 38
Hair color: Brown
Iris color: Green
Height: 6'1
Weight: 182 lbs.
Birthplace: Planet Denver, Colorado System, Liberty
Parents: Unknown, Adopted by Elijah Phillips Sr.
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: Class 2 Neural Interference Inhibitor, Standard Issue. A.I Uplink, Unknown variant.
Bionic level: I.S.A.L.U-1 Custom, Unknown modification.
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: Joshua Hunt is a ghost, and has been one for a very, very long time. It took weeks of searching old files, abandoned databases and questioning vagrants from Liberty to Theta, before I managed to get a fraction of the full story, but this is what I found.
Joshua Hunt graduated Denver University with a Masters Degree in Engineering, prior to enlisting with the Liberty Navy. He received Officers training at the West Point Military Academy, under Colonel Douglas Kovic. He graduated at the top of his class, and was in service to the Republic on board the Monument-Class Dreadnought Forward Unto Dawn, an older vessel commanded by Travis Harkavey, who remains in service to this day.
From there, up until over half a decade ago, Commander Joshua Hunt had successfully undergone combat against Rheinland, and fought alongside First Fleet Admiral Jack Malrone, in an Avenger Fighter craft. However, this is where his career ended. When the Dreadnought, called "The Dawn" by surviving crew members, was ordered to Colorado to reinforce Admiral Malrone, it was attacked, by the Hellfire Legion Arbiter-Class Battleship Libertine, in which its commanding officer, Harkavey, was incapacitated, and Commander Hunt took control. Unfortunately the Monument-Class was locked at full speed, due to a catastrophic engine malfunction, and from there, the evacuation was sounded. Commander Hunt, one eighth of the vessels crew, and an unidentified Engineer, did not escape.
From there, it was discovered, Joshua Hunt had survived the blast, and joined the Hellfire Legion, under Lord Commander Dane Kinnaird. During his time he confronted Admiral Jack Malrone for the deaths of his comrades, in which a fight broke out in California. Later in his service, Lieutenant Joshua Hunt was declared Missing in Action, after the Battle of Humboldt. He was never located. His former associates, still believe him to be dead, or, in the case of Engineer Flowers, are too unstable for a clear explanation. However unlikely, Hunt has reappeared many times, until he began this work in Eight-Twenty. Hunt is rumored to have designed one of the most powerful weapons known to the Sirius sector in Eight-Twenty-One, though following his disappearance near the closing of the year, it is unknown if such a thing exists. All records of the project appear to have recently been deleted.
Age: 21
Hair color: Black
Iris color: Brown
Height: 5'4
Weight: 102 lbs
Birthplace: Planet Kyushu, Kyushu System, Kusari
Parents: Tetsuzo Tachibana (father)
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: N/A.
Bionic level: N/A.
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: Kanade Tachibana boasts a strong distaste for the Maltese and Slave industry.
Tachi was born to a small farmers family on Kyushu, which was suffering from the growth of Synth Foods. Due to that, she lived a majority of her youth in poverty. Her mother had left when she was only three years old, leaving her father as her sole known guardian. At age four, her father sold her in to slavery to pay for a ticket off-world. She spent eleven years of her life as a slave on board a liner, serving drinks and cleaning up after the crew. One night, she escaped the cage, due to the guard falling unconscious from inebriation and neglecting to lock the door. She slipped through the Pilgrim to the hangar, stealing a Sabre, which was registered as a pirate vessel in most houses. She managed to escape to a Junker station in Rheinland, where her papers were cleared. By eighteen, she had made it to Liberty, working part-time after her Sabre was impounded at a local supermarket on Los Angeles.
By twenty, she met Daniel Ganes, an up and coming LPI officer who recommended her to West Point for training, earning a temp-contract in the LPI. Eventually, she was recommended to a full contract by Patricia Lyons. A few months in, Kanade had become unsatisfied with how the Liberty Police handled their jobs. Fed up, yet afraid to violate her contract, Kanade reached out to Joshua Hunt, a friend she had made on her second day. Hunt agreed to help her escape, orchestrating a 'kidnapping' using the freelancer Cody Faulker as jail cover. Kanade joined the Initiative, shortly after the death of Ivan Montgomery.
Age: 79
Hair color: Gray (Previously Blonde)
Iris color: Hazel
Height: 5'9
Weight: 170 lbs.
Birthplace: Planet Houston, Texas System, Liberty
Parents: Merle and Ellen Kovic
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: N/A.
Bionic level: N/A.
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: I have nothing nice to say about the Colonel.
Colonel Douglas Kovic is a decorated veteran of the Liberty Navy. Serving from the age of eighteen to the age of seventy-six, Kovic had undergone more operations than most, and lived to tell the tale. A notable fighter pilot during the Rheinland-Liberty war, Douglas also specialized in Marine coordination and ground combat. On top of his many Purple Heart medals, he was a notable strategist for covert operations, often being involved in them himself. A particular mission, in Seven-Ninety-One, where Kovic and a team of five Marines were sent to Omicron Alpha to rescue a specific individual who was forced in to Slavery, Kovic stayed behind to cover his team as they escaped with the person of interest. He said his last words to the four were "I'll bring you back an ear and a couple of teeth". Three months and no contact, Kovic was presumed captured, with the Liberty Navy not willing to divert resources to a rescue operation. Six hours later, a Dromedary crash landed on the outskirts of Houston, where a semi-conscious Colonel Kovic was located, carrying a handful of human teeth, and a severed ear. He collapsed in front of the officers who went to investigate, and was in a hospital bed for three hours, before attempting to get up and move again.
Despite severe physical damage and the wear of age, Douglas remains in peak physical condition, and coordinates the Initiative's ground forces, using his Naval experience, as well as teaching experience, from the West Point Military academy. Colonel Kovic removed his own right ear in front of a set of recruits, and demanded they all listen to his words. He is deemed unstable, but effective. He continues to serve as head of field operations within the Initiative, with no sign of retirement in his future.
Age: 41
Hair color: Black
Iris color: Blue
Height: 5'10
Weight: 179 lbs.
Birthplace: Freeport 9, Omicron Theta, Omicrons
Parents: Emily and Bartholomew Savitz
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: N/A.
Bionic level: N/A.
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author Comments: N/A
Creed Savitz was born on Freeport 9, his father working for station security, Creed followed in his footsteps. In his younger years, Creed had shown quick reflexes and rather clear thinking. He spent almost thirty years of his live working on that station, kicking off Corsairs and the occasional drunk. Level headed, Creed met Joshua Hunt in 821 A.S, when Hunt had left the care of the Corsairs. It was Creed who brought Hunt to a back room card game, where Hunt had won his Oasis-Liner. Never quite becoming friends, Creed was cautious when Hunt had called him about a job offer, while their fleet idled in Theta. Growing ever so sick of the Freeport Security lifestyle, Creed sought adventure, and had found it among the Initiative's fleet.
Age: Unknown, suspected mid thirties
Hair color: Unknown
Iris color: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown, Liberty
Parents: Unknown
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: N/A
Bionic level: N/A
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: Malcolm is not one I am very familiar with, yet I have managed to discern his origins.
Malcolm Simmons is a rather straightforward person, as I understand it. He's dedicated, loyal, cunning and intelligent, not to mention experienced. Simmons originated from a group known as the Neo-Terran Front, which he references several times when stating an opinion or referencing his past. This has lead me to believe that he and Joshua Hunt had met before, during Hunt's time in the Legion. Both have spoken of the times around Kansas and Yukon, and have mentioned a vessel known as the Belisarius. Malcolm's full origins remain a mystery thus far.
For reference, here is what the Neural Net has on the Neo-Terran Front.
"The Neo-Terran Front is a radicalized, unlawful offshoot of the LSF dedicated to building at least one ship (more if possible) capable of escaping Sirius altogether and building a utopian civilization at their destination."
Age: 31
Hair color: Black
Iris color: Brown
Height: 6'9
Weight: 260 lbs
Birthplace: Freeport 1, Omega-3, Omegas
Parents: Unknown
Medical Records: CLASSIFIED
Implant level: N/A
Bionic level: N/A
Biography, Written by Archivist Michael Glass:
Author comments: Myself. What should I comment?
I was born to an anonymous mother, who saw fit to abandon me to the locals of the Freeport, noticing that upon birth, I had suffered severe bone fractures. It was later discovered that I was born with a genetic condition known as Osteogenisis Imperfecta Type One. Ironically, being without a surname, and my condition rendering my skeletal structure as such, I took the name Glass. I have spent a third of my life in hospital beds, reading and learning, as I was unable to perform physical tasks. I spent that time expanding my mind, and recovering seventy-eight bone breaks. I met Joshua Hunt one day in Omicron Theta, and we became quite good friends. He introduced me to his pet project, which I had at the time, declined to help with. I later accepted the invitation made by one Augustin Pierce, who turned out to be more trouble than he was worth. I have been with the Initiative, and now Auxesia, ever since.
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