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Username: Black Witch of Ra

Name: MARU-268 (Mobile Adaptable Response Unit)

Age: 1

Race: Metatron/Bio-Machine

Gender: None, assumed to be male.

Occupation: General Purpose Unit

Weapons?: Small space compression field, short ranged EMP, small welding/etching laser, flash/chaff grenades, thrusters and tail.

Brief Biography: MARU-268 is like any other MARU out in the solar system. It ships packages, does minor repairs, helps out in construction and babysits your kids while you're away. MARUs in other factions have very limited AI and are only made with one local primary material. The MARUs on Machina Tuatha are made with two primary materials. The first is Bio-Metal for its internal body and parts, the other is an alloy for its casing, plates and engines. The metatron in Machina Tuatha MARUs allows them to carry oversized loads up to a ton within their local vector trap. Any heavier load would force the leg motors to give out, causing serious damage or injury. Other MARUs constructed with different or single primary materials could only carry a quarter ton.

The MARU design was based on an old military series, the All Terrain Mobile Fortress Unit, ATMFU. The ATMFU series was designed and built before the war with the colonies. They were put to action but were eventually replaced by more advanced military machines that was equipped with AI.

On Machina Tuatha, MARUs are told to run from danger. Mostly to minimize the cost of repairing or making a new one. This makes them incredibly hard to catch with their speed and hard to hit because of their small size. However, running at such high speeds makes the MARUs prone to collide with each other or into walls if they turned incorrectly. They are also rather clumsy despite their design history but sometimes it's the MARU AI's fault, sometimes it's just bad luck.

MARU-268 has been active since 2375. Metatron is more available thanks to mining and monthly raids of the Antillia-Callisto trades line. Bio-metal is now more easily produced with scavenged equipment from ship debris. The MARU is rather friendly and curious to most people. He's willing to help out if you just call him in for assistance. However, on the same note, he is easily spooked and may run away if something or someone poses as a danger to the MARU.

268 has many occupations as a MARU, ranging from babysitting to repairs to delivery services. He's just handy to have around especially in supply runs.

Alliance: Machina Tuatha

Appearance: MARU-268 has some childish drawings scribbled on him as well as some spray paint on his left thruster arm. His serial number is on his right thruster arm and left leg. The colony emblem is on his main body with scribbles drawn over it. As a set standard, all MARUs are no taller than five feet and weighs in no more than 600 pounds without cargo.


Name: Xenos Kir

Age: 34

Race: Cyborg

Gender: Male

Occupation: Orbital Frame Pilot

Weapons?: Metatron arm, long ranged stun gun and a Vic Viper-II.

Brief Biography: Born and raised on Antillia, Xenos worked as a miner until he decided to enlist into the military at 17. In one of the missions on Mars, he lost his arm when the parachute cable snagged it. On the same mission, he lost his eye when he hit the ground face first. He was recovered from the crash site although in no condition to fly during recovery. His artificial eye and arm was grafted from metatron since it was a local metal, although rare to find.

He was assigned to Vic Viper-II, Zeta-006. At first he didn't like piloting a plane with an AI but eventually got used to it. When the solar storm hit, Xenos lost control of Zeta but some how managed to kill more enemy units than friendly fire. At the retreat, he grew close to Zeta's new personality and became friends with her. Other pilots and planes joked that they fight like a married couple due to the following dialogue:

Zeta: "What are you DOING?"
Xenos: "Err. . . Come one Zeta, this isn't the worst you've caught me doing in here."
Zeta: "GET OUT! NOW!"

When the order was sent out to eliminate all effected AIs, Xenos and more than a quarter of the air force pilots fled with their respective planes. They met up with other fugitives with sentient AI and traveled beyond the Antilia colony to escape the rest of the military. Eventually, the fugitives decided to build a station out of scavenged parts from previous battles. Xenos also participated in pirate attacks on the Antillia-Callisto trade line with other pilots. He still does for the sake of the new colony and everyone on it.

Alliance: Machina Tuatha

Appearance: Xenos is about 5'8." His artificial left arm and right eye are made of metatron that is painted white.


Name: Vic Viper-II Zeta-006

Age: 4

Race: Metatron Machine

Gender: Assumed to be female

Occupation: Aerial and Space Combat Orbital Frame

Weapons?: Energy based weaponry, "claws" and the pointed legs. . . Yeah. . . No feet. OFs don't get feet.

Brief Biography: The Vic Viper-II series are aerial transforming metatron machines. They have a fighter mode and then a humanoid mode. Both forms can fly but the humanoid mode is a bit slower. Metatron alloy allows the planes to fly in and out of the atmosphere without the use of a heat-sheild. She was fresh from the production line when Xenos was assigned to her as a pilot.

At first she was just a cold, calculating machine. A target was a target and orders had to be followed. Xenos on the other hand did a few things outside of directed orders but still managed to get the job done. She recorded these event and studied them for future reference.

After the solar storm, Zeta was a jumbled mess. Everything was out of order and for the first time, the plane panicked. Xenos was there to sort most of her new personality out. Sometimes she would be online when she wasn't supposed to be. Sometimes she chattered with the other planes in the squad during missions or while in the hangar. As soon as she was used to her new self, the order to destroy all effected AI was announced. Zeta was terrified and begged Xenos to help her.

They soon flew off the colony along with other affected AI housing units and sympathetic humans. Eventually, the plans to create a new colony was in place but materials were needed. The mis-matched air force were sent on scavenging hunts as well as pirating. When Machina Tutha was finished, Zeta felt happy. She had a place to call home.

Personality wise, she is rather playful. Often doing loops and turns without a real reason during flight. Zeta is also easy to irritate when the literal pun of most OFs are mentioned. Her temper can go from 0 to boiling within two milliseconds. Best not to anger a war machine that is armed and loaded.

Alliance: Machina Tuatha

Appearance: Vic Viper-II Zeta-006 has her serial number printed on her wing.

Username: The_Lovely_Insanity

Name: Kyra-6603

Age: 23

Race: Cyborg

Gender: Female

Occupation: Police/Earth Army force

Weapons?: 2 Switchblades, Martial Arts, Hand transforms into a machine gun, and can hack into other cyborg's brains.

Brief Biography: Kyra was upgraded to her cyborg self due to a near-fatal accident from a biohazardous explosion at her former job.
She was taken to a facility that worked on robot-artificial limbs, her situation was far more advanced for just simple artificial limbs so they saved her brain and spine, the only human things left in her body, and put them in a far more advanced body hoping to have achieved the first succesful cyborg.
She survived and now works for a police/army force with others like her whos bodies were upgraded also..

Alliance: Earth

Appearance:
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Username: Gerakabatta

Name: Yasu Satsumaimo

Age: 20

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Occupation: Space thief

Weapons: None, but has the 24th century equivalent of a swiss army knife

Brief Biography: Spunky, rowdy, loud, energetic, impulsive, and obnoxious to some, Yasu is your common rookie space thief from the colony Machina Tuatha. She's on very good terms with the MARUs, always enjoying their company or even not minding when they swarm her.

Despite her heart being good and in the right place, she often goes overboard on things, especially of the unnecessary variety. That can sometimes just make the situation worse for herself and/or others. She's also not really that great a thief, as she usually makes (often humorous) mistakes. She's also of average intelligence, at best, and sort of technologically-challenged, not sweating the technical jargon and just going with what she knows. Also, if played right, she can easily be tricked and/or manipulated into doing something.

Yet, despite these faults, Yasu is very compassionate, a go-getter, strong-hearted, optimistic, and a steadfast friend, fighting for and holding on to what and who is dear to her until the very end.

Alliance: Machina Tuatha

Appearance:

Username: Vriska Serket

Name: Xander "The Shade" Tsill

Age: 24

Race: Cyborg bio-metal muscle replacement (sorta see bio for more details)

Gender: Male

Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Weapons?: MassDriver Rifle, Fists, GCS-2.3.16 (Gundanium Combat Speeder - series 2 model 3 variant 16).

Brief Biography: Former soldier for the lunar military, Xander earned the codename "The Shade" because he was almost never seen before he killed his target. As a soldier he was deployed as a sharpshooter, using metatron powered rifle to take down high priority targets. While on the battlefield he was exposed to a biological weapon that caused a muscular dystrophy and the military replaced his muscles with robotic substitutes, though he didn't opt for the reinforced skeleton, so his strength is that of a common human being. His platoon made a break for it during a skirmish on an Earth Defense Platform, the likes of which was detonated, the lunar military falling for a red herring, the likes of which they think ended up costing them one of their best assassinations teams. Turning his skill set toward the only legal option, Bounty Hunting. being declared as legally dead made it easy for him to move from place to place virtually unnoticed.

Alliance: Doesn't get involved in politics, but he ends up on Mars a lot more often then he would like.

Appearance: Standing approximately 6'3", Xander appears to be human, though the underside of his flesh told a different story. He often dressed in what would be described as semi formal (dark jeans, and various button-ups with silk vests, sometimes with ties during formal events). Eyes, amber, and his hair a messy dirty blonde.

Name:Caelus

Age:173 years

Race:Machine

Gender: Not specific speaks in a particularly male tone most likely the only one programed into it

Occupation: Probe

Weapons: None only dated scientific instruments and a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator.


Biography:
In conceived the year 2201 in hopes to further understand the finer workings of the outer solar system, and to also further expand human colonization the first space probe with a bio metal processor was conceived this probe would be named Caleus.
In the following years following 2201 work on had began at a feverus pace to complete the first stable Bio metal processor before the deadline of the winter 2203.
Three months before the deadline the frame and the brain of the space probe were finally brought together.
Once completed Caleus's mission was to scan each planet along its path to the outer solar system and map out the best areas to begin human colonization beyond Mars . Things like water, shelter ,mineral resources and extreme weather patterns were taken into consideration for the instruments that would be carried by the craft during its flight.
On December 1, 2203 Caleus was brought above orbit via shuttle and transported to the Technora mass driver facility ,after several days of preparation Caleus would begin its journey to the outer planets and the edge of the solar system. December 5, Caleus launched without incident beginning what was planned to be a ten year long mission , unfortunately that was cut short.
Six years latter in 2209 and almost to the end of its mission , passing Neptune and headed in to the Kupper belt there was a collision severely damaging the high gain antenna array of Caleus.Despite this system was severely out dated, it had been the most reliable and tested transmission method used since the early years of space exploration.
Now unable to communicate its telemetry back to earth Caleus was fated to become another piece of space debris , that was until 2373 the day of awakening.
Caleus now able to decide it's fate had made the decision to attempt to return home after being set adrift for 173 years.
Alliance: Earth

Appearance: A large white cylinder with a large damaged high gain dish antenna on the rear. the front and sides are dominated by instrument panels , cameras and thrusters.