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See more Name Diana Hip Trick Vandalere Age 27 Outlook Usually found in a black, skin-tight bodysuit with a gun at her hip, a healthy tan and very long, black wavy hair and green eyes , 5'5 167cm, 139lb 63kg Home colony FC FreeCom Free Conglomerate Specialization Powered Infantry Officer, Duelist Bio If you are born in a FreeCom slum, you have three options. Military service, back-breaking and poorly paid work, or a life of crime. Diana chose both. Criminal families in the FC paid good money to enforcers with military training, and Diana figured it was a safe bet to join the military, do her time, acquire some hardcore survival skills and then become a mercenary for the crime lords. Diana was quickly found to have awesome reflexes and hand-eye coordination which were boosted further through soft implantation the practice of using organic materials with artificial cores rather than purely artificial modifications, cheaper in the long run and easier to maintain, though less powerful over-all. These made her into a hip-shooting maestro, and also helped support her more than considerable outwardly physical assets. Moreover, they allowed her to use power armor in a way few soldiers can manually. That is, overriding some of the automated movement processes and routines to give the soldier more control, something ill-advised for anybody that has not gone through extensive modification or simply lacks the talent for unassisted powered movement. Diana was found to have the latter, and became a minor celebrity in the FC through her televised demonstrations of hip-shooting in power armor. What nobody expected was the start of a civil war in the FC. Cities burned when a few criminal families banded together and tried to obtain power through a campaign of terrorist attacks followed by more conventional means. This put Diana in a bit of a conundrum. If she fought for the government as she was supposed to, her plan to join the criminal underworld as an enforcer was shot. Nobody would hire someone with that baggage. If she joined the rebels, there would be hell to pay if the government won. However, there was another option, reasonably cleaner if less convenient. The government won the war in four years. Four years in which Diana acquired hard-won experience, a number of promotions up to the rank of captain, and three female comrades she could trust with her life. With the end of the war and the draw-down of forces, the young woman had the chance to stay in the military and make a career of it, but chose an honorable discharge instead. It was time to join the private sector with her team and make some real money. GearMech The Black Hun power armor is held as the highest standard in military hardware for heavy infantry all throughout the galaxy. Though it adds a few inches of height to a soldier, it keeps the warrior at a reasonable size to engage in infantry warfare including urban combat, infiltration and boarding actions. Most importantly, the Black Hun is very modular and possesses a power system good enough to allow a soldier to carry four times his own weight, or exert strength to an equivalent level. This suit makes an infantryman a threat to anything smaller than a medium-sized mech unless special countermeasures are employed. The sensors and communications systems in the suit are state-of-the-art, and Dianas suit in particular includes a command and control module with advanced anti-ECM measures, environmental mapping sensors, and an anti-jamming system. This puts her ability to draw an accurate picture of the battlefield and transmit it to her comrades easily on the level of command-focused mechs, which is in line with the FCs military doctrine of having the infantry act as scouts and commanders for mech pilots. One of these suits is several times cheaper than a mech, but power armor is way more advanced than even the latest mech, so it is difficult to obtain and a pain in the ass to repair. It is no wonder the spare armor suits and parts Diana and her team put together are kept under lock, and only Diana herself knows how to get through them without tripping cunning and cruel booby-traps that will make any would-be thief regret even thinking about stealing them. Team Diana needed people she could trust as part of her infantry team, both in and out of the battlefield. She hand-picked them from those she fought with on the battlefield. Elena Elena is the team medic, trained for battlefield stabilization but with no real knowledge of in-depth surgery. Her job is to keep her teammates alive until they can be evacuated. Carries the standard combination of rifle, grenades frag, stun and EMP, but most importantly, medical supplies including artificial blood, tourniquets, suit resealers and other equipment of that type. Not particularly interested in medicine, but keen on marrying a well-off surgeon and having a house somewhere in actual nature. Marielle Marielles job is to lay down suppressing fire, but there are more tools to do this nowadays than just a machinegun. While she enjoys using her .50cal HMG, smart mini-missiles and autonomous mines are very much in season and she has learned to use these to devastating effect. Easily recognizable on the field for the massive backpack in which she carries the munitions for whatever weapon she chose to bring that day. Big fan of old techno music, back when it was still all about the beat, instead of the more modern combination of sound and micro-vibration drones. Crystal When an obstacle stands in the teams way, it is Crystals job to get rid of it. She is a breaching enthusiast, adept in the use of portable battering rams, explosive charges, good old kicking, and her baby a railgun that doubles as an anti-armour weapon, though it takes a very confident, very skilled, and very well concealed user to take on one of the big mechs and survive even with one of these. Crystal is enthusiastic, but not stupid, and it would take a very big bonus for her to try doing something like that. If Crystal is unaccounted for, it is best to look for her not under rocks, but under men. She used to be a prostitute before joining the military, and never did get rid of ALL the mods... Last edited Sep 23, 2018