Scale-Up

**Scale-Up Moving Co.** is, by name, a respectable local moving company in Metro Meridian. While their business is respectable, the founder, **Ivory Novak**, has a bit too much money... and also has no clue how to file taxes. As such, she opened up a racing team in order to get rid of a ton of cash so her taxes wouldn't be as high, but also have a bit of income from the events alongside giving the league a much, MUCH bigger show of urban force than you'd expect from a moving company.

## Important People

### Key Figures

Ivan Parkov (Race Engineer)Xenia Massimo (Mechanic)

### Known Drivers

Hestia Braun (#1 Driver)Hiroka Aurino (#2 Driver)

## History

Scale-Up Moving Co. was founded in 2049 by Ivory Novak and Hestia Braun in 2049, after they had graduated university in Metro Meridian. While the early years were somewhat rough, they became quite successful, mostly due to the fact they had a good location, and were offering services at a low but fair price. As such, their business grew rapidly, they hired more people, made business deals with the other businesses around and grew slightly bigger but still stayed local in Metro. This caused Ivory to have quite a cut of the profit, more than she knew what to do with it. Trying to avoid getting massive income taxes from the city, she scoured the local scene to see what was popular, and stumbled upon a massive money sink that would be amazing for PR: Super Modified. Subverting 50% of her profit and asking the other 3 employees to help, Scale-Up became an official racing team in 2050, though had to build up their roster of vehicles and had to figure out how to become successful with barely any ideas on what to do with the excess of money.

Properly figuring out that weapons were the most expensive components, Ivory seeked out Markza CNC and asked (politely) if her team could purchase some as well. They denied her the chance due to their fresh status, so they had decided to work with Nikita instead, purchasing the highest power weapons, but with these weapons, their vehicles were heavy and had poor speed alongside no energy for shielding. As such, they had to rely on the high acceleration and raw weapon power to make places, which got them into hot water with the iconic pacifist team Hanrai Innovations, causing them MANY early eliminations ever since Scale-Up was registered in an official race. However, their creation of rivalries with popular teams doesn't stop there.

Markza had recruited a new backup driver, Hiroka Aurino, who was used to piloting vehicles with heavy weapons like APCs in 2052. Finding an opportunity to get a secondary driver, Ivory chose to counteroffer with higher pay and an opportunity to drive a vehicle that was like what she was used to, which she took instantly. Losing their secondary backup driver, Markza was quite frustrated, assuming the move was out of spite due to denying them weapons years before. As such, Markza started instructing their drivers to start targetting them out of principle and anger. This anger hasn't subsided for 6 years, the rage persisting into the 2058 season as both teams have lost millions of dollars due to skirmishes between the teams that cause a major spectacle on screen, which drives viewership up, but costs sky high.

Scale-Up's cars are incredibly strong and powerful in terms of their raw damage output, with some of the highest damage ingame, but the problems they have offset this. Low top speed, poor shields, and sluggish handling make these vehicles difficult to survive in, which has caused some rough early eliminations from freelancers who drive with them consistently.

Though their rivalries with 2 major teams may hinder them, Scale-Up is here to stay, and give one hell of a PR show while they're at it. While they can be easily outclassed in most scenarios, the damage they have is incredible, and the underdog nature of this team has gained them a scattered but dedicated fanbase. Their tenure in the Super Modified League seems like it'll keep going, to the disdain of some, but to the pleasure of many.

## Super Modified Team Info

> *"Heavily armed, Scale-Up intends to win through a good fight rather through speed with the most powerful weapon systems legally available. High torque engines allow them to move the immense weight of their weaponry, but many compromises were made on shielding, top speed, and handling in exchange. You'd need to be either crazy or very good at driving to make any use of these guys..."*
> - Super Modified Game Guide
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Scale-Up has incredible weapon power and insane acceleration, which allows them to deal damage and keep up to the rivals they fire at, which encourages a relatively simple but powerful playstyle: keep up and pick off enemies from behind. This team would easily be described as a "glass cannon", with no shield but inherently high damage. Low shield vehicles are easy to pick off, but any vehicles with high damage and shield is this team's bane, as getting into a prolonged fight will drain the shields faster than the car can accelerate away. Avoid fights, but always bully other drivers with this team.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* Don't get into a firefight, your weapons won't save you if your shields are already shredded.
* Dodge and move through fire, and return fire when they least expect it to cause a significant dent and slowdown in their plans.
* Try and hang back, but if you need to and the race is about to end, fight to get to the front.

## 2058 Background

*While this may be a local team, Scale-Up Moving Co. has become somewhat established as the "Grim Reaper" of the league, with incredible weapon power due to their owner choosing to go all-in with their offense systems, as their performance suffers due to this. The ability to haul weapons seems to be from their focus to show their strength with moving boxes to moving weapons on a muscle car.*

*Their build has stayed the same in recent years, with their acceleration being the best it's been in years since 2050, but technical tracks with tight corners tend to be their weakest points, coming from their shakedowns from each local track.*

## 2058 Message

**Scale-Up Moving Co. Youtube Channel, January 19, 2058, Metro Meridian**

"Is... Is this thing on? Oh, crap, the... the red light's on, Ivory, take it away."

"Huh? Oh, CRAP? We're on NOW? Well, uhh, Hi guys! We're just working away here with our... pretty understaffed team- oh, hi Sky-"

"Hi. Just here for the donuts and coffee today."

"Great. We still have cronuts for you, they're on the 2nd box from the top. So... Yeah, we're just running the same loadout, I really don't have a lot of other things to say, other than... Hi, Markza, hehe. *We'll get you this time, we swear on it.* Sorry that you're on the wrong side, Kei."

## Gallery

Scale-Up's Shelby GT500, used in the Super Modified class.Scale-Up's Custom 2005 Mustang, used in the Super Tuner class.Scale-Up's 1969 Mustang, used in the Tuner class.
## Trivia

* Scale-Up is the first team not owned by AG-S, only designed by him.
	+ Said owner is AlterNate#1337.
* Scale-Up's first livery was not a car, but an AG-Ship, specifically for BallisticNG's G-Tek.