Eventide

**Eventide Media** is a major entertainment media company in the Ketano region alongside having international stations around the globe due to their connection to Motisan Communications. Collaborating with Afterimage to broadcast the Super Modified League's races, they decided to join the league after a disagreement with Moti-Com engineers caused them to develop their own unique AG Drive system that gives them unparalleled agility and even limited aerial movement.

## Important People

### Key Figures

Rin Aruno (Race Engineer)Dan Kanaloa (Mechanic)

### Known Drivers

Mako Kanaloa (#1 Driver)Kio Aruno (#2 Driver)

## History

**Eventide Media** was founded in 2040 by a group of producers and actors to create amazing films in the local Ketano area, creating many cult classics on debut like "Absolute Zero", "Trailblazer", and "Neon Nights" being amongst their most famous films. Their growth was rapid with every release grossing incredible amounts at local box offices. With all this funding, they had decided to branch out and created a streaming service division to create their own shows as well. These ended up becoming incredibly well received as well due to the high quality and care put into every episode. By 2050, they had become one of the largest entertainment companies on the planet, and as such, had a lot of financial muscle. However, they couldn't get the exclusive rights to broadcasting the most popular sport on the planet, which was the Super Modified Auto Racing League.

About a year after expressing desire to broadcast the league in 2034 when it was still developing but reaching a popular state at the time, Motisan Communications came forth with an offer: they buy Eventide, and provide the funds needed to exclusive broadcasting rights. Taking the opportunity near immediately, they ended up entering a partnership with Afterimage Media to broadcast the league in near perfect quality with exclusive rights to broadcasting and advertising. With this, they had decided it was finally time to enter the league as a competitor, but originally as part of Moti-Com's team. However, this wasn't going to last.

Moti-Com's engineering team and Eventide's development team had the same AG Drive research and blueprints from Whirlwind, but disagreed greatly on the direction they should go, with Moti-Com focusing on the practical application in a race, and Eventide, in their own words, wanted to "ball so hard that we can literally jump over the other driver and do a flat spin because that would be funny and entertaining." As such, they split from each other, and ended up going in wildly different directions. Moti-Com's vehicles ended up powerful all around vehicles with strong shielding... but Eventide's was truly a special craft, being programmed to fire off impulses of Anti-Gravity force to propel the car up, or spin it around. Dubbing these moves the "Afterburner Jump" and "Combat Spin", they somehow managed to get approval from the league with flying colors, praising their creativity and abilities to make the impossible happen.

Eventide's vehicles outside of this ability are strong in performance but weak in combat like many other teams, with a high top speed and acceleration alongside handling, but their light shielding and rapid shield consuming AG-Drive can tend to prove to be an issue with this team's performance, often landing them in a DNF position due to being eliminated. When they *aren't* out of the race, however, they tend to place incredibly high with their stunt AG Drives providing them a major advantage in many scenarios.

While they have a rivalry with their parent company, they are surprisingly more successful than them, despite being inconsistent. A team that chose to be unique over being practical, their choice paid off in spades and gave them a much needed advantage over many other teams in the league. Eventide, with their exclusive broadcasting rights, is here to stay in the league and is happy to be there.

## Super Modified Info

> *"A huge organization in charge of multiple different services with money to burn, the Sunset based Eventide Media brings to you their own entry into Super Modified: a high tech vehicle oriented and custom built for stunt maneuvers and quick reactive moves. While shielding has essentially been disregarded as something of a "dragger" by the vehicle development team, their unique ability to combat spin, thrust-jump, and dodge through fire makes up for the lack of shielding."*
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- Super Modified Game Guide

Eventide truly has something game changing on their hands; literally. Their controls actually act differently from normal teams, requiring the use of Afterburner to commit to actions. This does remove the *actual* afterburner system, but it still consumes shield energy. Double tapping the afterburner button causes the team to jump, and holding and double tapping one of your steering buttons causes the vehicle to spin 180 degrees, allowing you to shoot backwards before moving forward. Double tapping the afterburner right after a combat spin will cause the vehicle to boost forward at the cost of 25 shield energy. Afterburner jumping costs 10 energy as well.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* **THERE IS NO AFTERBURNER ON THIS TEAM'S VEHICLES.**
	+ Afterburner jumping can allow you to skip some sections of different tracks; albeit, you need to actually hit a checkpoint for your placement to count.
	+ You can use the jump to re-angle your car on tight turns, though the rotation isn't as strong as Whirlwind's.
* Without the stunt capabilities, this team is incredibly agile. Take that and use it to bob and weave through heavy fire.
* Take risks, but watch your shield energy. Remember how much each move costs to do.

## 2058 Background

*A major media broadcasting company with exclusive rights to the Super Modified Series, Eventide has joined to show what they're capable of with an AG drive and enough brave pills compared to their current parent company, Motisan Communications.*

*This island based team has brought some of the most unique vehicles in the league yet. While it is apparent that they did borrow some AG-Drive designs from 2 other teams, they do use them for a much different purpose. Eventide Media's vehicles can pull off feats unthinkable to most other vehicles, like the Combat Spin: a fast maneuver that turns the vehicle 180° to fire forward facing weapons backwards, and the ability to hop with their AG drives.*

## 2058 Message

**Eventide Media Streaming Trailer for the 2058 Season**

"The league returns for another round, with beloved series competitors and new teams alike entering the fray, like the trailblazing Europa Spaceworks team and the giant Reflex-AG, both looking to make a major impact. Orca and Markza's iconic rivalry is about to be shaken up this season, as well, with Riptide-AW from the inception of the league making their major return, looking to give Orca one hell of a wake-up call.

All that and more this season, on the only place you can watch it, Eventide Streaming."

## Gallery

Eventide's Liberty Walk Murcielago, used in Super Modified class.
## Trivia

* Eventide's name and basic premise comes from the analog horror series Eventide Media Center; while the series is long gone and the team wildly frayed off from the inspiration, it still carries a remnant of it as part of it's visual identity: the Penrose Triangle as the logo.