Cryo Legionnaire

**Key Features** | »*"Eggs"* Neutron Scrambler Cannon»Surge armour pack»Tundralest leggings»X-1 *"Instinct"* personal armour»Brookly-faire sunglasses

*"Check out my ice sculpture!"*

- Cryo Legionnaire in the field

## Tactical Analysis

* **Everyone, chill out**: Cryo Legionnaires can stop entire enemy squads dead in their tracks using their neutron scrambler cannons, which slow surface targets, including unprotected infantry all the way up to entire facilities or armor divisions, and weakens their bond. Scrambled subjects, combined with the Legionnaire cryo equipment, are rendered immobile, and extremely delicate, which they easily shatter with only a few shots from their now standard-issue revolver. And they may look like they'd sink like a rock, yet Cryo Legionnaires are quite literally capable of skating across watery surfaces. By flash-freezing the water under their feet (thanks to FutureTech's innovative Tundralest leggings), Cryo Legionnaires are always on solid footing even at sea.

* **Let's thaw it out**: The heat stored in the Cryo Legionnaire's back-mounted surge pack, replacing their airbooster, may use to activate their surge active armour with an additional massive boost to speed. Due to the mass of their body armor and the heat generated while active, Cryo Legionnaires tend to come down hard on whoever stands in their way, easily shattering anything they scrambled and boiling infantry alive, and may use this to their advantage in close-quarters combat.

* **The cold shoulder**: The Legionnaire Initiative is one of many costly partnerships between R.U.N. and FutureTech Corporation, and the bill is footed by battlefield commanders seeking to requisition this elite, specialized forces, not to mention it also cost extra with needing Threat points. And, unlike their cryo cannon, the enemy can still shoot back even when immobile, and all of their weapons are useless at targeting aircraft.

* **Stay cool, communist pig**: With additional modifications to their suit. R.U.N. has been able to mount a small sonic cannon below the Cryo Legionnaires' cannon (though the revolver has to be discarded for the required space), not only increasing their damage but also letting them detonate any explosive gel, but with how stretched out their equipment and tools are, only a few Cryo Legionnaires, mainly those who served the longest, are given the upgrade.

## Background

The Cryo Legionnaire is a unit most often seen patrolling Allied Cryo Prisons. More heavily armoured than traditional infantry, and equipped with jump packs, the Cryo Legionnaires are among the heaviest infantry in the world (short of Syndicate battlesuits), and are capable of freezing many enemy units simultaneously with their cryo-cannons. Despite this, they rarely see any action, due to their main work being to prevent any dangerous criminals to ever terrorize the world again. Even though they never became full combat infantry, they operate in a similar, if less offensive, role as the popular Rocketeer.

Before they were assigned to guarding prisons, FutureTech, the main designer of all cryo-based weaponry, attempted to put forth their use as combat infantry. FutureTech had even sponsored the Marvel comic book series "The Amazing Cryo-Man" in order to promote the idea, and even flew Cryo Legionnaires in parades across the Allied Nations. Official complaints from the Rocketeer Corps combined with how cost-ineffective the Cryo Legionnaires proved in combat prevented them from ever fully achieving frontline combat status. After all, Captain Rocket is the REAL hero of the Allied Nations! And besides, they have the much better, and actually combat-trained, Freeze Keepers.

## Back into business

Though, in combination with Futuretechs love for turning a profit and R.U.N.'s desperation for advanced equipment, Cryo Legionnaires can be called down via a Tactical Uplink, but, due to the combination of wanting to keep their cryo tech a secret, their dealing going underneath the Allies approval, and to protect themselves within enemy territory, all Cryo Legionnaires have their cryo cannon and airboosters replaced with a Neutron scrambler and Surge armour on arrival, keeping their now non-indictive name to ensure deniability, and are equipped with old Webley revolvers, which has enough power to shatter anything they scrambled.

## Behind the Scenes

The Cryo Legionaire, as with any Uprising unit, will be re-implemented into other PEQAN PIES factions, mainly the more grey/evil counterpart of the original three.

EA seems to have drawn inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger's infamously horrible (though comedically so) portrayal of the Batman supervillain Mr. Freeze for the Cryo Legionnaire, as well as the original Chrono Legionnaire from RA2. But mostly Mr. Freeze.