Heatscapers

The Heatscapers are the melee hitman sub-division of Phlanange. They have the highest **a*gility*** among all the divisions, granting them powers such as strong dashes, double jumping and "heat sprints".

They are able to quickly eliminate any target with their powerful Heatblades.

## Lore

### ***Creation***

The Heatscapers originated from the insanity of a human member of Vortex Engineers. The engineer's true name is unknown, however the ones who tell his tales call him Dr. Conflagrator.

Dr. Conflagrator researched heat. Which was a real struggle for the whole Void Civilization, especially for Phlanange Sentinels. His objective was to create components that could make any individual heat-proof.

The current armor for **Heatscapers** was the last design made by him. He achieved in creating a heat-proof suit, made with an unknown type of stone and Heat Sycns.

### ***The Doctor's Flaw***

The last suit design by Dr. Conflagrator had a major flaw, that being internal heat. The suits themselves were heat proof, however due to the nature of the stone used, it had major gaps, which made the inside of the suit extremely hot. Dr. Conflagrator was always alone in the experiment, causing him to be the only one to try out the various suit designs. During his latest experiment, which occurred in a PMRD lab, Dr. Conflagrator cluelessly went inside a heat chamber while wearing the suit, causing him to suffer while his skin melted, merging with the suit.

Due to the degrading mental health of Dr. Conflagrator and his obsession with heat, he **went insane**, and without consciousness, controlled the heat chamber to overheat the laboratory, causing it to completely melt.

### ***The Ethereal Conflagrator Aftermath***

After losing consciousness for hours, Dr. Conflagrator woke up in PMRD medical room. Knowing what he had achieved his goal, the last suit prototype was never changed after the incident. To avoid anyone else from suffering and binding themselves to the suit, Dr. Conflagrator designed an ethical human cloning method to create the **Heatscapers**.

The process of cloning humans for the suit had to have machines and physical modifications involved, therefore making Heatscapers ***CYBORGS***.

### ***Doc's Concern***

After realizing that every single suit had the ability to control heat itself, the Doctor was finally satisfied. He had mastered what he had dreamed of doing.

However, there was a major concern in the Heatscapers' cloning processes. *They had no empathy nor feelings.*

Dr. Conflagrator believed this was a major flaw because unlike humans, robots are not able to think like most humans, which would cause the Heatscapers to not be able to control their minds and make decisions based on emotion, which would consequently turn them into murdering and hitman machines, rather than the respected and loyal samurais he was trying to create.

This made him develop a huge anger and jealousy for Doctor D. Crim, who had made Heatfarers and kept their heat-proof technology a secret. Dr. Conflagrator knew the Heatfarers were the only Combat division that had empathy and feelings.

After the disappearance of Doctor D. Crim, Dr. Conflagrator had an insanity attack, causing him to destroy half the labs looking for Doctor D. Crim, and then went running away into The Outlaws' land, desperately looking for him with murderous intents.

After the myths going around the Facility, Dr. Conflagrator became known as ***The Ethereal Conflagrator,*** for his amazing power and excellence in combat, with the suit that became his new body.

### **Beliefs**

Heatscapers have true respect for their missing founder. His abilities are unknown, however, PMRD affirms that his powers are unique and indistinguishable compared to the most skilled **Heatscapers**.