Zhangmei

**Key Features** | »Enel BFG-21 Anti-Material Rifle»Dual Kampilan sword»Satellite drone (solar-powered)»Traditional Peranakan dress»Princess tiara (pure platinum)

*"War is an art, and I am the poet!"*

- Zhangmei

## Tactical Analysis

* **The Art of War:** Zhangmei is at every time ready for action. Nothing on the ground is safe from Zhangmei. Her Enel BFG-21 is a multi-purpose anti-material sniper rifle, which punches gaping holes into vehicle armour and concrete as well as blasts heads from the bodies of enemy infantry. And enemies who think she's vulnerable in melee will she that she's an eskrima master with her swords, Zhangmei is always equipped for the task needed thanks to her competent and long schooling in the art of offense and defense

* **Eyes in the sky:** In addition to her weapons, Zhangmei can also call down a satellite drone, stolen and reverse-engineered from the IPDI. Once over the targeted area the drone will begin to relay data to both her and any ally forces below it, not only buffing them beneath its command range but also debuffing enemies inside. But it will shut down after some time and can be easily shot down by AA weaponry.

* **Sword and Shield:** Zhangmei is the sword, her drone friend is the shield. Literally so. Using a reverse-engineered shield generator from the Atomic Kingdom of China in combination with an Allied black hole device commonly used on Assault Destroyers, the drone renders enemy fire almost completely harmless.

* **Revolutionary Princess:** Her unique, graceful way to battle has earned her the nickname *"Princess of War"*, surprisingly goes along well with the title of the Guilds, despite them being syndicalists. While hard to enemies, she still respects the strength and honour of friends and foes alike.

## Background

**Zhangmei**, or rather the young woman given this name since it is most likely a code, acts as the commando unit of the Guild. Regarding her personal life, not much is known about her, apart from being of Singaporean origin, and famous for her self-controlled honourable way of fighting in a world that regards honour more often than not as a mere inconvenience. Due to her life-long training, she is an expert with almost all known modern and semi-modern firearms and melee weapons, from daggers and swords to various rifles up to and including tanks and artillery of all classes.

She also is an expert swimmer, holding various records in her home country and the surrounding regions as well as being exceptionally atheletic and able to effortlessly carry equipment another person her age would likely quickly tire upon.

Her standard-issue weapon, or at least what she regards as such, is a custom-fitted sniper-rifle with multi-purpose ammo for warfare against human, vehicular, and immobile targets to land and water alike. Made from a special stainless alloy, this weapon which is longer than she is tall, is surprisingly light but still very sturdy and equally surprisingly low on recoil. She still needs to kneel or lay down to fire it, though.

Her secondary choice is a pair of kampilans made from stainless steel, sharp enough to cut a man-sized target outfitted with body armour in two in a single strike. She only uses it when absolutely necessary though, since unlike most Guild units she has a very high range and likes it this way.

## Known Activities

* Fought with her arch-nemesis Broken Arrow of the Indo-Pacific Defense Initiative on at least one occasion; Zhangmei was ordered to search and destroy a supply depot when Broken Arrow herself showed up. She immediately targeted and shot her, but Broken Arrow took cover and returned fire with her grenades, and through clever use of smoke grenades and suppressing fire Zhangmei closed in and nearly ended Broken Arrow in melee, her skill in eskrima beating out her opponent's basic knowledge of fencing. Were it not for Broken Arrow calling down a nerve gas airstrike on top of them Zhangmei would have ender here there.

* Helped escorting Chinese refugees to one of the Guilds refugee camps but got caught in the crossfire of a skirmish. Surrounded by the AVRN and Vietcong, she used her survival training, skill, and instincts to find and eliminate enemy snipers and, searching the area, found and destroyed a key location, distracting both sides for her to lead the refugees to safety.

* Sunk a Soviet Dreadnought in a fleet attacking an Indonesian naval base with an unconventional tactic in that she sent her drone underwater and towards the ship, and by activating its satellite to pinpoint a V4 missile on deck she she shoots to explode, sinking it.

## Behind the Scenes

* In the beginning just a (semi-random) picture from an image host, Zhangmei was quickly developed and thought out, being retrofitted into the Pahit Faction's lore and combat doctrine. And then retrofitted yet again as the Guild commando, replacing Victoria.

* Originally Zhangmei was supposed to be armed with a rifle stylized like a musket, this changed when a photo of her new weapon came up, the very real and very BIG *"Denel NTW-20"*. The acronym in the type name, BFG, stands for the comical designation used for such weapons, *"Big Fu\*\*ing Gun"*.