Neogale

Neogale is an evangelical "green" team dedicated to the preservation of the climate and human rights. While their followers are extreme at times, they have good intentions and are overall a force that has helped improve the league's carbon footprint by helping provide cleaner and more environmentally proactive solutions to internal problems. Joining in to promote and donate any winnings made from races to good causes, Neogale utilizes biodegradable materials for their vehicles' bodywork, making them incredibly lightweight & agile but also very fragile.

## Important People

### Key Figures

Asta Hendricks (Race Engineer)Asger Brusse (Mechanic)

### Known Drivers

Kira Ansel (#1 Driver)Zacio Van den Berg (#2 Driver)

## History

Neogale Research Developments was an activist group created in response to the global increase of carbon emissions and abusive spending of corporations using their vast wealth to avoid or worsen the problems to increase their own profits. They took notice to this and by spreading the message around on social media, they caused a major uproar around the world with entire citywide protests being caused by their actions. Because of this, they tend to not be well liked by many major corporations, and they have come forth with a message chastising those who chose to get violent or vandalize art pieces or others' vehicles, urging them to keep the protests peaceful. Despite this, these violent protestors still remain at times, tarnishing their name and their cause, and make it harder to get their message across.

They ended up helping fund a research group looking to create biodegradable compounds that don't cost much carbon dioxide to make and produce rapidly. This compound, which was almost akin to carbon fiber, was incredibly lightweight and also able to hold its form after being heated and molded. However, it was incredibly brittle, a simple whack against a wall could break a stick of the compound into 4 pieces. For most applications, this material, which they named "natural fiberglass" wasn't very useful. A material so easy to break that a single impact could easily break it into bits couldn't be useful for many applications.

Alongside this, the research group also created an incredibly refined biofuel that was essentially made out of 100% plant product, but the issue was that the mix consistently was a low octane mix. Because of this, it wasn't useful for a lot of bigger applications that stronger, higher octane fuel would be needed. Despite this, this biofuel mix still found its' way into a lot of places like large cities and small towns, where it became the most useful.

However, a new opportunity showed itself when one of the members at their main base of operations was watching the Super Modified League, examining the safety systems and making the realization that the energy shielding system could be a perfect way to protect their natural fiberglass. As such, they decided to attempt to become a team for the league, and with their status as protesting icons, they were allowed in with very little hesitation. As such, they chose to use small, more compact vehicles to reduce material use, alongside using converted high power engines converted to use biofuel, giving them incredible agility and acceleration, but because of how they chose to tune their gearing to invest in technical tracks with a punchier gear set, their speed is incredibly poor, and their combat is also on the bottom rung with below average shielding and even worse weaponry. As such, they tend to be a mid-pack runner in most races, but their ability to cut through the pack by weaving is one of their strongest abilities available to the team.

Though they may be very new to the sport with their first season being their tenure in the 2056 season, Neogale has made a positive impact on the world despite the reputation they've garnered.

## Super Modified League

> *"An aggressively evangelical "Green" team, Neogale takes their name after a genus of carnivorous minks in the Netherlands. Being entirely powered by a heavily refined lean biofuel mix that relies on a high torque engine to keep it burning at a consistent rate, their speed lacks, but due to how lightweight the fuel itself is and their consistent choices to use lighter and more eco-friendly materials allows them to have some of the best agility in the league... in exchange for any semblance of an active combat system, of course."*
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Neogale has 2 incredibly strong stats going for them: incredibly sharp handling, and extremely reactive acceleration. Forgiving to an incredible extent, their combat capabilities and top speed lack in exchange for being one of the easiest teams to handle in the league. Due to this incredible handling capability, technical tracks with sharp and aggressive corners are best suited to this team due to how fast their turns will end up being with the incredible acceleration out of a corner. While their handling is like that of Whirlwind, they do hold lateral momentum and can drift much easier, so take that into account for defense.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* Weave through the pack and move sporadically to avoid getting hit by weapons. Preserving shield for major moments where you need the boost in speed will matter on tracks with long straights.
* Avoid skirmishes in races, your weapons and shield do not have enough capabilities to last in a fight. Guide tracking or powerful weapons into other racers if you absolutely have to.
* Use your Afterburner sparingly. It's useful to get back up to speed, but your shield energy will NOT be happy with your choice to burn through 5% of it just to keep 3rd place.

## 2058 Background

*Neogale is a small team that consists of eco-friendly protestors and environmentalists from around the world forming a racing team to spread their message of making a cleaner world for all to live in... even if their followers' protest methods are a bit too aggressive.*

*Their commitment to low weight and the team's essence of not wanting to win through violence has led them to create an incredibly reactive and quick on it's heels roster of vehicles, with incredible acceleration and handling that nearly matches that of the Whirlwind AGU-01... though it does keep lateral momentum and can slide much easier.*

## 2058 Message

**Neogale Charity Event, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 18, 2058**

We are SO glad you guys could make it to support our cause today! We have some incredibly exciting announcements to make, so we'll try to keep it brief, but thank you all for your donations to our cause to building a greener world. With our materials research and biofuel mixes becoming better, stronger, and more pure, how could we not thank those who have helped fund our ventures into improving what we have?

Now, for the important announcements! Our natural fiberglass has finally been able to take TWO, count them, TWO impacts before breaking. Though it cracks easily still and it's difficult to stop from deforming, we still are very excited to admit that the material has become much more stable and hard to break! Alongside this, we managed to get the biofuel mixture to a slightly higher octane, which allows us to use more powerful engines in our league cars! We hope that this is enough to get us to the top, so the donations we can make to organizations that help preserve our world can be greater than ever.

We hope to see you cheer us on in the 2058 season starting in May! Thank you for attending!

## Gallery

Neogale's Civic Type R, used in Tuner class events.
## Trivia

* AG-S originally made this team as a satirical team that made fun of extreme climate protestors but came around to their concept of an agile eco-friendly racing team and gave them an actual story.
* Neogale is named after a genus of mink. AG-S still has no idea why he named them that, but he says it works.