Abdul Asih Bharucha

> *"It seems the Union's doggies have come out to play. Let's teach them to play dead." ~ Ishmael confronting JSF Cerberus with his brother, Daario Asih Bharucha.*
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## Abdul "Ishmael" Asih Bharucha

Ishmael in his praetorian armor, worn by Monolith operatives.

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Commissioned Officer of the Drunian Military

## Military Information

### Security Clearance

Classified

**Abdul Asih Bharucha**, more commonly known by his codename "**Ishmael"**, is a commissioned officer of the Holy Republic of Drunia military. Being one of the highest ranking officers in the Drunian black ops unit Monolith, Ishmael is one of the deadliest Ark pilots in the Drunian military, raining heavy firepower on enemy lines and fortifications. He, along with his younger brother, Daario Asih Bharucha, has been classed as a Hyper Lethal Vector by the Union Department of Investigation and the Union of Free Lands. He pilots the Ark *Hephaestus*.

## Appearance

### Ishmael

Ishmael is a man of average height and athletic build, standing at 5'10". He, like most Drunians, is dark-skinned and possesses brown eyes, and black, wavy hair. He has a scar underneath his right eye as a result of a piece of shrapnel grazing him in his earlier days.

### Hephaestus

Hephaestus is a hulking, humanoid monstrosity of armor and munitions. Gunmetal gray armor thick on his body, the most notable part of Hephaestus' design is his highly angular head, which contains his sensory receptors. His armor is accented with occasional olive greens/light browns. Mounted on his back is his most powerful weapon, a fusion missile launcher. Hephaestus stands at 25 feet tall.

## Personality

### Ishmael

Despite his high ranking and undeniable effectiveness on the field, Ishmael can be described as laid-back and even a bit childish, so much so that it has lead him to trouble with superiors more than once.

Ishmael, unsurprisingly, has a more sadistic side to him. He enjoys psychological warfare, and can be described as a master at it, some of his most disturbing acts including hanging dead Union soldiers on polls or nailing them onto crosses around FOBs he is overlooking, or spreading their entrails around streets, all in order to break the morale of his enemies or to cause them to feel fear. He does not take prisoners, unless he intends to torture them for information. Because of this, he is selected for siege operations, but is not considered suitable for valuable target extraction.

He does not derive pleasure from the acts themselves. Rather, he revels in their result - that is, the breaking of enemy morale.

### Hephaestus

Hephaestus is supremely confident in himself, hailing himself as "The Bringer of Hellfire". He has been entirely conditioned by his pilot to view any and all non-Drunian Arks as inferior, often taunting and insulting them during combat.

## Loadout (Pilot)

### Primary Weapons

* '**Metalstorm' A-12g (2)**: 12 gauge 10 round mag | Full Auto 300 RPM | N/A
	+ **Projection Holo Sight:** A non-magnifying holographic sight projected in front of the weapon that increases close range target acquisition and shot placement accuracy.
	+ **Verticle Foregrip:** Vertical forward grip that increases weapon accuracy while on the move.

### Secondary Weapons

* **TFM-454 (2): TFM-454:** 11.5x35mm 5 round cylinder | Single Action | 579 m/s (~1900 ft/s)

### Utilities and Augmentations

* **Fleas (1):** Independent autonomous explosive drones. You will gain 3 of these, and each autonomously tracks targets and blow up within a 1m radius unless they are destroyed.
* **Polarized Lenses (1):** Lenses on your Ark pilot's helmet are polarized, greatly reducing the disorientation received from flashbangs and other bright sources of light.

* **Screamer Mines (1):** Disc-like mines place onto the ground. Once a target enters its radius, the mine will be lifted into the air by a gas propulsion system and emit a deafening 170dB "screaming" noise, temporarily deafening and potentially permanently damaging the hearing anyone in the vicinity.

## Loadout (Ark)

### Affiliation

Drunian Military* Monolith

**Super Heavy Ark resource cost:** 35

### Basic Equipment

* **Basic Controls:** Gain a basic and intuitive set of controls for your Ark. Can be customized to accommodate limbs and attachments, or to work solely for specific limbs/attachments. Essentially, the user can customize the control scheme of their Ark to their desire, allowing for maximum comfort and combat capability.
* **Internal Status:** See your health, the well-being of your suit, and all relevant conditions (internal/external temperature, core temperature, part integrity, etc.). These statuses appear as a heads-up display on the viewing screen of your Ark.
* **Assisted Aim:** This ark-standard system helps give relative speed and distance from a target. This information is displayed on the Ark's HUD.
* **Vocal:** A built-in device that projects your voice outside of your suit up to 100m.
* **Sentient A.I.:** Gives the Ark a super-advanced A.I. capable of accurately replicating human emotions. A.I. is subject to being influenced by its pilot's behavior and personality. Though originally A.I. was used in Arks purely to assist Ark pilots in things such as combat analysis and statistics such as hull integrity, internal and external temperature, and the pilot's own health (which it could monitor through the use of the spinal implant), A.I. has currently advanced to the point where it can accurately replicate human emotions - though originally seen as a disadvantage, a majority of military psychologists suggested that the Ark pilot program kept this development after many experiments indicated that those with a Sentient A.I. installed in their arc exhibited greater mental health and cooperation than those who did not. However, some still choose not to install A.I. onto their Ark out of fear of becoming too attached to it.
* **Spinal Implant:** Undergo an intricate and painless surgery that attaches to an artificial, external spinal column on your pre-existing spine. Can link up to Ark and gain tactile feedback, extra limbs will feel and work functionally as if an innate part of yourself.

### Utilities

**Automatic Eject (5):** If the Ark sustains critical damage, then a
failsafe is activated wherein the pilot is automatically ejected from the Ark in order to prevent the pilot taking damage from the Ark's destruction.

### Defense

**Temperature Resistance (10):** Armor can operate in below zero and lava-like conditions, gains resistance to flame or frost based weaponry such as plasma cannons or cryo grenades. *-3 modifier for all attacks made with temperature-based weapons.*

### Weaponry

* **Melee Weaponry (10):** Melee weapons designed to be used by and damage Arks.
	+ **Boost** **Hammer:** A hammer with a mini booster engine installed into the back of its head. When swung at a sufficient speed (enough for any class of Ark to reach with the swing), the booster engine is activated and the hammer is further propelled by a rocket-like

 blast from the back of the head, delivering enough impact force to
nearly completely crush a tank's turret in a single swing. This hammer hits incredibly hard but is exceptionally cumbersome.

* **Heavy Ballistics (15):** 20~40mm cannons and autocannons count in this category, providing both anti-ark, anti-tank and anti-air

capabilities at the cost of a slow rate of fire and extreme recoil.

* **30mm Autocannon:** A slow-firing autocannon that can deliver unfathomable amounts of damage, shredding apart even Heavy Class Arks with sustained fire. Even a Super Heavy Class Ark has trouble controlling the recoil on this weapon. **30mm | 150 Round Belt-Fed | 500 RPM | 1,010 m/s (~3,324 ft/s)**

* **Fusion Missiles (25):** Launched missiles that must be locked onto a target (Cannot be dumb-fired). Armed with powerful warheads, these missiles decimate any normal target. Due to the complex structure and launcher, this weapon cannot be fired consecutively. Affects a 20m radius.

## Background

Abdul Asih Bharucha's past is shrouded in mystery, and not many know where he came from or who his parents even were. It has however been confirmed that he is of Drunian origin, and was born sometime during 2212, has a brother named Daario Asih Bharucha and was drafted into the Drunian military when he was 20 years old. Eventually, he and Daario would be enlisted to Drunia's utmost elite strikeforce, Monolith. Together, the two brothers would become among the most dangerous Ark pilots on Jeralis.

"Ishmael" has been sighted on the fields many times, and his presence on the field usually means at least one Ark Pilot will perish. His most notable feat was when he single-handedly took down two members of JSF Cerberus by himself, which, along with his brother killing an additional two members of Cerberus, lead to the liquidation of the JSF. This has put him near the top of the UDI's watchlist, and has made him a primary target for the UFL's military forces, along with his brother.

## Trivia

* Ishmael gets his name from the son of Abraham in Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam).
* Ishmael's Ark, **Hephaestus**, gets its name from the Greek god of fire.
* There are rumors that Ishmael's work on the field, specifically when he killed two members of JSF Cerberus, as put him under the eye of Unit 19, along with his brother.