Legate

**Key Features** | »Seismic hand cannon»Circular saw axe»Mythril shield»Pickaxe»Meal Backpack (calzones and beer)

*"Rock and stone!"*

- Motto of Deep Rock Mining Inc
## Tactical Analysis

* **We dig dig dig:** Forming the bulk of the Dawuardins mining force/militia. The Legate is probably the most heavily armoured infantry on earth, even more at the front thanks to their mythril shield, and completely uncrushable, equipped with a seismic "pickaxe" pistol that rips apart thin vehicle and aircraft plating and pulverize the bones of infantry.

* **Chainsaw good:** Against heavier targets, the Legate would switch to his circular saw axe, often used to cut through the heavier rocks in the Hollow Earth. It works just as well in ripping through battlesuits and tank plating, letting them handle tanks with ease compared to most infantry.

* **Wasted on cross-country:** If there is a major flaw in the Legate, is that they have a horrible combination of slow speed and pathetically short range. Even infantry with average speed can easily kite the Legate, even more so if they're skirmishers. And the cost of their equipment and training makes them one of the most expensive infantry.

* **Deadly over short distances:** With some dangerous, and unlicensed, modifications. A Legate is able to intensify their cannons shockwaves so that the suspensions of vehicles are completely broken, leaving them immobilised, and be given runic boots that give them a boost of speed when they charge, making it easier for them to close in on their target for a chainsaw massacre!

## Operational History

Due to the limited space within the hollow earth, particularly farming space, and the dangers within, whether it be Kumun raiding bands or simple cave-ins. All Dawuardin, once they reach adulthood at eighteen, are sent to the workforce as apprentices based on their prior education, whether it be craftsmen, brewers, farmers, or soldiers. But the majority of young Dawuardins would join the mining legion and become a **Legate**.

Consisting of roughly half of the Confederations miners. The Legates are often tasked with mining ore veins or carving new tunnels with their seismic "pickaxe", pistol-shaped tools that fires a seismic wave that causes loose and brittle rocks to crumble at a (relatively) safe distance, and for much hardier rocks, they can carve them open with their circular saw. Their mining suits are made out of special shock-absorbing fabric and mythril plates, and a mythril shield lets them survive any potential cave-ins and/or gas explosions.

Initially, the Dawuardin never had a proper military since the seven clans of the Confederation were laborers, the six clans that were separated from them and became the Zharrkan were the military clans, with the closest to the military being the clan Naraka-Zarak, but even they were weapon *manufacturers,* not *soldiers*, and during the first few years the Dawuardin never needed a military since the area they mined was relatively peaceful, save for a few easy to exterminate bugs. All of that changed when they dug deeper and found the Kumun.

Truthfully, no one knew who antagonized the other first, the Dawuardins will gladly say that Kumun started invading their territory, stealing their tools and riches, and killing their miners out of jealousy and sloth, the Kumun refutes that it was the Dawuardins who began invading their space and stealing from their mines. No one knows who started it, and now neither side cares.

What is known is that for the first few years when they met the Kumun began conducting sudden raids on Dawuardin mining teams, overwhelming them with numbers and ripping their miners to pieces. And though the Dawuardin tried their best to fortify the Kumun's superior numbers and tunneling skills (which they loath to admit is superior to theirs) meant they could circumvent their defenses and swarm them.

Initially, the Dawuardin did try to make a standard military, unfortunately they lacked the knowledge on military structures and command, they were workers, not soldiers, and even if they could make a military more than half of their people were miners who were too occupied to wield military weapons. Until the fateful battle of Tunnel 15.

What would have been another tragic death of a mining team soon turned into an unexpected victory when one of the Legate, in desperation, took his seismic pick, broke off its limiter, and fired. To his surprise his cannon had pulverised a Kumun's bones, leaving him as a blob of agonising flesh, the results leaving the nearby Kumun in shock before panicking. Seeing what happened the other Legates quickly started to break their cannon limiters and fired back, even if their shots had missed it would detonate the surrounding rocks to knock back the Kumun. And for those that got close the Legate, emboldened, pulled out their circular saw and fought in melee, their diamond-toothed saw easily carving through the Kumun's armour, flesh, and bones. Though the casualties were still high the damage the miners did to the Kumun had forced them to retreat.

Seeing the effectiveness of their mining equipment. A new reform was passed where their miners were now trained in combat, creating the Mining Militia. With newer seismic cannons that had a variable limiter, letting it double as a weapon.

## Just the Stats

 **Armour Type** | Talon Steel Battlesuit

 **Kill Reward** | 4000

 **DPS** | 300

 **DPS** | 600

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