History Characters / UniverseAtWar

* TwinkleInTheSky: One of his abilities is an AoE where all affected units are '''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome psychically launched into space,]]''' and then [[HumanResources converted into resources.]]

[[folder: Human Characters]]
!!Overview
The human military forces, caught off guard by the Hierarchy's invasion and otherwise outmatched in every way fail to mount any serious resistance against the Hierarchy's forces. Still faced with the prospect of their own extinction, the human race will fight to the death for the slim chance of victory.

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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Hilariously averted, the human race is kicked to the curb in almost every engagement and the US military (although holding out the longest) still failing to put up a decent fight.

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[[folder: Novus Characters]]
!!Overview

!!Mirabel and Viktor
The [[LastOfHisKind sole survivor]] of her race after the Hierarchy destroyed her homeworld, she was cloned by the Novus from genetic material found by them. Mirabel is a capable military field commander and a powerful asset on the field, being housed inside Viktor, a [[HumongousMecha 50-foot tall mech]] and her protector and friend.

* ActionGirl: Mirabel is not one to shy away from a fight.
* AllLovingHero: She wastes no time developing a kinship with the Humans due to them being the only sapient race they've ever been able to find before the Hierarchy destroyed and sacrifices the security of their portal back to their homeworld to save a few human vilages from the Hierarchy.
* CloningBlues: She was cloned by the Novus after her species went extinct so that there would at least be some part of them left alive.
* CommandingCoolness: Has the rank of field commander in the Novus military.
* DueToTheDead: It's implied that she would preform some ritual to honor the species the Hierarchy destroyed by her comment that she's "tired of digging graves."
* HumanAlien: Despite being stated that she's an alien, she looks completely human.
* LightningBruiser: Viktor is fast, takes a lot of damage, and can dish out plenty as well.
* LastOfHerKind: Due to her being cloned long after her species was rendered extinct by the Hierarchy.
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Despite talking in gibberish, Mirabel's retorts imply that Viktor is not concerned with being sent to "suicide missions" and is in fact looking forward to them.
* ShoutOut: Their visual design, abilities, and function together form a blatant homage to Japanese Gundam-type HumongousMecha.
* TheUnintelligible: Viktor's speech sounds like indecipherable electronic noise that barely even sounds like ''syllables'', but Mirabel always understands him perfectly.

!!The Founder
The leader of the Novus and the creator of their new purpose, to avenge their creators.

* CoolButInefficient: He's a melee hero but he's less durable than Viktor while dealing less damage. Being able to create Ohm Bots from resources sounds useful on paper but in practice is a waste of resources since most resource piles are worth more than the Ohm Bots his ability creates from them, plus Novus' [[WorkerUnit Collectors]] can fly and are replaced for free so it's generally better to send them into areas where there might be resources. His ability to turn into a Flow Conduit is situational since the player can easily set up one themselves due to their low cost, though he does have the unique and powerful benefit of being an ''infinite range'' conduit to which all other conduits automatically have a direct connection to regardless of distance, eliminating the need to move between more than three conduits to travel between any two points so long as he's in this stance.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Dies at the end of the Novus campaign keeping the home portal from destroying Earth and Novus' homeworld.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The leader of Novus, and is tied with Viktor for their largest machine.
* TheLeader: Of the Novus.
* MookMaker: Can create Ohm Bots from resource piles
* OurFounder: It's in his name, he founded Novus to defeat the Hierarchy.

!!Vertigo
A former guidance software, Vertigo is now a field commander for the Novus, specializing in stealth and information warfare.

* BodyUploading: His ability to "upload" and "download" objects creates a similar effect.
* CoolPlane: A jet with a [[InvisibilityCloak cloaking device]], the ability to digitize objects and carry them across the battlefield and to hack into enemy mechanical units and gain control over them.
* FlatCharacter: He doesn't play any large role in the campaign so there isn't much to his personality beyond quotes.
* FragileSpeedster: He's the single fastest-moving unit across all factions (discounting the Hierarchy Monolith's ability to flat-out teleport), but is also the only air unit hero, meaning he gets [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] by anti-air defenses just as quickly as any other air unit.
* InvisibilityCloak: Is equipped with a cloaking device.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: He seems to be the only unit of his model line Novus ever bothered constructing. Nobody ever comments on this ingame.

[[folder: Hierarchy Characters]]
!!Overview
A race of PlanetLooters who have rampaged throughout the galaxies and exterminated countless races and civilizations. They are currently targeting Earth.

* AliensAreBastards: They PlanetLooters who have wiped out a thousand worlds by their boasts, and the Founder states they consume all resources in the galaxy if not stopped.
* AlienInvasion: A love letter to old-timesy B-movie martians. CropCircles, [[AlienAbduction abduction]] of [[AliensStealCattle cows]] and people, and war machines that are either [[TripodTerror tripedal]] or [[FlyingSaucer disk shaped]]. Love of nuclear power that leads to ecological devastation and a ZombieApocalypse cocurrent with their assault.
* AttackItsWeakpoint: The Habitat Walker and Assembly Walker can't be destroyed by simply ordering units to attack them. It requires destroy specific hardpoints.
* BaseOnWheels: Or Base On Legs. The Hierarchy leadership sees no point in building permanent structures on planets they are going wipe out, so they use their huge walkers in place of buildings. Even their megaweapon is a giant robot.
* CurbStompBattle: How their invasion goes until Novus arrives. And they were holding so the invasion would last long enough to draw Novus out, on a normal day humanity would have been wiped out well before Novus arrived.
* DamageOverTime: They can upgrade their walkers and infantry to have their {{Plasma Cannon}}s doped with radioisotopes, causing lingering damage.
* EvilIsBigger: A trait across the faction. Their units are for the most part bigger than those of Novus and the Massari. That's without taking into account their walkers.
* FlatCharacter: They're given a completely bare-bones, paint-by-numbers characterization as an [[TheEmpire empire]] of PlanetLooters.
* FlyingSaucer: Their strategic transport in campaign/Conquer the World (complete with [[SpectacularSpinning inexplicable spinning]]), and a smaller version armed with plasma globules.
* TheGreys: How they look underneath their PoweredArmor.
* MightyGlacier: The Hierarchy units are generally the most powerful but are also the slowest. Their walkers are especially slow, but are the strongest units in the game and can instantly destroy buildings by stepping on them.
* MoreDakka: Loading walkers up with weapon hardpoints. In addition to their main guns, they can also mount an extra gun each leg. Habitat and Assembly Walkers can also mount bigger and stronger guns on their upper hardpoints.
* PlanetLooters: They invade planets and strip mine them once they've wiped out the indigenous life forms.
* TheUnintelligible: Even though their heroes speak intelligible dialogue, most of their units don't.


!!Kamal R'ex

The Underseer of Hierarchy remote mining operations with clear ambitions to advance beyond his current position. In an attempt to destroy out and destroy Novus, he holds back the Hierarchy invasion on Earth.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Very much so. Leading operations that exterminate planets isn't enough for him, even though he relishes in the destruction. He wants to advance all the way top of the Hierarchy leadership and will sacrifice anything or anything to do.
* BadBoss: He sees all soldiers beneath him as existing only the advancement of the Hierarchy and if they die they fulfill their purpose.
* BigBad: The leader of the Hierarchy invasion on Earth, though he takes his orders from the Overseers. He's ambitious that he doesn't aim to get promoted to their level, he wants to become their boss.
* GeneralRipper: Not only does he hold back his invasion to draw out Novus, he sacrifices his command ship and everything on it just to kill Mirabel and Viktor.
* GodhoodSeeker: Makes several remarks about attaining godhood over the course of the game.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Kamal does nothing to hide his ambitions. He openly boasts about how fighting the Masari will make him a legend and that destroying them will lead to the Overseers promoting him to the leader of the entire Hierarchy.
* {{Jerkass}}: He delights in the extermination of races by the Hierarchy, his own men mean nothing to him and he will gladly sacrifice any number of them for his own advancement.
* LargeHam: EvilIsHammy. Almost everything he says involves showing off his massive ego.
* PsychicPowers: The source of his attacks and abilities.
** DeflectorShields: Can create a wall than can't be walked or shot through.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He makes several AGodAmI remarks, but his official title is the somewhat unimpressive ''"Underseer of Hierarchy remote mining operations"''. In the leadership of the Hierarchy, which in his own words is extremely cutthroat, he thinks his victories will lead to the Overseers promoting him to their master.
* VillainousValor: He's all about himself, but he's no coward. He's brave enough to face Orlok himself and even when beaten at the end of the campaign he doesn't beg for mercy.
* TwinkleInTheSky: One of his abilities is an AoE where all affected units are '''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome psychically launched into space,]]''' and then [[HumanResources converted into resources.]]

!!Commander Orlok
The officer in charge of the Hierarchy ground troops. On a particularly difficult invasion he was mortally wounded and to prevent the moral blow that would have crippled the invasion, the Overseers put his mind into a giant robot body. While he has led the Hierarchy to countless victories, he has more recently grown to realize how the soldiers of the Hierarchy are seen as expendable tools and remorseful of the world destroyed.

* AFatherToHisMen: Hence why the Hierarchy army follows him.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's a black painted machine but he's a NobleTopEnforcer who sees the Hierarchy's invasion as the pointless slaughter they and wants to the waste of life in them to stop.
* TheDragon: To Kamal Rex.
* FourStarBadass: The general of the Hierarchy's armies under Kamal.
* HeelRealization: Has undergone one prior to the game. In his own words he sees the Hierarchy as a disease.
* HumongousMecha: Even bigger than Viktor.
* LargeHam: Not as much as Kamal, but it's pretty clear his able to inspire his men also comes from his use of words and being able to fight.
* MightyGlacier: The slowest hero in the game, but also the strongest.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He used to provide the page quote.
* NonIndicitiveName: Assault "Mode" is really just a specific cooldown attack of his, as he immediately uses up all of his ammo when he enters it and automatically exits it aftwerards.
* ShoulderCannon: His main weapon is a back mounted one.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: A heroic example. He starts plotting with Nufai to overthrow Kamal, and eventually the Overseers. Fails after being beaten by Kamal and Nufai turns on him.]]
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Assault Mode involves him firing artillery shells out of ''the top of his head.''

!!Commander Nufai
An alien whose planet was invaded by the Hierarchy. Seeing the invaders were going to win he betrayed his race in exchange for a position in Hierarchy leadership. He still looks out for the best opportunity for his own advancement.

* AmbiguousSituation: He's already the LastOfHisKind even at the very start of the game, so it's never made clear if his opportunistic and Machiavellian personality was [[PlanetOfHats the norm]] or not for his race.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Just like Kamal, he wants to advance his position at any cost.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Takes this role from Orlok after his death.]]
* LastOfHisKind: By his own doing.
* WolverineClaws: His main form of attack

[[folder: Masari Characters]]
!!Overview:

%%* BadassBaritone

* FlyingSaucer: Their strategic transport in campaign/Conquer the World (complete with [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning inexplicable spinning]]), and a smaller version armed with plasma globules.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Nuclear radiation triggers their HealingFactor and acts as an Area-Denial System.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His name means "Perfect King."

* Catchphrase: "Aw, hell".

* TheHypnotoad: Can hack into an enemy mechanical unit and temporarily gain control over it.

* FlatCharacter: They're given a completely bare-bones, paint-by-numbers characterization as an [[TheEmpire empire]] of PlanetLooters. The one saving grace in this department is that they were given the name they were specifically to Avert the trope of the evil conquering nation in fiction always being referred to as an Empire.

* TwinkleInTheSky: One of his abilities is an AoE where all affected units are '''psychically launched into space,''' and then [[HumanResources converted into resources.]]

** DeflectorShields: Can create a wall than can't be walked through or shot throw.