Galaxy Gears: The SRW-style space opera (Sign-ups and interest thread)

Bookmarking this so I can join when we get a computer.

Just gotta figure out how I can buff a Jaeger and a Battle Mech so that they can be on par with the other robots here.

I'm going to be adding a mech that is 13.5m tall, and quite speedy. The fun thing about Super Robot Wars is that every mecha is upped to such a level where it can fight. Which is why Chirico can kill the Anti-Spiral with a pistol.

So by definition, just having a mecha here means they are upped to super robot power.

you will fit in perfectly

Again. Is Z.o.E Vic Viper "conventional enough?

sorry for the late reponses, was kinda hoping kirb would be here but evidently he is AWOL atm

@Ominae: Yes to both, mid-season upgrade is always an SRW staple and altering the mechs is fine

@Questor: mech approval is up to kirb. However I do think the Vic Viper is balanced enough that there wouldn't be any plot breaking problems, but like I said kirb has final approval.

Sorry I'm late again...gah, RL can be an ass somtimes

@Ominae: Yes to both for the same reasons.

@Questor: I need profile though, just to be sure.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, we should start off with one character each. Later on, we can add in 1 or 2 more characters into our roster.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:33:23 PM by MrKirb

Finally! Got a character and even drew their mech!

Pilot

• Name: Amber Barton
• Gender: Female
• Race: French-Taiwanese.
• Appearance: Tall, athletic build with slight tan, Green eyes, ginger hair, wears a custom pilot suit.◊
• Abilities/Skills/Powers: Standard Pilot training with exceptional aptitude in high speed maneuvers and fights.
• Inventory: Modified Ruger Blackhawk, Radio set, helmet and oxygen supply for pilot suit, Standard repair kit for her Mech and suit, multipurpose Compad for entertainment.
• Bio: Amber is a pilot for a Mech program by a company known as Silence Industries, she takes pride in her job and is basically told to "Show off the mecha and try to come back alive" which with the latter part. She intends to.

Mech

• Name: Zav Super
• Unit Type: Medium Range Speed Fighter
• Model Number: SIMA-09◊
• Height: 13.5 meters
• Manufacturer: Silence Industries
• Armor: Composite Carbon Titanium Alloy
• Abilities/Powers: High speed maneuverability, twin anti-personnel autoguns mounted in head, Eject system surrounding Cockpit, intense computing power to calculate all high speed changes and tactics
• Inventory: Beam Rifle, Beam Pistols, Heavy Assault rifle with Underbarrel Cannon, Beam Saber
• Technology & Combat Characteristics: It utilizes advanced plasma thrusters coupled with a smaller frame to preform high speed feats, a advanced computer system allows the pilot and mecha to properly react to events with a success rate of 87.9% (current research is trying to improve that) with a proper reactor system and weapon control this Mech is designed for High Speed battles

@Echo: Approved.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:44:45 PM by MrKirb

Now updated to include first mech:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14225864790A16515300&page=2#47

Do I need to put in stats for a second mech in case of in-universe change?

edited 1st Feb '15 8:27:19 PM by Ominae

I have permission from kirb, so you're approved Ominae. Welcome to the team.

Also on the topic of changing mechas, I'm not sure about the system but I think we'll post the sheets for the new mech when the upgrade happens in the RP. Cause sometimes you might wanna change your mind before it happens you know?

Thanks.

• Name: Vic Viper
• Unit Type: Space Superiority Fighter Transformable High-speed assault Mecha
• Model Number: V2-X
• Height: 3.35 Meters
• Wingspan: 14.22 meters
• Manufacturer: Shinikawa Heavy Industries
• Armor: Titanium-Ceramic Composite with anti-energy coating
• Abilities/Powers: High speed maneuverability, A COFFIN system that allows the pilot a 360 degree field of view of his surroundings that also comes with a simple AI to help keep the pilot alert and enough provisions for the pilot to survive for up to 5 days.
• Weapons:
  • Saturn Ripple Shooter: A special high-energy weapon that fires highly destructive if fairly slow and inaccurate "rings" of energy.
  • Jupiter Pulse Laser: A high-accuracy laser weapon that while having a fairly low rate of fire, packs extreme penetration power and precision.
  • Solaris Proton Torpedo: An extremely powerful if slow projectile weapon well-suited to breaking capital ships in half. May also be used against enemy mecha due to its extremely potent homing abilities. Can carry up to five under the fuselage at a time.
  • Meteor Micro Missile: Comes in three 5-shot externally-mounted hexagonal pods that fires 20 missiles at a time. Of course each missile is weak, but the damage gradually builds up and the missiles themselves are extremely quick, relentless and very hard to hit.
  • Comet Plasma Bomblet dispenser: A highly inaccurate and destructive ground attack weapon that lets loose clusters of highly-unstable orbs of plasma energy. Unlike the other two externally mounted weapons before it, this one has "unlimited" ammunition as it relies on the Vic Viper's reactor for energy to make the plasma bombs.
  • Mars Plasma shield projector: A defensive system that projects a barrier of plasma energy in front or behind the Vic Viper that can safely deflect most low-power attacks like anti-air missiles, light anti-air weaponry and glancing blows from beam rifles. Anything stronger than those will penetrate the shield, but reduce the damage that will be done to the Vic Viper.
• Technology & Combat Characteristics: It is a highly advanced prototype fighter with almost unmatched performance that utilizes a special ore as a power source that allows for near-intertialess flight and a massively extended operational time.

VV can only carry one of three externally mounted weapons for every sortie.

edited 1st Feb '15 11:53:22 PM by Questor

So we can fly starfighters in this?

Well the Vic Viper from Zone of the Enders can transform. Besides that, Bcom and Kirb, what are all the "canon" sources so far (both Player introduced and already decided) and how are some of the ways they went together? I was considering having my character specifically handpick resources and materials to make his Mecha.

Yes we can Sparty.

If I try list off every canon series in this game, it would take waaaay too long to list them all. It's up each player to include canon sources or make up an Original Generation character. Mixed technologies are ok as long they don't break limitations.

Let's face it, SRW take the story of every Mecha series included, put it in a blender, and set to "liquefy". In this case, I even threw in some non-mecha Sci-Fi series such as Halo and Command And Conquer (Both Timelines) into the mix.

edited 2nd Feb '15 7:40:13 AM by MrKirb

Damn it KK! That was supposed to be a mid-season upgrade!

so that's why you didn't mention the transformation ability. I was wondering why it was classified solely as a starfighter instead of a transforming mecha that would make macross proud

Questor, you NEED to make a profile for the pilot.

No guy, no buy.

edited 2nd Feb '15 9:29:05 AM by MrKirb

Yeah, Yeah... Still trying to come up with a suitable enough character.

I guess I can try.

• Name: Kasumi
• Gender: Female.
• Race: Tactical AI.
• Appearance: Kasumi is a computer program, appearance is not too applicable, since she can change her entire appearance quite easily.
• Abilities/Skills/Powers: Good strategist, can control a large amount of drones using tactical command mode (what she is seeing and doing is essentially what the player does in an RTS), decent at fighting if she assumes direct control.
• Inventory: Is made of data, what inventory? Has some drones for interaction I guess if that counts.
• Bio: Originally commissioned during the twilight days of WWIII when the Empire of the Rising Sun was running out of manpower to deploy, Kasumi is a fully autonomous command system, designed to give the Allies and the USSR a fight from beyond the grave. However WWIII ended before she could be used for such a task and the remnants of the of The Empire and Soviet Union folded into a new entity "GDI", constantly maintained and kept up to date, she proved to be a valuable asset against the Brotherhood of NOD.
• Other Traits: Currently Possesses Build Schematics for GDI and the Empire of the Rising Sun (updated to keep a parity with modern tech)

• Name: Tiberium Forge.
• Unit Type: Modified MCV.
• Model Number: GD-0842
• Manufacturer: Global Defense Initiative.
• Appearance: Mobile Mode◊, Deployed◊
• Armor: High.
• Abilities/Powers: A 50 meter long mobile factory and AI hub, it's combat capabilities are nothing special but it is capable of making a mobile strike force in the field and thus rapidly adapting to the situation at hand.
• Inventory: Enough Parts in storage to get set up for a mission, much else is going to have to be scavenged.
• Technology & Combat Characteristics: Flying Ship finds a place to become a building, building has babies, babies do the fighting.

• Name: Gideon Flueger
• Gender: Male
• Race: Human, Minor Cybernetic Enhancements
• Appearance: He's not ''that'' handsome.
• Abilities/Skills/Powers: A Highly trained test pilot with above-average skill in flying as befitting his status as a test pilot for a next-generation craft, but is rather lacking in real combat experience. Slightly stronger and faster than a baseline human, with noticeably sharper eyesight and quicker reflexes.
• Inventory: Service Pistol, A wrist-mounted computer that records Vic Viper's performance and may also remotely summon the fighter in case of emergencies, standard-issue kit issued to all pilots in his colony ship's defense forces.
• Personality: Gideon is an eager, easily excitable and idealistic young man who is keen to prove himself to humankind and its brothers and sisters, as befitting his active nature; he has a love for and of life; believing that all life is precious and must be protected, even if they are that of the enemy's! While it may seem like he is foolishly idealistic, he is quite aware enough that there are always going to be people who will die in wars and battles; and he resolves to try and save as many lives as he can and keep casualties on both sides as small as humanly possible. Unfortunately for Gideon, he hasn't really been in any major engagements thus far or seen just how horrible and monstrous sentient beings can get when their lives are on the line, so Harsh Lessons await this eager young man.
• Bio: One of billions of humans living in the colony ships of the Nomadic Milky Way refugee fleet, he grew up as normal as it can get in such an environment; his family was good, he had his friends and a few enemies and he had a dream: To be a pilot. Rather than an epic journey of self-discovery and growth in his quest to achieve his childhood dream, it was a slow, gradual process that saw a some spasms of excitement and incremental rewards. After a while, he graduated as one of the best of his batch in the pilot's academy due to his inborn talent and signed up for Shinikawa Heavy Industries as a test pilot, where after a few years of test flights, mandatory military service and a couple of skirmishes with alien raiders here and there; he was able to become renowned and trusted enough in the modestly sized company to be given control of their Next-Gen prototype: Vic Viper.
• Other Traits: Aside from taking a piloting/mechanical vocational course, he also minored in psychology since he had the time and he wanted to understand other people better.

edited 2nd Feb '15 11:45:11 AM by Questor

Sun and Questor, your approved.

With enough people, let's get this road started.

EDIT: And oh yeah, I have the discussion thread opened up

EDIT 2: And we're officially open for business.

edited 2nd Feb '15 1:36:31 PM by MrKirb

just incase some of you other players have yet to see it

RP and discussion threads are now open, good hunting

Aight, let's do this, lessee...

Pilot

• Name: Ilija Petrova
• Gender: Male
• Race: Human cyborg zombie thing.
• Appearance: Here
• Abilities/Skills/Powers: Expert engineer, with a couple years of mech training under his belt. His undead nature makes him really, really resilient.
• Inventory:
  • The exo-skeleton grafted to his body, including a pair of back mounted tesla coils and electric gauntlets, used to shoot lightning, and create electric/magnetic fields.
  • A very robust-looking toolbox.
• Bio: An experienced engineer for a corporation, Ilija decided to leave his old live behind, and with the accumulated salary he had, bought a mining mech, and joined in an ongoing mineral rush on a nearby planet. However, his oneman mining operation was cut short one day; turns out that vein of Silver... Wasn't Silver. It was a prototyped military-grade nanomachine; buried and forgotten, shaken active by the rumbling of Ilija's mining mech and biological signature, the nanomachines swarmed over him, restructuring him best as they see fit, and using him as a host in return. His mech did not escape either; now, it is as much as former mining mech as a nanohive.

Mech

• Model Name: Komatsu 930-E Robotic Power Loader, aka RPL, aka "Ripley"
• Nickname: The Killdozer
• Unit Type: Point blank real soviet damage
• Model Number: 2511 CAT D11
• Manufacturer: Cat-Komatsu Heavy Equipment Inc.
• Armor: Heavy duty industrial alloys, under a thick plating of bunker-grade reinforced cement, the whole strengthened by a dose of NANOMACHINES, SON
• Abilities/Powers:
  • The Nanohive: The Killdozer can produce nanomachines coursing along the frame of the machine, devouring nearby salvageable materials to add them to the mech, and attaching fallen weapons to itself for immediate use. They can also reshape the infected metal in a limited fashion, either for reparing the mech, making simple shapes as a form of ghetto shapeshifting, or breaking down complex items into more materials to use.
• Inventory: A drill on one hand, a bucket wheel excavator on the other, a shoulder mounted mining laser.
• Technology & Combat Characteristics: Once designed for breaking rocks, it is now meant to break much more than that. The nanomachine treatment turned this industrial workhorse into a pure-bred, point blank berserker.

So, how's that look?

edited 2nd Feb '15 2:13:01 PM by FokiasTheJester

Looks good, I'll give the greenlight if Bcom approves as well.