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Fox Style, Unarmed [Wood] (0):
Unweathered Cliff Face Style, Unarmed [Earth] (0):
Dance of Hungry Sands, Unarmed [Earth] (1): Happerry
Gravedigger Style [Earth] (0):
Dance of Desert's Heat, Unarmed [Fire] (0):
Fulcrum Touch Style [Metal] (2): Powder Miner, Frostgiant

Going with this and am going to retool Unweather cliff for step 3

Unweathered Cliff face style, Unarmed [Earth]

It is said that the unweathered cliff style was born when the Great and Honourable ancestor bore witness to the grand Royal cliffs of the eastern seas, So named for their natural Colouring barring similarities to an emperor's Purple robes and the sheer scale.
Stretching miles, These cliff faces presented an Unbroken, Unmared and unbeaten face, Purple and as vibrant as  the clothing of an emperor despite the incredibly beating that the Barren sea, Named for its impossibility for fishermen to ply their trade at the time due to its incredibly wrathful nature. The temperamental Sea would strike the cliff faces with Towering waves to which the ancestor was but an ant, It would whip the Royal cliffs with Mist and water droplets as strong as arrows and Slam the floating remains of its victims both natural and manmade into it like the impact of a Hundred Fists.

Despite this The cliff faces were unbowed. Not a mark could be seen upon their Royal Face, Not a dent or even an Imperfection, Years hardening the rocks until even the Wrath of the Barren sea was unable to even mark them.

The grand ancestor was awed. For 300 days and 300 nights Meditated, Moving closer to the edge of the cliff and Exposing himself more and more to the wrath of the sea with every Truth of the universe he came to understand. Every Breakthrough He moved closer, Even as his meditating body was struck by diminished blows from the sea.
It is said that for the final 77 days of his meditation, He sat at the edge, Taking the blows of the barren sea just as the Royal Cliff had for centuries.

Finally, he kneeled, Thanking the great cliffs for their teachings as though a commoner before to the emperor himself and traveled to what would day become the capital of Bei bu.

The city sat close to the wonderous Royal cliffs, Along a river that led from the Northern mountain down to the Barren sea. The river was large, Concentrating all of the runoff from the Northern mountains and almost as temperamental as the Sea that it fed into. Even with its temperamental nature, it served as the best source of water as the tundra that the city sat on was filled with the Sea to its east and the mountain to its north.
The temperamental river would flood commonly and had torn apart any attempt to damn or divert its flow. as such the Fishman of the captial had to sate themselves with the fish that would be left stranded by the flooding river.
The deep muck of the river's flood plains served as the perfect medium for the rice that the city fed on, Provided the river didn't tear the crop away.

It was a hard and temperamental mistress, But the river was the best source of food and water for the city and so the city was constructed their, weathering the harsh blows of the tempermental capital River.

At the time, The city was ruled by a tyrant, A cruel emperor who would execute his citizens if they didn't move out of his way fast enough.
The grand ancestor Traveled to this city, Sat upon the main Throughway of the city, Directly in the middle. And began to meditate.

Immediately, many disgruntled workers and farmers attempted to dislodge him But found their attempts met with Flesh as though stone. Sticks broke, Insults Ignored as though flies.
Soon, The city found t easier to move around him, and the Strange meditating Monk was left to himself as the city learned to ignore its new prop.

Then one day the Emporer came, His caravan of horses and wagons, decorated in hundreds of thousands of artisans beads, each depicting a tapestry of the greatness of this man and so tightly packed it could be used to hold water. The Precession found the man, And could not move his with fist nor word nor club.
When told of this, The Emporer demanded he be beheaded.
His royal guards went, The swords came down. and the swords broke, with nary a mark on the Grand ancestor's skin. Leaving the blades of the swords where they fell, They scrambled back to their emperor.

Enraged the emperor had his guards hitch a hundred ropes and a hundred horses to the man, In order to pull him out of the processions way and then quarter him outside the city.
The ropes came And were lashed to the Grand ancestor until naught could be seen of the Meditating man. The horses pulled.

And the man stayed. The ropes frayed and snapped, Whipping out and striking the Royal guards as the man proved just as Impossible to move as the cliff faces.

Enraged, the emperor ordered a Bonfire built, The size of the throughway. Stack upon stacks of wood was built around the man, Pitch Splashed upon the wood to ensure proper ignition and still that GRand ancestor meditated, not a care in the world. The Massive Bonfire raged for seven nights and seven days, Turning the Brokens swords to slag and the frayed ropes to ash.

And yet at the end of that grand bonfire. The man remained. Body covered in ash, yet not even a burn upon him.
AS the man stood up and Wiped the ash from his skin it revealed itself to be a deep, vibrant purple, Similar to the cliff from which he learned.

The man bowed, Thanked the emperor for aiding in his Training, and began to leave.
Thoroughly cowed by who he believed to be a member of the divine court, the emperor begged forgiveness and to be taken as his student. As the man had done the grand ancestor a favor, He agreed to the request.

Soon the emperor would find himself supplanted in his own court, as many of the nobles and Guard also begged to learn from the grand ancestor.

The City soon found itself to be a dominant power of the surrounding Plains and Tundras. Using the earthen elemental energies of the style, The army of What would be Beu bu found themselves capable of marching for incredibly long times as the earth boiled their own energy and endurance, Far past where any other army would be forced to use horses to traverse the empty tundras or camp for the night. In battle, the enemy would find their weaponry useless, as Arrows bounces off of unprotected skin and spears splintered against bare flesh.

Beyond battle, Practitioners would wade into the Tempermental river, Hunting fish by hand in a way they could not by delicate boat and using their own bodies to finally tame it, Slowing the rivers flow by carving a series of dams, ponds, and lakes, making life upon the river bank infinitely easier as canals were carved by hand as a form of training. By taming the Tempermental river, The number of people the city could feed and the number of crops that could be planted in controlled flood plains ballooned in size, with the number of those swept away decreased every year until it was considered rare

The unweathered cliff face style used the earthen energy it was formed in accordance with in order to fortify the natural body into an unmanageable edifice. This ability to take devastating blows with little to no damage means that the style quickly came to rely on devastating counterblows, Ignoring light blows that had no hopes to pierce their skin, Thus forcing the Foe into a series of powerful blows that could be deflected and dodged before a powerful counterblow is delivered.  While the natural strength of a member of the unweathered Cliff style is relatively unaugmented, A barehanded blow was still devastating as the sheer hardness was as though the practitioner was wearing a metallic glove.
For those foes who refused to be drawn into the inevitable counterblow, The Unweathered Cliffs augmented sTamina would ensure that that they would see exhaust themselves long before the Practitioner would.
Many Practitioners are defined by a Calm and collected demeanor, With panic, a rare thing to them as the very earth energy that Enhances their bodies promotes a more placid and long-standing view.

The most basic techniques of the unweathered cliff face were built off of the Body of stone Flooding the body with earthen energy long the same patterns and flood lines within the body as those initially discovered by the Grand ancestor. The body of stone would then harden the body Providing the foundation for the rest of the style, Many students of the style find moving with the Body of stone difficult, thus the early days are spent in meditation to as learn the movement of the earthen energy by instinct. The more learned in the style, The stronger the style's Body of stone becomes. The number of people who have managed to scratch the surface of the Grand acestors own body is capable on a single hand in the course of all of Bei bu's history.

The Royal Breath technique is the second technique taught to students of the style, Requiring a proper flow of Earthen energy, similar to that of the body of stone. By augmenting their organs with earthen energy and incredibly controlled breathing, the stamina of a practioner grows by leaps and bounds. This is the technique that allows a Member of the Unwhethered Cliffface to survive lack of air, incredibly long journeys, and even lack of food, and is typically used as a stepping stone to the more complicated technique do the amount of time spent in meditation it can require.

PACT DECISION
A (Total Submission): (1) Strider03
B (Meek Surrender):
C (Honourable Resistance, The Only Option That Lets Us Truly Defend The Homeland And Our Way Of Life): (2) NUKE9.13,Frostgiant

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DESIGNS (pick 2)
JagPal Stealth suit: (3) NUKE9.13, Strider03, Frostgiant
Hulara Autocannon: (1) NUKE9.13
Caelophone: (1) Strider03
Gobe APC: (1) Frostgiant

Voting for the Jagpal for obvious reasons, and the gobe because I really do want some form of Better armour to contest all the firepower being thrown around

Basketcase Revamp program

The hardcase, Is very much a failure in almost every vector one can imagine except for a singular fact. It is a Product that has entered production. This is more then can be said for many... Many iterations of VS products. AS such many on the investors board see potential provided the many many many kinks are ironed outwith an exacting eye.

The list of issues with the Hardcase, When broken down into an itemized list consisting of not just the whole of the armour but every piece of it, Strech farther the most of the design division is tall. AS is, needs must and the Priority for Fixing the armour comes down to the Poor strength of the Plating, combined with the frankly stiffling nature of its layout.

One could say that the majority of the product is a liability, Better served when stripped away to its barest parts.

So that's what we did.
Shrinking the full-body suit down to a much more lightweight and compact chest piece combined with the helmet, We have been able to keep most of if not all of the soldier mobility, especially after some modification to the undersuit to unstiffen it and provide more flexibility. Combined with a series of operator run bug fixes in order to fix the helmet's VR display and the addition of a colour pallet to better Display surfaces or differing material.

The hope of the design team to transform the Restricted body cast into a protector of the most vital organs, Maintaining them in a un-vaprorised manner long enough for a VS certaified medic to come and get them on their feet again.

"SightlineM(aker)" Light PlasmaThrower

A two-handed, short range Compact Thermal weapon designed for light assaults, The sightline maker was designed for clearing thick, Clogging heavy cover. Most plasma weaponry faces the problem of containing the plasma in order to enable it to act as a effect weapon past an arms throw from the user. The SightlineM forgoes this problem in exchange for creating as much plasma from its Internal Tanks as possible, In an attempt to reduce everything in front of the barrel into slag similar to a flamethrowers bigger, Meaner and higher tech cousin

When holding ground, The SightlineM Is used to burn away old metallic wrecks, Abandoned buildings, Tree's, Rocks and other such pieces of cover that could be used by an advancing enemy to protect themselves from withering Spectre fire and machineguns strafing. This makes any attempt to attack a VS position a harrowing prospect as the potential cover has been turned to ash, Robbing footing in the piles of powder or ashmuck.

In the event of offensive operations, The sightlineM is used to set fire to flammable terrain near the enemy position, Burning away Bisual covering and Surrounding the enemy position in a firestorm of plasmatic hell. Really, it is a coincidence that such as useful tool is useful for clearing tight quarters, Filling Hallways with Billowing Plasma storms thrown from Light assaults working by themselves or in "Fire"Teams.

The sightline(M) is currently ongoing certain revisions by the VS marketing department to see sales in the Pest control and other, Niche markets.

RainDancer artillery Buggy

The raindancer is created from a Desert rat, similar to many other vehicles in the VS arsenal. replacing the infantry compartment to similar fabrication tools to the Near failed Desert shrew, The Raindancer is designed to be fully automated, Producing its own ammunition while on the move while coordinating with Nearby raindancers and operators to deliver continuous, devastating barrages forcing enemies to either take cover or be burnt to a crisp in plasma fire.

Featuring a crew of 3, including the driver and Spotter located in the front along with the gunner located in the roof-mounted howitzer The raindancer will, Once a target has been chosen move to a suitable location, Deploy stabalizers, DUmp as many shells on target as possible and then procede to Reposition itself as fast as its Desert rat derived buggy chasssis will carry it.

All in all, Not so special aside from the internal fabricator. The special part of the raindancer comes in its projectile. Formed from a Dual-layered Hardlight shield, The internal Generator will protect itself from the payload and contain the payload all at the same time. In this case, the payload is highly pressurized, superheated plasma.
Upon contact with structures or the ground, The Harldight shielding holding the plasma as a Highly pressurized, coherent mass will shatter, sending an alarm through the Generator and triggering a rapid cascade of self-destruction. All said and down this will create a Blanket of Highly pressurized plasma, Burning anything that is sufficiently protected to nothing more than ash. AS the additional "Shells" Rain down from both the original Raindancer and any coordinating raindancers, It will ensure that the soldier deployed to that location will either be nothing more than ash or Hunkered down so tight that it gives our own soldiers free reign.

Skinsuit? What post is that?

That would be the Jagpal Stealth suit, So-called because its a Mutant rose Based piece of equipment that was derived from Xinmals own skin. Hence skinsuit

Radio eaters.

The radio eater is a... Interesting little vermin. Born from a hybrid of the Cicada, Common cockroach, Cricket and a few other choice specimens, Locked into an Isolated terraium with a variety of Mutant rose extracts and bombarded with High power radio waves, The radio eaters were born in Terrarium 10235.

As their name implies, They survive on Radio waves. A rather marvelous feat in all honestly, Supplementing the energy pull from the Waveform with Other forms of sustenance such as sunlight. When released into the wild, They will search for the strongest and nearest form source of radio waves, almost always some form of radio equipment. at which point they will Using a naturally produced Adhesive of astonishing strength, Glue themselves to the transmitter or receiver as the strongest sources of radiowaves and begin to feed off of it while using a series of long Filter antennae, Used to detect the radio waves in the first place, To collect Moisture from dwan in order to hydrate themselves every day. 

A single radio eater, Is truly no problem. It could maybe cause a barely noticeable blip. The problem is, Their is never just one. A swarm of radio eaters will typically Completely cover any form of the transmitter, gluing themselves to any available surface or, lacking such, To each other, creating a large wave dampening shall that prevent receiving or transmitting any form of communications!  Any source will do, Whether a Large structure bound transmitter tower or a poor radioman's heavy backpack. If it is a source of Radiowaves, they will stick themselves to it and feast.

Left alone, the radio eater will begin to internally produce eggs until the eggs burst, The parent radio eater dies, and dozens more bady eaters are born to continue feasting.
Any poor radio technician who needs to deal with them will so find it near impossible to remove the infestation as the adhesive chemmically bonds to the surface, making removal without damaging delicate equipment near impossible. Chemical prove difficult to use, as its heritage renders it quite sturdy in the face of such attempts, and even if killed they must then be cleaned off, Most probably before another infection, the next day.

Heaven forbid the angry, frustrated, and most probably in tears,  radio technician attempts to use flame or electricity.
Such attempts will be met will a molten bonfire, as the Naturally flammable, Incredible powerful adhesive of the radio eater ignites at the nearest spark, turning expensive equipment into a pyre of molten metal, taking down communications, and possibly setting fire to the base at the same time.

In order to capitalise on their bahvour, Embral Skirmishers will typically infiltrate close to enmey lines Before releaseing Large amounts of radio eaters, Typpically in advance to an offesive, Whether embral or Inithar, Or sometimes if they are just in a particularly bad mood to keep the inithar on their feet.

In order to protect our own embralish equipment from the terror of the Radio-Eaters, Small Well-Material crystals are installed near or in the base of the structure. as the radio waves travel through the transmitter, the Well- Mat will release an incredibly High-pitch, Above human hearing, in fact, Whine, Driving off all radio eaters with prejudice due to a touch of genetic tampering by the biologists.

Embralish Radio technicians call the Radio eater an abomination against all that is holy, The devil's works were created by a cruel and sick madmans mind that should never have been created. Upon hearing such, The embralish Biology team gives themselves a pat on the back.

Dotler Flying jellyfish
Born of  Embralish experiments with mutant rose, the Dotler is pale, Near transparent jellyfish tinted green making them near invisible in their natural environment.  Similar to their ocean-bound cousins the Dotler will spend their life floating on the currents in peaceful bliss.
The diffrence comes in the natural envrioment and what kind of currents. The dotlers Thin pale membrane body will, naturally produce a form of lighter then air gas, inflatng it and carrying it high in the sky. Once there, The dotler will survive off of sunlght synthesysed from its green tinted skin, Particulates carried on the winds and water from rain and clouds.

If that was all, The dotler, while amazing would serve little to no purpose for the embral expeditionary force execpt as a maizng, but Useless wonde ro fthe biological world. Instead of the Dotler has a very... Unique trait.

The Long strands and tendrals that come from its ballon-like body are strange. They lack any form of stingers. At first, the Biology teams theorized that they were So incredibly long as they were in order to capture particulate. ANd while they do this as well, Their Main use seems to be som form of radio Absorber. The Dotler's tendrals passively seem to drink in Radios waves. While on its own this would be less than useful, when a swarm is present in the upper atmosphere, The dotlers abilities seem to grow exponentially. A Cloud of Dotlers seems capable of completely strangle out transmissions. The transmissions leave, But the receivers remain silent as ever as the energy waveform is quickly devoured by the hungry tendrils.

Jam-Bat Nests
Born of the horror show that is the Embral Biology department after the introduction of mutant rose. The Jam bats are quite similar to regular bats. That is to say, Regular, Well-Bats. Those born and shaped by the wonderful environment and materials of the Blessed wells.

Interestingly, Held in the pouch of the original species, small chunks of well quartz and well-Bronze are found. Small, Gizzard-like marbles located in the base of the throat. Using this, The original species would use an incredibly High pitched sonic scream, Dazing the target with a combination of Strong vibrations and feelings of bliss, leaving them open for the diving attack.

After the biology team got their hands on them they.. CHanged a bit. With the equivalent of poking them with the mutant rose-infused stick, The Team managed to prompt the creation of a different form of stone. Instead of Well bronze, This material that has yet to be named resonates the Increbily loud scream of the bat and released similarly loud radio waves. Every Frequency, Every channel Filled with a massive Scream of white noise suspiciously similar to a bat. The Jam bats use this to communicate.

While some jam-bats have escaped into the wild, This is not predicted to cause too much trouble. The birth of the Jam-bat led to the creation of the jam-bat nest. While no actual jam-bats live in these nests, Instead, living peaceful lives back in the safe embrace of embral territories where they live a long and fulfilling batty life filled with insects and other bats until they die of old age, Typically between 9 months and 2 years, at which point their special throat Materials are harvested by the Bat-keepers.

Instead, The jam-Bat nest is a massive transmitter, build in an embralish base in order to jam all radio communications for the region. Using a combination of the equivalent of a brick in a washer, The Jam-bat nest Turns electricity into  Massive amounts of Vibrations, which in turn creates a massive amount of sound wave channeled towards an internal well of the Jam-Bats well mat. These sound waves undergo mutation once more, Becoming an incredibly cacophony of radiowaves, Almost guaranteed to Drown out almost everything in a designated area. Every radio frequency, no matter what you turn to, is filled with a cacophony of radio waves, drowning out any form of message that could be made.