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ARMs: Artificial Maidens

Inspired by Haspen's RTD Starlight Mechanized Corps and notquitethere's Superhero Manager. With a bit of obscure and less obscure manga/anime references, and a bit of Maid RPG, all thrown in a pot and overcooked into what you see...

INTRODUCTION

This is the year 450 of the Naeran Calendar. It has now been 40 years since the Impact of the Phantasm Comet on the Moon of Naera, 40 years of a bitter conflict for survival between humanity and the Phantasmal Entities.

When all seemed lost, the apparition of the Maidens gave back hope to the people of Naera: using the powers of the Phantasm Element, these young girls were able to fight and destroy the until then invincible Phantasmal Entities. Thanks to them, the dream of eliminating the Phantasmal threat once for all seemed an attainable reality... until the apparition of the UPI, Unidentified Phantasmal Intelligence, reduced all these hopes to naught by near annihilating humanity. The Naeran only survived because the UPI then disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.

Now in the current year 450, the Maidens have long since been phased out from the battlefield. They have been replaced by Artifical Maidens, called ARMs, biomechanical combat units near identical in power and appearance to the young girls they were based on. With the announcement of the 2nd Generation of ARMs, the Nagaea Reclamation and Counter-Phantasm Force (NRCPF) hopes to launch a counter-offensive to reclaim the lost territories, and maybe someday completely eliminate the Phantasm Menace.

0:
- Colonization of Naera by humans.

410:
- The Phantasm Comet strikes and shatters the Moon of Naera, contaminating it with the Phantasm Element.
- 80% of the Naeran population is wiped out by the fall of the infected shards, and the resulting side-effects of Phantasmal Contamination.

412:
- Confirmed hostile reports of the first Apparitions.
- Confirmed hostile reports of the first Spectres. Conventional weaponry having no effect on them, more territories are abandoned to Phantasmal Contamination upon Apparitions and Spectres sightings.

414:
- The entire surviving population is evacuated from Nagaea, the greater continent, to the southern islands of the Midaram Sea.

422:
- Awakening of the first Phantasmal Girl, before they were called Maidens: Lily Ayame the Maiden of Tiaris.
- In the wake of Lily Ayame's awakening, countless awakenings are reported among young girls born after the date of the Impact. The public starts calling these young girls fighting for the sake of humanity: Maidens.
- Incident Summerfall: Team Blue Summer falls to Phantasmal Contamination, becoming the first confirmed case of Fallen Maidens. They are only stopped by Team White Diamond, after their rampage caused the loss of three Maiden Teams and an entire city.
- Creation of the NRCPF -Nagaea Reclamation and Counter-Phantasm Force- to coordinate the operations of Maidens and prevent the apparition of Fallen Maidens.
- Creation of the NCG -Naeran Central Government-.

422-446:
- The southern coast of the greater continent is completely reclaimed and decontaminated.
- Phantasmal Technology allows for breakthroughs in countless fields, especially in bioengineering, and energy generation.
- The first generation of ARMs -Artificial Maidens- is deployed.
- Maidens are slowly phased out from the frontline.

446:
- Half of Nagaea is reclaimed.

447:
- Appearance of the UPI -Unidentified Phantasmal Intelligence-. Loss of contact with the NCG HQ based in Naegaea, as well as twelve fortified cities of the inner continent.
- Operation Kinghead: the entire NRCPF is mobilized to eliminate the UPI.
- Operation Kinghead ends in a devastating failure. Casualty rate among Maidens and ARMs is 9 out of 10. Casualty rate among standard personel is 99 out of 100.
- The UPI single-handedly reduces the past 25 years of reclamation to nothing, before suddenly disappearing.

450:
- The second generation of ARMs is deployed.

GAMEPLAY

The game will usually be split into two phases: Downtime and Mission.

Mission:
The phase during which your ARMs will fight Phantasmal Entities, help civilians, decontaminate the land, and possibly get maimed, traumatised, or lose their lives in the process.
Once a mission is selected, it keeps progressing without Commander input until the situation deteriorates or an objective is unsuccessfully reached. The Commander will then be able to decide whether to pursue or cancel the operation.

Downtime:
The phase during which your ARMs are supposed to rest, although in practice they may instead get to experience the joys of interpersonal drama, get put through rigorous training to increase their meagers chances of survival and success, or spend time on the operation table or in the incubators to recover from their grievous wounds. If they don't, maybe they will get to relax.

During Downtime, Handlers may assign their ARM to Downtime Activities such as Train or Rest.
Meanwhile, the Commander may use their allocated budget to improve facilities, pay for special treatment, develop equipment, or request new ARMs.

At the end of each Downtime, Maintenance costs are substracted from the team's Budget.

ARM CHARACTERISTICS

Spoiler: ARM SHEET (click to show/hide)

Name: how the ARM is called in-squad.
Designation: the designation code of the ARM.
Type/Subtype: the two types that define the ARM.
Description: Size/Eye Color/Hair Color
Background: what led the girl the ARM is based on to become a Maiden
Trauma: the trauma of the girl the ARM is based on.
Likes: what generates a positive reaction from the ARM.
Dislikes: what generates a negative reaction from the ARM.
Favored Weapon: the weapons the ARM prefers using.
Favored Style: the combat style this ARM is inclined toward.

Attributes
LIFE
MIND
HEART
SOUL

Qualities
Weakness - Power:
Turmoil - Harmony:
Fear - Courage:
Hate - Love:

Combat:
STRIKER:
CASTER:
DEFENDER:
INVOKER:

Non-Combat:
SENSES:
AID:
LABOR:
PUZZLE:
EMPATHY:
CLEANSE:

Spoiler: ARMS CHARACTERISTICS EXPLANATION (click to show/hide)

Types
Determine the affinity of an ARMS.
There are the four main types, each having an associated corrupted type.
Pure: +Power / +Hate
Cool: +Harmony / +Weakness
Brave: +Courage / +Turmoil
Innocent: +Love / +Fear

Tainted: +Weakness / +Love
Maddened: +Turmoil / +Power
Resigned: +Fear / +Harmony
Corrupted: +Hate / +Courage

ARMS CORE ATTRIBUTES
The Core Attributes of an ARMS. Determine their Quality potential.
LIFE: the power and desire to live.
MIND: the power of the mind.
HEART: the power of emotions.
SOUL: the power of phantasms.

ARMS QUALITIES AND FLAWS
Indicators of an ARM's integrity, which also affect their ability to wield their own powers.
Every 2 points in a quality/flaw increases/reduces the associated skill checks by 1.
STATE: Indicates how strong/weak an ARMS currently is in one given parameter.
LEVEL: Indicates the highest quality state that can be reached.
POTENTIAL: determined by Attributes. Indicates the maximum level that can be reached.
FLAW LIMIT: determined by LEVEL * 2. Indicates the lowest state that can be reached before suffering irreversible consequences.

Flaw / Quality
Weakness - Power
Turmoil - Harmony
Fear - Courage
Hate - Love

SKILLS
Skills have an associated Core Attribute, a Skill Level and a Maximum Skill Level. A Skill is affected by Quality/Flaw modifiers.

Combat:
STRIKER (LIFE): imbue the self with magical power and manifest it into weapons to destroy your enemies.
CASTER (MIND): wield magical power to cast spells and overwhelm your enemies.
DEFENDER (HEART): project magical power to create barriers and protected areas.
INVOKER (SOUL): summon your magical power into a phantasmal being to command.

Non-Combat:
SENSES (variable): the ability to perceive and discern. The attribute used depends on the situation.
AID (variable): the ability to heal others and share magical power. The attribute used depends on the situation.
LABOR (POWER): the ability to complete physical labor.
PUZZLE/ENIGMA (MIND): the ability to solve problems and avoid traps.
EMPATHY (HEART): the ability to understand and appease the emotions of others.
CLEANSE (SOUL): the ability to purify phantasmal contamination.

FACILITIES, MAINTENANCE, OPERATIONAL COSTS

Spoiler: Operational Costs (click to show/hide)

MISSION
Support Supply Drop: 1000 EC
Team Support Supply Drop: 800 EC per ARM
Sends specialized equipment to boost a Non-Combat Skill by 1 for the duration of the mission.

Medical Supply Drop: 2000 EC
Team Medical Supply Drop: 1600 EC per ARM
Sends specialized medical equipment to negate the effects of a Wound for the duration of the mission.

ARM Emergency Extraction: 5000 EC
Team Emergency Extraction: 4000 EC per ARM
Sends a Guardian squad to extract an ARM or the entire team.

Spoiler: Facilities (click to show/hide)

LIVING
Living facilities apply to the entire team.

Canteen: restores 0/0.5/1/2 Power. Doubled if Rest is selected as an Activity. Cannot heal Weakness.
Basic: Free / No Maintenance
Decent: 2000 EC / 100 EC
Classy: 5000 EC / 250 EC
Luxurious: 10000 EC / 500 EC

Quarters: restores 0/0.5/1/2 Harmony. Doubled if Rest is selected as an Activity. Cannot heal Turmoil.
Basic: Free / No Maintenance
Decent: 2000 EC / 100 EC
Classy: 5000 EC / 250 EC
Luxurious: 10000 EC / 500 EC

Recreation Room: restores 0/0.5/1/2 Courage. Doubled if Rest is selected as an Activity. Cannot heal Fear.
Basic: Free / No Maintenance
Decent: 2000 EC / 100 EC
Classy: 5000 EC / 250 EC
Luxurious: 10000 EC / 500 EC

Landscape Area: restores 0/0.5/1/2 Love. Doubled if Rest is selected as an Activity. Cannot heal Hate.
Basic: Free / No Maintenance
Decent: 2000 EC / 100 EC
Classy: 5000 EC / 250 EC
Luxurious: 10000 EC / 500 EC

MEDICAL
Each medical facility can be used on one ARM at a time. It is possible to have multiple facilities of the same type, for example two Incubator Pods.

Surgical Unit: can fix up to 1/2/4/8 Wounds.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Incubator Pod: restores 1/2/4/8 Power.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Harmonisation Chamber: restores 1/2/4/8 Harmony.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Mending Room: restores 1/2/4/8 Courage.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Decontamination Sphere: restores 1/2/4/8 Love.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

TRAINING
Similarly to medical facilities, training facilities can be used on one ARM at a time. It is also possible to have multiple facilities of the same type, for example two Combat Simulators.

Combat Simulator: provides up to 10/20/30/40 cycles to train a Combat Skill, up to a maximum level of 1/3/5/10.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Learning Accelerator: provides up to 10/20/30/40 cycles to train a Non-Combat Skill, up to a maximum level of 1/3/5/10.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

OPTIMISATION
Optimisation facilities follow the same limits as Medical and Training facilities.

Potential Optimiser: consume collected Phantasm Elements of quality D/C/B/A to increase a Skill Potential, up to a maximum of 4/5/7/10.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Quality Optimiser: consume collected Phantasm Elements of quality D/C/B/A to increase a Quality level, up to a maximum of 2/4/7/10.
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Core Optimiser: consume collected Phantasm Elements of quality D/C/B/A to increase a Core Attribute, up to a maximum of 1/2/5/8
Low-Grade: 1000 EC / 50 EC
Medium-Grade: 2000 EC / 100 EC
High-Grade: 4000 EC / 200 EC
Advanced-Grade: 8000 EC / 400 EC

Spoiler: Downtime Activites (click to show/hide)

Rest: Free
Recreational Leave: Free
Surgical Unit: 500 EC per Wound
Training Session: 100 EC per Training Cycle (or per Progress point earned)

DANGER, DIFFICULTY, WOUNDS

Spoiler: Danger Level (click to show/hide)

The Danger Level determines the additional effects of failures and partial successes.

Low: Failures inflict Quality damage.
Medium: Partial Successes inflict Quality damage.
High: Successes inflict Quality damage.
Crisis: Quality damage cannot be avoided.

Spoiler: Difficulty Range and Tasks (click to show/hide)

Difficulty Range
The Difficulty Range determines the expected difficulty levels of the skill checks encountered during a mission.

Skill checks use a d6, to which are added Skill modifiers and Quality/Flaw modifiers. The result is then compared to the difficulty level to determine the outcome.

Let R be the skill check result, and D be the difficulty level. The outcomes are:
- Failure: R < D
- Partial Success: D <= R < D+2
- Success: D+2 <= R < D+4
- Overwhelming Success: R >= D+4

Task Types
Individual: every ARM rolls individually. Each ARM's result determine their own outcome.
Teamwork: every ARM rolls individually. The highest result is used for the whole team to determine outcome.
Combined: every ARM rolls individually. The results are averaged, and that average is used for the whole team to determine outcome.

Spoiler: Wounds and Flaw Limit (click to show/hide)

Wounds
Wounds are crippling injuries the ARMs may receive during a mission. Each Wound inflicts a stacking -1 modifier on all skill checks.

If an ARM's Quality State becomes negative, it enters Flaw territory. Every time the ARM's Flaw State increases, a Wound roll is triggered.

The Wound roll is a d10 rolled against the current Flaw State.
If the d10 is superior to the current Flaw State, the ARM does not suffer from a Wound.
If the d10 is inferior or equal to the current Flaw State, the ARM suffers from a Wound.

Flaw Limit
If an ARM's Flaw State reaches or exceeds the Flaw Limit (equal to twice the Quality Level), the Wound roll is replaced by a Death Roll.

The Death roll is a d10 rolled against the current Flaw state.
If the d10 is superior to the current Flaw State, the ARM dies. This is the better outcome.
If the d10 is inferior or equal to the current Flaw State, the ARM becomes a Fallen Maiden. This is irreversible, and the worst outcome.

DOWNTIME

Spoiler: Skill Training and Cycles (click to show/hide)

Skill Progress
Each skill can be trained to increase its current level, to a maximum equal to its potential. The training is represented by Progress, which is naturally gained over the course of Missions but at a slower pace than if one used the Training Facilities.

The Progress required to raise a Skill to the next level is equal to the next Skill level x10. Progress resets to 0 once a Skill gains a level.

Training Cycles
Training Facilities are able to increase Progress gain by 1 point per Cycle. Each use of a Training Facility costs 100EC per Cycle.

Do note that multiple ARMs can use the same Training Facility during a Downtime, but only if the total Cycles is equal or less to what the facility allows.

Example: over the same Downtime, a LG-Combat Simulator can train ARM "Alice" for 4 Cycles, and then train ARM "Betty" by 6 Cycles.

Spoiler: Sharing Facilities (click to show/hide)

Save for Living Facilities, all Facilities may be shared by Teams. The ARMs of a Team are of course always given priority to their Team's own facilities.

Example: Team A possesses a LG Surgical Unit, which is currently unused. Team B can uses the LG Surgical Unit, only if Team A agrees.

Spoiler: Phantasm Elements and Optimization (click to show/hide)

Acquiring Phantasm Elements
When defeating Phantasmal Entities, ARMs will be able to absorb Phantasm Elements. Absorbed Phantasm Elements can then be used in Optimisation Facilities. Do note that Phantasm Elements can not be transferred, and are intrinsic to each ARM. Think of them as experience points.

There are four classes of Phantasm Elements which in order of weakest to strongest are D, C, B, and A.

D-Class Elements can be acquired by defeating waves of Apparitions.
C-Class Elements and above can only be acquired from Spectres or during missions in highly contaminated Red Areas. As a general rule, a Spectre of a given class will drop a Phantasm Element of the same class.

Optimisation
Phantasm Elements are used in Optimisation, to increase Core Attributes, Quality Levels, and Skill Potentials. All Optimisation actions cost a number of Phantasm Elements equal to the next Core Attribute/Quality Level/Skill Potential that is currently being raised.

Example: To raise a Core Attribute from 1 to 2, a MG Core Optimiser and 2 C-Class Phantasm Elements are needed.

Spoiler: Recreational Leave (click to show/hide)

A Downtime activity where an ARM and her Handler leave the base as part of their Downtime. Anything could happen during that time, althoug in general it shouldn't be negative.

SPECTRE COMBAT

Spoiler: Spectre Combat (click to show/hide)

Core and Barrier
To destroy a Spectre, its Core must be destroyed.

However, this Core is protected by at least one Barrier, which must be destroyed to expose the Spectre's Core. Low Class Spectres will only have one Barrier, while Spectre of higher Classes are likely to possess multiple Barriers.

Battle Formation: Focus, Support
ARMs must assume a battle formation when fighting a Spectre. There are two positions in the battle formation: Focus and Support.

Focus: an ARM assuming this position fights the Spectre head-on, and is thus able to damage its Core. It also exposes her to much more danger. There must always be one ARM on Focus.
Effect: Can damage Core. Increased Skill gain.

Support: an ARM assuming this position fights from the sidelines, avoiding to get in the direct line of fire. She is able to damage Barriers, but cannot harm the Core.
Effect: Danger Level and Difficulty are decreased.

Spoiler: Spectre Class and Type (click to show/hide)

Spectres are ranked according to Type and Class.
The Class of a Spectre determines its danger level and degree of maturity. Spectres of Class A are called Incarnations, and are extremely dangerous.
The Type of a Spectre is determined based on which Core Attribute it is associated with, as well as its Class.

LIFE SPECTRES:
D-Class - Harvester
C-Class - Reaper
B-Class - Grand Reaper
A-Class - Incarnation: Death

Weak VS: Invokers
Strong VS: Casters
Main Damage Type: Weakness (LIFE)

MIND SPECTRES:
D-Class - Apprentice
C-Class - Sorcerer
B-Class - High Sorcerer
A-Class - Incarnation: Chaos

Weak VS: Strikers
Strong VS: Defenders
Main Damage Type: Turmoil (MIND)

HEART SPECTRES:
D-Class - Shadow
C-Class - Terror
B-Class - Elder Terror
A-Class - Incarnation: Madness
Main Damage Type: Fear (HEART)

Weak VS: Casters
Strong VS: Invokers

SOUL SPECTRES:
D-Class - Messenger
C-Class - Corrupter
B-Class - Arch Corrupter
A-Class - Incarnation: Corruption

Weak VS: Defenders
Strong VS: Strikers
Main Damage Type: Hate (SOUL)

APPLICATIONS

Congratulation Officer, you have been put in charge of managing a team of 2nd Generation ARMs. There are two player roles.

Commander: the commanding officer in charge of an ARM Team. The one in charge of mission selection, team management, and expenses. This position can be swapped with another player at any moment.

Handler: an officer in charge of managing an individual ARM. The one to manage its schedule and routine, and the one responsible for its operational readiness and mental health. Handlers have a veto power, and are able to refuse that their ARM be included in a given Mission.

To join, fill in the player sheet.
We will be starting with a maximum of 3 ARM TEAMS, meaning a maximum of 3 Commander applications will be accepted. If the amount of Commander applications exceed 3, then the Commanders will be randomly chosen and the rest will become Handlers.
If for some reason we only have Handler applications, then Commanders will be randomly chosen.

Name: how are you called?
Desired Role: choose between Commander or Handler
Appearance: what do you look like? It can be as basic as eye color/hair color.
Background: how was your life until now? A survivor looking for revenge? A new idealistic recruit with a dream? A retired Maiden that couldn't give up the fight, even after losing your powers? A grizzled veteran who wants to finish the job?
Personality: what kind of individual are you? How do you see ARMs? Do you see them as humans, as tools?
Likes:
Dislikes:

[Nakéen]

Year 450 Cycle 2 - 4TH DIVISION ARM TEAMS

Team Scarlet Star
Commander: Ray Lanceheart
[Baretta Scarlet] GZ-2187 INVOKER (Handler: Natashia Argis)
[Capella Scarlet] GY-2296 DEFENDER (Handler: Johnathon Smith)

Spoiler: Team Budget (click to show/hide)

Funds: 3400EC
Cyclic Expenses: 600EC

LIVING: 400EC
Decent Canteen: 100EC
Decent Quarters: 100EC
Decent Recreation Room: 100EC
Decent Landscape Area: 100EC

MEDICAL 0EC
None

TRAINING 200EC
HG Combat Simulator: 200EC

OPTIMISATION 0EC
None

Spoiler: Team Facilities (click to show/hide)

LIVING
Decent Canteen: restores 0.5 Power. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Weakness.
Decent Quarters: restores 0.5 Harmony. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Turmoil.
Decent Recreation Room: restores 0.5 Courage. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Fear.
Decent Landscape Area: restores 0.5 Love. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Hate.

MEDICAL
None

TRAINING
HG Combat Simulator: provides up to 30 cycles to train a Combat Skill, up to a maximum level of 5.

OPTIMISATION
None

Spoiler: "Baretta Scarlet" GZ-2187 (click to show/hide)

Name: Baretta Scarlet
Designation: "Ginette Zephyrus" GZ-2187
Type/Subtype: Pure / Innocent
Description: Small / Brown Eyes / Gray Hair / Light Red Dress
Maiden Dress: A light red dress that looked like a functional ceremonial military uniform one would see at a parade
Background: Loved her Handler
Trauma: Betrayed by her Handler
Likes: brave people, planning things, ancient firearms, gelato desserts
Dislikes: mad love, changes in plans, cakes
Favored Weapon: Revolver
Favored Style: Invoker

Phantasm Elements:
A: 0
B: 0
C: 0
D: 4

LIFE 5
MIND 1
HEART 2
SOUL 3

Power: 1/1 [max 7]
Harmony: 1/1 [max 3]
Courage: 3/3 [max 4]
Love: 1/1 [max 5]

STRIKER: 1/5
CASTER: 1/5
DEFENDER: 1/4
INVOKER: 4/7 (8/50)

SENSES: 2/5
AID: 2/6
LABOR: 1/4
PUZZLE: 1/3
EMPATHY: 1/3
CLEANSE: 1/4

Spoiler: "Capella Scarlet" GY-2296 (click to show/hide)

Name: Capella Scarlet
Designation: "Gabrielle Yeung" GY-2296
Type/Subtype: Innocent / Pure
Description: Small/Silver Eyes/White Hair/Bright Orange Dress
Maiden Dress: A bright orange dress with an elegant balance of frills and cool looking accessories, the sort you could imagine on an idol that performed on a scene.
Background: Spy
Trauma: Wanted by the government
Likes: cool people, drums, "stakemetal" music, very spicy food
Dislikes: weak people, classical music, sweet foods
Favored Weapon: Hand to Hand
Favored Style: Defender

Phantasm Elements:
A: 0
B: 0
C: 0
D: 4

LIFE 2
MIND 3
HEART 3
SOUL 4

Power: 3/3 [max 4]
Harmony: 2/2 [max 5]
Courage: 3/3 [max 5]
Love: 1.5/2 [max 6]

STRIKER: 1/5
CASTER: 1/3
DEFENDER: 4/5 (18/50)
INVOKER: 1/4

SENSES: 2/5
AID: 0/6
LABOR: 2/6
PUZZLE: 1/3
EMPATHY: 1/5
CLEANSE: 3/5

Team Green
Commander: Charles Deer
[Malakim-12] XH-2111 CASTER (Handler: Jocelyn Alabaster)
[Raven-621] AC-2621 CASTER (Handler: Walter)

Spoiler: Team Budget (click to show/hide)

Funds: 5600EC
Cyclic Expenses: 550EC

LIVING: 200EC
Basic Canteen: 0EC
Decent Quarters: 100EC
Basic Recreation Room: 0EC
Decent Landscape Area: 100EC

MEDICAL 100EC
LG Surgical Unit: 50EC
LG Decontamination Sphere: 50EC

TRAINING 200EC
HG Combat Simulator: 200EC

OPTIMISATION 50EC
LG Quality Optimiser: 50EC

Spoiler: Team Facilities (click to show/hide)

LIVING:
Basic Canteen:
Decent Quarters: restores 0.5 Harmony. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Turmoil.
Basic Recreation Room:
Decent Landscape Area: restores 0.5 Love. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Hate.

MEDICAL
LG Surgical Unit: can fix up to 1 Wounds.
LG Decontamination Sphere: restores 1 Love.

TRAINING
HG Combat Simulator: provide up to 30 cycles to train a Combat Skill, up to a maximum level of 5.

OPTIMISATION
LG Quality Optimiser: consume collected Phantasm Elements of quality D to increase a Quality level, up to a maximum of 2.

Spoiler: "Malakim-12" XH-2111 (click to show/hide)

Name: Malakim-12
Designation: "Xili Han" XH-2111
Type/Subtype: Brave / Cool
Description: Tall/Silver Eyes/Indigo Hair/Red&Purple Dress
Maiden Dress: A red and purple Maiden Dress, which looked like a long-sleeved qipao with flaming patterns. Each of her movements seemed accompanied with ethereal flames.
Background: Loyalty
Trauma: Family Abuse
Likes: brave people, kung-fu, bamboo shoots, quiet
Dislikes: firearms, beef, noise
Favored Weapon: Tonfa
Favored Style: Caster

Phantasm Elements:
A: 0
B: 0
C: 0
D: 3

LIFE 1
MIND 3
HEART 4
SOUL 2

Power: 2/2 [max 3]
Harmony: 3/3 [max 5]
Courage: 3/3 [max 6]
Love: 0/1 [max 4]

STRIKER: 1/5
CASTER: 3/4 (11/40)
DEFENDER: 3/5 (0/40)
INVOKER: 1/4

SENSES: 1/4 (1/20)
AID: 3/4
LABOR: 2/4
PUZZLE: 0/4
EMPATHY: 1/5
CLEANSE: 2/4 (2/30)

Spoiler: "Raven-621" AC-2621 (click to show/hide)

Name: Raven-621
Designation: "Airi Corra" AC-2621
Type/Subtype: Cool / Innocent
Description: Tall / Beige Eyes / Blond Hair / White&Orange Dress
Maiden Dress: A white and orange cloak and suit set that was quite reminiscent of those worn by Guardian pilots. The cloak was long and large, able to completely cover Raven-621 when closed.
Background: Self Punishment
Trauma: Killed people
Likes: brave people, computers, science fiction, coral
Dislikes: merciless people, guns, violence
Favored Weapon: Chains
Favored Style: CASTER

Phantasm Elements:
A: 0
B: 0
C: 0
D: 3

LIFE 2
MIND 4
HEART 1
SOUL 4

Power: 3/3 [max 4]
Harmony: 2/3 [max 6]
Courage: 3/3 [max 3]
Love: 1/1 [max 6]

STRIKER: 1/5
CASTER: 4/6 (6/50)
DEFENDER: 2/5
INVOKER: 2/3

SENSES: 1/3 (1/20)
AID: 2/5
LABOR: 1/3
PUZZLE: 2/4
EMPATHY: 2/4
CLEANSE: 2/5 (2/30)

Team Gunmetal Rose
Commander: Aleksei Vasilyevich Belov
[Unnamed] PN-2079 (Handler: Sarah Finch)
[Unnamed] TV-2906 (Handler: Roland Thompson)

Spoiler: Team Budget (click to show/hide)

Funds: 3800EC
Cyclic Expenses: 400EC

LIVING: 200EC
Basic Canteen: 0EC
Decent Quarters: 100EC
Basic Recreation Room: 0EC
Decent Landscape Area: 100EC

MEDICAL 0EC
None

TRAINING 0EC
HG Combat Simulator: 200EC

OPTIMISATION 0EC
None

Spoiler: Team Facilities (click to show/hide)

LIVING:
Basic Canteen:
Decent Quarters: restores 0.5 Harmony. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Turmoil.
Basic Recreation Room:
Decent Landscape Area: restores 0.5 Love. Doubled on Rest. Cannot heal Turmoil.

MEDICAL
None

TRAINING
HG Combat Simulator: provides up to 30 cycles to train a Combat Skill, up to a maximum level of 5.

OPTIMISATION
None

Spoiler: PN-2079 (click to show/hide)

Name:
Designation: "Patricia Noctis" PN-2079
Type/Subtype: Cool / Brave
Description: Average / Yellow Eyes / Blond Hair / Steel Dress
Background: For salvation
Trauma: Nearly got killed by her lover
Likes: pure people, spaceships, stars, herbal tea
Dislikes: cold behavior, romance, cute things
Favored Weapon: Laser Sword
Favored Style: STRIKER

Attributes
LIFE 1
MIND 2
HEART 5
SOUL 2

Qualities (Level and Potential)
Power: 2 max 3
Harmony: 3 max 4
Courage: 3 max 7
Love: 2 max 4

Combat:
STRIKER: 3/7
CASTER: 1/6
DEFENDER: 1/5
INVOKER: 2/6

Non-Combat:
SENSES: 2/5
AID: 1/4
LABOR: 1/3
PUZZLE: 2/5
EMPATHY: 1/4
CLEANSE: 1/3

Spoiler: TV-2906 (click to show/hide)

Name:
Designation: "Trisha Vankrels" TV-2906
Type/Subtype: Pure / Cool
Description: Tall/Deep Blue Eyes/Vermillion Hair
Background: For Money
Trauma: Unrequited Love
Likes: brave people, frilly clothes, romance drama, roses
Dislikes: cowardice, cats, horror movies
Favored Weapon: Staff
Favored Style: Invoker

Attributes
LIFE 1
MIND 3
HEART 2
SOUL 4

Qualities (Level and Potential)
Weakness - Power: 3 max 3
Turmoil - Harmony: 2 max 5
Fear - Courage: 2 max 4
Hate - Love: 3 max 6

Combat:
STRIKER: 1/6
CASTER: 1/5
DEFENDER: 1/4
INVOKER: 3/5

Non-Combat:
SENSES: 3/6
AID: 0/4
LABOR: 2/6
PUZZLE: 2/3
EMPATHY: 2/3
CLEANSE: 2/3

[Nakéen]

UPDATES

450.1a: Prologue - Formation of the ARM Teams
450.1b: Prologue - Meeting the ARMs
450.1c: Briefing
450.1d: Missions
450.1e: Reports
450.1f: Pre-Downtime
450.1g: Downtime
450.1h: End of Cycle Balance
450.2a: Briefing
450.2b: Missions
450.2c: Reports
450.2d: Available ARMs and Completed Build Orders
450.2e: Briefing
450.2f: New ARMs introduction

[Nakéen]

OFFICERS OF THE 4TH NRCPF ARM DIVISION

COMMANDERS

Spoiler: Ray Lanceheart (IronyOwl) (click to show/hide)

Name: Ray Lanceheart
Desired Role: Commander
Appearance: A smug-looking young man with a tall, athletic build, red hair and eyes, and a mechanical gauntletlike right hand. He normally wears gloves to conceal this latter fact, and fancy red-and-gold or red-and-black military uniforms to let everyone know he's in charge.
Background: The Lancehearts arrived as refugees like everyone else, but soon established themselves as successful entrepeneurs and adventurers. By the time of the Reclamation they were well respected and well established, and went all in on colonization efforts. Ray was born on the islands but spent most of his youth on the mainland assisting with scouting and prospecting efforts, and towards the latter end of the Reclamation led a squad of mundane soldiers equipped with experimental Phantasm-infused weaponry. This experiment's results were far below that displayed by ARMs, but the concept was interesting enough to continue exploring and experimenting with. It was annihilated utterly in the Counterwave alongside everything else, including most of the once-vaunted Lanceheart holdings and a good deal of their number. Ray was lucky enough to merely lose a hand, probably because he was important enough for supporting ARM teams to prioritize evacuating as a quarter century of human civilization disintegrated around them. He had a crude mechanical claw attached so he could desperately do whatever it took when the UPI arrived to exterminate the last traces of humanity on the islands; this never happened, but he's had a sinister edge ever since, and his prosthetic was replaced with a war gauntlet instead of something more civilized.
Personality: Ray believes in the strength of the human spirit and its infinite capacity to develop new things to avenge itself with. He knows full well the Phantasm might be intelligent in some sense and doesn't care- it's his enemy, and that means he and it need to have at each other and drive everything around them to new heights. He views ARMs as humans, which means he views them as tools; all things exist to be useful, and a broken ARM isn't a happy or moral ARM anyway.
Likes: Manmade Horrors Beyond His Comprehension, Warhounds, Chocolate
Dislikes: Phantasms, Cowardice, The Weak

Spoiler: Charles Deer (Devastator) (click to show/hide)

Name: Charles Deer
Desired Role: Commander
Apperance: A scarred older man, short and wide bodied, but still maintains a fully upright posture.  Loves cigars and is rarely without one.  Deep voice.  Usually wears an old, battered green greatcoat.
Background: Deer hails from a foreign star, arriving via transport in response to the needs of Naera, a famous defensive commander on his homeworld.  There he raised and met conventional forces through decades of war, exercising his tactical skills and abilities.  With the war since ended, and with Naera in need of commanders for a new form of war, the old man decided to put on his jacket once more and fight one last round.
Personality: Deer believes in two things:  The will to defend ones homeland, and the power of surprise.
Likes: Infiltration missions, and packing maximum firepower into the most unexpected of locations.
Dislikes: Fair fights.

Spoiler: Aleksei Vasilyevich Belov (Maximum Spin) (click to show/hide)

Name: Aleksei Vasilyevich Belov
Desired Role: Commander
Appearance: A somewhat pale and freckled young man of modest height, with dark brown hair and stormy eyes.
Background: Although Aleksei is a new recruit and technically has a dream, it would be entirely absurd to refer to him as idealistic. Cynical and a little acquisitive even as a teenager, he made an abortive foray into Maiden command under a false name while still below legal enlistment age, for his own reasons of personal advancement, only to be found out and quietly sent home just in time to avoid being horribly murdered in the UPI event. Taking advantage of the loss of any record of his prior existence, he has now returned to the front under fully above-board conditions.
Personality: Alexei essentially has two competing sides - a romantic youth who genuinely wants to help save the world and hopes to find time to experience the passions of youth while doing so, overshadowed by a much more easily expressed indifference bordering on contempt for nearly everything around him that doesn't directly feed his drive for power and (sometimes arbitrary) vengeance. The Phantasmal Entities have wronged him personally, and that's terrible, so they must be destroyed. He sees the ARMs entirely as tools for enacting this destruction, which is also how he sees Maidens and, indeed, the majority of humanity.
Likes: Power, violence, overwhelming advantage, and romantic stories.
Dislikes: Magical girls, all forms of weakness, and anything that he feels gets in his way.

HANDLERS

Spoiler: Natashia Argis (Egan_BW) (click to show/hide)

Name: Natashia Argis [ACphrl01-EHP45,2 / JFW-custom-4530-F]
Desired Role: Handler

Appearance: A tall and thin woman with red hair and eyes. Robotic artificial arms and leg simulacra rated for civilian work. Always wears a corporate paramilitary dress uniform, modified to shorten the skirt and sleeves. To "keep all the cards on the table" in regards to her robotic limbs. Not so for her robotic torso, but that may just be a modicum of modesty.

Background: Experimental emulated human subject created by the Argis corporation in 445. Previous iterations of the emulated human concept were unreliable in application due to hardware incompatibility and issues relating to multiple instances of the same mind interacting. EHP45,2 utilizes carefully selected "puzzle pieces" extracted from many human subjects, and exhibits a high level of stability and reliability. Further experimentation is necessary, testing how the subject reacts to other kinds of "artificial being" and high-stress jobs.

Personality: Cold and logical, though sometimes drawn to obsession over details or "neat things". Treats ARMs with patient dispassion, but would prefer not to lose any more than necessary.
Likes: Efficiency. Guns. Industrial machinery. Airplanes.
Dislikes: Nothing in particular.

Spoiler: Johnathon Smith (The Canadian kitten) (click to show/hide)

Name: Johnathon Smith
Desired Role: Handler
Appearance: Tall thin man with brown eyes and black hair. perfectly normal and boring to describe
Background: Born during the evacuation of the surviving human populace to the southern islands of Midaram Sea, Johnathon never experienced life without the Apparitions and Spectres that haunted the rest of humanity. Willing to take part in the fight after the sudden appearance and disappearance of the UPI, by ensuring ARMs are treated humanely and as something more than a weapon of war.
Personality: Sees ARMs as human, Generally doesn't want unnecessary harm towards ARMs and personnel, prefers that the magical robot girls do not get ptsd assuming they survive under the command of those commanders.
Likes: Cats
Dislikes: Cruel treatment of ARMs, Causing lasting psychological trauma

Spoiler: Jocelyn 'Aegis' Alabaster (Glass) (click to show/hide)

Name: Jocelyn 'Aegis' Alabaster
Desired Role: Handler
Appearance: A woman who never grew enough to look her age, Jocelyn is still shorter than most of the ARMs at 27. Her hair is long and barely-tamed in a ponytail, while her green eyes seem to fluctuate in shade based on the situation.
Background: Jocelyn was one of the later maidens, not awakening until 434. In that time, however, she earned a reasonably-sized reputation for effectiveness at protecting people on the battlefield, and proved a valuable supplement to both maiden/ARM teams and traditional armed formations. As her powers faded, however, she turned toward studying engineering; as maidens were being removed from the battlefield, it would be the ARMs that took up that burden, and while she might not be able to protect them on the battlefield, she could still help off of it. Then the UPI showed up, and almost everybody she had ever worked with was dead, while she had been safe at base, waiting to repair ARMs when they returned. This had repercussions on her mental state.
Personality: Jocelyn does not see a practical difference between ARMs and 'natural' maidens, but does see both as soldiers rather than civilians; despite this, she is highly focused on making sure that any ARM assigned to her does not die, though this manifests largely as an extreme focus on training. Beneath this strict 'prepare yourself as much as possible' front, however, she is highly empathic for the trials her charge will undergo.
Likes: The act of repairing something, the people she considers to be teammates, speculative fiction, tea
Dislikes: Phantasms, things that are out of place, people dying

Spoiler: Handler Walter (Prophet) (click to show/hide)

Name: Walter
Desired Role: Handler

Appearance: A tall man in his late 30s, with black hair and brown eyes. He has noticeable burn scars on his face and arms.

Background: A former researcher for NCRPF, he studied the phenomenon of Phantasm, and how it could be used for the advancement of the NCRPF. When the UPI attacked, he barely escaped his research base with his life, and he had lost a lot of good friends. He resigned as a researcher after that, but he still had a duty to see through... he owed those gone that much.

Personality: A solemn but dependable man, burdened by his past. Walter fears growing to attached to ARMs, after his loses, but views them as people. Recognizing their intelligence and needs, even if their duty demands risk.

Likes: Smoking, his remaining friends, doing his duty without cruelty.
Dislikes: Unnecessary sacrifice, large fires, Phantasm

Spoiler: Roland Thompson (Stirk) (click to show/hide)

Name: Roland Thompson
Desired Role: Handler (Commanders are all taken)
Appearance: Early 20s, messy brown hair and barely shaved face. Looks tired, all the time. Like an overworked office worker, which is how he dresses. Blue eyes, with bags underneath.
Background: Growing up the future looked bright. Technology was advancing, we where winning, soon we would retake the world and we’d need workers instead of soldiers. So his parents set him on an easy path for a job at some tech company, sending him to a nice school where he got good grades. Just as he entered adulthood the world decided to end again, dashing his bright future and forcing him to do whatever he could just to have any future at all.
Personality: Tries to see ARMs as tools for his own sanity, fails. Treats them like coworkers.
Likes: Sleeping, caffeine, guns (everyone likes guns)
Dislikes: Loud noises (except gunshots), late hours, Phantasmal Entities (everyone hates those)

Spoiler: Sarah Finch (VermilionSkies) (click to show/hide)

Name: Sarah Finch
Desired Role: Handler
Appearance: A young woman just out of college, she stands significantly shorter than average, with blue eyes and black hair.
Background: Growing up on the wake of the NCRPF's resounding success in reclaiming the continent, Sarah was drawn to the idea of ensuring a bright future for humanity. After the appearance of the UPI unmade decades of progress, she knows she can do more than ever to help others.
Personality: Treats the ARMs, (and the rest of the staff) as comrades working towards the noble goal of making the world a better place.
Likes: Philosophy, purple, chocolate.
Dislikes: Darkness, needless cruelty, fish.

[Nakéen]

I will try to wait at least 7 hours before starting the game. I will wait at most 24h.

[Egan_BW]

hi!


Name: Natashia Argis [ACphrl01-EHP45,2 / JFW-custom-4530-F]
Desired Role: Handler

Appearance: A tall and thin woman with red hair and eyes. Robotic artificial arms and leg simulacra rated for civilian work. Always wears a corporate paramilitary dress uniform, modified to shorten the skirt and sleeves. To "keep all the cards on the table" in regards to her robotic limbs. Not so for her robotic torso, but that may just be a modicum of modesty.

Background: Experimental emulated human subject created by the Argis corporation in 445. Previous iterations of the emulated human concept were unreliable in application due to hardware incompatibility and issues relating to multiple instances of the same mind interacting. EHP45,2 utilizes carefully selected "puzzle pieces" extracted from many human subjects, and exhibits a high level of stability and reliability. Further experimentation is necessary, testing how the subject reacts to other kinds of "artificial being" and high-stress jobs.

Personality: Cold and logical, though sometimes drawn to obsession over details or "neat things". Treats ARMs with patient dispassion, but would prefer not to lose any more than necessary.
Likes: Efficiency. Guns. Industrial machinery. Airplanes.
Dislikes: Nothing in particular.

[IronyOwl]

"Can you really have war crimes if there's no war?"

Name: Ray Lanceheart
Desired Role: Commander
Appearance: A smug-looking young man with a tall, athletic build, red hair and eyes, and a mechanical gauntletlike right hand. He normally wears gloves to conceal this latter fact, and fancy red-and-gold or red-and-black military uniforms to let everyone know he's in charge.
Background: The Lancehearts arrived as refugees like everyone else, but soon established themselves as successful entrepeneurs and adventurers. By the time of the Reclamation they were well respected and well established, and went all in on colonization efforts. Ray was born on the islands but spent most of his youth on the mainland assisting with scouting and prospecting efforts, and towards the latter end of the Reclamation led a squad of mundane soldiers equipped with experimental Phantasm-infused weaponry. This experiment's results were far below that displayed by ARMs, but the concept was interesting enough to continue exploring and experimenting with. It was annihilated utterly in the Counterwave alongside everything else, including most of the once-vaunted Lanceheart holdings and a good deal of their number. Ray was lucky enough to merely lose a hand, probably because he was important enough for supporting ARM teams to prioritize evacuating as a quarter century of human civilization disintegrated around them. He had a crude mechanical claw attached so he could desperately do whatever it took when the UPI arrived to exterminate the last traces of humanity on the islands; this never happened, but he's had a sinister edge ever since, and his prosthetic was replaced with a war gauntlet instead of something more civilized.
Personality: Ray believes in the strength of the human spirit and its infinite capacity to develop new things to avenge itself with. He knows full well the Phantasm might be intelligent in some sense and doesn't care- it's his enemy, and that means he and it need to have at each other and drive everything around them to new heights. He views ARMs as humans, which means he views them as tools; all things exist to be useful, and a broken ARM isn't a happy or moral ARM anyway.
Likes: Manmade Horrors Beyond His Comprehension, Warhounds, Chocolate
Dislikes: Phantasms, Cowardice, The Weak

[Devastator]

Name: Charles Deer.
Desired Role: Commander
Apperance: A scarred older man, short and wide bodied, but still maintains a fully upright posture.  Loves cigars and is rarely without one.  Deep voice.  Usually wears an old, battered green greatcoat.
Background: Deer hails from a foreign star, arriving via transport in response to the needs of Naera, a famous defensive commander on his homeworld.  There he raised and met conventional forces through decades of war, exercising his tactical skills and abilities.  With the war since ended, and with Naera in need of commanders for a new form of war, the old man decided to put on his jacket once more and fight one last round.
Personality: Deer believes in two things:  The will to defend ones homeland, and the power of surprise.
Likes: Infiltration missions, and packing maximum firepower into the most unexpected of locations.
Dislikes: Fair fights.

[Maximum Spin]

Name: Aleksei Vasilyevich Belov
Desired Role: Commander
Appearance: A somewhat pale and freckled young man of modest height, with dark brown hair and stormy eyes.
Background: Although Aleksei is a new recruit and technically has a dream, it would be entirely absurd to refer to him as idealistic. Cynical and a little acquisitive even as a teenager, he made an abortive foray into Maiden command under a false name while still below legal enlistment age, for his own reasons of personal advancement, only to be found out and quietly sent home just in time to avoid being horribly murdered in the UPI event. Taking advantage of the loss of any record of his prior existence, he has now returned to the front under fully above-board conditions.
Personality: Alexei essentially has two competing sides - a romantic youth who genuinely wants to help save the world and hopes to find time to experience the passions of youth while doing so, overshadowed by a much more easily expressed indifference bordering on contempt for nearly everything around him that doesn't directly feed his drive for power and (sometimes arbitrary) vengeance. The Phantasmal Entities have wronged him personally, and that's terrible, so they must be destroyed. He sees the ARMs entirely as tools for enacting this destruction, which is also how he sees Maidens and, indeed, the majority of humanity.
Likes: Power, violence, overwhelming advantage, and romantic stories.
Dislikes: Magical girls, all forms of weakness, and anything that he feels gets in his way.

[The Canadian kitten]

You know, I had the thought for a General Ripper-like handler but seeing that we already have two commanders perfectly willing to send waves of ARMs to their deaths, I thought I shouldn't add to that fire.

Name: Johnathon Smith
Desired Role: Handler
Appearance: Tall thin man with brown eyes and black hair. perfectly normal and boring to describe
Background: Born during the evacuation of the surviving human populace to the southern islands of Midaram Sea, Johnathon never experienced life without the Apparitions and Spectres that haunted the rest of humanity. Willing to take part in the fight after the sudden appearance and disappearance of the UPI, by ensuring ARMs are treated humanely and as something more than a weapon of war.
Personality: Sees ARMs as human, Generally doesn't want unnecessary harm towards ARMs and personnel, prefers that the magical robot girls do not get ptsd assuming they survive under the command of those commanders.
Likes: Cats
Dislikes: Cruel treatment of ARMs, Causing lasting psychological trauma
thinking of likes and dislikes hard

[Glass]

Name: Jocelyn 'Aegis' Alabaster
Desired Role: Handler
Appearance: A woman who never grew enough to look her age, Jocelyn is still shorter than most of the ARMs at 27. Her hair is long and barely-tamed in a ponytail, while her green eyes seem to fluctuate in shade based on the situation.
Background: Jocelyn was one of the later maidens, not awakening until 434. In that time, however, she earned a reasonably-sized reputation for effectiveness at protecting people on the battlefield, and proved a valuable supplement to both maiden/ARM teams and traditional armed formations. As her powers faded, however, she turned toward studying engineering; as maidens were being removed from the battlefield, it would be the ARMs that took up that burden, and while she might not be able to protect them on the battlefield, she could still help off of it. Then the UPI showed up, and almost everybody she had ever worked with was dead, while she had been safe at base, waiting to repair ARMs when they returned. This had repercussions on her mental state.
Personality: Jocelyn does not see a practical difference between ARMs and 'natural' maidens, but does see both as soldiers rather than civilians; despite this, she is highly focused on making sure that any ARM assigned to her does not die, though this manifests largely as an extreme focus on training. Beneath this strict 'prepare yourself as much as possible' front, however, she is highly empathic for the trials her charge will undergo.
Likes: The act of repairing something, the people she considers to be teammates, speculative fiction, tea
Dislikes: Phantasms, things that are out of place, people dying

[Prophet]

Spoiler: Handler Walter (click to show/hide)

Name: Walter
Desired Role: Handler

Appearance: A tall man in his late 30s, with black hair and brown eyes. He has noticeable burn scars on his face and arms.

Background: A former researcher for NCRPF, he studied the phenomenon of Phantasm, and how it could be used for the advancement of the NCRPF. When the UPI attacked, he barely escaped his research base with his life, and he had lost a lot of good friends. He resigned as a researcher after that, but he still had a duty to see through... he owed those gone that much.

Personality: A solemn but dependable man, burdened by his past. Walter fears growing to attached to ARMs, after his loses, but views them as people. Recognizing their intelligence and needs, even if their duty demands risk.

Likes: Smoking, his remaining friends, doing his duty without cruelty.
Dislikes: Unnecessary sacrifice, large fires, Phantasm

[Stirk]

Name: Roland Thompson
Desired Role: Handler (Commanders are all taken)
Appearance: Early 20s, messy brown hair and barely shaved face. Looks tired, all the time. Like an overworked office worker, which is how he dresses. Blue eyes, with bags underneath.
Background: Growing up the future looked bright. Technology was advancing, we where winning, soon we would retake the world and we’d need workers instead of soldiers. So his parents set him on an easy path for a job at some tech company, sending him to a nice school where he got good grades. Just as he entered adulthood the world decided to end again, dashing his bright future and forcing him to do whatever he could just to have any future at all.
Personality: Tries to see ARMs as tools for his own sanity, fails. Treats them like coworkers.
Likes: Sleeping, caffeine, guns (everyone likes guns)
Dislikes: Loud noises (except gunshots), late hours, Phantasmal Entities (everyone hates those)

[Nakéen]

Name: Roland Thompson
Desired Role: Handler (Commanders are all taken)
Appearance: Early 20s, messy brown hair and barely shaved face. Looks tired, all the time. Like an overworked office worker, which is how he dresses. Blue eyes, with bags underneath.
Background: Growing up the future looked bright. Technology was advancing, we where winning, soon we would retake the world and we’d need workers instead of soldiers. So his parents set him on an easy path for a job at some tech company, sending him to a nice school where he got good grades. Just as he entered adulthood the world decided to end again, dashing his bright future and forcing him to do whatever he could just to have any future at all.
Personality: Tries to see ARMs as tools for his own sanity, fails. Treats them like coworkers.
Likes: Sleeping, caffeine, guns (everyone likes guns)
Dislikes: Loud noises (except gunshots), late hours, Phantasmal Entities (everyone hates those)

Even if all Commanders slots are taken, you can still try to go for the Commander role.

[Stirk]

I could, but that would be rude :V

Many of the commander designs are designed around being a commander, and I have no real urge to compete for the spot. So handler it is.