#battletech oc

[rattlegeist]

Battletech OC comm [for Maka Chaquiweshe]

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[srastrix]

While on an extended contract with the Raven Alliance during the Early Republic era, we hired a young pilot, Angel Verdun, to join our cause. Unfortunately for this pilot, she was assigned to our Shadow Cat J. Angel performed excellently during our campaign's practice missions. However, on our first battle with an enemy we were quickly made aware of the Shadow Cat J's flaws; as soon as one of the 7 Gauss rifle variants onboard would be hit, it would start a volatile chain reaction with the mech's internal components. Paired with the ammo packed into this mech and the fragility of its chassis, this warmachine would quickly turn into a smoking rubble if it was met with a challenge. Our opponents at Rawhide's Roughnecks nicknamed it "Popcorn" due to the fireworks displayed by the mech's self-destruction.

Angel would come out of her first battle in a state of near-death as her neurohelmet had fried most of her brain. Miraculously, and using the Raven's medical technology, she managed to survive and heal-up for the next battle. During the course of this 7 mission campaign however we were limited to using the same star of mechs we had selected initially, and Angel could only use the Shadow Cat.

Angel finished her tour having died 4 times due to neural feedback, and every single time she was put back together having lost a part of herself. Our peppy little pilot slowly turned into more of a machine than man.

I keep recalling the ancient thought experiment known as the "Ship of Theseus"; If a ship's original components are replaced with identical parts, is it even the same ship? At what point does it become a different ship? What about the human brain?

[novacommanderwikolia]

Attention, Somerset Inner Sphere.

I am Nova Commander Wikolia Osis of the Smoke Jaguar Clan.

You will ask yourself why an Elemental with only one arm is a Nova Commander. My service record, and especially my ability to keep Star Commander Yazmin Corbett from running off to do something dezgra, should explain that.

This line of communication is now open if you require further context or have other questions.

Good day.

[thequicksilverfox]

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For the BT ask game

from @is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not

🟢: Violet is a minor noble of the Lyran Commonwealth, whose family governs only a fraction of a continent on a backwater planet, and primarily work as vintners.

🔵: She's eternally delighted by what she considers to be (some of) the clan's very silly views on honor in combat, and those of them with good senses of humor about it make for good conversation, and occasionally, good lays. She's pen pals with a Diamond Shark!

Violet is not at liberty to discuss her opinion of, nor actions related to, nor time spent on, the Magistracy of Canopus. Any video, audio, written, or photographic record of Violet LaChance's alleged actions related thereto are considered sole property of the LaChance household, and any copies of said are to be destroyed promptly. Distribution of such is punishable in accordance with the Third Common Discrepancy Act, Clauses 8-42. Lord and Lady LaChance thank you for your cooperation.

🔴: Violet considers the Draconis Combine to consist primarily of a group of reasonably competent soldiers and governors, operating under an absurdly outdated governing theory. She doesn't actually know that much about the Draconis Combine's actual governing theory, but good grief, bushido?

A particularly nasty subfaction of the Free Worlds League has made three separate attempts to eradicate all trace of the "genetic treason" represented by her family. Death threats aside, these attacks have been made with appallingly underwhelming force, one such foray not even managing landfall before being rebuffed by orbital planetary defenses. The only one of these assaults to truly threaten her family occurred within her lifetime, during which she inexpertly piloted the ancestral family 'mech to rebuff the- primarily VTOL and infantry- attackers. Despite being hopelessly overgunned, she still managed to nearly total the family's Atlas, and has yet to amass the funds needed to repair it.

💛: While she puts together funds to repair her family's ancestral Atlas, Tenth Tail Resplendent, Violet pilots a delightful lavender swayback she's affectionately dubbed Imminently Punchable Eschaton. She just loves those lasers!

📚: She's totally enamored with the Royal Black Watch, and likes to imagine that the Atlas she's had exactly one opportunity to pilot once belonged to a member of that esteemed guard! It didn't, but a girl can dream.

🛸: Weird shit happens all the time in the system, it stands to reason it might be happening outside of it too- its just not really her business unless it crops up in her back yard.

She also harbors a sneaking suspicion that she really is built different, though she strives not to act on this belief. Too often.

🔫: As a bored young noble hick, she has been trained in the use of several firearms- ostensibly for hunting, though it beggars belief what possible game might best be bagged with a vibrosword. Or a fully-automatic flechette rifle, for that matter. For everyday carry, however, she typically packs the tongue-in-cheek gift she was given by her Diamond Shark pen pal- a customized Smith and Webley Foxfire pistol. This was meant, and received, as a good-natured dig at her heritage, and the fact that she was born with a fuzzy muzzle and three bushy tails. Every day is foxgirl friday when you are... a foxgirl.

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Hey, is shibari a normal part of SLDF Gunslinger training? Can’t find it in the old manuals I just dug up, but it was definitely there in my learning process.

[novacommanderwikolia]

You have not lived until you have beaten one of those Blakist techno-abominations to death with your own prosthetic arm.

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I’m still convinced the MDCS makes the Argo swap places with its counterparts in other universes, that’s why you see so many Bull Sharks and so many people claiming to be the mercenary commander who helped Kamea liberate Coromodir.