Formerly a small group of hired mercenaries under Helenâs control. Former Echelon had nothing to do, and sat idle. Now months later, is under the control of former Fortress scouts, Spencer (RED) and Phil (BLU). Theyâve shifted the focus from typical hired mercenaries to a team focus on athletics and acrobats, with speed being a key factor.
Their aim is to self defend and dodge any incoming attacks, while practicing aiming a weapon while parkouring. Team Echelon has obstacle courses designed to help them train these specific skills. While they still like ambling over to Fortress and participating in daily battles, itâs more of a casual training to keep their weapon skills sharp.
They work loosely with Citadel for weaponry/robots for use as target practice so they can better hone their skills and practice dodging/parkouring out of the line of fire. They want to remain as sharp as possible.
Echelon has their own base not too far off from Fortress bases. Itâs not designed like a typical base, as thereâs only one general building there, as opposed to two sides. Itâs a large base though, with an obstacle course taking up the majority of the base. Itâs filled with traps, sentries as well as some other various bits of technology thatâs all controlled with a few switches inside their base.Â
Inside the base, however, is not very big. Thereâs not much too it, other than a main lobby, a few offices for whenever the administrator or Miss Pauling visits, a meeting room, a lunchroom/kitchen, a rec room, and a hall that leads to a few dorm rooms. Of course, thereâs a locker room as well, for post training.
The common team uniform, worn mostly during training, is tiger striped-print loose clothing. For the acrobats they do, the teamâs going to need light and loose styles. Typical team colors are green/black, or some combination of both, but during down times itâs not mandatory.Â
Team Echelon has a large weapons cache filled with all sorts of weapons: flame-throwers, knives, scatterguns, chainsaws, rocket launchers, anything from any of the Fortress classes. They wonât always use all the weapons they have, but theyâre there, just in case.
With speed and acrobats being the main focus, Echelon will only take on mercenaries that can prove theyâre good at what they do, and are willing to go through a lot of training to become better. Echelon is rather selective.
