Blood Eagle and Rider
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It’s the 25th century, over the last 450 years the planet has been wracked with natural disasters followed by years of war and a new Dark Age.
In the last 75 years old world technology has been re-discovered and new technology created. True humans are beginning to come back from the brink of destruction, but they still have a long way to go…
Some adventurers’ scratch out a living in the waste lands between the few human cities. Some work as caravan drivers, some as hired security, others as contract killers or Sky Pirates.
It’s this last group the “Sky Pirates” that I have chosen to portray. There are many gangs of Sky Pirates. One gang, may be the toughest, is called the Blood Eagles. This Blood Eagle travels armed to the teeth. She carries a sidearm, rifle with scope, and a saber (she may even have other weapons secreted about her person). All Blood Eagles are hard-nosed battle tested veterans.
They use a variety of flying machines but their preferred mode of transportation is the Hover Jet. Hover Jets are fast and agile yet are still able to carry a heavy load. The Hover Jets used by Sky Pirates are usually heavily armed and armored. The one pictured here has been stripped of its weapons and windshield (possibly to reduce drag), making it much lighter and faster. Perfect for recon missions.
Next entry...
Zhao Yun
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The Year is 2067, due to over development and ever widening gap between rich and poor, citizen of the People Republic of China (PRC) revolts against super-corporations and the central Govt.
Funded by the West in the attempt to demolish the growing dominancy of the PRC, offshore private contractors were hired to infiltrate the mainland and supply the locals with hi-tech assault vehicles and fire arms.
Turning from outraged desperations to ruthless terrorism (so it was deemed), the Govt. deployed the special national security unit " Falcon" to crack down on the severe regional raids and attacks by civilian militia groups.
Seeing the country being tear apart by greed, madness and political conspiracy, a group of Ex-Next Generation People's Liberation Army (NGPLA) regrouped and formed the Peace Restoring Troop - Clan of SHU, whom initiated a Peace Keeping Campaign in different regions. While calming the citizen revolts with minimal forces and supply of resources, fighting the super-corporations financed Contractors holds no room for diplomacy.
Being charge by the Govt. for mutiny and conspiracy with civilian militia,
Clan of SHU has no choice but fight along side the militia to overthrow the corrupted Govt.
Two other so-called Prosperity Restoring Troop- Clan of the WU & Stability Restoring Troop - Clan of the CHO also rise up with their hidden agendas to take charge of the country.
China, once again enters the era of the Three Kingdoms with hundreds of years of civil war to follow…\
The Character : Zhao Yun
Zhao Yun leads a small group of elite commandos specialised in doing sabotage works as well as intelligence gathering in enemy territories. His armour is made from a kind of super durable steel able to withstand automatic weapons and also from grenade / landmine attacks. Being a traditional person, his preferred weapon, the long spear pierced through any armour or breaks a person's into 2 when swung against. Does not has any specialised long range weapon but will use the standard issue blaster.
The twin wing booster on its shoulder allows him to do short distance jump, especially useful during armed combat.
next entry...
Russian Armored Recce
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General History
With the aliens arrival more then 2 centuries ago, human scramble to endorse the new technologies available to them in such a rapid pace until Earth's resources were decimitated. And no big advancement is achieved eventually. Human goes back to basic which is most prevailing in military weaponry.
This entry's background : Russian Armoured Recce
And with the chaos rises new leaders and ideology. Once Earth's superpower, Russia, was broken into many small republic ruled by warlords. A particular ambitious warlord by the name of Anatoli Geryenev has a grand plan to re-unite Russia back to its past glory. Flying the RedStar flag, he successfully annex weaker states bordering his.
Hating to lose or to do things a second time, he believes in leading his troops into battle with a clear idea of how the enemy position is laid and what route is the best route for attack.
A heavy armoured recognition division was raised just for this function. They were armed with very old WW2 ppsh 41 sub machine gun (again an infactuation with the past glory of the motherland). Though the armour may look cumbersome but it is made of very high durable and ultra light material, one of the few success story of alien's technologies. The raised antenna is for receiving signals from the enemy's camp to compliment arial pictures
Info brought back by these troopers help won many battles which cements their reputation as an elite unit.
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Telios: Emissary of Bao
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It's one of those scorching hot summer afternoon here on Selrak IV, the year is 2496, only a few years shy from the 26th century if we are still alive to see it comes. The interstellar co-operate alliance known as Sentient Mileu which governed this part of the galaxy for millenia has collapsed under the massive invasion of the IIvux. Nearly whole region has fallen into complete state of anarchy, only a few sanctuaries in remote corners were left untouched.
This would soon change as IIvux advancing deeper into territories once part of Mileu's domain. Earth was drawn into the chaos during the early days of invasion. Few of us who survived have evacuated in small caravans of generation ships heading off to the unknown space looking for refuge on other worlds. Some disappeared to the unknown regions. Some others like us have partnered with other races who were also affected by the war, hoping any form of alliance can prolong our collective existence a little while longer.
After more than a decade of traveling, our ancestors on Utopia convoy
209 have allied with the peaceful Cyreen, whose home world was destroyed by IIvux planer killer. Nearly two centuries has come and passed, both
humans and Cyreens have slowly integrated into one single civilization
with a common goal of finding ways to live freely from the wraith of
IIvux. We wouldn't enjoy the rare peace for long. IIvus's marauding
forces finally caught up with us after decades of calm while we settled in a remote corner of M88 cluster at constellation Hydra. The desert
world of Selrak IV is one of our last remaining strongholds. Far away
from M88 cluster, situated in a trinary system deep inside M32 "Swan"
cluster at Delta Orionis. Planet's unique magnetic field and atmospheric
properties have protected us from the trinaries'' lethal gamma radiation
and shielded our signatures from ships attempting to scan the surface. We thought we finally found a safe heaven, we were wrong. IIvux scouts
discovered the location and eventually found a way around this
advantages. Their armada unleashed wave after wave of armoured-clad
silicon based drones onto the surface. Our positions have been pounded
on for thirty-six days straight. When it seemed our demise was near,
event started to take a strange turn. Two days ago when the latest wave was about to breach the inner defense perimeter, it was unexpectedly
thwarted by a single being. We have no idea where it came from, all we
witnessed was it dashed from behind the invasion force like a beam of
light streaking across the air. Sliced through the columns like a hot
knife on butter, wrecking havoc within the drones. They were thrown
aside from the mayhem like rag dolls. The melee however, ended as soon
as it started. In the heat of battle, that metallic blue being released a ball of light, engulfed everything in its perimeter. including every
single drone. Just as the bright flash of light started to diminish, the being itself disappeared into thin air. It has left no trace of battle
on the sand dunes, not even any wreckage of destroyed drones. Next
moment can only be described as astonishing. Many of our Cyreen comrades
were stone froze; some kneel on their feet and started weeping
uncontrollably. We asked one of the elders what's happening. He can only describe it as impossible because that being we just saw is suppose to
exist only in their ancient folklore dating back thousands of years.
Known to Cyreens and their sister speices Telerians as Telios - the
Emissary of Bao; the being is one of the four mythical creatures that
resided in Bao nebula near Teleria Prime who would protect both ancient species during their time of need. Telerian died out three millenia ago along will all their historical records during a massive supernova
eruption. Based on archaeological findings long before the great war;
some alternative modern Cyreen exobiologists have however suggested that Telios and the other three mythical creatures were merely some kind of
super soldiers or weapons of immensely destructive power that Telerians engineered.to protect their interests. The same scientists also
suggested that the reason for Bao nebula to have anything to do with
this probably because the nebula was a known local subspace corridor
portal. Likely ancient Telerians have the four creatures hidden in the
corridor and called for their service with some sort of homing beacons.
If that is really the case, then the activation codes must have survived
through time. Someone here must have activated the code, but who? But
then again, Telios is a savior to most Cyreens, and perhaps to many of
us Earthlings here on Selrak. Perhaps it may turn the tide to our favor, at least for the moment.
We'll see.............
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Ok...that's all I have for now (updated: 7/22 8:20 pm CST).
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