Post by The Merry Lambfish on Jan 13, 2014 17:22:30 GMT -5
Name: Praetorian (SGB-06)
Height: 120 meters
Weight: 140 000 tons (155 000 tons with shield)
History: First deployed in 2006, Praetorian was originally piloted by Homer W Mates. Stationed in Citadel New York, Homer was very successful in defending the Eastern border of Canada and the United States from terataur threats. However, two years into service, an angered Caedosaurus in Prince Edward Island defeated Praetorian when the terataur's infrasonic attack killed Homer.
His remains took two days to remove from the cockpit.
Because Brawler-Grades were built specifically to match their pilot's strengths, Praetorian was kept in hiatus for four years. When Alondra M Vaz was promoted to brawler status, she opted to revive Praetorian instead of having an entirely new Brawler built for her. This saved the SEDD billions down the road, but required Alondra to relearn her training from scratch and completely alter her fighting style. This was an immensely daunting task that few were able to archive, but Alondra pulled through.
Today she serves the SEDD as one of their best, being one of only two people in the world to kill a Sobek. She was stationed in Citadel Cairo, on the front lines of the restricted zone... until the UCA intervened.
Description:
The colors are bronze, scarlet, and a bit of black.
Personality: As a machine, Praetorian has no personality of its own, instead sharing the personality of its pilot.
Alondra’s hand-to-hand fighting style is based primarily on boxing/kickboxing techniques. She’s also excellent at using her weapons, including her shield. A passionate fighter always ready to jump into a crazy situation, she is also very stubborn, confident, and refuses to back down. Alondra works best when operating with a teammate or two, but here at the UCA she must fight many of her battles alone.
Weapons:
-Hammer Gauntlet: On Praetorian’s right arm sits a heavy “hammer gauntlet”, a dense blunt weapon of solid nanosteel that protrudes over the fist. Extremely heavy and reinforced with powerful shock absorbers, this weapon gives Praetorian’s blows a deadly edge, like a wrist-mounted sledgehammer. Depending on the strength of the punch, the hammer gauntlet can stun opponents, crack armor, cause internal bleeding, and knock opponents down.
-Nanosteel-Bone Alloy Shield: Mounted on the left arm is a 15 000 pound shield, made of an alloy of nanosteel and terataur bone. This alloy is ridiculously durable and sturdy enough to endure immense pressure, but not flexible enough to construct Sentinels with. The terataur bone also makes the shield extremely resistant to temperature extremes and acids. But the shield isn’t just a defensive tool. Praetorian uses its weight to bash opponents to stun, knock down, or to give it more room, essentially becoming a second hammer gauntlet. The thin edge only increases its lethality. And yet still, the shield has an extra surprise waiting inside.
The front 270º area of the shield is capable of retracting, revealing a gigantic nanosteel power saw! Sharp and hard as nanosteel already is, it goes without saying that this is a very dangerous weapon capable of breaching most forms of armor. However, it takes five solid seconds for the shield to retract. Praetorian can also remove the shield if necessary.
-Nanosteel Spear: Praetorian carries a 130-meter long spear constructed entirely of nanosteel. The leaf shaped blade is a very sharp weapon can slice apart the hide of terataurs, and the spike at the butt end of the spear can be used to stand the spear up or be utilized as a secondary weapon. Praetorian is also fully capable of throwing it like a javelin. Ineffective against tough armor.
-Retractable Nanosteel Combat Blade: Extending from between its hammer gauntlets is a sharp nanosteel blade of about 30-meters. This is a fast and deadly slashing weapon, useful in tight quarters. Ineffective against tough armor.
-Melee Enhancement Protrusions: A modification by Alondra when she chose to pilot Praetorian, the machine possesses several spikes and ridges to make its striking points more lethal. Sturdy nanosteel spikes adorn its knees, elbows, and toes, capable of using the force of Praetorian’s blows to punch holes in armor where the blade and spear might fail. Sharp ridges sprout up from its shins and outer sides of the feet, and a heavy, studded ball of nanosteel rests on the back of the foot like a tiny mace, adding extra damage to its kicks.
-Meteor Rockets: While they have no tracking abilities, thereby limiting their use to short range, the SEDD’s meteor rockets pack a surprising amount of power. Meteor rockets are a new technology developed by studying the Caedosaurus. They contain extremely concentrated sound waves, that, when released by the missile’s explosion, collapse in on themselves to deliver a tremendous shockwave of sonic force strong enough to blast apart kaiju skin.
Because sound can travel faster though more solid objects, (it travels faster though metal than it does through rubber, and travels through rubber faster than through water, etc.) therefore gaining more kinetic energy and deliver more powerful vibrations to these harder surfaces, these rockets are EXTREMELY effective as an anti-armor weapon. Metal, bony armor, and armored plates or scales, being more ridged, are more easily cracked or shattered by the meteor rockets. The harder the armor, the easier it is to break. Praetorian can fire four meteor rockets at a time, and can hold 26 rockets, enough for six shots.
-Heavy Storm Cannon (LIMITED 2 USES PER MATCH): So called because the sound of it echoes across the horizon like thunder, the storm cannon is an extremely powerful plasma weapon. Drawing in atmospheric gasses into the cannon’s power reactor and superheating/ionizing them with ABT energy to create plasma, the weapon will charge as it amplifies the projectile. The plasma is fired out of the barrel with an electromagnetic particle accelerator, and an invisible cylindrical beam of electromagnetic energy keeps the plasma on course and prevents blooming or heat loss. The whitish-green orb of plasma is incredibly fast and nearly impossible to dodge, and is so bright that the shot can temporarily blind opponents. As mentioned earlier, the storm cannon is very loud. At 250 decibels, the noise can create a truly titanic airblast capable of shattering glass windows, kill if not shatter the eardrums of human bystanders and even cause structural damage to buildings, though kaiju remain unaffected by the noise. For these reasons, the usage of plasma weapons in urban environments is strictly forbidden, with the exception of dire circumstances.
The plasma blast itself is incredibly hot, reaching over 50 000º C. However, this weapon does more than burn: the high velocity/kinetic impact of the plasma can rip the surrounding tissues apart like a high velocity bullet impact. The high thermal temperatures are especially dangerous to organic life. Against metal structures the blast will merely punch or melt through the target material. With wet materials such as organic tissues like flesh and skin, the story is completely different. The energy delivered by the blast manifests itself as heat, and the blast pumps a lot of heat into a target all at once. With water, this means an instantaneous steam explosion.
Instead, as the blast hits the skin and the flesh underneath, the water in the tissue explodes instantly into superheated steam, blowing open bloody wounds like a giant shotgun blast. This steam explosion makes the storm cannon a very messy weapon. The blast can also “splatter” upon impact, throwing plasma particles that can cause small 3rd degree burns to other areas. Near misses can also cause minor burns, and the blast’s effect on ground, terrain, and armor plating can also high speed fragmentation around the point of impact. Flammable materials hit by the plasma blast will instantly combust. However, the five-second-charge time means that the storm cannon can be easily anticipated, and Praetorian is forced to limit its use of the weapon to prevent potentially destructive overheating.
When not in use, Praetorian stores the storm cannon against its back, the three claw-like prongs folding in like pincers.
-Head Ornament: More of a deterrent than a weapon, the nanosteel crest on Praetorian’s head keeps flying enemies and attackers from behind from striking the head.
Powers:
-Nanosteel Armor: Built like a walking tank, Praetorian is the most thickly armored of any active Brawler. Everything has been covered in nanosteel plating. Even the elbows, knees, toes and torso utilize a segmented armor design, and a thick fan of nanosteel protects the sides of the knees and elbows. Moveable armor plates protect the ankles, and the hulking shoulders use the overlapping segmented design to great effect. The neck is protected by thick armor, and the small head that houses the primary optics, communication systems and sensors is built more like a reinforced helmet or a face shield. The hips combine retractable armored plates with a ball-in-socket joint design to deliver maximum flexibility without sacrificing defense. The nanosteel armor is excellent at resisting powerful impacts, explosions, and blunt attacks, and gives decent protection against the teeth and claws of kaiju and extreme temperatures.
-Nanosteel Endoskeleton: Like all Brawler-Grade Sentinels, Praetorian has a nanosteel endoskeleton, further reinforcing its body against powerful impacts.
-Armored Cockpit: The armor especially thick at the chest, which houses the cockpit and the ABT reactor core.
-Escape Pod: In the event that the pilot or the passengers are in danger, Praetorian comes equipped with three escape pods that fire out from the back, deploying parachutes once they are a safe distance away. Not really need in the UCA.
-Brawler-Grade: As a Brawler-Grade Sentinel, Praetorian is designed to engage terataurs in close quarters. It doesn’t sacrifice armor for its ability to fight quickly and efficiently, and is capable of performing feats of agility on par with its human pilot. Dozens of powerful balance and terrain sensors keep the mech upright in even the midst of attack. The legs are especially flexible, both they and the powerful sensors allowing Praetorian to perform high kicks without ending up on the floor.
-Strength: Praetorian is the biggest, heaviest, and most physically powerful of any currently active Sentinel. Its artificial muscles are 2000 times stronger than that of a human, allowing it to not only move its 140 000+ ton body around with ease, but perform feats of strength unseen by any other Brawler. Praetorian is capable of lifting an estimate of 280 000 tons, making it a physical match for the larval form of the Tarakona. It hits harder than any other Sentinel created so far… its fists are lethal weapons in their own right.
-HUD: Praetorian is outfitted with a sophisticated heads up display. It features a bioteratic energy reader that measures the bioteratic energy readings of a terataur, a targeting reticle for the meteor rockets and storm cannon, an outside threat indicator that warns the pilot from attacks outside visual range, can search the SEDD’s database, and upload maps. It can inform the pilot of the surrounding environment, the location and distance of a target, and any damage the Brawler has endured. It also comes equipped with binocular, infrared, and night vision modes.
-Pilot Suit: the pilot comes equipped with Type V Diamondskin Personal Armor, a protective suit designed to protect physical trauma and strain of operating a Sentinel. The helmet connects to and replays the information from the machine’s optics, allowing the pilot to see what it sees in addition to the HUD. It also darkens like a welder’s mask in the event of bright flashes of light, such as plasma blasts, which protects the pilot’s eyes. It dramatically muffles external noise, and comes equipped with a communication system that allows the pilot to communicate with their team or their commander. Finally, the helmet has a built in filtration system for poison gasses and airborne particles corrupted with bioteratic energy.
-Insertion Thrusters: On the back of the shins and back are powerful plasma thrusters. The SEDD’s technology is not advanced enough to provide flight to Sentinels, but the thrusters can slow down and ease the Sentinel’s decent from an aerial sentinel transportation unit. They can also be used to help speed up Praetorian, increase jump heights, and aid in dodges.
Weaknesses:
-ABT Reactor Core: Although the ABT reactor core is safely contained in a nanosteel chassis, should it be breached the Sentinel will be completely destroyed by a tremendously powerful internal detonation within twenty seconds. This blast is unbelievably powerful, the energy output comparable to a 10 megaton nuclear weapon. However, the explosion quickly loses power from the source, the power mostly contained within a kilometer wide radius. Kaiju and mechs will be relatively unharmed within this distance of the blast, though any closer than 600 meters will bring instant annihilation to even powerful kaiju. Worst yet, the resulting shockwave can easily destroy an entire city. (Obviously irrelevant in the UCA, as this would count as an instant kill. The UCA has placed an impenetrable force field around the reactor core to prevent this.)
-Electrical Disruption: Electricity and EMP attacks can be disastrous to the internal systems of a Sentinel.
-Acid: Powerful acids can burn through nanosteel rather efficiently. Only Praetorian’s shield can provide protection.
Height: 120 meters
Weight: 140 000 tons (155 000 tons with shield)
History: First deployed in 2006, Praetorian was originally piloted by Homer W Mates. Stationed in Citadel New York, Homer was very successful in defending the Eastern border of Canada and the United States from terataur threats. However, two years into service, an angered Caedosaurus in Prince Edward Island defeated Praetorian when the terataur's infrasonic attack killed Homer.
His remains took two days to remove from the cockpit.
Because Brawler-Grades were built specifically to match their pilot's strengths, Praetorian was kept in hiatus for four years. When Alondra M Vaz was promoted to brawler status, she opted to revive Praetorian instead of having an entirely new Brawler built for her. This saved the SEDD billions down the road, but required Alondra to relearn her training from scratch and completely alter her fighting style. This was an immensely daunting task that few were able to archive, but Alondra pulled through.
Today she serves the SEDD as one of their best, being one of only two people in the world to kill a Sobek. She was stationed in Citadel Cairo, on the front lines of the restricted zone... until the UCA intervened.
Description:
The colors are bronze, scarlet, and a bit of black.
Personality: As a machine, Praetorian has no personality of its own, instead sharing the personality of its pilot.
Alondra’s hand-to-hand fighting style is based primarily on boxing/kickboxing techniques. She’s also excellent at using her weapons, including her shield. A passionate fighter always ready to jump into a crazy situation, she is also very stubborn, confident, and refuses to back down. Alondra works best when operating with a teammate or two, but here at the UCA she must fight many of her battles alone.
Weapons:
-Hammer Gauntlet: On Praetorian’s right arm sits a heavy “hammer gauntlet”, a dense blunt weapon of solid nanosteel that protrudes over the fist. Extremely heavy and reinforced with powerful shock absorbers, this weapon gives Praetorian’s blows a deadly edge, like a wrist-mounted sledgehammer. Depending on the strength of the punch, the hammer gauntlet can stun opponents, crack armor, cause internal bleeding, and knock opponents down.
-Nanosteel-Bone Alloy Shield: Mounted on the left arm is a 15 000 pound shield, made of an alloy of nanosteel and terataur bone. This alloy is ridiculously durable and sturdy enough to endure immense pressure, but not flexible enough to construct Sentinels with. The terataur bone also makes the shield extremely resistant to temperature extremes and acids. But the shield isn’t just a defensive tool. Praetorian uses its weight to bash opponents to stun, knock down, or to give it more room, essentially becoming a second hammer gauntlet. The thin edge only increases its lethality. And yet still, the shield has an extra surprise waiting inside.
The front 270º area of the shield is capable of retracting, revealing a gigantic nanosteel power saw! Sharp and hard as nanosteel already is, it goes without saying that this is a very dangerous weapon capable of breaching most forms of armor. However, it takes five solid seconds for the shield to retract. Praetorian can also remove the shield if necessary.
-Nanosteel Spear: Praetorian carries a 130-meter long spear constructed entirely of nanosteel. The leaf shaped blade is a very sharp weapon can slice apart the hide of terataurs, and the spike at the butt end of the spear can be used to stand the spear up or be utilized as a secondary weapon. Praetorian is also fully capable of throwing it like a javelin. Ineffective against tough armor.
-Retractable Nanosteel Combat Blade: Extending from between its hammer gauntlets is a sharp nanosteel blade of about 30-meters. This is a fast and deadly slashing weapon, useful in tight quarters. Ineffective against tough armor.
-Melee Enhancement Protrusions: A modification by Alondra when she chose to pilot Praetorian, the machine possesses several spikes and ridges to make its striking points more lethal. Sturdy nanosteel spikes adorn its knees, elbows, and toes, capable of using the force of Praetorian’s blows to punch holes in armor where the blade and spear might fail. Sharp ridges sprout up from its shins and outer sides of the feet, and a heavy, studded ball of nanosteel rests on the back of the foot like a tiny mace, adding extra damage to its kicks.
-Meteor Rockets: While they have no tracking abilities, thereby limiting their use to short range, the SEDD’s meteor rockets pack a surprising amount of power. Meteor rockets are a new technology developed by studying the Caedosaurus. They contain extremely concentrated sound waves, that, when released by the missile’s explosion, collapse in on themselves to deliver a tremendous shockwave of sonic force strong enough to blast apart kaiju skin.
Because sound can travel faster though more solid objects, (it travels faster though metal than it does through rubber, and travels through rubber faster than through water, etc.) therefore gaining more kinetic energy and deliver more powerful vibrations to these harder surfaces, these rockets are EXTREMELY effective as an anti-armor weapon. Metal, bony armor, and armored plates or scales, being more ridged, are more easily cracked or shattered by the meteor rockets. The harder the armor, the easier it is to break. Praetorian can fire four meteor rockets at a time, and can hold 26 rockets, enough for six shots.
-Heavy Storm Cannon (LIMITED 2 USES PER MATCH): So called because the sound of it echoes across the horizon like thunder, the storm cannon is an extremely powerful plasma weapon. Drawing in atmospheric gasses into the cannon’s power reactor and superheating/ionizing them with ABT energy to create plasma, the weapon will charge as it amplifies the projectile. The plasma is fired out of the barrel with an electromagnetic particle accelerator, and an invisible cylindrical beam of electromagnetic energy keeps the plasma on course and prevents blooming or heat loss. The whitish-green orb of plasma is incredibly fast and nearly impossible to dodge, and is so bright that the shot can temporarily blind opponents. As mentioned earlier, the storm cannon is very loud. At 250 decibels, the noise can create a truly titanic airblast capable of shattering glass windows, kill if not shatter the eardrums of human bystanders and even cause structural damage to buildings, though kaiju remain unaffected by the noise. For these reasons, the usage of plasma weapons in urban environments is strictly forbidden, with the exception of dire circumstances.
The plasma blast itself is incredibly hot, reaching over 50 000º C. However, this weapon does more than burn: the high velocity/kinetic impact of the plasma can rip the surrounding tissues apart like a high velocity bullet impact. The high thermal temperatures are especially dangerous to organic life. Against metal structures the blast will merely punch or melt through the target material. With wet materials such as organic tissues like flesh and skin, the story is completely different. The energy delivered by the blast manifests itself as heat, and the blast pumps a lot of heat into a target all at once. With water, this means an instantaneous steam explosion.
Instead, as the blast hits the skin and the flesh underneath, the water in the tissue explodes instantly into superheated steam, blowing open bloody wounds like a giant shotgun blast. This steam explosion makes the storm cannon a very messy weapon. The blast can also “splatter” upon impact, throwing plasma particles that can cause small 3rd degree burns to other areas. Near misses can also cause minor burns, and the blast’s effect on ground, terrain, and armor plating can also high speed fragmentation around the point of impact. Flammable materials hit by the plasma blast will instantly combust. However, the five-second-charge time means that the storm cannon can be easily anticipated, and Praetorian is forced to limit its use of the weapon to prevent potentially destructive overheating.
When not in use, Praetorian stores the storm cannon against its back, the three claw-like prongs folding in like pincers.
-Head Ornament: More of a deterrent than a weapon, the nanosteel crest on Praetorian’s head keeps flying enemies and attackers from behind from striking the head.
Powers:
-Nanosteel Armor: Built like a walking tank, Praetorian is the most thickly armored of any active Brawler. Everything has been covered in nanosteel plating. Even the elbows, knees, toes and torso utilize a segmented armor design, and a thick fan of nanosteel protects the sides of the knees and elbows. Moveable armor plates protect the ankles, and the hulking shoulders use the overlapping segmented design to great effect. The neck is protected by thick armor, and the small head that houses the primary optics, communication systems and sensors is built more like a reinforced helmet or a face shield. The hips combine retractable armored plates with a ball-in-socket joint design to deliver maximum flexibility without sacrificing defense. The nanosteel armor is excellent at resisting powerful impacts, explosions, and blunt attacks, and gives decent protection against the teeth and claws of kaiju and extreme temperatures.
-Nanosteel Endoskeleton: Like all Brawler-Grade Sentinels, Praetorian has a nanosteel endoskeleton, further reinforcing its body against powerful impacts.
-Armored Cockpit: The armor especially thick at the chest, which houses the cockpit and the ABT reactor core.
-Escape Pod: In the event that the pilot or the passengers are in danger, Praetorian comes equipped with three escape pods that fire out from the back, deploying parachutes once they are a safe distance away. Not really need in the UCA.
-Brawler-Grade: As a Brawler-Grade Sentinel, Praetorian is designed to engage terataurs in close quarters. It doesn’t sacrifice armor for its ability to fight quickly and efficiently, and is capable of performing feats of agility on par with its human pilot. Dozens of powerful balance and terrain sensors keep the mech upright in even the midst of attack. The legs are especially flexible, both they and the powerful sensors allowing Praetorian to perform high kicks without ending up on the floor.
-Strength: Praetorian is the biggest, heaviest, and most physically powerful of any currently active Sentinel. Its artificial muscles are 2000 times stronger than that of a human, allowing it to not only move its 140 000+ ton body around with ease, but perform feats of strength unseen by any other Brawler. Praetorian is capable of lifting an estimate of 280 000 tons, making it a physical match for the larval form of the Tarakona. It hits harder than any other Sentinel created so far… its fists are lethal weapons in their own right.
-HUD: Praetorian is outfitted with a sophisticated heads up display. It features a bioteratic energy reader that measures the bioteratic energy readings of a terataur, a targeting reticle for the meteor rockets and storm cannon, an outside threat indicator that warns the pilot from attacks outside visual range, can search the SEDD’s database, and upload maps. It can inform the pilot of the surrounding environment, the location and distance of a target, and any damage the Brawler has endured. It also comes equipped with binocular, infrared, and night vision modes.
-Pilot Suit: the pilot comes equipped with Type V Diamondskin Personal Armor, a protective suit designed to protect physical trauma and strain of operating a Sentinel. The helmet connects to and replays the information from the machine’s optics, allowing the pilot to see what it sees in addition to the HUD. It also darkens like a welder’s mask in the event of bright flashes of light, such as plasma blasts, which protects the pilot’s eyes. It dramatically muffles external noise, and comes equipped with a communication system that allows the pilot to communicate with their team or their commander. Finally, the helmet has a built in filtration system for poison gasses and airborne particles corrupted with bioteratic energy.
-Insertion Thrusters: On the back of the shins and back are powerful plasma thrusters. The SEDD’s technology is not advanced enough to provide flight to Sentinels, but the thrusters can slow down and ease the Sentinel’s decent from an aerial sentinel transportation unit. They can also be used to help speed up Praetorian, increase jump heights, and aid in dodges.
Weaknesses:
-ABT Reactor Core: Although the ABT reactor core is safely contained in a nanosteel chassis, should it be breached the Sentinel will be completely destroyed by a tremendously powerful internal detonation within twenty seconds. This blast is unbelievably powerful, the energy output comparable to a 10 megaton nuclear weapon. However, the explosion quickly loses power from the source, the power mostly contained within a kilometer wide radius. Kaiju and mechs will be relatively unharmed within this distance of the blast, though any closer than 600 meters will bring instant annihilation to even powerful kaiju. Worst yet, the resulting shockwave can easily destroy an entire city. (Obviously irrelevant in the UCA, as this would count as an instant kill. The UCA has placed an impenetrable force field around the reactor core to prevent this.)
-Electrical Disruption: Electricity and EMP attacks can be disastrous to the internal systems of a Sentinel.
-Acid: Powerful acids can burn through nanosteel rather efficiently. Only Praetorian’s shield can provide protection.
