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Upgrade Requests
Have an upgraded mech in your plot? Want to add on some noncanonical weapons to your current ride? Want to get some equipment to turn your character from a 10-year-old doofus into a credible threat in a firefight? This is the post to ask for it.
Reply here with any proposed upgrades. This can be equipment for your mech, an entirely new or modified-into-unrecognizeability mech, or equipment for on-foot fights - anything more complex than an assault rifle on foot should be requested.
The mods will consider each upgrade application and either approve it, or suggest modifications if we feel it's outside the realm of appropriate gameplay additions. Please request upgrades before you use them in character.
Required information
Player alias, the character you are requesting for and the character's canon: Yeah, we can't do anything if we don't know who you are.
New or drastically altered mech: Should follow the same writeup guidelines as on the mecha section of the original app. If you want to upgrade to a mech you already detailed for us in your app, link to it here or remind us that it's in our inbox if you sent it privately. If not, please write a detailed description.
Modifying your existing mech: Just post with a general idea of the upgrades/modifications.
Wacky new guns or martial arts training: Again, give us a general idea of what you're intending.
Temporarily piloting a generic mecha that the White Chalice picked up: Don't need to bother posting here! Just head to Un-assigned mecha and pick one. That's what they're there for.
Special case: Cross-canon upgrades
In some cases, a character might want some ability, weapon, or technology from a completely different originating canon. For example, someone might want to pick up a Nanoha-style magical Device or Kamen Rider henshin doohickey as a weapon for on-foot missions, or add some radio-controlled Fangs to their non-Gundam 00 mobile suit. This is acceptable, and we will approve things that add variety to a character's abilities, but upgrades like these will be given added scrutiny, and subject to a few guidelines:
1) Your character will not be as effective with something from another canon as the characters from that canon. People like Amuro Ray and Nanoha Takamachi are ludicrously effective with their chosen tools through intense training, natural ability, and heavily personalized weapons. You can't just pick up a magic staff or mobile suit and duplicate their abilities.
2) Your character will not be as effective with something from another canon as they are with their own canonical abilities. This is to give flavor, fallbacks, and roleplaying opportunities, not to have a lame mobile suit pilot discover his true calling as a Kamen Rider and give up on his Zaku.
3) Please ask permission out of character from members of the canon you wish to borrow from. They have right of first refusal.
4) Bear in mind in-character restrictions on abilities. You won't become a Gundam Fighter without at least enough super strength to handle the Mobile Trace System, and you cannot become an Otome without the blessing of several important NPCs. Or if you're a man.
5) Don't be this guy. We will ban you, and then we will laugh at you.
Reply here with any proposed upgrades. This can be equipment for your mech, an entirely new or modified-into-unrecognizeability mech, or equipment for on-foot fights - anything more complex than an assault rifle on foot should be requested.
The mods will consider each upgrade application and either approve it, or suggest modifications if we feel it's outside the realm of appropriate gameplay additions. Please request upgrades before you use them in character.
Required information
Player alias, the character you are requesting for and the character's canon: Yeah, we can't do anything if we don't know who you are.
New or drastically altered mech: Should follow the same writeup guidelines as on the mecha section of the original app. If you want to upgrade to a mech you already detailed for us in your app, link to it here or remind us that it's in our inbox if you sent it privately. If not, please write a detailed description.
Modifying your existing mech: Just post with a general idea of the upgrades/modifications.
Wacky new guns or martial arts training: Again, give us a general idea of what you're intending.
Temporarily piloting a generic mecha that the White Chalice picked up: Don't need to bother posting here! Just head to Un-assigned mecha and pick one. That's what they're there for.
Special case: Cross-canon upgrades
In some cases, a character might want some ability, weapon, or technology from a completely different originating canon. For example, someone might want to pick up a Nanoha-style magical Device or Kamen Rider henshin doohickey as a weapon for on-foot missions, or add some radio-controlled Fangs to their non-Gundam 00 mobile suit. This is acceptable, and we will approve things that add variety to a character's abilities, but upgrades like these will be given added scrutiny, and subject to a few guidelines:
1) Your character will not be as effective with something from another canon as the characters from that canon. People like Amuro Ray and Nanoha Takamachi are ludicrously effective with their chosen tools through intense training, natural ability, and heavily personalized weapons. You can't just pick up a magic staff or mobile suit and duplicate their abilities.
2) Your character will not be as effective with something from another canon as they are with their own canonical abilities. This is to give flavor, fallbacks, and roleplaying opportunities, not to have a lame mobile suit pilot discover his true calling as a Kamen Rider and give up on his Zaku.
3) Please ask permission out of character from members of the canon you wish to borrow from. They have right of first refusal.
4) Bear in mind in-character restrictions on abilities. You won't become a Gundam Fighter without at least enough super strength to handle the Mobile Trace System, and you cannot become an Otome without the blessing of several important NPCs. Or if you're a man.
5) Don't be this guy. We will ban you, and then we will laugh at you.
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Character name: Julia Richardson/Reilev Kidoreaon
Canon: Astral frontier
New mech, Julia's midseason upgrade, the Corona! As in the HK-1138 model, the one meant for actual combat!
Robot Description: During the events of the third mission, Julia acquires the first (and only) combat-model Corona ever made, which was produced practically on the eve of Herrera Futuristics's hostile takeover by Danconias-Phillips. As a machine actually meant for fighting, it's drastically superior to the test model, being faster, armed with actual weapons built into it this time, and just as capable of fighting in the air as it is in space or on the ground. The machine also looks roughly the same, only differntiated by being a darker shade of magenta and also sporting a whole slew of tron lines all over its body.
Unlike the propaganda model, the combat model's leg thrusters provide a noticeably greater and better-regulated thrust. The effects help a lot in space, and in an atmosphere they let the Corona keep up with dedicated flyers. Its chest-mounted laser is also fully-functioning, and rather than merely disorient close enemies the cannon packs a devastating punch behind it, enabling the Corona to disable even smaller capital ships with a lucky shot from outside the range of its other weapons. However, the cannon does have a tremendous drain on the machine's power, robbing it of its more energy-based weaponry (as well as deactivating the microwave emitters on its sword) until a decent charge is recovered. Lastly, the missile tubes on the Corona's back are outfitted and prepped for any sort of missile that can be fitted inside, although they're primarily used as chaffs to throw off enemy targeting.
This Corona also is equipped with an anti-beam defensive system, in practice the counterpart to the Kinetic Dispersal Units equipped on the various Thaumata machines Julia will be fighting. The machine is outfitted with a certain kind of anti-beam gas, which drastically takes the edge off projectile beam weaponry fired into it and allows the Corona to be better protected against all but the strongest kinds of beam weapons. Vents are also located all over the frame of the machine, each one capable of releasing a burst of the gas or just let it gradually flow out.
Rounding out the upgrade is a pair of HFM Blades that are mounted on a rack on the Corona's backside, as well as an experimental railgun developed specifically for the Corona; the first every fully automatic railgun. Though good trigger discipline is required to use the weapon effectively, lest one waste all the ammo, it is very much an improvement over the railgun Julia used previously.
That said, the combat model has one glaring difficulty Julia will have to overcome through sheer determination and hours of practice: a different control scheme. Though actually a more streamlined design meant to be more intuitive for pilots, it prevents her from piloting it as well as she'd be able to under more ideal circumstances. Thus, for the months following acquiring it, Julia's going to have to bust her hump to overcome that double-edged Irgelion muscle memory and get used to not only a different control scheme, but superior performance.
Terrain Stats:
Land: A
Air: A
Sea: C
Space: S
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