Sign Up Maverick Hunters: ApothΣosis [M - LV]

[Talon]

[color=gray][i]He was our commander. He was incorruptible, a role model to us all. He fought to the end, fought no matter how bleak it was. He was invincible. He was our commander.

I'll never forget the day he died. The day his spark was finally extinguished. It had all happened so fast, towards the end. We were all dying, one by one, either taken by the virus, or killed by those who were. Everyone fell to it; the 13th Aerial Unit, the 8th Armored, even the 17th Unit was devastated. It all just happened so fast...

So fast, even the Special 0 Unit went down without a whisper.

We couldn't figure it out, at first. How could so many Mavericks be appearing so quickly? Hadn't the commander all but wiped out the virus? Hadn't we been rebuilding our cities, our homes, our LIVES, for the last few years? What happened? Where did they come from?

Why did they wait for HIM to disappear?

But they came. It started in Crater City, when a single construction Mechaniloid suddenly went on a rampage. It destroyed seven city blocks before Repliforce managed to put it down. They'd lost an entire battalion in the process; something had made that mechaniloid more powerful.

An injured Repliforce liutenant, Salamolten Anderava, had been found in the wreckage of one of the buildings. Within a few days, his battalion began to show signs of restlessness. It was assumed by the Repliforce Commander that, after the taste of the action they'd recieved in Crater City, they wanted more. It never occured to her...

They became irritable. The entire battalion was slowly becoming the most infamous battalion in Repliforce, with more indictments for reckless and violent behavior than any other. It culminated one day when the entire battalion took off in a subterranean carrier against orders and began to terrorize Crater City's outskirts. The carrier, along with the rest of the 19th Land Battalion, was eventually put down by the 14th Land Battalion, with heavy losses on both sides. Anderava was never found in the carrier's wreckage.

From there, everything began to spiral out of control. The Hunters finally snapped to when countless Maverick signatures were detected within the Repliforce Land base. But by then it was too late...

The madness had begun.

The fighting went on for months without any end. Our units would return to base only to be given the allcall to scramble once again, without time for anything more than a quick splash with some oil. We began to fall, unit by unit, but the Maverick threat had slowed down, by then.

Or so we'd hoped.

Everyone remembered the Day of Σ, the day that the former Maverick Hunter commander went Maverick and began a mission to corrupt every Reploid on Earth in an effort to subjugate humanity. Someone at HQ mentioned that name on July 4th, 2245, and it stuck.

He was our commander. Now it's just us...

On that day, July 4th, the scanners at HQ picked up an explosion of Maverick signatures, centered around Point Σ, the original location of Maverick Hunter Headquarters back before Σ-day. It was an all-out attack, after that. The commander led the charge, taking out as many Mavericks as they had taken Hunters in the past year. He was unstoppable, like a tornado.

Then HE appeared.

I'll never forget the look in his eyes as he looked down upon the commander. He leaped down, and a wall of force seperated our commander from the rest of us. It was obvious he was the leader, the cause of the Maverick resurrection. And it was equally obvious that he wanted to fight our commander one on one, sabre to sabre.

I'll never forget the look in Commander X's eyes when that Reploid drew his sabre. 'So this is it, huh? I guess it was just my time...'

The black and white Reploid won. Still, the commander didn't go down without a fight. He put up a valiant front, but it was over in less than fifteen minutes. Commander X fell with a gleaming sabre embedded in his chest.

The reploid didn't even look up at us. He merely snorted and left. We stood there, confused and demoralized, before I lifted the Commander's body and took the sabre from his chest. I recognized it; it was HIS sabre; the Z-sabre. So the black reploid had killed Zero, too.

It was almost too painful to carry our commander back to base. It was there we received a shock. A purple and silver reploid with a slitted helm stood in our way. He took one look at the commander's body and lowered his head. 'So this is how it ends, eh, X? Damnit...'

He left without saying anything more. We buried our commander with full honors and began to pick up the pieces. Ever since the commander's death, the Mavericks have begun to fade out. Just a few days ago, an entire bloc of Maverick signals was recorded to fade out. When we got to the location, we found an entire Repliforce battalion waking up from a blackout. They couldn't remember the last seven months.

Even so, the remainder of the Hunters and Repliforce feel that this is just the beginning. We're taking down any Mavericks that pop up from time to time, but everyone has the same question on their minds. 'Where is that black reploid?'

[b]-Liutenant Commander Arc, Special 0 Unit Commander, End Recording.[/i][/b]

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[u]It's a time of uncertainty. X is dead, and the Maverick Hunters and Repliforce have been greatly reduced in number. The Maverick threat seems to be dwindling, but every soldier is still needed, and still the number of soldiers falls daily.

An investigation has begun in the ruins of Point Σ, to determing the cause behind the recent explosion of Maverick infection, and the Reploid behind them. Questions are being asked, without any answers forthcoming. Still, the human population seems to be safe in their controlled environmental domes, and with the recent development of Soulmetal, the Hunters and Repliforce seem to be adapting to the dwindling Maverick threat.

Even so, acting Hunter Commander Siris and his subordinates can't help but be on edge. What if the sudden ceasefire is just a ruse....?[/u]

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[i]You are a Reploid in either the Repliforce or the Maverick Hunters. You have been given a specific objective pertaining to the investigation of the recent rash of Maverick activity. You need not be assigned to the Point Σ Team. The required information for this RPG is as follows:[/i]

[b]Name:[/b] Your name, and if you choose, your rank. You may follow the pattern of the names from the rest of the X series, or you may develop your own. Note that names usually reflect the nature of the reploid.

[b]Affiliation:[/b] The force and unit you belong to. You may be a mercenary hired to aid in the investigation.

[b]Function:[/b] Your purpose and designation; construction, research, defense, etc.

[b]Aspect:[/b] The aspect of your abilities; I.E.- Ice, Fire, Shadow, Gravity, Light, etc.

[b]Risk Assessment:[/b] The risk your character runs of becoming a Maverick; either Viral or Free-will.

[b]Equipment:[/b] All Reploids are equipped for their function, as well as a small arsenal for personal defense.

[b]Appearance:[/b] A description or picture of your character.

[b]Personality:[/b] A general description of your character's basic personality programming.

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[u][i]I've been assigned recently by acting Commander Siris to be the head of the investigation. My name is...[/i][/u]

[b]Name:[/b] Lt. Commander Arc

[b]Affiliation:[/b] Special 0 Unit Commander, Maverick Hunters.

[b]Function:[/b] Agile Infantry and Assault Specialist, Secondary Strategy Specialist.

[b]Aspect:[/b] Blade.

[b]Risk Assessment:[/b] Low risk.

[b]Equipment:[/b] Arc wears a pair of clawed gloves, the blades of which retract at Arc's command. He also has a fine command over various martial arts and a forearm-mounted plasma cannon. He possesses the Original Generation Copy Ability to a limited extent.

[b]Appearance:[/b] [URL=http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7815398/?qo=2&q=Hotsuma&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5]Arc's Patrol[/URL]

[b]Personality:[/b] Arc is a level-headed thinker capable of analyzing a situation and producing a battle strategy within moments, and is a valuable and loyal companion. However, as an Original Generation Reploid, he bears free-will and emotion, which sometimes cloud his judgement. Based off of the designs for X and Zero, he is a powerful assault Reploid, but he frequently asks himself if things could have gone differently. However, upon the issue of a new mission, he coldly shelves his misgivings and moves into the field. Upon the request for a volunteer to lead the investigation, however, he immediately volunteered in the hopes that he might be given time to think on his bipolarity. He often peruses the records of the Hunter Archives and frequently wonders how many of the listed Mavericks were truly Mavericks in the truest sense of the definition.

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[center][color=crimson][b][i][u]Woe unto those who look
To the Stars, and see their own domain
For the Beginning of the End
Lay in the Greed of those who
Would be God.[/color][/center][/b][/i][/u]

[James]

[font=arial]Quick question - and I apologize if I've missed something obvious - what's the difference between the Repliforce and the Maverick Hunters?

I am only familiar with the Maverick Hunters series of RPGs developed by Flash and Warlock. But those RPGs took major liberties and were only loosely based on the videogames. I'm interested in joining but I was a bit confused about those two groups.[/font]

[Aberinkula]

[QUOTE=James][font=arial]Quick question - and I apologize if I've missed something obvious - what's the difference between the Repliforce and the Maverick Hunters?

I am only familiar with the Maverick Hunters series of RPGs developed by Flash and Warlock. But those RPGs took major liberties and were only loosely based on the videogames. I'm interested in joining but I was a bit confused about those two groups.[/font][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=DimGray]Well the Repliforce, is an army of reploids. While the Maverick hunters, well, fight mavericks. In Megaman X4 the Repliforce was labeled as mavericks. Thus The hunters fought against the repliforce. that should fill you in James.[/COLOR]

[James]

[font=arial]Ahh. But aren't the Maverick Hunters also reploids? So I'm not sure why one group fights the other...unless one group are actually mavericks. I'm probably not making much sense out of any of this, haha. I have become so wound up in the old Maverick Hunter RPGs that I am now not at all familiar with the games themselves.[/font]

[Talon]

[quote name='James][font=arial']Ahh. But aren't the Maverick Hunters also reploids? So I'm not sure why one group fights the other...unless one group are actually mavericks. I'm probably not making much sense out of any of this, haha. I have become so wound up in the old Maverick Hunter RPGs that I am now not at all familiar with the games themselves.[/font][/quote]

[color=teal]The Maverick Hunters ARE Reploids, yes, and so is Repliforce. The Maverick Hunters, however, are a group geared towards fighting only Mavericks, while Repliforce is the military arm of the world at large. In X4, the whole of Repliforce was labelled 'Maverick' as a result of their CO, General, commiting 'actions unbecoming an upstanding member of the military', I.E., the destruction of Sky Lagoon.

If that is all, then I look forward to seeing your signup, soon. Any other questions may be sent by PM, please.[/color]