Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26444332-20170102233615

Windtroopers

Windtroopers ("Kaze-heitai") are the rank and file soldiers of the Consortium. They are typically deployed in squadrons of twenty, and wield an assortment of weapons as their main armament. Waterwalkers ("Mizu-shinjin") are the primary starpilots of the Consortium.

They both typically have an appearance similar to this:



Now, a Consortium starpilot will wear the same form-fitting armor as a Windtrooper, save in different colors (An Windtrooper's armor is white and black, while a Waterwalker's armor is white and blue). The armor plating is a flexible material with many joints, allowing for very little impediment to movement. Their half-helmets (which cover their face, but leave much of the back of the head exposed to let their hair fall free) allows them a battlefield advantage in the form of an advanced TIS: Tactical Imaging System.

While it does not function quite the same as a Colonial Legionaire's BIS, the Windtrooper TIS serves to give a constantly updating view, allowing the soldiers to determine their orders visually, recieve updated information on the positions of the line, and precise tactical knowledge concerning combat. As Aetanii day-vision is somewhat poor compared to other races (due to the perpetual mists of their homeworld, sight is not as much of an advantage as their other senses), it also allows them to concentrate fully on the battlefield.

Generally, Windtroopers will carry a standard-issue Consortium EP-45 pulse rifle, manufactured by Shiro&Gin Arms Works, an FN 5-7 pistol (5.7mm kinetic round), and a white-bladed Kōken-series lightsaber. In addition, they may also carry plasma grenades, rations for extended battles, and a set of tools for construction and demolition of temporary camps.

Windtrooper squadrons also have their advance units, shock-troopers called Liberators: their parade uniforms, as opposed to Windtrooper grey, are brown. They are usually two to a squadron, and one always carries a PulseTech M134 "Guilty Thorn" photon rifle, a laser weapon capable of cutting through solid material and breaching enemy compounds. The other will usually carry an Akatsuki Mutinions SC-3 storm rifle, a rapid-fire pulse weapon similar to an SMG.

Consortium Stormtroopers ("Arashi- heitai") are fireteams universally armed in silver-and-black armor (as might be seen with the image), specializing in combined-arms assaults on enemy fortifications, trenches, and (when in space) starships, spearheading the assaults of standard Windtroopers and Marines (known as " Kaihei-taiin") alike. They carry a mix of weapons, but their common arms amount to one pistol and one white-bladed saber.

Waterwalkers do not carry heavy weapons like Windtroopers, being starfighter pilots, but they do carry the standard FN 5-7 pistol and Kōken-series lightsaber. These weapons come equipped with all Aetanii starfighters, in the form of a SERE kit (Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape).

The pinnacle of all Windtroopers are the Arcanii, the Jikkō-sha: "Executioners". They are the elite of Aetanii infantry, trained to perfection, skilled in all manners of warfare, wearing an all-black version of the standard Consortium armor. Their primary arms are left to them, but standard-issue equipment comes to a Shiro&Gin Arms Works-made ADV. EL-7 energy projector, a T-55 "Dying Star" pistol (7.62mm kinetic round) and a blue-bladed Kōken-series saber.

Their armor is equipped with a Metaform Optical Camouflage package, allowing them to blend into any enviroment seemlessly, and while regulations say nothing on the length of their hair, most choose to keep it short, or tuck it inside their armor, to seamlessly glide undetected through a battlefield. The optical package is undetectable by even the Consortium's own sensor arrays, so it can be somewhat difficult to keep track of them.

The height for the starpilots of the Consortium are the Reasoners, elite pilots capable of piloting the absurdly fast and sensitive I-1 Nisshoku interceptors. They have the fastest reaction times of any Aetanii: while an average Aetanii's reaction time is roughly 0.07 seconds, a Reasoner's reactions (and subsequent movement) can be at or lower than 0.001 seconds. This allows them to pilot the Nisshoku, an interceptor which can accelerate to near-lightspeed on impulse alone, and perform turns on a pinhead.

Their gold-and-green version of the standard Consortium armor is specially fitted with gravitonic stabilizers to allow them to move and function: at the speeds their ships operate at, the sheer force would crush a normal human, and severely damage an Aetanii's body. Their armor is also fitted, like all Aetanii pilot, marine, and stormtrooper armor, with equipment necessary for surviving the darkness of space for a short period in hope of rescue (or boarding actions). 