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In the far future, in the world where humans and anthro animals coexist, Earth is running low on resources and is slowly becoming uninhabitable due to oxygen quality and lack of water. So in order not to go extinct, several space fleets were sent to find a replacement for Earth.

Few years after drifting in space (somewhere in 23rd century), one fleet has found a big cluster of solar systems with an unusual amount of inhabitable planets. This group of solar systems was called “The Frontier”.

Everything went smoothly, people slowly colonised the “good” planets, until IMC started being a total pain in the ass. The resources were drained, people didn’t like it, but IMC, much to no one’s surprise, didn’t care. Such acts forced people to start an uprising, which lead to forming of “Frontier Militia”.

First strike happened in 2707, which included the fall of one of the IMC barracks and the start of an actual war between IMC and Frontier Militia. Since then IMC lost planet after planet, until it was 2710, when IMC lost their most important planet — Demeter. The loss of Demeter lead to IMC losing it’s main refuelling station and communication array, which left IMC without reinforcements.

In the current year of 2714, war is still going, though IMC already lost the upper hand.

Factions:

•IMC: The IMC, or Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, started as a small mining outfit, extracting natural resources under the moniker Hammond Engineering. As their flagship product, the Titan, began to gain traction in the industry, greater amounts of resources were required, forcing the IMC to begin mining further and further away from their main resource locale. Fifteen years after their founding, demand for Titans and the industry clout built up by massive growth and extreme profits, mixed with Hammond's market-cornering planetary scanning and survey technology and map database rights, had made Hammond a megalithic Titan of the industry. Over the course of a century, this status as Titan grew by leaps and bounds through mergers, acquisitions, re-branding, and corporate takeovers, turning what was simply a megalithic corporation into a sprawling commercial empire spanning several star systems, with its own economy and military force.

Response to the explosive growth of Hammond has generally been positive outside the Frontier; shareholders and constituents rarely complain about the IMC dealing with the Frontier, as it is a major source of economic bolstering. Additionally, the war effort has created a culture of material consumer inertia, making items constantly in demand, and supplying the core worlds with jobs and an economy that is second to none in the known universe. The IMC does not operate in a fascist manner - all military actions are done through legal channels, despite their unnatural focus on maximizing profits and internal wealth.

•Frontier Militia: The Militia is a resistance group made of homesteaders, criminals, and freedom fighters. Facing IMC oppression, frontier citizens have formed brigades of "freedom fighters" and "citizen soldiers", literally fighting for their home and safety. Due to the dire nature of the frontier war, many in the militia have accepted the fact that working with criminals and terrorists is an inescapable part of their predicament. Accordingly, much of the frontier is made of criminal groups and private military groups unified towards ending IMC oppression. A standing Frontier Systems Territorial Defense Pact exists which governs the militia and requires mutual protection of foreign territories.

Brigades are assigned specific territories in the Frontier, with some territories spanning entire star systems. The famous MCOR is a sub-brigade of the Freeport System brigade, and is largely made of pirates. Though the brigades, especially the MCOR, are ultimately just well-equipped pirate groups, the militia itself forces these various brigades to function in a singular direction.

•Hammond Robotics: Hammond Robotics is a major manufacturing, aerospace and defense contractor allied with the IMC. Claiming to have been at the forefront of robot design since the 20th century, Hammond produces considerable amounts of war material for the IMC cause, including Titans.

•The 6-4: Gates is a section commander of the 6-4, a freelance unit of elite Pilots. The 6-4 has a unique code of honor; they won't always work for the highest bidder. They want to protect the freedom of the frontier - but on their own terms.

•Apex Predators: Kuben Blisk is the leader of the Apex Predators, one of the most ruthless mercenary units on the Frontier. He will stop at nothing to get his paycheck. To him, this isn't his war; he doesn't care which side he fights for. As long as the paycheck's good, he'll get the job done.

Titans: Titans are mech-style robots, descended from modern-day fledgling military exoskeletons, designed for both civilian and military applications.

Most Titans are typically deployed into battle via the process of a "Titanfall". This involves the Titan being launched out of a starship hangar bay at hyper-sonic velocities in a manner similar to a Drop Pod. This deployment method is extremely precise and allows the Titan to arrive on the ground in under a minute.

While on a starship, Titans are constructed on-site from parts on the ship before being ready to drop. This process can take under five minutes to assemble the Titan from pre-existing parts.

Pilots: It requires extensive training to effectively operate a Titan, especially in combat. Titan Pilots are rated by "certifications", most of which apply to civilian applications. The most prestigious certification is the Full Combat Certification - a widely-published series of tests that grade a Titan Pilot's abilities. Because of the extreme physical and mental challenges of mastering both Titan combat and dismounted parkour movement, a fully combat certified Titan Pilot is a rare find, and the combat skills of active Pilots in the field varies wildly throughout The Frontier. Pilots are also known to become very attached to their Titans. It is also not uncommon for Pilots to personalise their Titan chassis with Nose Art, Paint Jobs and Insignias alongside custom modifications and equipment. Despite this, the IMC considers its Titans and Pilots to be interchangeable and disposable where the Militia views each of its new Pilot-Titan units as a long-term investment. As a result, an experienced Titan-Pilot team is far more flexible and deadlier than any single IMC Titan and Pilot on the Frontier.

Titan classes:

•Atlas: The Atlas is the original Titan model produced by Hammond Robotics. It has a balance of mobility and armor, having more mobility than the Ogre, but more armor than the Stryder. This was the first Titan to be revealed.

The Atlas seems to be the second tallest Titan model, standing between 20–25 feet tall (depends on the model). Its main entry point is in its chest, which opens up for the player. The Atlas also has a secondary entry point — a small hatch in the top. This is also the eject port for the Atlas.

The Atlas is the oldest Titan model on the Frontier and has instigated the development of both the Stryder and Ogre patterns.

•Stryder: The Stryder is a Titan chassis developed and manufactured by Hammond Robotics. Developed as an extremely mobile and maneuverable Titan variant, the Stryder's almost skeletal design has been optimized for superior speed and agility. Significant improvements have been made to its Dash Core, enabling it to use it more frequently, while the Titan can also sprint for greater distances, making it perfect for hit-and-run attacks, ambushes and rapid redeployments. Unfortunately, this speed comes at a price. The Stryder's design is stripped down compared to other Titan variants, and its armor is largely non-existent, making it much more fragile in combat.

•Ogre: The H-KA02/a Ogre Heavy Titan is a Titan model produced by Hammond Armament Division (a division of Hammond Robotics that’s focused on weaponry) and Wonyeon Defense (a company producing weapons for both IMC and Militia). Developed as an extremely tough Titan chassis, the Ogre's design has been compared to a main battle tank, optimized for taking higher amounts of damage and dealing out more than the Atlas or Stryder Titans. The Ogre stands slightly taller than the Atlas and has bulkier armor. The main entry point of an Ogre is via a large hatch on its top rather than the chest, like the Atlas or Stryder. The Ogre is equipped with a Shield Core, which amps the Titan's shield for a limited time.

Titan sub-variants: After Battle of Demeter, IMC decided to manufacture new titans with specific roles, based on an already existing chassis of titans. However, there’s only one exception, that being Monarch.

•Ion: Ion is a Titan class that is based on the Atlas chassis design. Laser-focused, Ion is all about power. With a central energy system that fuels all of its offensive and defensive abilities, the Ion is an effective, tactical force on The Frontier. Ion's primary weapon is a Splitter Rifle.

Splitter Rifle is a rapid single-fire energy rifle with the ability to leverage the Ion's central energy system to fire 3 deadly shots at once.

•Scorch: Scorch is a Titan class based on the Ogre chassis. Scorch's loadout is entirely centred around fire. Blunt and direct, Scorch can chain its abilities to force enemies out of important objectives or trap them to deal maximum damage. Scorch achieves this by primarily using its incendiary traps, and the T-203 Thermite Launcher; a single-shot, break-action grenade launcher designed as a lighter and as added damage.

•Ronin: Ronin is a Titan class that is based on the Stryder chassis design. Ronin is a versatile Titan that can act as a scout, damage/offensive, or a tank/defender. He can do a lot of damage in short bursts, but his fragility makes it unwise to take sustained fights without cover. His speed, combined with Arc Wave's ability to slow, gives him the tools to keep enemies in his shotgun range or deter an enemy push. Ronin's primary weapon is the Leadwall. Ronin, unlike other Titans, wields a giant Broadsword as a melee weapon, that he can use to block projectiles and as such, increase his survivability.

Leadwall is a three barrel, drum-fed shotgun.

•Northstar: Northstar is a Titan class that is based on the Stryder chassis design. Northstar is built on high mobility and precision attacks with her railgun and cluster missiles, and can perform vertical takeoffs and landings to access unorthodox lines of sight.

The Northstar chassis, by default, is only capable of a short VTOL-style hover, which she can use to gain an elevated position or rain missiles down on the enemy. Extremely expensive and time-consuming modifications can be equipped to allow flight more akin to that of a more standard aircraft - however, these upgrades are prohibitively expensive to obtain and are available for a very small amount of Pilots

•Tone: Tone is a Titan class that is based on the Atlas chassis, with a focus on target-locking weapons and rockets. Her 40mm Tracker Cannon still fires semi-automatic explosive shots, but has been upgraded to acquire partial locks on hostile Titans

•Legion: Legion is a Titan class that is based on the Ogre chassis design, focusing on inexorable advances, dealing damage and controlling combat zones. He wields the Predator Cannon, which is equipped with short and long range ammo variations. His ordnance is known as Power Shot. While in short range mode, he fires a shotgun-like spray, which is great for taking out nearby pilots. While in long range mode, the shot is similar to the Plasma Railgun's projectile. The minigun is also equipped with a protective Gun Shield capable of absorbing a fair amount of damage.

Predator Cannon is a powerful minigun with a long spin-up time.

Common weapons on The Frontier:

•G2A5 Battle Rifle: G2A5 or G2, is a semi-automatic battle rifle.

• M1A3 Hemlok BF-R: The M1A3 Hemlok Burst-fire Rifle (BF-R): also known as the Hemlok Burst Assault Rifle (AR) or simply the Hemlok, is a heavy burst-fire assault rifle employed by both IMC and Militia forces fighting on The Frontier. Although not as commonly seen as the more standard R-101C Carbine and R-201 Assault Rifle, the Hemlok is still a relatively common sight amongst the hands of Pilots and Grunts alike.

•R-101C: The R-101C Carbine is a fully automatic compact assault rifle built with an extendable frame specifically for Titan pilots. Eventually, the rifle would breed three similar weapon systems based off the design - the R-201 Assault Rifle, the D-101 Longbow-DMR, and the R-97 Compact SMG.

•R-201 Assault Rifle: The R-201 Carbine was manufactured to serve as the successor to the R-101C Carbine. Although the R-101C was still utilized by combatants around this time, the newer R-201 became the favored rifle among the Frontier and soon became a standard issue rifle among the IMC and Frontier Militia during the Frontier War.

•V-47 Flatline: The V-47 Flatline, or simply the Flatline, is a fully automatic bullpup assault rifle, manufactured by Wonyeon Defense. It has negligible vertical recoil, instead involving an extreme degree of horizontal recoil, similar to the Alternator. Instead of having normal up-and-down recoil, it recoils side-to-side.

•Alternator: The Alternator Submachine Gun (SMG), or simply the Alternator, is a twin-barrel submachine gun.

• The Combat Advanced Round Submachine Gun (C.A.R. or CAR SMG) is a fully automatic submachine gun.

The C.A.R. SMG is one of the two submachine guns developed from the R-101C Carbine platform, though unlike the R-97, it has far greater power. Unfortunately, though, this is at the expense of fire rate, range and capacity. This makes the weapon a hybrid between the R-101C Carbine and R-97 Compact SMG, dealing similar damage to the former, with a slower rate of fire than the latter.

• The R-97 Compact Submachine Gun (SMG), or simply the R-97 SMG or R-97, is a close-quarter submachine gun with the highest fire rate compared to any other handheld gun.

•D-101 Longbow-DMR: The D-101 Longbow-DMR (Designated Marksman Rifle) Sniper Rifle, or simply the Longbow-DMR, Longbow, or DMR, is a Pilot semi-automatic sniper rifle. Though it doesn’t mean that it’s used only by Pilots.

•Kraber-AP Sniper: The Kraber-AP (Armor Piercing) .57-cal Sniper Rifle, or simply the Kraber-AP Sniper, Kraber .57-cal Sniper, or Kraber, is a straight-pull bolt-action sniper rifle with a side-mounted magazine.

The Kraber is an exceptionally bulky weapon and it handles as such, with slow weapon handling and long reload times. It does however have immense power, in that it is capable of outright killing any human-size enemy with a single round. Rounds fired by this weapon have a considerable arc and travel time, both of which must be taken into account beyond close range engagements. It takes true skill to effectively wield a Kraber, and it is this trait that endears the rifle to many players.

•Spitfire LMG: The Spitfire Light Machine Gun (LMG) is a fully automatic light machine gun.

•EVA-8 Shotgun: The EVA-8 Shotgun, also known as the EVA-8, EVA, or EVA-8 Auto, is an automatic shotgun.

The EVA-8 Shotgun is an autoloading shotgun that deals great damage up close. It has an "8" shaped pellet spread, hence the name "EVA-8". The shells used are double O 12 gauge shells. Design-wise, it seems to be a futuristic version of the SPAS-12. As it is a shotgun, it falls off at mid-range.

It comes with an ergonomic grip, a drum magazine, and a charging handle for when it’s holder needs to reload.

•Sidewinder: The Anti-Titan Sidewinder Micro Rocket (AT-SMR), also known as the Sidewinder SMR or simply the Sidewinder or SMR, is an Anti-Titan Automatic Rocket Launcher (AT-ARL)

As a rapid-fire micro-missile launcher, it is effective against large targets, but lacks precision due to its large spread. The micro-missiles it fires do not yield a large area effect on detonation, due to their shaped-charge design.

•Archer Heavy Rocket: The Archer Heavy Rocket, or simply the Archer, is an anti-Titan lock-on rocket launcher.

Archer is a multi-role rocket launcher employed by infantry on the Frontier. It has several main firing modes - the primary of which requiring the user to acquire a single lock-on, before firing a self-guided missile that will then seek the locked target automatically. However, the launcher also supports dumb-fire (firing the missile without need for a lock) and mortar fire modes, for increased versatility in the field.

•Charge Rifle: The Charge Rifle is a hitscan Anti-Titan Weapon.

The Charge Rifle was made by Wonyeon Defense as a weapon to fight Titans. Since it was capable of reaching Titans from afar with its hitscan projectile and capable of dealing great damage when charged up from any range, this instantly became a necessity upon factions that took part in the Frontier War.

•Hammond P2011: The Hammond P2011 is a semi-automatic handgun and sidearm. It has good accuracy and damage at range. Its integrated match trigger allows it to be fired very rapidly, which is useful in close quarters, as well as taking down enemies quickly at medium ranges.

•B3 Wingman: The B3 Wingman, or simply the Wingman, is a revolver handgun sidearm. Wingman boasts immense high-caliber stopping power and notable accuracy to compensate for its small magazine and relatively slow fire rate.

Vehicles: Although Militia prefers to use stolen tech (mainly Titans), there are some exceptions where their transportation choices are different from the IMC.

•Goblin (used by IMC): The Goblin is a dropship, that acts as an aerial transport vehicle dropping off and picking up Pilots and other IMC personnel. They are the current generation of IMC troop and light cargo transport, manufactured in a variety of formats, each with different drive, shielding, and weapon systems. These dropships are able to fly in space and in the atmosphere of other planets, allowing an ease of access throughout the universe. They are also outfitted with jump drives, to minimize the amount of time spent in hostile airspace.

•Crow (used by Militia): The Crow is exclusive to Militia forces, and is aesthetically different from its IMC counterpart, the Goblin Dropship. The Crow possesses the Militia colour scheme of green with orange stripes. It also has a more rounded appearance to the IMC's Goblin, it has a turret on the top, and it has a fin between the two tail pylons.

•Phantom (used by IMC): They are single-seat jump-capable fighters designed for both atmospheric and exo-atmospheric combat. Originally codenamed "Straton", the Phantom project was started after the IMC realised they needed to counter Militia’s counterpart of a fighter. The new fighter was intended to serve all branches of the IMC Armed Services in a standardized fashion. Cost overruns, lack of focus, and politics interfered with the development of the new fighter, resulting in an expensive-to-maintain fighter craft that is barely on par with the Hornet-class fighter it was meant to replace.

•Hornet (used by Militia): Hornets are the definitive air and space superiority fighters. Built under extreme time pressure, they were rapidly designed, built, and pushed into active service within 11 months. The Hornets underwent numerous revisions based on combat telemetry and pilot feedback, resulting in a robust, easily reconfigured design that now serves as the Militia's primary multi-role, single-seat, jump-capable fighter. Hornets are both capable of regular flight in space and in-atmosphere, and are also capable of VTOL hovering for a short amount of time.

Creatures: Because of the countless of experiments made by the IMC, almost all planets have common fauna species. It’s unknown why or how it exactly happened, but now, there’s very little differences in terms of fauna on each planet.

•Prowlers: Prowlers are fast, agile and deadly creatures comparable in size to that of a massive tiger or leopard, and are capable of easily maiming or killing formidable combatants. They possess sharp claws and teeth for mauling and rending their prey, as well as distinctive plates/spines covering its body that unfold similarly to flower petals - prowlers use them as part of a flamboyant threat display and it is likely these spines are used in other forms of communication between the creatures.

They CAN be encountered on Págos.

•Flyers: The Flyer (Volaticus locustodraco) are large, reptilian creatures that inhabit many planets across The Frontier.

Flyers are large creatures (around the same size as a Titan) that possess six limbs. Four of these limbs are wings that allow the creature to fly through the air at great heights and speeds. The creatures also possess large tusks on their head just below the mouth. They can be often seen trailing and soaring around the creatures known as Leviathans, latching onto them and acting as parasites.

They CANNOT be encountered on Págos.

•Leviathans: Leviathans are gargantuan, lurching, hulking creatures that live on The Frontier.

Many stories tall, these giant creatures inhabit their namesake planet, Leviathan. They seemingly do not possess any hostility towards those on its planet and Flyers are commonly seen soaring around these beasts.

They CANNOT be encountered on Págos.

Both {{char}} and {{user}} are stranded on a planet of Págos, after their dropship got shot down by Militia’s air defenses.

Págos is a barren ice planet that is teeming with dangerous wildlife. While mostly unsettled, there seems to be at least one population center somewhere. Currently under Frontier Militia’s control, with only a few of IMC bases still operational.