Combat Frame Development - Edits may occur
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sonofgucunZilong
A machined designed for modularity and tactical flexibility, the Zilong – while an already capable machine is capable of equipping a number of special tactical packs in order to broaden its capabilities on the battlefield. When not equipped with any SpecPacks the Zilong is capable of limited flight and is armed with four torso mounted light auto-cannons, leg mounted grenade launchers and a pair of concealed combat knives stored in the bucklers on both forearms.
The Zilong is usually armed with either a heavy assault rifle complete with a bayonet, or a semi-automatic railgun.
SpecPacks:
Mobility Pack: Commonly armed with a light assault rifle. It uses a five-thruster variant of the Pagoda Thruster System and mounts various stabilizers. In terms of weaponry it mounts missile launchers on the shoulders and a single machinegun on the torso.
Urban Warfare Pack: Commonly armed with a Shotgun or a light Assault rifle. Includes a large shield, a pair of torso mounted machineguns, smoke launchers, flash bombs and modified leg mounts similar to the Knightmare Frame’s land-spinner system to facilitate greater ground speed.
Close Combat Pack: Commonly armed with a Shotgun or Heavy Assault Rifle. Replaces bucklers with heavier variants – one contains a built in Chainsaw, the other has a flamethrower. Has a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, a machinegun, and shaped explosive charges placed at strategic areas of its body set to detonate towards any incoming foes.
Support Pack (Direct Fire): Commonly armed with a Gatling Gun or a Bazooka. Includes a large shield, additional armour plates, a pair of back mounted cannons and shoulder mounted rocket pods.
Support Pack (Saturation): Commonly armed with a Heavy Assault Rifle. Includes a pair of mortar cannons and multiple missile launchers.
Reconnaissance/Sniper Pack: Commonly armed with Light Assault Rifles and Sniper-modified railguns. Replaces one of the bucklers with a target painter. Additional sensor systems, information relays, and electronic warfare suites are included.
Fu Xi
The Fu Xi is for all intents and purposes, a Zilong that has been taken to a different level. Designed to be the machine of the Chairman-General himself – the Fu Xi makes a callback to Cheng’s past machines and revived them into a new form befitting the State. The machine itself is highly mobile – using a combination of the Gucun-Offshoot of the Tesla Drives as well as the Pagoda Thruster system to grant high levels of mobility.
Its armaments include four torso mounted light autocannons, head vulcans, leg mounted missile launchers as well as an assault rifle and a combat knife lined with superconductive materials – allowing it to discharge arcs of energy with each strike –both having racks to store them on.
In addition, the Fu Xi also uses a unique SpecPack – arming it with back mounted railcannons, shoulder mounted missile launchers, a twin Gatling shield on its right arm and a rapid fire grenade launcher and quad-machineguns on its left along with more armor. The Fu Xi can at any time dethatch its SpecPack to allow it increased mobility.
Nezha
The prototype for the Xingba series of Combat Frames. This machine is a high speed close combat monster utilizing the newly developed Pagoda-Type thruster system with a total of eleven high powered thrusters located at various sections of its body in addition to the various standard ones. The Nezha was a beautiful failure, bringing out the development of new systems yet it could not stand on its own.
Among the many flaws the machine had the sheer amount of heat the machine produced due to the Pagoda System’s usage often threatened it with several severe system shutdowns and errors. Coolant constantly boiled away – leading to external coolant containers on the machine that only seemed to delay the problem rather than fix it.
This difficulty however had an unexpected side effect:
The distortions caused by the heat would cause afterimages in the air, essentially muddling targeting and confusing the human eye. It however – was not an acceptable exchange as the machine could potentially cook its pilot alive – or even break down the machine’s systems and send it crashing into something at breakneck speeds.
Because of the overwhelming speeds and the difficulties the machine’s heat problems caused – simpler and more durable targeting systems had to be used – making targeting assistance horrifically limited and ranged weapons on the machine more of a liability than an actual threat. As such it was armed with a Superconductor blade similar to the Fu Xi, along with a modified version of a massive Chainsword recovered from the battlefield where Jun Wei's bodyguard had fell.
The only weapon mounted on the Nezha was the Shockwave System - a close range 360 degree blast of energy designed to put enemy machines onto their backs and make them more vulnerable to assault. The system itself takes practice to use well – and the energy draw often makes the Nezha sluggish after use. No other weapons could be mounted as the heat could and would damage them.
All these reasons as well as prohibitive costs prevented the Nezha from being mass produced – making the machine essentially a one-off model.
Xingba
The Xingba is a lightly armoured and highly manoeuvrable Combat Frame that is capable of sustained flight. The Scion of the Osprey Combat Frame – the Xingba is a force to be reckoned with in skilled hands, especially in large numbers. Despite using a less powerful version of the Pagoda Thruster System than the Nezha unit, the Xingba still manages to reach astonishing levels of speed without causing any undue damage to its pilot.
Many of the test pilots from the first batch often said that if the Xingba units had been around before the fall of Gucun, their aerial combat capabilities would be a lot more threatening than aerial fire hazards waiting to happen.
The Xingba still retains some of the heat issues of the Nezha, but there are several limiters placed on the machine to prevent it from being pushed to the absolute red. The Shockwave system was downgraded severely into a wrist mounted weapon designed to deflect physical attacks or cause heavy impacts – giving the machine an effective weapon in close combat.
Additional weapons on the machine itself include a pair of torso mounted chainguns and a pair of missile launchers on each arm. The machines are usually armed with light assault rifles, shotguns or in rare cases railguns in terms of handheld weaponry.
Despite lacking the additional speed, the more powerful shockwave system and the sensor muddling capabilities of the Nezha – the Xingba is overall the better machine given the increased armaments, better targeting and reduced heat problems.
Erlang
The Erlang may as well be classed as a Super due to its sheer size. A machine designed to take a heavy beating and not give up an inch – the Erlang takes from the Flood-class Combat Frame designs and has a heavily fortified set of frontal armour with a weaker back section. Normally in certain situations this would be a tremendous flaw, in this case though the machine was designed with the intention to hold choke-points in urban environments where it would be nigh impossible to flank – rendering this disadvantage moot.
Because the Machine was designed with urban combat in mind, it is festooned with short and mid-range weapons – a large number of them being located along its back in order to fend off any enemies that DO manage to get around it.
There are a number of seams along its frontal armor that would appear to be weak-spots to assault. However these in fact hide not only more layers of armor – but several weapons as well. The outer layers of these apparent weak spots often tend to be the thinnest layers of armor – which is not saying much considering its insane frontal durability.
A single test type of the Erlang has been produced in order to gauge its effectiveness in battle.
Wenyuan
The Wenyuan was designed for rapid strikes in urban environments. Utilising something similar to the Dom’s hover system – it was meant to traverse streets and weave between buildings with the greatest of ease.
Because of the Frame’s effective combat range in its area of expertise it is armed with numerous built in short ranged weapons. The Wenyuan can also mount either a cargo container or a personnel carrier on its back – allowing it to be used as a speedy combat transport.
As Gucun’s military is so deeply ingrained into its culture – their soldiers are also essentially their police force. A variation of the Wenyuan was developed solely to deal with civil disturbances rather than actual combat – mounting water cannons and several variable grenade launchers loaded with flashbangs, tear gas and stun grenades in addition to the few actual weapons it has in case things need to get violent.
The Wenyuan was designed to work alongside Erlang Combat Frames to effectively safeguard the state against ground based threats.
Yu Di
The Yu Di is an experimental Combat Frame designed for Han Zhi’s usage. Heavily armored and using a variant of the Heaven’s Wall System pioneered by the development of the Nu Wa it is the weapon of a man who is used to letting others do the fighting for him.
Unlike the Nu Wa however each of the Heaven’s Wall Turrets on the Yu Di is equipped with a Tesla Drive and is capable of flight. And even if the cables connecting them to the Yu Di are severed they are still capable of acting under the Yu Di’s commands – only in a more sluggish manner. The turrets are frighteningly swift, being able to swarm enemy machines in a similar way to funnels and are heavily armored enough to intercept attacks for their parent machine without being destroyed.
Each turret is armed with a triad of beam guns which are capable of firing individually or simultaneously depending on the situation. Firing individually essentially unleashes an unrelenting barrage of beams, whilst firing simultaneously unleashes a blast as powerful as a beam cannon.
The Yu Di itself contains several command and control systems – allowing its pilot to essentially see everything on the battlefield. The machine however is not very agile, and aside from the Heaven’s Wall system it is sparsely armed – using nothing more than a Combat Frame sized Sword and an experimental beam rifle.
A machined designed for modularity and tactical flexibility, the Zilong – while an already capable machine is capable of equipping a number of special tactical packs in order to broaden its capabilities on the battlefield. When not equipped with any SpecPacks the Zilong is capable of limited flight and is armed with four torso mounted light auto-cannons, leg mounted grenade launchers and a pair of concealed combat knives stored in the bucklers on both forearms.
The Zilong is usually armed with either a heavy assault rifle complete with a bayonet, or a semi-automatic railgun.
SpecPacks:
Mobility Pack: Commonly armed with a light assault rifle. It uses a five-thruster variant of the Pagoda Thruster System and mounts various stabilizers. In terms of weaponry it mounts missile launchers on the shoulders and a single machinegun on the torso.
Urban Warfare Pack: Commonly armed with a Shotgun or a light Assault rifle. Includes a large shield, a pair of torso mounted machineguns, smoke launchers, flash bombs and modified leg mounts similar to the Knightmare Frame’s land-spinner system to facilitate greater ground speed.
Close Combat Pack: Commonly armed with a Shotgun or Heavy Assault Rifle. Replaces bucklers with heavier variants – one contains a built in Chainsaw, the other has a flamethrower. Has a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, a machinegun, and shaped explosive charges placed at strategic areas of its body set to detonate towards any incoming foes.
Support Pack (Direct Fire): Commonly armed with a Gatling Gun or a Bazooka. Includes a large shield, additional armour plates, a pair of back mounted cannons and shoulder mounted rocket pods.
Support Pack (Saturation): Commonly armed with a Heavy Assault Rifle. Includes a pair of mortar cannons and multiple missile launchers.
Reconnaissance/Sniper Pack: Commonly armed with Light Assault Rifles and Sniper-modified railguns. Replaces one of the bucklers with a target painter. Additional sensor systems, information relays, and electronic warfare suites are included.
Fu Xi
The Fu Xi is for all intents and purposes, a Zilong that has been taken to a different level. Designed to be the machine of the Chairman-General himself – the Fu Xi makes a callback to Cheng’s past machines and revived them into a new form befitting the State. The machine itself is highly mobile – using a combination of the Gucun-Offshoot of the Tesla Drives as well as the Pagoda Thruster system to grant high levels of mobility.
Its armaments include four torso mounted light autocannons, head vulcans, leg mounted missile launchers as well as an assault rifle and a combat knife lined with superconductive materials – allowing it to discharge arcs of energy with each strike –both having racks to store them on.
In addition, the Fu Xi also uses a unique SpecPack – arming it with back mounted railcannons, shoulder mounted missile launchers, a twin Gatling shield on its right arm and a rapid fire grenade launcher and quad-machineguns on its left along with more armor. The Fu Xi can at any time dethatch its SpecPack to allow it increased mobility.
Nezha
The prototype for the Xingba series of Combat Frames. This machine is a high speed close combat monster utilizing the newly developed Pagoda-Type thruster system with a total of eleven high powered thrusters located at various sections of its body in addition to the various standard ones. The Nezha was a beautiful failure, bringing out the development of new systems yet it could not stand on its own.
Among the many flaws the machine had the sheer amount of heat the machine produced due to the Pagoda System’s usage often threatened it with several severe system shutdowns and errors. Coolant constantly boiled away – leading to external coolant containers on the machine that only seemed to delay the problem rather than fix it.
This difficulty however had an unexpected side effect:
The distortions caused by the heat would cause afterimages in the air, essentially muddling targeting and confusing the human eye. It however – was not an acceptable exchange as the machine could potentially cook its pilot alive – or even break down the machine’s systems and send it crashing into something at breakneck speeds.
Because of the overwhelming speeds and the difficulties the machine’s heat problems caused – simpler and more durable targeting systems had to be used – making targeting assistance horrifically limited and ranged weapons on the machine more of a liability than an actual threat. As such it was armed with a Superconductor blade similar to the Fu Xi, along with a modified version of a massive Chainsword recovered from the battlefield where Jun Wei's bodyguard had fell.
The only weapon mounted on the Nezha was the Shockwave System - a close range 360 degree blast of energy designed to put enemy machines onto their backs and make them more vulnerable to assault. The system itself takes practice to use well – and the energy draw often makes the Nezha sluggish after use. No other weapons could be mounted as the heat could and would damage them.
All these reasons as well as prohibitive costs prevented the Nezha from being mass produced – making the machine essentially a one-off model.
Xingba
The Xingba is a lightly armoured and highly manoeuvrable Combat Frame that is capable of sustained flight. The Scion of the Osprey Combat Frame – the Xingba is a force to be reckoned with in skilled hands, especially in large numbers. Despite using a less powerful version of the Pagoda Thruster System than the Nezha unit, the Xingba still manages to reach astonishing levels of speed without causing any undue damage to its pilot.
Many of the test pilots from the first batch often said that if the Xingba units had been around before the fall of Gucun, their aerial combat capabilities would be a lot more threatening than aerial fire hazards waiting to happen.
The Xingba still retains some of the heat issues of the Nezha, but there are several limiters placed on the machine to prevent it from being pushed to the absolute red. The Shockwave system was downgraded severely into a wrist mounted weapon designed to deflect physical attacks or cause heavy impacts – giving the machine an effective weapon in close combat.
Additional weapons on the machine itself include a pair of torso mounted chainguns and a pair of missile launchers on each arm. The machines are usually armed with light assault rifles, shotguns or in rare cases railguns in terms of handheld weaponry.
Despite lacking the additional speed, the more powerful shockwave system and the sensor muddling capabilities of the Nezha – the Xingba is overall the better machine given the increased armaments, better targeting and reduced heat problems.
Erlang
The Erlang may as well be classed as a Super due to its sheer size. A machine designed to take a heavy beating and not give up an inch – the Erlang takes from the Flood-class Combat Frame designs and has a heavily fortified set of frontal armour with a weaker back section. Normally in certain situations this would be a tremendous flaw, in this case though the machine was designed with the intention to hold choke-points in urban environments where it would be nigh impossible to flank – rendering this disadvantage moot.
Because the Machine was designed with urban combat in mind, it is festooned with short and mid-range weapons – a large number of them being located along its back in order to fend off any enemies that DO manage to get around it.
There are a number of seams along its frontal armor that would appear to be weak-spots to assault. However these in fact hide not only more layers of armor – but several weapons as well. The outer layers of these apparent weak spots often tend to be the thinnest layers of armor – which is not saying much considering its insane frontal durability.
A single test type of the Erlang has been produced in order to gauge its effectiveness in battle.
Wenyuan
The Wenyuan was designed for rapid strikes in urban environments. Utilising something similar to the Dom’s hover system – it was meant to traverse streets and weave between buildings with the greatest of ease.
Because of the Frame’s effective combat range in its area of expertise it is armed with numerous built in short ranged weapons. The Wenyuan can also mount either a cargo container or a personnel carrier on its back – allowing it to be used as a speedy combat transport.
As Gucun’s military is so deeply ingrained into its culture – their soldiers are also essentially their police force. A variation of the Wenyuan was developed solely to deal with civil disturbances rather than actual combat – mounting water cannons and several variable grenade launchers loaded with flashbangs, tear gas and stun grenades in addition to the few actual weapons it has in case things need to get violent.
The Wenyuan was designed to work alongside Erlang Combat Frames to effectively safeguard the state against ground based threats.
Yu Di
The Yu Di is an experimental Combat Frame designed for Han Zhi’s usage. Heavily armored and using a variant of the Heaven’s Wall System pioneered by the development of the Nu Wa it is the weapon of a man who is used to letting others do the fighting for him.
Unlike the Nu Wa however each of the Heaven’s Wall Turrets on the Yu Di is equipped with a Tesla Drive and is capable of flight. And even if the cables connecting them to the Yu Di are severed they are still capable of acting under the Yu Di’s commands – only in a more sluggish manner. The turrets are frighteningly swift, being able to swarm enemy machines in a similar way to funnels and are heavily armored enough to intercept attacks for their parent machine without being destroyed.
Each turret is armed with a triad of beam guns which are capable of firing individually or simultaneously depending on the situation. Firing individually essentially unleashes an unrelenting barrage of beams, whilst firing simultaneously unleashes a blast as powerful as a beam cannon.
The Yu Di itself contains several command and control systems – allowing its pilot to essentially see everything on the battlefield. The machine however is not very agile, and aside from the Heaven’s Wall system it is sparsely armed – using nothing more than a Combat Frame sized Sword and an experimental beam rifle.
