Ace Combat: Mirrored Echo (Open/OOC)

[Anowa]

It's just us to begin with. Followed by some air support, artillery, and an occupying force.

And the main defending force is mainly militia so we don't have to worry about any heavy armor or such?

Not yet.

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

And the main defending force is mainly militia so we don't have to worry about any heavy armor or such?

Not yet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMioYSjqEoU
Sounds ominous.

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

I assume in the future we will be deployed on other situations as well?

[Anowa]

I assume in the future we will be deployed on other situations as well?

The RP will take place solely on the Island.

[Kyraina]

Name: Joseph Bridges
Nationality: Osean
Age (18 at youngest): 29
Gender: Male

Rank (E-1 to E-4): E-5 (If not avialable then E-4)
Callsign: Desperado

Appearance:

Height: 6ft 1.5in
Weight: 230lbs

Funds: None
Equipment: M1919, S&W M1917 , PRC-117G

Personality: Sarcastic, Smartass, and just down right a real pain in the ass to deal
Strengths: Can operate well on his own or as a team, Hand to Hand Combat Expert, Firearms Expert, Good Pilot, Good Leader,
Weaknesses: Keeps Squadron mates at a distance, Suffers from PTSD, Has a short temper, Has a hard time forgiving and forgetting
Likes: Alcohol, His 2015 Indian Cheif Black Horse Motorcycle, His 1972 Nova SS, His Friends and Family, and sports
Dislikes: Not having at least One Drink a Night, Getting Drunk, not being able to drive, Red Tape that keeps him form performing his job
Bio: Born to a poor couple in Osea. Joseph grew up in the gang life of November City, but also maintained decent grades at the school he attended. When he was 18 Joseph was caught breaking the law in a Minor way. during his trail Joseph was giving the choice of Jail time of 5 years, or jail time for three weeks and then had to Join the Osean Defense Force. Joseph enlisted in the Osean Air defense Force as a Combat Controller, after being let out of jail after his three weeks served. he breezed through The Three year training. After fully trained, Joseph was moved to mission capable status at the age of 21, just in time to participate in for the Circum-Pacific War. Joseph mainly fought in Yuktobania. After the end of the War, Joseph spent 4 more years in the Osean Defense Force before not reenlisting and joining a PMC, bringing him to the island of Corlus and the Employment of 1st Special Interests and Reconnaisance Battalion 'Anubis' (PMC)

RP Example: Come on Really

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[VukPunch]

Why does everyone suffer from PTSD? Can't there be one normal person besides my guy?

[Vacif]

Why does everyone suffer from PTSD? Can't there be one normal person besides my guy?

Are you a puppet account, or are you a soverign entity planning to app as a person without any form of PTSD?

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

Why does everyone suffer from PTSD? Can't there be one normal person besides my guy?

Are you a puppet account, or are you a soverign entity planning to app as a person without any form of PTSD?

Whoops I forgot. I do a lot of raiding and pop between puppets to anything with "vuk" in the name is me.

[Kyraina]

Why does everyone suffer from PTSD? Can't there be one normal person besides my guy?

It's normal in combat vets, myself included. My characters having PTSD is a coping mechanism for me

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

Why does everyone suffer from PTSD? Can't there be one normal person besides my guy?

It's normal in combat vets, myself included. My characters having PTSD is a coping mechanism for me

Ah okay. I just found it strange since the percentage of Veterans affected is around 15%~ given the recent gulf wars. I just thought the odds of the statistic was a strange is all.

[Kyraina]

It's normal in combat vets, myself included. My characters having PTSD is a coping mechanism for me

Ah okay. I just found it strange since the percentage of Veterans affected is around 15%~ given the recent gulf wars. I just thought the odds of the statistic was a strange is all.

That's what's reported. My wife talked me into going getting help, some aren't so lucky and never go get diagnosed with it.

Now only 10 to 15% of all troops have seen combat in the recent parts of the War on Terror, about 75% percent of those deployed to a war zone like Afghan or Iraq suffer from diagnosed PTSD

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

Ah okay. I just found it strange since the percentage of Veterans affected is around 15%~ given the recent gulf wars. I just thought the odds of the statistic was a strange is all.

That's what's reported. My wife talked me into going getting help, some aren't so lucky and never go get diagnosed with it.

Now only 10 to 15% of all troops have seen combat in the recent parts of the War on Terror, about 75% percent of those deployed to a war zone like Afghan or Iraq suffer from diagnosed PTSD

Oh okay.

[Vacif]

Name: Istvan Harkov
Nationality:Usean
Age: 30
Gender: Male

Rank:E-4 (Specialist)
Callsign: Klepto

Appearance: Istvan Harkov
Height: 6’0
Weight: 175 lbs

Funds: None
Equipment: M72 LAW, Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, Browning Hi-Power, Combat Knife, Load Bearing Vest, IFAK, Mess kit, Map of Indus and Corlus, Compass/fire starter/watch/whistle survival bracelet, assault pack

Personality: More reserved than most, Istvan enjoys conversation, but growing up without many friends tends to negatively impact a person's social skills. He'll go out of his way to help others, and keep negative remarks and qualms to himself.
Strengths: Agility, marksmanship, explosives, equipment maintenance
Weaknesses: Kleptomaniac, lightweight, gullible
Likes: Meat, physical money, indoor heating/cooling
Dislikes: Erusea, flying rocks, beer, fog

Bio:
Born in Usea, May 7th, 1987 as the second child of Marie Rinkov and Julian Harkov. The couple divorced early in Istvan’s life at the age of five. Growing up with his mother, he did not have many if any role models to look up to. He did not remember his father, nor did he see much of him growing up, and his mother constantly worked long nights to keep the bills paid. Rarely did he actually spend time with his family. His older sister, some four years older wanted nothing to do with her younger brother, so Istvan was often left to his own devices.

He however did find someone to look up to, or rather something. He grew up watching Usean propaganda, and recruitment efforts by the UAF during the first Usean continental war. Buying into propaganda and nationalism, he set out to join the mechanized infantry after finishing school.

Istvan finished training just in time to catch the tail end of the war, participating in the siege of Farbanti. Shortly after that, the war ended, and Istvan was put onto border duty. He’d have the occasional skirmish with the Free Erusea movement. Those however were the only notable incidents in his service.

At the end of his service, he was left with a feeling of dissatisfaction. There was something left to be desired. Since joining the military, what was left of his family had become distant. He debated reenlistment, but felt that would lead nowhere. After a night of thinking he came to the conclusion that he didn’t have the skills for civilian life, and that his only options for employment were of the armed kind. So, the next day he began his search for a new employer. That was where he found Anubis.

RP Example:
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=400155
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=406007
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=403829

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[The United Remnants of America]

Shit. I'm late.

[Kyraina]

Shit. I'm late.

So when's the kid due

[The United Remnants of America]

Shit. I'm late.

So when's the kid due

I don't think I'll join, but I'm definitely going to sit and watch.

[Vukmire]

I feel like Jen and Istvan will not like each other very much.

[Anowa]

Name: Joseph Bridges
Nationality: Osean
Age (18 at youngest): 29
Gender: Male
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Accepted.

Name: Istvan Harkov
Nationality:Usean
Age: 30
Gender: Male
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Accepted.

[Anowa]

Alright. Gonna get the trio of commanders up today, and then the IC right after.

[The Shady Looking Vukmiri Delegates]

Alright. Gonna get the trio of commanders up today, and then the IC right after.

Huzzah

[Anowa]

Name: Gabriel Boudon
Nationality: Aurelian
Age: 48
Gender: Male

Rank: O-2
Callsign: Inquisitor

Appearance: Visual Aid
Height: 5'8
Weight: 173 lbs

Funds: $200
Equipment: Hi-Point C9

Bio: Born in Griswall in 1969, Gabriel's early life was not easy. In a lower class family, Gabriel was forced to work from a young age, in low income jobs ranging from factories to military bases, Gabriel never left the country until he was 23. Contracting to a PMC ground force that participated in the Seianese-Beiarusian war, participating as a garrison force for the Beiarusians. After given the order to retreat, he met a young child lost in the rubble. Knowing the town was likely to be bombed, and much to the heckling of the rest of his unit, he took the girl with.

It was a decision he hasn't regretted since.

He taught the girl all the life skills he knew, knowing that he'd eventually have to leave her eventually. From weapons skills, to how to clean a printing press, eventually the war ended, and despite his want to continue his life, he adopted the girl, finding out her parents died in the early stages of the war. For the next dozen or so years, he taught her the tricks of his various trade in greater depth. Eventually they deployed into the Second Usean Continental War with the then 16 year old girl. It was during this time that the two started bonding, as more than distant father and adopted daughter, but as genuine friends. The duo fought the whole of the war for ISAF, before heading off to better horizons after 2005.

Fast forward more then a decade, and they find themselves fighting for an Islamic nation against a nation that has never been successfully invaded. For such a history, it's par for the course for the middle aged man.

RP Example: what

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Name: Yonah Balsam
Nationality: Levantese
Age (18 at youngest): 31
Gender: Male

Rank: E-8
Callsign: Kfir

Appearance: Visual Aid
Height: 6'2
Weight: 186 lbs

Funds: $200
Equipment: Hi-Point C-9

Bio: Yonah is a very secluded man, to most he simply states he's a mercenary from Levant. And that's usually where it ends. His creed of 'you stop paying attention to the future when you look to the past' is one he hold very dear. And it's best not to press.

Born in Levant, Yonah was raised an Orthodox Jew, the fourth son of Rabbi with a number of other children in the future, Yonah was the veritable middle child of his family. He wasn't paid a notable amount of attention until he was conscripted like all Levant children at 18. For whatever reason, his instructors singled him out, possibly because his father was a Rabbi, possibly because they didn't like his hair, he didn't know, and he never really cared, but eventually he graduated, a bit cynical for the events that transpired in his training before being assigned to a mortar team.

Later on in life, was where the slippery slope of disaster struck. During one of the few engagement with insurrectionist radicals his nation had in the early 2000s a series of miscommunication resulted in him bombarding a friendly platoon, inflicting a mass amount of casualties and causing the battle to be lost. As expected, he was investigated, and discharged from the military. After this he started taking odd jobs, not spending too much time in one place, and generally just drifting.

His last odd job was that as a dock worker, hoping to trade labour in exchange for a trip to Erusea, where he could hopefully find more work. It was a decision his family protested to the nth degree, but he went with it anyway. During the trip he found out that the cargo ship was hauling not only usual freight, but several shipments of weapons for a local lord of war. It's where he got an idea of where to go in his life.

Over the next few years, he began building connections with smugglers, mercenaries, and warlords alike, becoming a central communications point between a good dozen or so underground parties. And now he's a local contact for a band of mercenaries who plan on taking on an entire military. His life now hinging on his previously established abilities to get them hardware.

RP Example: the

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Name: Svetlana "Sveta" Artemievna
Nationality: Yuktobanian/Aurelian
Age (18 at youngest): 30
Gender: Female

Rank: O-1
Callsign: Amour

Appearance: Visual Aid
Height: 6'0
Weight: 168 lbs

Funds: $300
Equipment:

• AKM
• AN/PRC-152

Bio: Sveta was born in the rural countryside of Yuktobania, her parents never had an exceeding amount of money, despite this, they always said they would travel somewhere someday. Sveta had only been in public schooling for roughly a year before taking a vacation to Seian, a final realization to her parents dreams of taking their child somewhere new and exciting. They boarded the plane on September 14th 1992 and landed in Seian on the 17th. Less than a day later the Seianese-Beiarusian war started. Over the next months, Sveta's parents were killed in the Beiarusian offensive on Tiananmen. It was when the Beiarusian garrison force arrived that things started looking up.

The rest of her life was spent under the wing of an Aurelian mercenary, she finished her education in Aurelian schooling, before becoming a Mercenary like her adoptive father. Taking jobs across the world, ranging from Usea to Estovakia, in anything from simple border skirmishes to full blown civil wars.

Now she stand side by side with a number of others, and her own mentor, against overwhelming odds and with a nearly impossible goal. For her it's just another day at the office.

RP Example: fuck?

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[Anowa]

IC is up

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Tag

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Name: Rashid Aziz
Nationality: Sotoan (Islamic Republic)
Age (18 at youngest): 30
Gender: Male

Rank (E-1 to E-4): E-3
Callsign: Crow

Appearance: Rashid Aziz
Height: 179 cm
Weight: 58 kg

Funds: $350
Equipment:

- M1 helmet
- Mondragon M1908 rifle
- Mauser C96
- Combat Knife
- Water Canteen & MRE
- Compass
- Map

Personality: Rashid enjoys conversations, though he mostly keeps things on himself rather alone. Of course, he's a friendly and calm guy, if slightly jerk occasionally.
Strengths: Marksmanship, parkour, educated, calm
Weaknesses: slightly awful at close-combat, slightly fanatic, and rather reckless
Likes: Tea, reading, shooting
Dislikes: Beer, any kinds of alcoholic drinks, ruthlessness

Bio:

Born in the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Sotoa, he was the second son of 4 siblings from parents Akbar Aziz and Salina Aziz. His mother was an immigrant from Yuktobania who went to Sotoa to established her own cred and reputation as a psychologist, though her works had been accepted quite mixed from those who heard and used of her services, while his father worked at the Sotoa's military as an engineer for their air force, though not the lead engineers he might helped on the development of the air force's inventory.

Rashid grew up normally, though his recklessness combined with his intensive parkour training as he grew older gave him mindful problems for his parents. Eventually, he was sent off after graduated from junior high school to an Islamic senior high school, and when he graduated he grew more composed and calmer though he showed few shades of fanatic over Islam, but he's no hardliner or conservatives.

He went on for a vocational degree in trading sector, but eventually went on for enlistment in the Sotoa military, army wing. It took him 6 years in the military but he grew increasingly dissatisfied with his current job and wanted somewhere else. He looked for employment elsewhere shortly after he resigned from the military, first working at the trading sector using his degree. But even the life as a civilian was not fine for him too.

So he looked elsewhere for employment, and eventually found employment under Anubis.

RP Example: Yes

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[Vacif]

I'll get my post up some time later today.