SORD Super Battle Group
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:32 pm
When SORD (SUPER ORIGINAL ROBO DESIGNS) designers drew their plans for the Super Battle Group (SBG), they wanted a completely independent strike force capable of being dropped from the back of a single B-90 Jumbo Fortress. Unfortunately, due to SORD's incompetent engineers, the SBG was a failure.
SORD Light Hardsuit:
Designed on a napkin during a company potluck, the light hardsuit design failed to include one thing: air conditioning. Light hardsuit users were often so overheated that they took the front plate off, making the suit essentially useless.
SORD Heavy Hardsuit
The SORD heavy hardsuit was supposed to be an improvement on the light hardsuit. Unfortunately, its hind wheels often got stuck in mud, rocks, and rubble. Soldiers jokingly called it the "wheelchair".
SORD Armored scout bike
There's nothing wrong with the armored scout bike. Yet it's unfairly despised due to its users, many of whom were former street racers. Drivers are often heard screaming "Vtech just kicked in yo" over the SBG intercom.
SORD Repairmule
The SORD Repairmule is exactly what it sounds like. Originally designed as a civilian construction mech, it was given no armor and no weapons. Repaimule operators usually hang far behind the main battle group, only appearing after the battle is over to service the other vehicles.
SORD Command mech:
The Command mech is a single pilot vehicle designed to coordinate the SBG. However, given its cramped and claustrophobic cockpit, the command mech is not well liked by its users. Other mech pilots joking nicknamed it the Xerox, after its similarity to an office copier.
SORD Recon Mech
The SORD Recon Mech is really just a large hardsuit. Its design is largely based off of a civilian riot mech, though with the addition of a light Maser cannon on its left arm. Given its lack of armor in the front, pilots would often weld on surplus armor parts for extra protection.
SORD Hunchback
The Hunchback is a surprisingly competent design from SORD, mainly because it wasn't designed by SORD engineers. Cobbled together from various stolen plans, the Hunchback is a small but heavily armored and armed hardsuit. They are often grouped in the dozens, and are widely considered to be the workhorses of the SBG.
SORD Hunchback Type 2 (Type-R)
Jokingly called the Type-R due to its speed over the original Hunchback, The Hunchback Type 2 was designed to launch all of its weapons in a surprise attack and quickly scurry away. It is fondly called the Martian by its users, given its nontraditional design.
SORD Type-0
Given only to the most advanced users, the Type-0 is a newly released model not yet given a nickname. One of the largest mechs in the SORD catalog, the Type-0 was designed as a completely modular mech. Various weapons and even heads can be switched out and replaced, giving it a level of versatility (and headache for the poor repair techs) unseen in other SORD designs.
SORD Super Pig:
The Super Pig is the largest mech designed by SORD and the flagship model for the company. Though well armored and armed, the manufacturing cost of the Super Pig is exorbitant. SORD sells each model at a loss, using it as an advertising tool (with infamous pamphlets touting a power level "over 9000") and forcing salesmen to push lesser, more profitable models.
SORD Light Hardsuit:
Designed on a napkin during a company potluck, the light hardsuit design failed to include one thing: air conditioning. Light hardsuit users were often so overheated that they took the front plate off, making the suit essentially useless.
SORD Heavy Hardsuit
The SORD heavy hardsuit was supposed to be an improvement on the light hardsuit. Unfortunately, its hind wheels often got stuck in mud, rocks, and rubble. Soldiers jokingly called it the "wheelchair".
SORD Armored scout bike
There's nothing wrong with the armored scout bike. Yet it's unfairly despised due to its users, many of whom were former street racers. Drivers are often heard screaming "Vtech just kicked in yo" over the SBG intercom.
SORD Repairmule
The SORD Repairmule is exactly what it sounds like. Originally designed as a civilian construction mech, it was given no armor and no weapons. Repaimule operators usually hang far behind the main battle group, only appearing after the battle is over to service the other vehicles.
SORD Command mech:
The Command mech is a single pilot vehicle designed to coordinate the SBG. However, given its cramped and claustrophobic cockpit, the command mech is not well liked by its users. Other mech pilots joking nicknamed it the Xerox, after its similarity to an office copier.
SORD Recon Mech
The SORD Recon Mech is really just a large hardsuit. Its design is largely based off of a civilian riot mech, though with the addition of a light Maser cannon on its left arm. Given its lack of armor in the front, pilots would often weld on surplus armor parts for extra protection.
SORD Hunchback
The Hunchback is a surprisingly competent design from SORD, mainly because it wasn't designed by SORD engineers. Cobbled together from various stolen plans, the Hunchback is a small but heavily armored and armed hardsuit. They are often grouped in the dozens, and are widely considered to be the workhorses of the SBG.
SORD Hunchback Type 2 (Type-R)
Jokingly called the Type-R due to its speed over the original Hunchback, The Hunchback Type 2 was designed to launch all of its weapons in a surprise attack and quickly scurry away. It is fondly called the Martian by its users, given its nontraditional design.
SORD Type-0
Given only to the most advanced users, the Type-0 is a newly released model not yet given a nickname. One of the largest mechs in the SORD catalog, the Type-0 was designed as a completely modular mech. Various weapons and even heads can be switched out and replaced, giving it a level of versatility (and headache for the poor repair techs) unseen in other SORD designs.
SORD Super Pig:
The Super Pig is the largest mech designed by SORD and the flagship model for the company. Though well armored and armed, the manufacturing cost of the Super Pig is exorbitant. SORD sells each model at a loss, using it as an advertising tool (with infamous pamphlets touting a power level "over 9000") and forcing salesmen to push lesser, more profitable models.
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