We kicked that time traveling overlord's ass and got our pay, simple enough. That said, it was an eye opener to many new strange types of technology and uses of Niodes most had previously thought impossible which taught us that the universe is indeed a far weirder place than even we had suspected.
My prize from that particular skirmish (which occurred following the conclusion of Clan Wars XVII) was an Ignis mech. I've continued fighting remnants of Drochah's forces, taking down Giguses that made up the strike forces of his brainwashed thralls, fools who had sacrificed their humanity thinking that siding with this self-proclaimed "last Forebearer" would result in anything but the human race's destruction. As a result, this Ignis which I've named "Ignitor" houses TWENTY Rupture Shots making it capable of putting forward a roaring wall of ultra hot hellfire.
Those who go up against me in Ignitor have a choice in how they will be burnt to a crisp... in addition to the banks of Rupture Shots, and its varied standard Ignis armaments of a Heat Ray, Hephaistos, and twin Jurassic Blasts, Ignitor also houses a Kojin Stove. Since just having flame weapons would get a tad monotonous, for variety's sake I've also installed Ignitor with a Black Widow and two Hyper Amps.
These prehistoric seeming Dinosaur mecha are somewhat different from the Kaiju Beast Mecha and seem to have been designed to have the Forerunner's psychological gestalt + engrams in mind for their intended pilots. It would be a little strange for your average mecha user to adjust to. Thankfully I am not your average mecha user; Like Evil Santa and Jonathan Judas before me I have also had my body modified by Forerunner technology. However, unlike them, my "integration" to being a post human was not cybernetic but transgenic in nature. That is, it was through biological vectors. A Haptic Interface and Neural Recalibrator helmet work well with my modified external physiology. Drochah called me a freak of nature that shouldn't exist. Shouldn't exist perhaps so, and yet I do. You see, my "skin", thanks to its transfection with Forerunner genetic material using colonies of hybrid bacteria, has gradually been replaced with an alien external tissue which seems to confer a distinct advantage to me in using recovered Forerunner technology.
Anyway, back to the cockpit features... rounding things out, to complement the interface terminals I installed three Sensor Arrays on Ignitor to overhaul his Hyper Amps and Black Widow laser. The chassis makeup is perhaps a bit more interesting my friends. Two sets of Trilerian Sprockets confer a nearly unreal amount of dodge to this 90 tonner, with a paired Energy Aura unit and Muon Junction adding to the cascading amplified freeze bonus already put into play by the triplet of Sensor Arrays. For engines Ignitor has a Dark Matter Converter that feeds a Caged Singularity through two Heat Cyclers, giving a clocked speed of 56 (minus the 28 inertia to still have a net speed of 28). This equipment configuration of Cockpit, Chassis and Engine combinations together gives Ignitor 46 Precision, a boosted Dodge of 50, 6 Auto Repair, increased 24% Freeze ability, a Slow ability of 8, boosted 20% Fork bonus, Shield value of 129 and a modest 6% Trample with 3% increased chance triple damage.
Ignitor's shields are four Delta units: Thiokol, Arctic, Caudata and MNTN to protect it against Missiles, Ice, Fire and Projectiles. Yeah, I know you're still out there Drochah, somewhere. I will find you and use your very own weapons against you to properly welcome you to the 33rd Century. It is still the age of the Homo Sapien, and it will take more than just one Tyrant Out of Time to drive us extinct.
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