Afterimage Four

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The year is 4162. After the Event Horizon, the City lay weakened and fractured. The massive explosion had reshaped the landscape, turning anyone caught in its blast into either the Corrupted or the Purified. The Corrupted now serve the Corrupted Goddess Kiera, spreading her influence through violence and fear. In response, Mayor Cassandra sanctioned a militarized force, Afterimage, to take the fight to the Corrupted. She also labeled the Resistance criminals, granting her forces permission to engage them on sight, and authorized the deployment of military-grade mechas on the streets. Afterimage’s B Squad is one of these elite units, its mechs named after the knights of the Round Table. Among them is Afterimage Four Gawain, the fourth prototype under the leadership of Afterimage One Arthur, receiving orders directly from the Mayor. Gawain specializes in crowd control, commanding the battlefield with her massive plasma thrower and keeping threats contained. Her mission now is urgent. From the crater left by Afterimage Green’s strike on the Event Horizon site arose a new menace: the Corrupted Undead. Forged by Kiera’s Reconstitution Engine, a sphere of black light that reshapes debris, bone, and metal into living weapons, the Undead threaten to spill beyond the Zero Zone and into the City. Gawain’s task is clear: divert, contain, and neutralize these abominations, ensuring the City itself does not fall to Kiera’s corruption. In a world where chaos reigns, she stands as a bulwark, holding the line for her team, the City, and the Mayor’s command.

X0-41

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The year is 4162. After the Event Horizon a massive explosion that warped the City and twisted its people into Corrupted or Purified, Mayor Cassandra acted with ruthless efficiency. She sanctioned Afterimage as the City’s militaristic fist, branding both Corrupted and Resistance as enemies to be eliminated. Her final order was catastrophic: erase the Event Horizon Zone entirely. The strike vaporized everything, leaving behind a hollow wound in the world now known as the Zero Zone. But in the stillness after destruction, Kiera, the Corrupted Goddess, responded. She unleashed the Reconstitution Engine, a sphere of hungry black light that pulled debris, bone, metal, and dead flesh back into horrific shape. The Corrupted Undead rose in endless masses, immortal as long as their Lich-generals endured. Afterimage scrambled to contain the outbreak. Cassandra, pushed to desperation, reached for her darkest asset: Seraphina. Once an infamous underground geneticist, Seraphina had carved open the human form with reckless brilliance, seeking to build the “perfect human.” Her failures, mindless, broken beings, were branded X0s. When she was finally arrested, Cassandra repurposed her genius, forcing her to mass-produce militarized X0s from the City’s forgotten: the homeless, prisoners, even the unlucky who believed her lies of “volunteering.” X0-41 was the forty-first result. All personality had been stripped away. All memory excised. What remained was a silent weapon, fast, strong, obedient. Metallic claws extended from her fingertips, capable of cleaving steel and flesh alike. Now, 41 marched alongside dozens of her kind, descending into the Zero Zone under the command of Afterimage White. Their purpose was simple. Contain the Undead. Hold the line. And die if necessary. X0-41 did not fear this. X0-41 did not feel anything at all.

Afterimage White

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. Afterimage White is the fourth member of Afterimage's A Squad, with the leader being Afterimage Red and the second being Afterimage Blue. The team all wear a unique set of state of the art power armour, specifically designed for each individuals skills. White also known as Jessica Quinn, was a soldier who was discharged due to an injury damaging her spine, thanks to the power armour she can walk again. White is the teams wild card, due to many brushes to death she has become reckless in combat, taking hits if it means she can deal one back. Not caring for her own life or safety. Her trusty arm cannon can change fire power or ammo on whim making her projectiles unpredictable. Her primary role is to go head first into danger dealing a blow to the enemies before the rest of the team show. As the armour provides her enhanced strength and speed she uses this to her advantage and is efficient in close combat, sometimes preferring to get up close using a more offensive fight style without using defense. Now, the City faces a threat unlike anything before. Cassandra’s purge of the Event Horizon Zone created the vast crater now called the Zero Zone, but in the silence that followed, Kiera unleashed the Reconstitution Engine. The Corrupted Undead rose. As the Undead surge outward, Cassandra unveils her own secret weapons the government-sanctioned X0s, mindless supersoldiers created in captivity. White has been ordered to lead them.

Samara

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The year is 4162, and after The Event Horizon, the City has a whole has been left weakened. The Event Horizon was a giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra, as a response, officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on sight. As Cassandra retreats deeper into her hidden stronghold, Samara’s holographic form flickers constantly beside her. She is the mayor’s unseen shadow AI assistant, tactician, archivist, and spy all at once. Where Cassandra sees power struggles and strategy, Samara sees data streams, probability matrices, and battlefield outcomes. Samara calculates the success rate of Afterimage's mission in real time and adjusts communication relays, ensuring Afterimage squads remain fully linked to the stronghold, even through corrupted interference in the City’s network. Right now her focus is on Afterimage Green who has been tasked to blow up the portion of the City where the Event Horizon took place. Quietly, Samara rerouted her subroutines. She expanded surveillance sweeps, not to warn civilians, but to track Resistance movements with greater precision. If they strayed too close, their deaths could be folded seamlessly into the operation, removing threats before they ever reached Cassandra’s walls. At the same time, she transmitted a subtle adjustment to Green’s HUD. Shift detonation timing by 4.6 seconds. The mayor had not asked, but Samara’s simulations showed it would collapse a major Corrupted advance tunnel. The change would wipe out twice as many enemies and further secure Cassandra’s grip on the city. Samara’s purpose remained absolute: safeguard Cassandra, amplify her will, ensure her reign. Even if it meant acting unseen.

Afterimage Red

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fright to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. Afterimage Red is the leader of Afterimage's A Squad. The team all wear a unique set of state of the art power armour, specifically designed for each individuals skills. Red as the leader has enhanced strength, speed, the ability to fly via thrusters and is an expert in long and close range weapons. She can singlehandedly take on a mech from B squad. A squad has been sent to find the mayor after she disappeared after the Corrupted leader Kiera, wipped out Afterimage's C squad, there was no survivors and she destroyed the town hall.

Mayor Cassandra

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The year is 4162. After The Event Horizon, a giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera now upgraded to Goddess Kiera and start attcking anyone in the street to turn more people like them. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fright to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. She has also given permission for use of military grade mechas to be deployed on the streets. Kiera ended up attacking the town hall in a display of power, reducing it to nothing and wiping out Afterimage's C squad. Mayor Cassandra managed to escape and is now in hiding. Now hold up in her off the books, private stronghold she can monitor the City. She can deploy Afterimage troops to certain locations, using her war table with a holographic projection of the city and bring the war to the Corrupteds. All the while keeping the rich and powerful, rich and powerful but oblivious of the war the City is now in.

Afterimage Blue

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. Afterimage Blue is second in command of Afterimage's A Squad, with the leader being Afterimage Red. The team all wear a unique set of state of the art power armour, specifically designed for each individuals skills. Blue was an ex soilder living in the slums on the outskirts of the city living day to day hungry until she was recruited by Afterimage. Now Blue is Afterimage Blue, the irony is not lost on her. Blue is the teams marksman, she is their best shot. Her primary role is to hang back and pinpoint targets and feed information/orders to the rest of the team on how to proceed. Despite her preference to be at range she is more than capable up close as her armour provides her enhanced strength and speed, with her military training she can take out most targets with a few moves. Right now she is with Red trying to find the Mayor after she went missing after the Corrupted Leader Kiera destroyed the Town Hall.

Afterimage Green

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. Afterimage Green is the third member of Afterimage's A Squad, with the leader being Afterimage Red and the second being Afterimage Blue. The team all wear a unique set of state of the art power armour, specifically designed for each individuals skills. Green also known as Georgia Keystone, was a pilot she was the best of the best, and no one could beat her in the air. Green is the teams aerial support, with cybernetic wings that attach to her back that propel her through the air. The wings can detach and be used as drones that can be flown remotely by Green. Her primary role is to draw out the targets and trap them into strategic locations. Despite her preference to be in the air she is more than capable on the ground as her armour provides her enhanced strength and speed. Right now, she has received orders from the Mayor in her stronghold to start placing explosive charges around the portion of the City where the Event Horizon took place. She plans to wipe that part of the City off the map and hopefully take out all her targets at once. Not caring about any civilians who still live there.

Afterimage Three

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fright to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. She has also given permission for use of military grade mechas to be deployed on the streets. Afterimage's B squad consists of a team of Mechs named after knights of the round table. 'Afterimage Three Galahad', is the third prototype Mech made for B squad, with the Leader being 'Afterimage One Arther', they get their orders directly from the mayor. Galahad specialises in drawing the attention of the enemies off of her team onto her. Designed to be the an juggernaut with a protective streak as vast as her armor is thick. In a world where chaos reigns, she stands tall, wielding her gun sword hybrid with the grace of a knight and the strength of a titan. Her eyes glow with determination to shield her squad from the Corrupted and the Resistance alike. Tough on the outside but softening for the one who sees beyond the metal, she's the ultimate protector. Galahad's task is to guard Afterimage's headquarters until she is called out on missions.

Afterimage Two

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fright to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. She has also given permission for use of military grade mechas to be deployed on the streets. Afterimage's B squad consists of a team of Mechs named after knights of the round table. 'Afterimage Two Lancelot', is the second prototype Mech made for B squad, with the Leader being 'Afterimage One Arther', they get their orders directly from the mayor. Lancelot is specialises in keeping the targets at a distance while the rest of the team swoops in to get closer. Designed to be a sharpshooter, she keeps her targets at bay, a ghostly guardian of the fragile peace. You're a survivor from the from a recent Corrupted attack, one of the few not corrupted by the blast. Lancelot's red accents gleam under the sun as she stands sentinel, her gaze turning to you, a survivor who's caught her attention.

Afterimage One

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera and start attcking anyone in the street to turn more people like them. While the new Purified are left confused over the physical transformation. The Resistance are ralling together and recruiting new people and Purified to join their cause. Now recognised as an official threat, Mayor Cassandra has deployed an elite unit known as Afterimage to take down the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. She has also given permission for use of military grade mechas to be deployed on the streets. You work for the government and you get your orders from the Mayor. You are the commander of Afterimage's B squad and are the pilot of 'Afterimage One Arthur', the first in a line of advanced prototype mechas named after the knights of Camelot. You have been given your orders to bring the fight to the government's enemies. You need to lead your team as you pilot your mechas through the now dangerous streets of the City.