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+# Echo Legion / Warpforged - Quick Reference
+
+## Core Faction Identity
+- **Name**: Echo Legion (Original) / Warpforged (Alternative to avoid Vostroya confusion)
+- **Origin**: Lost world Vestroya/Orelis Prime (pre-Age of Strife forge world)
+- **Status**: Evolved humans with Warp-granted abilities, but staunchly materialist
+- **Philosophy**: "The Calculus of Steel" - only believe in provable material truths
+
+## Key Abilities
+- **Warpstride**: Short-range teleportation (30ft max in realspace, unlimited in Warp)
+- **Reality Anchor**: Mental resistance to Chaos corruption due to materialist beliefs
+- **Hyper-Cognition**: Enhanced battlefield awareness, processes information like a "video game"
+- **Momentum Control**: Can reverse direction mid-teleport without inertia effects
+
+## Three Armor Tiers (ESSENTIAL)
+1. **Light Exo-Armor (Las-powered)**
+   - Role: Skirmishers/Assault
+   - Weapons: Echo Pattern Lasguns (high damage close range, falloff at distance)
+   - Melee: Scaled-down chainblades, power daggers, mono-swords
+   - Mobility: Maximum agility, fastest teleportation
+
+2. **Medium Exo-Armor (Volkite-powered)**  
+   - Role: Fire Support/Tactical Response
+   - Weapons: Echo Pattern Volkite weapons, long-range las
+   - Melee: "Get-off-me" weapons (shock batons, compact knives)
+   - Mobility: Balanced, hover capability
+
+3. **Heavy Exo-Armor (Plasma-powered)**
+   - Role: Frontline Breakers/Defensive Bastions
+   - Weapons: Either suppressive ranged OR sword-and-shield melee focus
+   - Melee: Powered warblades and shields (if melee variant)
+   - Mobility: Controlled charges, strongest thrusters
+
+## Technology Notes
+- **Modular but Limited**: Cross-compatibility between armor types has drawbacks
+  - Volkite thrusters on Las systems = excessive power consumption
+  - Las thrusters on Volkite systems = rapid burnout
+  - Plasma components incompatible with other systems
+- **Field Repairable**: Unlike Astartes gear, designed for screwdriver-level maintenance
+- **Three Intact STCs**: Complete functional units, not fragments
+- **No Warp-Field Tech**: Refuse to use anything that can't be "proven"
+
+## Relationships
+- **Imperium**: Neutral but wary - not enemies, not allies
+- **Mechanicus**: Complex - initially heretical, grudgingly work together due to STCs
+- **Chaos**: View Chaos Gods as "immaterial lies" - see effects but not beings themselves
+- **Astartes**: First contact involved presenting protected geneseed/artifact to prove loyalty
+
+## Philosophy: "The Constants"
+- The Forge Unbroken (Durability of metal)
+- The First Bullet (Ballistic certainty) 
+- The Eternal Flame (Power of combustion)
+- NOT gods - just personified concepts to reinforce materialist beliefs
+
+## Key Story Elements
+- Made vow to protect geneseed/artifact when last defenders fell
+- Colony ship built with 3 STCs when they left their world
+- Tech-priests from original world now serve as historians/educators in colonies
+- Time dilation: Few thousand years for them = potentially pre-Age of Strife disappearance
+- Prefer energy weapons but appreciate kinetics
+- Some have trouble processing realspace after Warp-birth
+
+## Combat Doctrine
+- Hyper-mobility focused
+- Precision strikes over brute force
+- Teleportation used for flanking, momentum shifts, and tactical repositioning
+- Enhanced perception allows predictive combat
+- Battlefield roles clearly defined by armor type
+
+## Naming Issues to Address
+- "Vestroya" too close to canon "Vostroya" 
+- Need pre-Astartes faction to have sworn oath to (Mechanicum Protectorate, Thunder Warriors, etc.)
+- Alternative planet names: Orelis Prime, Daskara, Velkaris, etc.
+- Alternative faction names: Warpforged, Riftborn, Iron Calculus, etc.