3.7 KiB
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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)
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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
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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
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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.