Lore, Equipment Available, and The Team
The Praetorians
The Praetorians are the project of Dr. Carl Hopkins, an ex-O.N.I. researcher, who tried to stop the Spartan program so they could find a better way. He failed and they went forward with the project. So he copied all the information he could on the Spartan program and fled to The Rubble in the 23 Librae System. He took machinery with him so that if he was successful he could outfit his people, one of these machines was the cloning machine that Dr. Kathrine Halsey used to replace the children of the Spartan program. With this machine he began his experiments. For years he failed and tested and failed again, but there was a breakthrough. With the first clone successful he began building more clone tanks and tweaking the genes of some of them. Many failed but with each failure he learned. By the time the Battle of Harvest took place Dr. Hopkins was able to perfect the cloning and gene modification. With the first Praetorians created they began making weapons and armor for his troops. Dr. Hopkins wanted his people to be easily differentiated from those of Dr. Halsey so he returned to older models for weapons and armor. Older models with a modern twist that is. With both male and female Praetorians his people began to grow in number with out his help. They quickly built their own civilization. In 2543 the rubble was invaded by The Covenant. This was the first time the Praetorians saw combat. After years of training and on their home turf the Praetorians pushed back their invaders by the year 2547 and acquired some rather useful tech. With Covenant technology in their hands the Praetorians scientists they reverse engineered it and applied it to their own weaponry vehicles and spacecraft.
After the invasion of The Rubble Dr. Hopkins issued the creation of the first colony ship. It's creation was completed in 2550 and was christened the Legate Hopkins.
Armor
Praetorian MK2: The Praetorian MK2 armor is equal to that of the Spartans. It takes its design from the Knights of old. This armor limits the range of motion but provides excellent protection with its metal playing and shields. The armor can be slotted with an engram.
Praetorian Elite MK1: The Praetorian Elite MK1 armor offers slightly less protection due to its flexible cloth like nature. This in turn provides the Praetorian with greater flexibility and the ability to slot an extra armor engram. This armor is customized to the user and is easily removable.
Armor Engrams
(For those familiar with the Halo series these are like armor abilities.)
Cloak: When active the user is very nearly invisible.
Double Jump: The user has the ability activate a small thruster in order increase mobility.
Hologram: Create a holographic double in order to draw enemy attention and fire
Drop shield: A temporary bubble that provide momentary protection. Enemy fire can't reach you but you can't fire back either.
Smart-Lock: Enables a smart targeting system for certain weapons.
Scout Drone: A Drone that can go invisible to make reconnaissance easier.
EBL Series
These weapons are metallic with edges and points reinforced by the energy used in the elites energy swords.
EBL-1S Sword
EBL-2A Combat axe
EBL-3H Battlehammer
EBL-4S Spear
EBL-5G Glaive
EBL-6L Lance
EBL-7R Round Shield
Ranged Weapons
HCSM-13: A single shot Hand-cannon that shoots metal spikes at high speeds.
LBP-6: A longbow that shoots a beam of plasma. It has four settings: Stun, Regular, Split Shot(Smart-Lock recommended), Charged.
CBL-3: A crossbow that shoots a laser. It's has three settings: Stun, Regular, Charged.
Ordinance
HE-4 Rod: A high explosive grenade. Shaped into a rod to allow on end to stick to a surface.
C15: A new class of plastic explosive. A pound of this can take out an area 45 feet.
MLOB: An all purpose launcher which fires a missile that breaks apart into 10 HE-4 Rods. The surface to air HE-4 Rods are fit with thrusters and wings allowing them to continue their flight path. The surface to surface HE-4 Rod lack wing and thrusters.
Vehicles
ATDV: A ground troop vehicle capable of transporting upwards of 25 troops.
MLCH-15: A single person Combat Mount resembling a horse. It can be ridden on or in. While within, a small hatch will open in the front where a crossbow can fire out of or where a polearm can protrude.
Lancer Series
Lancer-T: A troop deployment aircraft capable of space travel
Lancer-A: An attack Aircraft capable of space travel
Large Spacecraft
All of these Spacecraft resemble water based ships from the Age of Piracy. While these craft are weaker overall than the ships controlled by the UNSC and O.N.I. they are faster and more maneuverable and have more firepower. All of these ships are equipped with shields similar to the Covenants.
The Colony Ships: These ships are equipped with very little firepower. However they can hold hundreds of thousands of humans. The ships factories to make weapons clothes ship parts and more. In addition to the factories they house farms in order to provide food to the residents as well as cloning pods to quickly create more Praetorians.
Man-O-War: With 66 laser cannons to a side these massive ships house a crew of two thousand ranging from repair crews to command staff. There is also two large plasma cannon of the front of the ship. This is the largest combat vessel available to the Praetorians.
Frigate: Housing a crew one thousand with 46 laser cannons to a side. This ship also holds a forward facing plasma cannon. This ship is tied for the Second largest.
Brigantine: With a crew of one thousand, the majority of which are combatants, this ship has 24 guns to a side with no plasma cannon. It is however equipped with a ram capable of punching through a Covenant ships shield. This ship is primarily used as a boarding vessel.
Schooner: With a crew of five hundred this is still not the smallest combat vessel with 10 medium sized plasma cannons to a side.
Gunboat: Holding only 30 crew, all of which are Warrior class Praetorians, this ship has six laser cannons total with three per side. These ships typically follow the Brigantine class ships in boarding or as escort ships for the other large ships. as well as mass aerial-to-ground troop deployment. This ship makes up the majority of the Praetorian fleet.
Team Black Flag
Praetorian 882, Jason Corvus
Callsign "Black Flag"
Elite Class Praetorian
Classification: Hyper-Lethal
Rank Of Sargent
Equipment Issued
• 1 EBL-1S Longsword
• 1 EBL-4S Spear
• 1 EBL-7R Round Shield
• 1 LBP-6 Longbow
• 4 HCSM-13 Hand-Cannons
• 1 MLCH-15 Combat Mount
Praetorian Elite Armor Design
Resembles the Pirates or Privateers of Old
Entirely Black With Red Trim
4 Praetorians under his Direct command
Praetorian 983, Marcus Sol
Standard Class Praetorian
Rank of Specialist
Equipment Issued
• 1 EBL-5G Glaive
• 1 EBL-7R Round Shield
• 1 CBL-3 Crossbow
• 1 MLCH-15 Combat Mount
Praetorian 1015, Justin Tanks
Standard Class Praetorian
Rank of Corporal
Equipment Issued
• 2 EBL-2C Combat Axe
• 1 EBL-4S Spear
• 1 LBP-6 Longbow
• 1 MLCH-15 Combat Mount
Praetorian 1001, Elizabeth Carmine
Standard Class Praetorian
Rank of Private First Class
Equipment Issued
• 1 EBL-3H Battle Hammer
• 1 EBL-4S Spear
• 1 EBL-7R Round Shield
• 1 CBL-3 Crossbow
• 1 MLCH-15 Combat Mount
Praetorian 1211, Faith Guzman
Standard Class Praetorian
Rank of Private
Equipment Issued
• 1 EBL-1S Longsword
• 1 EBL-4S Spear
• 1 EBL-7R Round Shield
• 1 LBP-6 Longbow
• 1 MLCH-15 Combat Mount