Archangels

The Archangels Mechanized Infantry Corps protects the safe zones with their lives against the alien threat. Their weapons are the Titans. Piloted robots standing from fifteen, to twenty-five feet tall. Armed with weapons capable of leveling a city block with little effort. The pilots are called Titanmasters. The Archangels have protected the safe zones well, and with word of recent victories on the offensive, humanity's remains might have a shot at a future.

Composition

Manpower

Safe Zone 1 has an Archangel presence of about four thousand, while Safe Zone 2 has a presence of around one thousand, five hundred Archangels. Of that, around sixty percent of them are Titanmasters. The rest work in other fields, such as financial, intelligence, or mission control.

Equipment

All field operatives pilot the titans, while the intelligence operatives, and the mission controllers have access to all long range scanners.

Weaponry

The weapons of the Archangels Mechanized infantry unit vary from cannons, to energy beams of every size, and shape.

Vehicles

Other than the titans, the Archangels have a few main vehicles. All Archangel lances are deployed by a NA-mk15 dropship. non-mechanized units will drive armored vehicles.

Structure

The smallest unit is a lance of three, or four titans. After that comes a company of three lances. After that is a strike of three companies. After that comes a compliment of three to four strikes. After that comes a battalion of ten compliments. After that comes a corps of three thousand individual titans.

Tactics

They favor drop tactics. A dropship comes in at high speeds, and drops the titans in a single line. The gee forces are dampened by hydraulic correction systems, and a running landing. The lance then picks off the enemy from the inside, out. Once the enemy is cleared, or if a retreat is forced, the same drop ship will come down at the same speed, and use a massive magnet to pull the titans onto the belly of the ship. In, and out ad absurd speed is how the Archangels fight their battles, as a full-on battle would not last long against these invaders.

Training

Every Archangel titanmaster is an already trained military, or police operatives. The only training required is mental training. They need to train their minds to withstand the strain of piloting a titan with a neural link. Through every possible mental exercise for an extended period of time, they strengthen their minds to the point where piloting this machine is almost like piloting their own body.

Logistics

Auxilia

The mission control operatives use the safe zones' long-range scanners to get a view of the AO and guide the lance accordingly. Transport pilots are relied upon to get the Archangels to the Ao quickly, and efficiently. Intelligence uses data gathered by scout teams to form a plan that the lance must follow.

Upkeep

Titans are not immortal. They do eventually fail. When such events happen, a new one must be constructed. Each one costs 700,000,000 GC in materials, and labor. Damage is not easily repaired, as there are materials between the armor, and internal structure. These materials are extremely hard to maneuver through, with some maintenance teams simply removing, and replacing the stuff.

History

The Archangels Mechanized infantry corps wasn't always mechanized. They were once shock troopers, formed with the purpose of allowing humanity to survive long enough to find a more permanent solution to the Mechanon siege on the safe zones. Once the titans rolled off the assembly line, they were the first to strap into the massive machines. They've defended the safe zones well ever since. Now, the people of both safe zones can rest at night knowing they are protected.

Historical loyalties

The Archangels have one loyalty, and one loyalty only: the last surviving few that make up humanity's remains. Any alien threat is marked as a target by the Archangels, and is hunted until the threat is neutralized.

Type

Mechanized

Founding

2587

Overall training Level

Professional

Assumed Veterancy

Experienced