Camilla a gagné à son écran de suite C3i, en regardant Katya se détacher de la coque d'un Racer. Ce n'est pas le plus propre des meurtres, mais un meurtre quand même. Le cadre noirci s'est effondré à ses haunches, torse ruiné au-delà de la reconnaissance.
"Brutal", s'écria Camilla. "Un point pour l'équipe Ganymède."
Le reste de la puissance de feu combinée des Fantômes a réussi à bloquer les Racers restants, creusés à bout portant. Il n'y avait aucun doute dans l'esprit de Camilla qu'ils avaient subi des dommages de l'aide de Sparr de fusées. C'était vraiment une autre histoire. Une poussée subséquente de museaux a été une réponse suffisante - pas assez.
"On dirait que ces deux-là sont encore en train de s'élever. Kat, donnons-leur un avant-goût d'AGL-6, ça les sortira de...
Le champ de vue de Camilla a été obstrué par un flash de fumée noire - une boîte tirée par les Racers a rempli son moniteur de brumes brumeuses. Elle gémit, renversant un interrupteur et l'écran se transforma en un arc-en-ciel de chaleurs. Son ennui est devenu surprenant alors qu'une paire de formes orange-rouge sortaient des dunes droites pour la ligne des fantômes comme les hommes possédés. Quelque chose n'est pas là!
Une explosion de derrière a pris la tête d'un des Racers tout de suite, et il a trébuché à l'envers, fumée baissant de ses épaules.
"Bon, Viv!"
Camilla a balancé son autocannon pour porter au dernier cadre en approche et laisser libre. Les ronds se sont claqués à travers l'armure, en tordant les intérieurs en formes grotesques, et le hulk s'est effondré dans la poussière.
"C'est trois Racers en bas, 22B. C'est tout?"
"Confirmé, capitaine. Nous n'avons rien d'autre que vous."
"Pas beaucoup de combat. Comment se fait-il que nous n'ayons aucune action pendant des mois et tout d'un coup ce triangle d'amour cible l'installation?"
"... Votre hypothèse est aussi bonne que la nôtre. Peux-tu ouvrir les trappes? Les execs veulent savoir à qui ils ont affaire."
Camilla a remarqué la brève hésitation dans la voix des opérateurs, puis a répondu, « Bien sûr. Fantômes, ouvrons ces cockpits, alors, à une fréquence privée, s'il reste quelque chose d'eux à sauter.
Elle a balancé son Gladiator vers le Racer qu'elle venait de descendre, et a étendu un bras jusqu'au cadre. Elle est sortie avec une carbine à l'épaule, a baissé la longueur du bras avant d'atteindre le Racer. Elle a arraché la canopée battue, et Camilla a reculé en état de choc.
"Uh, 22B?"
"Allez-y, capitaine."
"Celui-ci... c'est vide."
"Dis encore - il n'y a pas de corps?"
"Négatif."
"C'est impossible."
"Je te dis juste ce que je vois," Camilla a craqué. Qu'est-ce qui se passe?
"Vérifie ces autres épaves", a ordonné Camilla. "Tout ce que vous trouvez - les corps, les papiers, les souvenirs, les ordres, je veux savoir."
Name: Camilla Stavros
Aliases:
Age: 27
Birthday: November 14th
Gender: Female
Appearance
Height: 160 cm
Weight: 57 kg
Build: Athletic, compact
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Dark brown
Skin Tone: Olive
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: N/A
Personal Style: Camilla dresses in a pseudo-militaristic style, often in camouflage BDU pants and tactical boots, with a tank top or other athletic wear. She’s hardly seen without her post-WWII souvenir-style bomber jacket, emblazoned with a huge Ganymede Ghosts back patch. She keeps her hair braided tightly to her head in a Greek style, or in pigtails.
Psychology
Pragmatic * Intuitive * Spontaneous * Analytical * Reserved
Sexuality: Bisexual, leaning towards men
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Camilla is action-oriented and adventurous, enjoying the experience of trying new approaches to problems and examining results. She is at once, both practical and idealistic; Camilla often executes her plans with logic-based judgement according to her situation, but in the hopes of achieving quixotic ambitions. She is predictably unpredictable, at times following her gut’s whims, and at others scrutinizing information to make informed decisions. This gives her a particularly open-minded outlook on life, and she can be trusted to investigate all sides of an issue. She admires both the logical design and aesthetics of things.
Habits: Camilla keeps a little notebook on her person and jots down anything she thinks worth writing: ideas, thoughts, grocery lists, do’s and don’ts, etc. It also contains lyrics to songs and poems, in varying stages of completion.
Camilla also makes a habit of exercise three or more times a week, mercenary work permitting. This primarily includes weightlifting and calisthenic exercises.
Hobbies: Exercise, music, poetry, songwriting, singing, recreational shooting and gun modification make up Camilla’s chief interests.
Fears: Though she struggles against it, Camilla carries a small seed of doubt, second-guessing her ability to lead the Ghosts. She knows they have not come this far on blind chance, but a creeping anxiety lingers inside. She resists succumbing to it, but it troubles her once in a while, crawling from the woodwork. She can’t help but compare herself to others, especially the Ghosts’ past leaders. If she were to somehow fail her comrades, it could ruin her.
Likes: Camilla is fond of music of many genres, gravitating towards harsher subgenres of metal, but also has bouts of classical, electronic and acoustic listening. Other interests include firearms and ancient world history. She values personal freedom, requiring time to herself and room to think in-between social gatherings and conventions.
Dislikes: Camilla has a deep-seated revulsion of the ITA for the crimes she has perpetrated under their direction.
She dislikes overbearing authority, and confined atmosphere that impedes on her “creative space.” She also opposes censorship of artistic and literary work.
Cards On The Table
General Skills: Camilla knows her way around a gun, inside and out. Military experience has taught her the nuances of flying aerospace craft, in addition to frames. She is adept at navigation and survival skills. Unrelated to her military career, Camilla is a talented writer and poet, in addition to having had a stint in a choir during her youth.
Inventory/Possessions:

GV-9 polymer handgun w/ optional suppressor and LAM/Light module
HWF personal defense carbine with standard electronic sight and rail-mounted flashlight and foregrip
Utility knife
A small, well-worn notebook and fountain pen, always on her person
A diving watch that seldom leaves her wrist
Portable cassette player and audiophile-grade headphones
More than a few historical non-fiction books, and several campy fantasy paperbacks

History
Years of Combat Experience: 9
Background: Prior to joining the ranks of the Ganymede Ghosts, Camilla served with the ITA's newly-created 106th SOMAC - Special Operations Mobile Armor Corps. She'd been recruited from among the ranks of highly-decorated aerospace pilots; her rapid-fire decision-making capabilities and knack for improvisation under pressure landed her a seat in a mobile armor. Her detachment operated along a theoretical border between several fringe ITA colonies and Mars-controlled territory. For much of her service history, Camilla's unit conducted patrols in the region, scouting for signs of buildup to a Mars offensive and screening incoming and outgoing traffic in ITA-aligned space.
At a particularly critical junction in the war, Camilla's unit was among several dispatched to put down pro-Martian insurrections on a cluster of neutral colonies close to the border. When they arrived, they did indeed find Martian-sponsored activity, and fighting between the special forces and guerrilla separatists erupted around the colonies. In its pursuit of separatists, ITA High Command distinguished little between honest colonists and the guerillas. When it was clear that the separatist fighters would not be halted by conventional means, it devised a brutal operation to root out and destroy any possibility of lingering movements.
Camilla's unit was unknowingly armed with a deadly chemical agent under the guise of a powerful anesthetic. It was told the chemical would knock civilians inert, making it easier to transport them to safety. In reality, ITA High Command planned to use the gas to wipe out the colony populations – thereby eradicating all traces of separatist activity. The horror that Camilla and her unit faced when they witnessed the effects of the chemical agent Camilla dispersed by their own hand, no less – shook them to their cores. At the conclusion of the operation, Camilla and her unit were awarded with decorations for “defending the integrity of ITA space,” and forced to keep a strict silence regarding the details of their mission.
For the next few months, Camilla's unit struggled with what it had done, and the loyalty of its pilots wavered.The weight of being used to perpetrate a war crime lingered on its shoulders. Some continued serving, trying to justify the operation to themselves. Others either forgot or tried to forget. Some left the service entirely. Camilla had decided to abandon the ITA altogether, along with a handful of others who had become resentful of their former loyalties. Knowing full well they'd be branded as deserters and possibly hunted down, the former soldiers settled across the system outside of ITA space. In time, Camilla tired of living with the guilt and decided to step back into the cockpit. She came forth to colony authorities with sensitive ITA information, and divulged the details of the incident.
News of this reached the ITA, and Camilla fled this side of the system to escape pursuit. In a game of cat and mouse, she blazed a trail to Jupiter, whereupon she caught wind of the Ganymede Ghosts’ exploits. The Ghosts, known for taking missions that undermined ITA control of colony space, became Camilla’s new family.
Extras
Character Quote: TBA
Theme Song: Subrosa - No Safe Harbor
Anything Else: TBA


Technical Data
Model Number: HCF-08M
Code Name: Gladiator
Manufacturer: Ceres Industries
Dimensions: 4.380 meters tall
Weight: 7.932 metric tons fully armed
Armaments
Fixed Armaments:

SGM-89 AT missile - The Gladiator’s shoulder mounts a two-tube missile launcher. The missiles use a fire-and-forget infrared homing system to find targets. The SGM-89 is fired at an angle, designed to knock out tanks with a top-down approach. Their range exceeds 4,000 meters and they are powerful enough to defeat 600-800 millimeters of rolled homogenous armor. Six missiles are carried by the Gladiator.
M180 machine gun - An antipersonnel 7.65 machine gun is mounted on the side of the chest. It has an independent axis with which it can traverse and fire across the frame’s frontal arc.

Hand Armaments:

HVC-27 autocannon - The primary armament of the Gladiator is a gas-operated, single-barrel 27 mm revolver cannon. The primary tactical round carried by the Gladiator contains a bit of explosive charge sealed in a shaped-charge liner. The liner collapses into an armor-piercing jet of metal that is capable of penetrating more than 2 inches of rolled homogenous armor. The shell is also designed to fragment upon impact, having a lethal radius against unprotected targets in a 10 ft radius.
3x Hand grenades - high-explosive grenades for antipersonnel use.
Vibroknife - a utility blade for clearing brush and other obstacles, or for improvised close combat.

Equipment & Design Features
Equipment:

Countermeasures - The Gladiator is fitted with smoke and chaff launchers, which discharge tiny particles to confuse the detection systems of guided missiles fired at the frame. The smoke blocks both vision and thermal imaging. A Windbreaker active protection system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming missiles and rockets with a blast of buckshot-like projectiles. A 360-degree field-of-view fire-control radar detects incoming projectiles, immediately calculates its vector of approach and the elevation and time required to intercept it. Once it’s done so, two rotating launchers release a blast of projectiles at the projectile at a safe distance from the frame.
The Gladiator makes use of a new targeting and night vision system. The Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) is developed by defense, security and advanced technology company Ackerman-Liao. It features infrared sensors with multiple fields of view, a TV camera, electronic zoom, target tracker and auto-boresight.
C3i 'Command, Communication, Control, Intelligence' suite - This suite uses complex algorithms to fuse sensor data from all friendly battlefield sources and known records for a commander’s overview of the battlefield, allowing for more efficient tactical control of the situation. It is only found on frames used by officers and NCOs.

Miscellaneous
Technical & Historical Notes The Gladiator is Ceres Industries’ chief heavy assault frame, ideal for combat with heavily-armored combat vehicles in addition to other frames. It has proven popular with the cream of the Jovian Defense Force, and is not an uncommon sight in colonial territory. Its armaments enable it to perform well against a variety of targets, and its speed gives it considerable mobility. An advanced control computer gives it considerable ease acquiring and locking onto targets. To give Camille greater awareness of an engagement and to facilitate giving commands, her frame as a C3i suite installed.
Color Scheme: Camille’s Gladiator is painted in a dark grey-green hue. It's appearance is nondescript, bearing no marks or insignia, although a small banner with the Ghosts’ emblem hangs inside the cockpit.
Anything Else: The Gladiator can achieve a maximum speed of 82 kilometers per hour on its wheels at dry load, with 395 horsepower. Its armor is resistant to rounds up to 14.5 mm.