James Harrison — hangar Jannah
--Dûment noté, répondit Harrison, correspondant à la retraite rapide de Stronin. À une distance sûre, il plie les bras et regarde en arrière le châssis maintenant vide qui se trouve dans sa baie, alors que les techniciens commencent à se hisser.
"C'est un prix que Rising Star nous a rapporté, hein?" Il a remarqué. "Je n'ai pas vu de Bradley depuis des années, et encore moins une unité de commandement. J'ai pensé qu'ils seraient tous en boulettes dans la collection d'un milliardaire à l'heure actuelle."
Name: James Harrison
Age: 34
Gender: M
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Skills:
Harrison is a career soldier and an experienced HFV pilot, and is thus a practiced marksman, tactician and melee combatant both inside and outside a mech suit, showing high levels of dexterity and athleticism.
His technical know-how and adaptability have been beyond that of the average grunt since the beginning of his career, making him well-suited to more advanced and/or unconventional hardware. As a result, he has strong experience in the use of beam weaponry, demolitions, and drone warfare. His training in sword techniques transfers well to the use of Beam Sabers in close-range mech combat.
Appearance:
6 feet in height, athletic but not heavily built, caucasian skin tone. Black hair, length within military regulations, fringe pulled back baring forehead; sharp eyebrows; close-trimmed beard. Slate-grey eyes, chiselled features.
Speaks in a firm baritone with the Estuary accent of his native London.
Flight suit: Martian red, stencilled with personalised designs (PMC logo now replaced with OSDT insignia), light armour plates in key areas, utility belt.
On-duty apparel: OSDT fatigues, utility vest, hip-mounted sidearm holster, hobnail boots.
Off-duty apparel: slim jeans, t-shirt or turtleneck, jacket or gilet.
Personality:
Level-headed and professional, James is a man who takes his work seriously and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He is pragmatic and mission-focused, but not ruthless: he sticks to his own moral code. His sense of humour, when he shows it, is of the dry and sardonic variety the Brits are known for. His serious and critical attitude can make him difficult to get along with, but those who earn his respect will find him to be a strong ally and a dependable friend.
In his spare time he enjoys factual reading (mainly on the topics of science, technology and human history), classic film and literature, the sports of fencing and tennis, caffeinated beverages, and the odd video game.
History:
James Harrison was born in London, the son of a military man and a robotics engineer. With his father usually away on tours of duty, his mother gave up her career to raise the boy. Possessed of a sharp mind, the young James did well at school, particularly in the sciences thanks to his mother’s influence, while his father’s saw that he found success on the athletics track.
At 21, after graduating from university with a degree in Applied Physics (his dissertation project was on military beam technology), he followed in his father’s footsteps and enlisted in the British space fleet. His skills and specialist knowledge got him earmarked early on for the fleet’s HFV program, but he would not be assigned to it for another three years.
Harrison was 25 years old and one year into HFV training when the New Copenhagen rebellion began, and his unit was assigned to the UN coalition formed to combat the rogue colonist threat. He cut his mech combat teeth fighting Bradleys and other rebel HFVs out in the colonies.
Less than a year after the end of the war, he received the news that his father had been killed in action defending a UN convoy from a pirate raid. A few months later, his mother was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, of a form difficult for even modern medicine to combat. Treatment would be expensive, and the military widow’s benefits would barely cover it. Finding that life in the fleet reminded him too strongly of the loss of his father, and wanting to take care of his mother as best he could, he left the British military and signed up with Marineris Security Solutions, a Mars-based private military firm. The generous salary would be more than enough to pay for private medical care for his mother, the work promised opportunities to fight pirates like those that killed his father, and shipping out to the Martian Sphere felt like a fresh start.
Thus began Harrison’s seven-year career as a military contractor (or as some less generous individuals might say, a mercenary). His contracts were many and varied, from escorting convoys to ‘mediating’ disputes between rival corporations; from attacking pirate strongholds head-on to guarding valuable or vulnerable facilities. And it was good work: the pay was good, the assignments were rewarding, and the company took good care of its troops, providing them with high-grade equipment and training.
In the latter years, however, Harrison began to have concerns about the ethics of certain of MSS’ clients and, by association, MSS itself. Some of the assignments his squad were dispatched to perform began to look legally questionable, particularly those that took them out into the asteroid belt to deal with increasingly unsavoury-looking groups. A series of damning news reports concerning other PMCs didn’t exactly alleviate his suspicions.
Six months ago, Harrison’s mother succumbed to her cancer and passed away. No longer needing a corporate salary, and feeling disillusioned with PMC work in general, he soon decided quit the company and return to the military fold. But with the growing stigma against contractors, former or otherwise, the British recruitment staff were leery, and he found himself shunted off to an old, semi-defunct UN taskforce: the OSDT.
He has since been assigned to the Jannah as a marine and reserve HFV pilot.

Model: Mm C44 ‘Bradley’
Nickname: ‘Kyuzo’
Specialty: Mass Production General Purpose HFV
History: On the 3rd of July in the 105th year of the Solar Age, the autonomous O'Neill cluster of New Copenhagen declared total war upon its neighbours, with its leader, the eccentric Governor Werribee Bradley, announcing his intention to unite the colonies of the Earth Sphere into a single entity. Backed by an existing arms manufacturing industry and wealth gained from a strong relationship with asteroid miners, the colony was able to rapidly produce significant numbers of HFVs for its war effort, and within two months had already occupied three of its closest neighbouring colonies. Of its many HFVs, the most infamous was the Mm C44, a general purpose mech that soon grew to symbolise New Copenhagen's armies. The brainchild of the governor himself, exactly eight hundred and thirteen units were produced by the Vimana Institute, and were his vanguard against those that opposed him, the relatively high performance of the machines superior to much of what the colonial militias could deploy. However, it would be the intervention of an UN coalition in the fourth month of the war that ended their advance, with the Earth-built machines managing to be achieve technological parity, or even superiority, with the C44s. Six hundred and ninety-two of the ‘Bradley’s (a moniker given to them by coalition forces) would be destroyed, and by Christmas that year, the UN had successfully expelled New Copenhagen's forces from its occupied colonies, bringing an end to Bradley's ambitions (although he would escape arrest). The surviving C44s would find their way either into the hands of UN member states or amongst mercenaries and pirates, and are still a distinctive sight throughout the space routes.
This particular ‘Bradley’ was recently captured from a pirate outfit by Rising Star of the Paper Tiger squad. The Jannah techs have since patched it up, cleaned the previous owner’s blood out of the cockpit, and approved it for Harrison’s use. He has christened it ‘Kyuzo’, after the master swordsman of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
Appearance: The ‘Bradley’ is merely 19m in height, but due to the presence of its large backpack, which stores the secondary reactor, appears to be far bigger in size. It utilises an offensive shield, which is attached upon the forearm and can swivel around to block enemy attacks from different angles. The ‘Messer’ drone protrudes from its right shoulder, a rounded object with a gun pointing out from it. Unlike most machines produced in the Earth sphere, it lacks a signature mono-eye, with its cranial unit instead possessing a prominent, light blue visor that protects its sensors and cameras. Two miniature ‘horns’ also jut back from its head just above its Vulcans, smoothing back down in an almost 'punkish' look.
The previous owner had given this unit an orange paintjob, which Harrison has elected to keep. The techs have sprayed over the old pirate emblems and applied an OSDT insignia and serial number, but he has not yet had time to paint his own designs on.
Features:
 Long-range targeting sensors
 VI-EX02 Reactor System: each ‘Bradley’ unit possesses a secondary backup reactor that provides it with greater energy use, as well as allowing it to serve as a power source for the weapons of other HFVs if necessary, such as the GT-010's Mega Beam Cannon.
 Offensive Shield: swivel-mounted; beam-coated; contains two small missile launchers
 Rocket Anchor (2x): each arm of the C44 is equipped with a rocket anchor, which can be launched to grab onto foes or parts of the environment.
 VI-R01a Drone Control Transmitter: as a command unit, this ‘Bradley’ was equipped with a transmitter that allowed control over a single drone weapon.
Armaments:
60mm Vulcan Gun Pod (2x): mounted on cranial unit
Repeating Beam Gun (1x): the ‘Bradley’ utilises a small repeating beam rifle as a standard weapon at short ranges to great effect, its high rate of fire making up for the reduced power in comparison to the more common beam rifle, and thanks to the presence of its secondary generator, is longer-lasting
Beam Saber (6x): stored in recharge racks in its legs and in its backpack
3-Slot Grenade Rack
VI-R01b ‘Messer’ Drone: this unit controls a single drone that, when not in use, is attached to its right shoulder, serving as an extra, fixed beam gun that feeds off its secondary generator; when launched however, it can be flown up to 500m away, and acts as a weak beam gun (due to reliance on internal batteries to fly) that can harry or hurt enemies. It can also be equipped with a camera or other surveillance tools.
Weaknesses: The C44 ‘Bradley’ is highly limited in regards to long-range combat, with its ‘Messer’ and its weak beam gun serving as its only source of attack beyond close proximities. While it can use its rocket anchors to reduce the distance between it and enemies, such tactics rely on being able to catch its target. It was also built entirely for space and colony-bound combat, and can barely function within atmosphere. The second reactor can be dangerous, with any damage dealt to it possessing far riskier effects upon the pilot and the machine compared to the main reactor. In addition, Harrison is not yet familiar with piloting this class of mech, so teething problems are quite possible.