Luanova Luckwright

IC Information
Full Name:	Luanova Luckwright
Gender:	Female (She/Her)
Species:	Psychodriver
Age (Birthdate):	24
Hair Colour:	Blonde
Eye Colour:	Green
Height	5'6" (167 cm)
Job:	Political Heiress
Homeland:	Neo-America
Awakening:	4
Primary Unit:	MFW-1 Myrmecia
BGM:	Metric - "Blindness"
Ansi Code:	:111
OOC Information
Origin:	Original Character
Factions:	Civilian
Player:	purophet

Lua Luckwright wears fashionable dresses and stands around at expensive fundraiser dinners, where she minds her manners and never talks about how she's sick of this shit. She guests on Neo-American television for light interviews into her charity work and her experience growing up part of a political dynasty. She goes home and has no time to watch action movies between poli-sci, climbing exercises, and drills in close quarters combat. She is the only suitable pilot thus found for her mother's company's "wonder-weapon" project. The machine does not belong to her. She does not decide when or where it deploys. But when she is seated in the cockpit, grasping the control sleeves, marching through chaos and rubble, she breathes free.

Supporting Cast

Erich Lorentz: An early immigrant to Neo-America, now in his fifties with a wife and daughter of his own. Lorentz has driven cabs, loaded barges, and worked local security, but it was a chance hire as a bouncer that got him attention from the right people for his keen eye and natural cool, bringing him into the executive protection business. He gets along well with Miss Luckwright, who has signaled over time to him a sympathy for his blue-collar sensibilities, and to whom he is now more loyal than his formal employer. Erich maintains the silent, professional demeanor expected for his new calling, but in informal moments, shows enthusiasm about the little things in life. He loves cooking videos.

Fill Stampdown: Fill was one of Lua's combat tutors. He doesn't talk much about himself. Hasn't mentioned a significant other. Never talks about family. Doesn't socialize off duty. An avid reader of philosophical and spiritual works, scrupulous about gun discipline, no calluses from hard labor, never drinks. A ghostly singing voice.

Resources

Political Heiress: Lua is the daughter of Senator Ada Legatum Luckwright, a Neo-Colonial mover and shaker in control of Neo-America's major homegrown arms manufacturer, Foresight. Her mother has groomed her as a dynastic successor, positioning her at countless high social functions and arranging connections with wealthy patrons and political and media figures. The power this affords Lua to wield independent of her mother is limited. She lives in her mother's shadow, and her power to move significant funds is subject to Ada's oversight and approval. Still, this has provided her with access to luxuries, easy transport, a pair of full-time bodyguards, and the borrowed power of bureaucracy and diplomatic status.

Special Operations: Since it became apparent that Luanova might remain the only pilot safely compatible with Foresight's Myrmex Format technology for some time, Ada quietly signed her daughter onto a regimen of supplemental training courses at a young age, which Lua took to more avidly than her political science studies. Despite her appearance as a socialite heiress, Lua is professionally trained in hand-to-hand combat, knife techniques, marksmanship, climbing, grappling, lockpicking, and a number of ancillary skills selected for their relevance to deep insertion special operations. She does not travel personally armed, but does often carry a concealed grapnel.

Psychodriver: Lua was born a powerful psychodriver, a human whose quantum brain activity instinctively maps surrounding kinetic activity by interpreting states of quantum foam. Without mechanical assistance, this primarily translates to increased proprioception and thereby a grace of movement, as well as a "sixth sense" comparable to that of the Newtype. Foresight's internal psychodriver research department is arguably the first to positively identify the psychodriver as a phenomenon distinct from the Newtype, and their analysis of data collected from Luanova's brain activity and a small number of volunteers has helped illuminate the phenomenon, though the scientific explanations mean little to Lua herself.

Myrmecia

The Myrmex Format Wanderpanzer Myrmecia is Ada's "wunder-wanzer" and Foresight's cutting edge claim to fame. Details on how it works are kept strictly private, because the core truth of the unit reveals that, while it is every bit the effective weapon the arms manufacturer postures it to be, one core flaw undercuts all its potential as a weapon to change the face of war: in almost two decades of development, Foresight has never found a second person capable of properly operating it.

Myrmecia stands eight meters tall and shares the top-heavy, wide build common to many wanzers. Where most wanzers are famous for the blocky appearance of their armoring and weapon storage, the Myrmecia's limbs and torso are comparatively thin and smooth, accented by reflective amber hexagonal scales, a reactive mail that distributes kinetic shock through cascades of lesser collisions. It has no visible external weapons system. A pair of thruster jets are mounted on its back.

The core of the Myrmecia is the Myrmex Engine, a complex lattice of rare alloys woven through the perimeter of the cockpit and integrated into a spherical sensory lens that appears like a cycloptic "eye" at the head of the machine. The Myrmex Engine integrates with an Awakened pilot's quantum brainwaves through a control band and a set of supplemental control sleeves worn within the cockpit. It functions as a miniaturized supercomputer, offloading the pilot's mental calculations of quantum activity to magnify interactions by an order of magnitude. Within an extended sensory field maintained through uninterrupted physical contact with the Myrmex Engine and its housing unit, the Myrmex Engine permits a suitable pilot to collapse quantum foam to spontaneously generate force-carrying subatomic particles on a massive scale. The resultant "psychokinetic" force has reached upper limits comparable to the momentum imparted by dense masses far in excess of the size of the actual Myrmecia unit. Applications of this psychokinetic force allow the pilot to levitate the unit, "lift" and "throw" objects several times its size, or deliver bodily strikes with outsized force. The force can be deployed from any origin point within the tactile sensory field, meaning that the pilot could also deploy psychokinetic force from contact through the ground to a distant target, or, so long as the unit is in physical contact with a target body, produce a localized vortex within the inside of the target body, independent of where physical contact was established.

The Myrmex Engine is integrated into nearly every feature of the machine. Its power plant supplements its solar battery with a psychokinetic interface to move the wanzer with the pilot's will. Its jets do not burn fuel but quantum foam, in a brute-force directional collapse. Even Myrmecia's armor is primarily provided not by ablative plating but by the Myrmex Engine's ability to project counter-force and straighten damaged parts back into functioning shape.

Relationships

Name	Affinity	Comment
Leina Ashta		"It means a lot to have somebody to talk to outside of all the bullshit. It really does."
Asciel Colette		"I can't believe the terrorist streamer is real. I can't believe she's incredibly annoying."
Yuliana Kafim		"Are you fucking kidding me."
Ada Legatum Luckwright		"Mother."

Logs

Cutscenes

2024-11-11: Life out of Balance

Luanova Luckwright

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