Deka's Lotuscraft Crew

The Lotuscraft Crew is a team of space mercenaries under the command of Rogue Valian Dekani "Deka" Price. The primary function of the crew was to assist Deka in completing contracts across the Star System of the past, in order to obtain the adequate resources to defeat The Severens and to return to Deka's present.

Members

Deka

The Captain of the Crew, a Valian who defected from his kind to pursue the Severens in their time warp to the past. Dekani "Deka" Price infiltrated his own Clan Dojo, The Valian Gladiator Alliance and stole large components of the Clan Railjack to fight the Severen forces. Deka was discovered by Clan Leader Quorra Lavine, who destroyed most of Price's Lances as well as a large part of his Lotuscraft.

Price mainly operates from within his Lotuscraft, and interacts with various Lances for missions using his Void powers. Deka was said to have possessed almost fifteen Lances, but only four remained operational after his fight against Lavine.

• Umbra: A former Tora, focused on a balance in blades and gunplay. Umbra is Deka's main Lance due to their father-son relationship. Umbra possessed the ability of sentience, allowing the Valian to fight alongside his Lance when in his "operator form".

• Abaddon Supra: A Lance focused on dark powers and necromancy. The Abaddon Supra Lance is used by Deka to obtain numerous resources to repair the Lotuscraft.

• Ran Supra: Deka uses Ran in missions that involve protection, due to her ability to control water and defensive traits.

• Monolith: A Lance capable of controlling the Earth. Deka's go-to Lance when heavy hitting is a necessity.

As a Valian, Deka became trained in the art of war by the Severen Queen Lena. Highly skilled like his kind, Price possessed an average aptitude in multiple martial arts, firearms, hacking, parkour, acrobatics, and weaponry. In addition to this, Deka is also capable of the standard Void abilities akin to all Valian, including Void blasts, beams, intangibility, dash, and transference. Price is also capable of modification of his gear to provide additional boosts.

Folock

Folock is the AI residing in the Lotuscraft. Bound to Price as a friend and his self proclaimed "space butler", Folock serves as Price's main systems, capable of hacking, and providing aerial support. Since merging his essence into the Lotuscraft, the entire ship is his body. Folock received several upgrades from when Deka implanted the Clan Railjack such that Folock was able to provide heavy aerial support against the Severens when the two intercepted their invasion on Earth.

• Heavy Cannon Support: Folock initiates a barrage of energy blasts from the Lotuscraft cannons to intercept and take down numerous Severen crafts. This ability is akin to the Railjack implants.

• Seeker Missiles: Missiles capable of tracking and chasing after the target from Deka's Railjack implants.

• Hack: Folock uploads himself into the system Deka has targeted, overriding their security and protocols.

• Aerial Sentry: Folock sends in an aerial sentry to assist Deka in combat while on the field.

• ICARUS Archwing Deployment: Folock is able to send in an Archwing to either Price or Javlok, which attaches to their adapters allowing them to fly. However, due to limited supplies, only Price or Javlok can wield the ICARUS at a time.

• Landing Craft Deployment: Folock detaches its Landing Craft segment to deliver either Price or Javlok (or sometimes both) out into the field. The Landing Craft is only able to assist through mobility, and is unable to provide the aerial services the Lotuscraft provides.

• Foundry: The main system in the Lotuscraft that Folock controls to build devices from blueprints supplied by either Deka or Shane. The foundry is later also used to build cybernetics and other assisting devices.

Umbra

Umbra is Deka's main Lance, a former Tora, ancient soldiers who served the Toron during their rule of the Star System. As a Tora, Umbra had exceptional swordsmanship as well as marksmanship skills. However, he was forcefully converted into a Lance against his will, and his strong feelings of resentment and psychological torture forced him to retain his sentience even after being transformed into a Lance. Umbra's psychological torment was lifted upon meeting Deka, and the two became inseparable since then, Umbra serving as Deka's Lance.

Javlok

Shane "Javlok" Mayen is Deka's First Mate, and is the only known human to be able to wield Toron technology due to the cybernetic implants in his body. Javlok initially focused on ranged firearms support, but slowly began to develop a unique ability to amplify his strength and speed. Since then, Javlok has frequently wielded great swords in both hands, and heavy duty firearms.

Swords

• Gram Supra: A great sword used by the Tora back in the day, the blade was focused on heavy attacks, however, in Javlok's case, the Terran is able to swing the blade at superhuman speeds similar to that of a normal sword.

• Ais: A copy of SHADE's signature great sword. The Ais is of Severen nature, and is known for its ominous and demonic feature, Severen red glow, and dark aura. Ais possesses more damage potential than Javlok's Gram, but at the cost of being slower and heavier.

Firearms

• Harkanon Dual Rifles: Two heavy artillery weapons that Javlok wields in both hands. The rounds of these bullets were strong enough to pierce through armour, and is Javlok's primary means to provide ranged firearms support. These rifles feature an automatic and anti-aircraft configuration.

• Hellfire Dual Machine Pistols: Smaller machine pistols capable of firing bullets at rapid succession, Javlok uses these weapons as his sidearm.

Gear

• Toron Arm Sheathe: Javlok's arm sheathe enables the Terran to access the abilities of Deka's destroyed Lance remains and upload them into his cybernetics. He currently is able to harness the speed of the Tesla Lance's remains, as well as the agility of the Ash Lance remains. The Arm sheathe also provides Javlok with superhuman arm strength, strong enough to punch holes in concrete, as well as a holo-shield.

• Toron Face Shield: A white plated mask with gold trim akin to the Toron style, the face shield masks Javlok's face and provides an advanced HUD to assist in missions. Shane is also able to communicate to Folock through its integration to the AI. The mask also provides additional application window interfaces to detect movements and projectiles, effectively giving Mayen a 360 degree view of the battlefield.

• ICARUS Archwing Integration Disc: Javlok's Toron Cloak also possesses Archwing integration, such that the first mate is able to pilot the glider similar to Price's Lances. In this mode, Mayen is capable of aerial travel at exceptionally high speeds as well as aerial support.

Thresh

Rinne Thresh is the second Valian on the team, and is one of the rare Valians who possess a low aptitude in combat, thus lacking a personal Orbiter, hence occupying Price's. During the Severen-Valian war, Thresh was placed in an adopted family, and thus lacked the adequate control of her Void powers and operating Lances. Despite this, Thresh possessed an aptitude in healing, and became the medical purser of the crew. Later on, Thresh obtained her older brother's Lance after SHADE kills him.

• Helos: A Lance capable of manipulating light. Thresh uses this Lance in cases where she must provide backup to the team. Despite her poor control of Lances, Thresh's skill with Helos is decent as she had spent her childhood watching her brother pilot the Lance.

• Healing: Thresh is able to heal wounds with her Void abilities, which is a unique power unknown even to the Vazarin healing school of the Valian. The only downside to this power is that it is only effective on living tissue, thus is unable to repair modified flesh such as Deka's Lances, or even Umbra.

Ethereum

Ethereum, or "Ether", became Deka's crew mate after the crew realized that no one is capable of reconnaissance missions. Ether is a magus, and is fluent in both shadow magic and gun magic. Known in the magus community as the Bullet Mage, Ether made a name for himself as a "mercenary" who hunted criminals on his own accord, unaffiliated with the Mage Association.

Ether possesses two magic affinities, which are bound to his grimoire which can be summoned whenever he wills it.

Shadow Magic

• Binding Chains: Ether summons his shadow magic to form dark chain projections that bind his targets, making them easier to pick off at range. Ether can also use this spell to restrain his opponents.
• Shadow Walker: Ether dissolves his body into pure darkness, allowing him to go intangible. The limits to this spell is that if Ether is not in a shadow and is exposed to enough light, the spell consumes his mana and keeps him from being able to move. When Ether is in Shadow Walker mode in a shadow or place of low light, he is able to move and dissolve his body even more, entering a state of Shadow Travel, which he often uses in his recon missions.
• Shadow Copies: Ether summons shadow projections of himself. Typically used to cover more ground, these projection spectres possess all of Ether's abilities. However, calling this spell halves his power each time. Calling upon two clones will cause Ether to only summon an eighth of his full power.
• Shadow Blink: Ether dissolves into darkness and propels himself to another location, seemingly teleporting.

Gun Magic

• Garrison M55: A Toron-Corpo Single Shot Pistol that was developed to destroy the highly armoured Toron-Scrava Faction. The Garrison M55 is used by Ether to deliver high piercing and puncture rounds at the cost of slower fire rate. The M55 was taken into Ether's Grimoire after he had defeated a Corpo soldier with his P90.
• FN P90 Custom: The P90 is Ether's compact submachine gun used to deliver fast damage through its fire rate. The weapon was initially the only weapon in Ether's grimoire, manufactured in his time, but was later customized by Yggdrasil and Folock to deliver even more powerful puncture damage.
• Argent Shotgun: A weapon that was developed by the Argent corporation that was intended to have the firepower of a shotgun but to be more compact. The weapon was never released, but was obtained by Ether after he had hunted down a mage criminal who had stolen its prototype. The weapon was designed to integrate mana into its bullets. Ether typically laces his Shotgun shells with his shadow magic to enhance its damage. However, due to its low fire rate and reload speed, Ether uses this weapon as a finisher, or uses it once he has disoriented his opponent.
• Sharpshooting: Ether summons a high power sniper to take down his opponents at a distance. Like his Argent Shotgun, the sniper is laced with magic to further amplify his damage. The rounds were powerful enough to shatter Scrava armour and were even more powerful than Javlok's Harkanon Anti-Aircraft Rifles. However, the sniper had low fire rate.

Abyssal Gun Magic

When Ether went berserk after discovering that his friend had also inherited magic powers that could have potentially surpassed his, Ether's inferiority complex caused him to integrate his Gun Magic with his Shadow Magic, forming Abyssal Gun Magic. The firepower of his attacks became so tremendous that they decimated his university.

• Abyssal Sharpshooting: Ether summons two snipers and enhances the bullets to their max, adding in explosive properties to the point where the rounds destroyed entire buildings upon contact. The fire rate of the weapons seemingly also increase, as with the reload speed.
• Abyssal Hunting Ground: Ether engulfs his surroundings in darkness, summoning hundreds of copies of his Gun Magic, amplified with Shadow Magic to pick off the victims encapsulated by the shadows inside.