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. After succeeding in developing technology to return to the present, Deka decided to make routine visits to the past and fight off the Severens.

Alliances

Outrider Galactic Justice Corporation: The OGJC is a corporation responsible for galactic affairs, who became involved upon the Severen skirmish. The OGJC is largely unknown to the occupants of Earth and operates in the Star System, a near identical replica of the Solar System. The OGJC is essentially Deka's main go-to source for missions in the Star System of the past.

Taurus Council: The Taurus Council were the progenitors to The Toron Empire. A select group of officials who represented a developing nation on Lua, Deka Price along with his crew attempted to help them out in developing their nation.

Quorra Lavine: Although Deka and his crew were able to return back to the future, Deka was still considered a traitor to the Valians. However, Deka and Quorra struck up a truce and later a collaboration in secret to attempt to stop the Severens of the past, since Deka's crew were the only individuals who could warp back to the past.

Numerous Syndicates: Deka has assisted a number of syndicates during his time as a member of the VGA, and upon returning back to his time, he still possesses connections to them.

Enemies

Arsanios Licita: Arsanios, like his Valian brethren, despises Deka Price for betraying his kind. Labelled a criminal for his theft of Clan property, Deka was put a bounty for capture by Clan Officer Troyen Xerxes.

However, it is revealed that Arsanios' hatred for Deka is beyond a simple bounty, as the Valian is revealed to be the biological younger brother of Deka: Arsani Price. Upon discovering his true identity, the Valians were outraged, and Arsanios was brutally assaulted, mocked, and exiled from his kind the same way Deka was. However, due to not being able to escape to the past, Arsanios had to put up with the mockery for being a Price. Unable to team up with fellow Valian to conduct missions, Licita was forced to fight in the Sedna Arenas to sustain a living. Years of fighting in the arena caused Licita's skill to be honed differently than his Valian brethren, focused on assassination and fierce combat over the grace and fluidity of the Valian, Licita eventually became known as The Demon of Rathuum.

It is during this time that Arsanios reveals that he resented Deka for having abandoned him during the Void Incident, not hesitating to let Arsanios be adopted into the Licita household, and choosing to betray his kind knowing full well the backlash his younger brother would receive. Upon discovering the blueprints for the time warp module after destroying a Severen ship, Arsanios built and integrated the technology into his Orbiter, vowing to destroy Deka and bringing his head to the Valian, proving his allegiance to his kind.

SHADE: The Great Valian Killer was sent back to the past by Gargantua to destroy Deka Price. Seeing the Rogue Valian as a threat to his daughter's operation to annihilate the humans on Earth, SHADE was given the orders of eliminating everyone affiliated with the Valian. SHADE has multiple times been a core threat to Deka and his crew, almost every encounter resulting in at least one crew member critically injured. However, SHADE has repeatedly been unable to take down Price due to an unusual interference effect with one of the crew members: Javlok.

SHADE despises all Valian, but later also begins to despise Shane Mayen after discovering his true identity.

Members

Deka - Role: Captain

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 - Role: AI and Mission Support

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 - Role: Field Agent/Lance

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 - Role: First Mate + Heavy Firearms/Artillery Support

Shane "Javlok" Mayen is Deka's First Mate, and is the only known human to be able to wield Valian weaponry 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 features, 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 Supra 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.
  • Face Shield 2.0: After having his eye removed, Shane received an upgrade to his face shield, as the built in HUD of the first version was obsolete. This updated face shield only covers his mouth and nose, and serves as protection from aerosols, as well as a voice changer to conceal identity.

• 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.

• Cybernetic Eye: An eye replacement from when Yggdrasil devoured Shane's left eye during his second surgery to grow stronger, the cybernetic eye provides Shane with an upgraded HUD, and a powerful combat analysis computer. The eye is capable of assessing his opponents and analyzing their fight patterns, analyzing projectile motions, and sending neural impulses into his body to act accordingly. Shane describes the feeling to be similar to having his body on auto-pilot. The upgraded reflexes allowed Shane to fight three mid-tier Valians simultaneously, but was ultimately inferior to more powerful Valians, such as Arsanios Licita.

Thresh - Role: Healer + Occasional Field Support

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 - Role: Reconnaissance + Light Firearms Support

Ethereum, or "Ether", became Deka's crew mate after Price realized that no one had the ability to do reconnaissance and spy missions. Ether is a magus, with shadow magic as his primary magic attribute. Unlike the other members of the Lotuscraft, Ether is almost always away from the ship, as he is constantly doing infiltration missions in enemy territory.

It is revealed that Ether was Deka's first "crew member", even before Javlok. However, his absence from the ship has made him almost unheard of from the rest of the crew.

Magics/Spells

As an Etreum, Ether is capable of shadow magic. Specializing in binding, control, reconnaissance, and stealth, Ether is capable of extracting intel while also keeping himself elusive from his enemies. Due to his spells lacking in offensive ability, Ether also learned gun magic, with its primary affinity to bullet alchemy.

Shadow Magic

• Umbral Bind: Ether summons chains from the shadows created by objects to bind his opponent. The toughness of these chains scale with the amount of darkness in a room. Typically used in conjunction with Shadow Moon to amplify its durability.
  • Prominence Umbral Bind: Under the tutelage of Witchcraft, Ether learned to enhance his umbral bind spell. The binding agent no longer was tied down to a metal, and utilized pure darkness. These dark tendrils are used to not just bind his opponents, but also to grab items. Depending on the usage, this spell can consume more or less mana. If the spell is used offensively, it consumes more mana. If the spell is just used in tendril form, it consumes less mana.

• Shadow Moon: Ether summons an orb capable of absorbing almost all light in an area, giving the illusion of flooding the place in darkness. Shadow Moon acts to reduce the vision of the enemy, while simultaneously strengthening darkness dependent spells.

• Stalker Sense: Ether imbues his eyes with the power of Obsidian, allowing him to detect enemy movements even through walls and obstruction. Use of this spell changes the colour of Ether's irises and sclera, inverting them.

• Shadow Walker: Ether melts his body into the shadows, turning himself intangible while retaining his vision and senses. While in this state, Ether is completely undetected by sensors, and is typically used for spy and stealth missions. The disadvantage of this spell is that while in this state, Ether cannot attack or move objects.

• Umbral Copy: Ether summons a replica of himself, duplicating his body and his gear. This clone possesses only a fraction of Ether's powers, however his firearms still deal the same damage. Ether is able to summon five clones at most.

• Abyssal Beasts: Ether summons abyssal beasts from the Abyssal Realm to aid himself in combat and fight on his behalf. Ether controls these beasts with relics. Only one relic may be active at a time.
  • Pack Leader: Ether summons four abyssal hounds that track and hunt down his opponents.
  • Serpentine: Ether summons an abyssal serpent to restrain his opponents if Umbral Bind or its Prominence variant are insufficient.

• Emotional Extension - Extract: A spell that Ether obtained from stealing Witchcraft's grimoire. This spell allowed Ether to access memories and core information on an interrogation subject. However, this spell has no effect on those with mental resistance, as with the case of Witchcraft herself.

Gun Magic

• Black Bullets: These bullets are made of pure obsidian, and are capable of negating the adaptation properties of Severens. The bullets are also strong enough to destroy demonic entities with a single shot, and are significantly harder than Ether's normal bullets, as they were able to completely shatter Rentrace's sword.

• Anti-Magic Bullets: These bullets are capable of negating the magic of other mages. This spell was obtained during Ether's journeys to the Champions Universe, where Ether had stolen and memorized core spells from Witchcraft's grimoire.

Firearms

Ether's spells are mostly for crowd control, transportation, and movement. Due to being mostly an evader, Ether's spells are not combat focused. To counteract this, Ether obtained several firearms to allow for self defence. The bullets and ammunition for these firearms are supplied by his grimoire.

• Garrison M55: The Toron Corpo pistol developed to fire high penetrating rounds that would go through even Scrava armour. The Garrison is a break action firearm specializing in high damage at the cost of a low magazine and fire rate. Ether uses this weapon for fast eliminations, or as a finisher.

• FN P90 Custom: A customized version of the FN P90 submachine gun that Ether uses either as a sidearm or for continuous bullets. The weapon was modified to accept a larger magazine, permitting more continuous firing. Although possessing a higher fire rate and magazine size, the bullets to this gun are not as hard hitting as his Garrison.

• X170 Argent BAS: A break action shotgun developed by the Argent company, this weapon was developed to integrate mana and magic, meaning it is more efficiently optimized for magus to wield. Of all the weapons in Ether's arsenal, the weapon is his more powerful firearm. Ether typically uses this for heavy hitting firepower, but prefers his Garrison due to the weapon being "large and awkward to use".