Characters

The choice of character would only effect your agility, strength of the sword, and health. Light are quick and agile but weak with melee strikes with low health while Heavy are slow but powerful high health.

Name - Race

Light

Selket - Nakhti

Age: 26
Birthplace: Nakhti Imperial City
Selket is a princess of the Jehfar family, and a distant cousin to Anubis. Her desire to be Empress has eclipsed all other minor concerns like ethics and morality. Selket holds little respect for the animal-totem religion of the Nakhti people. She prefers instead the lucrative opportunities that the Liandri Mining Corporation can provide her and her future empire.

Sapphire - Human

Age: 39
Birthplace: Paso Robles
Sapphire is soft-spoken, intelligent and attractive, and on first glance you'd never guess that she's a experienced tournament combatant. Her gentle mannerisms hide a vicious streak that comes to the fore every time she walks into an arena. Sapphire is known for setting the hearts of her many combatants racing -- but often for two different reasons.

Lauren - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Asteroid 35332-XA
A former grand tournament champion, Lauren took her life after her boyfriend and teammate Brock died. The Liandri could not afford to lose two popular competitors at once, so they resurrected her with the horrific -- and horrifically expensive -- Necris process. One side effect: Lauren is only marginally sane. She does her best to share her demented grief with others.

Devastation - Liandri

Age: 0.5
Construction Place: Liandri Home Services Facility
Inspired by the ratings success of earlier robotic competitors, the Liandri converted their brilliant new home service robot into a deadly killing machine. The Prototype is constructed with nanochamber alloy and possesses a giga-array processing unit. To further increase audience attraction, and home purchase, Liandri selected a sleek female body type modeled after a popular adult holo actress.

Medium

Anubis - Nakhti

Age: 29
Birthplace: Nakhti Imperial City
Anubis is a prince of the illustrious Reydi family whose ancestors include fourteen former Nakhti Emperors. Favored to win the tournament ten years ago, Anubis left on the eve of the competition. Some say he was a coward; others speculate that political scheming forced him from the tournament. For the past decade he has served in the Desert Legion, honing his combat skills and revealing none of his secrets.

Sobek - Nakhti

Age: 54
Birthplace: Na'pt Bon
Sobek is a grizzled veteran of both the Liandri Unreal Tournament and the Imperial Legion. He has befriended Anubis, and taught him everything he needs to know about Tournament fighting. He's not as fast as he used to be, but he's twice as cunning.

Malcolm - Human

Age: 54
Birthplace: Earth
The most famous Tournament player, Malcolm is a nine-time Champion whose face is recognized on every planet in the galaxy. His winning streak (and his spine) was snapped a few years ago by a crushing blow delivered by Gorge in the tournament finals. Malcolm never regained his former agility, but makes up for it with decades of experience. The Liandri use him extensively as a color commentator in their pre-game shows.

Brock - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Deneb IV
Malcolm's loyal teammate, Brock attempted to avenge his defeat and kill Gorge. His death was predictable. He was resurrected via the patented Necris process. Unlike his former girlfriend, Lauren, Brock has no memories of his previous life. Unburdened by remorse, he's free to kill in the Tournament again.

Torgr - Skaarj

Age: Unknown
Torgr is the prototypical Skaarj: cunning, brutal, deadly. His combat skills earned him the leadership of the Torgr tribe. He hopes a grand Tournament victory will prove him worthy of being Consort to the Queen, and unifying the Skaarj and their slave races in his ultimate designs of intergalactic conquest.

Raiden - Elder God

Age: Ancient
As an Elder God, Raiden has been cursed with seeing the devastation to come. When the Gods stood firm on their decision not to interfere in the ways of mortals, Raiden pleaded with them to take action, but they refused. Disgusted, he relinquished his immortal status to travel amongst the realms, gathering the support of the greatest of warriors against the coming storm. And there is no better place to recruit the champions of the galaxy than the Liandri Tournament.

Heavy

Arclite - Juggernaut

Age: 39
Birthplace: Udan Keeble Community Creche
Unlike most Juggernauts in the tournament, Arclite is neither a criminal nor a killer by nature. His presence in the tournaments is simply a byproduct of his genetic makeup. Watch your step around him -- he's not happy to be here.

Gorge - Juggernaut

Age: 41
Birthplace: NeoChiba Research Creche 9
Gorge, a former inmate of the Allerian Penal Colony, savagely clawed his way through the tournament to the leader boards. Snapping Malcolm's winning streak, and his spine, in the tournament finals should have earned Gorge instant stardom and respect. However, his rough treatment of his fanbase negatively affected his ratings, and 'Gorgeamania' never quite caught on. Gorge is extremely irritated that Malcolm's fans still outnumber his, and that 'Malcolm Will Be Back' t-shirts are still everywhere at Tournament competitions.

Szalor - Skaarj

Age: Unknown
Szalor is a proud Skaarj warrior, who suffered the ultimate humiliation: he was captured and enslaved by his mortal enemies, the Torgr tribe. He tried to die fighting his captors and thus regain a small measure of honor. Instead he only impressed the Torgr with his ferocity. They entered Szalor into the tournament, hoping to watch an entertaining death. If he manages to win, however, he will be set free.

Raptor - Liandri

Age: 7
Construction Place: Merkady Production Facility 11
Raptor was originally designed for heavy mining and factory work. In response to audiences' ever-increasing hunger for bloodshed, these robots were refitted with combat equipment and put into the arenas. While they're programmed to win, Raptor's primary task is to eliminate opponents in the most spectacularly bloody manner possible.

Updated Characters

Apophis - Nakhti

Age: 22
Birthplace: Khesafi
As usual, Selket has chosen her man carefully. Her latest boyfriend, Apophis, is the scion of a powerful royal family. He's idolized throughout the land for his sports talents, not to mention his jawdropping beauty. His good looks are so heavily insured that the underwriting company requires him to wear a full-face helmet in the tournament.

Calypso - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Ogygia
Calypso was at the pinnacle of her holo acting career when she was given an opportunity few can resist: a chance at immortality, to stay beautiful and famous forever. By the terms of her perpetual film contract with the Liandri, she killed herself and was soon rejuvenated with the Necris process. Sadly, fame is fleeting. As her films became less popular the Liandri resorted to other, less tasteful, acting opportunities. Her body ravaged and her mind numbed, the Liandri eventually dumped Calypso into the tournament circuit in hopes of making some profit from their investment.

Garek - Skaarj

Age: Unknown
Unlike most Skaarj, Garek doesn't revel in unnecessary brutality, and he has little taste for the bloodshed that inevitably comes from combat. He joined the tournament for the chance of true competition with honorable warriors, an opportunity that is rare indeed amongst the Skaarj clans.

Jackhammer - Juggernaut

Age: 42
Birthplace: Baleth Community Creche
Jackhammer was adopted by normal human parents, who were unable to control the violent mood swings brought on by his Juggernaut temperament. After killing them at the tender age of 6, Jackhammer fled and soon ran his own street gang. He earned his nickname after his arrest and subsequent assignment to the Allerian work gangs, where he was the only human able to handle massive jackhammers that were intended for robotic employment. The Liandri heard about his strength and temper, and offered him a contract on the spot.

Judas - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Purgatory Penal Facility
During an attack on a medical supply transport, Judas was captured by the Phayder and sentenced to their highest punishment: death, rejuvenation, and deletion of personality. With his mind and body rebuilt from the ground up, he now serves the Phayder as a Necris assassin. He entered the tournament solely to gain access to his next target, and this deadly sniper only needs one clear shot to achieve his goals.

Kraag - Skaarj

Age: Unknown
Kraag is the stage name of Kraagesh, which means 'Lord of the Krall' in the Skaarj language. This is an honorific title that was bestowed upon him for his effective use of the Krall in subjugating new servant races throughout the known galaxies. His participation in the tournaments is a hard-earned personal vacation that comes before another lengthy battle campaign.

Lilith - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Purgatory Penal Facility
During an attack on a medical supply transport, Lilith was captured by the Phayder and sentenced to their highest punishment: death, rejuvenation, and deletion of personality. With her mind and body rebuilt from the ground up, she now serves the Phayder as a Necris assassin. She entered the tournament solely to gain access to her next target. The Liandri approved her application immediately; they love the ratings that come from such intrigue.

Merc Anubis

Necris Selket - Necris

Age: Undead
Deathplace: Nakhti Imperial City
Selket's overwhelming desire to be Empress led her to betray her people and herself. Unable to believe Anubis' love for her was real, she forced him into a fight to the death in the finals of the Ascension Rites. After striking the killing blow, the newly crowned Emperor Anubis was blinded by grief at her loss. He agreed to serve the Liandri in order to have her back, and in doing so betrayed everything he held dear. After the Necris rejuvenation process, Selket is back by Anubis' side as his Empress, but their awkward relationship will take much longer to heal.

Syzygy - Liandri

Age: 22
Construction Place: Merkady Production Facility 6
Syzygy is an early prototype of the V2 Liandri construction robot line. He was originally purchased for use in a small asteroid mining operation, by a hobby astronomer. The straight-line alignment of the planets for which he named Syzygy is a sign of good fortune, but the violent manner in which the astronomer was dismembered is not.