RAI-DEN 01
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| RAI-DEN 01 | |
| Player: @SPTrashcan | |
| Origin: | Technology |
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| Archetype: | Brute |
| Threat Level: | 11 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Yamada Raisho |
| Known Aliases: | the Immortal Iron Soldier |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 131 |
| Height: | 2.5m |
| Weight: | 225kg |
| Eye Color: | white |
| Hair Color: | none |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Imperial Japanese |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Place of Birth: | Kyoto, Japan |
| Base of Operations: | Mercy Island |
| Marital Status: | Unknown |
| Known Relatives: | Unknown |
| Known Powers | |
| Electrified, Coal-Powered | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Martial arts, tactician, classicist | |
| Equipment | |
| RAI-DEN Armor | |
| No additional information available. | |
A relic of a bygone age, Raisho is a loyal soldier of a nation that has changed beyond his recognition. Salvaged from the dustbin of history by the Daughter of Law, Raisho serves a new cause: to end forever the warfare that created him.
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Affiliations
Per agreement with Law, Raisho serves the Foxtrot Company.
Personality
Raisho is no longer the man who was willing to sacrifice everything for the Emperor of Japan. More than 90 years is a long time to sit quietly and think. Although still a warrior to the core, Raisho's spirit has been tempered by humility and a deep understanding of the horror of war. He regrets agreeing to the treatments that turned him into the Immortal Iron Soldier RAI-DEN, but accepts that it is his identity now and there is no going back.
Powers
Electrified
The RAI-DEN Armor's offensive capabilities reside mainly in the advanced Tesla Scalar Field Generators in its arms. Strange things happen to electricity, magnetism, and even space itself within the field of effect of the generators. Although they have been severely degraded in capacity during Raisho's long imprisonment, they remain able to generate a significant electric charge which is discharged into foes with each blow of the Armor's massive fists. The remaining capabilities of the generators may once again manifest if time and effort is applied to repairing them.
Coal-Fired
The RAI-DEN armor is powered by a coal-burning furnace. Activating the armor's auxiliary field generators to magnetically reinforce the plating requires throwing more fuel on the furnace, resulting in a dense pall of toxic smoke around the armor. Raisho himself breathes through a respiration system and is unaffected. As the furnace and the turbine it drives are given a chance to build a head of steam, the power output of the armor's motors and field generators increase, turning RAI-DEN into a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut.
Abilities
Martial Arts
As a standard part of the education of one of his class, Raisho was given instruction in armed and unarmed combat. He has also been specifically trained in handling the RAI-DEN Armor's capabilities.
Tactician
Raisho attended a military academy and studied battlefield tactics. His knowledge is not merely theoretical - he took part in numerous military actions both before and after his transformation to RAI-DEN.
Classicist
Also as befits his class, Raisho has studied the classic works of Japanese and Chinese literature.
Equipment
RAI-DEN Armor
The state of early 20th century art in powered suits, the RAI-DEN armor seems antiquated by modern standards. Its iron plating and primitive coal-fired steam engine may seem laughable, but the Tesla Scalar Field Generators are a lost technology and have no equal in the present era.
Weaknesses and Limitations
The RAI-DEN suit and the Immortal Iron Soldier body transformation technology are not without their drawbacks. Raisho's senses are dulled and his body resembles a corpse. Without the RAI-DEN powerplant, his organs would not keep him alive. And the RAI-DEN systems are in bad shape and in desperate need of repair and modernization - which may prove problematic, as the creator of the Tesla Scalar Field Generator took the principles of its operation to his grave.
Character History
Yamada Raisho was born into a samurai family, and it was expected that he would become an officer of the military and serve the Emperor as his family always had. Raisho was a dutiful and obedient son, dedicated to the ideal of yamato-damashi, the "Japanese spirit." More through dedication and hard work than natural cunning, he did well in his studies and in the military career that followed.
The Japan of Raisho's day was a society on the cusp of radical change, struggling to modernize in time to avoid the fate of China, which was even then being partitioned into holdings of the great colonial powers. The Japanese government and people strove to become the equals of the world in every way - including super-science. So when Raisho was approached by a representative of the secretive Military Research Bureau, he did not hesitate to give assent to whatever plan was in the works.
Nearly a year of primitive, agonizing medical techniques later, Raisho had been transformed into the first Immortal Iron Soldier, RAI-DEN 01. To preserve the secret weapon of Imperial Japan from discovery, Raisho's family was told he had died in battle. As RAI-DEN, Raisho was deployed as a force equivalent to a battalion of ordinary soldiers, or to combat the other Great Powers' superweapons.
It was in the latter capacity that Raisho was carried by the aircraft carrier Wakiyama to the siege of Tsingtau, a strategically important Chinese city held by the German army. While British ships blockaded the port and Japanese soldiers advanced on the city, RAI-DEN was to deal with the German superweapon, a monster referred to as the Eisen-Engel. Dropped by biplane on the battlefield, Raisho found and engaged the Eisen-Engel. To his surprise he discovered her to be a small woman whose blows were nonetheless capable of shattering his iron plating. When his own attacks proved ineffective, he attempted to remove her from the field by grappling her and charging into the depths of one of the coal mines around Tsingtau.
However, his strategy backfired - he became disoriented in the pitch-black tunnels, while his opponent slipped from his grasp and caved in the only tunnel out as she left, leaving him trapped under the earth. A combination of meditation techniques and the Immortal Iron Soldier treatment allowed Raisho to enter a coma-like trance to survive until he was retrieved. The Imperial forces, however, believed that he could not have survived the battle and left him for dead.
And so Raisho was left buried in the abandoned mineshaft for over 90 years, while Japan rose and fell and rose again and became entirely unlike the country he had sworn to defend. At last, however, the Eisen-Engel, now going by the name Daughter of Law, returned to the site of their battle. She dug him out from his prison and gave him a new purpose: to aid Foxtrot Company in sparing children from the horrors of war.
