Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Subject TA714A (Talia)

"I will break our enemies master!"

-Subject TA714A breaking out the Incubator

Subject TA714A, to the Trueborn, or Talia by others, is the hero unit of the Reclaimers. Planned to be voiced by Erica Mendez

Tactical Analysis

 * I am your sword: TA714A, or Talia as called by everyone that isn't a trueborn, is the deadliest hero of the factions. She is more than a match for any other unit in the game, and will win a fight one-on-one with almost anything, her giant claws with integrated flamethrowers are capable of rending anything on the ground while her back-mounted SAM launcher lets her destroy any aircraft in sight and her cybernetics allows her to rapidly heal any damage. That isn't to say she'll be very happy about it afterward, however
 * Forced onto a pedestal: Due to the trueborn also purposely withholding almost any information of her from the rank and file clones, and making sure she is isolated from them, to purposely lead them to believe that the gods are truly on their side, inspiring them to accomplish daring feats and fight in situations where they would have run and would gladly lay their lives for her, meaning that any attacks targeted at her will be redirected to a nearby clone, much to her horror
 * The rabid hound: As TA714A takes damage and/or witness clones fall before her eyes, the "dog" side of her personality starts to forcibly take over, and a sort of berserker rage overtakes her. When surrounding clone units dies and/or she takes damage, she becomes even more deadly, and an even worse threat to the enemy
 * But a sword is just a tool: TA714A is very expensive, to the point of being a strategy unto herself, especially since her weapons are single target, not to mention limited to melee, means that she can be overwhelmed by tough and/or long range units, though she’ll die decimating the enemy if they choose to attack her recklessly. Thus she needs to be surrounded by clones to protect her. There can only be one of her, and at best supremely inferior clones can be made under Bahlgram, and to build her requires a high tech tier, a unique production building, and lots of cash. She may be vicious, but you will pay dearly for what you get, and will lose a lot if she “dies”

History
"Don't celebrate soldier. I had three confirmed headshots on that bitch, and yet she's still in battle, whatever the Reclaimer did she's immortal. And I'll bet a week of labor that she'll return."

-A veteran Sniper confiding with a rookie, who scored a confirmed headshot of Subject TA714A

Not all clones are created equal, since they are human despite the trueborns adamant refusal to acknowledge it, and some are created better than most. One such was clone TA714A.

Upon her decantation, which they had noted her first body was perfect in every way, TA714A, or Talia as the other clones began to call her, gone above and beyond in the tests and proved herself to be the best clone ever made. So great in fact that the Reclaimers began reproducing more clones of TA714A.

But, much to their anger, none of the clones of TA714A could surpass or even match up to TA714A. No matter what they did, whether if it was perfectly manipulation the conditions that created the originals prowess to wasting resources on modification, none of the clones reached the same height, with prevailing theories being that there was some sort of unseen impurity in TA714A's cloning vat that made her. Never acknowledging that the clones are people, not machines.

Despite this setback they still trained TA714A, now as a personal soldier, and magnum opus of clones, for the Reclaimers, until she was fit for battle. And once she was on the battlefield she blew expectations.

In battle she showed her skills and bravery by leading and rallying other clones around her. Such as it was that the clones now took to battle with suicidal confidence and won.

Soon the trueborn began to experiment on her. At first it was simple and she accepted, improved stamina, hardened skin and bones, enhanced nightvision, and the likes. But soon the trueborn had an idea, and after considering the cost, they choose to use the phoenix implant.

To TA714A it was to further hone her senses and allow her to tap into the Reclaimers advance network, allowing faster communications between her and the trueborn, and to help better coordinate with the forces on the field. But for the Trueborn it had a more insidious purpose.

The true function of the implant is to control her, fearing that one day she will malfunction and rebel, like many clones before, and to also transfer her mind in the event she dies. Because until they can reliable replicate her strengths she was considered irreplaceable. And during this time TA714A followed the trueborn, or masters as she and other clones call them, with the same love, admiration, and loyalty as many other unfortunate clones, even as she watch as fellow clones, brothers, sisters, and companions, fall in suicidal attacks, that could have been avoided had the Trueborn care, she rationalize them away. That was until a fateful battle.

In the battle of Kane, where the Reclaimers first fight the ADF, she was unfortunately caught in an artillery strike but survived, barely. If it was any other clones she would have been left for dead or sent to the grinder, which would have been a mercy, but the trueborn deemed her abilities too valuable to discard and once rescued her began to reconstruct her body.

It was actually easy to repair her body back to its original state, since most of the damages were internal and easy to treat with their technology, but the trueborn wanted to make her the perfect weapon.

And as she was lying in an operating table the Trueborn was considering whether to transplant her brain and spine to a robotic body or to simply remove “unnecessary” organ and replace them with cybernetics, and revive her by simply taking another clone and reintegrating her brain, and the cybernetics, into it in the event she “died” again. And concluded that while the former had its benefit, mainly being significantly tougher, it was considered too expensive in the long run, since the area where she will fight in will likely have her body destroyed, with having to constantly remake high end robotic shell to host her brain being significantly more expensive then simply attaching cheaper cybernetic parts, that can also be removed, repaired, and integrated, to a clone body, which they have many, and simply transplanting her brain in the event her body is destroyed. Though the latter will have her suffer from constant, unbearable, pain since the clone class cybernetics were built without compatibility in mind, meaning that the body will constantly reject the implants, but why would a Trueborn care for a clones well-being or opinions.

Thus metal were being crudely grafted to her enhanced skin, any "unnecessary" organs, basically everything but her brain, lungs and heart, were ripped out and replaced with machinery, her hands chopped off and replaced with giant claws with integrated flamethrowers, useless for anything but combat, and upon her spine was grafted a special interface that allowed her to mentally control high impact explosive anti-air rockets. All of this was done without any anesthetics or comfort in mind, meaning that after her reconstruction even moving a finger will cause an unbearable amount of pain, due to her mostly intact nervous system rejecting the implants, though her body being constantly pumped with painkillers and regenerative tonics numbs it somewhat. All of this is further worsened by her upgraded empathy implant.

With this new implant she can now completely connect mentally to all clones in the Reclaimers. With this she can order them mentally, thus removing any command delays, and coordinate far better, able to turn clones around her into a well-oiled machine. However she can't turn it off, or to be exact the Trueborn never gave it an off switch, and she can feel everything, even the clones our enemies dying breath, and with how to Trueborn treat the clones. This meant that TA714A not only gets to know the dreams of the clones, their passions, their hopes, their fears, their dreams, their panic and distress in battle, like children forced into a warzone, but also her enemies emotions, their dreams, their reason to fight, and the loved ones they swore to protect, despite being taught from birth that her foes are soulless creatures of hate. And can feel the final thoughts on both sides, begging to be remembered, calling out for someone to help them, crying in pain, apologising to a loved one, to even wishing for a better future. While at the same time she could hear the Trueborn disgust of her and other clones, their barely held hatred against them, and how they see her and the clones as nothing more then exploitable resources. It was noted that her mental degradation accelerated to what it is today due to this implant, as she finally realized the truth.

To the Trueborn she, and other clones, are nothing but a tool, a resource to be used and exploited again and again until it breaks, where they are replaced like how one changes a gear that lost its teeth. They don't have a choice, they don't have a say, as any question will lead to disposal and replacement. The only choice she and the clones have is either follow orders like a weapon wielded by someone, or be killed and replaced for being "defective", since they can always make and bring in a more obedient clone.

It was also during this modification that they also installed an experimental implant, known as Lazarus, a special system that sends her mind back to the storage bank, where she can be implanted into another clone body, in the event she takes a fatal blow. Of course, it was done without her consent.

Now whenever her suit systems detected a fatal attack coming towards her it will immediately make a copy of her mind and forcibly shunt said copy out of her body and back to the Reclaimers mainframe. After the battle, if her body miraculously survived, and not considered too damaged, her cloned consciousness will merge with the original. if her original body dies on the other hand, or the trueborn considered it too expensive to repair the body, the trueborn first salvage what they can of her old body and will take a clone to be her new host, preferably one that matches her original body, or even contained her original dna, since it has a higher chance of accepting her mind.

And in order to maintain the clones morale by putting her as a shining immortal. All clones that had witnessed her death were, save for those they deemed as a suitable host, were swiftly killed, so that they may not talk about her death or doubt them, and since she can't shut off her implant she feels it. The trueborn justifying this flagrant abuse of murder seeing a clone as nothing but a statistic, and something that can easily be replaced.

The process of transferring TA714A mind is considered a rather painful experience, for her and her unfortunate host. As the mainframe AI that contain TA714A mind will begin to purge the original mind of the body, this incredibly traumatic process leads to the perishing of most of bodies original personality, the clone often screaming in pain and crying as their mind is being forcibly ripped apart as TA714A can only watch, until all that's left is an empty husk of a body. In which her the AI will now forcibly put her mind into it and reconfigure the body to match her physique, a long process where the body is literally broken to pieces to be remolded. After which the trueborn will monitor her for a few minute to make sure the body accepts her mind.

Once its shown that her body and mind are in sync they will then reinstall the implants she had into her new body, if possible they would reuse the old parts from her previous body, a long and painful process like before, since they don't want to waste their limited aesthetics on something that they presume can't feel pain. And once done, and making sure her implants are working she is released back to the frontlines.

This painful cycle of death and rebirth, having her forced to watch as clones, with their own dreams, being killed before her eyes in battle, and feel their death cries and dying moments every time, and in a cruel way so that she can take over their body, with fragments of her host memories integrating into her own mind, the constant reinstalling of her implants, and the knowledge that her death caused the death of more clones, those whom she had bonded in their campaigns or had learnt of their dreams and passion through the implant, means the TA714A of the current time is noticeably different from the original. Her mind now split in two.

The "god" whom the trueborn hates. Her original mind who realized how uncaring the trueborn are and desiring either death, killing the trueborn, or both, and always tries to refuse orders when she takes control, though her implants force her to follow. Who swings between depression and rage. Hoping that one day she and her fellow clones can be free, where she can die peacefully.

And the "dog" whom the trueborn prefers. The part of her fragmented mind that developed a codependency for the Trueborn, and still lovingly calls them master, and follows orders like a dog, a dog that is fine with being degraded, abused, and berated by their masters so long as they give them attention.

In the end Talia was born with the most tragic of fates.

To foes of the Reclaimers she is Bahlgrams fanatical butcher, an irredeemable monster clad in black armor with claws large as a bear who will gleefully slaughters anything, soldier, innocents, even her own allies, if her masters say so. A rabid, bloodthirsty, fanatic psychopath that revels in slaughter and is no better then a feral beast to complement monsters of hatred and spite.

To the Trueborn she is Subject TA714A. Their magnum opus in cloning and cybernetics. The greatest weapon they have ever forged, despite some minor problems. Their perfect sword to lead their conquest of Alcradia.

To the clones she is Bahlgram divine herald. Of Bahlgrams “benevolence” made manifest to protect and lead them to victory. The perfect being to strive for, who they will gladly lay down their lives to protect.

But for Talia, the little girl birthed from a tube, she is a broken girl. A girl, as naive and curious as a newborn, forced to become a weapon that must obey and follow uncaring masters who treat her as a disposable resource, no matter how much she hated it or objects. A girl perceived as a monster by everyone, a god by the clones, or a weapon by the Trueborn, but never seen for who she truly is. A girl who wants to cry and stop the pain, but can’t. A girl, who once believed in fairy tales and just heroes, reduced to a fanatical, obedient, beast to cope with the abuse by her “masters” and a husk that only wants to die but can’t. A girl whose childhood was essentially ripped away from birth with a slave brand on her chest, an invisible collar constricting her neck, and puppet string binding her limbs, controlled by monsters of hatred and contempt.

Trivia

 * Her character is a fusion of Rei Ayami from Neon Genesis Evangalion, Yuriko omega from red alert 3, Libra from mental omega, and Chise from Saikano. Though her split personality is based off the nightkin from Fallout New Vegas, noticeably Dog/God from Dead Money.
 * Her style is a hybrid of Libra from mental omega, Yuriko from red alert 3, and Venus from red alert paradox.
 * Her claws are based on Huron Blackhearts tyrant claws from warhammer 40k while her anti-air rockets are based on Libra darts from mental omega.

Arkalion

 * Ulfric Graham
 * Siegfried Eisenhans/Bergentruckung
 * Marianne Takeda
 * Black Rose
 * Uriel
 * Filia

Alcradia

 * Abraham Jackson
 * Aleksandr and Wojtek/Prototype M-1
 * Khutulan Eowyn
 * Lisa Adams
 * Christa Locke
 * Subject TA714A (Talia)

Axio

 * Rafaela Sakura
 * Ayshe Sabiha/Gun Ada
 * Xinya Yang
 * Thorun Badang
 * Luke Sorandar
 * Shiro Yamashita

Askrian

 * Deanna Lustre
 * Saya Forrest/Kali Armor
 * Atahu
 * Michael "Bull" Teller
 * Jessica and Garrett Windham
 * Lazarus