Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Desolator

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The Desolator is one of the infantry forces used exclusively by Gorizont, one of Voshkod's Subfactions. Planned to be voiced by Antony Howell.

History
"It will be a silent spring."

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The idea of the Desolator Troopers is nearly as wretched as they would have been themselves. As the hour grew ever-darker for the Voshkod and its leadership, Heart entertained several options and cared little for consensus, as some of his fellow scientists chose to flee the nation, or attempted to do so in vain. Others surrendered to Allied forces; their whereabouts are unknown. He, however, steadfastly continued his research, even in the face of imminent defeat. After all, with many of his colleagues gone, several layers of bureaucracy had vanished, allowing him to rapidly continue with whatever it was cooking up in the Ministry's secret halls. The only known product of this desperate time is the Desolator Trooper Idea (DTI), which was to breed a front-line soldier so terrible that their very existence would have flown in the face of an astonishing 71 different International Provisions of Appropriate Military Conduct.

Although he was responsible for the DTI, he was not imprisoned for it. The Desolator Troopers of course would have taken their name from the poisonous fluids they would have used as weapons. The poisons would evaporate quickly and leave little residue behind so it is impossible to know what exactly they consist of, though they are believed to be the chemical by-product used to power the Voshkod super-reactors. That is, the discovery of the Desolator Trooper is linked to a series of terrible accidents, though the ever-resourceful Heart soon found the silver lining in this. Desolator-based airstrikes have been vogue for Voshkod frontline offensives for years, yet only recently did the Ministry find a way to transport these fluids in a more-portable fashion.

Seeing the basic idea, the Ministry was interested at first, but upon reading Runolf Heart having written on his formal suggestion that inmates from insane asylums should be put in the armored life support suits armed with the hoses full of Desolator Defoliants (for use in clearing underbrush ahead of tanks), his proposal was only approved, much to the complete disgust of the Ministry, by the Gorizont Division, the rest was returned with [REJECTED] stamped on every available spot.

Now under the command of the Gorizont Division, whose reputation suffered a major hit for approving such monstrosity, the Desolator marches alongside their division, melting apart any infantry unfortunate enough to be in its line of sight. The average lifespan of a Desolator trooper is about a year or two (or until their life support dies), during which they require no sleep nor food due to being cybernetically and surgically augmented.

At least one good thing, however, came out of the hideous proposal - the Vodyanoy battlesuits. Armoured, capable of storing great amounts of liquid, and capable of surviving in hazardous environments, such suits have instead been incorporated into Voshkod society... As firemen outfits.