Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/MCV (Protectorate)

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The Model 100 MCV is Protectorate's MCV. This is planned to be voiced by

History
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Not all of the casualties of the recent war have seen combat. Consider the case of Bart Truxton, imprisoned for carrying out espionage for the Katsuragi Protectorate. Though Truxton was recently exonerated, the full details of his story are so fantastic, so utterly unbelievable, they seem literally ripped from the pages of a modern science fiction novel. More and more evidence continues to surface that confirms the story and demonstrates the immense complexity and effectiveness of Protectorate espionage activities during the war.

When the first MCV flying the sunburst flag of the Katsuragi Protectorate rolled ashore and instantly build a base to attack the Coalition, Alliance security recognized that a catastrophic breach had occurred. There simply had not been enough time, argued top military intelligence officials, for the Protectorate to have developed their own MCV since the Alliance had publically revealed their own vehicle - they must have had someone on the inside. Through a painstaking investigation, security personnel tracked down videotapes of Truxton apparently stealing detailed technical documentation about the Alliance MCV from an Aselian lab and transmitting it to a ship waiting offshore (later determined to be a Yari mini-sub). A military tribunal convicted Truxton to life in a high-security prison.

It was not until Alliance scientists unlocked another mystery of the war - a high-level Protectorate encoding process nicknamed "Wistful Blossom" - that the depth of the subterfuge began to become clear. A vast amount of encrypted Protectorate information had been intercepted by the Alliance in the course of the war, but much of it lay undeciphered in vast databanks. Once "Wistful Blossom" was cracked, a specific division of Alliance intelligence was formed with the singular goal of piecing together the fragments of Protectorate communications. A year and a half into that process, they decrypted a set of transmissions that told a shocking story.

The Katsuragi Protectorate had deployed an astoundingly lifelike robot, modeled as an exact duplicate of Truxton, to steal information about Alliance vehicles. They had also deployed three other robots to observe the real Truxton extensively, gathering all of the personal, professional, and private data required to fashion a realistic facsimile.

These robots then recruited Truxton for a weekly poker game, during which time the doppelganger Truxton obtained the real Truxton's security card and carried out the espionage. All of the robots were then ordered by Protectorate high command to initiate self-destruction sequences --- remains of one were found in a warehouse fire, although its exact nature wasn't understood at the time - destroying both evidence of the deception and Truxton's alibi simultaneously.

Upon first being presented with the news of Truxton's unwitting participation in the traitorous activities, the Alliance military chafed. It was nigh unthinkable that a plan this elaborate could have occurred under the watchful eye of the Alliance military. However, further corroboration came when another set of transmissions was deciphered detailing a similar operation in the Voshkod. (with the supposed traitor, Maxim Novikov, being compensated when his name was cleared.)

While the stolen technology undoubtedly aided the research efforts of the Protectorate MCV program, their vehicle is anything but an exact copy of the Alliance and Voshkod versions. Instead, the Protectorate engineers used the acquired designs as a springboard for their own ideas, coming up with a system that is well-specialized for their own military doctrines, and applying the same creativity and attention to detail that Protectorate spies used to gather the information in the first place.