Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/SATURN

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-A Saturn Omega appearing in battle

The Saturn Omega is the epic unit of Theo "Trickster" Ross, the legendary general of Task Force Apollo. This epic unit is planned to be voiced by *TBA*.

History
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The Saturn Omega was born out of the wreckage of two of Task Force Apollo's disasters.

During the interim period, the task force's previous general Townes was further researching the use of lasers and similar sciences. Eventually, this led him to experiment with plasma and magnetism, leading to the creation of the Tokamak and the Plasma Defender. But his pride and joy was project Omega, a pet project he kept a secret, with the government at best knowing he was going behidn their back by buying extra resources. The project itself would reveal itself in its first, and last, appearance when the Minutemen stormed Townes base when they were attacked by a massive tank mounting a giant plasma projector powered by plasma, Townes himself straddling the cannon with a maniacal smile (to this day the Minutemen thinks he was compensating), which decimated their forces, despite outnumbering Townes fifteen to one. And only managed to win when they managed to get around the tank and fired at its coolant tanks. The ensuing overload and explosion wiped out the tank, half of the fortress, half of the remaining Minutemen, and Townes himself.

The second came from Alexander secretly researching human consciousness aided by her occult arts to answer science's ultimate question: Do humans have a soul? After some time, she found a chilling result: Humans do have an invisible soul. When they die, the soul will separate from the body like someone waking up, only to find out that he/she actually woke up from his/her empty body before eventually choosing to rise up to the sky (perhaps to an alternate dimension) or wander around aimlessly. She then wondered whether if it was possible to "upload" someone's soul (or mind) into computer software in order to achieve digital immortality, in a similar vein to how necromancers raise the dead. So she randomly chose a convict from the infamous Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and performed an occult ritual, taken from a book later found out to have been written by Nagash, to "seduce" his soul out and trap him into an AI software: the convict was pronounced dead afterward. The experiment was a success but then she started to think about how would she use human consciousness as an AI. Then, she had an idea of a battle fortress capable of both destroying anything thrown at it and building the foundations of a military base. Originally, the Saturn, as she named it, was only revealed in the media as an "AI-controlled gigantic mobile battle fortress" with the AI's origin remaining hidden from public knowledge, but it was revealed by one of the engineers involved in the project, who whistleblowed the Saturns origins to the International Criminal Court, prompting in an investigation by the ICC authorities. Alexander was promptly arrested (and only avoided execution due to bribery) for use of necromancy, and using a forbidden text of Nagash no less. Combined with Townes's death a day later leading to the third officer of Apollo, Theo, becoming the new commander.

And with the death of his commander, the imprisonment of his potential rival, and having to scrape up the remnants of both projects. Theo decided to combine the two unfinished projects to make something that works. Leading to a gigantic mobile battle fortress that is armed with a plasma cannon, though unlike Alexander's project the Saturn Omega has a crew aided by an AI, and in order to avoid the coolant disaster that killed his predecessor had its original plasma generator removed and instead be wirelessly powered by the base electric grid, though this does mean the Saturn Omega will forcefully shut down if the base is unable to meet the power requirement.

Trivia

 * The units is a fusion of the SATURN and the Omega Cannon from Contra.