471

471, Hip Hop Soldier, is Vuxten's battle buddy.

Description
471 stands 12 inches tall and is a Green Mantid Combat Engineer. Born to Green Freebirthers he is the only one of his siblings to choose a military engineering career. Injured during the final battle for Telkan-1, he lost a bladearm below the elbow, his left rear leg below the knee and an antenna, though these missing appendages have subsequently been replaced.

In combat, he wears full Confederacy Mantid environmental armor, equipped with a creation engine, slight strength power assist and jump capable rockets and is armed with a microrifle and a 4 pack micromissile launcher. he rides his Telkan battle buddy in an armored clamshell fitted to the Telkan armor between the shoulder mounted launchers.

Personality
As with many Greenies, 471 is a fan of Terran classical music, Hip Hop Soldier being his go to battle anthem. Respected by his fellow Greenies he often takes the lead role when tackling difficult engineering problems. He is blunt, forthright in his opinions and frequently very sarcastic in his use of memes and icons.

He is a believer in the Digital OmniMessiah and his disciples, he has witnessed both Daxin and Bellona in action.

471 was the first to state that --turkey is delicious-- he has also named Vuxten "Papa Palpatine" on the First Telkan comm channels.

His personal battle cry is "Ride or Die".

History
Educated on Wrathful Mercury and Hateful Mars, he has loved power armor since his early days and trained as an Operational Power Armor Maintenance Engineer.

He was serving with TCSF 1183rd Marine Engineers - "Wrench and Warsteel", during the Second Battle of Telkan in a squad of 4 greenies accompanying a Telkan marine squad to prepare a landing beacon for Shelter FTL drives where he met and assisted Vuxten. Subsequently he volunteered to be a Telkan combat engineer and became Vuxten's battle buddy.

471 was a vocal critic of the Telkan armor shoulder mounted grenade launcher, though even he was willing to admit that he never considered that the problem lay in the wet-print ammo after Sergeant Casey found the cause.