Lancer World

5016u

It is the year 5016u (Union Standard Calendar). You are a Lancer, a highly elite mech pilot in the employ of the Sigard Interplanetary Corporation (SIC) aboard the SIC Merchant Class vessel The Fortuna. The SIC lends out their lancers to the highest bidder for the completion of odd jobs such as escorting VIP's, patrolling research sites, fighting off mech wielding criminals, etc. As a SIC lancer, your job is to do whatever the company tells you and in exchange the company will provide you a place to live, any modification to your mech you desire including full frame replacement, and complete organic modification or replacement in the event of death. You've just started your three Union Standard Year long contract with the SIC under the command of captain Dagne Entiape, a no-nonsense woman who runs a tight ship. As lancers you have free reign of the ship and most of the crew have been instructed to obey your commands. The only crew exempt from this rule are officer personnel. There are other lancers on board as well and you may be teamed up with them at times dependent on the current mission requirements, but typically lancers are organised into teams of three or four that stick together. You are currently drifting through the Calliope sector, a rather lawless sector of space at the edge of the Milky Way where Union has little reach.