"You must be Raven. ...One of the infamous Handler Walter's hounds. Interesting. You ready to climb the Wall?"

"Shield loss confirmed. Initializing ORC firing sequence. Connecting EML modules. Opening energy turbines. Output at 80%. Sighting correction A-OK. 90... 95... I won't miss."

Armored Core STEEL HAZE:

STEEL HAZE is a blue, dark blue and grey lightweight bipedal Schneider NACHTREIHER AC. It wields both outdated BAWS guns and advanced VCPL energy weapons, with a burst pistol and a laser slicer on its arm units, and a plasma missile launcher and a RANSETSU rifle stored via Weapon Bay on its back for use in a double trigger build. Its build is based upon building ACS strain via steady pressure from both kinetic and plasma damage in order to employ its laser slicer to deal excellent damage.

Rusty is confident a JUGGERNAUT cannot keep up with its speed,and it is powerful enough to destroy a combined platoon of 55 BAWS MTs and the AC LIGER TAIL.

Rusty:

V.IV Rusty is an Augmented Human serving as an Armored Core pilot and a squad leader of the Arquebus Corporation's elite squad of Augmented Humans, the Vespers during the Coral War.

During Arquebus' Operation Wallclimber, operation director V.II Snail sends Rusty to The Wall as part of the efforts to take it from the Rubicon Liberation Front. On Rusty's way inside, he eliminates numerous RLF defenders including MTs and an HA-T-102 JUGGERNAUT mobile artillery platform, whose operator recognized Rusty from Middle Flatwell's files and questioned why Rusty was attacking the RLF.There at the top of the Wall he joins the independent mercenary C4-621 "Raven" in fighting another JUGGERNAUT. Rusty instructs Raven to hit the JUGGERNAUT's blind spots while he distracts it with STEEL HAZE's speed, and their eventual victory marks the success of Operation Wallclimber. In a private debriefing afterwards, Rusty confides to Raven (whom he now treats as a "war buddy") about Arquebus' secret plan to sacrifice independent mercenaries in the operation, and that Raven's surprising survival will be remembered by both the corporation and himself. From that point on, Rusty shows an undaunted respect for Raven's skill and distinctly refers to them as "buddy".

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