What are ARCs?

The ARC — Automated Reactivity Chassis — is the pinnacle of 21st-century warfare: a towering fusion of armour, precision, and human instinct.

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They are bipedal, loosely humanoid, mechanized combat vehicles. They mimic human movement. They are the equivalent of a walking tank platoon.

 

Each ARC is built not just to survive battle but to surpass it. Beneath layers of composite plating and servo-linked musculature, a Commander sits cocooned within a neural cradle, their reflexes fed directly into the machine’s nervous system.

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Every ARC is designed for purpose — from the lightning-fast Corvette scouts to the fortress-like Destroyers whose armament can level a city block. They move with terrifying grace, reacting to threat vectors in an instant. They react to inbound threats autonomously, saving their Commanders life, should they be too injured to deploy defences manually.

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Across the fractured world of Forward ARC, these machines are symbols of survival, sovereignty, and identity. Each faction builds them in its own image: the Coral Empire’s sleek littoral hunters, the Kanata League’s endurance-built arctic titans, the Jerusalem Compact’s precision city-fighters and more.