Hex_Musa_Project_LORE_V22

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The Musa, also called Battle Girls, are a highly specialized, highly elite, and highly annoying division of military units in the Hex Authority's highly mechanized army. It is distinguished from other arms of the military by piloting personal and highly customized mechs called "Centurions" and by the fact that all of its members are female.

The Musa Project was conceived as a genetics program by the Hex Research Branch to produce an analog counter to the plethora of highly specialized units devised by the Hex's numerous rivals, namely the Agbsobgomorroth Cult's Majokko, the Ice Vikings's Hersir warriors, and the—as they put it—"unfairly gifted and unruly Pathfinders".

According to sources, particularly the monologuing Musa themselves, at first they attempted to simply enhance their senses and physical attributes, but earlier versions were subpar with the other militaries' elite units. It was not until the Mnemosyne Entanglement was created that the Musas were able to directly compete with their enemies. The Mnemosyne Entanglement allowed for the Musa's brains to be copied, inserted into a mech that was constructed simultaneously with the Battle girl's training development, and then pairing this newly formed AI to the girl's 'neural nodes', making them extremely sharp and their mechs uniquely quick to stimuli. Additionally, the Musas were equipped with state-of-the-art exoskeletons that served as secondary battle mechanisms in case their mech would be destroyed.

For all their strengths, the whole process left the Musa girls with a certain want: recognition and merit. It was found by other Pathfinder companies that unwary Battle Girls would stop mid-fight and... elaborate on their skillset unnecessarily whenever an enemy remarked said skill. This made them vulnerable to surprise attacks of any kind. They also granted their enemies a tactical advantage as they were always quite fond of declaring their attack's type and name, sometimes even level when it could be scaled.