Editing Sentai Elite

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'''The Sentai Elite''' are ''the'' [[Japan]]ese hero team.

==Modus operandi==
The Elite were Japan's foremost team. Their members were not permitted to abandon [[Endbringer]] fights.<ref name="22.y"/> They were organized into multiple differing teams spread out among Japan.

Each groups costumes were color-coded and stylized,<ref name="24.4c1">They were color coded, and also had stylized elements to their costumes. There was a giant robot, but it didn’t combine. Seiunsho’s latest version appeared earlier in this arc.- [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/crushed-24-4/#comment-28638 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> effectively identical without a color swap and organized into groups with matching body types.<ref name="PRT: Department 64">Basically, you want the opposite of that Sentai Elite thing. You know, five or six people of roughly the same height and body type, in matching costumes with a color swap. - [[Department Sixty Four]], [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13061941 PRT Quest thread i p23]</ref> When deployed against [[Endbringers]] all Sentai present wore [[tinker]]-made armor with wrist-mounted laser guns and rifles at their hips.<ref name="22.y"/>

==Members==
*[[Lung]] encountered a Sentai member in a yellow and black costume, whose power was unable to hurt [[Leviathan]].
*The Sentai had a member who could mass-produce [[tinker]] weapons,<ref name="22.y e7">The Sentai joined him, adding their ranged fire to his.  They had a man who mass produced their armor and weapons, each with wrist-mounted laser guns, rifles at their hips.  Sixteen or seventeen of them opened fire with both weapons at the same time. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> presumably [[Masamune]].<ref name="I 27"/>
*They had sixteen or seventeen people fighting in close to [[Leviathan]], including one in a purple and green costume.<ref name="22.y"/>
*A tinker, Seiunsho, who created several giant robots for the organization,<ref name="24.4c1"/> his latest version was deployed with calamitous results at [[New Delhi]].<ref name="24.2">The third perimeter.  A giant robot, in ruins.  As many dead here as there had been at the last two points, all put together. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/crushed-24-2/ Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.2]]</ref>
*They also had members capable of stopping [[Leviathan]] from advancing, parahumans whose strikes caused the ground to shake, and some capable of softening or deflecting his water echo.<ref name="22.y">[[Interlude 22.y]]</ref>
*It is unknown what relation, if any, [[Black Kaze]] had to the organization.<ref name="R1" />

==History==
===Background===
The Sentai were set up or quietly supported by [[Cauldron]].<ref>Absent Cauldron's meddling, there's no [[PRT]] for one thing. There's no [[Suits]], no [[Red Gauntlet]], no [[Elite Sentai]] group or whatever I called them, no [[Elite]]; all groups that Cauldron set up or supported. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024820 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>

On November 2nd, 1999 the Sentai Elite fought [[Leviathan]] alongside [[The Triumvirate]], [[Protectorate]], and [[Lung]] at [[Kyushu]].<ref name="22.y"/> The sun would rise on the 3rd on the Sentai Elite's greatest defeat.<ref name="8.2">“Kyushu, the night of November second and the morning of the third, 1999.  His sixth appearance.  Nine and a half million killed when the region was swamped with tidal waves from every direction while Leviathan disrupted prearranged evacuation attempts.  Nearly three million evacuees rendered homeless, a nation sundered. -[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref>

With the defeat many members left the organization. With notable members were recruited to other hero teams,<ref name="I 27">'''December 5th, 2012, six months ago'''<br><br>[...]<br><br>“The Guild found the mass-production tinker.  All signs point to them becoming a force in their own right.  We won’t be helpless.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/interlude-27/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 27.x]]</ref> or migrated to the US and set themselves up as villains.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/19MyrV2mcGM5ZGXZLPgGInDp2m1dgXnRfW7uRPZ5i-Go/edit Oakland RP]</ref>
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Remnants of the organization dealt with the attentions of a new Endbringer. They still maintained adequate response times.<ref name="25.4">“Oh god,” Cuff said.  “Why isn’t anyone stopping him?”<br><br>“There’s no heroes on scene,” Tecton said.  “Japan doesn’t have many dedicated heroes anymore.”<br>[...]<br>Silent, we watched as the heroes engaged.  Eidolon and Legend joined the Japanese heroes in fighting the unnamed Endbringer, keeping a safe distance. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref>

==Trivia==
*Their structure and costume design recall [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu Tokusatsu] television shows, which are known in North America as series like the Power Rangers or Kamen Rider but also encompasses Kaiju films. Best thought of as "special effects" series. 
**''[[Wikipedia:Sentai|Sentai]]'' is a term for a military unit in Japanese, used in a number of services.
*The after effects of Leviathan's attack on Japan and the subsequent clean up operations would have been subject to another quest after [[PRT Quest]] had concluded.<ref name="R1">4. Sentai Elite Quest - Leading a squad post-Kyushu, Asia. Black Kaze's story, more touching on the CUI. - [https://redd.it/39g7ma Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
*Prominent members, especially tinkers, seem to take their code-names from smith's in Japanese folklore.
*The Sentai Elite were referenced in Pale as a movie in the Kennet Undercity.<ref>“Remember that show we were watching last night?  Sentai Elite?  She could be your Sentai Wood B.  She could be your- the other show,” Freak said.  “Sweet Mask.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/fall-out-14-3/ Excerpt] from Fall Out 14.3</ref>

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