Sentai Elite

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<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <header>Information</header> <label>Alignment</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Status</label> <label>Location</label> <label>First Appearance</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> The Sentai Elite are the Japanese 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.- 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, 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. -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

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“The Guild found the mass-production tinker. All signs point to them becoming a force in their own right. We won’t be helpless.” - Excerpt from Interlude 27.x</ref> or migrated to the US and set themselves up as villains.<ref>Oakland RP</ref>

Post-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?”

“There’s no heroes on scene,” Tecton said. “Japan doesn’t have many dedicated heroes anymore.”
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Silent, we watched as the heroes engaged. Eidolon and Legend joined the Japanese heroes in fighting the unnamed Endbringer, keeping a safe distance. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.4</ref>

Trivia

Their structure and costume design recall sentai television shows, which are known in North America as the Power Rangers.
- 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. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
Prominent members, especially tinkers, seem to take their code-names from smith's in japanese folklore.

References