Jager

The oldest and most basic of the Gears fielded by Southern forces, the Jäger started its existence as a shameless copy of the United Mercantile Federation's Hunter. Indeed, Republican commandos stole a Hunter prototype and the engineers created a near-exact copy toward the end of the Southern War that unified the Allied Southern Territories. Over the years, the two "cousins" have remained sign-posts of military competition between the poles, having become locked in an arms race of their own. Indeed, with every minor adjustment made to the Hunter, Southern engineers are ordered to make a matching change in the Jäger, and vice versa. All the changes since the 1850s, however, have been relatively minor and most technicians still refer to the current design as the Jäger "Alpha."