| “ | Trust me. | „ |
| ~ BT's last words to Cooper before sacrificing itself to destroy the Fold Weapon. |
Bravo-Tango-Seven-Two-Seven-Four, also known by its shortened form as BT-7274 and its nickname BT, is the deuteragonist of the 2016 video game Titanfall 2.
Unlike most Titan robots developed by the robotics firm Hammond Engineering and IMC, BT was created by the Frontier Militia after the Battle of Demeter, making it the first robot to be made outside of any corporation. It was later linked and piloted by Tai Lastimosa, but was later subsequently linked to Jack Cooper after Lastimosa's death at the hands of the Apex Predators.
BT later serves as Cooper's right-hand, as well as its protector during the Battle of Typhon, before sacrificing itself to destroy the genocidal superweapon known as the Fold Weapon, thereby saving countless lives on Harmony and all other planets.
BT is voiced by Glenn Steinbaum.
Overview[]
Appearance[]
BT is a Titan of the Vanguard class, making it ideal for missions both in and beyond enemy lines. As a result, he is outfitted with several pieces of gear that are evocative of earlier Titan designs like the Atlas, with a focus on durability rather than disposableness.
Two dashes and a Bodyshield system that recharges are part of this. The Titan is intended to be adaptable, and it can be outfitted with a variety of different loadouts on the fly. For example, it can seem to be equipped with a VTOL Hover, Laser Core, or Particle Wall with no problems.
Description[]
The SERE Package, an emergency kit including a Smart Pistol MK6, Data Knife, and the AI's datacore for use in case the Titan itself is rendered inoperable, allows BT-7274, eventually an Artificial Intelligence, to be switched between various Vanguard chassis at will. After the original BT-7274 chassis was destroyed by Slone, Jack Cooper used this to install the AI in the FS-1041 chassis.
Additionally, BT is constrained by three main protocols. Although the AI of the BT-7274 is clearly self-aware, it is nonetheless constrained by a number of criteria to assure mission accomplishment.
These following directives include as follows:
- Protocol One: Link to Pilot
- Protocol Two: Uphold the Mission
- Protocol Three: Protect the Pilot
The neural link technology aboard BT enables the AI and the Pilot's consciousness to communicate in order to accomplish these objectives. It's unknown what this technology is utilized for, although it probably makes it possible for the Pilot's movements to be translated into machine operations more effectively, like manipulating the Titan's limbs.
The Vanguard's personality is reactivated once the Pilot disembarks by being sublimated while being piloted.
BT is equipped with a variety of sensor suites that can track biometric data, identify objects at a distance, and analyze signals. The Titan's chassis features two optical units with separate tracking capabilities, and its back includes two Acolyte Pods. Holographic images may also be viewed on BT's primary optic unit.
BT exhibits a high level of intelligence, situational awareness, and flexibility to changing battlefield situations as a Vanguard-class Titan built for reconnaissance and operations behind enemy lines. The Titan also has a flamethrower, which it may use to start campfires and produce heat shields.
Biography[]
Past[]
Nearly two years after the Battle of Demeter, the Frontier Militia built the first Vanguard-class Titan, designated BT-7274. Before the Captain's tragic demise on Typhon, he served with Tai Lastimosa for 973 days, or almost three years.
Titanfall 2[]
After the 9th Militia Fleet was ambushed during the initial phases of the invasion on Typhon, BT was stationed next to Lastimosa near the location of the 41st Militia Rifle Battalion's landing zone. Before the Apex Predators assaulted them, they rescued numerous Riflemen, including Jack Cooper, from a Tone-class Titan.
Ash flanked BT and forcefully removed numerous Batteries from the Titan while Slone was preoccupied, which allowed Kuben Blisk and the others to disable BT. The mercenaries left the area after concluding that the Titan was completely unusable to cope with any remaining Militia soldiers.
For the next few hours, BT waited in a low-power condition with barely enough strength to fend off multiple Prowlers trying to eat the nearby unconscious body of Jack Cooper. When Cooper awoke, he checked on the Titan and saw that Lastimosa had been fatally wounded in yesterday night's conflict.
Lastimosa handed up control of BT-7274 to Jack and gave him his helmet and jumpkit before succumbing to his injuries as hostile troops converged on the region and Jack had already received some training in piloting techniques. Cooper buried Lastimosa, took some more Titan batteries from the adjacent MCS James MacAllen debris, and repaired BT to full power. The two then successfully created a neural link and left the area before IMC salvagers could capture them.
The two made steady progress across Typhon toward Lastimosa's final goal, which was to join Major Anderson to finish Special Operation 217. They arrived at Apex Predator Kane's water reclamation plant by this route. The two split off briefly before coming back together just in time to take down the mercenary and his Scorch Titan.
Then BT found a route through the World Foundry, an underground fabrication facility that creates small-scale test sites. BT was taken hostage by a manipulator arm that was being utilised to move cargo around the premises when this plan went bad.
Ash, the Apex Predator in control of the facility, teased and challenged Cooper as he pursued him deeper into the complex. BT and several other kidnapped Militia warriors were dumped into one of the several simulation domes on the property and forced to battle for their life against Reapers and other hostile forces while the simulacrum mercenary drew them further into the adjacent IMC Dynamic Testing Facility.
Cooper broke free from his own simulation dome, forcing Ash to start scuttling the facility. When the couple rejoined, they immediately fled the crumbling building, but not before facing Ash in her Ronin and killing her in the subsequent duel.
BT and Cooper eventually made it to Major Anderson's last location, which was a dilapidated, sizable IMC R&D facility identified as the Special Operation 217 rally site. BT discovered that there were temporal abnormalities around the site when Cooper had brief breaks in the time stream, blinking back in time before coming back to the present.
The Major's upper torso and right arm were discovered to have strangely welded to a ceiling, as BT searched the remains of the suspiciously deceased scientists employees at the complex for evidence of Anderson. After finding Anderson's helmet and listening to the mission briefing recording, BT verified that Cooper was now in charge of Special Operation 217 and that the former Rifleman-turned-Pilot was required to complete the operation and discover what the IMC were up to at the location.
The Pilot was able to zip-wire up inside the facility and make his way to Anderson's location thanks to the Titan's usage of a lamppost as a makeshift javelin due to the decrepit condition of the site. Cooper found the Time gauntlet, enabling him to perform more controlled time leaps, and BT implanted a chunk of his AI into Jack's helmet to enable him to assist the Pilot during time travelling after discovering Anderson's lower body and left arm. In both the present and the past, the Pilot and Titan worked together to battle swarms of Prowlers and malfunctioning Stalkers as well as security troops.
The IMC's strategy on Typhon was finally exposed by Jack: General Marder and his ARES Division discovered an incredible weapon of mass destruction on Typhon dubbed the "Fold Weapon," fueled by an energy source known as the "Ark," that was capable of wiping out an entire planet in a one blast. On Typhon's moon, the IMC complex successfully tested a smaller-scale version of the Fold Weapon. They then planned to use the Ark to unleash the weapon in its full destructive power somewhere else on the planet, starting with the Militia's homeworld of Harmony. Jack successfully finished Special Operation 217 by getting a scan of the Ark during the test in the past.
Given that Protocol 2 had been fulfilled and the severe nature of the discovered intelligence, BT and Cooper had little choice but to reveal their discoveries and ask for reinforcements in order to foil General Marder's scheme. The two travelled hundreds of kilometres the next day before coming along with members of the 3rd Militia Grenadiers near the location of an IMC intergalactic beacon that had suffered significant fighting-related damage.
Jack was remotely led by BT around the beacon's substations to locate an Arc Tool, and the Pilot was ultimately thrown up into the superstructure of the beacon to perform repairs by hand. Richter, the area's leading Apex Predator, engaged BT and Cooper shortly thereafter in his Tone-class Titan, but like the other Apex Predators before him, he was defeated by the Militia team.
Finally, BT, Cooper, and the local militia troops established contact and connected with Commander Sarah Briggs' 9th Fleet reinforcements. When Briggs first met BT and Cooper, he tried to find another Pilot to connect with BT right away because Cooper was still still a Rifleman and was therefore not authorised to pilot a Titan, among other things.
BT vehemently disagreed, noting that they were now regarded as an incredibly effective partnership by his battle effectiveness rating with Pilot Cooper. Briggs reluctantly agreed to BT's recommendation and let him to remain with Cooper after being taken aback by the Titan's response and considering the unique circumstances.
Since they were now members of the 9th Fleet, Briggs, BT, and Cooper participated in an all-out assault on the IMC-controlled airbase where the IMS Draconis was based and where the Ark was to be transported to the Fold Weapon. Sarah recognised and praised BT's proficiency and effectiveness with Cooper during the battle, thereby certifying Cooper as a Pilot. After the Militia offensive failed to halt the Draconis's departure, the Militia soldiers that were still alive—including BT/Cooper and Briggs—boarded several Widow dropships to follow the carrier.
The dropship carrying Jack and BT was quickly shattered by the Apex Predator Viper after the Militia got up to the IMC airborne convoy, sending the two plummeting through the air before Barker could save them. Cooper was launched into the air by BT, who used the same strategy as at the beacon, and made him land on a dropship commanded by the 6-4. This manoeuvre allowed Cooper to board and commandeer the battleship IMS Malta so he could disable the AA guns that were keeping the Militia from attacking the Draconis. In order to assist Jack in manually reaching the Draconis, BT descended into the hull of the Malta. The two Pilots and their Titans engaged in a brief skirmish as a result of Viper attacking the two of them again.
Viper lost control and disappeared from view after BT first defeated the Northstar. But for just long enough to surprise the two and knock them off the Malta, the mercenary recovered control of his Titan. The Draconis' outer hull was struck by the failing flight thrusters of the Viper, which were already severely damaged. However, not before BT managed to blow the Northstar's front armour off, allowing Cooper to shoot down Viper in his exposed cockpit, the Viper attacked BT and pinned him to the ground, cutting off the Vanguard's left arm.
After successfully retrieving the Ark, the two climbed aboard the Draconis, with a crippled BT locking the device within his cockpit. Cooper argued against the Titan leaving the sinking ship and letting Cooper perish; instead, the Titan shielded the Pilot with his chassis to keep him from the collision. Only BT's right arm and upper torso were left when the Draconis crashed upon Typhon's surface, the majority of the remainder of his chassis having been destroyed by the collision.
BT and Cooper were unable to defend themselves and were taken prisoner by the IMC, which was commanded by Kuben Blisk, the Apex Predator leader, and Slone, the sole remaining lieutenant. Cooper and BT's bodies were both flown to a location close to the Fold Weapon for questioning on the location of the Ark.
BT made a last-ditch effort to save his Pilot by revealing the Ark in his cockpit and swiped at Blisk and the guards with his good arm as they approached near when Blisk endangered Cooper's life by holding him at gunpoint. Cooper paid the price for his misdeeds when Slone's Ion Titan totally destroyed the rest of BT's chassis. As a result, both mercenaries withdrew while still in control of the Ark, leaving Cooper to his destiny.
Cooper made it through the trauma and found the SERE Kit and BT's AI core, or his "eye," in the shattered Titan chassis. Cooper established contact with Militia headquarters and asked for a new "empty" Titan sans its core as he shot his way out of the facility with his Smart Pistol MK6 while the Titan FS-1041 was creating Titanfall nearby. BT-7274 was resurrected once the AI core was put into the fresh chassis. Pilot Jack Cooper boarded the Titan, and the two of them immediately attacked the Fold Weapon on foot, slicing through waves of opposing IMC soldiers.
The two met Blisk and Slone when they entered the injection room for the weapon, the former negotiating their deal with General Marder's hologram. The "Militia hero," who was placed in Slone's hands by Blisk, was eventually vanquished by BT and Cooper in a confrontation. Cooper and the wounded BT were approaching Blisk on foot, but the final Apex Predator spared them out of respect for them (or maybe to uphold the terms of his contract) and moved back.
However, once the Fold Weapon was primed and prepared to fire, BT and Cooper executed a last-ditch effort to disable it by sacrificing themselves by launching themselves into the weapon's core using the injector. BT reasoned that his own reactor core, which was now exposed as a result of the previous conflict, could cause the Ark at the weapon's centre to become unstable. The Titan was the last one left to give his life in order to interrupt the power supply and render the weapon inoperable when BT suddenly yanked Cooper out of his cockpit and threw the Pilot to safety.
The resulting explosion demolished BT-7274 and the Fold Weapon, nearly completely destroying Typhon in the process. The Militia declared victory once the superweapon was destroyed and General Marder began to flee.
Following Jack Cooper's return to Harmony, a last post-credits sequence has Jack seated on a crate with his Smart Pistol while his helmet flashes a binary signal that reads "Jack?" This might be a piece of BT's AI that survived the events of Typhon given that BT previously installed his AI into this helmet to interact in various timestreams during Effect and Cause.
Abilities[]
Like most Titans, BT is a giant robot that is capable of killing enemy humans in seconds, thanks to its weaponry, which can be changed according to the player's preference. Its default weapon is an XO16A2 Chaingun.
Trivia[]
- According to the developer commentary, BT was designed to be similar to a newborn or young toddler in that he was gradually picking up on human behaviour and mental patterns. This is why many of his views and musings while engaging with others, Cooper in particular, tended to be more direct and devoid of subtext.
- In addition, BT lacks the ability to convey irony (though he is aware of it), which contributes to some accidental dark comedy on his part. However, BT does show affection and care for his Pilot. When Cooper inquires about Captain Tai Lastimosa's service, BT expresses regret for his passing and says that Lastimosa "was a brilliant Pilot, and a wonderful friend." Later on, when Cooper is in imminent danger, BT even goes so far as to say, "I will not lose another Pilot!"
- BT normally uses his left hand to hold his rifle while operating on his own, but he throws Cooper with his right hand each time he uses the "fastball." Cooper is right-handed, thus when Cooper assumes authority, BT also adopts that symmetry.
External Links[]
- BT-7274 on the Titanfall Wiki
- BT-7274 on the Near Pure Good Wiki