Hiroka Diago

Early Life
Born in 1771, Hiroka Diago suffered complications that would shortly lead to to a loss of function in her legs. Born to her father, a Diago and her mother, a Miman noblewoman. Nevertheless, she was raised within periphery of the royal environment, frequently meeting with her fellow Diagos and Shirudian royal family.

Attending a girl’s school, Hiroka developed a love of art and drawing, and once wished to become an architect. However, she discovered technical drawing and took to a degree at the university of Kohwoor in mechanical engineering, graduating early.

During her childhood years and time at university, Hiroka spent many hours at the workshops of her family company, Diago heavy industries, specifically their development wing. Biographers mention her being present to observe the design of the Stampede 2 and the Gonto.

Diago Heavy Industries
Immediately upon graduating at the age of 16, in the midst of war, the young Hiroka was granted a position in the design wing of the family business. Informed by her experiences as a preteen and teen, watching the development of armour, she set about designing her first vehicle.

The first tracked vehicle, an infantry landship with an AA variant was dismissed early on and never progressed past the drawing stage. However Hiroka took on the rising issue of the Stampede 2.

Over the summer, Hiroka drafted a newer version of the existing tank, one with lighter armour and a smaller cannon in order to reduce high production costs. The result was the Stampede 2-2: with a 75mm gun.

The Great War
After a few adjustments, the Diago family eagerly accepted the design and moved the new model into production. Hiroka would be the subject of numerous propaganda pieces and would present the first troop of Stampede 2-2s to the Dai-Shogun and the royal family.

Oh Hiroka became a high profile designer, due to her young age and relationship to the royal family. Soon after she met Kazunari Shimizu, a lieutenant in the Army Logistics Auxiliary, while at an army parade. The two courted and married with her family’s permission before Kazunari was promoted and deployed under Hyyro Shirudo.

After her husband’s departure, Hiroka would return to her design work and create a number of concepts, many of which were rejected due to wartime constraints. She began involvement in the design team for a new heavyweight battle tank, designed to shore up the Shirudian lines in less favourable theatres.

After a years work of design, Diago industries showed off their new Diago G24 heavy tank. Production was begun while after her husband came home on leave, Hiroka became pregnant. She took a leave of absence that be invited to the royal palace where she had her daughter Nae. Following the birth, Hiroka resumed her position and immediately began her proposition for an upgrade package for the G24. The G24B was quickly adopted with its  improved air filtration system for chemical protection and upgrades to the engine.

During the power struggle in Shirudo at the end of the Great War, Hiroka was living in Khowar with Hyrro and Nae while expecting her second child. Nominally she was placed under the “protection” of the Office of the Arrowheads under the orders of Magna Tranfa, alongside many other nobles and minor royals. This was in fact a house arrest in order to create hostages to be used against Hathor during her coup. However, Hiroka was secured by loyalist Shirudians who forced her guards into surrender.

Mima Industries
Following the victory of Hathor Shirudo’s coup and the end of hostilities, Diago heavy industries would be liquidated and Shirudian military industry took a significant downturn. However, she was hired by Mima Heavy Industries, the lead replacement for leading military production and would resume her passion for creating military vehicles.