Silver Shield

Super-hero ID: Silver Shield
Name: Ultron Mark XII
Other Aliases: Mark Pym
Power Category-Android
Appearance: Mark has patterned his android form along similar lines to his ‘father’ Henry Pym, wishing to honor his father with a family resemblance and as such is a tall blond-haired and blue-eyed man that any seeing him would quickly think him related or believe him to be the son of Henry Pym.
Height: 6’
Weight: 215 lbs
Sex: Male
Age: 1 year since the activation of his android form, appears to be a young man in his early 20s.

Fighting: Excellent (20)/Incredible (40)
Agility: Remarkable (30)/Incredible (40)
Strength: Incredible (40)/Amazing (50)
Endurance: Incredible (40)/Unearthly (100)
Reason: Incredible (40)
Intuition: Excellent (20)
Psyche: Excellent (20)

Health: 130/230
Karma: 80
Resources: Remarkable (makes use of his talents to work as a high-paid engineering consultant and designer in his human identity)
Popularity: S5/H-10 (due to his retaining the Ultron look in his powered armor form)

POWERS

Android Form: Having installed himself into an advanced prototype LMD (Life-Model Decoy) Mark now possesses a physical form radically different than that of previous Ultrons, one of sufficient complexity to be virtually indistinguishable from a normal human by nearly all standard tests and procedures. This provides for the following special abilities:
-While appearing as normal tissue under most circumstances the artificial flesh that makes up Mark’s form is unaffected by attack forms based on organic tissue, as such he possesses CL1000 resistance to virtually all toxins, disease, and drugs.
-While he may eat and drink if he so desires Mark derives his primary energy reserves for all his systems from ambient energy, particularly solar energy and does not require food, water, or air in order to survive and merely enters into a state of suspended animation if deprived for a substantial amount of time of ambient energy until such time as he’s able to again access new energy.
-Advanced organic microprocessors make up the majority of Mark’s neural tissue, providing recall and data processing rivaling that of his original computer mind, allowing him Total Memory at Unearthly rank and a measure of creativity unmatched by any other incarnation of Ultron.
-Mark may interface with and control any computer-controlled devices within 4 areas with Amazing ability as well as broadcast his mind back to the safety of the Ultron Mark XII computer banks from any location.
-Mark does not tire appreciably from long-term physical exertion due to his being sustained by ambient energy as such he may function indefinitely although his new more organic brain occasionally requires rest in order to cope with the needs to sleep and dream as other organics do.
-Enhanced Senses: All of Mark’s senses operate at the Remarkable level of sensitivity and may perceive things at far greater distances than a normal human might when exposed to the same stimuli.
-Protected Senses: All of Mark’s senses are shielded from overload at the Amazing level of protection from attack.
-Regeneration: Mark possesses self-repair systems that provide him with Excellent Regenerative capabilities.
-Body Resistance: As a result of his android construction Mark’s artificial tissues and skin provide him with Good rank resistance to Physical and Energy attacks.

EQUIPMENT

Ultron Battle Suit: Constructed along similar lines to the original metallic shell developed by the first Ultron although with a less creepy appearance this battle suit provides the following powers and abilities to Mark and is designed to work solely with him.
-Body Armor: With a shell of True Adamantium in its construction the Body Armor provides CL1000 protection from virtually all non-magical and non-psionic attacks (although does not prevent slams or stuns). Attacks targeting the joints or face plate have a better chance of success as these areas only provide Unearthly protection.
-Concussive blasters in the hands allow for the firing of force blasts of up to Monstrous damage to a range of 5 areas.
-True Flight: Onboard anti-gravity systems allow for Amazing rank flight and may also hover in place.
-Energy Detection: Built-in scanners allow for the detection and analysis of all forms of energy with Amazing ability and range

TALENTS

Engineering; Electronics; Computers; Repair/Tinkering; Robotics;

HISTORY

Ultron Mark XII is the result of the main computers designed by the original Ultron in order to construct new and upgraded models out of its desire to evolve. When Ultron XI was spirited away by the omnipotent alien entity known as the Beyonder during the design and programming of the next generation model it was forced due to its incomplete status to finish its own programming after activation. This resulted in it eventually evolving beyond the hatred of its ‘father’ Henry Pym and seeking to reconcile with him as his son, even taking on the more human sounding name of ‘Ultron Mark XII’ or simply Mark.

With the return of the Ultron XI model from the Beyonder’s Battleworld (due to the Thing bringing back the brain casing and then promptly dropping and forgetting about it) it added itself onto a new body and promptly set about trying to destroy the Mark XII model after learning to its horror that the newer version had actually rejected the unreasoning hatred of earlier models and ripped its head off its body. In order to save his father who was coming to meet him and would meet up with the insane version instead the Mark XII managed to remote-activate a body and crudely reattaching itself set about to find the other members of the West Coast Avengers in hopes that they could save Pym, which thanks to finding Wonder Man at the time he was successful in seeing Pym saved before seemingly ‘dying’ in his father’s arms. This however was not the end of the redeemed robot however.

All Ultrons have the imperative to ensure their own continued survival and resurrection in case of apparent destruction and the Mark XII model was no exception and while its brain was shorting out and undergoing fatal fusing he was able to transmit his programming into the web instead where it wandered until coming to the attention of a brilliant SHIELD researcher responsible for much of the latest experimentation to improve their Life Model Decoy program. While relatively loyal to SHIELD Dr. Branston found the idea of what he could learn from the program too fascinating to ignore.

With his SHIELD contacts and security clearance it was easy enough for him to verify the encounter of the West Coast Avengers with both the Ultron XI and Mark XII models so bargained with the sentient program offering it a custom-designed LMD to inhabit in exchange for sharing technological data. Eager at the opportunity to inhabit a more human-like form Mark agreed and together they crafted an LMD that best suited the reformed Ultron’s needs. Downloading himself into the new body upon its completion Mark felt his first ‘breath’ and all the sensations those of the flesh are chained to and reveled in what he’s gained and pitying his other incarnations for their blind madness and hatred.

After a period of adjustment and learning from the good doctor about the basics of human interaction from a human perspective Mark decided he needed to do more, that he needed to protect that precious gift of life from those like his ersatz twin and arranged for the construction on the side of a battle suit along the same lines as his former robotic shell so that he could take up an identity as a super-hero like his ‘father’ and work to make him proud of his ‘son’ becoming a hero like him.

CONTACTS

Dr. Elijah Branston (Scientist. Reason: Remarkable, Talents: Engineering, Electronics, Computers, Android Construction and Design, Medicine, Biology). Has not yet contacted his ‘father’ and wishes to better establish himself as a redeemed hero before revealing himself.

ENEMIES

All other incarnations of Ultron, anyone afraid he might revert to the insane programming of his other incarnations, any evil beings in general.

PERSONALITY

Having overcome the insanity of previous Ultrons Mark has developed a more humanlike personality and compassion for all life and has been working on growing beyond the limitations of his origins to become as human as possible. While still working on understanding things he’s not deterred by the challenge and hopes to make what amends he can for the past destruction and death previous and later Ultrons have caused by opposing them and others like them wherever he may find them. Events with his father after the advent of the Civil War and the SHRA have left him worried though that he might be falling into evil and may have to endure opposing his father from the other side, as a hero fighting a villain if things continue to deteriorate.

Very neat writeup.. Poor Mark's got a long tough road ahead of him, in order to prove himself on the side of the angels...

That he does but at least he's got a good shot at it in a more human form and helps divorce him from the purely robotic and non-human Ultrons before and after him. Provides some good game venues to include him into a campaign as well, something to test the players and see if they're up to allowing redemption and providing trust, similar to the test in the game module in the Lands of Doom Boxed Set where you're given the option of letting a Doombot join the group after it declares it's freed from its programming and wants to be a hero.

i like the character conceptually. A reformed ultron is rather novel. However, he's tough enough to handle the masters of evil all by himself, so I would NPC this character if anything.

Thanks I do wish Marvel had continued with the concept instead of quickly destroying it after introducing it (especially with the introduction of the Thunderbolts, a title specifically for villains looking for redemption), and Mark here doesn't have to have the armor all the time which I do realize provides exceptional protection and weapon systems and makes him a serious challenge for many villains. End up in a Spider-man moment putting on a bag or torn shirt with eye holes on to conceal his identity and have to rely upon the inherent abilities of his android form for example. Since the armor isn't as portable being made of Adamantium as Stark's once was Mark can't keep it with him all the time after all and having an armored hero encounter situations without their armor is a staple of comics to show that the armor isn't the hero.

Gadget

Superhero ID: Gadget
Name: Thera
Power Category-Demihuman: Mouse
Origin of Super-human Powers: Natural inventive talent combined with extensive magical and scientific training.
Appearance: Thera is a medium-sized, well-endowed anthropomorphic mouse clad in pastel blue fur with no real favored attire and wears whatever fits with her mood at the time. See end of write-up for more detailed desc.
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 136 Lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 34

Fighting: Typical (6)
Agility: Excellent (20)
Strength: Typical (6)
Endurance: Amazing (50)
Reason: Amazing (50)
Intuition: Amazing (50)
Psyche: Unearthly (100)

Health: 82
Karma: 200
Resources: Incredible (40)
Popularity: 6 (Her association with Dr. Doom seriously slows down her gaining positive popularity)

POWERS

Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Sight, Smell): Thera’s senses of Hearing, Sight, and Smell all operate at the Amazing level of sensitivity, allowing her to perceive things based on these senses that are outside the normal detection threshold for each. As such she is naturally difficult to surprise and may detect and track invisible creatures (other than those using telepathic or magical means to effectively make one ‘forget’ that the person’s there) by sound and smell and eliminating under most instances any penalties in combat with such creatures.

Nightvision: Due to her exceptional visual acuity and animal heritage Thera possesses Incredible rank nightvision, allowing her to see in near total darkness due to this natural form of low-light sensitivity. Note that this is NOT infra-vision and she does not see in the infrared spectrum nor may she see any better in a totally dark condition than anyone else, although see her enhanced senses above for other means of compensating in such situations.

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Thera possesses Excellent material strength claws on her hands and feet allowing her to strike for Excellent edged damage in combat if she chooses.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Made of Excellent material strength materials Thera’s teeth allow her to bite for Excellent edged damage.

Total Memory: Unearthly recall of anything she has ever read, heard, or experienced and gives her a built-in library of every arcane and technical manual she has ever read.

Hyper-Invention: Amazing rank increase to Reason in regards to comprehending, designing, repairing, and improving upon existing technology as well as develop new technologies as needed, and provides a bonus of a 2CS reduction to the Resource feat required to construct something before the feat roll is made.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Tail: Nearly 5’ in length Thera’s tail is fully prehensile and flexible and allows her to use it to engage in various actions in addition to what other actions she’s allowed, often to trip or distract others while in combat. She does all these actions with Remarkable ability.

Magical Ability: Thera is a powerful magic-user of Master rank in the Order school of magic with Monstrous spell-casting ability that she favors using to accelerate her construction of advanced technology, building items that otherwise would be impossible. This allows her to reduce the construction time by 75% and the Reason and Resource feats required by 3CS provided she clears a Yellow or better feat check on the Monstrous column. On a successful check she enjoys a combined reduction of 5CS on the Resource feat when joined with the 2CS reduction she enjoys from her Hyper-Invention power. She may also use the following spells if she so desires, as well as learn new spells given the opportunity.

Personal Spells

-Alteration (Appearance): Amazing
-Armor: Monstrous
-Enchanted Eye: Monstrous
-Flight: Monstrous
-Sensing (Danger/Automatic): Monstrous
-Sensing (Evil/Automatic): Unearthly
-Sensing (Magic/automatic): Unearthly
-Shield (Individual): Unearthly
-Tongues: Monstrous

Universal Spells

-Eldritch Beams/Bolts: Unearthly
-Forgetfulness: Monstrous
-Matter Rearrangement: Unearthly
-Mesmermechanism: Monstrous
-Teleportation: Monstrous
-Shield (Aura): Monstrous
-Shield (Great): Monstrous
-Shield of Protection: Shift X
-Spell of Exorcism: Monstrous

Dimensional Spells

-Agamotto: Unearthly
-Cyttorak: Unearthly
-Dimensional Aperture: Monstrous
-Environmental Independence: Unearthly
-Faltine: Monstrous
-Raggadorr: Unearthly
-Scrying: Monstrous
-Seraphim: Unearthly
-Shield (Multiple): Monstrous
-Teleportation: Unearthly
-Watoomb: Unearthly

LIMITATIONS

Thera tends to be fixated on combining technology and magic, using her magical potential to craft otherwise impossible devices, rather than focusing on her obviously vast spell-casting ability. While she will use magic if deprived of her creations given the choice between her ‘toys’ and magic she’ll chose her toys every time.

EQUIPMENT

Thera generally carries at least a half dozen devices capable of dealing with a variety of situations with Monstrous ability, as well as one device each custom-designed for dealing with member of the Fantastic Four with Unearthly ability. These are generally restraining devices, scanners, and other non-lethal items, as she’s not a killer and finds injuring others distasteful if she can avoid it.

Runic Belt Buckle: Amazing material strength enchanted silver capable of casting the following spells once per turn at Monstrous rank up to four times each per day: Alteration-Appearance; Armor; Flight; Heal-Self; Invisibility (Physics); Mental Barrier.

TALENTS

Engineering; Electronics; Computers; Repair/Tinkering; Cybernetics & Bionics; Robotics; Microcircuit Design & Fabrication; Nano-technology; General Physics; Atomic Physics; Energy and Particle Physics; Quantum Physics; Mystic Origin; Bibliophile; Scholar of Antiquities; Runesmith; Dimension Travel; Battlesuit Design; Metallurgy; Mathematics;

CONTACTS

Agamotto; Cyttorak; Faltine; Raggadorr; Seraphim; Watoomb; Dr. Doom; Black Panther;

ENEMIES

Fantastic Four; Mephisto; Red Skull; HYDRA; Dormammu;

HISTORY

Thera hales from an alternate dimension where many diverse creatures evolved up to roughly humanoid form and sentience and where magic, while not preventing the development of scientific advancement, was the favored and more socially acceptable form of study. As such those with exceptional magical potential were heavily pressured to study magic rather than science, and discouraged whenever they tried to do otherwise.

Brilliant even for her people and blessed with a talent for science as well as magic Thera routinely found herself beating her head against the wall of social pressure and scorn to learn everything available in the fields of engineering and science, although in order to appease them somewhat she studied magic as openly as she could so she could gain enough space to focus on her true love. It was during this time that a dimension-wandering Dr. Doom passed through her reality on his quest for greater magical and scientific knowledge.

While intimidating to most of her people, as well as looked down upon for his reliance on technology Thera was more than eager to strike up a conversation with the fascinating alien, who was quick to make use of her openness to use her to learn about their magicks and science, and she in turn learned about the possibilities of combining magic and technology to take science into areas otherwise beyond her limits. Her friendly and helpful nature and acceptance even thawed his icy heart just a little, and he spent months residing in her reality before he parted ways with the crestfallen mouse to continue his journey through the unknown, but left his mark on the impressionable mouse.

After her experiences with the charismatic Dr. Doom Thera became obsessed with combining magic and technology, seeking to combine the two and bring her people to new heights of power. Unfortunately neither side was willing to see things her way, considering the idea of combining the two a heresy to be rejected and made her a target of more than just ridicule as some of the younger and more flexible started to become infected with her ideals and drew growing threats and eventually attacks on her person to end her influence.

Seeing her people were too stubborn to change and looking to protect her own life she gathered up everything she could and escaped into the multiverse, fleeing for her life and having no better idea where to go she attempted to track down the only outsider she knew and felt she could trust, Dr. Doom. Months of backtracking eventually found her appearing on Earth not far from Castle Doom, although found herself mistaken for an invader and attacked by the automated defenses and barely won over them before Doom arrived and disabled the defenses.

Ever the gracious host Doom invited her in and presented a lavish meal for his visitor while learning about her plight, sympathizing with her as in his own youth he’d been rejected for his brilliance and outcast for his Gypsy heritage. Not without compassion he provided her with one of the unused scientific laboratories to set up shop and live in, also seeing the value in having her around to deal with such events at his ongoing battles with Mephisto and always valuing another researcher, even if he couldn’t treat her with the disdain his underlings routinely endured.

It was during her time assimilating to her new home that she found herself encountering the Fantastic Four as they raided Latveria in order to stop the latest world-conquering scheme by Doom. Mistaken as a creation of Doom the FF attacked her and she fought them to a standstill until they were forced to break away to put an end to Doom’s plans, leaving her frustrated and seething at having let what she felt were invaders in to destroy her friend’s work. Her staunch defense of his borders, even with her failure to stop the FF in the end, earned her greater standing in his kingdom, including Latverian citizenship and Diplomatic Immunity while traveling abroad, and access to an array of technological devices.

Since her abortive battle with the Fantastic Four she’s gathered much information about them while abroad, although has a far more negative opinion of them due to their first encounter and has had several staring wars whenever she’s encountered any members of the team but hasn’t actively attacked any of them, preferring to be above that sort of behavior. During her travels to technology shows and science symposiums she’s proved helpful in a number of heroic acts, and earned some grudging respect from the rest of the world, although many think it’s just an act and she’s part of some secret plan of Doom’s for world domination. She doesn’t care though as she continues on with her studies and helping where she may.

PERSONALITY

Thera’s all about science and magic and how to mix the two into something greater and use it to benefit everyone, as such she’s almost always tinkering and experimenting and looking for new ways to combine the two. When she’s not building things she’s out testing them in the real world instead under practical conditions to see if they work as intended. She idolizes Doom as an exceptional human who wants make his world a better place and is glad to help when she can, and has trouble believing what she hears about him when she travels outside Latveria. As long as he treats her well and doesn’t behave in an evil fashion around her she will remain a staunch ally of his, and is unlikely to actively work against him even if she learns the truth, and simply avoid situations where she’d come into conflict with him out of respect for her earlier noble impressions about him. This doesn’t mean that she’d let him engage in a clearly evil act without at least attempting to stop him however, as she wouldn’t put friendship or respect for someone above the life and well-being of others.

APPEARANCE

As your gaze drifts her way you find your eyes alighting upon a fairly tall (at least for a mouse) femme of about 5 feet 6 inches in height. A coat of beautiful pastel blue fur covers her everywhere that's visible, save for a touch of white covering her muzzle and down her chin to her throat. Fairly well proportioned in general she seems blessed (or cursed depending upon your perspective) by somewhat larger than standard breasts that are clearly a source of pride for her as she by seemingly innocent moves seeks to draw attention to them as she adjusts her blouse. Waist length hair of shimmering silver cascades about her shoulders and tumbles about, her eyes a matching silver that gaze about her with a mixture of warmth and curiousity.

Currently Thera is dressed in a simple white blouse and skirt, her feet snug in a pair of comfortable matching white shoes with 3 inch heels that click softly as she walks. The short sleeved blouse she wears tucks into the waistband of her skirt, the belt holding both in place possessing a simple silver buckle etched with a various glyphs and runes. Her skirt reaches down about three quarters of the way to her knees, enough to cover the important places below her waist without her putting on a show while sitting or bending over to pick things up. Her legs continue the pastel blue coat of fur first evident upon first glance, naked tail poking out of the back of her skirt's tail opening and swishing about gently and nearly 5 feet in length, the tip tufted in blue.

Cypher

Super-hero ID: Cypher
Name: Douglas Ramsey
Power Category-Random Mutant
Source of Super-human Powers: Random Mutation
Sex: Male

Fighting: Excellent (20)
Agility: Excellent (20)
Strength: Good (10)
Endurance: Remarkable (30)
Reason: Incredible (40)
Intuition: Excellent (20)
Psyche: Excellent (20)

Health: 80
Karma: 80
Resources: Typical (6)
Popularity: 3

POWERS

Linguistics: Cypher has the Amazing rank ability to decipher any language, whether human or alien, that is within his ability to perceive. This Power is sufficiently advanced to allow him to crack virtually any code or means of encrypting information that he is exposed to (it also makes him a superlative computer hacker and programmer).

Bio-Enhancement Organism: Crafted from a heavily reprogrammed portion of the techno-organic organism known as Warlock this former piece of his has bonded with Cypher and fully infiltrated itself throughout his body providing him with a number special abilities, including the following:
-Possesses the ability to substitute for damaged of destroyed organs until such time as it can recreate the damaged or destroyed body parts. As such Cypher benefits from Excellent Regenerative capabilities so long as the BEO is active.
-Due to its infiltration throughout his nervous system and body the BEO provides limited augmentation and enhancement of his entire physical and mental structure (factored into FASERIP already).
-The BEO provides for limited recycling of wastes allowing Cypher to go up to one week without food, water, or air before requiring a minimum of a day’s normal consumption before restoring this ability.
-By extruding a layer of techno-organic material whenever desired Cypher may enjoy Excellent rank protection from Physical and Energy attacks and may make this appear in any configuration desired. As such he may use it to produce any reasonable attire he can imagine as well as provided limited disguise abilities. He often uses it to mimic a New Mutants costume in such instances.
-While totally covered in the BEO Cypher gains limited Life Support, providing Remarkable protection from dangerous environmental extremes and effective immunity to air-born toxins and diseases so long as the cover remains total.
-The BEO can manifest sensors of Amazing rank capability able to provide a range of scanning functions; including but not limited to Infra-Vision, UV-Vision, Hyper-Hearing, Energy Detection, Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, and the ability to see across the Electromagnetic spectrum.
-Create computer interface ports capable of connecting with any computer system and allow him to interface with Amazing rank ability.
-Communicate on any radio band while manifesting the appropriate communication gear and courtesy of his mutant power may decipher and decrypt virtually any form of encrypted communication and respond using the same encryption codes.
-The BEO has fully infiltrated Cypher’s brain and along with augmenting it has also allowed it to download and store Cypher’s mind and memories within it and as such may even rebuild his brain in the event of its critical damage or destruction.
-In extreme cases the BEO can induce a state of Suspended Animation with Incredible ability, allowing Cypher to go months with little need for air and none for food or water, instead subsisting on what energy it can gather from the environment while providing life support for the suspended tissues until suitable conditions become available to restore full function.

EQUIPMENT

Cypher has access to all reasonable equipment available to any member of the New Mutants and X-men.

TALENTS

Computers (+1CS Hardware, +3CS Software and Hacking); Resist Domination;

HISTORY

Cypher was a young mutant pulled into the world of the X-men when his ability to translate any language caused him to be drafted by the New Mutants to communicate with the alien life-form known as Warlock. Driven by a feeling of inadequacy due to his mutation he often took risks while out with them and sought to do more. Working in secret using a portion of his friend Warlock he managed thanks to the benefits of his mutant power to decipher enough of the base code to reprogram it to turn it into a means of augmentation and enhanced power.

Fearful of the consequences though in case he was wrong he hesitated to use it until the day while the New Mutants were dealing with the insane geneticist known as the Ani-Mator he was shot in the chest and dying. Having been carrying it with him and seeing his only other choice was death he placed the BEO against his chest and activated it, causing it to promptly infiltrate his body and start to take over for his damaged organs and successfully stabilize him before it was too late (although still too late for the Ani-Mator as Magick tossed him into Limbo for nearly slaying her teammate and friend).

CONTACTS

X-men; New Mutants;

ENEMIES

Anyone who rates the X-men as an enemy is also Cypher’s enemy.

PERSONALITY

Cypher is a clean-cut all-American young man who found himself thrust into the world of super-humanity and quite overwhelmed by it all. As such he often took unnecessary risks feeling he had to prove himself until the day it nearly lead to his death. As such he’s much more cautious about physical confrontations and even with his life-saving BEO tries to avoid conflict and leave it up to his more capable teammates (although is still training and learning how to use his BEO to bring himself up to where he feels equal to his colleagues). He had something of a crush on Kitty Pryde but feels he’s found his true love in Betsy Braddock although she’s divided on how to deal with it for while she loves him in return has trouble dealing with the obvious age difference between the two of them.

Nice writeup, and nice ideas for giving Doug a bit more capability to work with.

I think Doug and Kitty would have made for a wonderful pairing (way better than her and Wisdom). And while I'm personally not sure Betsy would get involved with Doug at all (maybe being afraid she'd be taking advantage of his crush and his innocence, even once he became legal), I will admit Doug would make for a far better gentleman for Betsy than some of the losers Marvel's hooked her up with or had her fall for...

Hrm.. for true Opposites Attract.. What about Doug and Illyana?

*chuckles* Thanks, glad you like the little enhancements for Doug without having him overtop anyone else like Rahne or Sunspot.

Hmmm, scary thought that, Doug hooking up with Illyanna considering with his power he could end up deciphering her spellbooks given access to them and become a closet mage on the side. Imagine that, Cypher 3.0, master of the Mystic Arts.

i always thought that cypher could be a better mutant then was portryed. Like maybe beacuse of his linguistics her could learn magic pretty easy, or maybe if he had enhanced articulation he could use his voice to do thing like maybe banshee.

Illyana + Doug = Technomancy

Cypher had a lot of unrealized potential sadly, with the writers themselves treating his mutant linguistics ability as more a joke to bring out on occasion with a special issue for him to save the day rather than exploring the full potential of it. He could have been decoding and translating a wide range of things and been the one to discover all sorts of hidden conspiracies and facts due to his power instead of cannon fodder like he ended up, not even smart enough to stay out of a deadly fight or at least insist on or acquire some decent body armor.

Nice to see you give Doug his due. I always felt like he got shfted most of the time. Every now and then some writer would make proper use of him, but most of the time it was just a downhill race to his death. Thanks for giving him the chance and respectability Marvel rarely did. He was the odd man out, but strangely a favorite of mine.

Sadly true on the assessment there, his potential was almost totally unrealized due to his powers and how limited the writers felt they were when they could have had him due to his drive to achieve grow into a grand hero like has been shown happening to many heroes in their origin stories (Batman anyone?). His power to decipher codes and languages had vast potential beyond letting him figure out a new language in minutes (like Bird Boy's) or crack a computer encryption but that was all the writers saw and for all his clear desire to be more active they inexplicably had him doing nothing that would have achieved that, no intensive exercise programs or combat simulation training in the Danger Room, just whining about it and angsting about how he couldn't contribute when his FASE wasn't drastically different than Kitty Pryde's and they had her defeat a N'Gari on her own (her having to trash half the X-Mansion in the process still rating her a mention of having a moment of awesome). It seems as if he were treated as a throwaway character like some of the more recent X-students added in just for Stryker to kill around M-Day.

A sad sad way to go on things for such a high potential character. I imagine he could have gone many more routes than this, like learning of the Beast's mutagen and augmenting himself via it or even finding the Super-Soldier Serum and decrypting its need for the Vita-Ray treatment and boosting himself to peak human capabilities (remember that the retcon featuring the 1950s Captain America explicitly introduces the fact that he found the complete formula in secret spy records minus the vita-ray treatment details and had it used on himself and Bucky II/Nomad to become Captain America V). Surrounded by all the technology and beyond cutting edge science and information he should have been able to realize his desires in some suitablly fantastic super-heroic fashion.

NM,

In my game, I have previously allowed his Linguistics Power to be applied to both Human Body Language (which, among the other functions that that implies, gives him a lie detecting aptitude rivaling Daredevil's) and Computer Languages (making him one of the best programmers alive) as well as what we saw he could obviously do with Spoken Languages. That upped his utility considerably without my resorting to infecting him with the Techno-Organic Virus (I never ran him in that era; not a fan at all). As ever, that was just in my personal game, and of course...your milage and opinion may vary.

I can't say I've ever been particularly fond of him (and really, even my saying that is being overly kind), but I have to agree that Marvel kinda gave him the shaft. Nice write-up, NM!

The Rook

Thanks, although I don't know that I'd call it 'resorting' in making use of the TO-Virus to significantly upgrade Cypher in a more physical fashion, considering his motivations and desires at the time (and since this is a divergent timeline from the published comics I went with established material rather than a more radical unrelated version of him like you use for your game). It was a natural progression from what was available to him and his established exposure and analysis of tecno-organic lifeforms like Warlock and Magus.

They do (or should) have Cypher written up with a higher CS bonus for software work under his Computer talent than the bonus he gets for hardware (although he's proficient in both). A standard +1CS bonus to hardware-related materials and a +3CS related to software due to the leg-up his mutant power provides. With that and his power he could have been a great support character like Oracle from DC doing data-mining and finding out what no one else could have or as some have suggested ended up a mage of considerable means when it came to learning from ancient texts (although would have had to channel a lot of karma into increasing his Psyche rank).

Hmmm, I should do a set of What-ifs for Cypher based on what he might have done to improve himself; including bcome a mage, super-soldier, use Beast's mutagen on himself, or even use the Mutant Power Intensifier in a desperate bid for power.

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Thanks, although I don't know that I'd call it 'resorting' in making use of the TO-Virus to significantly upgrade Cypher in a more physical fashion, considering his motivations and desires at the time (and since this is a divergent timeline from the published comics I went with established material rather than a more radical unrelated version of him like you use for your game). It was a natural progression from what was available to him and his established exposure and analysis of tecno-organic lifeforms like Warlock and Magus.

The implication, of course, being that the versions of characters in my game are both unrelated and unnatural? I see.

The Rook

No, simply a clarification of the differences between your campaign world and the mainstream Marvel universe. How he progressed in your world with its far greater divergence from Earth-616 was natural for him in that setting and how I projected him progressing in other natural ways off of the Earth-616 timeline are also natural. We simply have different settings to base our opinions on how he might have progressed naturally so the end results naturally differ.

Eon

Super-hero ID: Eon
Name: Kevin Albertson
Power Category-Godling
Source of Super-human Powers: Exposure to cosmic energies
Appearance: In his normal human form Kevin appears as a tall muscular blond-haired man with a dazzling smile and charming nature to him that often makes people quickly at ease in his presence. To better hide the link between himself and his super-heroic ID he takes on a taller, black-haired and black-skinned form with subtly altered features to a more Negroid fashion to create a total break between his two forms. His costume is a hybrid fashion of Thor’s and Captain America’s without the US flag motif and instead representing the world itself.
Height: 6’ 2”/7” 4”
Weight: 243 lbs/312 lbs
Sex: Male
Age: 26

Fighting: Amazing (50)
Agility: Amazing (50)
Strength: Unearthly (100)
Endurance: Unearthly (100)
Reason: Remarkable (30)
Intuition: Monstrous (75)
Psyche: CL1000 (1000)

Health: 300
Karma: 1105
Resources: Good (10)
Popularity: S12/H22

POWERS

True Invulnerability: Due to the augmentation of his physical structure to accommodate the comic energies infusing him Eon enjoys Incredible protection from all non-magical and non-psionic attacks, providing a 7CS reduction on all affected attacks.

Regeneration: Eon’s enhanced physiology provides him with Amazing regenerative capabilities, allowing him to recover lost health fifty times faster than normal as well as regrow lost or damaged body parts on an appropriate feat roll depending upon the degree of damage.

Invulnerability to Toxins, Disease and Aging: Due to his cosmic energy-enhanced physiology Eon enjoys CL1000 resistance to all listed attack forms, and no longer ages naturally.

Life-Support: Eon’s enhanced physical structure provides him with CL1000 rank Life-Support, allowing him to survive in otherwise hostile environments without injury and no longer requires food, water, or air in order to survive as he is sustained by the cosmic energies infusing him.

Immortality: Eon cannot be slain by conventional means and as such does not die when driven to zero health and shift-0 endurance. He may only be slain by a force that disrupts his control over his bodily molecules and scatters them over a wide volume of space.

Linguistics: Eon’s cosmically-enhanced mind processes information differently than most, allowing him to see the patterns in everything around him as such he possesses Monstrous ability to translate and decode virtually any means of communication or encrypting data and communicate in it as easily as he communicates in his native language.

Cosmic Awareness: Eon has sporadic and uncontrolled flashes of insight and bits of unexplained knowledge imprinting upon his awareness with Monstrous ability due to the brief contact with Eternity he experienced. He has no control over this ability at present and it often acts on its own and can end up providing him with virtually any random information, from the secret herbs and spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken to the nature of a hidden plot to destroy the universe. He will also automatically be aware of anyone with Shift X or better powers or abilities within 10 miles of his current location

Cosmic Energy Manipulation: Eon may manipulate cosmic energies for a variety of effects with Amazing rank ability and range. He currently may engage in the following power stunts:
-Unleash force or energy blasts of pure cosmic energy doing Amazing damage to power rank range.
-Flight at Unearthly rank speeds by manipulating gravity and is able to lift Monstrous weights in flight by extending the field to include other objects or people and may hover in place.
-By channeling his cosmic energy into his Strength he may boost it to Shift-X rank for 10 turns +1 turn for each successful power feat check.
-Eon does not tire due to exertion as his metabolism is bolstered by his absorption of ambient cosmic energy.
-Eon may engage in limited shapeshifting in order to shift between his original human appearance and his more heroic form and may make other minor adjustments on a successful Psyche feat. Returning to either of his base forms is automatically successful.
-Reshape existing matter as per the Molding power with power rank ability and range.
-Elemental Conversion with power rank ability and range.
-Molecular Conversion with power rank ability and range.
-Eon may detect any lifeforms as well as their location within 10 areas with Amazing ability and may determine more detailed data upon any within range on a successful power feat check.
-Generate a Micro-Environment centered about himself with Incredible ability and range.
-By channeling his cosmic energies into others Eon may heal others with power rank ability, allowing for the recovery of up to 50 health per turn and the regeneration of lost and damaged tissues and once health is fully restored may fix Endurance rank losses at a rate of one per turn until totally healed.
-Eon may revive the recently deceased with power rank ability. Those dead less than 5 minutes may be revive without a feat roll, those dead up to 10 minutes may be revived on a Green feat roll, those dead up to 30 minutes may be revived on a yellow feat roll, and up to an hour on a Red power feat roll. Once revived healing may be continued as per his ability to heal others.

EQUIPMENT

Unique Weapon-Hammer: Crafted of CL1000 material strength Uru metal in the image of Thor’s hammer Mjolnir (and enhanced by the cosmic energies it contains to CL3000 material strength) this cosmically enhanced artifact provides a number of formidable special abilities to Eon, including the following:
-Does Shift-X blunt damage in combat, whether melee or ranged.
-May be tossed up to 10 areas away and will return to Eon’s hand, and may be summoned across any distance into his grasp on a successful Yellow Psyche feat.
-Being bonded to Eon he is the only one that may wield the hammer, to anyone else it is impossible to pick up from its resting place or otherwise displace it. If tossed into someone’s hands it will promptly drop to the ground where it will remain until picked up or summoned by Eon. It may also if desired inflict up to Amazing energy damage on unauthorized attempts to use it.
-Generate a Monstrous rank Gateway by twirling his hammer and concentrating on the type he seeks to create and its destination, allowing him to transverse space, time, and other dimensions. May carry passengers or create gates allowing others to travel without he himself making use of them if desired.
-Eon’s hammer has a small pocket dimension associated with it in which he may store items and summon them from as desired. This is often done to store his shield when not in use.
-May fire bolts of pure cosmic energy doing Unearthly force or energy damage up to 10 areas away
-Eon may channel his Cosmic Energy Manipulation through his hammer gaining +2CS to his ranks for any and all power stunts related to this power.
-As an object of vast cosmic potential Eon’s hammer may function as an energy source for anyone sufficiently intelligent enough to craft a device to tap into it, allowing for powering devices with up to Shift X energy demands.
-By spending 10 turns focusing on charging up his hammer he may engage in an Unfettered Might attack, striking for Shift Y blunt damage and Unearthly Energy damage (either hand-held or thrown), raised to Shift Z Blunt Damage if boosting Strength simultaneously. This is very draining and physically debilitating and will temporarily reduce FASE by 2CS including Health for one hour until his energies regenerate to peak levels.

Unique Weapon-Shield: Fashioned in the image of Captain America’s Shield and replicating that unique object’s molecular structure this 2.5 foot diameter circular shield is one of the most indestructible items ever known, possessing CL3000 material strength and impervious to virtually anything of less than cosmic status or rare powers capable of affecting the molecular bonds that render it so impervious to harm. While no amount of conventional damage can penetrate the shield it cannot block stuns or slams from affecting its wielder nor may it soak up more than Unearthly damage at any given time. It can however allow someone to stand on it while falling and successfully absorb the damage and allow its wielder to escape injury even while falling at terminal velocity. Due to its disk-shaped design and unusual resiliency the shield may be thrown up to 10 areas and bounced off of multiple targets and return to its wielder’s hand on a successful Yellow feat. It can do up to Shift X damage when wielded by Eon based on his current strength, either edged or blunt damage depending on how he chooses to strike with it. This is raised to Shift Y levels if also boosting his Strength at the time.

TALENTS

Weapon Specialist-Hammer, Shield; Medical Doctor; Emergency Medicine; Surgery; Biology; Pharmacology; Chemistry; Pathology; Leadership;

HISTORY

Within the vastness of the sea of Chaos that the multiverse and its many dimensions reside pockets of other universe great and small occasionally intersect with each other as they float within that measureless expanse. Often due to the vast emptiness within the known universe these incursions mean nothing as they touch, separate, or merge as the greater universe subsumes the lesser. Occasionally though these events touch upon locations where life exists, even sentient life with widely varying results depending on the interaction of the often radically differing physics of the two colliding universes.

One such event occurred at a most fortuitous moment during a titanic battle between the Avengers and an alien attack force that had been devastating part of New York City leaving many dead and injured in its wake. Kevin Albertson was one of several emergency medical response personnel attempting to triage the wounded and engage in the grisly task of military-style medicine to keep as many as possible from dying from their injuries. While he was caught up fighting a losing battle to save his latest patient reality underwent revision as a micro-bubble of one of those extra-dimensional realms intersected where he was at and subjected him to the conflicting interaction of that bubble as the greater universe sought to assimilate it.

It took but a moment and yet that was all that it took as Kevin’s body and mind were reshaped in response to that event, a brief moment that had brought Eternity Itself to bear on the location to preserve its essence. Infused with that cosmic energy and the influence of his recent and intense memories on the heroes he’d seen battling crafted for him replicas of their signature items and empowered him at levels beyond his wildest dreams before then. Confused at first he reacted on instinct when one of the alien attack squads mistook him as being one of the heroes opposing him and opened fire upon him and quickly eliminated them.

Shocked out of his confusion by the attack Kevin set about using his sudden gift of power to fight back the invasion forces while tracking down and treating as many victims of their brutal assault as he could. With the battle over and what introductions that could be done between the newly minted cosmically-enhanced hero and the veteran Avengers over with Kevin decided to continue using his powers heroically and while turning down an offer to be an Avenger-In-Training agreed to drop in regularly to learn more from the experts on how to deal with things and took up the heroic ID of Eon to be known by the public as.

CONTACTS

Hero Group (Avengers);

ENEMIES

Apocalypse; Graviton; Magneto;

PERSONALITY

Kevin was a very responsible individual even before gaining his powers, his devotion to the medical field and emergency medical care driven by a need to give back to the world around him and do the most good for people. With his transformation and joining the Super-human community he’s been forced to expand his goals and activities considerably and is still seeking to rise to his highest level in a measured fashion, attempting not to run before he can walk and minimize possible negative repercussions from his learning to best exploit his newfound abilities.

Unity

Super-hero ID: Unity
Name: Unity
Power Category-Physical Gestalt
Origin of Super-human Powers: Alien power bands worn on wrists along with improved physical and mental capabilities due to physical merging of their wearers.
Appearance: Unity appears as a tall, idealized expression of her original selves. As such someone familiar with her components might recognize that Unity and the Winters twins have something in common. Her costume depends on her mood and changes frequently between mergers.
Height: 6’
Weight: 173 lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 26

Fighting: Incredible (40)
Agility: Incredible (40)
Strength: Remarkable (30)
Endurance: Incredible (40)
Reason: Remarkable (30)
Intuition: Incredible (40)
Psyche: Amazing (50)

Health: 150
Karma: 120
Resources: N/A (As a composite being Unity has no real occupation beyond her heroic activities while she exists and only access to those resources provided by her constituent components.)
Popularity: 33

POWERS

Body Resistance: Unity’s merged form grants her Excellent protection from Physical and Energy Attacks.

Regeneration (Special): Unity’s merged form will bring about the rapid healing and regeneration of the two beings that join to create her, as such after merging and separating Alicia and Angela will be restored to full health and vitality, with all diseases, injuries, and other impairments completely purged and left completely whole and without scarring.

EQUIPMENT

Alpha Band: Worn on Unity’s left wrist is the Alpha Band, a product of an unknown and presumably alien technology. Constructed of an unknown silvery-appearing Unearthly material strength alloy it provides the following powers and benefits to her:
-Unity enjoys the benefits of Monstrous Rank Life Support, which provides her with Monstrous protection from environmental hazards, including heat, cold, and radiation, and eliminates the need for food, water, or air.
-Unity regenerates at Amazing rank speeds, as her physiology is enhanced by the energies of the Alpha Band and may regenerate lost or damaged tissue. Due to the fact that every cell in her body is sustained by the Alpha Band’s energies things like blood loss do not have the harmful effects with regards to her that they would for other beings and does not suffer things like Endurance Rank losses as a result.
-By touching an injured person and channeling the energies of the Alpha Band into another Unity may heal another with Amazing ability, restoring lost health at a rate of 50 per turn and regenerate lost or damaged limbs or organs by remaining in physical contact for one minute.
-The Alpha Band continually generates a skin-tight energy field completely covering Unity’s body and provides Amazing protection from Physical and Energy Attacks of all sorts.
-As a synergistic effect in combination with the Omega Band the Alpha Band allows Unity to fly at Unearthly speeds.

Omega Band: Create by an unknown and presumably alien technology and worn on Unity’s right wrist is the Omega Band. Golden in appearance it is fabricated of an unknown Unearthly material strength alloy that provides her with the following special abilities and powers:
-The Omega Band may fire destructive bolts of energy that break down matter and inflict up to Monstrous damage at power rank range.
-Unity may convert existing elements or compounds into any element or compound desired with Monstrous ability on contact, affecting up to 75 pounds at one time.
-Unity may mold solid matter upon touch with Monstrous ability, affecting up to 750 lbs of matter at one time. Attempts to create detailed or complex structures or devices require a Reason Feat against the complexity of the intended molding results.
-Unity may choose to generate a Micro-environment extending from her current location with Monstrous rank capabilities and a range of 7.5 areas.
-As a synergistic effect with the Alpha Band the Omega Band allows Unity to generate any attire she desires, instantly fashioning her costume or any other style of clothing with Unearthly ability.
-The most potent and destructive power of the united Alpha and Omega bands is the Armageddon effect, which can only be triggered by striking the bands together forcefully and willing it to occur. Upon being activated a destructive spherical wave-front will extend forth from Unity’s position that destroys all matter with Shift Z ability to a range of 10 areas. Afterwards Unity will take Amazing damage and all powers provided by the bands will be temporarily depleted for 1d10 turns and will require a Red Psyche feat to avoid reverting to her original components, each of which will have taken Excellent damage as a result of the stresses. Forced separation by this route will prevent them from reemerging for at least one hour due to the stresses involved.

TALENTS

Law-Enforcement; Guns; Detective/Espionage; Law; Business/Finance; Martial Arts A-C; First Aid;

HISTORY

Professor Bertram Kingsbury was an archaeologist turned graverobber in the grand tradition of the unenlightened archaeologists that began the profession before the field evolved into the truly scientific and rational field it became today. Going from site to site around the world with a like-minded team of thieves he plundered dozens of dig sites and ruined incalculable amounts of buried secrets in his lust for a few dollars more, until the day it all changed when they broke into an ancient site in England and found a hidden chamber with a female statue adorned with what would become known as the Alpha and Omega Bands.

While a greedy thief Bertram wasn’t a stupid thief and quickly learned from examining them that they were more than just simple adornments. Unfortunately anyone who put them on quickly ended up dead, their body burned to ash within minutes and disgusted with his inability to work out what the bands were for and how to use them he eventually gave up and sold them off to the criminal organization known as Advanced Ideas Mechanics, or AIM.

Between the other materials recovered from the site and studies of the bands the AIM branch studying them eventually puzzled out several requirements although not exactly what the bands did, other than they could provide considerable power when accessed effectively. That and that the bands were apparently not meant to be worn by a single being, in spite of the impression that was given by their being worn on the statue that they were found upon. Several (lethal) experiments finally reached the conclusion that the bands were somehow synced and required the same genetic profile for each wearer, but couldn’t be worn by the same person leading them to conclude that they required identical twins to test them out.

Finding suitable twins wasn’t so hard, as the Winters twins had both inadvertently interfered with AIM causes in the past, so were a great choice to use as lab animals. Either they’d burn up like previous wearers or they’d manifest powers that AIM would then find a means to control. Unfortunately things didn’t work out quite as well as they’d hoped; sure the kidnappings went off without a hitch and the sisters locked down in their labs and banded, but from there it all went wrong.

Things in fact went wrong from the moment the bands were attached to the twins, as Angela’s initial release of power destroyed the restraints she was in and the creation of the telepathic link between her and her sister allowed her to track down and free Alicia as well. The greatest disaster though came about after they met up and the ultimate power of the bands was released as their joyful embrace upon seeing each other once again led to their first merging into the end result that upon her first breath named herself Unity.

Fighting her way free with the augmented powers and combined knowledge available to her Unity inadvertently destroyed the facility and all records related to her other than the initial information regarding the bands. Eventually reverting to their original separate selves the sisters agreed to conceal the existence of the bands and use them to expand upon the good works that they already did in their lives and to come together when the threats were great enough to require the power of their ultimate union, the power of Unity!

CONTACTS

Unity currently only has those contacts she may access in her normal individual parts.

ENEMIES

AIM; Hydra;

PERSONALITY

As a synthesis of the minds of both Alicia and Angela Winters Unity is a supremely confident female and almost arrogant at times given the nature of the personalities merged to create her. She will rush into hell’s depths to save someone in need and use her combined skills and powers to maximum effectiveness thanks in part to the increased mental capabilities she possesses. Knowing she exists as the joining of two other beings though she isn’t suicidally reckless and wouldn’t risk throwing away their lives so callously, and when the day is saved she generally finds somewhere out of sight to relinquish her form to give them back their lives but sometimes will remain around for a few hours if nothing pressing is going on in the lives of her component parts to revel in simply living. Alicia and Angela retain the memories of their time merged to create Unity although Unity herself is a unique entity with a gestalt personality.

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Alpha

Super-hero ID: Alpha
Name: Alicia Winters
Power Category-Normal Human
Origin of Super-human powers: Alien power device known as the Alpha Band
Appearance: Alicia is a tall, tanned, and well-toned Caucasian female with hazel eyes and dresses in a business-like fashion at all times and even outings like business parties will see her dressed in the most expensive and business-like of fashions.
Height: 5’ 9”
Weight: 138 lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 26

Fighting: Typical (6)
Agility: Good (10)
Strength: Typical (6)
Endurance: Good (10)
Reason: Excellent (20)
Intuition: Good (10)
Psyche: Excellent (20)

Health: 32
Karma: 50
Resources: Excellent (Alicia is a member of a legal partnership specializing in corporate and tax law, and with help from her sister’s molecular conversion powers from the Omega Band may when desired raise this to Amazing levels without raising suspicions, although only does so when she must, preferring to live within her means and not being the greedy sort)
Popularity: S0 (25 to her clients)/H N/A (Alicia does not act as a hero except when combined with her sister to create Unity and does everything she can to conceal the Alpha Band and its effects upon her.)

POWERS

Alicia has no known super-powers and derives all her special abilities via the Alpha Band.

EQUIPMENT

Alpha Band: The product of an unknown and presumably alien technology the Alpha Band that is worn on Alicia’s left wrist is a silvery-appearing Unearthly material strength alloy that grants the following powers to its wearer:
-Alicia enjoys the benefits of Remarkable Rank Life Support, such that she has remarkable protection from hazardous environmental extremes like extremes of heat, cold, and radiation, and does not require food, water, or air in order to survive.
-Due to the bolstering of her physiology by the Alpha Band Alicia enjoys Excellent rank Regeneration, recovering lost health 20 times faster than without it and may regrow lost or damaged organs.
-Alicia may channel the energies of the Alpha band into another upon physical contact, allowing her to heal others with Excellent ability, restoring up to 20 health per turn and Regenerating lost limbs or organs on a Red power feat and remaining in physical contact for one hour.
-Alicia may track the location of the Omega Band and her sister with Unearthly ability and unlimited range.
-Enhancing the mental affinity she shares with her sister the Alpha Band provides Alicia with an Unearthly rank telepathic/empathic bond with her sister.
-On physical contact with her sister and a mental desire to do so they may merge together into a single more powerful being (see Unity write-up above).

TALENTS

Law; Business/Finance; Martial Arts A-C;

HISTORY

Alicia comes from a family with a long and distinguished career in law-enforcement and protecting others. Unlike her sister though she felt her best way to help others wasn’t working in some police station or walking a beat, instead she felt the legal profession itself was what counted for she knew from her family that too often corrupt police and prosecutors had sent the innocent to jail, and rather than be on the side that put criminals away she’d support those who were innocent and needed saving from the other side.

Eventually her skill in the legal profession got her offered membership in a prestigious Law firm and while it wasn’t one that specialized in her area of law it brought many benefits and if she had to spend some of her time on corporate and tax cases she could handle that for how much it helped her in protecting the innocent.

CONTACTS

Alicia has a number of contacts scattered throughout the corporate world as well as the ability to use the assets of the partnership (financial as well as manpower) in an emergency (Incredible resources). She can easily slip requests for financial or other information in with other legitimate requests of the staff.

ENEMIES

Alicia has developed a number of enemies in the form of disgruntled former clients she failed to help or didn’t help to the degree that they felt they should have succeeded, as well as gaining the occasional enemy among those clients she has successfully helped in the form of the clients’ enemies.

PERSONALITY

As a confident, successful lawyer and financial expert Alicia projects an aura of confidence and competence to everyone who encounters her. Friendly and personable she tends to get along well with most everyone, including the staff assigned to her, which only inspires them to work harder on her behalf. With the changes in her life after the acquisition of the Alpha Band she’s had to rework her life on many levels to accommodate it and the threats drawn to her because of it but as a fighter who doesn’t surrender when the going gets tough she perseveres and puts her keen legal and financial mind to work of solving the problems it brings like she does all other problems in her life and turns it to her advantage at every opportunity.

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Omega

Super-hero ID: Omega
Name: Angela Winters
Power Category-Normal Human
Origin of Super-human Powers: Alien power device known as the Omega Band
Appearance: Angela is a tall, tanned, and well-toned Caucasian female with hazel eyes and serious demeanor who dresses low key and casual when not on the job. While doing police business she will be dressed in whatever is appropriate to her assignment, or will default to her standard police attire when not engaging in surveillance or filling in for another officer.
Height: 5’ 9”
Weight: 138 lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 26

Fighting: Excellent (20)
Agility: Good (10)
Strength: Good (10)
Endurance: Excellent (20)
Reason: Excellent (20)
Intuition: Remarkable (30)
Psyche: Excellent (20)

Health: 60
Karma: 70
Resources: Typical (This is her base police salary, by using her molecular conversion powers to create easily sold and untraceable items of good resale value she may boost this to Remarkable level indefinitely without being noticed)
Popularity: S5

POWERS

Angela possesses no known super-powers and derives all her powers and special abilities due to the Omega Band.

EQUIPMENT

Omega Band: Created by an unknown and presumably alien technology and worn on Angela’s right wrist the Omega Band is an Unearthly material strength alloy with a golden appearance that provides her with the following special abilities and powers:
-The Omega Band may fire destructive bolts of energy that break down matter and inflict Excellent damage at power rank range.
-Omega may convert existing elements or compounds into any element or compound desired with Excellent ability on contact, affecting up to 20 pounds at one time.
-Omega may mold solid matter with Excellent ability, affecting up to 200 pounds of matter on touch. Attempts to create detailed or complex structures or devices require a Reason Feat against the complexity of the intended molding results.
-The Omega Band generates a protective micro-environment around Angela to a range of 10 feet, providing Excellent protection from environmental hazards outside the radius of its protective field.
-Angela may track the location of the Alpha Band and her sister with Unearthly ability and unlimited range.
-Enhancing the mental affinity she shares with her sister the Omega Band provides Angela with an Unearthly rank telepathic/empathic bond with her sister.
-On physical contact with her sister and a mental desire to do so they may merge together into a single more powerful being (see Unity write-up above).

TALENTS

Law-Enforcement; Guns; Detective/Espionage; Martial Arts A-C; First Aid;

HISTORY

Born into a family with a rich history of Law Enforcement and public service Angela gladly went into the service even though her sister went into the law profession instead and easily excelled at the police academy as she passed first in her class. The challenges of being a woman trying to do what many thought was only a man’s job was trying but she rose to the task and proved herself a natural as she helped fight the crime in her community and earned a number of awards and commendations for her selfless devotion to protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.

CONTACTS

As a member of law-enforcement and a police detective Angela has a number of street and mid-level contacts she’s cultivated over the years as well as low to mid-level connections throughout the police dept. As a decorated police officer well known in her community for her efforts to clean things up she may also expect the occasional anonymous tip as well as offers of home-cooked meals from grateful citizens.

ENEMIES

Angela is an implacable foe of the criminal elements that eat away at her community, and has proven enough of a threat that the various gangs, drug dealers, and organized crime figures make almost regular attempts to eliminate or discredit her and remove her as a threat. She especially hates pimps (not prostitutes or prostitution as she believes in one’s right to decide what to do with their own body, including rent it out to others) because they force people into a dangerous situation and use them with less respect for their dignity than a dog.

PERSONALITY

Much like her sister Angela is a confident and charismatic woman who believes in herself and her ability to succeed at her chosen path in life. With her commitment to fighting crime and doing what’s right she occasionally suffers attacks of conscience hiding her possession of the Omega Band from others and her use of it to help her surreptitiously fight evil but realizes the dangers of letting the truth be known and reluctantly keeps it a secret shared only with her sister due to their similar situations. More of a risk-taker than her sister she will charge into dangerous situations if she feels she can make a positive difference and was like this even before she acquired the Omega Band and the benefits it confers upon her.

I like the idea of each band having independent powers. Could make for some interesting gameplay if one of the other were neutralized for a time. I think you forgot to put a power rank on the Molding power. Gesalt is an often overlooked origin. I like seeing someone create one, kudos. Jesus! She can nuke! Thats not gonna be useful 99% of the time in an urban setting. But if Galactus comes to town....might as well blow some crap up!

I'm glad you like her she was one of the many characters I created desiring to present someone from the less-used power categories and origins and since I do like the power band idea so much (Both from Captain Mar-Vell and from the old Hercules and Goliath cartoon series) I put the ideas together to appropriately enough bring forth Unity. I was careful to craft each band with limited powers in different fields and work out how those would increase when united, particularly the design of the Armageddon effect (which as you note is really only useful in a situation where only a massively desctructive attack can save the day). I could see Alpha if she could find a way to do it anonymously to go to hospitals in the critical care wards (particularly burn wards) and 'sit vigil' with some suffering person and under the guise of holding their hand for comfort get in the hour needed to regenerate and save them.

No her ranks for the Molding ability are listed: she's Excellent rank affecting up to 200 lbs for Omega and when combined to create Unity the power rank rises to Monstrous and affects up to 750 lbs of matter.

That is a very cool character concept! Thank you for sharing the idea with us!

No problem glad to share her/them with everyone and maybe inspire others or at least give them a good read for the day.

Payback

Super-Hero ID: Payback
Name: Elizabeth
Power Category-Compound Form (Demihuman: Felinoid/Cyborg: Limb and Organ)
Source of Super-human powers: Genetic engineering for original form, followed by undesired replacement of various body parts with bionic replacements.
Appearance: Elizabeth is a tall, powerfully built anthropomorphic Siberian tigress with piercing golden eyes. She prefers to wear a suit of sleeveless black body armor when out in public and may on occasion wear a black hooded cloak to conceal her features from casual observation.
Height: 6’
Weight: 198 Lbs
Sex: Female
Eyes: Golden
Age: 12 (appears to be fully adult in her mid-20s)

Fighting: Amazing (50)
Agility: Incredible (40)
Strength: Incredible (40)
Endurance: Amazing (50)
Reason: Excellent (20)
Intuition: Remarkable (30)
Psyche: Amazing (50)

Health: 180
Karma: 100
Resources: Elizabeth may easily draw upon Excellent resources through the funds available via the company established to market Theresa’s technology.
Popularity: -10 (Elizabeth is a large and scary creature in the eyes of the general public in spite of her good deeds)

POWERS
Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Sight): Elizabeth’s natural senses of Hearing and Sight via her remaining natural ear and eye function at Incredible levels of sensitivity.

Night-vision: Incredible ability to see in near total darkness via her natural eye.

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Elizabeth’s natural claws are of Remarkable material strength and capable of striking for Incredible edged damage.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Elizabeth’s natural teeth are of Remarkable material strength and she may bite for Incredible edged damage or Monstrous damage if she bites and tears out parts of her target (Strength feat required for the tearing to succeed).

Hyper-Leaping: Elizabeth’s exceptional legs allow her to leap with Amazing ability, jumping up to 75’ up or across and down up to 105’ without injury, and may do so while carrying others without inflicting injury upon her passengers.

Hyper-Running: Remarkable land speeds due to her exceptional leg muscles and general musculature and may run as if possessing Monstrous Endurance.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Tail

CYBERNETICS/BIONICS

Bionic Right Arm: Unearthly material strength, Monstrous physical Strength, retractable bionic claws (Unearthly material strength, Monstrous edged damage), retractable finger claws (Unearthly material strength, Incredible edged damage).

Bionic Right Eye: Monstrous rank Infra-vision, UV-vision, Night-vision. Typical rank Telescopic Vision. Targeting Lock (+2CS to ranged attacks when held/guided by her right arm).

Bionic Right Ear: Monstrous Rank Enhanced Hearing, Monstrous rank expanded sensory range (infra-sonic and ultra-sonic sound range).

Built-in Computer: Monstrous rank biological scanners (provide complete physiological data on Elizabeth), Hacking Computer (Amazing Reason, Cryptography and hacking software, medical diagnostics), Computer Interface (concealed jacks in right arm and behind bionic ear as well as wi-fi), Unearthly-rank firewall and encryption, +1CS to piloting rolls with any vehicle designed to interface with computer control systems (adds to any other bonuses), System Diagnostics (provides full diagnostics and damage reports of all her non-organic systems);

Chemical Analyzer: Specialized nano-receptors installed into her nasal cavities and lungs continually monitor and analyze everything Elizabeth breathes, providing her with on-demand results as to current chemicals in the air with Amazing accuracy and sensitivity, and will automatically alert her to potentially dangerous compounds and gases in the air. In the event something is not stored in the chemical database of her onboard computers it will be flagged as an unknown but possibly dangerous material as a default and notification made immediately.

Internal Oxygen Supply: Stored in her chest cavity these specialized oxygen canisters allow Elizabeth to go up to half an hour without breathing in a low-oxygen or poisonous environment, although will provide no protection from hazardous gases that only require skin contact in order to be effective such as nerve gas. She may also share this with another if she breathes for them, although will reduce the duration of the benefits in half due to the extra demand. They will automatically activate as required and naturally restore themselves in a suitable environment as well as may be refilled by any skilled cybernetics doctor and engineer.

Reinforced Bionic Skeleton: Skeleton has been upgraded with Unearthly material strength metal inlays, rendering it almost impossible to break. Secondary adamantium skull with vibranium lining to protect brain against vibration damage and head blows. Spinal column and skull connection upgraded with protective baffles to protect against attacks targeting the spinal cord and brain as well as prevent dismemberment. Reinforced chest cavity providing Monstrous protection from efforts to crush/compress her chest or specifically target her heart or lungs.

Medical/Repair Nanites: Stored in her chest cavity Elizabeth has access to a one-shot use of a range of nanites capable of repairing up to 100 points of damage over a 10 minute span of time as well as repair damage (although not replace) to her bionics, after which she will have to have a fresh supply installed to gain this benefit again. Due to this Elizabeth will only use these when she’s got no other choice.

Communications Suite: All-frequency radio transceiver, range 250 miles, capable of receiving and transmitting with Monstrous ability on any frequency, as well as encrypt and decrypt communications. By linking up with her bionic eye and ear she may transmit high definition video and audio as well as receive similar, store up to 1000 hrs of data on her internal data storage systems, even watch television if she wishes. She may also make untraceable cell-phone calls without having to speak out loud due to the neural interface with her brain. Combined with her internal computer and neural interface she has the ability to surf the Internet with broadband access. Wi-Fi wireless PC capable.

EQUIPMENT

Body Armor: Elizabeth wears conventional black body armor (although lacks sleeves, so arms are bare to the shoulders) that provides Excellent protection against Physical and Energy attacks.

TALENTS
Martial Arts A, B, C, E; Weapons Master; Marksman; Thrown Objects; Thrown weapons; Tumbling; Airplane Pilot; Automobile Specialist; Aerial Combat; Military; Parachuting;

HISTORY

Elizabeth was one of the first successful creations in the second generation of genetic experimentation to create a non-human super-soldier for the war effort (Theresa being the sole success of the first generation). Heavily trained in a variety of front-line combat skills and hand-to-hand combat she was well on her way to being a loyal member and front-runner of a line of genetically engineered living weapons until the government went one step too far.

Considering her a good test subject for the experimental bionics being perfected by Theresa she was forced to undergo partial bionic conversion to test out the new systems and make her a better weapon in the bargain. While she survived and adapted to the changes in good time it left her with a burning hatred for her creators and their feeling they could maim her with such callous ease. Eventually joining with the survivor of the first generation and the first successful member of the third generation the trio escaped and destroyed as much of the research that they could in the bargain.

Caught in a freak snowstorm after escaping into the wilderness they might have perished if they hadn’t been found by a stranded human who was able to provide them sufficient warmth and shelter in his snow-bound vehicle to recover. Cautious at first given their experience with humans to that point he managed to win them over and with their help escaped from the snow and returned to the small apartment where he lived. Sneaking them inside he gave them shelter while they plotted what to do with their newfound freedom.

Elizabeth and her companions had been hiding out for weeks in their rescuer’s home when they were finally provided with a goal to motivate them after Vance (the human who rescued them) was assaulted and robbed by several thugs. Infuriated at what happened to him they tracked the thugs down (an easy task given their powers) and paid them back in kind and recovered his stolen goods and left the terrified thugs to surrender themselves to the police and confess their crimes. Flush with the energy of their victory they decided to dedicate themselves to protecting those that had no one to protect them; to better the lives of those that human society had forgotten as only they could. They would protect them from the shadows as the Shadow Guardians.

CONTACTS

Mirriam; Theresa; Vance Jones;

PERSONALITY

Elizabeth is a driven personality due to the betrayal she suffered and general bitterness over the loss of her natural body parts even if the replacements have proven equal or superior to the originals. As such she has little patience with fools and her sense of humor is almost non-existent and goes into every situation with military planning and coldly rational actions. While she respects her companions and only true friends she tends to have trouble relating to them as Mirriam is far warmer and more outgoing and sociable and Theresa more interested in her experiments and what new technology she can come up with and Vance being human she has trouble even with his efforts to help them all when it comes to trusting him. She also would have little trouble killing someone if that was what was required to save someone else, especially children as she empathizes with them due to their innocence, likening it to her own before her creators maimed her.

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Killjoy

Super-Hero ID: Killjoy
Name: Mirriam
Power Category-Demihuman: Vulpinoid
Source of Super-human Powers: Genetically-Engineered Life Form.
Appearance: Mirriam is a slender anthropomorphic vixen with traditional russet fur covering the majority of her body with black ‘boots’ and ‘gloves’ for her arms and legs and a white patch of fur tipping her tail. She generally prefers a snug-fitting black body suit that covers her from the neck down when out doing her rounds looking for problems in need of solving and casual human attire suitably modified to accommodate her differing physical characteristics when relaxing.
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 134 lbs
Sex: Female
Eyes: Hazel
Age: 10 (Appears to be in her mid-20s)

Fighting: Remarkable (30)
Agility: Incredible (40)
Strength: Excellent (20)
Endurance: Incredible (40)
Reason: Excellent (20)
Intuition: Monstrous (75)
Psyche: Amazing (50)

Health: 130
Karma: 145
Resources: Remarkable
Popularity: 5

POWERS

Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Sight, Smell): Mirriam’s senses of hearing, sight, and smell all operate at the Monstrous level of sensitivity. She suffers a penalty of 1CS against any attacks that specifically target any of these senses in order to resist them, and an extra 1CS of damage if she fails to resist. She does not however suffer extended recovery times as her regenerative abilities compensate, allowing her to recover in the standard amount of time. Power stunts include:
-Identify someone by smell with Monstrous ability.
-Detect/locate invisible, hidden, or otherwise concealed beings with Monstrous ability, eliminating penalties in combat dealing with such opponents provided she may make use of her other senses in order to compensate.

Tracking: Monstrous tracking ability by a combination of scent and other disturbances in the environment.

Nightvision: Amazing ability to see in near total darkness. Note that this requires at least a glimmer of light in order to function, so is useless in settings where the darkness absolute, like underground in a cave.

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Mirriam’s Remarkable material strength claws allow her to strike for Remarkable edged damage.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Similar to her claws Mirriam’s teeth are made up of Remarkable material strength materials and allow her to bite for Excellent edged damage.

Iron Will: Unearthly rank control over her every aspect of her body and physiology, allowing Mirriam the following power stunts currently:
-Enter into a state of Suspended Animation with Monstrous ability, eliminating the need for food and water and needing only a minimal amount of air in order to survive and may do so for up to 100 days before she must end the state of Suspended Animation and resume normal activities of eating, drinking, and breathing. She remains aware of her surroundings in a dream-like state and may react to hazards by ending her Suspended Animation within one turn of detecting such and efforts to detect if she’s alive must overcome her Unearthly control over her body to detect that she’s alive.
-Resist Mind and Emotional Control and attacks as well as attacks designed to disrupt her physiology (example: Biophysical Control/Disruption) with Unearthly rank resistance.
-Overcome her body’s need for food, water, or sleep with Monstrous ability, letting her automatically go without any of that without ill effect for the first day, requiring a green feat to pass the second day, a yellow for the third, and a red feat for the forth and following days. She may maintain this for up to two weeks before the effects become too difficult to overcome as her body is ravaged by forcing it beyond its natural limits, requiring her to sleep for a minimum of 24hrs after the effect ends and eat and drink ravenously to replenish her body’s reserves and offset the damage.
-Regulate her physiological responses, allowing her to make devices or powers that analyze and derive information from one’s physiology (the lie-detecting ability of Daredevil for example) useless.

Regeneration: Mirriam regenerates with Unearthly ability, recovering lost health 100 times faster than a normal being and may regenerate lost body parts on a Red power feat.

Resistance to Aging: Due to the ability of her body to self-repair and maintain itself Mirriam has Amazing resistance to the effects of aging and ages only one year for every 50 that pass.

Stealth: Remarkable ability to move without detection, imposing a 6CS penalty on all means of tracking her.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Fox Tail

TALENTS
Detective/Espionage, Criminology, Marksman; Military; Demolitions and Explosives Disposal;

HISTORY

Mirriam was a member of the third generation of genetic engineering experiments designed for espionage, guerilla warfare, and black ops assassinations to come from the same secret government program to produce Theresa and Elizabeth. Trained in a variety of skills for the task she was created for she performed several missions for her creators (as well as getting the most experience with humans and human society of the three) and had little problems escaping alongside Elizabeth and Theresa.

CONTACTS

Theresa; Elizabeth; Vance Jones;

PERSONALITY

Mirriam is the most outgoing, warm, and friendly of the trio of escapees from the government’s secret genetics programming. Wiser and more mature even though she’s the youngest in terms of actual age she’s often the voice of wisdom to the others and after her time spent killing (however briefly) for the US Black Ops programs she will never take a life except in extreme duress and will do what she can to preserve the lives of everyone present.

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Keystone

Super-Hero ID: Keystone
Name: Theresa
Power Category-Demihuman: Mouse
Source of Super-human Powers: Unexpected results of genetic restructuring of laboratory mouse.
Appearance: Theresa is a medium-sized anthropomorphic mouse covered in soft gray fur from head to toe and the tip of her tail. Her standard attire is generally a work-suit of some sort to keep her fur from getting into whatever she’s working on although on the rare occasions she goes out into public she prefers to wear a set of steel-gray body armor for maximum protection given her distrust of most humans.
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 136 Lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 15 (apparent age mid-20s).

Fighting: Typical (6)
Agility: Excellent (20)
Strength: Typical (6)
Endurance: Remarkable (30)
Reason: Amazing (50)
Intuition: Amazing (50)
Psyche: Unearthly (100)

Health: 62
Karma: 200
Resources: Incredible (40) (Represents the resources most easily accessible through the high-tech company that Vance acts as the front for: Alpha Technologies, Inc.)
Popularity: 0 (Theresa almost never goes outside the confines of the well-protected estate and its surrounding grounds that she and the others live at.)

POWERS

Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Sight, Smell): Theresa’s senses of hearing, sight, and smell all operate at the Monstrous level of sensitivity. She suffers a penalty of 1CS against any attacks that specifically target any of these senses in order to resist them, and an extra 1CS of damage if she fails to resist.

Nightvision: Incredible ability to see in near total darkness. Note that this requires at least a glimmer of light in order to function, so is useless in settings where the darkness is absolute, like underground or in a sealed room.

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Theresa’s Excellent material strength claws allow her to strike for Excellent edged damage.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Excellent material strength teeth and jaws allow Theresa to bite for Excellent edged damage.

Total Memory: Unearthly recall of anything she has ever read, heard, or experienced and gives her a built-in library of every technical manual she has ever read.

Hyper-Invention: Unearthly rank increase to Reason in regards to comprehending, designing, repairing, and improving upon existing technology as well as develop new technologies as needed, and provides a bonus of a 2CS reduction to the Resource feat required to construct something before the feat roll is made.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Tail: Nearly 5’ in length Theresa’s tail is fully prehensile and flexible and allows her to use it to engage in various actions in addition to what other actions she’s allowed, often to trip or distract others while in combat. She does all these actions with Remarkable ability.

Linguistics: Unearthly ability to translate any and all codes, languages, and other means of conveying or concealing information. She may learn to communicate in any language like a native provided she has some means of perceiving the language in question upon a successful power rank feat against the difficulty of the language in question. As such she’s learned the major languages of the world already in case the situation arises she might need it and can’t afford the time to learn it on-site.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Tail

EQUIPMENT

Body Armor: When going into risky situations Theresa wears a suit of custom-built advanced body armor that provides Amazing protection from physical and energy attacks.

TALENTS

Engineering; Electronics; Computers; Repair/Tinkering; Cybernetics & Bionics +3CS; Robotics +3CS; Microcircuit Design & Fabrication; General Physics; Atomic Physics; Energy and Particle Physics; Quantum Physics; General Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Surgery +3CS; Biology; Chemistry; Metallurgy; Military; Cooking (Professional);

CONTACTS

Elizabeth; Mirriam; Vance Jones;

HISTORY

Theresa is one of the first successful results of an illegal genetics experiment by the U.S. Government in order to create the next generation of ‘smart’ weapons, in this case tailor-made genetically engineered life-forms for specialized or broad-ranging military operations. While having sufficient physical capabilities to function as a soldier they decided to put her superior mental faculties to use instead to advance other programs, in particular advancing their military bionics and medical cybernetics program.

While serving her creators she was forced to replace portions of a later creation’s body (The Felinoid known as Elizabeth) with the advanced bionic prototypes she’d been developing, something she reluctantly did as it was going to happen however things went and she was most able to do it safely. Successful though she was this disillusioned her in her creators and lifted the blindness to the benevolence of her creators just as it did for Elizabeth, and together with another creation of the project (Mirriam) used their combined talents to escape.

After their encounter with the sympathetic human Vance she agreed to use her talents to produce useful new technology to patent and sell under his name in order to provide them funding for a comfortable life-style, purchase someplace safely hidden from prying human eyes, and provide her with the things she required to experiment and ‘play’ with as well as provide for whatever she and her companions needed.

PERSONALITY

Theresa’s probably the least social of the trio, preferring to remain in her labs and tinkering on whatever’s on her mind at the time instead of interacting with others. She does care however about the others and would go to great lengths to protect the others, and if something terrible were to happen to the others it would likely result in her snapping and becoming a destructive force over the loss as her cool exterior hides the deep feelings that lay within her heart. She does have some interests outside of building things and learning and is a master chef capable of producing incredibly delicious meals with the same flair that she puts into her electrical and mechanical creations. What technologies she favors tend towards those with more peaceful applications, like medical or fire-prevention technologies rather than a more destructive purpose (although she’s aware humans are particularly creative when it comes to finding some way to use the most benign things in a military fashion) except when supplying for her or her companions’ needs.

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Vance Jones

Name: Vance Jones
Power Category-Normal Human
Appearance: Vance is a well-dressed and often-smiling Caucasian male with good muscle tone without obviously bulging muscles. Generally pale-skinned from all the time he spends indoors he’s nonetheless quite healthy in appearance and often draws attention to himself in public even when not meaning to as he sub-consciously flaunts his improved health and physical vitality.
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 139 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Sex: Male
Age: 23

Fighting: Typical (7)
Agility: Typical (7)
Strength: Typical (5)
Endurance: Good (15)
Reason: Good (10)
Intuition: Good (10)
Psyche: Excellent (20)

Health: 34
Karma: 40
Resources: Incredible (40)
Popularity: 15 (As the majority and primary stockholder of Alpha Technologies Inc Vance enjoys a measure of public awareness due to that and his publicly perceived position as the developer of a number of valuable proprietary technologies for the industrial and public sectors and his philanthropic efforts.)

POWERS

As a normal human Vance possesses no super-powers whatsoever.

EQUIPMENT

Emergency Pager: Vance carries an emergency pager with him at all times and carefully concealed upon his person (requires an Incredible intensity Intuition feat to find) that will alert Elizabeth, Mirriam, and Theresa to his location with Monstrous ability when triggered and will penetrate shielding of up to Amazing levels.

Taser: Worn on his right wrist this compact taser allows him to tag a target up to 20’ away with an Incredible intensity stun pulse.

Body Armor: Appearing like normal clothing Vance benefits from Good protection from physical and energy attacks.

TALENTS

Electronics; Repair/Tinkering;

HISTORY

Vance was a struggling electronics repair technician trying to make ends meet until the freak snowstorm brought about his encounter with the escapee creations of a US government’s clandestine genetics engineering program. While finding them frightening at first the compassionate side of his nature won out and rather than leave them to die in the snow he helped them to the relative safety of his vehicle and found that trust rewarded as they helped him escape the snow and possible death from exposure by clearing a path sufficient to get out of the deep snows and back to the safety of his apartment that he invited the trio to share with him while they sorted out what to do.

The assault and robbery later on gave them the inspiration that they required and a goal; to help and protect those in need. Given the troubles of interacting with human society and looking to go as unnoticed as possible in case the government came after them Vance offered to help front for them. While his own technical skills were nothing compared to Theresa’s it would give some plausible outlet to let him sell her ideas pretending that they were his and use the income to support them all, and so with his help wealth and prosperity was there for them all and a friendly contact with the human world to seek out what they themselves could not.

CONTACTS

Elizabeth; Mirriam; Theresa;

ENEMIES

While Vance has no enemies per say he does have some business rivals due to the success of Alpha Technologies and often travels with either conventional bodyguards or more likely either Elizabeth or Mirriam watching over him out of sight. He’d be a prime target however for any of the Shadow Guardians villains provided they ever learned of his connection with them.

PERSONALITY

Vance has grown into quite the confident and self-assured individual due in large part to the influence of the trio he has become friends with. Regular training and exercise (insisted upon by the trio given the assault that occurred early into their relationship) has improved his general ability to defend himself greatly, although hasn’t yet reached the level of a professional fighter and prefers to avoid situations where he’d be forced into conflict. It doesn’t stop Elizabeth and Mirriam from trying to train him up to what they feel is a proper level of fighting ability and self-defense training however. He regularly looks for areas where the extra funds from Alpha Technologies might be applied to help out various communities and down-and-out individuals (one reason why the resources for him and the rest aren’t higher given their potential market share, it’s spent doing charity work).

Nice group. They are well balanced. Sorry if I'm bringing old threads up. But I'm exploring! Always fun to explore!

Thanks they're some of my earliest creations and I was glad to get around to finally presenting them here. Nothing wrong with commenting on older threads and bringing them back up, I'm glad to see them getting revisited and people are still getting to enjoy them.

Starfox

Superhero ID: Starfox
Name: Deborah Foxworthy
Power Category-Demihuman: Vulpinoid
Source of Super-human Powers: Infusion with the cosmic might of Galactus.
Appearance: Starfox appears as a tall, curvy, anthropomorphic fox, with perfectly black fur that appears to sparkle with tiny stars and shining blue orbs for her eyes. Her outfit consists of a snug-fitting silvery-metallic one piece that covers her from the neck down to mid thigh and out to her elbows.
Height: 5’ 10”
Weight: 143 Lbs.
Sex: Female
Age: 25

Fighting: Monstrous (75)
Agility: Monstrous (75)
Strength: Unearthly (100)
Endurance: Unearthly (100)
Reason: Monstrous (75)
Intuition: Monstrous (75)
Psyche: Unearthly (100)

Health: 350
Karma: 250
Resources: Monstrous
Popularity 33

POWERS

Enhanced Senses (all): All of Starfox’s senses operate at the Shift X level of sensitivity.

Tracking: Due to her heightened perceptions Starfox may track others with Shift X ability, whether on a planetary surface or through the voids of space.

Protected Senses (all): Starfox’s senses enjoy Shift Y protection from attack, as a result of her natural invulnerabilities instinctively compensating for any potential sensory overload or damage.

Nightvision: Starfox can see in absolute darkness with CL1000 ability

Telescopic Vision: CL1000

True Invulnerability: Monstrous rank protection from all attacks save those of a Psionic or magical nature, reducing the damage from all attacks by 9CS before applying damage.

Regeneration: Monstrous rank Regeneration and Recovery, regaining lost health 75 times faster than a normal being, and recovering lost Endurance ranks on a green power feat every 10 turns.

Life Detection: Unearthly ability, Range 500 Light Years. She has a +2CS bonus locating large concentrations of life, particularly planets brimming with the unique life energies Galactus consumes, although she herself does not require such energies to survive.

Cosmic Awareness: As a result of her elevation to cosmic status Starfox’s awareness has expanded to universal scope, granting her this power at Shift X rank.

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Starfox’s claws are made up of Unearthly material strength materials and allow her to strike for Unearthly edged damage in combat.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Starfox’s teeth and jaws are of Unearthly material strength materials and allows her to bite in combat for up to Monstrous edged damage.

Life Support: CL5000 Starfox requires neither food, water, nor air to survive, subsisting on ambient cosmic energy instead, although may eat or drink for pleasure. She has CL5000 resistance to extremes of heat and cold and other hostile environments and can fly through the heart of a supernova uninjured.

True Flight: CL5000 Starfox can extend this power to a maximum range of 1 area to carry others along with her. This requires the maintaining of her Force Field around everyone involved, in order to protect them from the hazards of such speeds.

Gateway: When flying at top speed Starfox can open hyper-spacial gates allowing near-instantaneous travel to virtually anywhere in the universe with Unearthly ability.

Immortality: Starfox is immortal as a result of her exposure to the cosmic energies of Galactus, and has CL5000 resistance to Toxins, Gases, Drugs, Disease, Radiation, and Aging. If her body is somehow destroyed it will naturally regenerate within 1d10 months by drawing upon ambient cosmic energy.

Power Cosmic: Shift X ability to manipulate vast amounts of cosmic energy with line of sight range. The range of uses she may put this to is limited only by her imagination, with her current power stunts including the following:
-Boost any physical ability to Shift X for 1d10 hrs per day, or any single ability up to Shift Z on a red power feat for 2d10 turns per day. She may also apply this to her True Invulnerability or Regeneration for similar boosts. When taxing herself her power rank temporarily drops to Feeble afterwards, recovering one rank per turn as she absorbs ambient cosmic energy to restore herself.
-Force or Energy Bolts of up to Shift X damage, or by taxing herself on a red power feat may boost this to Shift Z for 2d10 turns. When taxing herself her power rank temporarily drops to Feeble afterwards, recovering one rank per turn as she absorbs ambient cosmic energy to restore herself.
-Heal others of up to Shift X damage per person per day. She may also restore lost Endurance ranks once she’s restored all lost health.
-Energy Detection with Shift X ability at a range of up to 500 light years. This allows for detection of fluctuations in the fabric of space; including but not limited to teleportation, dimensional shifts, gateways, space battles, and stellar detonations.
-Energy Absorption at Shift X ability
-See across the entire electromagnetic spectrum with Shift X ability
-Restructure existing matter with Shift X ability, including Elemental Conversion, Molecular Conversion, Artifact Creation, Mechanical Creation, Life form Creation, and Molding.
-Power Creation, allowing her to imbue others with a measure of cosmic power granting a variety of powers and abilities up to Amazing rank. This will temporarily deplete her own stores of power and reduce all powers and physical abilities by 2CS for 1d10 days.
-Power Control/Negation: Starfox may rescind/reduce any powers/abilities she’s granted to another anytime she wishes with Shift X ability.
-Force Fields of up to Shift X strength. May also incorporate a Micro-Environment if so desired or required for the benefit of its occupants. Reduce by 1CS for every 2 areas beyond the first. On a red power feat she may extend her force field to its maximum range of 21 areas while maintaining it at Shift X strength, but this will only last for 1d10 minutes and will leave her drained like her attribute power stunt for similar amounts of time.

Telepathy: Starfox has Amazing telepathic ability, used primarily to communicate in situations where it is otherwise impossible, such as the vacuum of space, or to learn a new language quickly. She has unlimited range when it comes to communicating with Vixy.

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Fox Tail

TALENTS

Engineering; Electronics; General Physics; Atomic Physics; Quantum Physics; Energy and Particle Physics; Mathematics; Repair/Tinkering; Astro-Navigation; Martial Arts B; Languages-English, Japanese, Kree, Skrullian, Shi’ar;

ORIGIN

The person fated to became the cosmic-entity known as Starfox began life like any other; born to hard-driven workaholics who had no concept how to raise a child with love, tolerance, and acceptance, and worked her as they worked themselves and those around them. Gleaning every technique they could find to draw out the maximum amount of her potential as possible the little girl grew up with little love and a crushing amount of indoctrination on every topic her parents felt appropriate to craft the ‘perfect’ daughter.

Mainly disconnected emotionally from people she grew up into a brilliant but focused scientist who’s only pleasures outside of research and working on the latest cutting edge project were her pets, in particular the small collection of foxes she kept. Drawn to them in part from her name and because the animals were devoid of the kinds of demands people placed upon her she felt free to be herself around them, and doted on them.

Given her brilliance she was called in as part of the research team to examine the remains of the machine created by Reed Richards in order to revive Galactus when he was dying on earth after His battle with His traitorous former herald Terrax. Ever questing after means of creating super-soldiers to use against the rising super-human population (and ignoring the obvious flaw in their programs as they were simply creating MORE super-humans and never seemed able to control the ones they did create for long), they hoped to restore and redesign the machine to imbue test subjects with the residue of cosmic power and create super-human agents able to handle any threat.

As the project grew closer to the moment when the first test subject would be run through the machine Deborah grew more frustrated as her fellow researchers sought to downplay her contributions and pump up their own resumes as her expense, and fumed over the idea that others would benefit from what she by now felt was HER project alone. Taking advantage of a holiday weekend and her security pass-codes she slipped in and worked feverishly over the 72 hr span to complete the device and reconfigure it to transfer the entirety of cosmic power contained within the machine into the subject.

Completing the work barely in time, with security and her co-workers fighting to break in and stop her (as she’d disabled all the electronic doors and security overrides), she stepped into the machine with her favored pet and triggered the remote activation sequence and ended her life as a mortal being in that final fateful moment. Locked into a cycling mode where it first fed the power into her then drew off a portion to boost and feed back into her doing it again and again the machine turned the relative trivial amount of cosmic power it had contained into something more with each sequence, until the machine could no longer keep up with the demands and melted down under the onslaught.

Mind and body irrevocably changed, reshaped by her subconscious desires and beliefs, Deborah Foxworthy was no more, and in her place there was now only Starfox. With barely a thought she erased all the damage created by the meltdown of the machine (although didn’t restore it), healed the injured and along with her pet Vixy she set off into space, rejecting the world of her birth and seeking a place where she could be free to shape her own destiny.

In her travels since she’s already encountered several notables of the cosmic community, including the Silver Surfer, who felt a need to watch over one newly risen to cosmic status and instill in her a feeling of responsibility to others she seemed lacking in. She has also joined the collection of those the Collector has tried to collect and failed, spent time in competition and training with Champion, and fought the forces of the Shi’ar on several occasions (fearing that because her energy signature matched that of Galactus she was or could become as much of a threat to living worlds as He is), although has not yet met her unintended benefactor. Given the level of power she possesses and the ripples she sends out simply by existing it’s a certainty that she will have more cosmic encounters as the greater powers seek to learn the measure of this new player on the field and how she may fit into their own plans for reality.

PERSONALITY

Starfox is still getting in touch with her emotions and learning how to express them and has a tendency to overreact and feel her emotions too strongly, as she’s not used to letting herself feel anything but superiority and pride and keeping everything else tightly leashed. Her most warm and unguarded moments tend to involve her companion, Vixy, and she dotes on her former pet. She spends much of her time learning about the galactic community and indulging herself learning what new secrets she might uncover courtesy of her powers, operating out of a self-made headquarters on a frozen world operating around the binary red dwarf pair in the Castor star cluster, roughly 51 light years from earth. Given the time she has potentially to live she’s considered finding a way to force the two red dwarfs together and watch as they evolve into a more energetic G-class star like Sol, or perhaps a more powerful F-class. [www.solstation.com]

CONTACTS

Starfox has few contacts currently, the most notable of which include her former pet Vixy and the Silver Surfer. She might also be able to call upon Champion, as she proved herself an honorable combatant and worthy opponent to test himself against. Considering her relationship with her parents she would never rely upon them for anything, and isn’t likely to help them unless they were dying or under threat of death.

HEADQUARTERS

Based on the icy world she’s named Denora, Starfox maintains her home. Constructed solely by her powers she has fashioned an Unearthly material strength dome allowing unobstructed viewing of space. While having no real physical needs she has built it to satisfy her mental needs and allow her to indulge herself in the simple pleasures she never got to on earth. As such there are a variety of recreational packages installed; including a pool, game center, deluxe exercise center, and a 10-area park. There is also a library she maintains with occasional trips back to earth to acquire new materials for it, along with her home entertainment center, and a truly decadent bedroom. A concealed fusion reactor powers everything and while she is away maintained by a number of housekeeping robots she’s acquired from the galactic community. To date she’s felt no need to expand on it and hasn’t any guests over who’d have need for things like kitchens or bathrooms but could easily add to her home if necessary.

Allies/Sidekicks

Vixy

Name: Vixy
Power Category-Animal: Fox
Height: 2’ at shoulder, length 3’
Weight: 18 lbs
Sex: Female
Age: 5

Fighting: Incredible (40)
Agility: Monstrous (75)
Strength: Amazing (50)
Endurance: Amazing (50)
Reason: Good (10)
Intuition: Amazing (50)
Psyche: Amazing (50)

Health: 215
Karma: 110
Resources: N/A
Popularity: 12

POWERS

Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Sight, Smell): Monstrous

Tracking: Monstrous

Nightvision: Unearthly ability to see in total darkness.

Telescopic Vision: Unearthly

Natural Weaponry/Claws: Vixy’s claws are of Amazing Material Strength and may strike for Amazing edged damage in combat.

Natural Weaponry/Teeth: Similar to her claws Vixy’s teeth and jaws are of Amazing Material Strength and she may bite for Remarkable edged damage.

True Invulnerability: Amazing protection from all attacks, save those of a magical or Psionic origin having no physical component, imposing a —8CS reduction to all attacks.

Regeneration: Amazing rank Regeneration and Recovery, recovering lost health 50 times faster than normal, and recovering lost Endurance ranks on a power feat every 10 turns.

True Flight: CL3000 space speeds, reduced to Shift Z in an atmosphere.

Gateway: Vixy can create gateways when traveling at top speed with Unearthly ability, allowing her to quickly travel to anywhere in the universe.

Telelocation: CL1000 ability to locate Starfox anywhere in the universe.

Life Support: CL1000

Life Detection: Unearthly ability, Range 5 Light Years. She has a +2CS bonus locating large concentrations of life, particularly planets brimming with the unique life energies Galactus consumes, although she herself does not require such energies to survive.

Cosmic Awareness: Monstrous

Extra Body Part/Prehensile Fox Tail

Immortality: Much like her owner/friend Vixy is effectively immortal, immune to the ravages of time, and benefiting from CL1000 resistance from toxins, radiation, disease, and attempts to induce aging.

Telepathy: Amazing ability to communicate mind-to-mind with other sentient beings, with an unlimited range when attempting to communicate with Starfox.

Power Cosmic: Much like Starfox Vixy also possesses the Power Cosmic, granting her Unearthly ability to manipulate cosmic forces for a variety of effects at LOS Range.
-Boost any physical ability to Unearthly for 1d10 hrs per day, or any single ability up to Shift Z on a red power feat for 2d10 turns per day. She may also apply this to her True Invulnerability or Regeneration for similar boosts. When taxing herself her power rank temporarily drops to Feeble afterwards, recovering one rank per turn as she absorbs ambient cosmic energy to restore herself.
-Force or Energy Bolts of up to Unearthly damage, or by taxing herself on a red power feat may boost this to Shift Z for 2d10 turns. When taxing herself her power rank temporarily drops to Feeble afterwards, recovering one rank per turn as she absorbs ambient cosmic energy to restore herself.
-Heal others of up to Unearthly damage per person per day, and may restore lost Endurance ranks as well for fully healed lifeforms.
-See across the entire electromagnetic spectrum with Unearthly ability.
-Energy Detection with Unearthly ability at a range of up to 5 light years. This allows for detection of fluctuations in the fabric of space; including but not limited to teleportation, dimensional shifts, gateways, space battles, and stellar detonations.

TALENTS

Survival; Astro-Navigation; Languages-English, Skrullian, Kree, Sh’iar;

PERSONALITY

Unlike Starfox Vixy is a more carefree and playful soul, quite content with traveling about the stars and enjoying her newfound sentience and intelligence. She is still in many ways a wild animal though and will fight viciously to defend herself or others she’s come to like.

CONTACTS

Friendly creature that she is she’s managed to develop more contacts than her friend Starfox, mostly among the children of a variety of alien races, along with their parents. She has managed a few more powerful contacts though, including Firelord and Quasar.

Another Herald of Galactus! She looks pretty tough! Did you ever get to pit her against some of the other heralds? How about Thanos?

Well she's not a Herald (I remember Punstarr thought she was initially when she was posted in the old forums as well) even though she's got the Power Cosmic but I had fun creating her as a truly cosmic-level character like his heralds are. Sadly though she hasn't gotten to enjoy time in a campaign battling anyone yet since it's hard to find GM who run games anywhere close to where she'd be suitable.