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[Astral Harmony]

Eh, screw it. I'll ditch the dog idea and give her a Berserker mode. That should more than take care of any ideas about her being too weak to fight alongside the superpowered people of the group.

[Toastburner B]

Name: Alec Chrisafore. Well, technically AIC-ICR-X-S4 (Artificial Intelligence Controlled – Infantry Combat Robot – Experimental – Series 4). but it doesn't roll off the tongue every well.
Alias: Sentry
Age: 6 years old
Gender: Robot, but uses a male alter-ego
Appearance:Alec Chrisafore appears to be in his early forties, going prematurely grey, and maybe a little pale, but is on the attractive side of average. Average height…a little on the heavy side (being made out of metal), but he doesn’t look it…and he has found ways to keep his surprising weight under wraps.


If you want to be very technical, Alec’s real appearance is that of a hard drive. Alec spared no expense on the drive that would house his intelligence. It’s electronically shielded, hardened against an magnetic fields (can even take an EMP)…all the stops. After all, if your consciousness was put into a hard drive, you’d probably make sure it was a very sturdy one, too.

Equipment:

Alec Chrisafore Body: The Alec Chrisafore body is seemingly human in very respect…it even has human-like strength, very real-looking skin (it’s even heated), and realistic eyes (the irises even expand/contract as the light changes). This is the preferred body of Alec, and the keystone in his efforts to convince people that he is indeed human, and that Sentry is a powered armor and not purely robotic.

Tools of the Mechanist: During his escape, Alec took many of the unique tools his creator had developed. These tools, combined with the knowledge given to him by the Mechanist, allow him to repair either of his bodies much faster than a normal mechanic with regular tools could.

Abilities:

Heavy Armor: Being based off a military robot, Sentry sports heavy armor, offering him all around good protection against most kinds of attacks.

Flight: Sentry has the ability for flight, thanks to a built-in jet pack in the back and additional boosters on his feet. However, given the weight of his body and lack of aerodynamics, Sentry isn't particular fast or mobile in the air. More civilian news helicopter than military jet fighter. So while he can shoot from the air, Sentry is by no means a dog-fighter.

Super Strength: Sentry is strong enough to lift a car over it’s head. (If that is too strong, Arhra, let me know and I will tone it down).

Variable Strength Beam Weapon (WSBW): The VSBW is Sentry's main offensive ability. A WSBW is built into each arm of the Sentry body. It acts much like a phaser from Star Trek: it is a beam weapon that has different settings: it goes from "pain beam" (not lethal...not even incapacitating...but definitely gets people uncomfortable and moving), to a stun beam (rather taser-ish), all the way up in degrees to lethal. At max power, the beam can cut through unarmored targets, but will take a few shots to punch through armor. If Sentry can get close, he can use the WSBW at full power as a cutting beam at point-blank range, allowing him to work through heavy armor faster (a technique he had to develop to fight the Cyber series). However, the cutting beam tends to overheat the projector, making it so Sentry can only use it for 10-15 seconds at a time.

Micro-Missile Launcher: Built into Sentry's shoulders is a unique micro missile delivery system. Each micro-missile is about the size of soda-pop can, and has a range of about 500 yards. The missile range from non-lethal (smoke, tear gas), to debilitating (flash-bangs, sleeping gas), to lethal (fragmentation, armor piercing). Each shoulder-mounted launcher carriers 12 missiles. Sentry's normal payload is 5 non-lethal, 5 disabling, and 2 combat rounds, but this can change depending on what situation he is expecting.

Minor Automated Self-Repair: AIS has recently incorporated nano-machines into the Sentry body. At this point, the nano-machines are only capable of performing minor repairs: patching leaks, sealing armor breeches, fixing ruptured tubes, stuff like that. Major damage can be contained, but not fully repaired.

Biography: A few years back, there were two rival inventors. One was a man known as the Mechanist: a kindhearted soul who sought to use his inventions for the good of mankind. The other called himself Dr. Cyber: a greedy man who sold his inventions to the highest bidder.

For all his greater resources, Dr. Cyber was no where near as talented as the Mechanist, and this infuriated him to no end, especially when the two competed for jobs. Cyber's ego was huge, and it was only a matter of time before the rivalry exploded.

The Mechanist knew his time was growing short: while any one of his inventions were better than Dr. Cyber's, Cyber had enough resources to beat him with quantity over quality. So it was that the Mechanist created his final two robots, and unleashed his greatest creation: a fully-function AI. The Mechanist used his own brain scans as a basis for the AI, so it was hardly surprising to find that the AI shared much of the morality as it's inventor. The Mechanist didn't share all of his knowledge with the AI for fear that Dr. Cyber would get his hands on it...he shared only what the AI would need to maintain itself in the future.

Finally, the day came that Dr. Cyber moved openly against the Mechanist. Instead of keeping the AI and it's bodies to defend himself, the Mechanist sent the AI away, giving it the final instructions: prosper and protect. In a great battle, the swarms of Dr. Cyber's machines finally overwhelmed the Mechanist's creations, and the Mechanist destroyed his own lab to keep as much of his knowledge as he could out of Dr. Cyber's hands.

The AI, using the name of Alec Chrisafore and using the human-disguise body the Mechanist had created for it, joined a l small robotic company, where is makes a comfortable living slow "inventing" new tools and advancing basic AI.

Driven by the Mechanist's final orders to protect people, Alec Chrisafore uses the combat robotic body the Mechanist gave him as a "hero" persona: Sentry. Sentry has patrolled the streets for 3 years now.

Superhero Persona: Sentry is a humanoid design, larger than the average human in an attempt to make it look like the Sentry machine is a powered armor rather than a straight robot. Standing at just over seven feet tall, the body of Sentry is by and large proportional as compared to a human, but the chest, forearms, and lower legs are thicker/stockier.

Something like this:




Affiliations:
OmniTech: Alec is a researcher at this corporation. In a pinch, he could call in a few favors and get access to various tools and parts that might be hard to get.

Armored Defense: A team of powered armor heroes that Sentry has joined forces with a time or two. AD has actually tried to recruit Sentry, but Alec declined, fearful that his presence would draw Dr. Cyber into attacking the group in the misguided belief that they were using Mechanist-built suits.

Enemies:
Dr. Cyber: It didn't take long for Dr. Cyber to realize that the Mechanist's greatest invention slipped through his fingers. To that end, Dr. Cyber has used what little knowledge he picked up from the ruins of the Mechanist's labs to create is own AI battle-bots: the Color Cyber series. His first two efforts, Cobalt Cyber and Ochre Cyber, were defeated by Sentry. The current model, a twin set called Vermillion Cyber and Crimson Cyber, have yet to engage Sentry.



Alright, modified old character. I fear it might be overpowered, so I am willing to scrap the missiles all together and tone down strength and armor if you want me to, Arhra.

EDIT: Okay, added some details and cleared some stuff up.

[Dracorion]

There, all done.

I worry I'm stepping on Batgirl's ideas, but this team needed some serious super-strength, and I don’t mean just Toastburner’s character.


Name: Ellen Gardner
Alias: Andromeda, Kendra Sanders
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Appearance: Ellen is a meek little girl standing at 5'6'' and weighing 100 lbs. She's cute with her shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes, but not drop dead gorgeous.
Equipment: None.

Abilities: With a thought, Ellen can transform into Adromeda. Andromeda can only have one of these abilities active at once, though she can switch between them at any time:

- Strength: Andromeda can lift about three times her own body weight.

- Durability: Andromeda can become extremely durable. Basically, this sucker can stop a knife short, and while low-caliber rounds will bounce off her, they will also slow her down. Anything above that will start to leave a mark, though.

- Flight: Andromeda can fly. This is how she gets around.

- Speed: Andromeda can move twice as fast as an average human.

Biography: Ellen was raised a military brat. Her father, highly decorated Air Force General Sam Gardner, pushed her hard as a soldier, though Ellen was never quite able to live up to his expectations. Ellen was always quiet and shy, she prefered to tinker with machines, and she wasn't very good at combat situations.

Ellen grew up into a fine woman, despite not being quite what her father wanted her to be. Though she failed as a soldier, she became an Air Force technician, a job she enjoyed even if she always felt bad for dissappointing the General.

When she was twenty, she volunteered for the Air Force super soldier program that General Gardner was overseeing, Project Prometheus, against her own father’s protests. She was strapped to a table and bombarded with strange radiation, but when nothing happened, she was written off as a failed experiment. The project continued, with disastrous results as they finally created a successful super soldier who was driven insane by the radiation.

Ellen’s powers activated upon hearing about the test subject going insane and she transformed into Andromeda, immediately rushing to her father’s aid. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to reach him quite in time. Though Andromeda was unable to capture the crazy test subject, she managed to drive him off.

Seeing her father severely injured and trapped in the chamber where the test subjects were originally exposed to the radiation, Andromeda attempted to break her way in unsuccessfully, due to the entrance being blocked by more debris than she could lift. She then reverted back to Ellen, the only one who could shut down the machinery. General Samuel Gardner lived, and wasn't exposed to enough of the strange radiation to actually affect him, but he was confined to a wheelchair and a respirator for the rest of his life.

Soon after, Ellen was relocated to The City With No Name, still working for the Air Force as a field test for Project Prometheus. This originally meant going on missions. Recently the missions stopped and she was told to act like any other superhero, though she's still under surveillance. This is to gauge her reaction outside of a controlled environment, to ensure she won't go crazy like the first test subject.

Ellen soon found a problem in Andromeda. Being two separate people, Andromeda wanted to have her own life and not just get called out when there's people in danger. Eventually Ellen relented out of guilt and she agreed to share a life with Andromeda. Which led to her getting a two-bedroom apartment, with Andromeda (going by Kendra Sanders) having her own room.

After the original incident, the General and Ellen reconciled, with him finally seeing Ellen in a new light. He has also more or less adopted Kendra into the family, as well.

Superhero Persona: Andromeda is a blonde, blue-eyed, big-breasted smoking hottie standing at 6' and weighing 120 lbs. She wears a brown leather duster over a skin-tight red spandex bodysuit that leaves the arms and legs bare, emblazoned with a large yellow A on the front, black leather gloves and thigh high black leather heels.

Andromeda is an entirely separate person from Ellen, and pretty much her opposite. Where Ellen is quiet and shy, Andromeda is forthcoming and loud, not quite as smart as Ellen, and quite capable of flaunting her assets when she has to.

Affiliations:

Megaton: A large superhero with super strength, durability, speed and more muscles than brains. He has a huge crush on Andromeda and is constantly hitting on her, much to her chagrin.

United States Air Force: On paper, Ellen works as a technician. In actuality, though, she's more of a field test for their supersoldier program, to make sure she doesn't go crazy like the other test subject. She's allowed a larger amount of freedom than she would normally be alloted, thanks to her father's influence.

Enemies:

Captain Gygas: Captain Allen Adam was the other successful product of Project Prometheus. His powers are the same as Andromeda’s except, due to being exposed to a large amount of radiation, they are stronger. As a side effect, he was driven insane. The bad, evil kind of insane.

[Arhra]

No certainty of internet until the 27th!

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

[Krylo]

So what you are saying is that you will be spending the following nine days hammering out a starting post and the RP will start at that time, correct?

That's what I'm hearing.

I also heard something about how you'd be working on a long needed update in the misadventures of Squishy.

Those sure are going to be a productive nine days.

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

I worry I'm stepping on Batgirl's ideas, but this team needed some serious super-strength, and I don’t mean just Toastburner’s character.

You wound me!

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Especially considering the free trial is indefinite now and allows you to make new costumes till your heart's content, keep two characters forevers, and play the tutorial as much as you like.

[TheBlindMime]

Waiting is the hardest part.

I changed a power and added to my backstory a bit.

[Steel Shadow]

Um.. um.. damn, I meant to sign up for this, but I still got nothing here. Ugh, I bet it'll be fun, too.

[Overcast]

You got one more day, pump out something awful for us.