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Inspired to take the versatile Range of Motion of the Centurion-model, and take it to the next level, Denarius's body is designed to allow smooth 360 degree rotation of all her limbs.
Equipped with a durable, but simple hard light emitter in the palm of each hand, she is able to form simple blades and bludgeons. These hardlight weapons dissipate when no longer within her grasp.
The Weapons have the rough heft and durability of a steel weapon of similar shape, when under pressure that would bend or shatter a steel equivalent, they simply dissipate, requiring half a minute for the Emitter to reboot.
Denarius's body is durable enough to stand up to bullets (2A) and is fairly resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components.
Can exert the agility and strength (lifting & striking) of an exceptionally fit PRT trooper. Her body's extreme range of motion allows her to act akin to a professional gymnast.
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a somewhat overly optimistic and excitable Bubbly personality. They are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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Argo's design wouldn't be able to function without the contribution of tech designed by Zipdash. Containing a 'Barrier core' in their chest cavity alongside their positronic brain.
 
This core allows them to generate a hardlight barrier from the 'Projection Disk' located in the palm of his right hand. His left hand equipped with a folding baton located in a hollow space in their forearm
 
Argo's body is durable enough to stand up to bullets (2A) and is fairly resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components.
 
Can exert the agility and strength (lifting & striking) of an exceptionally fit PRT trooper. With marginally better flexibility and range of motion than an human.
 
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a big brotherly/sisterly personality, a protective streak is notable, having almost certainly latched onto the idea of being a protector based on their combat specialization alone, taking that idea into social situations as well. They are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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Pithos's design wouldn't be able to function without the contribution of tech designed by Zipdash. Containing a 'Lightning core' in their chest cavity alongside their positronic brain.
 
This core allows them to fire a beam of electricity from the 'Projection Disk' located in the palm of her right hand. Her left hand equipped with a folding stun-baton located in a hollow space in their forearm
 
Pithos's body is durable enough to stand up to bullets (2A) and is extremely resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components. Pithos in particular has been given extra shielding compared to her siblings.
 
Can exert the agility and strength (lifting & striking) of an exceptionally fit PRT trooper. With marginally better flexibility and range of motion than an human.
 
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a somewhat erratic, but friendly personality. Something not dissimilar in effect to ADHD in humans. NUCLEUS is interested to see any other developments that have similarity to disorders seen in humans. They are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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Abacus is designed to be a multi-purpose Utility android. Their main way of supporting the Protectorate is via Emergency Medical care. Given both a conventional education (150 hours of EMT training) as well as enough raw medical data from NUCLEUS/SWORDFISH, That Abacus can function at the level of an EMT with half a decade of experience.
Built into their right hand is a Medical scanner built by Tipereth. A number of Miscellaneous medical tools are stored in the Right forearm, while an emergency oxygen bottle/mask is stored in a compartment in her right Hip.
Built into her Left hand and forearm is a small welding torch, as well as a Flare gun with 20 micro-flares. a number of tools (screwdrivers, drill, wrenches, pliers, hammer, knife, etc) are stored in her left Hip compartment.
Abacus's body is durable enough to stand up to bullets (2A) and is extremely resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components.
Can exert the agility and strength (lifting & striking) of an exceptionally fit PRT trooper. With marginally better flexibility and range of motion than an human.
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a sarcastic, slightly unconcerned/aloof personality. They take their duties seriously, deadly serious, but they seem to be the least emotional of the Praetorian androids, or at the very least the most reserved of them. They are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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Panoply is designed as a ranged combatant. Given additional sharpshooting training, she is easily on par with a PRT trooper with a number of years experience shooting.
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Equipped with a [low-yield laser pistol] in her right arm.
''This pistol has a power cell that enables it to fire 60 shots. The beam is a scarlet red. A single shot can cause 1st degree burns (pain and reddening of the skin) and ignite flammable materials''
''While consecutive shots in the same general area can cause 2nd degree burns (pain, redness, swelling, and blistering.) and can ignite less-easily-flammable materials.''
''It comes with a laser sight They have an effective range of 1000 meters. These pistols have no impact and work solely on heat''
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Meanwhile she has a similar weapon, a [Hardlight pistol], built into her right arm.
''This pistol has a power cell that enables it to fire 60 shots. The beam is a scarlet red. Each shot being about on-par with a punch from a reasonably fit PRT trooper.''
''It comes with a laser sight They have an effective range of 100 meters. These pistols have no impact and work solely on heat''
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Panoply' s body is durable enough to stand up to bullets (2A) and is extremely resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components.
Can exert the agility and strength (lifting & striking) of an exceptionally fit PRT trooper. With marginally better flexibility and range of motion than an human.
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a surprisingly level-headed, Well rounded Personality. Panoply is most like Phalanx in term of personality, whether this is incidental, or simply something Panoply has latched onto, regardless they are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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In lieu of a specialized piece of hardware and a specific specialization, Amphora is designed to accentuate the positive qualities of the obsolete Centurion-Model Androids (namely strength and durability).
Is built (for the most part) with more expensive but hardier materials, namely large quantities of Titanium alloys. Durable enough to stand up to higher caliber weaponry than the other Praetorian-Model droids (III on the chart) and is extremely resistant to EMP's and attacks of an Electrical nature, because of Elysium Steel Shielding over sensitive components.
Has a deploy-able blade in their left forearm (6 inch usable), and a deploy-able baton in their right forearm.
Can hit about With marginally better flexibility and range of motion than an human. This frame can strike as hard as a super-heavy weight boxer, and can lift 1000 pounds before damaging their servos and hydraulics.
Possesses advanced (cybernetic-grade) pressure and temperature sensors, allowing a near-human level sense of touch. Additionally this Frame is equipped with three vision modes: Human spectrum, Infrared, and 6x zoom.
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The increased capacity to experience emotion and opportunities for self-development has resulted in the development in a slightly skittish, but generally pleasant personality, they seem to alternate someone what erratically between introverted and extroverted, regardless they are still developing, but its likely things will continue to develop down that particular route.
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Revision as of 15:00, 12 January 2021

Phalanx
Author /u/Magos_Nashoid
Civilian name Jasper Newchapel
Alignment Hero
Affiliation Protectorate Captain (Devilfish)
PRT Classification Tinker, Master,
Born Devilfish, Minnesota
Status Active


A member of the Protectorate for half a decade,Phalanx has proven themselves to be a decently capable robotics tinker, with a Greco-Roman theme. (which has suited them well as far as merchandise sales are concerned.)

Phalanx began their career as one the few capes stationed at the Devilfish field office, before a promotion saw them stationed in Minneapolis, after serving there for several years with distinction. They have recently been transferred back to Devilfish, having volunteered to help out with the rapidly shifting and growing cape-scene in their hometown.


Character Sheet

Appearance

Phalanx out of costume.

Civilian: Jasper Newchapel is a deceptively thin, but startlingly athletic person, called a twink by their friends, this is not necessarily an inaccurate description.

Jasper is 5 foot 9 inches in height, weighing 150 pounds. With a head of thick black hair, and light brown eyes. Costume: Phalanx wears a distinctive golden suit of armor. This suit is more protective than that worn by PRT Troopers, but with a much better range of motion, as well as a built-in cooling system, that makes them the envy of many of their spandex and armor-clad compatriots.

Phalanx wears a full-face helmet, with highly-emotive blue-LED eyes. Although this helmet has been shown to have the capability to open, allowing unaided sight/breathing/speech. A bright-red helmet ploom sits atop the helmet, which conceals a couple small antennas for the radio’s powerful built-in radio.

While Phalanx has a number of weapons load-outs, the piece of equipment they are best known for is their Roman Parma (round shield), that they tend to carry with them regardless of other load-out choices.

Mundane Equipment and Resources

Wealth Level: 7

Primarily lives at the Protectorate HQ, but has a well furnished/stocked Apartment that is seldom used outside of family visits, or the storage of miscellaneous belongings, that aren’t used enough to bother keeping at HQ.

Has a slightly-higher than average Tinker budget, to account for expensive-but essential components in his Robots CPUs.

  • PRT-issue Radio
  • PRT-issue Medical Kit
  • Zipties
  • Set of Handcuffs
  • Multi-tool
  • Police Truncheon

Skills and Specializations

  • Understanding of Government bureaucracy
  • Understanding of criminal and conspiratorial behavior aka basic level criminology.
  • High speed pursuit vehicle training
  • Basic first aid
  • Understanding of basic human intelligence gathering.
  • Basic Forensic Knowledge
  • Understanding of laws and legal procedures
  • Navigating his way around quickly with maps, charts and tables, orienteering, instruments, or dead reckoning.
  • Searching a room, vehicle, or person for weapons and contraband.
  • PRT Self Defense training in unarmed combat
  • PRT Self Defense training with PRT weapons
  • Skilled Use of Antiquated weaponry, and associated tactics.
  • Basic PRT/Police Squad Tactics
  • Customized Squad Tactics (Devised by Phalanx for himself and his AI)
  • Can play the Piano.
  • Is a pretty good Dungeon Master.

Mentality

Jasper is a relatively jovial person, enjoying the company of their Protectorate coworkers, their PRT compatriots, and having a healthy respect for the Junior Heroes in the Wards, even if they feel a bit weird working with children and teenagers. Unlike some parahumans, they have little trouble making civilian friends

Jasper has changed since their trigger, having mellowed out oddly enough, compared to the more serious person they had been when acting as a PRT trooper pre-trigger.

Heroism is not just a job for Phalanx, they are genuinely called to be the best they can be, and while heroism is a major part of their life, they consistently endeavor to not let it consume them, or to let it be the sole focal point in their life.

Power

Trigger type: Single Natural Trigger (Controller Tinker)

  • Phalanx is first and foremost a robotics tinker. Phalanx’s robots, or Droids as Phalanx prefers to call them, are one-half Hardware (Positronic Brain) and one-half Software (Learning Algorithm) without the two-halves combined the Droids are non-functional.
  • Phalanx can design these Droids to fulfill many specific tasks, but has spent the majority of their tinkering efforts on combat-capable law-enforcement droids, although this is not the limits of their power, simply what has been explored thus far.
  • The Hardware component of their Droids, the Positronic Brain, is extremely detailed work requiring maintenance (and somewhat pricey materials) to meet safety standards, thus Phalanx can only keep a small number of them in an optimal working-condition at a time.
  • Typically The number of Positronic Brains that can be maintained at one time is six (6), as any more than that risks Phalanx being unable to keep up with Maintenance for their other Inventions, or the unintentional sabotage of Phalanx’s responsibilities in the Protectorate, and as a civilian.
  • Phalanx is capable of designing his Droids, with various levels of intelligence, sentience, and sapience, and may choose to include emulated-emotions if they are deemed warranted for function. Typically Phalanx’s Droids are Near-human in intelligence, but this is not always the case.
  • Phalanx is capable of synthesizing several Meta-materials that are of use in his Inventions, the most ubiquitous of which is dubbed ‘Elysian-Steel’ used in both the Positronic-Brain, Armor-plating, and the construction of simple weaponry,
  • Like many Tinkers, Phalanx can build weaponry and armor, even if it is not their primary specialty. Armour designed by Phalanx is typically similar in construction to a simple Droid-Frame in structure, albeit hollow, and typically of lesser capabilities as a result.
  • Weapons designed by Phalanx are rather simple for tinker-tech. With their power allowing greater versatility when designing Melee weapons, as opposed to those of a ranged variety. Typical Melee armaments may include things like, swords forged from meta-materials, bludgeons with a shock-element, or small Hard-light Knives.
  • Ranged armaments might include a simple ballistic weapons, magnetic dart launchers, or low-powered Laser pistols (High end of what he can build)
  • All of the Droids designed by Phalanx possess a distinctly alien mental-architecture, meaning that while capable of passable social interaction with humans they come off as somewhat socially incompetent, this means they may only be utilized to their fullest potential by Phalanx, who possesses an intimate-familiarity with their thought-processes, and technical-specifications. Only achieving maybe half effectiveness at best when supervised by others.

Tinkertech

Sentient Tinker tech

Gifted/Traded TinkerTech

Obsolete TinkerTech

Backstory

Like many children, Jasper wanted to be a Hero when they were a kid. Things didn’t work out that way though. But a successful career in the PRT was rewarding in its own way. Jasper would even argue that putting your life on the line to help others meant more when you weren’t a bullet-proof Modern-day Demi-god.

This wasn’t just a job for Jasper, it was a life-calling. But on Earth Kaff, all good things must end in tears. During one fateful operation Jasper and his squad was disabled by a potent emotion-manipulator. To this day Jasper is uncertain why it affected him so much more than his squad-mates (not that they didn’t have a rough time too).

The others took sometime to recover from the long-term negative effects, perhaps a month of downtime on average. Power-induced PTSD was no joke after all, but it seemed that the effects wore off with time with minimal lasting effects.

Not so for Jasper though, perhaps Jasper was simply more inclined towards Agoraphobia, but the PTSD had left Jasper a grade-A agoraphobe and Insomniac. They were able to tough through things at first, so they returned to active duty (barely passing psych checks) but their performance quickly dropped. His comradery with his co-workers fizzled out, and their combat effectiveness was hampered. The PRT discharged Jasper, putting them on reserve, so that Psychiatric help could be given.

Months passed, with minimal progress, Jasper isolated themselves from civilian friends, and family, video calls with their Therapist continued, and Jasper found some solace in the form of digital media, but things remained stagnant, and alone. Efforts to improve were continually met with setbacks, this continued for months.

TRIGGER

The PRT Therapist was alarmed when Jasper ceased communications, concerned that Jasper had taken their own life, they called the police, and the paramedics.

Jasper was not dead, but had simply dismantled every electronic device he owned in a fugue-state, having constructed most of a Bipedal Robot. Jasper remained unresponsive to the Police and Paramedics in his home, and the PRT were dispatched when it was clear this was a parahuman matter.

Their Trigger had left them different, they still had agoraphobia, but something had fundamentally changed, that allowed a gradual recovery. Legally they were now a member of the Protectorate, and while it took over a year and a half of concerted self-improvement to recover to the point that they were allowed on active duty. Jasper flourished as a protectorate hero.