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| wanderingbishop | May 30 2012, 07:24 AM Post #1 |
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Code Name: Trojan Birth Name: Michael Van Der Hayden. Appearance: In his natural state, Trojan appears as a black, malleable form, with a vaguely defined head and limbs. He stands hunched over with a curved back that flows straight into his bendable, unjointed limbs. He has no visible eyes, or other features, however trails of blue energy snake and coruscate over his dorsal surface. His exact form is difficult to determine, because his body is utterly pitch black – there isn't even any variation in shading from concentrated light sources, he just doesn't reflect light at all. This is because he isn't actually solid – attempt to touch him and your hand will pass right through. Trojan is a piece of sentient software – a computer program given visible form. How does that work, you ask? He's still working that one out, it wasn't part of the original software design when he created himself. Personality: Trojan is a fairly laid-back sort of guy. He enjoys exercising his abilities as much for their own sake as for heroics – confusing people who aren't familiar with his powers is a favourite pastime of his. This can cause problems when he fails to take a crisis seriously enough, due in no small part to his supreme confidence in his abilities. While his powers are extensive and versatile, they're not quite as all-powerful as he'd like to think, and he doesn't cope well with being shown to be lacking in an area he thought himself a master at (which is most of them). He's not a purely altruistic sort, having a very astute business sense, but he has a moral compass that occasionally pokes him into a course of action that he doesn't particularly want to take – his companionship with Nerys being a prime example. Origins: At the simplest level, Trojan is a trans-human. The man that eventually became Trojan, one Michael Van Der Hayden, was a highly skilled cybernetician who was often the first to benefit from his creations. Just as his organic tissues were replaced with techno-organic devices, his mind was integrated more and more with the auxiliary systems spread throughout his body. Then, Michael was involved in a horrific car accident. When he regained consciousness, a quick check of his medical systems revealed that his brain had suffered lethal haemorrhaging from the impact. He was, quite literally, brain-dead, and yet he was conscious. Unbeknownst to him, his personality had become so intregrated with his systems that it had become decentralized, and his brain was in fact no longer a critical component of the network. Performing some basic self-maintenance to bring his grey matter back to functionality and restore his processing power to full strength, Michael walked clear of the car wreck (much to the shock of the medics) and after a brief check to make sure none of his remaining organs were in need of immediate treatment, he returned to his research lab. Once there, he set about devising a method to transfer himself out his body completely – now that he was no longer dependent on his organic brain, he was determined to make himself completely independent of his physical systems. Hooking himself up to a number of supercomputers, he began uploading himself to the internet, distributing himself across several cloud-computing networks, with redundancies and backups in place should a physical server be disconnected somewhere – in short, he attempted to upload himself to the internet and become the first web-based lifeform. He succeeded – to an extent. While he did manage to completely transfer himself to an online state, his multi-processor-augmented method of doing so resulted in some code that he was not consciously aware that he'd programmed in. After a few weeks of surfing the internet and having fun hacking into small businesses, he was pulled, apparently against his will, into the servers of a research lab that was attempting to create coherent energy constructs. They didn't succeed – mainly because Michael downloaded into the computer, overloaded all the equipment and circuitry, and materialized in his current form in the middle of an explosion of circuit boards and energy coils. After a brief period of experimentation, Michael had established his newfound powers, and decided that adopting the name “Trojan” would be appropriate, since he was clearly so far removed from his original human self as to be a different being altogether. Powers: In his natural state, Trojan is a fast, agile being, who moves by a curious method of stretching himself to his destination and then snapping back into shape. Physical weapons cannot touch him in this state, but energy-based weapons can and do pose a threat. He can talk in this form, but the words seem oddly detached and muted, as if they've just been pasted on top of reality – much like Trojan himself. However, when close to a helicopter, a video billboard, or any other machine that utilizes electronics in any significant fashion, he can leap into the machine, disperse himself throughout its systems and take control of it. There is no outward sign that the machine is possessed by him – it simply won't respond to external output. He can also leapfrog between machines if there is some form of data connection between them, be it radio, wi-fi, cable; if a signal can travel through it, he can too. He can also re-purpose the machine's systems to a degree, letting him interface with devices that would usually be incompatible due to software. If the vehicle has some way of producing sound, he will also be able to talk through it (and can generally talk across radio anyway). Additionally, his software nature means that while merged with a computer of some kind, he can make use of the computer's processing power to enhance his own intelligence. If he downloads into a supercomputer of some kind, his intellect soars to supra-genius levels, a useful ability for when he's researching one of his many technological doodads. Skills: Michael Van Der Hayden was a skilled cybernetician, and Trojan retains all of those skills. He spends a lot of his free time exploring the field of robotics, and works on new devices that he can “wear” when he goes out – this work is somewhat intermittent since he relies on grants from Starlight City's universities and science institutes (he decided that using his abilities to steal money for his work would be a Very Bad Idea). Interests: Science and technology, especially the discovery and reverse-engineering of alien technology. He hopes to one day acquire a space cruiser and go on a tiki tour of the solar system. Weaknesses: Energy weapons and discharges. He doesn't know exactly what it would take to inflict lethal harm on him while in his natural state, but he doesn't intend to find out, and so assumes that a taser is enough to kill him. Hideout: After the somewhat complex legal wrangling to determine that Trojan was, in fact, Michael Van Der Hayden (or at least, enough of him to own his things), he sold off the entirety of his assets, and used them to fund the construction of a home out in the country. This is an elegant house set into a hillside, a semi-circle of white concrete with glass walls and a grand sweeping driveway that leads to the guest garage. In addition to the house (which is used mainly to entertain guests and potential funders), there is a large underground hanger that stores all of Trojan's research projects and robotic prototypes. This is where he spends much of his time when alone, since the only thing he requires to be comfortable is a ready supply of ambient electricity to draw energy from. When entertaining guests, Trojan will jump between the various televisions, stereos and other electronic devices scattered throughout the house, speaking through the intercom system. In addition to making people more comfortable than his natural form, it is also safer – should anyone attempt to attack him, there are multiple backdoors which Trojan can escape through, often straight to one of the devices in his research warehouse awaiting field testing.... Edited by wanderingbishop, Jun 2 2012, 12:48 AM.
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