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Name: Atlas Jameson
Age: Unknown. Estimated to be around his late 40s
Appearance:
Species: Human
Size: 5'11"
Weight: Estimated to be 147lbs.
Hometown/Homeplanet: Manchester, England, Earth, Sol
Rank And Branch: Parliament Official #4
Personality: An enigma of a man (the cause of his current employment) who enjoys more drastic tactics than some of his parliamentary brethren. He is also one of the youngest, being appointed as a result of his charisma, logic and extreme intelligence. He is also one of the more social of the parliamentary members, preferring to talk to direct subordinates personally, yet - apart from sparse public appearances - remains elusive. Behind his charismatic exterior lives the same private personality that inhibits all Parliamentary Officials - one that will go to any length for their cause. This can give the appearance of ruthlessness to those who ever see this side of an Official. His slight obsession with weapon's can also make appear creepy and even slightly mad. Slightly xenophobic on a political degree.
Mana-Drive: A custom Mana-Drive built for the Parliament Officials that, while augmenting the intelligence, psychokinetic and electromagnetic abilities of the Official, also grants them a sort of 'Master Key' ability, allowing them to open any human and studied alien lock, both electronic and mechanical. This Mana-Drive comes with a psychic blocking facility that resists and tries to cancel out psychic actions (Like telepathy) used against its host by replacing the psychic signal with garbage signals, often ending up as static to the Official. It also comes with a small brain implant giving the Official direct access to a personal network giving them abilities such as remote nuclear launches, the initiation of conflicts and, with the agreement of three other officials, the complete destruction of any solar object including the sun located within Sol. 'Tests' have shown that performing an action like this causes a similar damaging effect of a super-nova.
GEAR: A personal Parliamentary GEAR with the catchy name of 'GPO4'. This GEAR is designed around luxury and, as such, contains a limited armament, favouring speed instead. It features two chainguns at the end of each 'arm' and a small personal missile defence system of around 16-32 rockets. What differentiates this GEAR from most is that it's AI Jinn is interlinked with all other Parliamentary GEARs giving them exceptional combat initiative. Each AI also does not possess a GEAR but is rather housed in a bank deep beneath Gaea Tower with the tower acting as a transmission tower. As a result, each Parliamentary Official possesses at the minimum 5 GEARs in different PiNGs. If one GEAR is permanently destroyed but the Official survives, even in the confines of space, they may activate another PiNG and re-enter or flee the battle with the same combat data they possessed before being destroyed.
Each GEAR also possesses a unique thermonuclear device that can be launched of be detonated as a result of self destruction. If the bomb is not activated when its compartment is damaged or the GEAR destroyed, it will degrade completely within a couple of seconds.
PiNGs: Pocket watch (Primary GEAR), wrist watch, bangle on right arm, small attachment to the bottom of his personal energy pistol and finally the Parliamentary Official badge.
Skills: His intelligence reaches to around an IQ of 174 (With 165 being a requirement for a Parliamentary official) giving him astounding understanding of tactics, the universe and his personal specialisation, technology and weapons. Atlas prefers the use of ranged experimental weapons including rail-guns, gauss guns and gamma cannons, although his trust energy pistol has never failed him. He also also proficient and close quarter combat including the use of knifes, but struggles when it comes to swords or blunt weapons. He prefers to stay on the sidelines coordinating the attack and sniping enemies rather than attack face to face.
Weapon: A personal Parliament issue energy pistol that causes intense molecular damage to a small point which, if fired over a great enough area, could cause the molecules to simple fall apart. Atlas's pistol has been specially tuned to focus on specific wavelengths and has a greater energy output by syphoning some of the energy from the PiNG attached to the base of the grip. He also often carries a laser knife with the laser giving the metal blade an impossibly sharp edge, a tool only often found within the medical profession. Atlas, being more competent at combat than the other Officials, will often be the one protecting them if the need arises. If there is a chance of combat, Atlas will often be found with some sort of experimental ordnance and a crazed grin on his face.
History: Atlas was born to a rich family with good political ties and it wasn't long before he was at Neo-Oxford university learning law, engineering, computing and weapons development. He was in his late 30s when Official Alice Rospek 'retired' and Atlas was voted into Parliament. He was present at two more 'retirements' and headed the Pinnacle research facility on Venus which handled experimental weapons design.
Short history log:
2019
November 19th: A large GEAR is found orbiting the corona of the sun in the Sol System. After a dangerous and expensive mission it is recovered. Appearing inactive and without AI, it is given the designation 'VOID'.
November 24th: The Pinnacle facility acquires the GEAR before the Hermes GEAR division can begin research on it.
December 13th: An inactive AI is discovered within the GEAR. It could not be activated.
2020
January 4th: The VOID GEAR AI wakes without prompt and goes on the destroy part of the facility, killing 20 researchers and causing the JX reactor to meltdown. A directed EMP was emitted just before the GEAR could escape but the residual EMP from the emitter caused a blackout throughout Hermes. Despite the power of the pulse, the GEAR electronics were almost intact, the only thing that had changed was the AI was back to its dormant state. It is quickly theorised that the Sun emitted just enough electromagnetism to deactivate the AI. This became known as the JX event (With the blackout being attributed to an 'accidental meltdown' of the JX reactor, even though it only supplied power to a tiny part of Hermes). An electromagnetic emitter is projected at the AI at all times.
January 13th: Work on Project Indigo begins as directed by Atlas.
January 29th: Ideas form about placing parts from the VOID GEAR into Project Indigo. The idea goes ahead almost instantly.
February 16th: A human brain is successfully embedded within the Project Indigo skeleton.
March 1st: The VOID GEAR AI is implanted into Project Indigo. The memory stores for the AI are not transferred and are instead housed in a unique division of the Pinnacle facility with the aims of trying to decode its unique contents.
March 25th: Mechanical construction of Project Indigo is completed.
April 7th: Atlas personally awoke the new weapon construct Project Indigo. Over the next three months he stayed in the facility and closely monitored the project. He was deeply intrigued by how the biological and mechanical parts could work together (Especially when the mechanical components were dominant, unlike the Mana-Drives) and soon became the father figure for Project Indigo.
July 7th: Indigo (as the construct now referred itself as) was introduced to the Parliament. Initially Atlas suffered from backlash from who he considered to be the cowards of the Parliament, even if they were more elderly and experienced than him, but soon they warmed to the idea.
July 15th: Present at the grand celebration for both the trial of Solo and the actual celebration.
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