The Navigator
Name: ---
Alias: "They call me Apostle."
Gender: Conceivably Male
Age: Two
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 468 lbs.
Nationality: Iskadale
Appearance: As seen, Apostle has the appearance of a taller man sporting dark blue, heavy armor covering the entire exterior. In between different plates of armor is a sort of heavier, impermeable gel-like mesh, especially around the elbow, knee and neck. Because nothing below the suit can be seen, it is often questioned if Apostle is a man or not; a male voice is the only thing indicative of any gender or possibility of being human. His opaque orange and red visor conceals any deeper identity he may have. There are pieces of cloth tightly bound to his body, with the exception of one at his belt, which he has used and replaced for first-aid bandages for people wounded in battle. A sort of power generator with nearly impenetrable armor attaches to his back. As it is the only generator that creates the needed resources for his suit, he tries not to take it into battle with him, and when it is not on him, thinner armor is revealed in the back.
Apostle keeps two canisters and plenty of ammo clips on his persona, decorating rather blank parts of his body. The canisters are used to create a smoke screen if numbers worked against him. He always keeps with him a ninety caliber rifle that shoots at the slow rate of 250 rounds per minute.
Abilities: As an individual equipped for war, Apostle has deadly accuracy with firearms. His physical strength is remarkable, though not superhuman. He has an adept strategic mind, and has been complimented with "always being where he needs to be." While fighting hand to hand, most of his techniques are used to incapacitate, not necessarily kill. He is also not the greatest of martial artists, a reason he prefers firearms.
Although he has these more positive abilities, perhaps the most deterrent of his abilities is the ability to feel pain. Surviving a strong hit to the joint, a shot to the stomach, or a big fall doesn't mean he won't be winded or disoriented.
Loyalty: Rebels/Western Alliance - Iskadale has tried to manipulate Apostle and his identity, and in some ways succeeded in doing so. However, knowing this, Apostle has pledged himself to any and all resistance to Iskadale.
Personality: Apostle's tone is very mechanical, adding to the question of whether or not he is actually a living person or an incredibly intelligent AI. He's never been heard to laugh, though he is able to use sarcasm and satire to further his ideas. These traits further the notion that Apostle is more likely a robot than a human. Apostle also does his best not to make any word on the subject of his existence and origins, only responding with "Well, what do you think I look like?"
Though he can seem detached of any and all emotions, he has a clear bias against the Brinn Coalition. When people do or say tings that could be seen as rather stupid, he has no problem in correcting them, sometimes with an edge. He can be quick to interject in a conversation where someone says something that's factually wrong, or there is an opinion stated he can't find a way to cope with. This may lead some to perceive him as hot-headed.
History: Apostle's history is a bit difficult to explain, and is broken into what he knows and what he doesn't.
What Apostle doesn't know is that he was born thirty three years ago in Iskadale in one of its more industrious cities. His father was a mechanist, working to produce military and war goods. His mother died in child birth as the dictatorial means of Iskadale had created a shortage of medical supplies in the city at the time, leaving medical staff in hospitals under-equipped for their jobs.
In the early part of his life, his paternal grandparents took care of him as his mother's parents were dead. His father, Orthus Kaid, would take the boy when he was four and older to where he worked. There, Orthus' son would become literate and able-bodied. The manager's condition was only that the child would not slow production or cause disruption. Early on, discipline would be instilled in him. He would go on to be employed with his father when he was ten, but as he worked, he felt something missing. He felt no incentive to work, it just seemed something everyone does.
Apostle in his early life led a rather mundane existence until his later adolescent years. However, being impoverished and hungry were things that never escaped him and his environment. He would study why Moljin prospered and why Iskadale seemed so stodgy a place to live. This would eventually get him into trouble, as he started speculating his ideas with colleagues at work. Some that were more conscientious about their business warned against talking about such ideas, but by then it was too late. Some had already accused Orthus and his son of working with insurgents. It wasn't long after they would be imprisoned, and his father would be killed during arrest.
Taken to a prison far away from society, he would work in hard labor off of scant food for several years. When he was twenty five, he would be chosen by the government to undergo a military research project that was struggling to yield results. About thirty prisoners were selected to experiment on, and were all transported to a different facility with no immediate contact to civilization.
From here on is what Apostle knows.
Apostle knows that at this point, he would become known as Test Subject Omega-6 "Apostle," which is where he attained his alias. This would be the last selection of people to be provisioned for Project Solidus. Many abducted prisoners died in biological augmentation, which involved synthetic protein and enzyme injections. If they were to live past that, they most likely did not live past infusion with their armor suit.
Mobility with the armor suit would be taken care of by biological augmentation made prior. The outer plating was made to withstand 80 caliber bullet impacts, and minimal explosive impact. The suit would function to maintain homeostasis and provide tactical information to the user. It would obtain energy from the generator that could attach to the user's backside, weighing nearly one hundred pounds itself, and could charge the suit's nineteen hour battery in two hours. What made assimilating with the suit particularly dangerous was that the computer in the suit interfered with brain activity. If assimilation was successful, the user would have a geographical database of the world, the ability to hack digital systems (given the time to crack encrypted codes) with the suit's computer, a superbly powerful mathematical calculator and detection of lethal threats. Because of the computer's ability to access the brain, it has an infinitely vast memory space and a great deal of processing power. However, it was also used by designers to disrupt any personal memories before their assimilation into the suit.
Only four subjects survived. The four that lived were lied to by the scientists who made them into what they are, and led them to believe they were androids fabricated by Iskadale to serve benevolent leadership that led a war against corrupt, biased hierarchies. However, ingrained into Apostle's personality was the need to question things that seemed to hold no basis.
Why do we have the design of human-like structures? Why can I think independently if I have a clear purpose? Why are our own people discontented with our own government? These were all questions Apostle asked at one point or another, and it was found difficult to give a calm reply.
In the year after, he would undergo training to become masterful in his armored body. Early on, he learned to hack computer systems, and used this knowledge to hack the facility's databases out of a lack of trust and discovered information the scientist's would rather him not know. With the facts he was unearthing, his three teammates were pit against him only three months into his training. Fortunately, Apostle managed to intercept their directives before they had to enact them the next morning. He abandoned the facility, having to kill some on the way, and initiated the facility's self-destruct command prompt, killing almost all personnel related to Project Solaridus, including his three teammates. Iskadale never let their failures reach the public.
Wandering among the lands, he joined the Liberators rebel faction. Almost immediately after, the war started up, and for some years the Liberators relied on the vast knowledge of Apostle to coordinate their irregular troops in the towns in southwestern Iskadale. It wouldn't be until the fourth year, when rebels posed an increasingly great threat, that the most elite of Iskadale's ranks would be sent to destroy the Liberators. Only Apostle survived that month-long skirmish.
With elites trying to hunt him down, he made as many friends as he could along his way to Moljin. In his ventures across the country, he met Adria and the rebel faction she was part of. Proving his worth in a number of ways on the battlefield. As the war wound down, Apostle had no hesitation in joining Adria's crew when she asked, as she seemed quite competent a person. However, because he has been hunted so vigorously, Apostle tries to keep his duties aboard the ship. The only time he would leave the ship are to either move heavy cargo, fight against large enemy forces, or if the captain has something for him to do on the exterior.
Family: Apostle has no living relatives, and is not aware of it.