Gold Meteor
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- Intelligence: Super-genius.
- Strength: Normal.
- Speed: Warp Speed (teleporter).
- Durability: Virtually indestructible (force fields).
- Energy Projection: Able to discharge multiple forms of energy.
- Fighting Skills: Some training.
Contents
It's a long story...
Gold is relatively new in Millenium City, but she has a long, long story in "That Other City" of heroes and villains, a story that's too ingrained in CoH lore, and that I have no plans to retcon. For Goldie's complete life story, please refer to: http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Gold_Meteor
Her moving to Millenium City assumes that both MC and "That Other City" exist in same world/universe. It worked for Superman vs. The Amazing Spiderman back in 1976, and given how deep-rooted CO is in the Silver Age, then I see no reason why it shouldn't be a valid explanation.
Long story short:
After nearly two centuries of watching over Earth, in the end The Lady Grey turned out an infiltrator from the invaders. After Vanguard's fall, the UN re-assigned Gold to UNTIL to finish the fight with Batallion.
A new land of opportunity
Millenium City seems to be the only place in America where metahumans can use their powers for profit without being accused of Anticompetitive Behavior. Time for the Aikawa-Goldshire family to seek for greener pastures!
Now, Hannah isn't intending to put all of her private discoveries in the market. For starters, humanity is not ready yet for a lot of things, and giving mankind personal matter transponders or the way to break the third law of thermodynamics would be just as auspicious as giving the A-Bomb to the Catholic church of the dark ages. There's also the issue of her ego, giving away her secrets equals giving away her power, something she won't do. Finally, during Detroit's reconstruction as Millenium City, other metahumans have already patented enough methods of clean energy there for electricity to be dirt-cheap.
Nevertheless, she still has plenty of harmless, (relatively) small-time ideas she can patent to further build their family's nest egg, and she's very curious regarding how cut-throat an environment of enterpreneurial super-scientists can get.
Here's Another Fine Mess you've gotten me into!
Nemesis: Callion
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- Intelligence: Normal.
- Strength: Incalculable (telekinesis).
- Speed: Superhuman (flight).
- Durability: Virtually indestructible (force field).
- Energy Projection: Long range, long duration, single energy type (telekinesis).
- Fighting Skills: Experienced fighter.
Last month, PRIMUS' army was mobilized to Burning Sands to contain a fight between Grond and an unidentified metahuman who had him at a stalemate. The fight was eventually disrupted but not before PRIMUS sustained heavy losses. The unidentified metahuman has been recently seen in Paris fighting Gravitar as well as Millenium City and announcements have been issued, warning police forces and metahumans under Delta Class to follow but not engage.
Callion is a product of the private, one-sided arms race between Gold Meteor and her rival, Sovereign Blue. While Hannah took a high energy physics approach to transhumanism, Sovereign Blue turned inwards, by tapping on humans' psychic potential and magnifying it for weaponization.
A clone based on Menton's DNA and augmented with Sovereign Blue's psyware applied to transhuman mods, he weaponizes the energy of an Alpha-class latent psychic to become an Omega-class juggernaut.
Upon completion, Callion was released into the world and his memory got wiped except for subconscious programming routines that drive him to prove his superiority as the ultimate life form by the most violent means available, turning him into a sociopath. Sovereign Blue is convinced that Callion and Gold Meteor are bound to clash, and then she'll prove whose technology is superior without having to dirty her own hands.
Skeletons in the Closet
While working in UNTIL means her identity isn't a particularly well-guarded secret, she has two big secrets to keep, namely the two Omega-class metahumans in her household she keeps away from ASPRA. One of them is her daughter, Sumaki, and the other is the matter manipulator Haley Hadron.
While Sumaki is only "half registered" in UNTIL as a trained combatant (with only a fraction of her actual powers registered), Haley is a complete wildcard. As of now, both are students at Ravenswood Academy, which gives her silent backup from UNTIL in keeping their secrets safe. Still, as Haley's heroics gradually reveal more of the nature of her powers, she gradually becomes more of a liability.
Breaking the Third Law for fun and Profit
The secret to Hannah's seemingly unlimited power supply lies in an exception clause for the third law of thermodynamics.
According to black hole research, the Quantum Vacuum is continuously creating particle/anti-particle pairs that cancel each other out. However, under very special circumstances (like close proximity to a black hole), an object can steal one particle in the pair right before they destroy each other, leaving the remaining particle to wander. This is the origin of the Hawking Radiation, which is one of the only three ways humanity has so far to detect black holes.
The quantum vacuum is where Hannah gets her power from.
Trivia
- Because of the source Hannah's mods use to get their power, when powered on, Hannah emits Hawking Radiation, which is the only way to detect her presence when in stealth mode.
- Threat Level: Delta (with potential to Omega). For all of the means at her disposal, Gold Meteor has managed to keep an outstandingly low profile so far. She has spear-headed wars against metahuman-grade armies, charted alternate universes, cracked infernal and celestial physics, bridged the gap between science and magic, and invaded a foreign world with a personal army she built. All that in addition to transhumanizing her body into an Omega-class threat. Working in UNTIL gives her more latitude and makes her look less like a threat. In addition, when possible, Gold Meteor picks her fights in order not to need to display resources that would raise red flags amongst the powers that be.
