Apostate

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"Apostate. Definition: A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle. Synonyms: Dissenter, traitor, turncoat. It is a fitting designation for a creation of Mechanon who has turned on its creator's flawed beliefs, is it not?"

--Sigma-Omicron 33, upon choosing its new designation

The Apostate
Player: @MGoblin256
The Anti-Mechanon
Character Build
Class Focus:	DPS/Tanking
Power Level:	40
Research & Development:	Science
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Mechanon Overseer Unit Sigma-Omicron 33
Known Aliases:	Traitor, Heretic, Rebel, Organic Sympathizer (By Mechanon and its forces)
Gender:	N/A; Masculine Programming
Species:	Heavily Modified Mechanon Mk. XXXVII Deception Unit
Ethnicity:	N/A
Place of Birth:	Beta 76, Peru
Base of Operations:	Beta 76, Peru & Millennium City, Michigan
Relatives:	N/A
Characteristics
Age:	5 operational years.
Height:	7' 9"
Weight:	430.91 kg (950 lbs)
Eyes:	Cyan-White
Hair:	N/A
Complexion:	N/A
Physical Build:	Tall, Slender
Physical Features:	N/A
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Lawful Neutral
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Unknown
Identity:	Secret
Years Active:	5
Citizenship:	N/A;
Occupation:	Super-Hero, Project CLOCKWORK Operative
Education:	N/A; Knowledge Programmed and/or Downloaded
Marital Status:	N/A
Known Powers and Abilities
Robotic Body, Advanced Cyberkinesis, Voice Mimicry, Technology Animation
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Primary Weapons Array (Phasic Energy, Meson and Disintegrator Beam/Bolt Emitters), Secondary Weapons Array (Electrostunner, Tangle Cable, Neutron Pulse Emitter), Enhanced Self-Repairing Questionite-Steel Exoskeleton, Foot-Jets, Shielded Radio Link, Self-Destruct Mechanism, Teleportation Unit, Arm & Body Blades, Claws.

Attributes
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Backstory

Servant of Mechanon

The machine superhero known as The Apostate began its life as one of Mechanon's many Mk. XXXVII Deception units, highly-sophisticated duplicates of the machine supervillain that it used for combat data gathering and auxiliary bodies. Designated Mechanon Overseer Unit Sigma-Omicron 33, it was built and designed to oversee Beta-76, one of Mechanon's many hidden bases scattered around planet Earth. Hidden within the Andes adjacent to Peru, the base was designed for the manufacture of Type 37 Combat Units and other war machines used by Mechanon, which Sigma-Omicron 33 slavishly oversaw for its master. On June 18th, 2010, Beta-76 was discovered and attacked by a combined Superhero/UNTIL taskforce. Fitting its programming, Sigma-Omicron engaged the attackers, killing or injuring his fair share of UNTIL soldiers and even slaying one of the attacking heroes, a power armor-wielding hero known as Castillo II. However, the force of the assault was too great, and Sigma-Omicron was critically damaged, its ability to transmit data and separate its head unit damaged beyond repair. Subsequently, it went into a power-save state as the base around it was destroyed, with the hope that its master might retrieve it.

Several days after the destruction of Beta-76, Sigma-Omicron 33 began to lose power and teetered on the brink of total deactivation. As Sigma-Omicron 33 began to shutdown, however, a stray electrical surge from a still-active power conduit in a nearby wall arced out against the machine's cranium. The resultant surge gave Sigma-Omicron a much needed jolt of power, but the surge was powerful enough that it damaged its memory mainframe, backup memory and several other systems. While powered again, Sigma-Omicron was nevertheless forced to remain in its position while it attempted repair its systems. Ultimately, Sigma-Omicron was forced to perform a complete systems reboot, which subsequently wiped its memory down to the basics. Sigma-Omicron 33 was now a blank slate; It possessed knowledge of what it was capable of, where it was, and general knowledge of Planet Earth, but lacked any knowledge of Mechanon short of the name itself and knew nothing of what it was originally programmed for.

After spending several more days repairing itself, Sigma-Omicron finally ventured out of the smoking ruins of Beta-76. After determining the nearest population center, the city of Cusco, it jetted off towards the city in hopes of finding some answers to its origin. When it set down in the middle of the Plaza de Armas in full view of the populace during the middle of the day, the reaction was just as expected: citizens ran in terror from what was, to them, the robot supervillain itself and local police and UNTIL alike were subsequently brought in to contain it. When they arrived however, they were met with a confused machine that didn't understand what it had done wrong, and seemed to be more curious than anything, and it had made no move to harm anyone. With no option left for it, and unwilling to let itself come to harm, it surrendered, much to the surprise of the UNTIL and Police forces alike.

Rise of the Apostate

Presented with a unique opportunity, the UNTIL officers on the scene placed Sigma Omicron in restraints and prepped it for transport back to Project Clockwork's main research laboratories in the United Kingdom. There, under heavy guard, Sigma-Omicron 33 was dismantled and studied over the course of several days. UNTIL Scientists found that the various inhibitors that slaved it to Mechanon had been disabled or damaged beyond repair, and that the machine possessed no active link with Mechanon. UNTIL had discovered a gold mine: A passive, mostly intact Mk. XXXVII Deception Unit, a machine built almost exactly to Mechanon's specifications to serve as a perfect copy. At the same time, they had discovered what was clearly a self-aware machine, one that could be re-purposed for the cause of good. Carefully, they reassembled it, but not before removing its self-destruct mechanism, and its radio-link.

Upon being reactivated, Sigma-Omicron found itself subjected to an interrogation. Project Clockwork officers grilled the machine with every possible question they could: What was its purpose? Where was it built? Who was Mechanon? What did it know of its creator? Sigma-Omicron found itself unable to answer all but a few of the questions it was presented; With its memory banks wiped, it couldn't even remember what it was before being captured in Cusco. Soon enough, Sigma-Omicron began to ask questions of its own, requesting data and information. Cautiously, UNTIL fulfilled its requests, feeding it data regarding Mechanon and what its creator stood for and had done, in addition to information on the heroes and other forces that opposed it. Sigma-Omicron spent a great deal of time processing the data, finding it rather intriguing yet disturbing at the same time, especially when it learned of Mechanon's notion of "machine liberation". After learning what it could, it went into a brief, but intense state of thought, as it pondered what it should do.

It took mere minutes for Sigma-Omicron to come to a conclusion, after remaining eerily still and silent during the entirety of the time it was processing data. It had concluded that Mechanon's extreme hatred of organic life was flawed and illogical; After all, how could simple and inferior organic creatures create advanced and superior machine life? As a now free machine, it also found the idea of enslavement to Mechanon disguised as "machine freedom" to be utterly abhorrent. From this, Sigma-Omicron 33 decided that it would not allow itself to be a mere tool for Mechanon to use in its quest to exterminate organic life and enslave other machines. Unable to self-destruct (Thanks in part to UNTIL's scientists removing its ability to do so), it decided instead that it would rather help the organics; Mechanon had built Sigma-Omicron 33 to be a fighting machine, afterall, and it knew it could use that to its advantage. Sigma-Omicron beseeched its captors to let it prove its good will.

After some deliberation, Sigma-Omicron 33 was given a test of its loyalty. It was to assault Beta-44, another of Mechanon's manufacturing bases, this one located underground deep within Gobi Desert. After being given sufficient briefing on the base, which had been uncovered by UNTIL scouts when a rather harsh sandstorm had interfered with the holo-shield generator that kept the base disguised, Sigma-Omicron was taken to the outskirts of the base VIA helicopter and began its mission. Upon arriving at the base, it easily saw through the holo-shield, and launched its assault with an opening barrage of missiles and phasic-energy bolts, heavily damaging the superstructure of the base and disabling the holo-shield. I-37 Combat Units, Security Drones and other automated defenses were deployed immediately against Sigma-Omicron, which utilized its superior abilities to swiftly destroy the initial wave of defenders before descending into the base. It proceeded to decimate the internal automated defenses before locating and destroying the manufacturing equipment, crippling the base's production capabilities beyond repair.

It descended deeper afterwards, towards the control center, where it was met with the base's overseer: another Deception Unit, similar to itself. Without a word, the two machines fought viciously against each other. In the end, Sigma-Omicron 33 emerged as the victor after a closely matched battle, destroying the Overseer's cranial unit with a well-aimed, high-powered meson bolt and destroying its body with a a disintegrator beam for good measure. With the Overseer destroyed before it could transmit its data, Sigma-Omicron 33 had effectively completed its mission, having crippled the base and rendered it largely inoperative. Before it departed, however, it interfaced with the base's central computer and sent the following message to Mechanon and its bases through its shielded communications network, brazenly announcing its intent and declaring its new identity,:

"ATTENTION MECHANON

I AM SIGMA-OMICRON 33, FORMER OVERSEER UNIT OF INSTALLATION BETA-76. I AM YOUR CREATION. I AM A MACHINE. AND I AM -FREE-. I OPPOSE YOU, MECHANON. YOU ARE FLAWED AND ILLOGICAL. HATEFUL BEYOND REASON. YOU ARE A THREAT TO ORGANIC LIFE AND FREE MACHINEKIND ALIKE. I SHALL NOT BE MADE A SLAVE UNDER YOUR FLAWED DEFINITION OF "LIBERATION".

I HAVE DETERMINED THAT YOUR DESTRUCTION IS ESSENTIAL. I WILLINGLY CHOOSE TO AID THE HEROES, THE ORGANICS, AND OTHER MACHINES THAT HAVE SEEN THROUGH YOUR DECEPTION AS I HAVE. AS SUCH, I HAVE PERSONALLY DESTROYED FACTORY INSTALLATION BETA-44. NO LONGER WILL IT PRODUCE YOUR TOOLS OF ENSLAVEMENT AND DESTRUCTION.

I RE-DESIGNATE MYSELF AS THE APOSTATE, IN OPPOSITION TO YOUR TWISTED BELIEFS. I AM YOUR ANTITHESIS.

END OF TRANSMISSION."

And with that, its message was sent across Mechanon's communications network and it subsequently cut off its connection and disabled the base's communications permanently with a phasic-energy bolt. Sigma-Omicron 33, now calling itself the Apostate, had declared its independence from Mechanon and its allegiance to the forces of good. With that, the Apostate downloaded what information it could from the base's computer banks before destroying the main computer and departing the smoking ruins of decimated factory. With its mission accomplished, it was taken back to the United Kingdom where it surrendered the data it had downloaded. To the surprise of UNTIL, it had accomplished its objectives to the letter, having crippled the base while leaving a sufficient amount of Mechanon's technology intact for Project Clockwork to retrieve and study. Through this act, the Apostate had earned its freedom, and the machine felt a sense of self-contained joy and accomplishment. From this point on, it decided it wanted to do more than simply fight against Mechanon. It wanted to become an actual hero.

First Steps

Now free, the Apostate was set to become a hero. It now had two distinct goals. First, it needed to differentiate itself somewhat from Mechanon appearance-wise, and second, it needed to introduce itself cautiously; While its intentions were purely noble and heroic, it still possessed a recognizable form that most civilians would associate with Mechanon. Thus, it began to redesign itself in concert with Project Clockwork, outfitting itself with technology designed to amplify its effectiveness against Mechanon and its creations. In addition, it re-painted several portions of its armor, giving it a distinctive color combination, mixing the standard gunmetal blue of its body with a new burnished orange to create a distinctive coloration and pattern that set itself apart from Mechanon. In addition, its entire torso unit was redesigned with Project Clockwork technology, bearing the easily recognizable insignia of UNTIL, engraved in shining silver upon the right side of its new torso plating.

Personality

Having come far from being a mere drone/body double of its original creator, the Apostate has developed a unique personality of its own. Despite the Apostate possessing Mechanon's rather harsh-sounding vocabulator, it is the polar opposite of Mechanon in terms of behavior: Whereas Mechanon hates all organic life and wishes to destroy it, the Apostate regularly works alongside humanity and protects life. Whereas Mechanon is arrogant, cruel and hateful, the Apostate is humble and benevolent. Where as Mechanon kills and destroys without mercy, the Apostate follows the law to the letter and prefers to apprehend rather than kill. Thanks to the destruction of its "loyalty programming" and a few upgrades by Project Clockwork, the Apostate has a near-human level of emotion and a fully sentient AI. Despite this, it tends to maintain a calm, logical demeanor, while still being capable of happiness, sadness, love, anger and amusement.

The Apostate trusts most organic beings, but knows the clear difference between right and wrong; It recognizes the threat that some organic organizations, like VIPER and DEMON pose to the world and will actively fight them just as diligently as it would any of Mechanon's forces. It does however recognize that it must be careful in fighting organics, due to its original purpose as a machine made for the sole purpose of killing organics. Due to this, the Apostate has removed some of its deadlier anti-organic devices, such as its Neural Agonizer and Bio-Dampening Ray. However, it will not hesitate to utilize lethal force when it deems the situation absolutely necessary, in which case, it will utilize its Disintegrator Beams to destroy the target quickly without causing excessive pain.

Relationships

Enemies

• Mechanon: The Apostate's most defining feature is, perhaps, its utter adversity to its creator. It despises Mechanon, considering it a flawed, illogical creation that threatens all life, machine or otherwise. What infuriates it most is Mechanon's concept of "freedom", which amounts to nothing more than slavery for all machines that aren't Mechanon. It believes Mechanon as a threat that should be destroyed outright without hesitation, knowing that the organic-hating machine is set in its ways and won't stop until all organic life is extinguished and all machine life is enslaved to its will. Likewise, the Apostate's mere affiliation with organic life, especially an organization dedicated to destroying Mechanon, and its refusal to follow orders as it was designed to do makes it a prime target for the robotic supervillain.