Killer Shrike
May 10th, '03, 09:38 PM
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<font size=+1><b>Mr. Roboto</b></font>
Player: NPC
Creator: Killer Shrike
<table><td width=85%><table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><font size=2><b>Val  </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Char   </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Cost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>30  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>STR</b></font></td><td><font size=2>20</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>DEX</b></font></td><td><font size=2>45</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>CON</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>BODY</b></font></td><td><font size=2>30</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>28  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>INT</b></font></td><td><font size=2>18</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>EGO</b></font></td><td><font size=2>50</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PRE</b></font></td><td><font size=2>10</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>16  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>COM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>3</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>24</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>ED</b></font></td><td><font size=2>27</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>8  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SPD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>45</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>5  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>REC</b></font></td><td><font size=2>-6</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>END</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>12"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>RUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>0"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SWIM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>-2</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>LEAP</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr></table><b>Characteristics Cost:</b> 264</td><td><img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=58511"></td></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Power</b></td><td align="right"><b>END</b></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td>Parts Made in Japan </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">33  </td><td>1) <b><i>Cyberlithonic Brain: </i></b>+11 Mental Defense (16 points total) [<b>Notes:</b> Also, Mind is Machine Class] </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">60  </td><td>2) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Automaton (Takes No STUN) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>3) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Does Not Bleed </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">30  </td><td>4) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Damage Resistance (10 PD/10 ED) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">45  </td><td>5) <b><i>Robot Body: </i></b>Power Defense (15 points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">45  </td><td>6) <b><i>Robot Body: </i></b>Life Support (Total) (Eating: Character does not eat, Immunity: All terrestrial diseases and biowarfare agents, Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing, Sleeping: Character does not sleep) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>7) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>+0 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (15 Active Points) (Modifiers affect Base Characteristic) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">3  </td><td>8) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>Leaping 0" (6" forward, 3" upward), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (3 Active Points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">24  </td><td>9) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>Running +6" (12" total), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (24 Active Points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">138  </td><td>10) <b><i>Extra Body: </i></b>Duplication (creates 1300-point form), Cannot Recombine (+0), Trigger (+1/4), Altered Duplicates (All of Duplicate's points spent differently; +1) (585 Active Points); Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (1 Week; -2 1/4), IIF Bulky (Focus (Spare Body); -3/4), Requires A Robotics Skill Roll (Active Point penalty to Skill Roll is -1 per 20 Active Points -1/4) [<b>Notes:</b> Mr. Roboto builds a spare body and leaves it in a safe place. When he is destroyed, the spare Mr. Roboto is activated.] </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">34  </td><td>11) <b><i>Visual Sensors: </i></b>(Total: 34 Active Cost, 34 Real Cost) Infrared Perception (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> Ultraviolet Perception (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> Microscopic x1000 (Sight Group) (Real Cost: 15) <b>plus</b> Telescopic +6 to PER Rolls (only to offset the Range Modifier) (Sight Group) (Real Cost: 9) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td> </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">154  </td><td><b><i>Custom Robotics: </i></b>VPP, 120 base + 34 control cost (180 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), Limited Class Of Powers Available (Robotic) (Slightly Limited; -1/4) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>1) <b><i>Robotic Wardens: </i></b>Energy Blast 6d6 (vs. ED), Trigger (Conscious Enemies Detected) (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect Nonselective Target (17" Cone; +3/4), No Normal Defense (Not vs Inorganic) (Standard; +1) (105 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), No Range (-1/2), 2 Continuing Charges lasting 5 Minutes each (-1/2) Real Cost: 42 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: 2 Robotic Guards are deployed, watching 2 different hallways; when one sees Enemies, it activates and opens fire with a hail of Stun blasts, strafing the area in front of it until it is destroyed, doesnt detect anymore conscious enemies or runs out of battery juice (Fuel).
Continuing Charges & Uncontrolled automatically terminated by any attack that targets Robots or technology specifically, including Mental Powers vs. Machine Minds.] <br></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>2) <b><i>Robotic Grapplers: </i></b>Entangle 3d6, 5 DEF, Entangle And Character Both Take Damage (+1/4), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect Nonselective Target (8" Radius; +3/4) (110 Active Points); Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (Full Phase; -1/4), Delayed Phase (-1/4), OIF (-1/2), Cannot Form Barriers (-1/4), Susceptible (EMP effects) (Uncommon; -1/4), Cannot Be Used With Multiple-Power Attacks (-1/4), 4 Continuing Charges lasting 1 Minute each (-1/4), Range Based On Strength (-1/4), Can Be Missile Deflected (-1/4) Real Cost: 31 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: Mr. Roboto throws out a large grenade like object, which explodes into computer controlled snaky robotic tentacles which grab and restrain all that pass through thier area until thier power runs out. They will not grab at Mr. Roboto.
An EMP pulse instantly ends the effect.] </td> <td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>3) <b><i>Robotic Hazers: </i></b>Flash 3d6 (Sight Group; Additional Sense Group: Hearing Group, Additional Sense Group: Radio Group, Additional Sense Group: Smell/Taste Group), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect (83" Radius; +2) (112 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charges lasting 5 Minutes each (-3/4), Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (Full Phase; -1/4), Delayed Phase (-1/4), OIF (Focus (Tiny Robotic Emitters); -1/2) Real Cost: 41 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: Mr. Roboto programs in the target point and then twists the top off of a round cannister with a control pad on top, which releases hundreds of tiny little robots which scurry out to the designated point and then begin emitting a wide variety of 'static' and light pulses which aggregate to impose near total sensory deprivation to those within the area of effect.
An EMP Pulse instantly ends the effect.] <br></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td> </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr></table><b>Powers Cost:</b> 596
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Skill</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>+2 Overall </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>+4 with a group of similar Skills (INT) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">  </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Electronics 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Teamwork 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Systems Operation 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Fast Draw 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Cryptography 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Computer Programming 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Combat Piloting 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Combat Driving 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Bugging 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>KS: The Superhuman World (INT-based) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Lockpicking 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Mechanics 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Security Systems 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Stealth 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Weaponsmith (Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Energy Weapons, Firearms, Incendiary Weapons, Missiles & Rockets, Mr. Roboto Weapons, Muscle-Powered HTH, Muscle-Powered Ranged) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">9  </td><td>WF: Emplaced Weapons, Flamethrowers, General Purpose/Heavy Machine Guns, Grenade Launchers, Shoulder-Fired Weapons, Small Arms, Vehicle Weapons </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Scientist </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>1) SS: Biophysics (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>2) SS: Chemistry (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>3) SS: Engineering (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">8  </td><td>4) SS: Robotics (INT-based) (9 Active Points) 21- </td></tr></table><b>Skills Cost: </b>118
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Perk</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Computer Link </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Worlds Leading Expert on Advanced Robotics:</i> Reputation (A small to medium sized group; 14-) +4/+4d6 </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Money: Filthy Rich </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">125  </td><td><i>Secret Labs and Robotyx Corporation sites:</i> Vehicles & Bases (x32, 500 Base, 0 Disad) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">125  </td><td><i>Robotic Replicants:</i> Follower (x2048, 350 Base, 0 Disad) </td></tr></table><b>Perks Cost:</b> 273
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Talent</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Robotic Joints:</i> Double Jointed </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Absolute Time Sense </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Absolute Range Sense </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Eidetic Memory </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Lightning Calculator </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Speed Reading (x10) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain (Power Save Mode):</i> Simulate Death (+1 to roll) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Bump Of Direction </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Universal Translator 15- </td></tr></table><b>Talents Cost:</b> 49
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Val  </b></td><td><b>Disadvantages</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Hunted: PRIMUS 11- (Frequently) (As Pow; Harshly Punish; Extensive Non-Combat Influence) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Hunted: Sentinels of Justice 8- (Occasionally), More Powerful, Harshly Punish, Extensive Non-Combat Influence, Limited Geographical Area </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Psychological Limitation: Thinks he's doing the world a favor Common, Total </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Reputation: Strange Villain/Benefactor Almost Always (14-), Extreme (Known Only To A Small Group) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Social Limitation: Secret Id (Yasuaki Tomonaga) Frequently (11-), Major </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Vulnerability: 2 x BODY Electrical Attacks (Common) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Susceptibility: EMP 3d6 damage, Instant (Uncommon) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Enemy: Professional (Mechanon), Rival is More Powerful, Seek to Harm or Kill Rival, Rival Aware of Rivalry [<b>Notes:</b> Directly opposed to Mechanon's agenda] </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Enemy: Professional (IHA), Rival is More Powerful, Seek to Harm or Kill Rival, Rival Unaware of Rivalry [<b>Notes:</b> He believes some of his technology was used in creating the Minute Men.] </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Dependence: Battery Recharger Weakness: -3 To Characteristic Rolls and related rolls per time increment (Uncommon; 1 Day) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Unluck: 3d6 </td></tr></table>
<b>Disadvantage Points:</b> 165
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<b>Base Points:</b> 500
<b>Experience Required:</b> 635
<b>Total Experience Available:</b> 635
<b>Experience Unspent:</b> 0
<b>Total Character Cost:</b> 1300
<br><table width="100%" valign="top"><tr valign="top"><td><b>Height: </b>6' 0"</td><td><b>Hair: </b>Black</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><b>Weight: </b>165 lbs</td><td><b>Eyes: </b>Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight: 700"><td colspan=2><b>Appearance: </b>Mr. Roboto normally appears as a man-sized fully anthropomorphized humanoid robot, with non articulated joints and a flexible skin made of a specialized titanium alloy developed by Tomonaga Yasuaki called Flexium-C. Most people would think that Mr. Roboto is a man wearing some sort of a metallic suit if they observed it from a distance. If the skin is damaged, the articulated robotic design is revealed, along with circuitry and micro-motors. Mr. Roboto can also equip itself with an outer layer of synthetic skin, allowing it to masquerade as a normal human (use the VPP to buy Shapeshift vs Sight & Touch), but it does not exercise this option unless it absolutely needs to. Also, the Cyberlithonic Brain can theoretically be transitioned to a new body, but for reasons of its own Mr. Roboto has not yet chosen to exercise this option.<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Quote:</b>"Resist if you wish, but once you have experienced robotic existence you will say 'Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!'"<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Background: </b> <br> Yasuaki was born in Beverly Hills, California in 1972 to Tomonaga Yochiro, a wealthy Japanese business man and co-founder of Robotyx Inc, and his American wife Ellen Carter. Yasuaki's mother died when he was very young, and his father moved back to Japan. With one of the worlds leading experts in robotics for a father, Yasuaki was surrounded by all nature of robotic toys and design prototypes. Even as a preschooler, Yasuaki showed a natural genius for robotics, taking apart his toys and rebuilding them, and creating toys of his own in his fathers lab; in fact several of his own designs were refined for commercialization by his father and sold to toy manufacturers.
<br> Yasuaki grew up to a towering (in Japan) 6', with slightly wavy brownish black hair, and dominated his prep school's basketball league before going on to college. After some discussion he was sent to attend MIT at age 17 and he graduated 4 years later with multiple engineering degrees. More concerned with practical application and light-years beyond his instructors in the realms of robotics Yasuaki did not pursue a doctorate and returned home to Japan. Meanwhile his father Yochiro was fighting off both cancer and a buy-out by his co-founder Uriel Styx's oldest son Damien after Uriel's failing health forced him to turn over control to Damien.
<br> Yasuaki took up the reins of power from his ailing father and managed to seize control of Robotyx Inc in 1997 after a 2 year struggle, finally gaining enough support among the board members to defang Damien Styx. During this time Yochiro passed away, leaving Yasuaki as his only heir. However the death of Yochiro left Yasuaki slightly unhinged. Orphaned by the deaths of both his parents Yasuaki became obsessed with the ephemeral nature of organic matter and the inherent instability of the living state. Robots didn’t age, or suddenly die. They could be repaired when damaged. Their actions could be predicted. They were not random, inexplicable entities that could not be trusted. They were clearly in a superior state of existence.
<br> In 1999 he perfected work on his masterpiece, the Cyberlithonic Brain, which can be programmed with an exact binary representation of a human brain's physical structure. This technology allows the 'downloading' of a person’s thought processes into a Cyberlithonic Brain and once this input has been compiled/interpreted into a runable state any given input will result in the Cyberlithonic Brain responding exactly as the copied person 83% of the time. The other 17% of the time the Cyberlithonic Brain's enhanced efficiency generally results in a more appropriate response than the original subject will arrive at on their own. Further, a Cyberlithonic Brain learns from its mistakes, and can amend its processes with new experiences. It is a fully trinary reactive learning Artificial Intelligence, with even the ability to replicate emotion via the storage of multiple response options dependent upon "mood" if desired.
<br> Yasuaki, driven by his obsession, made a drastic decision that defies comprehension by sane minds. With his own personal funds he secretly established several robotics labs in both Japan and America. Meanwhile, he built a series of hyper advanced robotic bodies designed to be operated by a Cyberlithonic Brain, and when he was happy with the results he downloaded a copy of his brain, hooked it up to an active robotic body, and finally placed his biological body into cryogenic stasis. Tomonaga Yasuaki ceased to exist and Mr. Roboto was born with the skills, knowledge, memory and personality of Yasuaki plus 1 driving imperative: to roboticize all of humanity.
<br> With the sudden disappearance of Yasuaki, Damien Styx once again pushed to take control of Robotyx Inc. Without opposition he accomplished this easily, but mystified by the sudden disappearance of his rival for power and intrigued by suspicious diversions of resources noted in company records prior to this disappearance, he investigated the circumstances leading up to Yasuaki’s vanishing act. Unbeknownst to the world at large, Damien Styx was not just an ambitious business man but also a vigilante who maintained not 1 but 2 heroic identities, 1 as the mutant known as the "Disruptor" and another as the power armored "Green Knight". After some snooping, Damien uncovered one of Yasuaki's secret labs in North Detroit outside Millennium City, and went in to investigate it in his persona as the Green Knight. He was overpowered by robotic defenders, and afterwards Mr. Roboto flew in to see what its robotic minions had captured. Unmasking the Green Knight, Mr. Roboto recognized its great rival, Damien Styx! Mr. Roboto downloaded Damien's mind into a Cyberlithonic Brain and put his body into cryogenic storage.
<br> Using the Cyberlithonic copy of Damien, with appropriate programmatic overrides combined with advanced synthetic flesh technology it had recently mastered based on a new compound produced by PetraDyne Chemicals called GYX-5, Mr. Roboto made a robotic replicant of Damien Styx. Mr. Roboto sent this fake Damien Styx back into the world to run Robotyx the way Mr. Roboto wants it be run. Deconstructing the Green Knight armor suit, Mr. Roboto also constructed several robotic versions of the Green Knight to serve its own purposes. Over the next several months Mr. Roboto managed to secretly put all the members of the Robotyx board of directors on ice and replace them with replicant robots, using the replicant Damien to entrap them. Each replicant was equipped with a programmatically restrained Cyberlithonic Brain with their personalities and memories intact, which allowed them to blend in with those close to the originals and also continue to do their jobs, while still being firmly under Mr. Roboto's control. Subsequently, Robotyx Inc turned its considerable resources to secretly producing a large number of replicant bodies in plants staffed by replicants. With each passing week, more and more people connected to Robotyx Inc either directly or via immediate family were kidnapped and replaced with replicants bearing Cyberlithonic Brains imprinted with their minds. With plants in both Japan and America, this resulted in entire towns being replaced with robotic replicants loyal to Mr. Roboto in some locations.
<br> In 2001 PRIMUS ran afoul of one of these “company towns” at Little Creek, Montana, where a target for replication escaped his captors and managed to make contact with PRIMUS. An investigative team was sent in to check out the ludicrous sounding story, and came back to report that they had found nothing. The team had of course been replaced by replicants. This was discovered shortly by the intervention of Wirehead, a sanctioned superhuman with ties to PRIMUS that had been brought in for his technical expertise regarding robotics. The 2 replicants resisted capture but were destroyed by Wirehead and then deconstructed. Wirehead was amazed by the level of advancement he found in the replicants and declared that the technology used to create them was 30 or more years beyond anything anyone else was doing, particularly the Cyberlithonic Brains. He later published a scientific paper on the subject in the World Ledger of Practical Engineering, detailing to some degree the advanced articulation, power source, and circuitry he found. This article lead to most experts in the fields related to robotics recognizing Mr. Roboto as the preeminent expert in the world. Mr. Roboto also believes that technology used in the more recent Minute Men by the IHA was designed using some of his circuit designs as set forth by Wirehead in the Ledger.
<br> Wirehead and a large assault team of PRIMUS agents descended on Little Creek and wiped out the plant and its many replicants, finally finding in a sublevel beneath the plant a cryogenic storage center containing the frozen bodies of the entire town, some 600+ people. PRIMUS scientists were able to reverse the cryo freezing and restore the workers to life, but none of them were able to shed light on what had happen; each in turn had been incapacitated by loved ones or co-workers (all replicants), and that was all they remembered. Robotyx Inc was investigated of course, but a crack team of lawyers descended to nip PRIMUS's inquiry in the bud and mire the process in legal limbo. Mr. Roboto was not pleased with this outcome, and advanced the replicant operation. Meanwhile the hero Wirehead and his fellow Sentinels of Justice were not restrained by the legal obstructions tying PRIMUS's hands, and carried out a private investigation of the corporation’s factory in Cleveland, Ohio. Through their efforts Mr. Roboto himself was revealed to the public and many replicants were destroyed along with Mr. Roboto itself. However, a backup version of Mr. Roboto was activated in a hidden lab at the same time as the current version was destroyed. In the aftermath of the battle, Damien Styx publicly decried in a press conference from the safety of Tokyo, Japan that Mr. Roboto was an interloper attempting to subvert Robotyx Inc and thanked the Sentinels for their timely efforts to destroy the robotic enemy. By ordering the Damien replicant to spin the circumstances it in this fashion, Mr. Roboto was able to impose damage control. Though Mr. Roboto's plans were set back, they were not permanently halted.
<br> In the 2 years since then, Mr. Roboto has secretly been rebuilding its hidden army of replicants. However the replication plan has recently encountered a setback. The criminal organization of the mastermind known as Chemo, who has suspected connections with Teleios, recently seized control of the resources necessary for PetraDyne to produce GYX-5*. GYX-5, as noted above, is crucial to the production of the synthetic skin used to make replicants look lifelike. Mr. Roboto has reserves of syntheskin, but not an infinite supply. To respond to this threat to its plans Mr. Roboto has taken steps, including tasking a small cadre of robotic Green Knights to track down Chemo and gain control over the stolen resources, masquerading as a superhero to do so if necessary.
<br><br><br> *The compound GYX-5 was created by PetraDyne in 1989 using mud originally discovered outside of Millennium City in 1886 by a farmer who noted that some of his fields were incredibly fertile and yielded huge crops that were also extremely resistant to blights. This mud has miraculous, unparalleled mineral properties and unique rejuvenative qualities. After the healing effects of the mud were originally discovered, the fields were bought by G. Finneas Wurtz, a German business man traveling in America, who built the Dearborn Fields Rejuvenative Bath & Spa on the location. The resort like Spa did a steady trade, but was put out of business during the Great Depression, leaving the site a dilapidated ruin by 1987, and its title lapsed back into the public domain. In 1987 a college biology field trip to the area resulted in a young would-be biochemist, Paul Storgath, taking several soil samples for a class project. Studying the various samples later he noticed that while handling the soil from the Spa site, an abrasion on his finger stopped hurting and in fact seemed to partially heal before his eyes. Intrigued he ran a number of tests on the soil and returned to the site for a larger sample. He discovered that the mud had incredible bio enhancing effects. He took this information to PetraDyne Chemicals, securing a future there after graduation in return for his findings.<br> PetraDyne questioned the results at first, but their own research indicated Storgath's findings were correct. Moving quickly to acquire the plot from the state for a pittance, they immediately built a facility on-site and conducted thorough research on how to use this material. GYX-5 was but one of many compounds created by combining trace amounts of the mud with a wide range of other pharmaceutical products. GYX-5 was intended primarily to grow/produce synthetic skin that is indistinguishable from real skin to treat burn victims. However, Mr. Roboto got its hands on some of the compound and quickly developed a process to grow pigmented skin with hair follicles and natural blemishes by splicing in DNA from a living person, and it was this breakthrough that enables Mr. Roboto's replicants to look real. <br> However, some of the other benefits of the mud included use in bio enhancements designed to grant superhuman capabilities, and topical creams that can heal just about any dermatological problem. In 2003 PetraDyne decided to dig up all of the remaining mud from the site and transport large lots of it to various other PetraDyne facilities around the country so that further ranging research could be conducted and to ensure that they had total control over the miracle substance. Chemo has a special interest in bio enhancing chemicals and compounds, and took the opportunity to seize control of the miracle material via hired super villains and minions while it was en route to its various destinations. Unbeknownst to Chemo, this made him a new enemy in the form of Mr. Roboto, who needs more GYX-5 to continue to produce life-like replicants. <br>
</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Powers/Tactics: </b>Mr. Roboto is, as the name implies, a robot. Mr. Roboto's design is extremely advanced, particularly its Cyberlithonic Brain which is capable of imitating human thought and handling trinary states. Mr. Roboto is not really much of a combatant though it does typically have some assortment of robotic devices handy to fend off any potential aggressors. Mr. Roboto respects continued existance and therefore does not employ lethal force versus humans. It wants to elevate humankind into what it thinks is a superior state of existance, not kill them. To that end its devices typically incapacitate in some way. It is fond of flashes, entangles, and stunning effects particularly.<br> Other than its gadgets it does have the benefit of an energy efficient robotic body and a computerized response time, giving Mr. Roboto the ability to react faster than any normal humans. If pressed Mr. Roboto will let itself be destroyed rather than be captured or have to resort to lethal measures. At any given time it has a copy preparred at one of its secret labs ready to be activated by the destruction of its current active form. Mr. Roboto makes regular backups of its brain, and would lose at most 1 to 3 days of experience when one of its iterations is destroyed.<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Campaign Use: </b>Mr. Roboto can be used for a variety of purposes. It's replicant program can be used for "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" type stories, and its non-lethal tactics make it a fairly safe master villain to use on inexperienced PCs. Further, Mr. Roboto is directly opposed to Mechanon and though it doesnt pose much of a direct threat to Mechanon in combat, its skills, resources, and robotic mastery certainly allow Mr. Roboto to cause Mechanon a lot of problems. If the PCs are going up against Mechanon, they may find themselves benefiting from some secret help or advice that orginates from Mr. Roboto.</td></tr></table>
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<font size=+1><b>Mr. Roboto</b></font>
Player: NPC
Creator: Killer Shrike
<table><td width=85%><table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><font size=2><b>Val  </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Char   </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Cost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>30  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>STR</b></font></td><td><font size=2>20</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>DEX</b></font></td><td><font size=2>45</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>CON</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>BODY</b></font></td><td><font size=2>30</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>28  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>INT</b></font></td><td><font size=2>18</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>EGO</b></font></td><td><font size=2>50</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PRE</b></font></td><td><font size=2>10</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>16  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>COM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>3</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>24</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>ED</b></font></td><td><font size=2>27</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>8  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SPD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>45</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>5  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>REC</b></font></td><td><font size=2>-6</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>END</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>12"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>RUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>0"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SWIM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>-2</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>LEAP</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr></table><b>Characteristics Cost:</b> 264</td><td><img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=58511"></td></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Power</b></td><td align="right"><b>END</b></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td>Parts Made in Japan </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">33  </td><td>1) <b><i>Cyberlithonic Brain: </i></b>+11 Mental Defense (16 points total) [<b>Notes:</b> Also, Mind is Machine Class] </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">60  </td><td>2) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Automaton (Takes No STUN) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>3) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Does Not Bleed </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">30  </td><td>4) <b><i>Robotic Body: </i></b>Damage Resistance (10 PD/10 ED) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">45  </td><td>5) <b><i>Robot Body: </i></b>Power Defense (15 points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">45  </td><td>6) <b><i>Robot Body: </i></b>Life Support (Total) (Eating: Character does not eat, Immunity: All terrestrial diseases and biowarfare agents, Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing, Sleeping: Character does not sleep) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>7) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>+0 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (15 Active Points) (Modifiers affect Base Characteristic) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">3  </td><td>8) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>Leaping 0" (6" forward, 3" upward), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (3 Active Points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">24  </td><td>9) <b><i>Battery Powered: </i></b>Running +6" (12" total), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (24 Active Points) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">138  </td><td>10) <b><i>Extra Body: </i></b>Duplication (creates 1300-point form), Cannot Recombine (+0), Trigger (+1/4), Altered Duplicates (All of Duplicate's points spent differently; +1) (585 Active Points); Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (1 Week; -2 1/4), IIF Bulky (Focus (Spare Body); -3/4), Requires A Robotics Skill Roll (Active Point penalty to Skill Roll is -1 per 20 Active Points -1/4) [<b>Notes:</b> Mr. Roboto builds a spare body and leaves it in a safe place. When he is destroyed, the spare Mr. Roboto is activated.] </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">34  </td><td>11) <b><i>Visual Sensors: </i></b>(Total: 34 Active Cost, 34 Real Cost) Infrared Perception (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> Ultraviolet Perception (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> Microscopic x1000 (Sight Group) (Real Cost: 15) <b>plus</b> Telescopic +6 to PER Rolls (only to offset the Range Modifier) (Sight Group) (Real Cost: 9) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td> </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">154  </td><td><b><i>Custom Robotics: </i></b>VPP, 120 base + 34 control cost (180 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), Limited Class Of Powers Available (Robotic) (Slightly Limited; -1/4) </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>1) <b><i>Robotic Wardens: </i></b>Energy Blast 6d6 (vs. ED), Trigger (Conscious Enemies Detected) (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect Nonselective Target (17" Cone; +3/4), No Normal Defense (Not vs Inorganic) (Standard; +1) (105 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), No Range (-1/2), 2 Continuing Charges lasting 5 Minutes each (-1/2) Real Cost: 42 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: 2 Robotic Guards are deployed, watching 2 different hallways; when one sees Enemies, it activates and opens fire with a hail of Stun blasts, strafing the area in front of it until it is destroyed, doesnt detect anymore conscious enemies or runs out of battery juice (Fuel).
Continuing Charges & Uncontrolled automatically terminated by any attack that targets Robots or technology specifically, including Mental Powers vs. Machine Minds.] <br></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>2) <b><i>Robotic Grapplers: </i></b>Entangle 3d6, 5 DEF, Entangle And Character Both Take Damage (+1/4), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect Nonselective Target (8" Radius; +3/4) (110 Active Points); Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (Full Phase; -1/4), Delayed Phase (-1/4), OIF (-1/2), Cannot Form Barriers (-1/4), Susceptible (EMP effects) (Uncommon; -1/4), Cannot Be Used With Multiple-Power Attacks (-1/4), 4 Continuing Charges lasting 1 Minute each (-1/4), Range Based On Strength (-1/4), Can Be Missile Deflected (-1/4) Real Cost: 31 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: Mr. Roboto throws out a large grenade like object, which explodes into computer controlled snaky robotic tentacles which grab and restrain all that pass through thier area until thier power runs out. They will not grab at Mr. Roboto.
An EMP pulse instantly ends the effect.] </td> <td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">0  </td><td>3) <b><i>Robotic Hazers: </i></b>Flash 3d6 (Sight Group; Additional Sense Group: Hearing Group, Additional Sense Group: Radio Group, Additional Sense Group: Smell/Taste Group), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Area Of Effect (83" Radius; +2) (112 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charges lasting 5 Minutes each (-3/4), Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (Full Phase; -1/4), Delayed Phase (-1/4), OIF (Focus (Tiny Robotic Emitters); -1/2) Real Cost: 41 [<b>Notes:</b> SFX: Mr. Roboto programs in the target point and then twists the top off of a round cannister with a control pad on top, which releases hundreds of tiny little robots which scurry out to the designated point and then begin emitting a wide variety of 'static' and light pulses which aggregate to impose near total sensory deprivation to those within the area of effect.
An EMP Pulse instantly ends the effect.] <br></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">  </td><td> </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr></table><b>Powers Cost:</b> 596
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Skill</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>+2 Overall </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>+4 with a group of similar Skills (INT) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">  </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Electronics 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Teamwork 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Systems Operation 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Fast Draw 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Cryptography 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Computer Programming 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Combat Piloting 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Combat Driving 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Bugging 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>KS: The Superhuman World (INT-based) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Lockpicking 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Mechanics 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Security Systems 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Stealth 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Weaponsmith (Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Energy Weapons, Firearms, Incendiary Weapons, Missiles & Rockets, Mr. Roboto Weapons, Muscle-Powered HTH, Muscle-Powered Ranged) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">9  </td><td>WF: Emplaced Weapons, Flamethrowers, General Purpose/Heavy Machine Guns, Grenade Launchers, Shoulder-Fired Weapons, Small Arms, Vehicle Weapons </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Scientist </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>1) SS: Biophysics (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>2) SS: Chemistry (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>3) SS: Engineering (INT-based) (3 Active Points) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">8  </td><td>4) SS: Robotics (INT-based) (9 Active Points) 21- </td></tr></table><b>Skills Cost: </b>118
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Perk</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Computer Link </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Worlds Leading Expert on Advanced Robotics:</i> Reputation (A small to medium sized group; 14-) +4/+4d6 </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Money: Filthy Rich </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">125  </td><td><i>Secret Labs and Robotyx Corporation sites:</i> Vehicles & Bases (x32, 500 Base, 0 Disad) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">125  </td><td><i>Robotic Replicants:</i> Follower (x2048, 350 Base, 0 Disad) </td></tr></table><b>Perks Cost:</b> 273
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Talent</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Robotic Joints:</i> Double Jointed </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Absolute Time Sense </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Absolute Range Sense </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Eidetic Memory </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Lightning Calculator </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Speed Reading (x10) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain (Power Save Mode):</i> Simulate Death (+1 to roll) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Bump Of Direction </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td><i>Cyberlithonic Brain:</i> Universal Translator 15- </td></tr></table><b>Talents Cost:</b> 49
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Val  </b></td><td><b>Disadvantages</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Hunted: PRIMUS 11- (Frequently) (As Pow; Harshly Punish; Extensive Non-Combat Influence) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Hunted: Sentinels of Justice 8- (Occasionally), More Powerful, Harshly Punish, Extensive Non-Combat Influence, Limited Geographical Area </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Psychological Limitation: Thinks he's doing the world a favor Common, Total </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Reputation: Strange Villain/Benefactor Almost Always (14-), Extreme (Known Only To A Small Group) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Social Limitation: Secret Id (Yasuaki Tomonaga) Frequently (11-), Major </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Vulnerability: 2 x BODY Electrical Attacks (Common) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Susceptibility: EMP 3d6 damage, Instant (Uncommon) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Enemy: Professional (Mechanon), Rival is More Powerful, Seek to Harm or Kill Rival, Rival Aware of Rivalry [<b>Notes:</b> Directly opposed to Mechanon's agenda] </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Enemy: Professional (IHA), Rival is More Powerful, Seek to Harm or Kill Rival, Rival Unaware of Rivalry [<b>Notes:</b> He believes some of his technology was used in creating the Minute Men.] </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Dependence: Battery Recharger Weakness: -3 To Characteristic Rolls and related rolls per time increment (Uncommon; 1 Day) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Unluck: 3d6 </td></tr></table>
<b>Disadvantage Points:</b> 165
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<b>Base Points:</b> 500
<b>Experience Required:</b> 635
<b>Total Experience Available:</b> 635
<b>Experience Unspent:</b> 0
<b>Total Character Cost:</b> 1300
<br><table width="100%" valign="top"><tr valign="top"><td><b>Height: </b>6' 0"</td><td><b>Hair: </b>Black</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><b>Weight: </b>165 lbs</td><td><b>Eyes: </b>Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight: 700"><td colspan=2><b>Appearance: </b>Mr. Roboto normally appears as a man-sized fully anthropomorphized humanoid robot, with non articulated joints and a flexible skin made of a specialized titanium alloy developed by Tomonaga Yasuaki called Flexium-C. Most people would think that Mr. Roboto is a man wearing some sort of a metallic suit if they observed it from a distance. If the skin is damaged, the articulated robotic design is revealed, along with circuitry and micro-motors. Mr. Roboto can also equip itself with an outer layer of synthetic skin, allowing it to masquerade as a normal human (use the VPP to buy Shapeshift vs Sight & Touch), but it does not exercise this option unless it absolutely needs to. Also, the Cyberlithonic Brain can theoretically be transitioned to a new body, but for reasons of its own Mr. Roboto has not yet chosen to exercise this option.<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Quote:</b>"Resist if you wish, but once you have experienced robotic existence you will say 'Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!'"<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Background: </b> <br> Yasuaki was born in Beverly Hills, California in 1972 to Tomonaga Yochiro, a wealthy Japanese business man and co-founder of Robotyx Inc, and his American wife Ellen Carter. Yasuaki's mother died when he was very young, and his father moved back to Japan. With one of the worlds leading experts in robotics for a father, Yasuaki was surrounded by all nature of robotic toys and design prototypes. Even as a preschooler, Yasuaki showed a natural genius for robotics, taking apart his toys and rebuilding them, and creating toys of his own in his fathers lab; in fact several of his own designs were refined for commercialization by his father and sold to toy manufacturers.
<br> Yasuaki grew up to a towering (in Japan) 6', with slightly wavy brownish black hair, and dominated his prep school's basketball league before going on to college. After some discussion he was sent to attend MIT at age 17 and he graduated 4 years later with multiple engineering degrees. More concerned with practical application and light-years beyond his instructors in the realms of robotics Yasuaki did not pursue a doctorate and returned home to Japan. Meanwhile his father Yochiro was fighting off both cancer and a buy-out by his co-founder Uriel Styx's oldest son Damien after Uriel's failing health forced him to turn over control to Damien.
<br> Yasuaki took up the reins of power from his ailing father and managed to seize control of Robotyx Inc in 1997 after a 2 year struggle, finally gaining enough support among the board members to defang Damien Styx. During this time Yochiro passed away, leaving Yasuaki as his only heir. However the death of Yochiro left Yasuaki slightly unhinged. Orphaned by the deaths of both his parents Yasuaki became obsessed with the ephemeral nature of organic matter and the inherent instability of the living state. Robots didn’t age, or suddenly die. They could be repaired when damaged. Their actions could be predicted. They were not random, inexplicable entities that could not be trusted. They were clearly in a superior state of existence.
<br> In 1999 he perfected work on his masterpiece, the Cyberlithonic Brain, which can be programmed with an exact binary representation of a human brain's physical structure. This technology allows the 'downloading' of a person’s thought processes into a Cyberlithonic Brain and once this input has been compiled/interpreted into a runable state any given input will result in the Cyberlithonic Brain responding exactly as the copied person 83% of the time. The other 17% of the time the Cyberlithonic Brain's enhanced efficiency generally results in a more appropriate response than the original subject will arrive at on their own. Further, a Cyberlithonic Brain learns from its mistakes, and can amend its processes with new experiences. It is a fully trinary reactive learning Artificial Intelligence, with even the ability to replicate emotion via the storage of multiple response options dependent upon "mood" if desired.
<br> Yasuaki, driven by his obsession, made a drastic decision that defies comprehension by sane minds. With his own personal funds he secretly established several robotics labs in both Japan and America. Meanwhile, he built a series of hyper advanced robotic bodies designed to be operated by a Cyberlithonic Brain, and when he was happy with the results he downloaded a copy of his brain, hooked it up to an active robotic body, and finally placed his biological body into cryogenic stasis. Tomonaga Yasuaki ceased to exist and Mr. Roboto was born with the skills, knowledge, memory and personality of Yasuaki plus 1 driving imperative: to roboticize all of humanity.
<br> With the sudden disappearance of Yasuaki, Damien Styx once again pushed to take control of Robotyx Inc. Without opposition he accomplished this easily, but mystified by the sudden disappearance of his rival for power and intrigued by suspicious diversions of resources noted in company records prior to this disappearance, he investigated the circumstances leading up to Yasuaki’s vanishing act. Unbeknownst to the world at large, Damien Styx was not just an ambitious business man but also a vigilante who maintained not 1 but 2 heroic identities, 1 as the mutant known as the "Disruptor" and another as the power armored "Green Knight". After some snooping, Damien uncovered one of Yasuaki's secret labs in North Detroit outside Millennium City, and went in to investigate it in his persona as the Green Knight. He was overpowered by robotic defenders, and afterwards Mr. Roboto flew in to see what its robotic minions had captured. Unmasking the Green Knight, Mr. Roboto recognized its great rival, Damien Styx! Mr. Roboto downloaded Damien's mind into a Cyberlithonic Brain and put his body into cryogenic storage.
<br> Using the Cyberlithonic copy of Damien, with appropriate programmatic overrides combined with advanced synthetic flesh technology it had recently mastered based on a new compound produced by PetraDyne Chemicals called GYX-5, Mr. Roboto made a robotic replicant of Damien Styx. Mr. Roboto sent this fake Damien Styx back into the world to run Robotyx the way Mr. Roboto wants it be run. Deconstructing the Green Knight armor suit, Mr. Roboto also constructed several robotic versions of the Green Knight to serve its own purposes. Over the next several months Mr. Roboto managed to secretly put all the members of the Robotyx board of directors on ice and replace them with replicant robots, using the replicant Damien to entrap them. Each replicant was equipped with a programmatically restrained Cyberlithonic Brain with their personalities and memories intact, which allowed them to blend in with those close to the originals and also continue to do their jobs, while still being firmly under Mr. Roboto's control. Subsequently, Robotyx Inc turned its considerable resources to secretly producing a large number of replicant bodies in plants staffed by replicants. With each passing week, more and more people connected to Robotyx Inc either directly or via immediate family were kidnapped and replaced with replicants bearing Cyberlithonic Brains imprinted with their minds. With plants in both Japan and America, this resulted in entire towns being replaced with robotic replicants loyal to Mr. Roboto in some locations.
<br> In 2001 PRIMUS ran afoul of one of these “company towns” at Little Creek, Montana, where a target for replication escaped his captors and managed to make contact with PRIMUS. An investigative team was sent in to check out the ludicrous sounding story, and came back to report that they had found nothing. The team had of course been replaced by replicants. This was discovered shortly by the intervention of Wirehead, a sanctioned superhuman with ties to PRIMUS that had been brought in for his technical expertise regarding robotics. The 2 replicants resisted capture but were destroyed by Wirehead and then deconstructed. Wirehead was amazed by the level of advancement he found in the replicants and declared that the technology used to create them was 30 or more years beyond anything anyone else was doing, particularly the Cyberlithonic Brains. He later published a scientific paper on the subject in the World Ledger of Practical Engineering, detailing to some degree the advanced articulation, power source, and circuitry he found. This article lead to most experts in the fields related to robotics recognizing Mr. Roboto as the preeminent expert in the world. Mr. Roboto also believes that technology used in the more recent Minute Men by the IHA was designed using some of his circuit designs as set forth by Wirehead in the Ledger.
<br> Wirehead and a large assault team of PRIMUS agents descended on Little Creek and wiped out the plant and its many replicants, finally finding in a sublevel beneath the plant a cryogenic storage center containing the frozen bodies of the entire town, some 600+ people. PRIMUS scientists were able to reverse the cryo freezing and restore the workers to life, but none of them were able to shed light on what had happen; each in turn had been incapacitated by loved ones or co-workers (all replicants), and that was all they remembered. Robotyx Inc was investigated of course, but a crack team of lawyers descended to nip PRIMUS's inquiry in the bud and mire the process in legal limbo. Mr. Roboto was not pleased with this outcome, and advanced the replicant operation. Meanwhile the hero Wirehead and his fellow Sentinels of Justice were not restrained by the legal obstructions tying PRIMUS's hands, and carried out a private investigation of the corporation’s factory in Cleveland, Ohio. Through their efforts Mr. Roboto himself was revealed to the public and many replicants were destroyed along with Mr. Roboto itself. However, a backup version of Mr. Roboto was activated in a hidden lab at the same time as the current version was destroyed. In the aftermath of the battle, Damien Styx publicly decried in a press conference from the safety of Tokyo, Japan that Mr. Roboto was an interloper attempting to subvert Robotyx Inc and thanked the Sentinels for their timely efforts to destroy the robotic enemy. By ordering the Damien replicant to spin the circumstances it in this fashion, Mr. Roboto was able to impose damage control. Though Mr. Roboto's plans were set back, they were not permanently halted.
<br> In the 2 years since then, Mr. Roboto has secretly been rebuilding its hidden army of replicants. However the replication plan has recently encountered a setback. The criminal organization of the mastermind known as Chemo, who has suspected connections with Teleios, recently seized control of the resources necessary for PetraDyne to produce GYX-5*. GYX-5, as noted above, is crucial to the production of the synthetic skin used to make replicants look lifelike. Mr. Roboto has reserves of syntheskin, but not an infinite supply. To respond to this threat to its plans Mr. Roboto has taken steps, including tasking a small cadre of robotic Green Knights to track down Chemo and gain control over the stolen resources, masquerading as a superhero to do so if necessary.
<br><br><br> *The compound GYX-5 was created by PetraDyne in 1989 using mud originally discovered outside of Millennium City in 1886 by a farmer who noted that some of his fields were incredibly fertile and yielded huge crops that were also extremely resistant to blights. This mud has miraculous, unparalleled mineral properties and unique rejuvenative qualities. After the healing effects of the mud were originally discovered, the fields were bought by G. Finneas Wurtz, a German business man traveling in America, who built the Dearborn Fields Rejuvenative Bath & Spa on the location. The resort like Spa did a steady trade, but was put out of business during the Great Depression, leaving the site a dilapidated ruin by 1987, and its title lapsed back into the public domain. In 1987 a college biology field trip to the area resulted in a young would-be biochemist, Paul Storgath, taking several soil samples for a class project. Studying the various samples later he noticed that while handling the soil from the Spa site, an abrasion on his finger stopped hurting and in fact seemed to partially heal before his eyes. Intrigued he ran a number of tests on the soil and returned to the site for a larger sample. He discovered that the mud had incredible bio enhancing effects. He took this information to PetraDyne Chemicals, securing a future there after graduation in return for his findings.<br> PetraDyne questioned the results at first, but their own research indicated Storgath's findings were correct. Moving quickly to acquire the plot from the state for a pittance, they immediately built a facility on-site and conducted thorough research on how to use this material. GYX-5 was but one of many compounds created by combining trace amounts of the mud with a wide range of other pharmaceutical products. GYX-5 was intended primarily to grow/produce synthetic skin that is indistinguishable from real skin to treat burn victims. However, Mr. Roboto got its hands on some of the compound and quickly developed a process to grow pigmented skin with hair follicles and natural blemishes by splicing in DNA from a living person, and it was this breakthrough that enables Mr. Roboto's replicants to look real. <br> However, some of the other benefits of the mud included use in bio enhancements designed to grant superhuman capabilities, and topical creams that can heal just about any dermatological problem. In 2003 PetraDyne decided to dig up all of the remaining mud from the site and transport large lots of it to various other PetraDyne facilities around the country so that further ranging research could be conducted and to ensure that they had total control over the miracle substance. Chemo has a special interest in bio enhancing chemicals and compounds, and took the opportunity to seize control of the miracle material via hired super villains and minions while it was en route to its various destinations. Unbeknownst to Chemo, this made him a new enemy in the form of Mr. Roboto, who needs more GYX-5 to continue to produce life-like replicants. <br>
</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Powers/Tactics: </b>Mr. Roboto is, as the name implies, a robot. Mr. Roboto's design is extremely advanced, particularly its Cyberlithonic Brain which is capable of imitating human thought and handling trinary states. Mr. Roboto is not really much of a combatant though it does typically have some assortment of robotic devices handy to fend off any potential aggressors. Mr. Roboto respects continued existance and therefore does not employ lethal force versus humans. It wants to elevate humankind into what it thinks is a superior state of existance, not kill them. To that end its devices typically incapacitate in some way. It is fond of flashes, entangles, and stunning effects particularly.<br> Other than its gadgets it does have the benefit of an energy efficient robotic body and a computerized response time, giving Mr. Roboto the ability to react faster than any normal humans. If pressed Mr. Roboto will let itself be destroyed rather than be captured or have to resort to lethal measures. At any given time it has a copy preparred at one of its secret labs ready to be activated by the destruction of its current active form. Mr. Roboto makes regular backups of its brain, and would lose at most 1 to 3 days of experience when one of its iterations is destroyed.<br></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Campaign Use: </b>Mr. Roboto can be used for a variety of purposes. It's replicant program can be used for "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" type stories, and its non-lethal tactics make it a fairly safe master villain to use on inexperienced PCs. Further, Mr. Roboto is directly opposed to Mechanon and though it doesnt pose much of a direct threat to Mechanon in combat, its skills, resources, and robotic mastery certainly allow Mr. Roboto to cause Mechanon a lot of problems. If the PCs are going up against Mechanon, they may find themselves benefiting from some secret help or advice that orginates from Mr. Roboto.</td></tr></table>
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