Name:
CP-103-096 A.K.A. Tin Man
Gender:
Male
Age:
24
Race:
Homo Sapians Militis, Genetically modified soldiers that have effectively become a race in and of themselves.
Faction:
GDF
Personality:
Straitlaced military, and spartan. Tin Man would seem to be more machine than man, a thought that isn't helped by all the cybernetic replacements and skin grafts. In his own world everything made sense, he was to fight until he died. Not much has changed admittedly, but when the monster is defeated and Tin Man is left with far too much free time, well it allows himself to wander. Individualism is a foreign concept to Tin Man, his serial number being the only thing unique to him, and he isn't well versed in the arts of self expression. However his time here and all the books he's read to fill the gaps has gotten him thinking, nothing to change the indoctrination, but thinking nonetheless.
History:
To get into Tin Man's history would mean going back more than a hundred years of conflict. Tin Man comes from a world similar to this one save one crucial difference, World War Two never ended. The blood, iron, and atrocities never ceased their flow and in the end people were becoming a very precious commodity. To combat this declining resource many sides turned to different answers, the Nazi ventured into the occult and began to raise their dead to fight for them. The Empire of Japan began to manufacture men of steel and iron for their front lines. The United Canadian and American States found itself in the wreckage of an extraterrestrial craft, armed to the gills with medical equipment and weapons of war. With this discovery the clone soldiers were born, homegrown soldiers able to become walking tanks and set loose on the world.
For the next four decades it became an arms race, Axis and Allies constantly trying to gain an edge in the back and forth of war. Great machines battled golems of flesh and bone, aircraft fell from the skies like rain, and the oceans ran black with wreckage. This is the world that CP-103-096 was born into, the one he fought for. It is during this time, estimated 2045, that the first Outsider crafts began to appear and the first wave of Invaders came rampaging out of the oceans. A bloody war turned into a battle for survival on four fronts. For seven years "Tin Man" fought, coming out on top of every battle he fought be it space craft, flesh Golem, or Invader.
Then Operation: Audacity was put into motion, with the arrival of a massive Outsider vessel the threat of extinction was never at it's highest. Tin Man along with six other Atlas pilots were launched into the skies, smashing through the massive ships hull and began a long march to the ships core. The constructs the Outsiders threw at the squad seemed never ending, sheer numbers bringing the Atlas mechs down until only two remained. Tin Man and another pilot had no means of destroying the core once they arrived, their ordnance having run dry in their death march to the core. So the other pilot did what had to be done, overcharging his reactor and launching himself at the core. The explosion that followed is indescribable, a blast so powerful that Tin Man was flung into the space in between universes. Tin Man couldn't tell you how long he stayed there, could have been seconds... could have been eons, but when he was spat out he landed here.
To explain his coming actions, one must understand things from his perspective. Awakening damaged, deep within what he thought as enemy territory, with a distinctly Japanese mech heading towards his direction... well his aggressiveness in his eyes is totally justified. Tin man recorded a radio message, hoped to God his radio still worked, and sent it to where the UCAS should have been before engaging the mech in combat. As heavily damaged as his Atlas was, Tin Man wasn't able to put up the best of fights but he likes to think he gave as much as he got in his scuffle with Kiryu. However, ultimately what saved him was the intervention of the Japanese government and this USA. It is here that Tin Man was given the first of many shocks as to the nature of his new home.
Since his rocky introduction a year ago, things haven't exactly gotten much better. Tin Man has been put under arrest, his skills as a pilot and his unique mech being used at the digression of the GDF. On top of this he has only just started to get over his prejudices and confusion as he begins to live his life in this strange new world.
Equipment/Abilities:
2045 Ford Atlas: The crowning jewel of Ford Military Robotics and Vehicles. The Ford Atlas is a beast of a machine, towering at 75 meters and incorporating alien alloys to boost defensive capabilities. The Atlas was built to wade into battle, shrugging off damage while it crushed, shot, and burned anything it its path.
-Vitilium Armor: Titanium mixed with the metal salvaged from fallen Outsider ships, Vitilium is an incredibly durable and dense armor able to tank a great deal of damage before failing.
-A-20 Ballistic Missiles: Firing HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing) warheads, this missiles were originally made to combat the thick armor of the Axis Forces, Outsiders, and the thick hides of the Invaders. Luckily the types of enemies hasn't changed much since his arrival.
-ARK Laser Array: Excelling at close to medium range, the ARK's original purpose was to shoot down jets, missiles, and similar objects before they could deal serious damage. They have since been used to harass other Kaiju as the Atlas moves in, softening them up with high energy weapons fire.
-The "Big Guns": With the Invaders coming up from the oceans and Outsiders releasing their own mechs onto U.C.A.S. soil, combat became more reliant on the close quarters capabilities of mechs and war machines. The hands and arms of the Atlas were built to punch, crush, and toss opponents into the dirt while also being tough enough to withstand as much damage as possible.
All Purpose Combat Rig: Also known as the A.P.C.R., this suit of armor has been integrated with it's biological component, Tin Man. It's difficult to exactly determine where Tin Man begins and where armor ends, but the two are so intertwined one guesses that the point is moot. Nonetheless the main purpose of the A.P.C.R. cannot be removed without killing it Tin Man and vice-versa.
-Plugs: The main purpose of the A.P.C.R. is to connect Tin Man with the Atlas itself, effectively
becoming the Atlas. This process would be deadly if not for the mental conditioning and modifications made to the brain itself in incubation.
-MLR-46 Hextech Assault Rifle: A glorified assault cannon, the Hextech AR fires high explosive rounds designed to only explode once they've penetrated an obstacle of sufficient hardness.
-"Dragon's Eye" Surveillance System: The cluster of sensors behind the left shoulder allow Tin Man to see in every spectrum of light as well as observe changes of air pressure.
Other:
With how flawlessly Tin Man is able to blend with machines, some would say he is "Transhuman" and should he perish in battle it is most likely that his body would be taken away to be studied.
If it were possible to leave the A.P.C.R. Tin man would be seven foot nine inches tall, instead he is a clean nine and a half feet tall.