Damiran Cayne
Personal Information
Name: Damiran Edvard Cayne
Nicknames: Dam, Cayne
Aliases: The Sheepdog
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Birthday: 1st April
Appearance
Cayne stands around 6 feet and 4 inches tall, and his heavily augmented frame weighs well over 200 pounds. What remains of his curly brown hair is kept short, often cut to a buzz cut and allowed to grow to just a couple of inches before being cut back down again. He maintains a scruffy brown beard that covers his jaw and chin, only failing to grow there the flesh has been replaced by metal, or on the site of a v shaped scar over the right hand side of his mouth. His robotic eyes are a lifeless shade of pale grey, which, combined with his fairly pale skin, makes him look almost dead. His face is craggy and weather beaten, giving him an appearance several years older than he actually is. The distinguishing features, however, are Cayne's face augmentations. Most of his skin has been replaced by metal, a combination of transdermal and subdermal protective modifications and neural implants that enhance various functions.
Cayne's typical attire consists of black, baggy cargo pants and large boots. He wears a vest under a baggy hoodie or jumper, covered with a large brown jacket. The idea behind Cayne's attire is to disguise his heavily modified body; much like his boss, the Sheepdog is known by reputation, but not by face, meaning as long as he keeps his distinguishable features hidden he is able to go about life without drawing attention. His face looks like any beaten down ghetto dweller wandering the streets, being one of the least augmented parts of his body. Part of protecting his identity comes from carefully concealing it while on gang operations; he wears dark grey combat pants and a black, long-sleeved combat jacket lined with bulletproof plates. His upper chest, neck and head are completely encased in an experimental helmet, resembling an enormous, opaque black dome. Cables travel from the metal casing at the back of his head, but these are a proxy; the system itself is plugged directly into Cayne's own cybernetically enhanced nervous system. This way, his attire when on the job is well-known and feared, leaving him to wander undetected when wearing normal clothes.
Personality
Damiran Cayne is the ruthless, fiercely loyal Chief Enforcer of the Awakened crime syndicate. He reveres his beloved Shepherd as a god-tier being, carrying out their every whim to the letter with frightening efficiency and exactness. He is well-liked among the members of the Awakened gang, and those who do not like him fear him enough to know not to try anything. Cayne is a gruff, bitter man with a barbed tongue. Many find him callous and rude. A ruthless machine, precision engineered to carry forward the Awakened gang, Damiran Cayne does not love killing. He does not revel in violence and he does not part-take in any form of torture. He does, however, see the work he does as a necessary evil, and has no qualms about killing someone if it is for a reason, even if that reason is just because he's been told to. He is capable of putting on a friendly face when he needs to if it will help divert suspicion, but it is all an act; there is not one shred of kindness in this man's heart. He sees unmodified beings as primitive and weak, and believes they must either evolve or be purged for their sins. He has recently begun running a programme through which the gang kidnaps homeless, poor and otherwise socially undesirable people, augmenting them into near fully cybernetic, mindless soldiers under the control of the Awakened syndicate. Cayne sees this as a mercy; giving sinners a path to redemption and a true purpose, able to serve the Shepherd as a humble foot soldier. Cayne is a cold, calculating, living weapon.
Bio
Cayne has never revealed extensive details of his childhood to anyone. He was an only child, an accidental birth, and never had a strong relationship with either of his parents. His first modifications were installed by his father, a slightly psychopathic doctor who worked for a local augmentation clinic, installing cutting0edge implants to people who had suffered terrible accidents, such as repairing the nervous systems of paralysed patients or fitting cybernetic legs for those who had lost theirs. As young as 9, Cayne had his first neural implant which heightened his sense and neural capacity for advanced decision making. He resented his father initially, but after seeing the benefits, encouraged his father to perform more. By 15, Cayne had gone through over a dozen surgeries, including skeletal reinforcements, various nervous system upgrades and a robotic hand.
Cayne's mother died in a car accident when he was 15 years old, and his father's already fragile mind snapped. One night in a fit of rage, he tried to kill Cayne, because his existed reminded his father of the woman he had loved. However, he was no match for the cybernetic monster he had created. His father had no augmentations; and six years of experimental surgery had driven Cayne to the edge of is sanity. When his father attacked him, he had no issue with killing him. Cayne beat his own father to death, with his bare hands, in the living room of the apartment he had grown up in his whole life. He was on his own for the first time in his life, but he wasn't scared. He smashed open his father's safe, and stole his father's wallet, and hit the streets.
With his father's stash, he could afford to stay in hostels and motels. It was a year later, aged 16, that Cayne first became involved with gangs. In need of money, Cayne started running messages for a small time gang, and then became a small-time drug runner. He worked enough to make the money he needed to survive, but didn't particularly enjoy the work. On a job delivering drugs to an underground warehouse rave, Cayne ran into trouble with a group of augmented gangsters who tried to mug him for the delivery. He did his best to fight them off, breaking one man's nose and knocking another unconscious before the other three were able to beat him severely and take the drugs. The leader of the group, the man who's nose he had broken, saw potential in the boy and ordered him brought along as well.
Damiran awoke in the Ghajotia district, in a warehouse, on the other side of Arcadia to where he had been raised. For the first time in his life he felt scared. He was kept in a cell for days, supplied water through a slot in the door. Eventually, he was dragged from the cell by a heavily augmented man and pulled before the director of operations of the Awakened crime syndicate in the Ghajotia district. He introduced himself as Victor, and said he had heard what he did to the gang members who tried to mug him. He saw great promise in Cayne, who already had extensive modifications and had been honing them for the last 8 years. He offered Damiran a chance; he could work for Victor, join the Awakened, or he would be executed on the spot. Naturally he chose the former.
Over the next decade and a half, Cayne worked his way up the criminal hierarchy from delivery boy to enforcer, and eventually, at the age of 35, he became director of operations for the Awakened over a three-district area, assuming control of Ghajotia, Delcos and Troia. A man of fearsome reputation, he became teasingly known as the Sheepdog after his utter devotion to their augmented leader, the Shepherd. Over time this turned from a joke to a title, the man in charge of rallying the Shepherd's flock and performing whatever task was laid at his feet. Over his career he has overseen gunrunning, drug smuggling, human trafficking and illegal augmentation operations in Arcadia, amassing a considerable amount of wealth and reputation as one of the Awakened's most prominent members.
Recently, Cayne has been given new orders. Aurora Baines, the Queen of the Black Brethren gang has supposedly gotten her hands on a disk that could grant her absolute control of Arcadia. The Shepherd has tasked Cayne, who runs gang operations in the areas where the Black Brethren are most prominent, with locating the disk and taking it for the Awakened. With Arcadia under their control, the Awakened could forcibly modify and effectively enslave the entire population, and fast-track the evolution of human kind into cybernetically enhanced machines.
Augments and Arms
Arcadia Armstech Mk. 14 9mm Handgun - A compact, simple and reliable handgun. Cayne carries his AA14 handgun with him at all times on the streets just in case. Since he cannot use his augmented weapons without arousing too much suspicion, he has to make do with a primitive firearm while he is trying to lie low.
Eyes - Both of Cayne's eyes have been replaced with cybernetics, which allow him to receive messages to a heads-up display in his field of view, as well as allowing him to zoom in almost like inbuilt binoculars and see in the dark. When activated, a special module in his right eye can afford him thermal vision, while one in his left can afford him the ability to read human vital signs and monitor things like pupil dilation and heart rate. Only one of these modules can be active at any one time, and both have a cooldown before reactivation.
Ears - A small gyroscope has been fitted into Cayne's inner ear that feeds directly into the neural hub implanted in his brain. The gyroscope affords him superior balancing and helps prevent him from becoming disorientated. His ears have also been fitted with audio enhancers that allow him to listen in on conversations at a heightened volume from distances of up to 10 metres.
Head - A commlink has been built into Cayne's head, allowing him to communicate on various frequencies with other gang members and the Awakened safehouse. As well as this, his skull has been reinforced like the rest of his body and he has subdermal plating under the skin of his face like the rest of his body. A neural interface works between his eyes and brain to allow him to interact with computer interfaces and technology without physical interaction.
Skin - Every inch of Cayne's skin from top to toe has been replaced by an entirely synthetic material. Under this outer layer as a covering of subdermal armor plating to protect his vital organs and important internal implants. This plating is enough to stop most small calibre firearms but obviously will not stop large calibre rounds or armor piercing ammunition.
Skeleton - Cayne's skeleton has been infused with carbon fibre to provide greater strength and resilience, drastically reducing the likelihood of him suffering broken bones or fractures.
Nervous System - Cayne's nervous system has been almost entirely rewired and cybernetically enhanced for increased speed and efficiency. Bonuses form this rewiring include enhanced senses, reflexes and reaction times, at the cost of requiring considerably greater energy intake than the average human (Cayne often eat in excess of over 5000 calories a day, but the energy demand from overclocked neural system overworking his muscles prevents him from gaining weight).
Legs - Damiran's legs are no longer with him - they have been entirely replaced by an upgraded pair of hydraulic synthetic limbs, designed to allow faster movement, higher jumping, and drastically increased running time, since there are no muscles in the legs to become fatigued and they are entirely cybernetic.
Arms - Both of Cayne's arms have also been entirely replaced. They are hydraulically powered, giving him greater strength than he had before. The joints of his arms, including his shoulders, are flexible and allow him to contort his arms without suffering any long-lasting damage from doing so.
Augment Weapons - Damiran's left hand conceals a multi-tool, complete with cutters, a small knife, screwdriver etc. This arm functions mainly for utility, but the knife on the tool can also be used as a weapon if need be. His right arm houses an augment equivalent of a medium-calibre battle rifle, including capabilities for semi- and fully automatic fire. The rounds for this weapon are loaded directly into the arm and as such different ammo types can be used. This gun has a forty-round magazine.
Affiliations and Contacts
The Awakened - Damiran Cayne works as part of the Awakened crime syndicate, a powerful group of heavily-augmented transhuman fanatics who see all unmodified beings as inferior. Cayne, known both within and outside the gang as The Sheepdog, is in charge of overseeing gang operations in the three Arcadia districts of Ghajotia, Troia and Delcos. The safehouse from which Cayne runs his operations is in the Delcos district, where the Awakened have a strong criminal presence.
The Shepherd - Cayne answers directly to the Shepherd, taking orders and ensuring they are carried out to the letter by the members of the gang. Cayne has never directly met his boss but has sworn undying loyalty to them, revering them as some sort of god-like entity who's mission is to fast-forward the evolution of humanity.
Nate Dawson - Cayne's surgeon. An elderly, augmented doctor who has worked for the gang for over three decades, sourcing and fitting cutting edge, precision engineered, corp-level augmentations to members of the gang. He has personally fitted every one of Cayne's implants and upgrades, and the two have a very close working relationship.
Alex Vinchenko - Cayne's under-boss, a vassal who runs the Troia district but answers directly to Cayne himself. Vinchenko is a more aggressive, violent man that Cayne, and is often deployed by Cayne on missions that require a high body count. Vinchenko is often the one behind the 'purge' riots that the Awakened have been known to hold, where they hunt down and slaughter non-augmented humans. Recently, however, Cayne has switched the directive to capturing and harvesting these people to be turned into soldiers for the cause.
Curtis Walker - Cayne's personal informant, who spends every minute of every day plugged into the Warp, harvesting as much data and information as possible to relay to his boss, in order to aid gang operations.
