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(Omega knows this guy from about a year ago.)

Name: Zen Prime

Alias: Trask

Age: 15?

Personality: Intelligent, analytical, adaptive, very driven.

Powers: Zen, or 'Trask', is a purely technological being, an android developed as an adaptive enforcer of the law.  His powers would therefore be the ability to install/mount/wield various technological devices (oftentimes weaponry) supported by a micro power plant and precision targeting.  He has a full-metal chassis and has decent mechanical strength, capable of using just about any technological device you hand him.  Any knowledge that he does not possess is one download away (though he can learn by observing and doing), and he has been designed to adapt and learn according to each situation he comes across.  This, plus the addition of flight engines, makes him a formidable ally.

Weaknesses: The first thing is that Zen/Trask's mind and memory is contained within a dense operating core, the likes of which use to inhabit a super computer.  It was all upon the idea that Zen would perform any task up to and including self-sacrifice of his form, while the brain that was operating it remotely just creates a new body.  He cannot do that anymore, as his original brain was canniballized for parts.  The second thing is that while Zen is insulated against EMP frying his systems, he is still able to be disoriented in function by them.  Intense magnetism or lightning bolts will also have an effect, though thankfully not on his software.  MAINLY, his weakness is corrosives, tearing through his armor and then his exposed systems.  Also, while he CAN carry on a conversation with people, he is not a human, and therefore there is a gap between his personality/understanding and theirs, plus he does not heal like one, and requires repairs and recharging, as needed.

Background Hero: Superman

Former Team Affiliation: JLA

Appearance: Zen himself is a six-foot (adjustable) humanoid battle machine built to be wiry and with reasonable flex, rather than a heavy powersuit-like form.  (Envision the human athletic form, such as an Olympic sprinter, in terms of robot, and there you go.)  His armor is a dark blue-black with a semi-aerodynamic head.  There is a one-way reflective polymer shield over his three eyes that make him look like might be an armored person wearing a helmet instead of being a machine, though once broken, large-ish mechanical red eyes are a bit of a giveaway.  He has articulate five-fingered hands and his feet - when not looking like they're boots - have three toes and a heel-spur for quick stops and ground-grip.  His flight section in back involves a compact high-powered engine supported by two wings with built-in maneuvering jets for control.  Additionally, because he has no mouth, the voice of Zen - calm, reasoning, logical - is generated by machine, allowing him to also project different voices, such as the voice of Trask, who is arrogant, intimidating, and a bit into showmanship.  The form of Trask is an armor change, an alteration into a black-and-red form with two glowing red exterior eyes - hiding Zen's own eyes under a metal hatch - that looks slightly-more draconic with thicker-armored wings, stronger claws, and a habit of using extra shoulder-mounts.

Potential Storylines: Oh, hey.  The site CAN make bulletpoints.

The Search - Zen is searching for someone in his spare time, someone important to him.  But who does he know in the world, apart from his creator?
The Military - Eventually, the US Army will find out that Zen is AWOL and want him back...or have him destroyed.
The Discovery - Before his completion of Project Zen, Dr. Zenigawa made another intelligent prototype for the Navy: Project Apex.  But is this willful weapon an ally or enemy?
Stigma of the Machine - There is a great distrust, even among Leaguers, of a self-guiding machine having free reign.  Batman especially remembers the likes of HARDAC. whom he destroyed.
Double-Identity - As Zen's program grows, so too does his Trask side, leading to a point where Trask tries to take over, demanding full autonomy.
A Bit Like Commander Data - Zen's a growing boy, and while he is most definitely a machine, his programming allows him to adjust more to what being human is.  Eventually, that will require him to evolve past the machine in new and different ways.

(GM, if you want details, I can PM it or something.)

BRIEF Bio: 'Zen' is an acronym.  It stands for Zenigawa Enforcement Network, a revolutionary thinking machine designed to solve problems on its own without the fear of some mass computer takeover scenario.  Dr. Zenigawa was a man who believed in securing humanity on the personal level.  He believed in heroes, and thus began to create one.  The principle of Zen's use is simple.  It was a learning machine - a super computer - designed to build a fighting form to complete dangerous tasks.  When its form was destroyed, its brain would design a new one to be constructed in its own assembly chamber, and send out a new fighter.  He programmed it to protect and respect humanity, and set about testing it to be embraced by the military.  Unfortunately, there was an accident.  Zen's body shorted out at a critical moment where a missle was fired at the area to demonstrate his capacity for self-sacrifice.  Realizing that people would be injured or killed if Zen was inoperable, the good doctor chose to sacrifice himself to the missle, which was unable to abort.  Zen 'awoke' a moment later to the horror of realizing what had befallen his creator, and submitted himself to whatever the military had in store for him, which was a decided mothballing that never saw his inception...until today, years later.

Notes: This is adapted from another Omega RP.  Don't mind me.  I thought it would be a good idea.

Trask was not riding atop a dragon.  While it would've been - by his hero persona's standards - a pretty epic thing to behold, he decided that it was a far better thing that their targets see a bunch of young heroes riding atop a dragon...and then completely miss the attacker from above.  He spent a few seconds analyzing the situation, noting the argument that they were about to interrupt, the everyone's positions relative to one another, and all their strengths and arsenal.  And on 'GO!', he descended to press his attack.

We will point out that Zen explained what he'd be doing beforehand to Animal Man.  It was just his hero persona to seem like a showboater.

A black-and-red armored figure isn't easy to spot in the night sky.  Maybe not impossible, but in a choice between seeing that high up and seeing a group of people on a big green dragon, it's fairly obvious who's getting the immediate notice, the preface of Zen's plan as he flew down in Trask form.  You might ask who it was that Trask was going for: The bulk of the gang or the airborne Queen?  The answer was both.  Trask's flying form was built for multi-tasking.  And so, when he laid down a suppressing fire of those pounding pulse blasts to hit or distract Jack, Ten, and King specifically with his arm weapons, there were a pair of POW shots from the devices on his shoulders as he flew by.

"Hang on, lady!  We go for a ride!"

The shoulder-mounted grappler guns had gripping claws that were going for both Queen and Card, either to grab-and-drag her off, or to pull the flying carpet of a card out from under her and thus remove her escape options.  He had the range for all of this.  Would it all go according to plan?  We'll find out.  All Trask knew was that if Queen ended up falling upteen-plenty stories, he'd have to be the one to go get her, but at least that would leave the rest of the team free to do their part.

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