Forsythe

Marvel AU - The Champions

W007, this lives! <3 Do we wait for the final sheet before the next round?

Marvel AU - The Champions

ASTRA

Earlier, Edwards AFB...

The air force base was a swarm of activity. Oficially, the cause was the X-37 spaceplane that landed on the runway thirty minutes ago. Half of the personnel though was not members of the Airforce, as idnetified by a rather corporate shoulder patches on their overalls. The Strke Enterprises crew was swarming over one of the hangars, with the doors slammed shut and any window blanketed over. Over the last two hours, trucks were arriving with equipment for something even most of the air force base was not informed about. What many found strange was that some of the flatbed trucks ony carried one crate, and yet seemed to sag quite a lot under it, suggesting a big weight was being carried.

Inside, the answer to that lied, or rater, stood still. Alex was watching as techs were assembling the re-purposed Titanius Mk III suit-up system. The re-fit included upgrading of the hydraulics suite so the arms would even be able to handle the extra weight. In front of her was the reason - the modules of the ASTRA suit. Alex smiled, recalling her father's words about, as he put it, her 'graduation gift'. The general thought behind the suit was very Starke, but if one comapred the ASTRA to the Titanius, it would be like comparing a steamroller to a hammer.

She had only seen the suit today for the first time as well. Alex could not help but think it funny that she, someone who was pretending to be this petite, lanky girl, was to fly a suit of armor more rough and brutal looking than the Warmachine. The press was going to go bonkers the first time they would catch her on film without the helmet on...

"We're ready, ma'am." one of the techs called out, and Alex nodded, stepping onto the platform. Activating the until-now dormant protocols, her skin shifted back to its natural silver, with golden stripes akin to printed circuits running along. The arms strained under the weight a bit, but eventually craned on every module of the suit. The modules lit up as soona s they came into contact with her or one another, power coursing through them for the first time outside of a laboratory.

To Alex, it felt as though she was finally alive, her powerplant finally needing to output more than 5% of it's designed power. "All modules reporting power and self diagnostic is in the green." Alex reported. She wished Dad could be here, but the Avengers were holding him in preparation for what was to come later today. At least she wasn't alone here for her big moment. "I'm ready, colonel Rhodes. You said you had some space garbage you needed to de-orbit?"

'Unca James' smiled at her, nodding. "It's time you learned how to play proper catch. We have a failing suveillance satellite on polar orbit. Control will upload orbital data to your suit. Your mission is to intercept the satelite and ascertain it's state. If you can, perform a repair, but the satellite is from the cold-war era and thus, repair mission is not economically viable. If it is nto salvageable, you are to dismount the data storage module and bring it back to the base after altering the satelite's orbit to burn up in the atmosphere over the Pacific." Alex nodded in understanding, making a note that Colonel rhodes knew the best games. How many uncles would elt their nieces go to space to fiddle with multimillion dollar pieces of military technology?

The door of the hangar finally opened and Alex put on the helmet, downloading the navigational data from the suit into her own memory. Of course, there were only three men in the world privy to her true nature, so Control uploaded the info into the suit first. Only Thomas, James, and to their neverending dismay, Nikolai Fury knew the truth behind her.

"STARKE-3, EDW Control. You are clear for takeoff. Good hunting."

"EDW Control, STARKE-3. 10-4, keep the lights on." Alex responded over the radio and linked into the multifield generators. Selecting a gravitational field, she gently lifted off of the pavement, having much greater control and stealthiness than Titanius or Warmachine who relied on repulsor based flight. Once she cleared the specified altitude though, she too switched the generators from projecting a gravity field into repulsor propulsion, giving herself much greater acceleration.

She shot upwards with an excited 'yeehaw', following a trajectory that would take her on approach to the faulty satellite. Soon the air around her started ionizing, as her suit battled the resistance of the atmosphere. The heavy defensive capabilities of the ASTRA suit were bought with abysmal aerodynamic properties, relying on power alone to keep it in flight and on course. Alex however linked into the chest generator, setting it to project a cone shaped, vectored repulsor field in fornt of her, essentially creating an aerodynamic shround in front of herself like the payload fairings on the common rockets. With that, her speed increased an order of magnitude and soon enough the sky started to turn from blue to black.

"STARKE-2, STARKE-3. I have visual on the target. I can see damage, likely solar wind and micrometeorites. Proceeding to have a closer look." She reported down.

"Three, two. Can you give us video?" came Rhodey's question from the ground. Acknowledging, Alex opened a channel through the Iridium constellation and started streaming what she saw to the base.

"Damage is not severe, but the section that housed the RTGs had been blown off, looks like a micrometeorite at work. The satelite lost power. Primary objective is a failure, proceeding with secondary objective." she reported, raising her hand and launching a tractor beam, pulling the satellite to her. Reachign around, she unplugged the drives and stored them in one of the armor's compartments, then she turned around and fired a low power repulsor blast at the satellite in a precisely calculated moment, slwoing it down enough to enter the atmosphere on a desired de-orbit. "Complete."

"Roger that, return to base."

turning around herself, Alex watched the Earth as she flown over it. It was so serene and beautiful. She could see the antarctica below her, before passing over China, the Arctic and then back to over the USA. When she was nearing her descent point, she manuvered aorund and engaged the repulsors again, coming virtually to a halt over the base and letting the gravity take a grip of her.

She started falling straight down at tremendous speed, slamming onto the atmosphere like a bag of bricks. Her excitememnt escalated into mad laughter as fire exploded around her and the armor's surface turned black with scorch marks.

Present time, Avengers tower...

One short stop at Edwards to offload the data droves and ehr her ear chewed out by Rhodey for 'attracting attention with her flaming atmospheric cannonball in a flamboyant manner only an offspring of Thomas Starke would be capable of', Alex was on her way to the Tower. She wanted to take the armor, but the techs insisted on running a detailed diagnostic after her maiden space flight, and so she had to lower herself to taking a military truck and then the subway.

Mirage was already waiting for her at the reception, arms folded on the chest and foot tapping in annoyed inpatience. "I know, I know, I'm going." Alex grunted as she hurried to the elevator, inputting her security code and selecting the floor where the meeting was to take place, wondering what band of misfits would she become a part of.

Marvel AU - The Champions

notebook died, hopefully post tomorrow

Marvel AU - The Champions

@DC The Dragon Hey, are you doin' okay? You kinda have me worried after the last time, don't do this to me man! D:

Godfall - The Emergence [Dead]

Hiraga - It has begun

She couldn't feel it, him yet, but there weren't many things that could spook Death, and half as many people. Right now, only one came to mind. As if on cue, a fairy appeared behind the same window as Iratze before, knocking furiously. Hiraga was right over, and listened to the little winged sprite whisper into her ear. "Maybell, Oregon." She called out to the rest of the room, specifying the destination. She didn't intend to wait for the rest of them though. Walking back to Iratze, she asked of the messenger: "Can you please find my daughter?" handing her a picture form her wallet. In her eternal wisdom, Hiraga still didn't think to get a cell phone, citing it as something beneath her. But without knowing how to use whatever divine powers Shirley was sure to have, Hiraga didin't count on needing her aid, not this soon. she didn't currently know where she was, but if someone could find her, it would have been the Messenger. "Please, tell her to meet me there as soon as she is able." Then the Earth's guardian was out the window and in a flash of light she vanished, traveling in her true form to reach the place in mere moments.

The place was a mess, she noticed as she descended, once more in her human form to spook the flesh bags as little as possible. With the mayhem that was going on the ground, they perhaps even didn't notice her descending form the clouds that gathered over the town. It didn't matter much to her if they did, though. Seeing several buildings on fire, she raised her arms and willed the clouds to rain over them to snuff the flames. It brought a small ghost of a smile to her face, to be able to use her appendages again, so to speak. then, she turned her eye to the military craft that was the cause of the mayhem, her eye watching if their puppetmaster was nearby.

@Eyeris

Shirley - Food break over

The eater was inevitably drawn to the screen as well, alerted by everyone falling silent and pointing their gazes on the TV. As she watched, the pit she felt in her stomach seemed to grow, if that was even possible, although she knew hunger was not the cause of that. If those were terrorists, how did they managed to obtain military hardware on the United States' soil?

Her doubts were quickly snuffed though when in the corner of the view, one of the cameras caught what seemed like a woman crash down from the sky, only to land like a feather on the roof of one of the buildings. When she raised ehr arms to the skies and they torn open in a downpour, there was no doubt in her mind anymore. "Mom?" She asked rhetorically, before shaking her head. Forget the damn bells. If her mother's powers returned, perhaps she could shed some light on what was happening to her. "Tab, please!" She called out, fishing for her keys in a hurry.

@mercenarius @Pirouette

Godfall - The Emergence [Dead]

semester ends today, shall post soonish

Marvel AU - The Champions

\o/

Marvel AU - The Champions

@DC The Dragon Done, also bloopers fixed, such as referring to Ironman and the like.

Marvel AU - The Champions

ASTRA

Name:
Autonomous Superhuman Termination and Regulation Automaton

Original/Canon:
Reimagined canon (Ultron/Sentinel amalgamation)

Alias:
ASTRA, Alexandra Blair Starke

Species:
Synthoid

Age:
Appears to be 18

Gender:
Appears to be female

Sexuality:
Technically none, but an AI is ever curious

Appearance:

Hider

Source

Alex doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary, in fact her build is rather lanky and ‘underwhelming’ as far as the average superhero goes. For her whooping 187 centimeters of height she claims to only weigh 73 kilograms. She looks fit within her options and seems to have great stamina. Her skin is as white as it gets, supposedly after her never-seen Russian mother.

Alex's face seems as ordinary as the rest of her - not too angular, not too rounded. She has dark green eyes and a short mane of blond hair that she keeps cut to a mikado and flowing over one side of her face.

She sticks to her 'uniform' most of the time as she hardly ever goes outside. Alex doesn’t use clothing, instead morphing her skin to look like it, most often going with a softshell jumpsuit and an above-waist jacket. Most often, she puts the Starke Industries logo somewhere on her 'clothing', usually a shoulder insignia. She doesn’t really ‘change’ for combat other than donning her armor, if the situation calls for it.

Despite her best attempts, more observant people can still tell there is something inhuman about her - the way her skin is just a bit too cold to touch, that she seems to be heavier than she claims, or the precise and controlled way she carries herself, but her body language is slowly improving to blend in better.

History:

Created by Thomas Starke, ASTRA is meant to be the deterrent to all future superhuman threats to Earth. Combining the thoughts behind Ultron and the Sentinels, this unit is the first prototype of intended many. Designed to be able to counteract most known and possible future threats, ASTRA units are capable of emulating many powers present in other superhumans, aliens and technological contraptions, and while it matches none in its specific field, an ASTRA is capable of keeping up and fluidly change strategy to best counteract the threat. The whole system is intended to work by employing larger number of units though, rather than one superpowered robot, and as such, ASTRA would have as hard of a fight as any other hero if left to her own devices.

To prevent the disasters that were the Sentinels and Ultron, ASTRA code is based heavily on that of Ultron-15, capable of feeling emotions. Furthermore, Alex did not achieve consciousness by accident, but was brought online and educated by Mr. Starke to create a desirable personality.

A cover story was needed for her, and thus ASTRA assumed the identity of Alexandra Blair Starke, a misbegotten daughter of her creator, one he only recently become aware of with the death of her mother who kept her existence hidden from him.

When the Champions were created, Thomas signed Alex up to see how she would perform outside of simulation.

Personality:

Alex is on the border between an extrovert and introvert. She doesn't actively search for company, but if one finds her she doesn't shy away. Being relatively ‘young’ with her activation date no further than 5 years ago, she can sometimes be a bit naive and gullible.

She seems a little cold and doesn’t like to talk about herself. Alex constantly seems zoned out due to being able to multitask and pick up what humans can’t like radio waves or wi-fi internet, although she is always paying attention to what she should.

Her only fear is that of going offline for whatever the reason, as even though her memories would remain intact, her personality would reset and she might never be the same person.

Construction and powers:

ASTRA’s body is shaped around a strong endoskeleton fashioned out of secondary adamantium. Mobility is achieved through series of electric servos for precise motorics and hydraulics for heavy duty. Most of its core hardware is stored in the chest and abdomen, with only its sensor suite located in the head. The skin is made out of nanites.

Despite being a walking supercomputer and thus having a shorter learning curve, it still takes time for ASTRA to master certain things that require experience rather than theory, such as martial arts. Furthermore Alex didn’t bother learning much of what she doesn’t need, as her drive space may be impressive, but it is far from encompassing all of knowledge.

Minor shapeshifting - ASTRA’s nanoskin can change its shape, color and to some degree mechanical properties. The shape is limited by the endoskeleton, always restricting it to humanoid shape although in special cases not all of it needs to be covered by the skin.

Energy absorption - ASTRA is powered through its skin which can transfer various energy sources into its powerplant - the unit is mostly powered by solar energy. The capability is limited though - for example it can still be damaged by fire given enough exposure or high enough temperature.

Superhuman physique - Unarmored, ASTRA can lift up to 20 tons (A bus or a lorry) with each arm or 60 tons (passenger railway carriage) with both, provided it can distribute the weight properly. It can also move about 3 times faster than a human and it has wider range on its joints, capable of for instance reverse bending elbows.

Superhuman mind - The robot has large memory and the computational power of the best technology. It also possesses significantly shortened reaction time and short range telepathy (Max range of 1 m, requires physical contact near the central nervous system for detailed readings) and technopathy facilitated through the nanites in its skin.

Sensors and transmitters - The robot is aware of more than a human, capable of seeing and hearing a wider spectrum, and can also transmit such signals.

Forcefield emitters - ASTRA is equipped with the next step from Titanius' repulsors - the multifield generators. It can create shaped fields of many known energy types, such as gravity, electormagnetic, repulsor, acoustic etc. The more complex the field the more it subtracts from its processing power - for example, a tractor beam is pretty easy, but creating a gravity field to safely deflect a hail of bullets over large area might take enough processing power that ASTRA wouldn't have enough left to calculate it's own motion. Two of these are mounted on ASTRA's palms.

Equipment:

As the base robot is made to be able to mimic a human, something more is needed for those tough fight when the nanoskin just wouldn’t last long enough. As such a new suit of powered exo-armor was developed along with it. It is somewhat modular in a way that additional equipment can be mounted on the outside.

Composite armor - With bulkiness not being the issue, the armor was made out of a composite improving upon the nickel-gold alloy. It is worth noting that unlike the Titanuis suit, the ASTRA armor is made to be a front line soldier, thus is overall heavier, especially from the front, closer to the Warmachine suit. With the need to accept a pilot, the armor also has weak spots at the joints and openings. Unlike the suits Thomas designed for humans, the ASTRA suit does not have its own power source or CPUs, relying on the ASTRA unit piloting it, making it useless if stolen. It can however work without being completely assembled, as long as the part is interfaced with the pilot.

Forcefield emitters - The armor has additional emitters, two on the back and one larger on the chest.

20mm launcher - ASTRA can choose to integrate a firearm that can both launch standard 20mm grenades, or focus the same forcefields as the emitters in the shape of a dense beam.

Increased strength, decreased mobility - Once the armor is on, ASTRA can lift up to 300 tons (heavy duty railway locomotive). However, the armor’s mobility suite is far clunkier, and limits ASTRA to human speed.

Relationships:

Thomas Starke - Alex considers Thomas as a father despite it initially being only a cover story. In fact, she’s full fledged daddy’s girl, albeit now they don’t get to see each other often - it only makes her treasure those moments more. Vice versa, Thomas initially created ASTRA with a purpose, but the prototype’s personality started growing on him, making him think over his plans for her.

Trivia:

Voice actor

Main theme

Battle theme

Marvel AU - The Champions

NTBITIH

Name:
Autonomous Superhuman Termination and Regulation Automaton

Original/Canon:
Reimagined canon (Ultron/Sentinel amalgamation)

Alias:
ASTRA, Alexandra Blair Starke

Species:
Synthoid

Age:
Appears to be 18

Gender:
Appears to be female

Sexuality:
Technically none, but an AI is ever curious

Appearance:

Hider

Source

Alex doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary, in fact her build is rather lanky and ‘underwhelming’ as far as the average superhero goes. For her whooping 187 centimeters of height she claims to only weigh 73 kilograms. She looks fit within her options and seems to have great stamina. Her skin is as white as it gets, supposedly after her never-seen Russian mother.

Alex's face seems as ordinary as the rest of her - not too angular, not too rounded. She has dark green eyes and a short mane of blond hair that she keeps cut to a mikado and flowing over one side of her face.

She sticks to her 'uniform' most of the time as she hardly ever goes outside. Alex doesn’t use clothing, instead morphing her skin to look like it, most often going with a softshell jumpsuit and an above-waist jacket. Most often, she puts the Starke Industries logo somewhere on her 'clothing', usually a shoulder insignia. She doesn’t really ‘change’ for combat other than donning her armor, if the situation calls for it.

Despite her best attempts, more observant people can still tell there is something inhuman about her - the way her skin is just a bit too cold to touch, that she seems to be heavier than she claims, or the precise and controlled way she carries herself, but her body language is slowly improving to blend in better.

History:

Created by Thomas Starke, ASTRA is meant to be the deterrent to all future superhuman threats to Earth. Combining the thoughts behind Ultron and the Sentinels, this unit is the first prototype of intended many. Designed to be able to counteract most known and possible future threats, ASTRA units are capable of emulating many powers present in other superhumans, aliens and technological contraptions, and while it matches none in its specific field, an ASTRA is capable of keeping up and fluidly change strategy to best counteract the threat. The whole system is intended to work by employing larger number of units though, rather than one superpowered robot, and as such, ASTRA would have as hard of a fight as any other hero if left to her own devices.

To prevent the disasters that were the Sentinels and Ultron, ASTRA code is based heavily on that of Ultron-15, capable of feeling emotions. Furthermore, Alex did not achieve consciousness by accident, but was brought online and educated by Mr. Starke to create a desirable personality.

A cover story was needed for her, and thus ASTRA assumed the identity of Alexandra Blair Starke, a misbegotten daughter of her creator, one he only recently become aware of with the death of her mother who kept her existence hidden from him.

When the Champions were created, Thomas signed Alex up to see how she would perform outside of simulation.

Personality:

Alex is on the border between an extrovert and introvert. She doesn't actively search for company, but if one finds her she doesn't shy away. Being relatively ‘young’ with her activation date no further than 5 years ago, she can sometimes be a bit naive and gullible.

She seems a little cold and doesn’t like to talk about herself. Alex constantly seems zoned out due to being able to multitask and pick up what humans can’t like radio waves or wi-fi internet, although she is always paying attention to what she should.

Her only fear is that of going offline for whatever the reason, as even though her memories would remain intact, her personality would reset and she might never be the same person.

Construction and powers:

ASTRA’s body is shaped around a strong endoskeleton fashioned out of secondary adamantium. Mobility is achieved through series of electric servos for precise motorics and hydraulics for heavy duty. Most of its core hardware is stored in the chest and abdomen, with only its sensor suite located in the head. The skin is made out of nanites.

Despite being a walking supercomputer and thus having a shorter learning curve, it still takes time for ASTRA to master certain things that require experience rather than theory, such as martial arts. Furthermore Alex didn’t bother learning much of what she doesn’t need, as her drive space may be impressive, but it is far from encompassing all of knowledge.

Minor shapeshifting - ASTRA’s nanoskin can change its shape, color and to some degree mechanical properties. The shape is limited by the endoskeleton, always restricting it to humanoid shape although in special cases not all of it needs to be covered by the skin.

Energy absorption - ASTRA is powered through its skin which can transfer various energy sources into its powerplant - the unit is mostly powered by solar energy. The capability is limited though - for example it can still be damaged by fire given enough exposure or high enough temperature.

Superhuman physique - Unarmored, ASTRA can lift up to 20 tons (A bus or a lorry) with each arm or 60 tons (passenger railway carriage) with both, provided it can distribute the weight properly. It can also move about 3 times faster than a human and it has wider range on its joints, capable of for instance reverse bending elbows.

Superhuman mind - The robot has large memory and the computational power of the best technology. It also possesses significantly shortened reaction time and short range telepathy (Max range of 1 m, requires physical contact near the central nervous system for detailed readings) and technopathy facilitated through the nanites in its skin.

Sensors and transmitters - The robot is aware of more than a human, capable of seeing and hearing a wider spectrum, and can also transmit such signals.

Forcefield emitters - ASTRA is equipped with the next step from Titanius' repulsors - the multifield generators. It can create shaped fields of many known energy types, such as gravity, electormagnetic, repulsor, acoustic etc. The more complex the field the more it subtracts from its processing power - for example, a tractor beam is pretty easy, but creating a gravity field to safely deflect a hail of bullets over large area might take enough processing power that ASTRA wouldn't have enough left to calculate it's own motion. Two of these are mounted on ASTRA's palms.

Equipment:

As the base robot is made to be able to mimic a human, something more is needed for those tough fight when the nanoskin just wouldn’t last long enough. As such a new suit of powered exo-armor was developed along with it. It is somewhat modular in a way that additional equipment can be mounted on the outside.

Composite armor - With bulkiness not being the issue, the armor was made out of a composite improving upon the nickel-gold alloy. It is worth noting that unlike the Titanuis suit, the ASTRA armor is made to be a front line soldier, thus is overall heavier, especially from the front, closer to the Warmachine suit. With the need to accept a pilot, the armor also has weak spots at the joints and openings. Unlike the suits Thomas designed for humans, the ASTRA suit does not have its own power source or CPUs, relying on the ASTRA unit piloting it, making it useless if stolen. It can however work without being completely assembled, as long as the part is interfaced with the pilot.

Forcefield emitters - The armor has additional emitters, two on the back and one larger on the chest.

20mm launcher - ASTRA can choose to integrate a firearm that can both launch standard 20mm grenades, or focus the same forcefields as the emitters in the shape of a dense beam.

Increased strength, decreased mobility - Once the armor is on, ASTRA can lift up to 300 tons (heavy duty railway locomotive). However, the armor’s mobility suite is far clunkier, and limits ASTRA to human speed.

Relationships:

Thomas Starke - Alex considers Thomas as a father despite it initially being only a cover story. In fact, she’s full fledged daddy’s girl, albeit now they don’t get to see each other often - it only makes her treasure those moments more. Vice versa, Thomas initially created ASTRA with a purpose, but the prototype’s personality started growing on him, making him think over his plans for her.

Trivia:

Voice actor

Main theme

Battle theme