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Name: Independent Computational Analysis and Reactionary System (ICARS) or 'Icarus'
Race: AI
Age: 4 Years
Gender: Male Programming
Job: Pilot

Weapons: In broader terms, Icarus's whole body is a weapon. A Mil-Spec robotic combat frame boasting a suite of integrated energy weaponry such asHandguns, blades and personal shielding. His human-like hands also mean that he is able to utilise traditional weaponry, and even increase the effectiveness of energy-based weapons by supplementing them with his own internal power-supply.

Abilities: 
Direct Technological Interface - So long that he has direct contact or a stable wireless connection, he can directly interface with and control anything with a circuit. This can extend to anything as large as a Knight-class Cruiser or as small as a recon-drones or energy-based weapons, but the more concentration he requires to do so means the less awareness he has to his own surroundings. This power is also completely ineffective with purely mechanical based systems.

Internal Reactor - The Dueterium-based reactor within his mobile chassis is both extremely efficient and fuelled by an in-expensive recourse that is easy to find, meaning that he is able to operate for months at a time without needed to purchase extravagant amounts of expensive fuels

Overclock - As an entirely technological being, Icarus can activate an over-drive state that rapidly boosts his physical and digital capabilities, at the cost of heightened energy consumption and heat build-up.

Mainframe Database - Icarus has the ability to download and emulate theoretically any skill that is able to be put into data form.

Personality: Practical and Analytical as a result of his core programming, but also prone to more 'human' traits like sarcastic remarks, concern over crewmates, small displays of anger and willingness to defy orders as a result of his cracked programming, thanks to Adriana.
Short bio: The ICARSes were a series of AIs designed on Merlin Prime, but fell out of favour with the higher-ups due to higher production costs and less restricted growth potential, sparking doubts about possible rogue AI. Most of the cores were summarily destroyed, but a few were sold off on the black market. One particular core changed hands a few times before ending up in a junker's yard on Morgana Epsilon, where is was 'rescued' stolen... by Adriana Lockster, a young woman with considerable skill as an programmer/engineer and too much time on her hands. She was able to fill in the missing parts of his code and get him online, naming him Icarus after finding his official designation too much of a mouthful.

She hooked him up to various bits and pieces around her home, a derelict transport ship, and he took over various tasks. As he spent more time online, his self-writing coding began to spring up and (influenced by her own inputs) he began to express a curiosity about what it meant to be 'free'. After a long philosophical discussion, Adriana built him a rudimentary mobile chassis out of discarded robotics. To return the favour, he secretly began repairing the transport they lived in, planning to surprise her on her birthday. This, however, never happened as the ruling crime-family caught wind of her 'little AI boyfriend' and sent some corrupt law enforcement to capture him. He stole one of their guns and tried to fight them off but Adriana was wounded very seriously in the resultant firefight. He managed to escape by piloting the transport off-world and trying to hide on Morgana Alpha, but the ship barely survived re-entry and the resultant crash rendered it incapable of flight.

Adriana was left in a crippled state, and Icarus spent close to 3 months caring for her before the crime-family finally caught up. They attacked while Icarus was away collecting crucial supplies, leaving Adriana vulnerable. What they did to her is better left unsaid, but when Icarus returned he was grabbed by one of the law enforcement's advanced combat robots. He was unable to escape the superior machine's grasp as the organic officers laughed and mocked him and Adriana, and in his rage and desperation attempted to hijack the robot holding him. His more advanced programming quickly overtook the unit, and he turned his new body's weapons on the corrupt cops around him. He buried Adriana with a piece of broken metal as her gravestone and took the first ship off-world without a set destination in mind.

He spent the next year hopping from planet to planet, making small modifications to his chassis and eventually ending up in a certain bar on a certain world, accepting an offer from a walking anachronism.


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