Post by fricasso on Nov 22, 2007 15:37:38 GMT -5
Name: Leo King
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Type of experiment: Cybernetic enhancement
Physical description:
If he wears a hoodie and a long coat and a scarf or bandana around half his face, Leo could almost pass for a normal human being, pale, blond, and blue-eyed. Without such protection, it’s a different story entirely. Most of his body is now mechanical, and while he was provided with synthetic skin, this procedure was never carried out for his left arm, which is still bare and ugly cybernetics. Because there is no skin covering it, it frequently gets dirt lodged in it, and is therefore a bit cranky. The fusion reactor that powers his enhancements sticks out of his chest, so that fuel cannisters can be removed and replaced, and it looks a bit like he has a vaccuum cleaner lodged in his torso. Most of the right side of his face is disfigured by bio-electric implants which directly interface with his brain and include the large camera-like affair that is his right eye. It’s not too pretty, so he lets his hair grow long to cover it. That, and he'd rather not cut off his last surviving human features.
Leo is about 5’7”, and weighs somewhere in the region of 450 lbs, because first-generation cybernetics aren’t lightweight. In addition to superhuman strength and resistance to damage, Leo has a few built in extras, many of which he hasn’t discovered yet, although he has a printout of his file from the SKTC black-ops database, which his mysterious benefactor was kind enough to include in his crate. He likes to think of it as his user manual.
History (Short version):
After being paralysed in a car accident at the age of 14, Leo was taken to a lab in south korea, where a secret R&D programme was attempting to create cyborgs with superhuman capabilities. After two years, the project was shut down, but Leo escaped to the US with the aid of an unknown double-agent inside the lab, and is now on the loose. SKTC, the company that conducted the experiments, is quite keen to either get him back or destroy him to prevent their technology falling into anyone else’s hands.
History (Long version):
Leo grew up living in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, with his parents and elder sister. He got his ticket to freaksville at the age of fourteen, when he and his family were involved in a car accident. His family was killed and Leo was paralysed from the neck down. During his time in hospital, he was approached by a representative of his medical insurance provider, UHealth, offering free experimental surgery that would allow him to walk again. His grandparents signed the forms on his behalf, and he was taken to a secure medical facility near Seoul, operated by Uhealth’s parent company, SKTC (South Korean Technologies Consortium). Unfortunately, the exact nature of the surgery wasn’t specified, and Leo found himself a captive on a secret R&D programme to develop artificially enhanced super-soldiers.
Project ‘Iron Gate’ had been underway for nine years by the time of Leo’s introduction, and was then currently in the live-testing stage. During two years and over forty surgical procedures, Leo’s arms and legs were removed and cybernetic replacements grafted in their place. Because the human body is too frail to support superhuman strength – the tension from heavy lifting would snap his spine or rip off his arms – much of the rest of his body had to be drastically restructured as well. His spine and skull were supported and hardened, and most of his remaining skin replaced with a tougher, self-repairing synthetic material that could handle the strain. To interface his nervous system with the enhancements, he needed computer chips in his brain, and they replaced one of his eyes for good measure. To power these enhancements, most of his internal organs were removed and replaced with a compact fusion reactor which runs on anything from banana skins to butane. The net result of this is that very little of Leo remains human; his brain, skull and spinal cord, one eye, and vestiges of his nervous system and circulatory system.
Leo was one of the more stable subjects in project Iron Gate, the procedures having been mostly perfected by the time they were used on him. Previous subjects had not been so lucky. Some had been restructured so drastically that they no longer even looked remotely human. After an incident where one such subject went on a psychotic rampage in the facility, tearing many key project personnel limb from limb before being neutralised, SKTC decided to pull the plug on the project, sterilise the facility, and terminate any subjects deemed too unstable for further use by the company. Leo was sedated awaiting assessment, but was smuggled out of the facility by a sympathetic but anonymous double-agent, who had been behind numerous other escapes and setbacks during the project.
Packaged in a crate and sent to the US on a container ship, Leo is now free again, but lost and confused. His unknown benefactor did him one last favour – whoever it was, they left him directions to a house full of other escaped test subjects.
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Type of experiment: Cybernetic enhancement
Physical description:
If he wears a hoodie and a long coat and a scarf or bandana around half his face, Leo could almost pass for a normal human being, pale, blond, and blue-eyed. Without such protection, it’s a different story entirely. Most of his body is now mechanical, and while he was provided with synthetic skin, this procedure was never carried out for his left arm, which is still bare and ugly cybernetics. Because there is no skin covering it, it frequently gets dirt lodged in it, and is therefore a bit cranky. The fusion reactor that powers his enhancements sticks out of his chest, so that fuel cannisters can be removed and replaced, and it looks a bit like he has a vaccuum cleaner lodged in his torso. Most of the right side of his face is disfigured by bio-electric implants which directly interface with his brain and include the large camera-like affair that is his right eye. It’s not too pretty, so he lets his hair grow long to cover it. That, and he'd rather not cut off his last surviving human features.
Leo is about 5’7”, and weighs somewhere in the region of 450 lbs, because first-generation cybernetics aren’t lightweight. In addition to superhuman strength and resistance to damage, Leo has a few built in extras, many of which he hasn’t discovered yet, although he has a printout of his file from the SKTC black-ops database, which his mysterious benefactor was kind enough to include in his crate. He likes to think of it as his user manual.
History (Short version):
After being paralysed in a car accident at the age of 14, Leo was taken to a lab in south korea, where a secret R&D programme was attempting to create cyborgs with superhuman capabilities. After two years, the project was shut down, but Leo escaped to the US with the aid of an unknown double-agent inside the lab, and is now on the loose. SKTC, the company that conducted the experiments, is quite keen to either get him back or destroy him to prevent their technology falling into anyone else’s hands.
History (Long version):
Leo grew up living in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, with his parents and elder sister. He got his ticket to freaksville at the age of fourteen, when he and his family were involved in a car accident. His family was killed and Leo was paralysed from the neck down. During his time in hospital, he was approached by a representative of his medical insurance provider, UHealth, offering free experimental surgery that would allow him to walk again. His grandparents signed the forms on his behalf, and he was taken to a secure medical facility near Seoul, operated by Uhealth’s parent company, SKTC (South Korean Technologies Consortium). Unfortunately, the exact nature of the surgery wasn’t specified, and Leo found himself a captive on a secret R&D programme to develop artificially enhanced super-soldiers.
Project ‘Iron Gate’ had been underway for nine years by the time of Leo’s introduction, and was then currently in the live-testing stage. During two years and over forty surgical procedures, Leo’s arms and legs were removed and cybernetic replacements grafted in their place. Because the human body is too frail to support superhuman strength – the tension from heavy lifting would snap his spine or rip off his arms – much of the rest of his body had to be drastically restructured as well. His spine and skull were supported and hardened, and most of his remaining skin replaced with a tougher, self-repairing synthetic material that could handle the strain. To interface his nervous system with the enhancements, he needed computer chips in his brain, and they replaced one of his eyes for good measure. To power these enhancements, most of his internal organs were removed and replaced with a compact fusion reactor which runs on anything from banana skins to butane. The net result of this is that very little of Leo remains human; his brain, skull and spinal cord, one eye, and vestiges of his nervous system and circulatory system.
Leo was one of the more stable subjects in project Iron Gate, the procedures having been mostly perfected by the time they were used on him. Previous subjects had not been so lucky. Some had been restructured so drastically that they no longer even looked remotely human. After an incident where one such subject went on a psychotic rampage in the facility, tearing many key project personnel limb from limb before being neutralised, SKTC decided to pull the plug on the project, sterilise the facility, and terminate any subjects deemed too unstable for further use by the company. Leo was sedated awaiting assessment, but was smuggled out of the facility by a sympathetic but anonymous double-agent, who had been behind numerous other escapes and setbacks during the project.
Packaged in a crate and sent to the US on a container ship, Leo is now free again, but lost and confused. His unknown benefactor did him one last favour – whoever it was, they left him directions to a house full of other escaped test subjects.