Metroplex
Sept 28, 2012 20:58:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 20:58:47 GMT -5
-Player Info-
Name/Alias: Aster
IM/Email: white.aster at gmail dot com / white.aster on AIM / thehatlady at yahoo dot com on MSN
-Character Info-
Name: Metroplex
Age (or human equivalent): Equivalent of ~45. He remembers the last quarter or so of Zeta Prime's rule.
Gender (or human equivalent): mech/male
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Occupation/Specialization: Cityformer / artillery / support
Appearance/Altmode: Metroplex's main form (and the one he feels the most comfortable in) is as the infrastructure of a small military city. He forms buildings, courtyards, artillery emplacements, manufactories, the base of walkways...everything. He has one of the largest subspaces possible, so he can "spread out" or "contract" his sprawl if necessary. With the right scan he can be everything from a small city to a huge tower to your average military base.
Metroplex's bipedal form is hugely out of scale with the average Cybertronian. He can hold a half-dozen Megatrons on the palm of his hand and have room for some Optimi for them to fight with. He is a hundred times taller than the average mech, at a guess.
History:
Metroplex was built as a military installation on the Iacon border. He did not concern himself with politics for the longest time, spending the last quarter of Zeta Prime's reign merely fulfilling his function: providing a secure place for his occupants to live and work. When the Decepticons formed and war broke out, however, Metroplex saw some of his heaviest fighting as the Decepticons attacked Iacon. Several of Metroplex's fellow cityformers were destroyed in the war, but Metroplex was merely damaged and, eventually, abandoned as energon became a scarce resource. Metroplex's consciousness idled on the dregs of his tanks for many vorn as war raged over and above and around him, his consciousness fading in and out from energon deprivation. He resigned himself to die, as so many of his inhabitants had died and as he could feel Cybertron beneath him dying.
Then, the Autobots, in an effort to restore Metroplex's artillery to working order to provide cover for the Ark's launch, rerouted some of their energon supplies through Metroplex's power grid. Metroplex became fully aware for the first time in decavorn, and when Optimus Prime entered Metroplex's halls to complete the repairs, the Autobot leader felt the cityformer's presence and called upon him to serve the Autobot cause. Metroplex transformed and joined the Autobot fight, providing crucial firepower and support for Autobot operations. When the time came to launch the critically-underfuelled Ark, Metroplex offered the energon from his own tanks to power the ship and allow the other Autobots to flee Cybertron through the Decepticon blockade.
Metroplex fell into stasis and remembered nothing more for many, many vorn. Then, he awoke, his tanks inexplicably full, his engines retrofitted for rudimentary space travel and planetary entry...and a message from the Prime in his communication queue, calling all wandering Autobots to a small planet called Earth. Metroplex had no idea what happened during his stasis or how he was powered or refitted. However, the message coded as genuine, and he used his new cometary transformation protocol and engines to start the long, slow trip to Earth.
(For purposes of timelining, the message Metroplex heard was one of the first Optimus sent pre-series, when the first Earth war with the Decepticons started. So, it took Metroplex years to travel through space to arrive on Earth.
Also, his mysterious refuelling and reformatting is something I'm leaving open for future plotting. Was he aided by Alpha Trion? Did Cybertron's core finally come back online and begin repairing/refuelling him? Is he actually an unwitting part of some kind of Decepticon plot? Any of these things could be interesting to play with.)
Personality: Metroplex is an incredibly amiable mech. He was programmed to like people and to want to protect them. He enjoys their presence and their company. He enjoys order and predictability and is very much a follower: he is a soldier, and he follows orders, rather than giving them. He does not have the personality for command. It would not even occur to him to attempt to take it up. He doesn't, in fact, have a very analytical mind at all. He was built to collect data, apply a certain set of rules to them, act accordingly, and then wait for instructions for anything else. He is extremely humble and self-sacrificing, and though he does not enjoy war, he enjoys the feeling of a job well-done, a threat neutralized, and a mission accomplished. Unlike most Autobots, he does not hate the Decepticons. He has a hard time taking anything PERSONALLY, just because of the way he was programmed. He was built to be a structure that supported others...this does not lead to a particularly strong sense of self or ego.
Likes: being useful, order, peace, being in good repair, seeing his inhabitants safe and happy, games.
Dislikes: all the opposites of what he likes: chaos and war, helplessness, those he protects harmed, being lonely and alone.
Strengths/Weapons:
Giant Size - Metroplex is huge. In bipedal form he can destroy buildings with a punch, squash mechs with his hands or feet, swat Seekers like flies, and wrestle entire warships out of the air and down to the ground. Primus help you if he FALLS on your battalion.
Thick Plating - Built to be a military emplacement and sometimes-last-ditch-warrior, Metroplex has some of the thickest armor around, and his size makes damaging him all the more difficult: what would blow a smaller mech to bits is like a pinprick to him.
Artillery - Metroplex was built to be able to defend himself. He has missiles, energon cannons, and other heavy weaponry installed and can blast an entire location off the map from afar if needed.
Weaknesses:
Giant Size - ...Metroplex is HUGE. This makes it utterly impossible for him to move easily, quietly, or under any sort of stealth. In mech form, he has utterly no cover and is literally the biggest target on the battlefield.
Immobile / Slow - Metroplex is either immobile (in cityform) or slow (in bipedal form) due to his size. Of course he can negate the immobility of cityform by transforming, but that also takes a LOT of energon, so he does it sparingly.
Energon Hog - Because of his size, Metroplex uses a LOT of energon if he is fully powering all his systems/rooms, and especially if he is moving around in bipedal mode. Relocating, firing his energon cannons, even TRANSFORMING, all of these are significant hits to his energy reserves and could require months of refuelling to recover from.
Special skills (that are not weapon related):
Manufacturing and Refining - Metroplex was made to be a semi-self-sufficient installation. He has rudimentary energon refining capabilities and the ability to manufacture whatever he might need to repair or augment himself, given the right raw materials and a suitable blueprint.
Internal Transformation - Metroplex's alt is a city. He can transform himself into whatever is needed to properly house his inhabitants, including making large/small rooms, specialty rooms, etc. It's made him something of an architect. An architect...or a fashion/interior designer, maybe.
Multithreading Liek Whoa - Metroplex is meant to be the AI for a city. He can, in city-mode, monitor all the security cameras, maintain separate parts of himself, run a diagnostic on the energon dispensery, transform out a new set of rooms, converse with roughly ten different people, and play World of Warcraft all at the same time...no problem. As mentioned above, this does not necessarily make him smarter or a great analytical mind...he can just multitask very well.
Extra Info:
Scamper - Metroplex has one maintenance drone left. Scamper is a small, unarmored, blue-gray bipedal drone that looks like a miniature mech with a blue visor. He has no weapons and is literally an extension of Metroplex. He has no spark or sentience of his own and is animated solely by Metroplex's will. Metroplex can sense through Scamper's optics and audials much as if he were inhabiting Scamper's frame, though Scamper's tactile sensors are not advanced enough to sense anything more than temperature, contact, and proximity.
Name/Alias: Aster
IM/Email: white.aster at gmail dot com / white.aster on AIM / thehatlady at yahoo dot com on MSN
-Character Info-
Name: Metroplex
Age (or human equivalent): Equivalent of ~45. He remembers the last quarter or so of Zeta Prime's rule.
Gender (or human equivalent): mech/male
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Occupation/Specialization: Cityformer / artillery / support
Appearance/Altmode: Metroplex's main form (and the one he feels the most comfortable in) is as the infrastructure of a small military city. He forms buildings, courtyards, artillery emplacements, manufactories, the base of walkways...everything. He has one of the largest subspaces possible, so he can "spread out" or "contract" his sprawl if necessary. With the right scan he can be everything from a small city to a huge tower to your average military base.
Metroplex's bipedal form is hugely out of scale with the average Cybertronian. He can hold a half-dozen Megatrons on the palm of his hand and have room for some Optimi for them to fight with. He is a hundred times taller than the average mech, at a guess.
History:
Metroplex was built as a military installation on the Iacon border. He did not concern himself with politics for the longest time, spending the last quarter of Zeta Prime's reign merely fulfilling his function: providing a secure place for his occupants to live and work. When the Decepticons formed and war broke out, however, Metroplex saw some of his heaviest fighting as the Decepticons attacked Iacon. Several of Metroplex's fellow cityformers were destroyed in the war, but Metroplex was merely damaged and, eventually, abandoned as energon became a scarce resource. Metroplex's consciousness idled on the dregs of his tanks for many vorn as war raged over and above and around him, his consciousness fading in and out from energon deprivation. He resigned himself to die, as so many of his inhabitants had died and as he could feel Cybertron beneath him dying.
Then, the Autobots, in an effort to restore Metroplex's artillery to working order to provide cover for the Ark's launch, rerouted some of their energon supplies through Metroplex's power grid. Metroplex became fully aware for the first time in decavorn, and when Optimus Prime entered Metroplex's halls to complete the repairs, the Autobot leader felt the cityformer's presence and called upon him to serve the Autobot cause. Metroplex transformed and joined the Autobot fight, providing crucial firepower and support for Autobot operations. When the time came to launch the critically-underfuelled Ark, Metroplex offered the energon from his own tanks to power the ship and allow the other Autobots to flee Cybertron through the Decepticon blockade.
Metroplex fell into stasis and remembered nothing more for many, many vorn. Then, he awoke, his tanks inexplicably full, his engines retrofitted for rudimentary space travel and planetary entry...and a message from the Prime in his communication queue, calling all wandering Autobots to a small planet called Earth. Metroplex had no idea what happened during his stasis or how he was powered or refitted. However, the message coded as genuine, and he used his new cometary transformation protocol and engines to start the long, slow trip to Earth.
(For purposes of timelining, the message Metroplex heard was one of the first Optimus sent pre-series, when the first Earth war with the Decepticons started. So, it took Metroplex years to travel through space to arrive on Earth.
Also, his mysterious refuelling and reformatting is something I'm leaving open for future plotting. Was he aided by Alpha Trion? Did Cybertron's core finally come back online and begin repairing/refuelling him? Is he actually an unwitting part of some kind of Decepticon plot? Any of these things could be interesting to play with.)
Personality: Metroplex is an incredibly amiable mech. He was programmed to like people and to want to protect them. He enjoys their presence and their company. He enjoys order and predictability and is very much a follower: he is a soldier, and he follows orders, rather than giving them. He does not have the personality for command. It would not even occur to him to attempt to take it up. He doesn't, in fact, have a very analytical mind at all. He was built to collect data, apply a certain set of rules to them, act accordingly, and then wait for instructions for anything else. He is extremely humble and self-sacrificing, and though he does not enjoy war, he enjoys the feeling of a job well-done, a threat neutralized, and a mission accomplished. Unlike most Autobots, he does not hate the Decepticons. He has a hard time taking anything PERSONALLY, just because of the way he was programmed. He was built to be a structure that supported others...this does not lead to a particularly strong sense of self or ego.
Likes: being useful, order, peace, being in good repair, seeing his inhabitants safe and happy, games.
Dislikes: all the opposites of what he likes: chaos and war, helplessness, those he protects harmed, being lonely and alone.
Strengths/Weapons:
Giant Size - Metroplex is huge. In bipedal form he can destroy buildings with a punch, squash mechs with his hands or feet, swat Seekers like flies, and wrestle entire warships out of the air and down to the ground. Primus help you if he FALLS on your battalion.
Thick Plating - Built to be a military emplacement and sometimes-last-ditch-warrior, Metroplex has some of the thickest armor around, and his size makes damaging him all the more difficult: what would blow a smaller mech to bits is like a pinprick to him.
Artillery - Metroplex was built to be able to defend himself. He has missiles, energon cannons, and other heavy weaponry installed and can blast an entire location off the map from afar if needed.
Weaknesses:
Giant Size - ...Metroplex is HUGE. This makes it utterly impossible for him to move easily, quietly, or under any sort of stealth. In mech form, he has utterly no cover and is literally the biggest target on the battlefield.
Immobile / Slow - Metroplex is either immobile (in cityform) or slow (in bipedal form) due to his size. Of course he can negate the immobility of cityform by transforming, but that also takes a LOT of energon, so he does it sparingly.
Energon Hog - Because of his size, Metroplex uses a LOT of energon if he is fully powering all his systems/rooms, and especially if he is moving around in bipedal mode. Relocating, firing his energon cannons, even TRANSFORMING, all of these are significant hits to his energy reserves and could require months of refuelling to recover from.
Special skills (that are not weapon related):
Manufacturing and Refining - Metroplex was made to be a semi-self-sufficient installation. He has rudimentary energon refining capabilities and the ability to manufacture whatever he might need to repair or augment himself, given the right raw materials and a suitable blueprint.
Internal Transformation - Metroplex's alt is a city. He can transform himself into whatever is needed to properly house his inhabitants, including making large/small rooms, specialty rooms, etc. It's made him something of an architect. An architect...or a fashion/interior designer, maybe.
Multithreading Liek Whoa - Metroplex is meant to be the AI for a city. He can, in city-mode, monitor all the security cameras, maintain separate parts of himself, run a diagnostic on the energon dispensery, transform out a new set of rooms, converse with roughly ten different people, and play World of Warcraft all at the same time...no problem. As mentioned above, this does not necessarily make him smarter or a great analytical mind...he can just multitask very well.
Extra Info:
Scamper - Metroplex has one maintenance drone left. Scamper is a small, unarmored, blue-gray bipedal drone that looks like a miniature mech with a blue visor. He has no weapons and is literally an extension of Metroplex. He has no spark or sentience of his own and is animated solely by Metroplex's will. Metroplex can sense through Scamper's optics and audials much as if he were inhabiting Scamper's frame, though Scamper's tactile sensors are not advanced enough to sense anything more than temperature, contact, and proximity.