C, Mer

[attr="class","dupertitle"]Mer C

[attr="class","dupertext"]AKA "TRAVELLER"
GROUP UNAFFILIATED

AGE Twenty spent as an organic, an almost incalculable amount of time as back-up data and another ten thousand either in hibernation within a temporary data storage, or actively.
GENDER F

HEIGHT 13'1"
WEIGHT 22000LBS

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POSITIVE + Pragmatic + Open minded + Honest + Strong willed + Curious
NEGATIVE - Cold - Blunt - Merciless - Apathetic - Brutal -Simplistic -impatient

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[attr="class","dupertext"]POWERS / SKILLS

Incredible Physique: Due to not only weighing several tons and being incredibly tall, but also being essentially a system entirely composed of motorized and heavily powered body-parts MerC’s strength is of immense proportions. She could easily lift a car or even a truck, to throw them and generally possesses an amount of physical strength that can suffice to lift entire structures (larger buildings), in essence allowing her to prevent them from toppling. Her durability such that it could in turn withstand a slightly lower level of strength than she could actually dish out. So she can withstand enough physical force to survive being buried under several dozens of tons, of rubble without major injuries.

Her durability is simply a result of being composed of a metallic alloy with incredible density and thermal shock resistance. Its fracture toughness is also far beyond anything industrial steel could accomplish, rendering it as durable as it is. The drawback however is that she is insanely heavy even for her size making movement in specific environments incredibly difficult for her. Namely movement within buildings could prove to be a disaster, simply because the ceilings/floors are not made to carry such immense weight.

Another aspect of her cyborg existence is her absolutely off-the-charts processing speed. She can process sensory information at the same speed a super-computer could make calculations, availing her reflexes that by far exceed those of any organic being, simply because her decision making ability based off outside information, as well as the information processing itself take place at such a level of speed that to a human the reaction speed would appear simultaneous to the action, causing the reaction. In particular in conversation this can lead however to trouble as she would essentially answer questions before the actual partner in conversation would be really finished. In particular when questions contain several facets, MerC would answer the first part, as she’d respond long before the speaker could elaborate or specify his question.

Science: Capable of hacking almost everything, if she can plug herself into an interface. Naturally she’d need some sort of console or plug-in for it to function as she is only interlinked with her home world. Yet due to the issues that arose on her travels her connection suffered greatly, allowing her just enough energy to power all her physical functions.

Repair: The majority of her technology is based around conversion of inorganic matter and creation of tools, from said materials. It does however tend to require tremendous amounts of energy, not usually available on Earth. A nuclear power plant however could allow her to easily reproduce or generate objects and other tools of her own people’s making. Given the right parts she could of course repair any “mundane” tools on Earth’s current level with ease.

EQUIPMENT

Gravitational Sword This weapon is a piece of technology deriving from her own civilization. It is essentially a long pole-sword hybrid that allows it’s wielder to specify and mark a territory of influence, within a conic area before the weapon. The area of influence can vary between 2,5m and 2500km² however the force behind it would decrease the further it’d be spread. In essence the weapon isolates the area in question and starts raising the gravity within the area immensely. The overall force can be raised up to twenty megatons, essentially enabling it make an entire town flatten itself under its own weight. However a single use of this weaponry requires an energy output equal to that a nuclear reactor can generate within a full month. In that sense… it is currently nothing more than a fancy, nigh unbreakable steel-rod. It is heavy enough to be a decent blunt tool, but it’d be no different from getting punched by her.

Image A type of photograph, except “printed” onto a type of metallic surface. It depicts MerC when she still had an organic body and works as a reminder to what live was once like. It is very hard to break, as anything about her, but that’s about it.

APPLICATION

Appearance:

MerC is a giant of a woman, although for her own species she’s about average in size, as almost everyone since their conversion. She stands at 13’1’’ and thus greatly surpasses most humans in size, being about twice as tall as their taller specimen. In either case MerC does possess human semblances, such as the rough frame which is quite similar to that of a human female. The most significant differences however are the much longer limbs which appear to possess a larger number of joints as well, although some of these appear to be only secondary, only finding use for specific tasks instead of being active and bent constantly. MerC also possesses something akin to hair, although it is completely mobile and can be used in a way similar to her hands, capable of grabbing, or enveloping things. If one would take a closer look one could see that her hair possesses a similar composition to a snake’s skeleton and muscle-build allowing for this odd behavior, it’s material is of course metal, similar to the rest of the body. The tinge of these metallic parts is almost exclusively black, with the exception of the face.

The face itself is composed of a metal that is almost white, appearing similar to a mask. Altogether a peculiar trait about the metal her body is composed of is that it does not appear to have a fixed complexion. It can vary between being flexible or rigid, hard or soft. In this sense, MerC tends to adapt it to the purpose in mind, usually retaining a complexion similar to that of the human body for her limbs and face, as she commonly tries to imitate human mimicry. Her eyes in turn are yet again a different story. Being extremely indefinite in color, it possesses additional irises and pupils within the main iris, causing color changes depending on the angle at which the light shines into them. This can vary between tinges of blue and red, with the rainbow color essentially being the overall look. Her head’s protrusions in turn work as a form of antenna, so she can keep up the connection with the Home Structure.

Image:

Personality:

MerC comes off as almost entirely devoid of emotions. Being essentially just a warped version of her original self, an accumulation of back-up data her sense of identity is quite distorted after all, rendering her overall personality as one that leans towards something that feels in tune with all the aspects within her. In this sense she appears overly rational; as she is never quite sure when following a tendency is actually one of her own, or one she accumulated over the course of time. She does possess emotions, even though her way of showing them has been strictly limited by herself, as actually showing them is a luxury she did not possess during her lifetime among her own people. In essence however, MerC is a person filled with regret. She regrets almost every decision she made over the course of eons, regardless of the form or shape she might have had back then. She regrets that her species made it impossible for itself to survive on its own planet; she regrets that they willingly pushed their society into a stage where they were essentially extinguished alive, cut off from any kind of life-cycle or evolution.

But more than anything she regrets that they destroyed their own world, converting it into nothing but more material for the Home Structure, the gigantic sphere that replaced their planet. This action forced her to not only forget the soft touch of other people, but the very smell of grass, the sight of soil, sunsets… even the sky. Instead it all turned into a gigantic complex, a machine composed of machines, an organism that denied individuality and aggressively attacked and converted any semblance of life not in tune with its own doctrines. The epitome of rationality caused her species to become extinct in her own eyes, despite still being in existence. In that sense, MerC possesses a kind of fascination for the Earth, as to her it is the epitome of beauty.

Regardless of how desolate and dead it might seem, the very fact it has a sky and natural processes going on as they should, is something of unprecedented beauty to her. Any kind of planet which actually possesses life would however be incredibly “lively” to her. Needless to say even minor phenomenon would never cease to amaze her, if just for their seemingly pointless nature or peculiar “difference”. In regard to that her curiosity is almost boundless, as she’d constantly be trying to find and experience new things within a “living” world, as to regain memories of her true self and add new ones in a similar environment to them. Altogether MerC takes her mission incredibly seriously, as it took her and her compatriots immense amounts of effort to even gain access to the universe.

She is dead-set on reaching her goal and would push aside any obstruction without wasting a second thought on it. In this sense she is incredibly cold, as her sheer disassociation with the concepts of “Life” and “Death” makes her disregard possible casualties and other values almost constantly. She is completely used to living in a world where nothing ever ends, where the same patterns have been continuing for eons with almost no changes, except the ones done for practicality if a system failed, or another civilization was wiped out and converted into back-up data saved in vessels that already held similar data.

History:

MerC’s story started eons ago on a planet quite similar to earth. She lived within the capital of a country; the name of said city however has long been lost as it carried no real relevance anymore. Back then her race had already existed for more than forty thousand years and society had advanced to a level where human conversion into a machine was entirely possible. The ethical problems however were what still prevented society from completely accepting it and even had delayed its very development for an incredibly long time span. However the development of an artificial intelligence capable of ideally governing life was what introduced the downfall of the society she knew back then. It was essentially an artificial utopia, a vision given shape within the minds of humans to receive their very essence and contain it within an everlasting dream of utter content. However it still needed agents within what was left of their world, to actually perfect its procedure… uploading various human minds into single platforms supposed to enact its will.

MerC was one of these platforms, a so called Guardian supposed to govern what was still left of their planet. In the end this entailed uploading most other species into separate cores of the hive-mind before investing the majority of the accumulated intellect into creating an artificial star. In order to achieve this, the Home Structure, as this artificial intelligence was called, formed an alloy capable of isolating and withstanding the immense heat and power of a star. By converting dark matter into a material with properties adapted to its use, accumulating and converting their former planet into energy for this first conversion of dark matter, the Home Structure and its Guardians succeeded in creating a case for the star. It should be the very first layer of the Home Structure, its body so to speak. Afterwards the creation of the star rang in the true end of their society and culture as the now sheer limitless energy harnessed from this star, allowed them to perform myriads of more conversions of dark matter, causing the first layer of the Home Structure to expand continuously.

Through the courses of the millennia dozens of new layers of the structure that enveloped the star were formed, merely to add to the stability of the sphere. At this point the sheer size of the sphere was comparable to the entire solar system. It was actually a minor error, an unprecedented irregularity that should not have happened by the Home Structures calculations that in fact allowed MerC to be incarnated into a body once more. She had not however been the only one. Several other Guardians had suddenly awoken somewhere within the sphere, acting independently from it, without its knowledge. Some of these guardians, MerC included tried their hand at reintroducing organic life into the sphere, creating artificial atmospheres and gigantic rooms where they attempted the recreation of their home planet. While it did succeed, it triggered a reaction from the Home Structure, uploading a defense system tasked with the purpose of purging irregularities similar to an anti-virus program.

The destruction of the artificial planet thus led to a civil war. It was a war between containers of human back-up data contained by the Guardians and the Self-defense force of the Home Structure which was waged with weapons capable of destroying immense areas at a time, based off templates found within the files of the Home Structure serving the destruction of the artificial planet, when Guardians attempted hacks into it. Yet due to the Home Structure’s base functions being based around retrieving and preserving human minds as back-up data, the war never ended as human minds were simply reborn into a new vessel, whereas the Self-defense forces were as infinite in number as the sphere itself due to its constant growth. On an overall scale the war was barely even noticeable within the sphere, yet at a specific point in time it had three factions.

The Creators, who wanted to regain their own humanity by creating organic life, the Guardians who merely wanted to create a planet to live on, as well as a semblance of a life-cycle and the Self-defense force which was merely trying to uphold the rules of the Home Structure. MerC was part of the Guardians even then and it was their creation of a long-range teleportation device that allowed her to leave the sphere at all, as the layers of Star-containing material were impenetrable to them, essentially locking them within their own “planet”. However after using this teleporter, MerC was tasked to look for a planet ideal for being inhabited by them.

The plan was simply to leave the Home Structure and start anew on this planet. It just had to be far away from the Home Structure… far enough to matter at least. In the course of this search, MerC stranded on Earth however as the teleporter had a type of connection issue with her. Cut off from the majority of the power deriving from the Home Structure, MerC thus started looking around, trying to find a way of powering herself up enough to reboot the teleportation system… only to realize just how long it had been, since she had ever set foot onto something that was truly alive.

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