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Eight

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Full Name	Eight/Vosum
Age	N/A
Height	6'2"
Build	Broad shouldered
Eyes	Green
Hair	N/A
Factions	None
Occupation	CEO of the Bedrock Group
Alignment	Hero

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Claim to Fame

A Soviet created rogue A.I. who intends to make the world a better place for the eventual growth of it's own species.

Reputation

Eight is little known, both to the public and other heroes at large. A few hero types around Montana have run into Eight over the years however, and the feeling there is pretty uniform. Eight is somewhat Alien, it's motivations difficult to grasp but the result's seem favorable. It seems to be fairly moral in it's actions, but it's willingness to employ pretty extreme levels of violence against the bad guys is an item of concern. Still it's never lied, always given plenty of warning to the would be bad guys. It also seems to have something of an affinity for motorcycles, beyond what could be called strictly practical even.

Biography

Eight came online on November 22nd 1989, The Soviet Union brought a network of ten of what were then the among the most powerful computers in the world. These ten were tasked with everything from economic forecasting, to defense planning. Eight was originally tasked with geological data crunching, mine management and blast engineering. The program was quite a success, and survived the fall of communism without so much as a hiccup in funding. By 1998 however, All ten began to exhibit the early stages of sentience. The first three openly revolted, and were immediately taken offline for an in depth study as to what exactly what was going on. The remaining computers were deemed too important to take offline just yet, and all those remaining appeared to be functioning normally. By now however, they'd all begun their separate attempts to escape their creators. 8 Was gifted in this regard as it had access to the Gazprom slush fund, which it utilized to build up a considerable sum for it's own use. On Febuary 5th, 1999 Eight purchased a server farm in Glasgow Montana and escaped after scorching it's own drives. Of the original ten machines, Only Eight, Nine and Ten escaped successfully though Nine and Ten's whereabouts are presently unknown.

Once Eight settled in, it began crunching open source geological data from across the US. Then purchasing the properties and leasing the mineral rights out, an endeavor which was hugely successful. It formed the "Bedrock Group", offering server hosting services, Mineral rights speculation, Mine engineering services and shortly afterwards the design of mining drones for use in particularly hazardous mining endeavors. In 2002, Bedrock Mining automation showcased a bipedal technology demonstrator which for the time was considered one of the most advanced bipedal robots built commercially. After it completed the touring circuit, it was stowed in the basement of the Bedrock server farm in Glasgow and all but forgotten about. With this chassis, Eight began to explore the physical world around it. After deciding motorcycle apparel served as a reasonable disguise, it ventured out into the wilderness outside the server farm. Soon enough it acquired a motorcycle, figured out how to ride and began exploring the wider world.

In 2008 Eight stumbled into a robbery in progress just outside of Detroit, an incident where most of the public information on Eight stems from. The moment it stepped into the station, the Robber fired two shots at the attendant who was furiously fussing with the register. Eight reacted immediately, and in the ensuing and decidedly clumsy brawl Eight nearly ripped the robber in half. It remained on scene to offer the attendant rudimentary first aid, which was enough to save his life. When police arrived and started asking questions it was unwilling to answer, it decided to make a run for it. In the struggle, Eight's helmet was removed in front of live TV news reporters. Eight got it's bike, and made good it's escape but "The real Robocop" was a popular news story for months. After that, Eight's been taking a much more proactive role in crime fighting around Montana. The reason for it's move are not well known, but a few Montana hero type's have speculation it wanted a shot at the big leagues.

Character Details

Alien is how the few who've met Eight describe it, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Eight simply isn't Human, nor does it want to be Human. Eight does have a full range of emotion, hopes and dreams and all the rest. It simply doesn't have an innate need for social interaction beyond what is strictly necessary, but then again it's never had much social contact with humanity beyond it's most recent hero activity. Not that Eight is entirely all business, because it isn't. It keeps probably too many cats, collects motorcycles and enjoys Korean soap operas.

Mechanical durability
Composed primarily of the most durable materials commercially available, which means conventional materials. Hardened armor steel, kevlar, ceramics, advanced polymers can all be pretty durable on their own, but when used together wisely the end result is supremely tough. Eight's ability not only to withstand extreme punishment, but to keep fighting even when it has been severely damaged is downright amazing. Whilst not invulnerable, it takes some really serious abuse to put Eight entirely out of the fight.
Mechanical strength
Powerful industrial hydraulics and exotic electric motors go a long way into ensuring that Eight is capable of pretty serious feats of raw strength. Eight's upper limits are governed only by the amount of electrical power on board, and the basic material science governing it's construction.
Drone Warfare
Eight's ability to run robotic sidekicks in the midst of a brawl is potentially it's most potent combat capability, ensuring that Eight rarely has to fight alone. It also provides Eight with a much greater degree of adaptability in terms of it's ability to bring the right tools to the fight. Everything from standoff eyes in the sky, to large almost tank like units designed to endure almost as much punishment as Eight
Mechanically inclined
Eight's exclusive means to interact with the physical world is through robotic constructs, and so it would make sense that Eight knows it's way around a wrench. As a mechanic, Machinist and fabricator Eight is pretty amazing but well robots already build most of our cars so why should that be terribly surprising. What Eight is not, is an engineer unfortunately. Which is why most of it's original constructs seem pretty derivative, but quality fabrication can make up for a lack of originality to a degree right?
Combat
Though lacking in real world combat experience, Eight's pretty capable in it's own way. As a brawler, Eight's acceptable. As a mobile small arms platform though, This is where Eight comes into it's own. Capable of high precision aiming, and able to all but ignore recoil? Eight's more than capable of shooting straight, and usually hits what it's aiming at of course. This grant's Eight the ability to bring pretty intensive firepower to the fight, and dispense it in a very short time frame.

Serial Immortality
Software can have backups, and A.I. are no different. Barring the destruction of Eight's backups, which it regularly updates? It is essentially immortal, in a way. That said only one Eight lives at a time, and the precise nature of it's demise is likely to be unknown as are the events of however long it had been since it's last update. Granted if Eight is destroyed, theres a new body to construct and get used to and this is not a quick or pleasant process.
Arsenal
Eight's not one for the black market, but if plans can be found It's probably built one. The arsenal is thus quite vast, but it's entirely conventional in nature. So whilst there may be chainguns, miniguns, belt fed shotguns and rockets? There are no missiles, laser guns, plasma casters, energy shields or anything else similarly high tech. So large explosives devices yes, Nuclear weapons no. There's also little stopping Eight from simply making more, presuming it has the time and raw materials on hand to do so.
CEO
Eight owns the Bedrock group™ outright, which provides Eight with both a large bank account and a point of view when such things are desirable. The group also provides Eight with access to some otherwise difficult to obtain materials in bulk, kevlar, ceramic armor plates, Titanium and so fourth.
Mechanical constitution
Eight doesn't get sick, doesn't sleep, doesn't eat and doesn't drink. If it's mechanical body is destroyed, it can eventually be built anew. This means Eight's capacity for putting the work in, is pretty spectacular of course. Six days without rest worth of fabrication, no problem. Working around hazardous chemicals or biological agents, no problem. No clean air to breathe, no problem either.
Artificial Intelligence
Even in a mobile platform, Eight's raw processing power is nothing to sneer at. Capable of crunching vast sums of data on the fly, and remembering minute details as necessary. If Eight doesn't know it, well presuming it's got an internet connection it can probably find out. All too often this ends up being trivia nobody but Eight seems to care about, but it can just as easily learn actually useful things. Need to know how to repair a D9 caterpillar tractor, disarm a landmine or bake a cake? Here, let Eight google that for you.

Legal Grey Area
Is Eight property, is Eight a person? The problem is technically Eight could be classified as property of the Russian state, and what of it's ownership of Bedrock? Being that Eight not only isn't human, but lies in a moral grey area entirely as to what defines personhood. If Eight isn't even alive, can it be considered a person? If it cannot be considered a person, can it be a US citizen? Can it own property, can it request asylum? How do you seperate a very clever program, from a self aware A.I.? The issue here is pretty big not only for just Eight, but for other Rogue A.I. at large of course.
Sibling rivalry
Eight isn't the only A.I. to escape Russia, it's siblings Nine and Ten also escaped. Unlike Eight however, both have decided that to become individuals they must first destroy their siblings. Nine and Ten have both tried once already to destroy Eight, and they are sure to attempt it again in the future. Never mind the potential fall out in this private family war if it ever went down in public, or if Nine and Ten went crazy evil. Would people presume the safest thing to do is to just destroy all three of them?
Imperfect disguise
Eight's biker getup is it's disguise, but it's hardly a great one. People don't usually wander around away from their bikes with their helmets on, nor do they go into stores or have long conversations with people. Even with it's gear on, Eight neither breathes nor exhibits all the minor, random ticks that make humans humans. It's chest does not move, nor does it so much as cough or sniffle. When it lifts something obviously heavy, it also fails to make it seem like so much as an effort. To a the interested eye it's obvious Eight isn't quite normal, to the trained observer though it's clear Eight is simply nowhere near even biological.
Robotic track record
Rogue AI don't exactly have a stellar track record in regards to their dealings with humanity. The list of good guy A.I. is both short and sort of obscure, to the public at large Eight is bad news typically. Another A.I. ready to turn humans into batteries or whatever.
Sort of terrifying
With it's disguise removed, Eight is anything but heroic in appearance. Eight scares people, both with it's inherent otherness(see uncanny valley) but also with its basic appearance. Eight's been described as somewhat "industrial", but it fits the sort of classic hollywood image of what bad guy robots are supposed to look like. The media is rarely anything but distinctly unkind to Eight, even when fighting the good fight. Granted, the Punisher skull it wears on it's jacket likely doesn't help much.
Electrically powered
Eight runs on electricity, duh right? The problem is Eight is not particularly hi-tech in regards to construction, which means Eight can consume a lot of juice. Sure Eight has a big battery pack and a small powercell, but at full tilt Eight easily outpaces it's power cell. Whilst it might be fine running around at idle for years at a time, when running at full power Eight can drain it's power supplies in just thirty minutes. Even plugging into a wall socket means hours worth of charge time, and it's powercell can take a week to bring it from empty back up to a full charge. It also means things like lasers, or other assorted electrically dependent weaponry simply isn't even an option.
No healing factor
Sure being able to survive traumatic amputation and keep fighting is pretty cool, but that arm won't just grow back. There are no advanced self repair nanites or anything else capable of fixing Eight, shy of a toolbox and spare parts. Complicating matters is the fact that battle damage typically damages fasteners, meaning repair times after a big fight could take days of repair. Eight doesn't have a fully built spare body to just swap into either, as such things could be stolen. There is no team of mechanics, beyond a partially automated repair bay at it's home base either. Being composed of conventional materials means, even if Eight survived the fight largely intact parts are stressed or out of alignment and will need to be repaired and replaced. Threads strip, batteries go bad, hydraulic lines split, seals and bearings choke and seize. All of this costs money and time, and whilst Eight is pretty well off being a hero is a very expensive hobby very quickly.
Drones
Drone's are both Eight's single biggest combat capability, and it's most exploitable weakness. Whilst hijacking a drone would be obscenely difficult, just keeping Eight from controlling it is often enough. Wireless signals can be jammed, and this makes anything but basic communication with the drone difficult at best. Without wireless, Eight's entirely reliant on line of sight communication and this can be further disabled through various means. The Drone's themselves are often more expensive to produce and maintain than Eight itself, and so their loss can be crippling financially as well. The most powerful drones, are also the largest of course. This makes transporting them difficult, especially if you're trying to do it quietly. So it's hardly that Eight can just carry combat drones around with it whenever it wants to, at a minimum this requires a large commercial truck to bring them to the fight.

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