Engineer

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Engineer

Portrayed by Naya Rivera
Statistics
Full Name	Angela Spica
Age	26
Height	5'-7"
Build	Slim
Eyes	Brown/Silver
Hair	Black/Silver
Factions	TBD
Occupation	Hacker
Alignment	Hero

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Claim to Fame

Child prodigy.

Reputation

In Academic circles, Anglea Spica is fairly widely known. A child prodigy she's got degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Biology. And those are just her Masters degrees. She is extensively published in journals that deal with the interface of man and machine but has oddly gone quiet in the last few years.

Hackers know her a Panopticon, a handle she picked as a child. Given that your Name is who you are in virtual circles, she's kept it. She's an 'ethical hacker', which means she's not responsible for any big viruses or breaking into government computers. Instead she's known for telling companies about vulnerabilities to their systems and helping to counter the spread of malicious code.

As a hero, Engineer is still mostly an unknown and involved in 'street level' crimes as she helps out those she runs across in need.

Biography

Angie's background is pure blue-collar. Her mom worked in a launderette and her dad drove a bus for the city. The youngest of seven kids living in Queens, money was always tight but happiness was never in short supply.

Some children are 'bright'. Angie was much more than that. At an age where most kids were still playing with dolls and trucks and other toys, Angie was building circuit boards and writing apps. With the help of a supportive family, her incredible intellect was able to be nurtured and she went to University on a full scholarship.

While there, she made friends with another equally bright student whose gift was in nanotechnology. When he was killed, he had a fail-safe in place that dumped all of his notes onto Angie's personal computer. Working from those notes and combining it with her own study of human-machine fusion, Angie was able to distill these intelligent devices into liquid machinery with which she replaced her blood.

Character Details

As a child, Angie was obsessed with superheroes. While other little girls wanted to be princesses, Angie wanted to be out there saving people. Because for her, that's what being a hero is about. The good you can do for others, not beating up the badguys. That's always at the forefront of her mind: How can her actions best help those that need it most.

Somehow Angie has escaped the jaded apathy that creeps over so many in today's world. She has a love of life that's infectious. She sees the good, and the beautiful in things. She loves and she trusts and she will gladly take others by the hand to help them remember how, even if she's been hurt herself.

Despite people being so important to her, Angie often has trouble relating to them. Part of it is that, well, she's a genius and intellectuals often have trouble connecting with people but especially with the introduction of the nanites to her system she relates so much more easily to machines. They don't get happy, they don't get sad, they just run programs.

Blood Nanites
Nine pints of metallic liquid full of nanobots comprises Engineer's blood. These microscopic machines are controlled by her will and give her a broad range of abilities as detailed below.
Nanite Fabrication
Using trace elements around her in the air and soil, Engineer's nanites can fabricate nearly anything that she can envision. While potentially her most powerful ability it involves her visualizing what she's building from essentially the atoms up and even with her intelligence and a supercomputer running through her blood, that's still a rather daunting thing to tackle. Except for what is listed, she cannot fabricate things on the fly.
Shape-Shifting & Adaptive Durability
Engineer can coat herself in liquid metal and then shape that metal around her as she wishes, growing extra appendages such as spikes or 'stretching' out an arm to reach something further away. By coating herself in liquid metal Engineer gains the ability to take blows from all but the strongest superhumans without damage as well as most types of explosions. She is also able to adapt her body to environmental extremes, such as the bottom of the ocean or the vacuum of space.
Radiotelepathy
By separating some of her nanites from her body, Engineer can embed them painlessly into someone's temple to give her a mechanical version of telepathy. This particular form is strictly limited to input/output, so while she could send them images or 'see' through their eyes, she wouldn't be able to go through their memories or control their bodies.
Nanite Knowledge
There aren't numbers big enough to say just how much data Engineer can store. Every book on earth could be stored in a single drop of her blood. This allows her perfect recall and combined with the internet can be a potent source of data.
Nanite Sensors
A cloud of atom-sized sensors surround Engineer at all times. They serve as a first line of defense, giving her the micro-seconds needed to react to a threat in addition to being extremely sensitive to environmental changes. This allows her to see things at a very minute scale as well as a much wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum such as infrared and ultraviolet, the cloud of nanites feeding her information that the naked eye couldn't see. She can also push her nanites the body of another to determine how they work physiologically.
Technopathy
Using her nanites to connect to machines, Engineer can interface directly with machines and computers. This means she doesn't need to use keyboards or control panels or any like that. Her Technopathy manifests in a specific form of Electrokinesis, shaping electrical fields to allow her to physically interact with machines and understand how they work as well as allowing Engineer to both offensive and defense electronic countermeasures (ECM).
Flight
Engineer is able to fly within Earth's atmosphere by creating rocket boots or jetpack-like propulsion systems with her shapeshifting. While she can hit the speed of sound she cannot achieve escape velocity.
Hacker
Computers have fascinated Angie from an early age. They've always been her preferred type of 'toy'. But not playing games on them like most kids. No, Angie liked to program games or build new computers. She's what's called an 'ethical hacker', meaning that she's not out there to destroy computers or steal information. She's out there to stop those guys or if she cracks someone's system, it's to tell them where they have a weakness so they can fix it. Angie is definitely in the top tier of the world's hacker elite.
Genius
While her passion is computers, Angie has an IQ that tests well into 'we can stop counting now'. She can intelligently converse about most things animal, vegetable or mineral at a graduate level of education, aided by the vast amount of data available stored in her nanites.
Machinist
There's something about The Machine. The things that man has invented that appeals to Angie. She loves to take them apart and learn how they work from older constructions, elegant in their simplicity to newer complex machines with thousands of parts all moving together towards a common purpose. She is incredibly adept at working with mechanical devices, from taking them apart to putting them back together and even improvising and improving upon them.