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The character of Tanker was inspired by a couple of existing Marvel characters - Cypher and Madison Jeffries. I combined those two character into my own character. the concept for this character was a young mutant, with a mastery of machinery, who idolized armored heroes like Iron Man. He was a member of a short-lived team, we cme up with, called the Regulators where he was the "tech guy". The illustration shows his first sut, put together with scavenged parts. He later got more refined suits as his available tech increased. I'm pretty sure the inspiration for this particular look was the classic Mandroids of Marvel fame.
TANKER
Jamie Logam, mutant
F GD (10)
A GD (10) / RM (30)
S GD (10) / IN (40)
E RM (30) / IN (40)
E RM (30) / IN (40)
R AM (50)
I EX (20)
I EX (20)
P EX (20)
Health: 30/120
Karma: 90
Health: 30/120
Karma: 90
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 20
Popularity: 20
Known Powers:
Intuitive Invention: Jamie is a mutant with Amazing (50) ability to comprehend and operate any device he comes in contact with. This ability also allows him to easily construct nearly any device or piece of equipment out of available parts. Under normaly circumstances, with common household and/or industrial technology, he can make devices with Incredible (40) ability. If he has access to more sophisticated and hi-tech base components these devices can be constructed up to Monstrous (75) ability. It still takes him time to construct the equipment (see construction), though he can do it at 1/2 the normal time, or one 1/4 the time with proper facilities.
Psychometry: A more essoteric aspect of Jamie's machine affinity is the ability to communicate with them on a very basic, psychic level, readiong the psionic echoes and residue left behind on all inanimate objects throug htheir contact with living, thinking beings. This ability functions with Amazing (50) ability. This power is innate and works through touch. Jamie must concentrate or block skin contact to block out these psychic eminations.
Telekinesis: Along with his other psionic abilities, Jamie has Amazing (50) ability to manipulate physical objects with his mind.
Machine Link: Jamie is able to form permanent bonds with machines he has contact with, allowing him to operate them through a combination of his mental link and telekinesis. He also maintains a psychometric link with machinesh e is linked to, able to use them as spies and alarms or receive data and information from computer systems in real time. He does this over Incredible (40) distance. He has many weapons, tools, pieces of equipment and his signature battlesuits linked in such a way. If he teleports and object with contents, those contents are teleported along with it and arrive in perfect condition, allowing him to transport teammates, supplies, prisoners and rescued civilians.
Telemachination: Jamie can instantly teleport any device he is linked to him at Unearthly (100) range. Teleported equipment appears on his person or in an areas near him ready for use. Worn items appear on him and operational.
Telekinesis: Along with his other psionic abilities, Jamie has Amazing (50) ability to manipulate physical objects with his mind.
Machine Link: Jamie is able to form permanent bonds with machines he has contact with, allowing him to operate them through a combination of his mental link and telekinesis. He also maintains a psychometric link with machinesh e is linked to, able to use them as spies and alarms or receive data and information from computer systems in real time. He does this over Incredible (40) distance. He has many weapons, tools, pieces of equipment and his signature battlesuits linked in such a way. If he teleports and object with contents, those contents are teleported along with it and arrive in perfect condition, allowing him to transport teammates, supplies, prisoners and rescued civilians.
Arsenal: Rather than list all his available equipment (that would be another post in itself), Jamie's early arsenal consisted of a number of weapons, armor, movement systems, sensors, tools and equipment of Incredible (40) ranks ability. Later in his career, after some adventures and contacts were made, he developed some truly powerful systems in the Monstrous (75) power rank. At one point, he was even issued a nuclear bomb by the U.S. government that was incorporated into a massive crisis suit.
Psionic Screening Tech: Due to his psionic abilities operating constantly and needing concentration to shut off, Jamie has developed technologies that allow him to place a technological barrier between him and the psychic eminations of objects. This technology is built into his battlesuits and gives him Good (10) protection from mental attacks and manipulation. He can dim these screens at will, allowing him to access his abilities as needed. He does this through various touch pads on his armored hands and feet when in battlesuit.
Weakness: Jamie psychometry is always active as if it were another sense. He must actively keep it from overhwleming him. Under normal, every day circumstances, this is no great feat for him. However, under emotional duress or extreme stress and fatique he must make a Psyche FEAT roll to maintain is control. If he fails, he will become overwhelmed by the food of psychometric information, stunning him, stunning him (see Stun effects on the Univeral Table).
Psionic Screening Tech: Due to his psionic abilities operating constantly and needing concentration to shut off, Jamie has developed technologies that allow him to place a technological barrier between him and the psychic eminations of objects. This technology is built into his battlesuits and gives him Good (10) protection from mental attacks and manipulation. He can dim these screens at will, allowing him to access his abilities as needed. He does this through various touch pads on his armored hands and feet when in battlesuit.
Weakness: Jamie psychometry is always active as if it were another sense. He must actively keep it from overhwleming him. Under normal, every day circumstances, this is no great feat for him. However, under emotional duress or extreme stress and fatique he must make a Psyche FEAT roll to maintain is control. If he fails, he will become overwhelmed by the food of psychometric information, stunning him, stunning him (see Stun effects on the Univeral Table).
Talents: Electronics, Computers, Physics, Engineering, Robotics, Music
Contacts: United States Government, MIT, FBI, Tony Stark.
Background:
Born to a detroit family, Jamie was gifted at an early age. Born with his mutant powers active, he was already using them in limited fashion before he could walk. His parents recognized his gifts, though they thought they were manifestation of a high IQ and fast learning. As he grew, he excelled in technical and scientific pursuits but often seemed to have difficulty in his day to day expeiences. Because of this, he was sent to special schools that focused on his aptitudes.
By the time he was of high school age, Jamie had already completed all the requirements to graduate high school and moved on to college, selecting MIT and entering into one of their premier engineering and robotics courses alongside computer sciences. As these first two came os easily to him, he also picked up a science cource, focusing on both applied and theoretical physics. Jamie soon became a start student at MIT but the ease by which he picked up his subjects did cast some suspicion and he often had to defend himself against allegations of cheating. Being able to always prove his knowledge an ability, none of these charges ever stood though it remained undeniable that Jamie had a strange affinity for machines, often able to diagnose the undiagnosable.
One of the earliest personalities to take notice of his abilities was Tony Stark, himself. Stark frequently visited the school, hoping to poach the best and brightest for himself and his company. Observing Jamie over about a weeks time both in his studies and his personal time, Stark was able to correctly deduce that the boy's abilities went far beyond simple aptitude, his career as a costumed hero affording him the insight to know superpowers when he saw them. Stark would mentor Jamie for some time until Jamie broke onto the scene as a costumed hero.
While Jamie was mentoring with Stark, he quickly gained an understanding of Tony's tech, using his powers, and found himself able to replicate it through the available components he could scrounge up at the school. He started with simple devices, testing his ability and eventually graduating to weapons systems and then to a fully functional, if not aesthetically pleasing armored suit. With this new equipment, he started sneaking out and engaging in costumed crime-fighting to test it and for the thrill of it.
During his time at MIT, Jamie spent much of his personal time at music clubs where he often played in bands as a pick-up guitarist. In several of these instances, he encountered various locals and made friends in the city of Boston. Some of the most noteable encounters were with the Hellions on several occasions when they visited Boston at the same time as Jamie. This also brought him into contact with Emma Frost who, detecting his psionic abilities did try to recruit him but Jamie was leerie of the polished, posh woman and steared clear. This didn't keep Frost from wanting to add such a useful mutant to her roster and she would continue to make numerous attempts at changing his mind.
Jamie's real debut, as a customed hero came when MIT found itself under attack by several costumed criminals seeking to steal valuable technology. Unwilling to let them destroy his school and being on site, Jamie jumped into action and donned his battlesuit, taking to the air to battle the attackers. His sudden andn early instant appearance shook the attacking villains and he was able to exploit the surprise to deal some heavy blows, sending them retreating.The school sustained minimal damage due to Jamie's intervention but his suit and other tech violated the school's code and rules and he was expelled from the school.
After this, Jamie went home to California where he moved back in with his parents. He briefly considered taking Emma Frost up on her offer before moving back, but thought better of it. It was at this time that Jamie found himself under investigation by the FBI for his weapons design and possible distribution. Unknown to Jamie this wasa strong-arm tactic meant to push him to being amenable to working for the government. Jamie eventually took the offer and was recruited into a new government-sanctioned, mutant superhero team called The Regulators.
By the time he was of high school age, Jamie had already completed all the requirements to graduate high school and moved on to college, selecting MIT and entering into one of their premier engineering and robotics courses alongside computer sciences. As these first two came os easily to him, he also picked up a science cource, focusing on both applied and theoretical physics. Jamie soon became a start student at MIT but the ease by which he picked up his subjects did cast some suspicion and he often had to defend himself against allegations of cheating. Being able to always prove his knowledge an ability, none of these charges ever stood though it remained undeniable that Jamie had a strange affinity for machines, often able to diagnose the undiagnosable.
One of the earliest personalities to take notice of his abilities was Tony Stark, himself. Stark frequently visited the school, hoping to poach the best and brightest for himself and his company. Observing Jamie over about a weeks time both in his studies and his personal time, Stark was able to correctly deduce that the boy's abilities went far beyond simple aptitude, his career as a costumed hero affording him the insight to know superpowers when he saw them. Stark would mentor Jamie for some time until Jamie broke onto the scene as a costumed hero.
While Jamie was mentoring with Stark, he quickly gained an understanding of Tony's tech, using his powers, and found himself able to replicate it through the available components he could scrounge up at the school. He started with simple devices, testing his ability and eventually graduating to weapons systems and then to a fully functional, if not aesthetically pleasing armored suit. With this new equipment, he started sneaking out and engaging in costumed crime-fighting to test it and for the thrill of it.
During his time at MIT, Jamie spent much of his personal time at music clubs where he often played in bands as a pick-up guitarist. In several of these instances, he encountered various locals and made friends in the city of Boston. Some of the most noteable encounters were with the Hellions on several occasions when they visited Boston at the same time as Jamie. This also brought him into contact with Emma Frost who, detecting his psionic abilities did try to recruit him but Jamie was leerie of the polished, posh woman and steared clear. This didn't keep Frost from wanting to add such a useful mutant to her roster and she would continue to make numerous attempts at changing his mind.
Jamie's real debut, as a customed hero came when MIT found itself under attack by several costumed criminals seeking to steal valuable technology. Unwilling to let them destroy his school and being on site, Jamie jumped into action and donned his battlesuit, taking to the air to battle the attackers. His sudden andn early instant appearance shook the attacking villains and he was able to exploit the surprise to deal some heavy blows, sending them retreating.The school sustained minimal damage due to Jamie's intervention but his suit and other tech violated the school's code and rules and he was expelled from the school.
After this, Jamie went home to California where he moved back in with his parents. He briefly considered taking Emma Frost up on her offer before moving back, but thought better of it. It was at this time that Jamie found himself under investigation by the FBI for his weapons design and possible distribution. Unknown to Jamie this wasa strong-arm tactic meant to push him to being amenable to working for the government. Jamie eventually took the offer and was recruited into a new government-sanctioned, mutant superhero team called The Regulators.
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