Birth Name: Cameron Kyle

Nova Name: Coppertop
Series:

Eruption: Stresses of marine training

Nature: Follower

Allegiance: US Military

Strength: 5, Brawl 2, Might 1

Dexterity: 3, Athletics 1, Drive 1, Firearms 3, Melee 2, Pilot 1, Stealth 1

Stamina: 5, Endurance 3, Resistance 3

Perception: 2, Awareness 1

Intelligence: 2, Bureaucracy 1, Computer 1, Engineering 1, Intrusion 1,

Medicine 1, Survival 2

Wits: 4

Appearance: 2, Intimidation 1

Manipulation: 2, Interrogation 1

Charisma: 2, Command 1

Backgrounds: Backing 3, Eufiber 3, Resources 2

Willpower: 8

Taint: 1

Aberrations: Coppery skin (Still primarily the color of his tanned skin,

just metallic), reddish metallic hair, steely blue-gray eyes

Quantum: 2 (1 Tainted Quantum)

Quantum Pool: 24

Mega-Attributes: Mega-Strength 1 (Crush), Mega-Stamina 1 (Adaptability,

Durability)

Quantum Powers: Armor 4, Density Increase 1 (variant, always the same 1

level of effect, no rolls necessary, always on –1 NP cost)

Cam was one of a million kids who don’t want to grow up in their hick backwater

slices of nowhere to sell cars at their dads lot to other redneck yokels. But his grades

weren’t outstanding and his football performance didn’t make the cut for recruiters

to come knocking down his door. He lasted a week at the car lot after graduating

high school before he drove the 45 miles to the nearest town with a recruitment

center and signed his life away, desperate to just get out of Nebraska.

At Ft Sill, he underwent the most grueling experiences he could imagine, making

him wish many times he could still be a car salesman, but he wasn’t going to go

home. Not ever. He would endure anything rather than go home and admit defeat.

So he stuck it out, and when he came down with a lung-rattling flu, he kept it to

himself and kept going, up at 0 dark hours to run wheezing for hours, his drill

sergeant not caring why he was lagging behind, just yelling at him to keep up.

When he dropped it hardly came as a surprise to some of his buds, who had been

trying to convince him to go to the infirmary. His heart stopped twice en route to

the base and once again in the infirmary itself, the first times it being his sergeant

who performed CPR until the medics arrived. Each time he came back, it got

harder, his skin seemed perpetually clammy and the medics didn’t initially notice

that it was getting almost slippery, assuming that it was the sweat… After they

used the defribillators on the third massive heart failure, the changes became

obvious though, as Cameron jerked awake with skin of glistening steel and nearly

killed the attending medic with a single hit

Fortunately for the rest of the medics present, his sergeant was still able to shout

him to order and he instinctively obeyed the screaming man. Everything got

complicated at that point. The Marine Corps refused to show him any special

treatment, but the basic training was kind of a joke with his enhanced Stamina,

since it was primarily based around pushing the grunts to exhaustion to break

and redefine their limits. He dedicated his new life to the Marine Corps and

got promotions at a regulation-defying rate, his ‘special’ status being a gift of

his new Nova abilities and his own dedication.

Sgt Cameron Kyle, now called ‘Coppertop’ for his coppery skin and metallic

reddish-brown hair (which now has the consistency of steel wool), is the now one

of the select men that the US Military calls on when it has Nova problems that

require Nova solutions, and he is able to handle normal missions like no other man!