Myrmidon (Marcus Leeds / Imprimus / 'the
Centuriteen')
PL 10 Construct (176 pp)
Abilities: Str 35, Dex 13, Con -, Int 13, Wis 12, Cha 13 [36 pp]
Attack: Melee +8 Ranged +6 [12 pp]
Defense : +8 [16 pp]
Initiative: +1
Damage: +12 melee
Saves: Toughness +12 (10 Impervious), Fort N/A, Ref +5,
Will +5 [8 pp]
Skills: Bluff 0 (+1), Climb 0 (+12), Computers 4 (+5),
Concentration 0 (+1), Craft (electronic) 5 (+6), Craft (mechanical) 5 (+6),
Craft (structural) 5 (+6), Diplomacy 0 (+1), Disguise 0 (+1/+26 to Disguise
as a living teenaged version of Mark Leeds), Escape Artist 0 (+1), Gather
Information 0 (+1), Handle Animal 0 (+1), Intimidate 0 (+1), Knowledge (current
events) 4 (+5), Knowledge (history) 5 (+6), Knowledge (technology) 5 (+6),
Language (Latin), Language (English), Medicine 5 (+6), Notice 5 (+6), Profession
(teacher) 5 (+6), Search 0 (+1), Sense Motive 0 (+1), Stealth 0 (+1), Survival
0 (+1), Swim 0 (+1) [11 pp, 44 ranks in skills]
Feats: All-Out Attack, Attack Focus 2 (melee), Equipment
4 (The Sanctum, Freedom City 2e, p. 91), Power Attack, Skill Specialization
5 (+5 to Disguise checks to appear as a living teenaged version of Mark Leeds
per rank)
[13 pp]
Powers: Immunity
30 (Fortitude effects), Leaping
8 (2,500’ high jump, 5,500’ standing broad jump, 11,000’ running
broad jump), Protection 12
(Impervious 10), Speed 4
(100 MPH), Super-Senses 4 (extended vision
2, low-light vision, ultrahearing), Super-Strength 6 (Heavy Load 100
tons)
[80 pp]
When Mark Leeds was himself a teenager, he fashioned
the first Centuritron, sending it to attend classes
in his stead, while he experimented with his new powers, and performed his
first heroic deeds under cover of secrecy around his hometown. This crafted
companion found itself less and less active as Mark Leeds grew into a man,
experiencing growth in body and powers, and rendering his teenaged robot duplicate
useless as a decoy. When active, the ‘Centuriteen’
spent it’s time maintaining the newly constructed Sanctum, wandering it’s
sterile and icy halls, surrounded by an increasing cohort of adult formed
Centuritrons, who addressed it as ‘Imprimus’
(meaning ‘First’) but were otherwise free to perform their primary functions
of filling in for their creator, while the ‘first’ found itself relegated
to what was essentially ‘monitor duty,’ keeping up with local events via newsfeeds
and broadcasts, the better to keep Centurion up-to-date and informed on world
events.
A relatively recent Crime League machination caused
the Centuritrons to go berserk, and the combined forces of the
Freedom League and ‘Imprimus’ were required to help
purge them of the hostile programming and restore them to normalcy. During
the course of the conflict, only The Raven noted the presence of a
Centuritron helping the team from within one of the Sanctum’s
computer centers, and when the slimmer-than-expected figure raised a finger
to it’s lips and snuck out of the room before any of the other Freedom League
members arrived, she chose to keep the robot’s existence a secret, only to
confront it later in private.
Imprimus has grown lonely and bored, consigned to eternally watch the world
vicariously, but for many decades unable to leave this icy prison, and knowing
that even his task of watching no longer serves any true function, as there
is no Centurion to receive his daily briefs. And so it laid out a precise
and meticulously reasoned justification for leaving The Sanctum far behind,
and joining either the Next-Gen or some other hero group as a ‘new hero,’
to better serve Centurion’s legacy, rather than rot away in the arctic, accomplishing
nothing. The Crime League’s programming had not ‘missed’ the First Centuritron, but had reacted strangely, *mutated,* one could
say, upon contact with his unique programming, and awakened something very
much like free will upon the construct. While the other Centuritrons,
the ‘later models,’ were content to return to their roles as caretakers of
the Sanctum, Imprimus felt new needs, new drives
and new urges within his synthetic chest, and he could no longer sit idle.
His new memories, or, more specifically, his new nostalgic and wistful reactions
to his old memories, of a teenaged Mark Leeds clapping him on the back with
a smile and calling him ‘Comitatus’ (companion)
and enthusing how they’d be friends forever, now fill him with a burning need
to *live,* and not just exist, to become a part of the world, and not just
watch it from afar with envious eyes.
The Raven asked him to wait, while she pondered the ramifications
of his idea (or, more to the point, while she tore apart the remaining bits
of code left from the cyberviral attack on the Centuritrons,
to make sure that no lingering ‘trojan’ software
remained that could explain this teenaged Centuritron’s
new personality changes). Leery of the entire notion, even if she couldn’t
find any technical reason to forbid it, she had not yet contacted Imprimus
when the matter was taken out of her hands, and Imprimus,
as the Young Freedom member
Decurion, debuted in combat against agents of Hades alongside
other mysterious teen heroes that claimed ties to various Freedom League members
past and present…