[b]Name:[/b] Quentin Knight
[b]Age:[/b] 29
[b]Occupation:[/b] Engineer | Adventurer | Physicist | Known Space Pirate [OOC: depending on which universe you hail from & what circumstance Q.Knight was in at the time]
[b]Equipment:[/b] InfiKnight Armor, Excaliber Energy Rifle, Shadowless RocketCycle, various others
[b]Theme Song:[/b]
[b]Known Enemies:[/b] None of this reality at present.
[size=13][b]Powers----------------------[/b][/size]
[font=Courier]None[/font], unless you consider being a polyglot a superpower.
[size=13][b]Abilities---------------------[/b][/size]
[b]Baseline human[/b] - Due to his adventures Q.Knight is in near peak human condition.
[b]Advanced Technical Engineering Skills[/b] - Quentin is an extremely intellectually gifted young man. having graduated early with two degrees from one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, the Air Force Institution of Technology.
[b]Ph.D. in Astrophysics[/b]
[b]Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering[/b]
[b]Masters in Electrical Engineering[/b]
[b]Intellect [/b]- Quentin has always had a magnificent mind- his true talent is learning. As such he is always hungry for more knowledge & he still regularly studies and trains in new academic pursuits.
[size=13][b]Equipment-----------------[/b][/size]
[b]InfiKnight Armor [/b]- A technologically advanced exoskeleton created with alien technology and human ingenuity- designed to enable one to operate in lethal environments. Because of the extreme tasks the cybernetic armor was designed for its feature set more closely resembles a spacecraft than a suit of armor.As such it comes in 2 parts. [url=http://ghosthuckebein.deviantart.com/art/Golem-Hardsuit-sketch-354344826][Example Image- ignore helmet][/url]
[b]Neural-Suit [/b]- enables a thought-controlled interface, retinal tracking & movement recognition.
[b]Exo-Musculature [/b]- Enabled enhanced strength and speed
[i]The InfiKnight armor is capable of bestowing its wearer with the following:[/i]
[font=Courier]Enhanced Durability[/font]
[font=Courier]Shield Generation[/font]
[font=Courier]Quantum Repository or Q-Cache[/font] - Holds a 'limited' amount of goods in sub-space 1 Planck length/time from the user but out of sync with localized time/space.
[font=Courier]20-fold increase of natural strength and stamina[/font]
[font=Courier]Electronic interaction [/font]-
[font=Courier]Limited Stealth [/font]- though due to being out of sync with this dimension it only works a few seconds at a time, and even then takes a tremendous amount of power.
[font=Courier]Rocket-assisted Flight [/font] via jet-pack which also serves as the docking station for his Support-Nodes
[font=Courier]Zero-Point Energy Collector [/font]- Collects energy even in the vacuum of space. The negative energy released by the Quantum Field itself fuels the power cells of the armor. Though the battery is near limitless the collector's ability to contain and distribute it is not.
[i]The Armor features:[/i]
[font=Courier]Full face-plate helmet with built in HUD [/font] [url=http://porxys.deviantart.com/art/ShockTroop2-361255325][Example Image][/url]- The main feature of the helmet is the advanced HUD. The system acquires data from several different sensors scattered across the armor - including infrared, light amplification, pressure gauge, chemical sensors etc. then the information is filtered by the on-board AI which sends relevant real-time intel back to the wearer and on-board memory.
[font=Courier]Voice Synthesizer [/font]- Enabling him to disguise his voice- speech can also be redirected through KRIS to translate before being projected outside the armor.
[font=Courier]Bulletproof/shock resistant armor[/font] (created with various Terrestrial and extraterrestrial alloys)
[font=Courier]An interior nano-composite skin[/font] - monitors vital signs and has medical repair capabilities. Also enhances durability by absorbing a limited amount of kinetic force allowing it to function as an armored g-suit.
[font=Courier]Palm-mounted Shield Generators[/font]
[font=Courier]Sensor Arrays [/font]- radar, sonar, X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capabilities. These sensors are enhanced with various extraterrestrial technology.
[font=Courier]Built in 'Sense Protection'[/font] - including sound bafflers and polarized lenses adapted for low and high-intensity lights & sounds.
[font=Courier]Life Support [/font]- equipped with chemical, biological and radiological filtration systems designed to withstand high-radiation environments for extended periods of time, as well as a nutrient/vitamin feed system, recycled oxygen supply, waste removal, and convert perspiration to potable water. Combined these systems allow between 1000 and 5000 hours of use depending on the expended battery power. Subsystems can induce a medical coma & internal micro-stasis field for long term space flight.
[b]Excalibur ZF-1 Directed Energy Rifle [/b] -[url=http://naughtyzoot.deviantart.com/art/Light-Rifle-5869-498082031]Example Image[/url] An advanced prototype weapon with an over-and-under configuration. This weapon has been specifically fitted with a small scale Zero-Point Energy Reactor to use as both power and ammunition. The electronics are hardened against EMP and radiation, and the weapon is perfectly usable in a vacuum (although it is not sufficiently stabilized or recoil dampened to use alone in free-fall combat operations.) Because of the nature of Quentin's technology these blasts are capable of filling various roles generally reserved for conventional weaponry by redirecting the energy through its top or bottom barrel.
[i]These capabilities include:[/i]
[font=courier]Armor piercing/Sniping:[/font] an advanced armor piercing blast which is be able to penetrate kevlar vests, energy dampening fields and other armor & can maintain standing-wave cohesion over long range. Needs to be charged or take reserve energy from the InfiKnight armor.
[font=courier]Non-lethal:[/font] a round designed to incapacitate a target rather than kill.
[font=courier]Tracking Rounds:[/font] The only round that fires a physical object- Shoots a phase-locked round that phases .1 mm into target and remains imbedded slightly deeper than human skin thickness. The rounds have a small GPS unit with a range of 2.5 miles and are tagged with a radioactive compound enabling long range tracking by tracking the radioactive signature. If shot into flesh it must be cut out.
[b]"Shadowless" Hovercycle[/b] - A highly modified Waverider mk 6 Hovercycle - Named for the ancient Chinese Emperor Cao Cao's famous warhorse.
[i]Modifications include:[/i]
[font=Courier]ZeroPoint Energy Collector[/font] - with Elemaki class capacitors for enhanced energy reserves
[font=Courier]FTL Warp Drive[/font] using negative energy waves to stretch space/time behind the rider and shrink space/time in front.
[font=Courier]various onboard sensors[/font]
[font=Courier]direct uplink to KRIS[/font]
[font=Courier]Larger Q-Cache repository[/font] (allowed by Elemaki class capacitors) with built in relay to Quentin's systems.
[b]K.R.I.S.[/b] [i](Kindred Root Integrated Sentience) [/i]- On-board AI with full discretionary access to on-board systems & functions as a battle computer to enhance reactions when in combat. KRIS also controls the 2 probes that separate from the InfiKnight jetpack.
[b]Support-Nodes [/b] - Highly advanced, multifunctional spheres that float around InfiKnight when deployed by KRIS. These are capable of:
[font=Courier]* holographic projection[/font]
[font=Courier]* live cameras[/font]
[font=Courier]* link with outside data networks[/font] and orbital satellites & relay to InfiKnight armor
[font=Courier]* unlock electronic locks[/font]
[font=Courier]* self-destruct[[/font]
[font=Courier]* Interfacing[/font] with other systems and can physically integrate mechanical constructs to repair and even upgrade itself such as fusing a communicator with itself.
[font=Courier]* Magnetic Nanite Beam -[/font] A low-intensity beam that fires streams of nanites along a magnetic line. This beam contains 2 types of nanites. Both types are incapable of self-replication & will expire and be absorbed by the host after their duties are complete. Though useful the repairs made by both types are very slow and would not stop oncoming damage. Because of this they are usually only used out of battle.
[font=Courier][b]*[/b]standard nanites -[/font] will attempt to repair damaged technological systems.
[font=Courier][b]*[/b]re-purposed 'biophage' nanocytes -[/font] these devilish devices were once used to wipe out entire planets of sentient life by a lost race of conqueror aliens. Quentin discovered these on a dig in Tau Ceti in dimension designation KZ-13. These have now been reprogrammed to heal biological life & then be harmlessly absorbed by the host.
[size=13][b]Personality----------------[/b][/size]
Quentin was once a calm military deciplined man. Sometimes that shows through- but since being lost in the multiverse he's become a bit hardened to solitary life. He's also a notorious nerd. These days he plays the role of interdimensional protector & space pirate when necessary.
[size=13][b]Registration & Identity-[/b]
After KRIS interfaced with known human resource systems Quentin found he had no double on this world. As such he is an open & 'unmasked' hero because no one is jeopardized by his actions.
[size=13][b]History----------------------[/b][/size]
Quentin was born to a single-mother, and raised in various Bronx projects throughout his childhood. Quentin seemed destined to live the life of a criminal- but a sharp mind & a timely placed mentor raised him above his common upbringing to be a Cosmic Protector.
Quentin Justice was always a bit of a 'lost soul.' He lived his life aimlessly- and throughout school his aloof attitude earned him low grades- but everyone saw the potential in him. Eventually the schools figured out that when Quentin got bored- he became disconnected from his studies. He'd retreat into a world all his own and daydream his school days away. After school was no different- he spent the majority of his free time in scrap yards and in his garage working on his 'inventions.'
A teacher found out about his extracurricular activities when his car died on the side of the road, and Quentin came speeding down the motorway on rocket powered skates. When the teacher asked him about it a light in Quentin lit up that most people didn't know about. Quentin talked his ear off for what seemed like hours. He went from the compression of gas for jet thrust, as well as the forces involved & how to increase the efficiency of current jets. Now few fourth-grade science teachers would have been able to keep up- but Mr. Johann was no ordinary teacher. Mr. Johann was a former weapons designer for DARPA. He retired when he decided that he could no longer support the current status quo in military politics. He became a teacher shortly thereafter hoping to redeem his weapons creations & alight knowledge and a love of learning in a new generation. Of course Quentin didn't know that- but in time Mr. Johann became Quentin's mentor.
Mr Johann made sure that Quentin placed applications into various grants, after-school science clubs and even a Junior Engineer's Guild. Under Mr. Johann's guidance Quentin grew into a strong young man and had graduated from rocket skates to designing jetpacks out of scrap. Elvin Johann made sure to guide Quentin so that he sought to use his skills and education for the betterment of mankind. Learning from Mr. Johann's example he decided he would enlist in the military for college, but then after serving his duty he would resign from the military and pursue his interests in the public domain.
Mr. Johann had become quite the father figure for Quentin- and payed for his first 2 years of college out of his own savings. Quentin made him proud by emerging top of his class. After receiving his first Bachelor's Degree- Quentin Knight enlisted in the Air Force. He applied for the Officer-In-Training program and out of 15000 applicants- he was 1 of 1500 chosen. He attended the AF Academy and began a strict regime of physical training and a thorough core curriculum of engineering, natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and humanities. After 4 years he graduated an Officer. He served his required 5 years while attending other college courses at the Air Force Institute of Technology to enhance his skills and knowledge. After conquering the academic world with 2 PhDs he entered the private sector to make a name for himself.
He began working with his mentor Elvin Johann and they went into business together under the name of a new R&D think tank- The Centurion Conclave. They began accepting contracts to produce various high-tech equipment for both military application and the private sector. They mostly focused on systems that could not be weaponized- and if they could be they did everything in their power to make weaponization as difficult as possible. Both men were cut of the same cloth, so neither believed weapons were the answer to anything.
They spent their profits & free time on other 'black' projects of their own. They created a range of undocumented meta-materials, a short-range teleporter, and even a device capable of storing the smallest of objects out of sync with localized space-time. All these projects were ahead of their time, but the sciences involved had only developed so far. So while pushing the boundaries of human science- they found they were still limited by it. Elvin and Quentin put some of these ideas on ice as they developed others- and as their roadblocks were removed they pushed the envelope ever forward.
Quentin's baby was his theorized "Quantum Cache." He theorized it was entirely possible to move matter into a magnetitically locked position out of sync with localized space/time while being stationary to the user. Your equipment would be stasis locked within the quantum foam between universes where the wave function of the multiverse selecting a path for the local universe meets the present. Literally a Planck-time away from the present & always a Planck-length from your hands. The user would be able to access the cache from localized space-time by remotely resyncing the matter with localized space time via a recall device built into a belt with a power supply. A special pair of gloves would designate the recall point of the matter allowing things to simply appear in the user's hands almost if by magic.
He'd successfully tested his device with both organic and inorganic matter. A mouse put in the cache always came out a mouse. But even stasis locked it needed protection from the energy on the other side, The mouse returned alive- albeit very momentarily. His testing found that the farther out of sync he sent something the less harmful the effects of being out of sync were. He started adjusting the amount of time the matter was out of sync by, and then the distance. In either case getting to the 'recommended safe levels' of exposure required more energy than he had at hand to power the device or the building. Maybe even the city for a week. To move the matter any more than a few millimeters or a full second away in hopes of eliminating the damage done to biological tissue was nearly impossible. The power costs were enormous. So he went back to the drawing board- and back to work on client's projects. He jokingly daydreamed that one of them would pay him to build some kind of unlimited energy machine. He laughed the thought away, saying 'Fat chance' aloud. "No money in giving energy away. "
Then one day while working with Elvin they had an epiphany. Creating a localized field of stabilized space/time and bringing it and all the matter in the field out of sync with the user- then bringing back the user without collapsing the field. They built a small cage with the field generator attached and put in their test subjects. Elvin put in another mouse, and Quentin put in the first plant he'd managed to keep alive since college. When they recalled the occupants they found their theory was sound. The field and cage remained behind while the mouse and the plant returned unaffected by their time out of sync with reality. If they did it right the whole process could happen in under a few a nano-seconds if the system was streamlined enough. It would do the job originally intended and then some.
Thrilled by their success Quentin poured a round of drinks for he and his mentor. Elvin talked about the amazing things that could be done with this technology- their favorite was the idea of full-proof crash avoidance systems for cars, planes, boats, even space ships. A crash detection system could open the field before an accident and bring the vehicle and its passengers out of sync with the world around them, and then bring them back after the calculated accident had passed. A universal ejection seat they called it. A few rounds later they had outlasted their brainstorming session, so they closed up shop and went home for the evening. Quentin pulled into his parking garage and sat with the keys in the ignition. He couldn't stop there- his curiosity would never let him sleep. He had to know more- he had to move to human trials. He put the car in reverse and headed back to his lab.
He worked all night long on redesigning the field generator for a human sized suit. He added a few safeguards- like an emergency reverse & a dedicated air supply. He set the reversal field to activate after 45 seconds normal time if he didn't do hit himself. He activated the field generator and everything went red. A bright and brilliant red like nothing he'd ever seen before. He was there for what seemed like hours, days, months... far longer than 45 seconds. He was there so long time had lost all meaning to him. Then a single pinpoint of light filled his entire field of vision and like that he was back in his lab. Surrounded by what seemed like students... screaming students and a very confused professor who looked just like him.
After the confusion cleared the 2 Quentin's figured out that somehow he'd crossed over into an alternate reality when he was brought back into sync with the "local" timestream. He just wound up in the wrong neighborhood. In this reality, Quentin was still a brilliant scientist- but his love was for teaching not for experimentation. So the Johann Knight Institute was born to help gifted minds like Quentin no matter their economic background. Together they adjusted the field generator and said their good-byes. Quentin activated the field and experienced the timelessness of the foam, and emerged in a dirt lot.
Quentin traveled this way for what to him literally seemed like eons. Along the way, he added more equipment to his field generator suit. As he traveled from dimension to dimension he picked up armaments to protect himself from the wild uncertainty of traveling from reality to reality. In an infinite span of possibilities- sometimes things get pretty grim. Eventually, he realized that his search for home may be a long one- a lonely one.
521 realities scoured and he hadn't found a reality that even reminded him of home. Everyone was a painfully obvious imperfect copy of where he was from. Though along the way he had many adventures. He didn't just always appear in a lab with the equipment needed to upgrade and refine his equipment. No in some realities he was forced to fight tyrants from other worlds who enslaved mankind, travel to other star systems to save himself from intergalactic bounty hunters, destroy asteroid mining rigs set to collide with the Earth, and those were just the good memories. It was a long and harrowing journey but in time he found a safe place in the multiverse to call his own.
It was a dimension he dubbed "Champions1 or CO1"- a soft spot in the multiverse. He could almost always recall to this universe of capes and heroes with little to no problem. Almost as if it existed in the center of all the multiverse- but he was no closer to finding his own home reality. He set a safety recall to recall to this dimension every 10 trips to make sure he didn't loose his "sweet spot." He adventured on from reality to reality collecting knowledge and equipment along the way.
Every 10 jumps he would return to this universe and rest, recuperate and reevaluate his efforts. Eventually, after returning from reality # 876 he started getting false positives on his suits activation systems- there was another Q-cache unit in this reality. He traced it around the world, but he was always just behind whoever was using his tech. Then he started seeing other events registering- quantum tectonic events the world over. The multiverse was becoming even more unstable at a quantum level- something or someone was spilling over into this reality and things were leaving here to go there. He had to know more- maybe he'd find the source of these quantum ripples and if he's lucky maybe he'll find a way home.
He chased that signal well past his "safe parameters" & lost his tether to CO1- but along the way found a new soft spot to land in. It seemed a very similar world to CO1- at least in the premise. More capes, magic and costumed vigilantes running amok- obviously 'looser' laws of physics allowing for some very strange phenomenons. This was a clue of some import- but what it meant still eluded Quentin.
He noticed that his new home was not just a world of heroes- not like CO1 where heroes were plenty, and villainy soft- no this was a world blighted by villainy. Deciding to play things a bit differently this time- Quentin would make a stand in this dimension- and help keep it safe. The chances of him ever finding his home dimension were so astronomically small that they might as well have been less than zero. He'd waste 30 lifetimes and still not make it close- or worse.
He flew up into the thermosphere and took watch of the world. His sensors and KRIS scanning every frequency, scanning energy sources on Earth, and for other things beyond the grasp of normal people. Eventually, Titan City rotated beneath him and he knew he found a place to set up shop. This city burned with turmoil- and yet still stood proud and powerful like a jewel in a crown. There was plenty of technology and advanced sciences in a place like that high in the towers above the ambivalence & violence. His sensors literally went off the charts as he scanned the city for energy signals.
He engaged his heat shields, disabled his thrusters and calculated a controlled decent above Titan City.
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