Solo

[TasK]

Solo

F) In40
A) Rm30
S) Gd10
E) Rm30
R) Ty6
I) Gd10
P) Gd10

Health: 110 Karma: 26
Resources: Gd Pop: 5

Known Powers:
Teleportation: Solo is able to teleport himself and his clothing and equipment to a maximum of CL3000 He can take along anything else he is touching with a total weight of no more than 400 pounds. Each time he teleports, Solo must succeed at a Green End. FEAT or be confused and unable to act on the following turn. Passengers must succeed at a Green End. FEAT or be disoriented for 1-10 turns.
It takes Solo’s metabolism time to realign after he teleports between locations. He must wait 1-10 turns to "recharge." In order to teleport before this time has elapsed, Solo must first succeed at a Red Power Rank FEAT. He can attempt this FEAT only once while recharging, and failure indicates that he must recharge for an additional 1-10 turns.
If Solo should accidentally rematerialize in a solid object, he must attempt a Power Rank FEAT. A Yellow result is required for success, meaning he instinctively teleports to another location and falls unconscious for 1-10 turns. Failure denotes that he suffers damage equal to twice the object’s Material Strength or actual Strength, if it is a living being. In the latter case, the creature takes an equivalent amount of damage.

Solo's teleportation accuracy is Class 3000, but his teleportation range is Excellent 25,000 miles

Equipment:
Body Armor: Gd protection vs. Physical, Pr protection vs. Energy
Automatic Rifle: Ex Shooting, 7 areas
Climbing Claws: Fe Wall-Crawling
Combat Knives: Gd Edge, thrown or melee
Grenades: Solo carries 2 of each of the following types of grenades strapped to a bandolier worn across his chest and back:
-Concussion: In Blunt damage to 1 area.
-Flash: Am intensity flash of light. Those facing the flash are blinded for 1-10 turns if they fail an Agility FEAT roll.
-Frag: Rm Edge to 1 area.
-Knock-Out: Ex intensity knockout gas. All in the same area who fail an End FEAT fall unconscious for 1-10 turns.
-Smoke: Ex intensity smoke fills 1 area. All FEATs within the area are at -2CS.
Machine Pistol: Ex Shooting, 6 areas
Sub-Machine Gun: Rm Shooting, 8 areas

Limitation:
Solo’s teleportation is preceded at his destination by flashing globules of plasma (the phase of matter comprised of energy), which sometimes alert observers to his impending arrival.

Talents: Military, Resist Domination, Thrown Weapons, Martial Arts B, C, E

Contacts: Silver Sable

BIO:
Solo (real name James Bourne) was once an American who denounced his citizenship to any country, Solo works as a counter-terrorism operative/Vigilante. He is known for his catchphrase, "While Solo lives, terror dies!"

After the betrayal of his Omega Strike counter-terrorist team, James Bourne (Solo) went underground, and has been underground since. Likely hitting al-Qaeda terrorists as a one-man war on terror.

James Bourne is currently wanted by several law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including SHIELD, because his name has not been cleared for the disaster of Omega Strike's first mission against terrorists that hijacked a plane in Italy in which all of Solo's team were killed by two other Omega Strike members, Emil Tessler and Gabriel Grant, who framed Bourne for the killing of the team as they themselves profited from bribes from the very terrorists they were sent to fight. Bourne escaped that betrayal with a gunshot wound to the stomach (now healed), and is (currently in this game campaign) in the earliest days of his new career as Solo.

Edit: changed Solo's 1991 stat list of Talents with info from his now revealed origin stories. James Bourne was an elite counter-terrorist operative in the US Army Special Forces BEFORE he was hand-picked to undergo the surgery to get teleportation surgery implanted in his head. Replaced Guns with Military talent (which includes guns of all types) and gave him Resist Domination talent to reflect his Special Forces SERE training.

[Dead Sidekick]

Please note changes made to character sheet for this "prequel" history version of Solo. He only has Silver Sable as a contact, and although his teleportation accuracy is Class 3000, his range is UPB column E range Excellent (25,000 miles).

Essentially, he can teleport to any coordinates on Earth he wants to go, with Class 3000 accuracy.

To teleport early during his "recharge" phase, he must succeed in a Red Excellent Teleportation FEAT.

[shockwave]

Just a note, 25,000 miles would hit anywhere on earth with no problem.

[Dead Sidekick]

Nov 24, 2009 22:39:11 GMT -5 shockwave said:

Just a note, 25,000 miles would hit anywhere on earth with no problem.

Yep!

There was some confusion in the text of how Solo's power description in official TSR write ups worked mechanically. Class 3000 teleportation range in the APB would give him global range, but under UPB ranges, Class 3000 range could put him anywhere in the galaxy... obviously silly.

To keep the mechanics intact, I've divided the power into two ranks. Its accuracy is Class 3000 (Solo could look at GPS coordinates on Earth and decide to be there and poof he's there.... but his range is Excellent by UPB standards (25,000 miles) which can put him anywhere on Earth or way the hell up in high orbit if he decided to experience deep space radiation, cold, and vaccuum death for himself.... LOL

Though I'm not sure of the specifics of Solo's teleportation circuitry hardwired into his brain, I'm sure it doesn't contain any mapping navigation software capability off of Earth should Solo ever find himself doing the space adventures thing. His teleportation might work differently or not at all off-planet.

Though I'm not planning to take the game off planet during the Gang Wars Trilogy, it's concievably possible (and this is naughty Judge talking) that Solo's teleportation has an external navigation network based on Earth GPS satellites and some nefarious no-good rotten bad guy could unlink him from the system so he doesn't teleport accurately any more... which leads to shadowy conspiracy stuff about who has control of Omega Strike's original teleportation tracking system....

(And then there's the fun that is Task's "Paladin Institute" for secret agent conspiracy stuff...)

[Dead Sidekick]

unarmed combat notes:

Martial Arts B + C + E
+1 to unarmed combat Initiative rolls
+1CS to unarmed Fighting Slugfest attack FEATs and multiple attack per round intensity Fighting FEAT checks
+1CS to unarmed Fighting Evasion FEATs
+1CS to Agility Dodging FEATs
+1CS to Strength Grappling FEATs
+1CS to Strength Grappling damage inflicted to opponent in a full hold
+1CS to Strength Escaping / Reversal FEATs