Prometheus by Sir Christopher

TEAM: Solo Hero

SECTOR: Uptown

KIT CLASS: Empathy

2017. Ten years after the Anti-Conspiracy. The Age of Revelation. After sixty years of continued international conspiracy to hold back mankind's true potential, the doors were blown wide open by a secret group. A conspiracy against a conspiracy, determined to make the geniune truth known to the masses. And so it happened: after nearly fifteen years of plotting against the plots, hiding against the hidden, they finally had all the pieces on their side of the board. Within one week, worldwide media had genuine proof, proof of... everything. Genetic manipulation, alien visitation, quantum computing, supernatural phenonema. Once the fodder of so many prime time 'exposes' and tabloid ridicule, now as factual as the spherical nature of the Earth. However, not all went as planned. Some of it went as planned -- gigahertz-speed silicon computing became obsolete overnight in lieu of petahertz-class quantum processing, artificial retroviruses and gengineering made ebola, cancer, and death of natural causes before age 100 practically non-existant; cold fusion effectively ended the impending worldwide energy crisis before it began. However, the sudden explosion of psionic abilities and alien spacecraft technology led to a new Cold War, between the United States and the Republic of China. The Space Race of the 21st Century was to duplicate and produce the few intact examples of alien technology, to master the powers of the mind. Even in this age of ultra-tight security and extreme paranoia to protect the few remaining secrets, some of the original Anti-Conspiracy survived. Some of them were in the right place then, to keep a low profile and ride out the quiet yet brutal intergovernmental purges. And one of them has seen firsthand the perversion that followed the revelation, the terrors committed behind closed doors in the name of national security. That one feels that he must act now, before the old ways gain enough power and momentum to begin the cycle of shadows again. Dr. Julius Walters does not realize what the price will be for his final act of liberation.After being discovered trying to pass his psi-defense technology plans to the Chinese, Dr. Walters was detained without trial while the conspirators determined his fate. In a cruel twist of chance, his psi-defense plans were just what the black ops agency was looking for; combined with recent work into technologically manipulating the astral plane, they could reverse-engineer the plans into the missing element of the spirit bomb -- a device capable of channeling artificial psionic through a human core into an explosive wave on the astral plane, destroying a person's soul or life-essence while leaving all physical structures intact, effectively leaving them brain-dead. The ultimate strategic anti-personnel weapon, the spirit bomb would be capable of annihilating anyone within a ten-mile radius, regardless of physical location or non-psi defenses, and would leave no trace in the physical world (feedback from the blast would overload and destroy the physical components through the core entity). Eliminating two problems at once, the secret group decided to test this device in a live trial, and by using Dr. Walters as the core he would presumably be killed. The target was set: a semi-rural area of mid-southern China, with about 10,000 people within the blast zone. A top-clearance team was given a functional extraterrestrial spacecraft, assembly instructions, disassembled components for the spirit bomb and a drugged and bound Dr. Walters to the selected ground-zero. After a secured site, assembly, and detonation time were successfully set, the team pulled out. 5 minutes later, 10,000 farmers and simple merchants all went brain-dead. However, Dr. Walters himself was not killed, though nearly so. The astral feedback did not feed through him and destroy him and the machine; the opposite had occured -- the pure essence or psi-force of 10,000 people collapsed back through the bomb and was infused into Walters himself, with only a very small amount of the force doing as predicted, severely weakening his physical self as it greatly empowered his mental presence. Meanwhile, the team was instructed to return to ground-zero if anything went wrong, and after the destruction of the bomb equipment was not observed, they did so. Dr. Walters, not infused with nearly unimaginable mental power, simply glanced up at the team as they approached and they all fell dead. He then easily commandeered the spacecraft, which was commanded through mental impulses, and used its biotechnology to keep himself alive as he set off to finish what the anti-conspiracy had started. Over the next few days, a now commonly-identified flying object was seen over several otherwise barren rural areas in the United States and China, and once each over the respective capitals; people assumed it was just more trials of the recovered alien flight technology. Ironically, after the massive publicity of the anti-conspiracy ten years ago, the final death blow to the last of the world's dark secret organizations came very quietly. Dr. Walters now had nothing else to do with his government, his nation or anything else on the planet -- his physical self could not leave the alien spaceship, and he feared that with a careless thought or a moment's weakened guard he could kill anyone else as easily as he had previously vanquished the darkness. Julius then set off for the stars, activating the ship's transquantum slipdrive, not knowing where he was headed but hoping he could find a purpose there. Without a course, the drive defaulted to the focal point in transquantum space, the locus through which all planes of existance are connected. Julius Walters found a purpose when he arrived -- a new land of wonders and power even beyond what was recently exposed on his homeworld, as well as a new mass of corruption and darkness. Dr. Walters resoved to protect people from the dark secrets and power abusers as he did on his home planet. He would be as Prometheus, bringing the fire of truth and knowledge by burning the repressors. He owes it to those who died in the violent event that give him his power.

Personality: Prometheus has little in the way of a normal life; all that he was, was destroyed when he was infused with the psionic force to create what he is now. He spends nearly all of his time probing with the alien spacecraft's sensors, searching for those that would seek to hide the truth and abuse their power at the expense of others. The lifesupport systems of the ship have rendered sleep irrelevant, and the power of his abilities has rendered direct personal contact with nearly all other beings impossible. His life is vigilance now, taking the blinding light of cold truth to those who hide in dark places, keeping dark secrets.

The Force of Truth

High-Spectrum EM Sensors

Gravitic Displacement Field

The Alien Spacecraft

Omnidirectional Sensor Array

Enhanced Magnification

Power of Truth

Driven