The Fallout Captain (Defiant)
The Fallout Captain is a nefarious villain operating throughout Paragon City, The Rogue Isles, Praetoria as well as other locations and even alterate dimensions. Initially little more than a nuisance to society he has rapidly progressed to being one of the most dangerous threats to the world, nay, the universe!
Character History
GeneTech Industries
GeneTech Industries was once a front company of Crey Industries. The company was created under the guise of a pharmaceutical research laboratory in the industrial sector of Independence Port. In reality the research conducted at the laboratory were early development stages of the Revenant Hero program as well as early models of the Crey power armour. The Rikti invasion saw great leaps in the field of science from salvaging alien technologies and GeneTech Industries' research profited greatly from this. While successful in the initial stages of creating clones the scientists were never able to properly replicate the super powers of the beings on whom the clones were based without the subjects either becoming unstable or perishing. Only one subject successfully passed the incubation stage and successfully replicated the powers on whom his DNA was based - the subject labelled as Fallout Captain. However, while the power transfer was a success his body had mutated becoming almost gremlin like in appearance and was mentally unstable leading to him being dubbed as yet another failure. What the science team did not realise this clones mind possessed a seemingly limitless capacity for learning. He escaped the laboratory killing many security in the process and disappeared into the night. Shortly after this Crey Industries shut down the GeneTech front company and brought the Revenant Hero program and power armour research in-house to safeguard against future complications. Crey put together a team to track down the escaped test subject but were unable to trace him. After weeks of searching he was presumed to have perished in the alien world he had escaped into. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Rise of The Fallout Captain
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Future Fallout
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Personality and Motivation
Well spoken and comical in appearance, this belies his incredible capacity for evil. What actually drives him to do the things he does is a mystery as his mind if an addled cocktail of instanity, greed, torment and mischief. While it would appear world domination seems to be his end goal, he thrives on creating mishief and playing 'games' with heroes.
Powers and Abilities
The Fallout Captain initially possessed the powers of the hero on whom he was originally based during the Revenant Program. Through further experimentation and exposure to mystical and alien energies he has advanced much further.
Radiation Emission
The Fallout Captain's primary power is the ability to generate and manipulate gamma radiation. He can do this in a variety of ways such as projecting dangerous neutron blasts, emitting clouds of toxic particles and even altering organic molecular structures.
Flight
He is able to fly at free will
Self Replication
Arguably his most dangerous ability, The Fallout Captain can create multiple copies of himself. While not as powerful or intelligent as the original they still possess a certain degree of radiation and flight abilities. The copies appear to act as a sort of hive mind society and are blindly loyal to the original. Upon defeat their bodies rapidly fade to nothing, and it is unclear how many of these copies can be sustained at a given time.
Immortality?
The Fallout Captain has been dealt fatal wounds more than once and also seemingly perished numerous time. However after each 'death' he has reappeared sometime later. It is unclear whether he possess some sort of ability to resurrect himself, whether these were actually copies of himself perishing or if he is, worryingly, immortal.
Combat
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Other
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Vulnerabilities
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Affiliations
The Fallout Empire
Allies
- The Heroics (Defiant Supergroup) – Ace Jones was one of first members of the group and remains active to the present day.
- Vanguard – Ace originally trained as a Vanguard Operative, but following conflict between his attitude and duty and frustration at getting bogged down with red tape he left the service shortly after his mutant powers manifested. He returned to fight alongside Vanguard during the Rikti resurgence and was made an honorary member for his actions. More recently he was part of a team put together by Vanguard and sent to Praetorian Earth to counter the WarWork invasion.