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WarMain
Real Name: Arno Achilles Stone
Occupation: Executive Chairman of the Board (Advanced Cybernetics And Dynamics Industrial), Inventor, Hero
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Legal Citizen of the United States with no known criminal record, offcially recognized hero of Paragon City
Place of Birth: Paragon City, Rhode Island
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Mary Stone (mother), Walter Stone (father), Henry Stone (brother), Samantha Stone (wife, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Justice Avengers
Base of Operations: Paragon City, Rhode Island
Background
Arno Achilles Stone was born January 3rd, 1969 to Mary and Walter Stone at the M. Harvey Medical Center in the Founders' Fall district of Paragon City and from an early age it was apparent that Arno possessed a keen intellect and a natural predilection toward things mechanical. As a child, Arno was able to build fairly complex mechanical devices scavenged from a variety of materials found around his home. By his teens, Arno had an uncanny grasp in several disciplines of engineering and by the time he had completed high school was considered a prodigy. Arno's college years were no less productive as his insatiable drive for knowledge and inventive genius allowed the young Arno to surpass his peers and teachers.
During Arno's time in college, he had invented and patented several new technologies and used the gains from his inventions to provide the startup capital for an engineering firm. During this time Arno would meet the love of his life, Samantha Smith, who worked as a paralegal for his father's practice. The attraction was instant and mutual and despite a long courtship, the two were married after Arno had successfully matured his small firm into the much larger Advanced Cybernetics and Dynamics Industrial (ACADI).
ACADI's primary business was in developing ultra high performance materials and proccesses for use in advanced prothetic devices of all sorts, from artificial limbs to sensory replacements. The company also branched out into several other areas of engineering, including working for DARPA in the development of powered exoskeletons. ACADI had prospered until the rikti invasion. While the primary business was more important than ever, Arno also realized that the resources of his company could also be used to help stem or eliminate ther rikti threat. After the war, Arno leveraged his compsny's relationship with the government to aquire research projects based on captured rikti technology for both the military and civilian sectors. The act did not come without consequences as one of ACADI's chief rivals, Crey Industires, took notice after thier monopoly on captured rikti tech was lost.
Initially, Crey complained bitterly and sought legal action in an effort to prevent Arno and ACADI from carrying out thier program. When that failed, Crey offered to buy ACADI from Arno with the promis of a healthy fortune. Despite the offer, Arno remained faithful to his employees and his business. Afterwhich Crey again made an offer and again Arno refused. Ultimately Crey began an illicit campaign to undermine ACADI itself, force Arno out and liquidate the buisness gaing its contracts and developments for itself.
The plan like the offer proved unsucessful, forcing Crey to step up its actions against ACADI which resulted in a manufactured publicity stunt between Crey's own Paragon Protectors and the Freakshow. The effort was staged near the ACADI campus in Independance Port and was desinged to heavily damage the property and create several casualties. The plan proved partly successful as property damagew was kept to a minimum, however the latter part of the action had proved incredibly successful as Arno's wife had been caught in the crossfire and sustained severe injuries which resulted in her death while Arno watched helplessly from a distance.
Almost immediately after, it was made known to Arno that the event had been no accident and that it wouldn't be the last unless Arno capitulated. A greiving Arno instead choose to again take the huge conglomerate on in a more direct fashion. Retreating to his private lab and the advanced concepts and research division of ACADI, Arno pooled the best minds and resources of his company to take a previous program to a new level. Arno reopened Project WarMain (the original internal codename for the powered exoskeleton DARPA project) and in less than a year had a working model that had completely eclipsed any previous work. The effort produced the mark one alpha powered exoskeleton dubbed "WarMain".
Arno had orignally planned to don the armor and go after Crey directly, however the threat posed by the Outbreak riot proved a more immediate threat. After helping the authorities in the riot, Arno realized he didn't have the skills or talent nessecary to take Crey on directly. Instead the fledgling hero decided to take to the streets of Paragon city in an effort to hone his skills and perfect his armor.
While unable to put an end to Crey Industries and its illegal operations, Arno in the guise of WarMain has been an ever present thorn in thier side, setting them back on several occasions, including the personal capture of Countess Crey herself. Ultimately, Arno realized no measure of personal revenge would bring his dead wife back. Instead Arno as WarMain works with other heros and his company in an effort to make Paragon City and the world a better safer place.