Territory: Americana
Rank: P4
Height: 50 Meters
Length: 120 Meters
Gender: N/A
|Classification: Technorganic Guardian Entity|
|Factions: Defenders, Technorgs|
Abilities:
-Nanomechanical Symbiosis: The nanomachines present in Unum’s body have gradually become a substitute for blood and other fluids. As of this point, he cannot live without them.
-Organic Transformation: Found in no other organism, Unum is able to alter his physical structure to better suit the situation. His typical Centaur pose, a more natural scorpion form, an aquatic form, and a more humanoid aerial form have all been recorded. Additional attachments include heated AI guided laser whips, Grapple lines inside the arms, rockets, and sonic pulsars.
-Mental Singularity: Unum requires human intelligence to better run his complex systems, so for centuries a volunteer program called Singularity has operated, where a willing volunteer has his or her mind digitized into Unum’s data core, offering a fresh consciousness to run things. Often, the newer the mind, the more Unum acts like the person alone.
Description:
Ladies and Gentlemen, a New Moniker for an Old Age is upon us. For we as man, the champions of earth for far shorter a time than we would care to remember, have been forced to bow out to the silent guardians that now stand over our heads.
-Andrew Arden
-Man has never had much need for gods, they bring about great dissent, false senses of pride and expectation, and war. War that claims millions of lives for the seemingly all-consuming force that is worship and difference. And yet despite this, gods still reign above us, most being born of our own hands. Why would man construct something destructive, something that brings not a thing but ruin and dissent.
Because we are small.
Man has forever been exchanging a god for another. Once, nature, the rivers, mountains and sun, was our deity. Then we built dams. Then we concocted dynamite. Then we developed atomic weaponry. We sought to become our own gods, to control our former masters with our hands, our own strength. Then the Starfall occurred, and everything was turned on its head. Man, once king over nature, had found itself amongst a nature that had gotten a second wind, and we were unprepared, and lazy to the new force that broke our doorsteps down to nothing. Man lost hope once again, and what did we have to show for our circumstances, a world where the monster legitimately existed? Man saw no other choice but to bring about a way to counter them, but they were simply too large, too mighty, and too immovable to remove. They were here to stay, so we, as man often has, turned to one of our greatest mythical traits, our trickery.
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Mankind bore many monsters to combat others, with some successes and some failures. And of these the most famous and most successful of these was the grand accident turned opportunity that is Unum. A product of science, sorcery, and sentience, Unum was once naught but a mutated scorpion that was injured and then consumed by a swarm of Arden nanomachines loosed upon the Mohave desert. Merging the arachnid abomination with modern machinery, a beast neither living nor dead, organic or mechanical, was born over centuries of fine tuning and sacrifice. A technorganic life, the first of many to come.
Unum has had a productive, illustrious career as defender of Americana proper from threats, outward and inward, a champion of rights and the defense of them. Some have wondered, though, how can that be when Unum is not explicitly ‘alive.’ The best answer to that comes from one of the most respected quotes in the history of the known world, the first words uttered by Unum after the first use of the singularity.
“I am one, I am to protect all. I will change my mind one day...”
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This is the first entry into Dark Hours character designs I have released since officially starting this effort. This entry is the only one I will do on this blog, the rest will all be exclusive to my deviantart page and my Dark Hours Blog. (found on the sidebar)
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