Cobo Rob

[Leichenengel]

§Name§
Cobo Rob
(A play on the name RoboCop)

§Alignment§
Hero
(Vigilante to-be)

§Personality traits§
peculiar | strong-willed | unweary | short-spoken | stubborn

§Title§
The Daring

§Sub-Title§
Skull Buster



§Race§
Augmented Human Entity (A.H.E.)
("Cyborg"/Human Robot/you name it)

§Former Name§
Martin Trembley

§Current Residence§
Paragon City

§Former Residence§
Vancouver/British Columbia/Canada



§Condition§
Alive (Augmented Identity)
Deceased (Pre-Augment Identity)

§Miscellaneous§
Though his human organs are mostly intact they have also been augmented to survive the fusion with the armored power suit. He is able to eat and he also produces the typical by-products of digestion but in a far smaller amount than a normal (super) human would. They are decontaminated within the suit and deposited into an area that is emptied when he goes to Sinclair Enterprises once a week or when he is repaired/treated at a hospital. A lot of the nutrients and components in food are used to fuel his inherent powers or bolster his health and endurance and their regenerative properties. Since he needs a lot of health and endurance in order to function correctly he only eats food with a high density of valuable nutrients and components so the production of digestive by-products is kept as low as possible to not interfere with his mission. Thus he doesn't need to go to the toilet. He doesn't smoke and he doesn't drink alcohol though his augmented liver would be able to handle small amounts of it.



§Origin§
Science (Official)
Technology (Inofficial)

§Archetype§
Guardian

§Powers§
Military Assault
Infiltrator Training
Teleport

§Battle Cry§
Prime Directive: Vanquish Crime!

§Super Group§
Hilariously Mental

Martin Trembley was born with inherent powers, but compared to other super beings the powers that manifested in his adolescence were of no use to fulfill his dream to become a hero and vanquish crime. The first power set that manifested was Teleportation while the second was a weak variant of the ancillary Primal Force Mastery power pool. When he was old enough he went into police training and became a support officer but he wasn't allowed to use his powers as the police in Vancouver had no super powered division back then. Since he felt sort of useless and was still dreaming of being a hero he spent a lot of time on the internet to find ways how this dream could come true anyways. One day he received an E-Mail of a company in Paragon City called Crey Industries who offered him the chance of becoming truly outstanding so he'd be able to become a Guardian of the weak and innocent. The only two things he'd have to do were leaving his old life behind and have experienced scientists and technologists conduct research and experiments on him in order to prepare him for his life of super powered crime fighting. It took him a few weeks to think about the offer and its downsides. It sounded shady and dangerous and it was perfectly possibly he would wind up dead in the process – but the urge of becoming a super hero and gain actually useful powers was stronger than the doubts towards the offer. Leaving his old life behind was actually the easiest step since his parents were already dead, his father's parents were dead as well and his mother's parents suffered from severe dementia and wouldn't recognize him anymore to save their lives. He didn't have a girl and the few colleagues at the police office weren't problematic either. He would just tell them he'd transfer over to Paragon City to apply for a super powered division within their department. Maybe that was even a way to start his heroic career. Survive whatever that Crey Company would conduct on him and then get used to his new powers while serving in a super powered police division and slowly become independent from that division. Yes – that sounded reasonable. Well in his understanding at least. How deep the shadiness of the offer actually went was something he would discover later, in fact too late to be able to opt out alive.

He sold everything he owned, canceled his policies, financial securities and sold the house of his dead parents that he had inherited and planned to renovate and rent out, to be able to pay the fee of signing up for the offer of Crey Industries. They specified the reasons for the charge as a personal security for them in case he would wind up destroying property during his stay or in the worst case scenario wind up dead and would need to be transferred back to Vancouver for burial. He had to specify burial wished for that case. They stated they'd hold the money in pledge. He'd receive half of it back when the undertaking was successful. The other half would be taken by Crey Industries as an expense allowance for his accommodation and augmentation. Half of the money was still enough for him to start a new life so he signed the contract and received a one way flight ticket to Paragon City and was picked up by a Crey Official who was part or the project and filled him in on more details and who brought him to the facility where he would stay and be prepared for augmentation in order to be able to grant him new powers and to enhance the power potential of his inherent powers. He stated that the project would use old research by Dr. Raymond Keys, who was later know as the Hero Positron, and have a new take on that research to not only give a normal human powers but to raise the potential of super human beings. What he however didn't state was that Crey actually planned to backup a special division in their ranks and that Martin's brain would be replaced with a cyber brain that did not include any data of his former self. Parts of the research of the Revenant Hero Project would also be used in this new take.

However, everything went down differently than anticipated by Crey or Martin. While Martin was staying at the secret Crey Lab Complex that had been built for the project, he had to undergo and endure several sorts of research experiments to prepare him for the actual augmentation. Other volunteers he got to know during his time started to vanish when the actual augmentation phase began, but since he was aware that things could go horribly wrong he just thought that they wound up dead and were sent back to their previous home countries and cities for burial. Crey didn't know, that the PPD in collaboration with the FBSA and the Freedom Phalanx had discovered their secret project due to investigations on mutilated corpses that had been disposed of in a sloppy manor. At first the PPD thought of Vazilok but eventually they received a broken disc from an undercover mission of heroes in a Crey Industries facility on the Rogue Isles. They were able to recover parts of the files on the disc which ultimately lead to a full scale undercover investigation of Crey Industries. With the information gathered they contacted the FBSA and the Freedom Phalanx to back them up in a bust in order to bring an end to the secret lab holding super powered people to conduct research and experimentation on them to strengthen Crey's super powered soldier programs. During the bust several scientists were able to escape and reported the happenings to their bosses who then discussed it with their bosses and at the end of the whole thing Crey Industries cast the whole thing off as a rogue project to not raise the ire of the public – especially not the superhuman public. They turned the escaped scientists in to the authorities and kept the backup of the research data secretly hidden somewhere for the day they'd be able to start a new project. The data found during the bust and the data received by interviewing the volunteers was given to Sinclair Enterprises for analysis. The superhuman volunteers were taken in by the FBSA to either put them on the quest of becoming real heroes through the means of hard training and dedication or to send them back to their old lives with the money Crey had given them back to uphold a good public image.

Martin however was a hard case. Since his inherent power potential was something that couldn't just be enhanced with intense training and dedication he was brought to Sinclair Enterprises who had started their own project, since with their benevolent alignment, they were convinced to be able to use the research and experiments Crey had conducted for the good of society and given the philosophy of Justin Sinclair to help heroes and thus help defend Paragon City there was no ethical problem if everything was set up to move within legal parameters. They thoroughly interviewed Martin again and asked him, if he was still willing to become a super hero and to undergo the process of augmentation to serve Paragon City and maybe even the world as a super hero. Since he had given up his old life to make his dream come true he of course agreed. He ended up living in an apartment owned by Sinclair enterprises and was taught some company history and some history of Paragon City. His deep desire for justice would later become his primary directive. He would be able to help actively vanquish crime standing in the front instead of being a support officer or part of a super powered police division. It however took a few years of new research to be able to use the Crey data in a benevolent way.

A few days after Martin had turned 25 the process of preparing his body for augmentation started. Just like Crey had wanted to do it he received a cyber brain. The difference was that they included a lot of memories from his past life but locked up those they considered harmful to the cause. Only Sinclair Industries would be able to activate these locked up memories or emotions. Martin's nervous system was augmented to be able to connect to a special armor suit that was programmed with two sets of powers and that was able to draw out his inherent powers and make them useful. The downside of the whole underpinning was, that Martin would never be able to leave the suit to go back to being a human being. The suit and him would fuse together to create a new being similar to when Kheldian or Nictus aliens melt with a willing host. Before being augmented he was asked what name he wanted to carry when being reborn as a super hero. Having been a cop and having watched the old the RoboCop movies he said he would want to be named RoboCop but due to copy rights in the movie industry Sinclair Industries proposed a different name that was a play on words – Cobo Rob. Rob would as well serve as an abbreviation for "Robot" even though the final being created would rather classify as some sort of Cyborg. Thus after successful augmentation and fusing of suit and man the entity "Cobo Rob" was born. Since he lacked actual experience in being a hero the company officials decided to lock the powers behind security levels and give hero trainers in Paragon City the means of activating powers when an appropriate Security Level was reached. Several softwares measure, filter and control body functions, power levels and mitigate power outage to prevent Cobo Rob from running rampant or becoming a villain.

Once a week, Cobo Rob needs to go to Sinclair Industries to let them check his systems and his evolution to be able to align his software, or the technical proportions of the suit, accordingly. The suit can hold training enhancements and enhancements that classify for a science origin or a double origin of science and technology though the possibility to make it work with other origins beside science is possible but said to be less effective. Upon finalizing Cobo Rob he was tested in a secure environment owned by Sinclair Enterprises before being sent to Atlas Park to start his heroic career by helping with the Hellion Threat. The FBSA was informed of him being a new hero recruit and received all means necessary to be able to monitor his activities in collaboration with Sinclair Industries. Thus he set out on his journey to save Atlas Park from the Hellion Threat and even managed to prevent Arachnos from overtaking it rescuing Matthew Habashy and his wife in the process. Still being able to act human in various ways Cobo Rob learned to also rely on team mates to fulfill his destiny and to gain more experience in being a hero and a Guardian of the weak and innocent. Not only Sinclair Enterprises is all on the edge but also the FBSA and several hero groups have become interested in his evolution. Being connected to the medical emergency network all Paragon Hospitals received instructions, personnel and the means to repair him. He is the first prototype of this new try on bolstering the hero ranks of the world. So everything he does is considered a high scale test run to be able to estimate the potential but also the dangers of this project. And so far the results of the test run have been more promising than originally anticipated. Even though his activities are monitored the dialogues of him and his mission contact are not touched upon to guarantee a certain amount of privacy and also to give Cobo Rob the ability to come to his own conclusions and display free will and train his cyber cerebral system just like a regular human would study or use other means to grow smarter. Even though the entity "Cobo Rob" is a fusion of science, technology and mutation it was crucial for Sinclair Enterprises to make him highly compatible with the social network of humankind and to not see himself as a machine but as the new kind of being he was reborn as. Sinclair Enterprises also transferred the money he got back from Crey to a fund that would not only work as a financial support for his own life but also to take care of his grandparents suffering from dementia so he'd be able to fully concentrate on his new life of being a hero of Paragon City...

§Theme Songs§
George Strait - The Weight of the Badge
Chase Curl - Stay in the Fight
Katy Perry - Rise

§Trivia§
This is an 80s RoboCop Homage Character. Different from the original in several ways though. It's supposed to be a serious upgrade. Also the play on words has a slight "mistake" since the "Cobo" part uses a B instead of the P from 'Cop". Copo Rob just sounds awful - so I used a little artistic freedom ;-)