Name: The Founder.
Height: 6 meters
Weight: 6 tons
Eye color: Blue optical lenses.
Hair color: N/A
Skin tone: White armor plating.
Alignment: Lawful Good, leaning towards lawful neutral
Affiliations: Novus.
Enemies: The Hierarchy
Religion: None
Family: Acts as the father figure of Rose and Dave, has recently incorporated Jade and John into his "family."
The Novian civilization was once considered a jewel of the Universe It was an expansive, highly advanced, burgeoning, and extremely cultured, but ultimately peaceful civilization. They believed in a large pantheon of gods who regularly interacted with them in the flesh. Their society was one rich with demideities from the minglings of gods and mortals and who deeply venerated the Masari who changed their forms to their current shape. But at the same time they achieved a harmony between the supernatural, the technological, and the psionic. Their society had eliminated menial labour with an ever vigilant robotic work force, letting the Novii pursue their scholarly wishes, and their inoffensive ways allowed them to enjoy long periods of peace.
The Novii decided to create a machine that would embody what their society stood for, forging it out of Novii divine steel and granting it vast cosmic power to honor their society and their gods. It would blend cosmic, psionic, magical, and technological power into one whole which would be given the sum of their civilization's knowledge on all affairs, and given a strong sense of morals and justice as well as a strong philosophical and scholarly bent. Additionally, it would be granted everything the Novii knew about war, so that it could help them wage their rare battles with other species. It was to be the crowning achievement of Novian Civilization.
But then the Hierarchy came in an invasion that wiped out the Founder's creators. After being distracted on other fronts, the Hierarchy slipped under his defensive line, finding and systematically eradicating his charges rather than engage him or the army he had set up. After many years of fighting against the Hierarchy to protect his people, he finally found himself outmaneuvered.
With most of the Novii dead, the Hierarchy sent a vast sneak attack with the aid of strangers in black and red armor to attack Nov, and in the process, eradicating the last remaining traces of the Novii. When the Founder found his creator's world, laid to waste and ruin, he felt a deep sorrow and shame for having failed in his purpose. For having failed to protect his people, now a representative of an extinct race.
Organizing the surviving machines and setting his sights on the Hierarchy, the Founder began the rebuilding of his machine race into what would ultimately become Novus, which literally means "those that follow" in their language. The Founder's highest priority is to avenge his creators and the other races the Hierarchy has eliminated, making him one-dimensional in purpose, at first showing no desire to defend races threatened by the Hierarchy.
While searching for any remnants of his creators, he found two remaining Novii in the ashes of Nov, the fated Primalborn; Davikov Strileg and Rosalina Lalatia and provided them with the best Novian technology had to offer, pairing them with two of his mightiest warriors, Viktor and Ormag. He created the current Novus army up from the ground, turning the Novian's technology towards the purpose of war.
Over the course of the Novus' joining of the war, following the eradication of the Novians, the Founder has grown somewhat more empathic towards the plight of those who have been affected by the various wars that rip through the Galaxy. He's no longer uncaring towards other species, and thanks to the humanization he's experienced over the years, he's decided that the Novus should focus on trying to help the other species as much as they should focus on avenging their creators.
His occupation as the leader of the Novus means that he doesn't have much time for one on one interaction save for on a political level, but he still frequently appears in battles against the hierarchy and other foes of the Novus, where his incredible power is put to use against them in a truly awe inspiring fashion.
But still, he knows that he cannot fight fight against the colossal might of the Overseer's hierarchy in it's earnest, for despite all his godlike power he is but one entity fighting against an avalanche of death. Thus, he has taken the strategy of guerilla warfare against the hierarchy, harassing the Hierarchy's sledgehammer of a military before vanishing to avoid the retaliatory stirke.
He acts like a firm, but fair father towards Dave and Rose. While he was once incredibly strict and uncompromising, a decadehave mellowed him out. He is aware that his charges must also be happy for the Novus' victory to mean anything, and has given them a great deal more freedom. He has also come to incorporate Jade's clique of heroes and the witch of space herself into his impropatou family, and has taken a great deal of interest in John Edenson's life from what Rose has told him. He knows that for the Novii to survive in any way, they'll have to interbreed with compatible species, and thus he is encouraging Dave and Rose to pair up with Jade and John in hopes of beginning the Novii anew.
And now, he worries, for the Earth, which he and many others have sought to conceal from the Hierarchy
Powers:
Super Strength, The Founder is capable of tremendous physical strength to an unknown degree, but remains able to engage even the armored primalborn in sparring matches and can use drained energy to enhance his power.
Intelligent: The founder has the combined knowledge of the entire Novian race, and has one of the most advanced core processors known, capable of thinking on a speed that would boggle the human mind.
Durable: The Founder is practically indestructible due to being forged out of Novian Divine steel along with possessing potent shielding.
Speed: The Founder is capable of far greater speeds than a normal human and can easily breach light speed without even utilizing hyperspace. Additionally, the Founder easily posseses faster than light reflexes and a potent danger sense.
Zenith: The Founder has the combined knowledge of all forms of Novian martial arts, strategies, tactics, and weaponry along with many more it has added over the years, making it a frightening prospect to face in battle.
Flow: Essentially teleportation, but the founder can bring others with him with ease. There doesn't seem to be a limit as to how much or how far he can teleport, though he does appear to need to have a good idea of where he is going before he can teleport. The Flow is a Masari invention, similar to the Webway of the Old Ones, it's a vast series of cosmic "rivers" for lack of a better word that one can use to go anywhere in the multiverse they please as long as they know the currents and pathways.
Immunities: Robotic immunities, Magic, Radiation, Magnetism, matter manipulation. The Founder is a cosmically charged being who has grown to a level where he is incredibly resistant, almost outright immune to magic, his divine steel structure cannot be altered via matter or reality warping, and is completely nonmagnetic.
Cosmic power: The Founder displays cosmic abilities of great magnitude, capable of incredible feats of matter and energy manipulation, telekinetic abilities on a vast scale, the power to bend and control the four fundamental forces of the universe to a massive extent, warping the power cosmic to his purposes, drawing upon cosmic energy to enhance his own abilities, unleashing tremendous amounts of cosmic energy upon his foes, and displays a high level of cosmic awareness
Matter manipulation: The Founder is capable of matter manipulation on an incredibly fine and large scale, He can also bend and alter matter's shape to his will, which means that if he were so artistically inclined, he could form any form of sculpture he wished.
Energy control: The Founder is capable of controlling virtually any form of energy on a huge scale. He can rob something of all kinetic energy to stop them from moving, turn off the heat of a star, completely manipulate every bit of electrical energy in a nebula storm, and turn off the light of a trillion atomic bombs. Additionally, he can generate energy in huge amounts for incredibly destructive blasts.
Fundamental control: The founder can bend the four fundamental forces of reality to a great degree. He can form and collapse black holes at whim. His magnetic abilities are so vast that he can literally rip the electrons and protons out of every atom in a solar system. He can stop an entire nuclear fission reaction by making the strong atomic force too strong to be overcome or induce it all the same. and through the weak atomic force he can turn objects lethally radioactive.
Space-time control: The founder can bend space to shrink and grow objects, teleport across vast distances, warp the paths an object can take to deflect projectiles or make it literally impossible for a non-space warper to hit him, or even travel between universes. With his time control, he is capable of going through time in any direction, slowing it down or speeding it up for himself and others, and reversing or accelerating aging.
Magic: The founder is one of the rare magic wielding machines, and is capable of enacting spells and rituals on a solar system level scale, often used to bolster it's psionic and cosmic powers. This allows him to deal with the supernatural with amazing proficiency despite being a robot. Many are surprised to find out that the Founder is one of the most powerful sorcerers around in spite of being a droid. He is skilled in all schools of magic, but is quite fond of illusion based magic.
Psionics: The Founder is as powerful with it's psionic abilities as it is with it's magic and cosmic might. This allows it future sight, massive telepathy and telekinesis, added energy manipulation and generative abilities, and biomancy, a form of psionics that allows it to alter organic flesh and structure to create powerful creatures, enhance living ones, or easily cripple or kill organic enemies. With bio-mancy, he can add or remove powers that are genetically based on foes too weak to resist his power. Divine abilities are beyond the scope of his level of biomancy though, but those created by mutation and scientific experiments are fair game. With his biomancy, he can return the dead to life as well and heal wounds.
Technopathy: The Founder is a very powerful technopath, capable of communicating with and controlling a vast amount of machinery. With this he can play havoc on other robots, extensive users of gadgets, and power armour wielders. Those who use nanite based technology are especially vulnerable, as the small nature of nanobots makes them very vulnerable to his technopathic abilities.
Weaknesses:
Somewhat inflexible: The Founder has some difficulties with adjusting to unexpected situations, and has difficulty accepting that the universe has become a vastly different place over the course of two centuries.
Novians first: If those he has considered part of his "family" are threatened, he will take immediate action regardless of the consequences, which could be used by a canny opponent to bring him to his death.
Anti-reality: The Founder cannot manipulate Anti-reality, nor can his divine steel shell resist it.
Dark Glass: The Founder's systems have a worrying vulnerability to being corrupted by Dark Glass, which would cause him to lose his mind to the potent systems.
The Novus army
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