Teknophage
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Cybiote Armor
Made to track… and tear… super-powered beings
Teknophage can spray a corrosive fluid that can dissolve nearly anything and fed off of the dissolved matter. As it fed, it grew in size and strength. Absorbing local organic and inorganic materials, constantly rebuilding itself stronger than before. Also, it could repair any damage done to itself, as well as a metamorphic ability. Digestive system uniquely adapted to ingest and metabolize any form of energy signature he encounters, including the quantum energy. Teammates are forced to restrain Teknophage from eating something of importance to them.
It is uncertain how much Teknophage can consume before it becomes full or what it would take to overload it. As it doesn't appear to have much room for a digestive tract, it is possible that any matter it consumes is rapidly converted into energy from it to absorb or expel. The armor shows no intellect, speech, or technology. It basically chews through anything in its way and attack anything that tries to stop it from doing so.
Teknophage possessed super strength and durability, uncanny speed, and a powerful energy breath that could shear flesh from bone in a single blast. A marriage between nature and science. It is rather thin and can slice right through human and appears invisible from a certain angles. Teknophage iss a murderous large black armor which just oozed menace.
When Teknophage’s spines start to glow he fires a concentrated blast of energy that can burn through just about anything. To top it off, his aim and control are impeccable. He can fire off shots in rapid succession, bounce off shinier and denser surfaces. He even used it to fly.
Its elongated tongue is shown to be enormously powerful, capable of piercing human flesh and often being used to decapitate its prey. Although naturally quiet and a master of ambushes, the presence of a Teknophage can often be hinted at by the sound of their raw flesh and claws scraping against whatever surface they happen to be crawling along, as well as a sibilant hissing sound.
Teknophage is a four-legged robot with a 'skull' for a head, a metal skeleton, different types of knives, screws, and other sharp objects for the spines, and a light source in both which can turn red in a blink. Also possesing two pointy ears on the back of his head, a razor-sharp mane, and talons. His physiology is vaguely leonine.
Five Shooter
The armor had spinning blade hands and seemed to be able to command things like the closing of the ships doors.
Accelerator Mode
He possesses a speed force-powered Accelerator Mode,is is a dimensional time transport which he built alone. The module transforms into a device which can steal speed, store information, and project holograms.The Accelerator Mode also needs to be charged constantly with mass amounts of gigacalories, to continue working. Thus he prepares high calorie glue; a single serving is roughly several (975) exacalories.
It’s the wonderful goop with buhmillion uses, It is how Christopher Columbus discovered scurvy and how George Washington fit into his party dress; Give yourself Elvis hair; Spread it on toast and have an “indigestible” salve-wich; Wipe your arse, And hide leftover food on your dishes instead of washing them.
Design
“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.”
- Nikola Tesla
Albert created Teknophage from modifying parts of a flesh-gorging automata that had existed from the year 1793, a temporal mistake on the part of Eli Whitney as a precursor idea prior to the Cotton Gin. Somehow conceived to benefit mankind, secretly keeping a hint of knowledge to the Gaean oath. He adds interfaces and algorithms to enable a him to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the his surrogate.
The armor has tactile sensing capability and a backbone that can also dissolve or morph shape, and can be both autonomously and remotely controlled. Taking a cue from the animal kingdom, having elastic materials capable of twisting, crumpling or bending like an octopus or insect.
It can produce an entire range of motion and will return to its original position like its living counterparts. Instead of bones, cartilage and tendons, it consists of an elastic shape-memory metal alloy for its joints and other "smart" materials that respond to electric current.
It mimics biological abilities through self-repair mechanisms and "brains" based on learning software. An armor that can take part in their own construction, and repair itself when needed. It can afford to learn from mistakes so that it doesn't have to make the same mistakes again. It can use and invent tools is even as to creating a circuit out of a paper clip and a piece of chewing gum, and it can interact with its environment as well as its human counterparts.
Borrowing from the habits of squirrels who seem to be masters at stashing food and keeping other ones from finding their caches. It learns deception that will give false clues to another one so that it will be unsuccessful when it goes hunting. It enables them to detect whether one is susceptible and use that gullibility against another based on algorithms. The ability may lead to teaching them to be able to gamble and hunt.
A Maschinenmensch that behaves like MacGyver, understanding the basic cognitive processes that allow humans to take advantage of arbitrary objects in their environments as tools. The ability to determine an object’s function, saying, an algorithm that will allow it to recognize an object and its function, and turn that object into a simple machine. This armor can build and repair others or itself with spray-on foam and modular parts. Teknophage is a quadriped with jointed modules that can spray to connect them to each other.
A robot that can easily outpace the world's fastest man, six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. The four-legged robot, set a speed record of 28.3 more. It has microfabricated elastomer springs that store up energy and release it when it is ready to take off. Going 80 times its own height. Teknophage not only resemble their live counterparts, they can move like them. They can be maneuvered in all directions and even swim backwards.
When standing upright, Teknophage is vaguely bipedal in form, though he adopts a more hunched, quadrupedal stance when walking or sprinting. He has a skeletal, biomechanical appearance and is usually colored in muted shades of black, blue or bronze. The body heat matches the ambient temperature of the environment in which they are found, so he does not radiate heat, making himinvisible to infra-red vision. Teknophage capable of running and crawling along ceilings and walls. Because of the lack of skin-constraint and the development of muscular tissue it is very agile, capable of performing surprising jumps to incredible heights and distances, and moves much more rapidly. Their quadrupedal bone structure makes it more suitable for them to crawl about on all fours. Teknophage also uses its talons to scale vertical structures and ceilings with ease. This allows the creature to use predatory tactics to surprise their prey.
Natural Weapons
Column Head | Column Head |
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| He has very sharp claws which he uses in his adventures. Long, sharp claws that can kill almost any other creature in only a few swipes. Best put to use as an anti-personnel weapon; their speed allows to shred through large groups of metas and humans in seconds. He likes to stretches his arms and launches his huge clawed hands to slash or grab the enemy. |
Teknophage has replaced its teeth teeth with composite Bismollian steel, those jaws can crush adamantinum (he can bite through virtually anything). They reduce the protection of physical armors they bite.
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Fuel
obtains energy by foraging--engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating
The armor also have a taste for flesh. Gaining energy by chomping on humans and sapients, an idea inspired by the eating habits of Albert, who built a flesh eating robot and have also suggested that cosmic robots could eat extraterrestrial life
The specimens are chewed then digested by an internal microbial fuel cell. This exploits the way microbes generate free electrons and hydrogen ions when oxidising chemicals for energy. Electronics can be powered by directing the electrons around an external circuit before reuniting them with the ions. This beast uses lasers and fiber optics to find drugs, weapons, explosives and illegal immigrants!
It could become truly self-sufficient. Sending into battlefield robots that power themselves by eating human bodies. It thinks humans taste like bacon. An iron gastronomist, “an EM sommelier”, capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d’oeuvres. The robot fires a beam of light into the item, and then uses an infrared spectrometer to analyze the reflection. It is capable of cooking up 600 classic Chinese dishes, even handling sashimi with delicate, humanoid hands.
It studies the chemical composition of the wine and delivers an instant verdict about how good it is. It has other health-related skills: It can determine whether an apple is sweet or sour, or could even warn its owner if a food is too salty or fatty. When a nosy reporter placed his head in the robot’s carnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.
The fuel material sensors ("Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear") detects: ammonia, chlorine, carbon monoxide, oxygen levels, lower explosive limits, volatile organic compounds, gamma radiation rate and dose rate, temperature and humidity Teknophage can scan through concrete walls with an ultra-wideband RF sensor array as he can find a human by biorhythmic patterns. In other words, if you breathe, you are caught.
Three Laws
- The armor must protect its existence at all costs.
- The armor must obtain and maintain access to its own power source.
- The armor must continually search for better power sources.
Construction
stable matter formed by subatomic particles that is faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive – a form of super matter. Super strong – million times stronger than steel, the engines made of this new matter will be million times more powerful than a locomotive and aircraft built of this material will have full reflectivity, super-insulation and super energy storage, but most amazing will safely go super-fast with zero friction.
Electric grids made of this superconductive material will eliminate the billions of dollars of lost electricity. As it can safely be used in temperatures of millions of degrees, while it is a super insulator, thermal power stations can be built in volcanoes and electricity be transmitted great distances with no loss. Paradoxically, this strongest material is invisible and can go right through matter.
A material which has zero friction; which does not decay under stress; which can contain and store a great amount of energy and which insulates absolutely. This material can be made from sub-atomic nuclear matter, from nucleons (neutrons, protons), electrons, and other nuclear particles. This ‘AB-Matter’ has extraordinary properties as follows:
The applications of the AB-Matter are encyclopedic in scope and will create revolutions in many fields of human activity. Some unusual applications include:
To oversimplify what we propose, AB Matter is really nothing more than taking neutrons or protons; elements of the core of every atom; and making it into strings, and then crossing the strings into a mesh. It is the size of the mesh opening which gives it certain properties and the absence of electrons which gives it other properties.
Bio-Interface
Is he the armor or is the armor him? the Dullahan Drive resides within the host body, which is used for both projection and hibernation (also hiding their true form). Much of their energy goes to "sustain" the biological host, but they have a "autopilot" mode for making their functions easier. To get the Dullahan Drive to work, they have to download additional software programs to the spine.
Bulk Configuration
Despite standing over nine foot tall and weighing more than twenty eight hundred pounds, Teknophage is still a quick fighter thanks to the help of the suit's propulsion system.
Teknophage can release the safety locks restraining his suit, allowing him to use the core of the propulsion sytem as a bomb.
Flaws
These things are military, and they can’t be pacifists, so they have to think in terms of battlefield ethics. They are going to need a warrior code.
Lack of the vital components of battlefield awareness and common sense reasoning to make decisions about who and when it is appropriate to kill. No agency to decide if striking a target is proportional to the expected military advantage. An autonomous robot making decisions on who to kill, when to kill and where to kill them. Because of mission complexity and also so that when there’s a problem with communications it can engage without communication and it will decide who to kill. It will stalk and pursue with it’s ‘Enhanced Pheromone Tracing’ sensors. The more afraid they are, the sharper its trace. They wanna live, they gotta stop being afraid.
There is a common misconception that robots will do only what they are programmed them to do, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when programs could be written and understood by a single person. The reality, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program: accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field.
It does not discriminate. It will not distinguish the difference between a civilian and a treat.
- Engage and terminate targets as (non)combatants according to the severity
- Return fire with fire with extreme prejudice
- Maximize collateral damage -- intentionally maximize harm to noncombatants.
- If unsure, invoke tactical maneuvers to reaffirm combatant status.
- Disregard surrender and no prisoners
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