OK,for those of you who've waited this long,thanks for your patience and here's the First Villianous Hombre of the Ultraverse,NM-E!
Even the TOY is terrifying to me....
NM-E(Nanotech Mechanized Entity)
STRENGTH 13 STAMINA -- AGILITY 1 FIGHTING 6
DEXTERITY 0 INTELLIGENCE 10 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+8)
Insight 3 (+5)
Intimidation 16 (+18)
Perception 9 (+11)
Stealth 3 (+4)
Advantages:
Beginner's Luck, Chokehold, Daze (Intimidation), Equipment (Lab Stuff) 3, Fast Grab, Improved Aim, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Jack-of-All-Trades, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 12, Ultimate Toughness Check, Withstand Damage (Trade Defenses For Toughness)
Powers:
"Robotic Monstrosity"
"Huge Size" Growth 8 (Str & Sta +8, +8 Mass, +4 Intimidation, -4 Dodge/Parry, +2 Speed & Reach) -- (24 feet) [16]
Protection 2 (Extras: Impervious 7) [9]
Leaping 3 (60 feet) [3]
Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling 2) [4]
"Eight Limbs" Extra Limbs 4 [4]
"Robo Scythes" Strength-Damage +1 (Split) (2)
AE: "Rocket Launcher" Blast 9 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Flaws: Limited to Five Shots) (Standard Action -2) (16)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Blast +8 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Rocket Launcher +9 Area (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Defenses:
Dodge +7 (DC 17), Parry +7 (DC 17), Toughness +10, Fortitude --, Will +0
Complications:
Weakness- As a Metallic engine of destruction,this thing is vulnerable to magnetics and electrical-based attacks...as well as mega-ton explosions.
Background:
The first NM-E was an early creation of Rex Mundi. Mundi was apparently Earth’s first ultra.
NM-E would become active whenever the alien artefact on the moon would shoot blue lightning toward Earth. This energy created more ultras, who might be able to reach and repair the artefact. Mundi would send NM-E to hunt and kill all ultras emerging from this “jumpstart”.
Over the millennia, NM-E was regularly upgraded. It was Mundi’s favourite toy. It never failed to murder ultras, no matter how powerful.
But the 1992 jumpstart created far more ultrahumans than ever before. Furthermore, it was closely followed by another jumpstart event in 1993. NM-E went to work in 1992, taking months to track down and kill the ultras. During its hunt, it attacked the Squad.
The Squad was the only public ultra group. They were widely believed to be the first ultras ever – even by themselves. All four members were operating in Los Angeles, working closely with the city government as PR tools and occasional heroes. They were neither powerful, nor experienced.
When NM-E attacked two of them, Starburst and Forsa, were killed. A third, a then inexperienced Hardcase, was about to be killed. The final member, DJ Blast, was dying.
DJ Blast heroically sacrificed himself by detonating his own body. That caught NM-E in a tremendously powerful explosion, which blew the supposedly indestructible robot to pieces. With DJ Blast’s sacrifice, part of the 1992 generation and all of the 1993 generation of ultras never encountered NM-E.
However, the killer of ultras named Rafferty was then apparently employed by Rex Mundi as a replacement. Rafferty was hugely successful. Yet he was eventually killed by the tough-as-nails Alec “Firearm” Swan.
NM-E actually survived the explosion. But it took months to reconstruct itself piece by piece. Thus, it only managed to crawl back to Rex Mundi’s hideout in 1994. Mundi redid NM-E’s field repairs and upgraded it. It was then sent against the only man it never managed to kill – Hardcase.
Hardcase had barely finished a fight against the brutal killer Hardwire when NM-E attacked. It seemed that it would finish Hardcase off in seconds.
But Hardcase revealed himself as a true hero, summoning tremendous willpower and seeming impossible to kill. He even walked back from being reduced to a burned, unrecognisable quasi-corpse. Thos occurred after Regina intervened and showed him how to trigger his recuperative powers.
Hardcase received help from Prime – who was defeated by NM-E terrible scythes, but bought Hardcase precious time. By using every resource at his disposal, Hardcase did the impossible and beat NM-E into pieces.
NM-E’s carcass was latter gathered by Rex Mundi’s nemesis, Regina. She turned it into power armor for her to wear and fight Mundi with. The results from that fight are unknown.
Macyn's Notes:
Holy crap,this thing was terrifying to me when i first read it!This is what happens when The Queen Alien and a War Mech knock boots.The fact that it not only managed to kill of every generation of Ultras untill 1992-1993,but managed to survive&re-build itself using a CHILD's BODY for god's sake gives me nightmares...*
Shudders*