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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8465225" data-attributes="member: 30538">Monitor<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-mgRDdxB/0/6a88dd1e/M/More-basic-equipment_0013_Naval-Battlesuit-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Lieutenant Bradley "Cygnus" Nicholas was trained as a naval flight officer (NFO) in the last years of the Pythonian Insurgency, completing his training shortly after the situation came to its end. During the war in Syria that followed, he was assigned to serve as the radar intercept officer for Lieutenant Commander Thomas "Wild Card" Junkers, who'd been decorated for his service with JSOT, and flew numerous missions with him. They became close friends, and Junkers even served as Nicholas' best man when he married in 1998. Tragically, however, just a few months later, Junkers was killed in action on their last mission, and Nicholas was left uncertain as to whether he could have prevented the death. Thus, he sought reassignment from flight duty and served as a base officer.After Cerebron's assault, however, Nicholas came to the conclusion that he had to return to flight duty, despite the objections of his wife. While undergoing retraining with several other officers seeking the same goal, he was tested for compatibility with a new form of operating interface, and scored extraordinarily high. Consequently, Lt. Nicholas was offered the opportunity to train as the pilot of an entirely new sort of flying vehicle  -- the first suit of powered armor ever test piloted by the United States Navy, dubbed the Monitor.The Monitor project had its origins during the Pythonian Insurgency, when the situation seemed dire enough that both the Army and the Navy dusted off the old plans for Peter Sullivan's armored flying suit. With advances in technology since the 1960s, the concept was no longer quite so expensive as it had been back then -- though still on the high end -- and seemed a worthwhile project. The Army's program was ultimately abandoned, but the Navy project continued even after the Insurgency's end, with the first prototypes finally ready to debut in 2002. Now came the task of finding qualified operators.Lt. Nicholas was one of only four graduates from the training program (all of whom were NFOs like himself, where aviators struggled with the new interface) and seemed to possess an almost superpower-like talent for operating the Monitor. When the decision was made to integrate the Monitor's program into the developing United Superheroes of America organization, the brass elected to make him the Navy's sole representative on the team, holding the other three candidates (and their suits) in reserve. Events would later modify that decision to the tune of assigning another enlisted woman to the team.Under the operations moniker "Monitor", Lt. Nicholas performed fairly well, acting primarily as a reconnaissance officer for the team. He got along well with all of his teammates, aside from a few early clashes with the American Angel when the latter's Army methodologies clashed with Monitor's Navy approach, but they quickly realized that they had to work together or suffer public humiliation. However, Nicholas privately wasn't thrilled to be assigned to the team, but his wife was even less happy with the situation. She sought and received a divorce, receiving custody of their daughter. That increased his disaffection.When the United Superheroes program was shut down after three years, he breathed a sigh of relief, and was also glad to be reassigned from the Monitor program in general. Frankly, after nearly fifteen years in the Navy and with no signs of promotion, Nicholas decided to take the early retirement offer open to him and look for work in the civilian aviation industry, and possibly look into negotiating a joint custody arrangement of his daughter now that he was out of the military. Unfortunately, fate had other things in mind for him.How, exactly, Thomas Dore managed to obtain a damaged prototype of the Monitor and arrange for it to be repaired and refurbished as a working model without breaking a dozen or more laws was something that Nicholas decided not to examine too closely. Despite all that, and despite having found being a superhero to be tiring and thankless work, he was still susceptible to Dore's persuasion that operating this thing was his first, best destiny. Consequently, he joined up with Heroic Enterprises, intending only to stay with the company for a few years, look after his friends from the other team, and build up a comfortable nest egg for his eventual retirement.Five years later, he was killed in action during the affair that led to Heroic Enterprises becoming persona non grata in California. The sabotage which disabled his suit at a crucial moment, resulting in his death, has never been discovered.Monitor -- PL 10Abilities:STR 8/2 | STA 2 | AGL 2 | DEX 3 | FGT 4 | INT 4 | AWE 3 | PRE 1Powers:Battlesuit: Removable (-16 points)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Armored Shell: Protection 10, Impervious 8 - 18 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Comm System: Radio Communication 4 - 16 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Life Support System: Immunity 10 (life support) - 10 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sensors: Senses 17 (accurate extended radio, analytical extended auditory, direction sense, distance sense, extended infravision, extended ultravision, extended vision, time sense, ultrahearing) - 17 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Servo-Motors: Enhanced Strength 6 - 12 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Turbines: Flight 7 (250 MPH), Aquatic - 15 points</li> </ul>Multi-grenade Launcher: Array (18 points); Easily Removable (-8 points)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">EMP: Burst Area Nullify Electronics 6, Simultaneous - 18 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Flash-bang: Ranged Burst Area Affliction 6 (Resisted by Fortitude; Perception Impaired, Perception Disabled, Unaware), Quirk (hearing and auditory only) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fragmentation: Ranged Burst Area Damage 6 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tear Gas: Ranged Cloud Area Affliction 5 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed & Visually Impaired, Stunned & Visually Disabled, Incapacitated), Extra Condition, Limited Degree on Extra Condition - 1 point</li> </ul>Advantages:Assessment, Evasion, Improved Defense, Improved Initiative, Languages 2 (Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish), Move-by Action, Skill Mastery (Perception), Teamwork.Skills:Acrobatics 6 (+8), Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+8), Expertise: Military 6 (+10), Insight 6 (+9), Investigation 5 (+9), Perception 8 (+11), Stealth 5 (+7), Technology 6 (+10), Vehicles 6 (+9).Offense:Initiative +6Unarmed +8 (Close Damage 8/2)Defense:Dodge 6, Parry 8, Fortitude 6, Toughness 12/2, Will 7Totals:Abilities 42 + Powers 84 + Advantages 9 + Skills 26 + Defenses 16 = 178 pointsOffensive PL: 8Defensive PL: 10Resistance PL: 7Skill PL: 6Complications:Responsibility--Motivation. Family (daughter.) Hidebound (operates by the book, and fails to update the book.)</blockquote>

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