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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8561222" data-attributes="member: 30538">Colonel Alqadar/عقيد القدر<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-rjJgpSN/0/71af963d/M/Naif_al-Sheikh_001-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />In the more than a decade since it happened, Refeeq el-Heshem, now known as Colonel Alqadar ("Colonel Fate") has generally tried to avoid obsessing over why it happened. It did happen, the life he had known ended as a consequence, and now he was fighting a different sort of war than he had ever envisaged, alongside allies he could not fully trust against beings who were, effectively, Shaitan. Nevertheless, data about the situation would occasionally come his way, and by now he has a fairly well-supported theory about it.Back then, he was a veteran of the Royal Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia who had gone on to a lengthy career with the General Intelligence Presidency, the kingdom's primary intelligence agency. In 2007, he happened to be assigned to act as the monitor for a recently contracted mercenary hired to improve the security forces, the alien robot known as Seismic. They worked well together, and el-Heshem was just a bit quicker to absorb the lessons about warfare in the superpower age that the robot was teaching than some of his peers.Two and a half years later, while he and his oldest son were having a discussion in his office in Riyadh about a commendation that the boy had recently received, a group of assassins broke into the building and attempted to kill el-Heshem. His son saved his life at the cost of his own. (Or at least that was how it seemed at the time.) Infuriated, el-Heshem took a sabbatical to hunt down those who were behind the killers, with Seismic (by that time having transitioned into his role as a satellite) providing critical assistance.Seismic revealed to him that these operatives had been cut-outs employed -- through numerous layers of proxies -- by one of the four ASIs whose existence he had recently discovered. Just which one, just what had motivated them, these were questions that he could not yet answer, then. Nevertheless, el-Heshem determined that the war would not end until all four had been eliminated, and became the first recruit for what would eventually become the Gray Seal, resigning from the GIP and adopting the alias Colonel Alqadar.The picture that has gradually emerged since then is appalling. His son, far from having died in his place, had been the target. Savitor had intended for el-Heshem to "discover" that the assassins were supposedly working for the Koreans, and become even more radical in his dislike of the superpowered, eventually joining Saturn. The goal, then, was to use this tragedy to enhance the narrative that Savitor seeks to spread, that mundane humanity cannot be trusted to manage its own affairs, but must rely on greater-than-human leaders -- first the superpowered, then the artificial minds that will eventually replace them.Alqadar occasionally finds his ongoing alliance with such an artificial mind to be ironic, in light of that. But such is the fate he has been given, and he will not turn away from it.Colonel Alqadar -- PL 8Abilities:STR 2 | STA 2 | AGL 2 | DEX 2 | FGT 5 | INT 5 | AWE 3 | PRE 2Powers:Mind of Steel: Immunity 20 (mental effects), Limited to half effect - 10 pointsRadiotelepathy Mindlink: Selective Area Radio Communication 3, Limited to those with radiotelepathy, Subtle; Senses 1 (radio) - 17 pointsAdvantages:Accurate Attack, All-out Attack, Assessment, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Equipment 6, Fearless 2, Improved Initiative, Languages 4 (English, French, Mandarin, Russian, others [Arabic is native]), Leadership, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 3, Startle, Ultimate Effort (Expertise: Military), Well-informed.Equipment:Body Armor (Protection 3).Arsenal: Array (24 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Autoblaster: Ranged Multiattack Damage 8 - 24 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Automatic Rifle: Ranged Multiattack Damage 5 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Sniper Rifle: Ranged Damage 5, Improved Critical - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Grenade: Ranged Burst Area Damage 5 - 1 point</li> </ul>Skills:Athletics 4 (+6), Close Combat: Unarmed 3 (+8), Deception 6 (+8), Expertise: Military 8 (+13), Insight 8 (+11), Intimidation 10 (+12), Investigation 5 (+10), Perception 6 (+9), Ranged Combat: Guns 6 (+8), Stealth 6 (+8), Technology 3 (+8), Vehicles 5 (+7).Offense:Initiative +6Unarmed +8 (Close Damage 2)Automatic Rifle +11 (Ranged Multiattack Damage 5)Blaster Rifle +5 (Ranged Multiattack Damage 8)Sniper Rifle +11 (Ranged Damage 5, Crit 19-20)Grenade -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 5)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 8, Fortitude 5, Toughness 7/5/4/2, Will 9.Totals:Abilities 46 + Powers 27 + Advantages 25 + Skills 35 + Defenses 18 = 152 pointsOffensive PL: 8Defensive PL: 8Skill PL: 8Resistance PL: 7Complications:Justice (Or Possibly Revenge)--Motivation. Distrust of Superpowers. Family (estranged wife, estranged younger son.) Secret (Gray Seal.)Note: Character concept by Voltron64.على كف القدر نمشي ولا ندري عن المكتوب"On the palm of fate we walk and do not know what is written."</blockquote>

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