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Liberty Prime was constructed during the Dark Days of the cold war at the height of McCarthyism. Constructed as a measure to be used in case America were to ever fall to communism, Liberty Prime was made with the goal of making sure the Earth would not suffer under communist rule for long, by wiping out all life on the planet. Some would question why America would build something for such nihilistic reasons. But at the time, certain people saw wiping the planet out as being a better alternative than living under communist rule. Additionally, it was built with the secondary purpose of one day leading a Democratic Charge into the Communist east to eradicate the red menace once and for all.
Billions of dollars went into constructing this doomsday weapon to end all doomsday weapon. The United States constructed him out of all the strongest metals they could find, unknowingly replicating the Divine Steel alloy used by the Order of the Talon who fed the information to the united states to hopefully use this weapon against the black hand. Experimental weapons technology reverse engineered from futuristic and alien invaders was placed inside the colossus, all to design a last method to spite the world in case America were to ever lose or to lead it through a victorious crusade that would destroy all of it's enemies once and for all.
No expense was spared, entire programs for education, healthcare, and poverty were shut down just to provide more money into building the behemoth, the ultimate expression of America's economic might and callous disregard for spending enormous sums of cash on projects other nations would deem wasteful. Liberty Prime was to have no pilot, such a thing would only potentially corrupt it's single minded devotion to it's McCarthyistic view point. Instead, Liberty Prime was given the most Advanced Tape reel computer system possible at the time, enhanced with alien technology, to provide it with a working, if extremely primitive by today's standards, artificial intelligence.
It would require no rest, it would know no mercy for there would be nothing to show mercy towards if Communism were to take over the world. It would be utterly single-minded and un-questioning of it's duty to lay waste to the Earth in event of Communist take over or to aid the American military in a final charge towards the Soviet Motherland. It would either see the world under the American flag or it would see the world in nuclear ashes. There could be no possible alternative, there would be no alternative. This was the culmination of an entire decade's excess, a final monument to the triumph of capitalism over communism.
But that time never came, and Liberty Prime would remain in it's bunker deep in Colorado for decades to come as McCarthy's wave of hysteria died out and the White House finally found out about the program, which had been so expensive as to single handedly cause an economic recession as a nearly unlimited budget spiralled deep into the red. Eventually, it was forgotten, gathering dust as it stood, a monument to an era of paranoia and hysteria that America wanted to leave behind. But recently, during a Metahuman battle at Colorado, the combatants somehow managed to reactivate the fist of Capitalism, and the atomic juggernaut came to life.
Both the Hero and Villain teams gathered outside the Bunker were greeted by the mammoth machine smashing it's way out of hundred foot thick reinforced concrete walls like paper mache before laying waste to them with it's horrifying firepower and colossal strength. A cold war relic stuck in the modern world, the machine has gone rogue, and now occasionally ventures out on meandering paths of destruction as it's tape reel mind tries to process just what is friend and foe. It still clings to the past, spouting out quips about long dead leaders and blaring out 1950s propaganda and humorously outdated political view points as it goes on a world wide tour of destruction.
The United Nations has a permanent Liberty Prime monitoring unit to keep Track of Liberty Prime's movements so that population centers caught in it's path can be evacuated while it relives the cold war, lashing out against entire cities like the giant monsters of the B-movies of the era it was created in. The United States has issued an official apology for the construction of Liberty Prime, but secretly hopes to recapture it and bring it's awesome power back into the hands of the Government. Such a weapon back in American hands could help America turn the tide against the world slipping into the hands of a meta-human elite.
The world sees Liberty Prime as a man made force of nature, unable to be reasoned with, but ultimately more of a natural disaster than a supervillain. It is acting not out of malevolence, but increasingly faulty programming. That being said, the militaries and metahumans of the world still try to stop or slow it's advance down, hoping to buy time for evacuation efforts as the greatest mistake of the cold war tries to lumber through their cities, smashing all it meets in an unstoppable march across the world. That being said, the world has enough experience with dealing with giant monster attacks to minimize the loss of human life.
Powers.
Super Strength: Liberty prime is immensely powerful, his strength has never been formally measured, but it has punched the supposedly impervious firestorm walls of the Talon apart, the "invulnerable" force fields buckling and breaking under the strain before finally giving way, and it has walked straight through Wakandan vibranium walls, not even slowing down as it just kept on moving through them. A class one million metahuman with even greater durability to go along with his powers attempted to stop Liberty Prime during one of it's anti-communist rampages, but Liberty Prime killed the mighty hero in a single blow.
Invulnerability: Liberty Prime was built to last, and is to this day, still considered the toughest robotic construct ever developed. To date, no attack or method has ever damaged or even slown down Liberty Prime, and no obstacle has ever halted his progress. He is completely and utterly implacable, a metallic juggernaut with no equals in raw might. Even sustained nuclear bombardments have resulted in nothing more than the machine becoming very hot and radioactive. Attempts at moving it off the earth have resulted in failure. It seems to be immune to teleportation and being moved against it's "will."
Modifiable: New weapons and equipment can be added to liberty prime, but this is best only done when it is deactivated, less the machine attack the unfortunate engineer.
Weaknesses
Reprogrammable, Liberty prime's definition of friend and foe can be reprogrammed quite easily. Assuming one ever gets close enough to try and somehow manages to open the long sealed hatch to his Tape-reel computer systems.
Not terribly bright: Liberty Prime isn't terribly intelligent, while he's not stupid, it's quite literally minded and it's tape reel computer brain frequently glitches as it's friend or foe identification systems frazzle from age. It often just stands there as it tries to resolve the increasing number of problems it's computer systems are facing.
Concussion: It takes a truly tremendous amount of force to send enough damage through to the vacuum tubes and tape reels that run Liberty prime, but should enough concussive damage reach the insides, Liberty Prime's functionings will begin to drop off if not outright shut down.
Weapons:
Eye beams: Enormously powerful and extremely rapid firing, these atomic-powered eye lasers come out like blue lances of pure fury that can obliterate entire armies, even some of the most powerful superheroes have been incinerated in a single shot by these weapons, while space ships have been cored and destroyed by the titan's destructive power.
Mini-nukes: Capable of lobbing nuclear warheads like foot balls or grenades, these explosives devastate huge areas at a time with atomic fire, leaving nothing but radiation and the dead in their wake.
Flamethrowers: Enormously hot, these arm mounted flamethrowers spew burning fluid out at tremendous range to flush enemies out of cover and to give godless communists a taste of what they'll be experiencing in hell.
Missile launchers: A full battery of missile launchers are equipped onto Liberty Prime, giving it long ranged firepwoer akin to entire armies worth of artillery guns.
Autocannons, mounted on it's hips, these batteries of 155mm autocannons allow Liberty Prime to pummel his foes with a colossal array of artillery grade automatic weapons.
Energy and Shockwave generators: Mounted in it's fists, elbow, shoulders, knees, and feet, these can sheathe certain parts of Liberty Prime's body in cocoons of kinetic, electrical, sonic, heat, and light energy to enhance it's hitting power, or can be used to smash into the ground to create massive energy shockwaves.
Tesla generators: Mounted on the sides of Liberty Prime's head, these generators allow liberty prime to fire off massive bolts of electricity at foes.
Plasma cannons: Attatched to uit's shoulders, these can unfurl to allow the colossus to fire off deadly barrages of incredibly lethal plasma in great ovoid blasts.
Absolute zero cannon: Liberty Prime can open up it's chest to reveal it's deadliest weapon, the Absolute Zero cannon, which fires a massive beam of absolute cold chilled down to absolute zero, freezing anything and everything it catches. How this weapon manages to attain a temperature said to be impossible by physics is unknown, but nothing ever caught by the absolute zero cannon has ever survived a direct hit. Not even colossal space ships, other giant monsters, force fields, walls, or the toughest of meta-humans.
Sonic disruptors: Placed on Liberty Prime's sides, these can emit massive sonic fields that can range from paralyzing foes to shattering entire cities and liquefying the bones of entire armies with harmonic waves.
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