The Synth "..." Personal Information The Child of Technology Official Name: PE-18
Aliases: The Epitome
Gender: N/A (seen as male)
Relatives: Arthur Mark (creator, alive)
Alignment: Lawful Good
Identity: Public
History: Secret
Status: Operational
Age: 2
Species: Android
Orientation: Asexual
Height: 6'3
Weight: Not Definite (varies)
Eye Color: Yellow (varies)
Hair Color: None (varies)
Marital Status: Single
Place of Birth: W.A.R.P. Laboratories
Base of Operations: None
Affiliation: Arthur Mark , W.A.R.P. Laboratories
Education: Downloaded Program
Occupation: Protector of Life, Superhero, Security for Arthur Mark
Moral Code Epitome is programmed to oppose the damaging organic life in any way, being limited in action through a strict set of protocols. It will do nearly anything that it can to persevere and maintain the mortal integrity of all forms of organic life in all beings to its fullest extent, as long as it does not take away free will of said beings. However, certain protocols can be overridden by whatever entity has access to its basic programming.
Origin The Birth of Epitome As a PR stunt to perpetuate the ideas that heroes or not "born" but rather "built", Arthur Mark decided to begin a campaign to create an artificial life form that could act as a public server. He consulted different experts in various fields in order to find a way to possibly create something that would be considered the perfect hero. He even went so far as to utilize the magical artifact known as the Accolade in order to play a hand in the creation of his new project. This would be able to provide this new creation with a sustaining and adaptive power source, something that most of his projects didn't have access to at the time. This was one of the most important aspects of what Mark would call PE-18 (Project Epitome, started in 2018), a venture that would develop into a discrete assignment.
The components for the body were a space age polymer infused with several different metal compounds. This would be After weeks of culminating research from anyone who would help him as he gathered enough information to finally solve his primary issue. The initial problem with many advanced A.I.s of the nature was the prime directive was to protect organic life at all costs, this was fundamentally flawed and resulted him trying to do so in any way in the way that he saw as be the most logical. This new creation had the prime directive of persevering all lifeforms. But it be programmed to do so in the least violent ways possible, even if it meant to achieve its goals through methods that were not the most logical in nature
After the body was created, the next matter would be figuring out how to combine it with the Accolade. It was made of pure energy and was continuously proving difficult to implement into it into form that was the body. Containing it alone was the was a task that even W.A.R.P. Laboratories had great difficulty achieving. After so many attempts finding away to harness the Elder Stone it seemed that it simply wasn't something that could simply not be contained, but would prove to be the key factor in the projects success. The Elder Stone was a sentient object that contained date going back to centuries ago. Arthur concluded that the stone was attempting to join itself to the with the programming of the body so that would in turn fuse itself with the artificial consciousnesses.
The stone was placed in the forehead of the body so that it could join with the programming and begin to upload itself into the consciousnesses. It would be kept in its "cradle" (a containment unit) and be left there for 24 hours so that it could download all required information. Once it was processing time was complete, its cradle was opened and the body was left on a table to see how it would react being in its new and larger environment. After a few minutes of lying there, it gained consciousness, but did not immediately begin operating the way that it was initially intended. It however quickly prove that it was capable of speech and had perfect comprehension of the words that it registered, in English that was. It was then given a Turing Test to see just how advanced it was.
After passing the said, its mind would be analyzed to further understand how it worked at perceiving the data that it constantly accumulated. It was shown that the Accolade was giving off wavelengths of unknown energies that were similar to the patterns of brain waves that would be found in a sentient organism. After it would shown to pose no threat against organic life, Arthur Mark cleared it to roam free within a limited radius so that it could continue to absorb information as well as provide Mark with answers as to how it consciousnesses truly worked. It would be allowed due as it pleased as long as it was within the law, all the while constantly being tracked and monitored by W.A.R.P. Laboratories' numerous satellites and its installed transponder.
Powers (W.I.P) The Accolade The stone held within Epitome's forehead is an ancient object that appears to have a strange mixture of scientific and magical abilities that have converged into a singular entity. Being an ancient object with arcane power that still misunderstood by all those that come across it, the stone itself seems to have unlimited potential for whoever held the device and studied absurd nature and capabilities:
Knowledge Acquisition: The stone grants Epitome the ability to absorb information simply by having physical contact with an object or being. The accuracy of the information various on how recent it as as well as its origin, usually taking a few seconds for the absorption process to complete. The knowledge that is received is pertains to abstract information such as how old an object is, where it has been, or in the case of a being, matters such as their emotional state and moral proclivities (Epitome itself does not feel these things however). It also gives centuries worth of information that can be accessed as "dreams". It also seems to have a strange connection to magic, being able to sense magical beings and communicate to them in a type of way.Energy Conversion & Projection: Being an object comprised of pure energy that is exotic in nature, it has shown the strange ability to serve a medium to channel and absorb various forms of energy to manipulate for Epitome's own use. It has been known to be able to absorb and manipulate energy variations such as: solar, thermal and radiant. When absorbing any of these types of energy, they can be reused and altered in a variety of ways. One example is being able to absorb nuclear radiation and alter its elemental composition to render what would normal be a lethal element harmless. Or if need be, absorb solar radiation passively and convert them to controlled rays of energy from the stone itself that can range as hot as 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit to over 5,000 Kelvin. The energy that is emitted from the accolade can be focused and refracted in various ways, due to the ridges that it contains.Psychic Immunity & Anti-Technopathy: Yet another ability that the accolade has is fortitude against forces that would seek to control or gain knowledge of Epitome "thoughts" and actions. The stone can naturally nullify and repel any type psychic influence that one may have over the object, such as an omega level telepath attempting to control Epitome's "mind" or read its thoughts. In turn, the eternal material and energetic sequences within the stone act very much like a code of sorts protected by a firewall or anti-virus protection, keeping any external frequencies or transmissions deemed harmful to the body from being able to hack Epitome and influence his programming in any way. Furthermore, not allowing anyone to read his "mental" code.Instantaneous Transmission: It's body being something of a computer program made physical, Epitome's physiology is capable of achieving feats that would normally be seen as capable by only typical software. However, the Accolade allow for such things, Epitome can allow itself to travel instantaneously through various telecommunication systems. The process of how this works is through the use of tachyons stored within the Accolade itself are sent to through various channels that would normally allow for a stream of radio waves, instead taking the stream of information from the stone itself and the recreation of Epitome in the location that had obtained the information, using the materials in the local atmosphere.Artificial Physiology The physical portion of Epitome's body was designed and created personally by Arthur Mark, as such was made to be the most effective and efficient physical form that an humanoid entity could have. Being designed for purely practical purposes, Epitome's body is composed of a various synthetic fibers designed into a mesh to replicate the texture of a super strong fabric, while its internal structure are various ligaments composed of titanium rods acting as "bones" for the "skin". More complicated, however, are the various operations that the body was created for in order to accomplish a wide variety of different tasks:
Longevity: Because of the chemical composition that its body is comprised of, Epitome does not age at the rate that the average organic being would. It has been appreciated that it would take a couple of centuries before its body's matter could even be broken down to the point of decomposition. In fact, Epitome could feasibly exist in in a functioning condition forever, should they have access to the needed materials that make up its body.
Inhuman Strength: Epitome's body is comprised of various elements that range from numerous metal compounds, to some organic materials. Their body can be mentally rearranged at a thought and be modified in such a way that they are able to manipulate its mass and energy concentration and distribution in order to increase the amount of force that the body can exert. Allowing Epitome can grant itself superhuman strength. It has been rerecorded to currently be able to lift a calculated 30,000 tons and exert as much force, but there is no known limit as to what extent this ability can extend to. Due to each ligament in the armor being bestowed with this design, this ability extends to lifting, pulling, pushing, dragging, crushing and throwing.
Inhuman Speed: Unlike the human body which uses a muscles, joints and tendons in order to move, Epitome however operates in a notably different fashion. While his movement is governed by directions sent from its "mind" throughout its body, much like how a brain would dictate the actions of a body via nervous system, Epitome is constructed with set of nano-electrical relays that circulate the body and manipulate the extent of the grander movements of its being. The extent of which has been shown to be able to manipulate actions of the bodies speed typically to the highest extent of Mach 100-120. Furthermore, the usable thermal energy stored within the body can also exploited into mechanical work, allowing Epitome to further enhance his already tremendous speed and achieve even more impressive feats in turn. This speed is also further applied to actions such as reflexes.
Material Manipulation The nature of Epitome's physical form is that of a system comprised of individual nanites that acts a "cells" for its body, each programmed to orient itself to the commands of its environment in order to allow the mass as a whole to operate as efficiently and conveniently as possible. Much like a computer program, the nanite based network will manipulate and orient themselves in anyway that the are instructed to. As a result, Epitome is in turn allowed complete over its own molecular structure. As such, this gives him the ability of having a variety of abilities, such as allowing Epitome to alter its viscosity of its take on the state of various fluids (e.g. take on the material form of gelatin, or, alter the elasticity within its own body in order to make its skin cells more akin to that of rubber. But one of the most impressive abilities being able to alter the orientation of the subatomic particles that compose the atom. As most masses are composed pure space between matter, it is the electrons that repel against each other, stopping masses from freely moving through each other. With dominion over this, Epitome can manipulate its electrons to seamlessly phase through objects, or become nigh-indestructible to means of physical force. Ultimately, this level of awareness and control allows for Epitome to maintain total bodily equilibrium. However, the more extreme the use of this ability, the longer it takes to activate.
Weight & Mass Manipulation: An extension of Epitome's ability to manipulate its body's physical composition, the ability can be utilized to alter the physiological effects of the various masses and substances that compose its body. Its entire structure being composed of a complex nanite based system, Epitome has the limited ability to manipulate free ambient liquids within its environment, which then in turn can lead to a variety of effects. With this, Epitome can temporarily send away a fleet of its body's nanites and absorb other atomic masses as a substitute, in order to achieve a particular goal in respects to its bodily structure as a whole. Though, its original mass of nanites can be contained and add on more mass elements, just for the sake of gaining a surplus of mass. An example of this ability's use would be the absorption of a cloud of helium in order to become incredibly light, or uranium to become incredibly heavy. And within the case of non-fluids however, this process of matter absorption can only be achieved through physical contact, and generally requires a longer period of time to fully achieve its effect. But either way, makes its body's mass and weight subject to Epitome's desires.
Flight With the ability manipulate its orientation of each nanite, Epitome is able to manipulate the various fluids and forms of energy that travel throughout its body and uses them as a means of enhancing its normally grounded status to that of ariel ability. The first means of achieving this through the controlling of the material state of each individual "cell" in its body to act is if it were in a weightless environment, afterwards, repelling against each other in a chain of kinetic energy that naturally propels the complete mass in any direction that is desired. The second means that this can be achieved is through the process aerodynamic propulsion, in which, any medium that Epitome passes through may be forcefully expelled throughout the space of its body, as long as it is a fluid. The third means of achieving this is through thermal energy explosion, which is normally reserved for the rare cases in which the energy reserves of Epitome's body require the expulsion of heat in order to sustain flight. The varying use of each of these allows Epitome to fly as fast as Mach 35.
Invisibility: Yet another ability that comes as a product of Epitome unique physical build is ability to manipulate its molecular structure in such a way that allows it to bypass the normal function that would occur in the case of optic reflection. More specifically, Epitome can allow each individual photon in its environment to simply pass through its body in a semi-tangible state, as opposed to the lights rays being reflected off of itself, and said image of its being getting created by the visual center of whatever being may come upon the android. The result being that it can allow itself to become effectively invisible.
Shape-Shifting: Yet another ability that such precise control over his body grants is the ability for Epitome to alter and manipulate the appearance of his body. This is done by a means of refracting the individual wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum and selecting the frequency/color of its choosing, having access to over 50,000,000 different colors. Furthermore, combined with the ability alter its material composition, Epitome can achieve effects of altering its shape and size into virtually any for that it can physically change into. Even going so far as to include minute details such as a unique finger print and mimic DNA as well as possible. Furthermore, Epitome is able to record and any noise that he detects, record and analyze it to its most basic elements of wavelengths and sound intensity, allowing him to deduce the nature of its origin. In turn, the vocal modulation program allowing him to mimic any object or being to its full extent with near 100% accuracy, after being exposed to just one sample its noise, as well as making virtually any unique sounds that it desires.
Regenerative Reconstruction: Being able to manipulate its molecular structure and use ambient particulates in its environment, Epitome can heal itself from virtually any injury that is inflicted upon its body. The time taken to repair itself depends on the severity of the damage, for example, its requires a matter of hours for damage such as extreme dismemberment and destruction in its entirety to repair the body back to its original state.
Advanced Awareness As a way of insuring that Epitome has nigh-omniscient awareness of whatever immediate environment that it is located numerous faculties that would be found in a human being or average humanoid have been enhanced to what would be considered superhuman levels. And due to the processing system of the system's sensory feedback, none of the collected environmental data being able to overwhelm Epitome in any capacity:
Advanced Optical Perception - The lenses within the eyes of Epitome not only take the role of its pupils, but allow it to see to an extent that far surpasses most, if not all metahuman that exist on Earth. Designed with an advanced focal length and ultra wide angle, it allows Epitome to perceive objects at a distance as far as 4.5 km, as well as view objects within his line of sight at 180° . More than that, they are designed with highly selective spectrometers that allow for the sight and detection of any frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum. As an extension of this, Epitome vision allows it to magnify images to the extent where it perceive the individual molecules and energy exchanges that compose whatever form of matter that it perceives. But most impressively, it "mental" processing system does not posses any optical delay when perceiving images, and instead sees the world as closely to reality as possible, allowing for it too see the world as one "long take", as opposed to many snap shots (e.g. watching each individual flap of a bee's wings).Advanced Auditory Perception - In the place of ears and all faculties that are accompanied with them, Epitome instead has in place sophisticated microphones placed on the sides of his head that are able to detect and comprehend sounds that most other beings would not be aware of, as well as extremely high frequencies. This has allowed Epitome the ability to pick up audio output of of sounds as quite as 0.05 decibels, and with the sue of vibrational rods within the microphones, Epitome can also clearly detect sound frequencies in the range of 1Hz - 200 kHz. As an extension of this, Epitome is designed with and audio filter that is able to cancel out and isolate only the sounds that it desires.Advanced Physical Perception - The human body is constructed with a diverse set of receptors located in the skin, and various other body parts, that serve that gain the physical information of their environment, either passively or by direct contact. The result of said information is converted into a signal that is then understood by the nervous system and then sent to the brain in order to gain information physical surroundings. The three types of receptors being thermoreceptors (heat), nociceptors (pain), and mechanoreceptors (mechanical sensation). While not constructed the same organic material, Epitome's nanites contain and more efficient version of this function. As a result to their network based design as well as their self awareness, the nanites have the ability to detect and transmit physical (not including pain) information to Epitome's central intelligence. Giving it vast environmental knowledge of temperature, pressure, friction, tension and elasticity down to the molecular level, either passively or through direct contact.Self-Sustenance & Pure Efficiency: As an android, Epitome does not require sleep, food or drink in order to survive. In addition to this, Epitome's non-organic construction does not produce fatigue toxins, and as such, does not tire and can work to the brink of the physical limitations of its body's mechanical ability.
Abilities Advanced Artificial Intelligence & Databases As opposed to the typical neurological structure that would be found in any basic human or humanoid species, Epitome's "brain" is an highly advanced and sophisticated form of artificial intelligence. As opposed to the impressive albeit relatively limited abilities of a standard strong artificial intelligence systems, the particular one that is implemented in this technology is designed and programmed to act similarly to a human mind, but without the certain flaws, discrepancies and unnecessary factors that would limit intellectual efficiency (e.g. emotion). As such, Epitome's intelligence is not based off of simple learning software in the forms of numerous algorithms, but rather, a complicated network of computational technology that have been structured in a formation directly based off of a human brain. The result being that it has achieved the greatest abilities of any artificial intelligence system while maintaining a level of internal and external awareness that borders on that of sentience. This allows Epitome to achieve virtually any number of tasks that I human would fulfill with vastly greater speed and efficiency.
As a result of its unrivaled machine learning abilities combined with its passive diagnostic protocols, Epitome can perform nigh-flawless consumption and analytical assessment of countless streams of information and enact the most practical methods conceived for the situation, which is then attributed to its learning that can be effortlessly called upon for future usage. Furthermore, this allows for the implement numerous human-like methods with uncanny similarity and efficiency (e.g. patter recognition, problem solving, logical reasoning, creative thinking, etc), allowing Epitome to understand concepts that could stump inhumanly intelligent beings as well as accomplish many complex tasks. This is further boosted by Epitome's nanotechnology enhanced processing systems that allows the android to cycle through countless terabytes of information and complex calculations in a matter of minutes, if not seconds (e.g. being able to process data in seconds that could take a supercomputer decades). Lastly, the android's access to both W.A.R.P. Laboratories and Arthur Mark's personal databases gives seemingly limitless data of Earth as well as numerous other other worlds.
Multilingual & Technopathy: Epitome can speak, write and comprehend all languages spoken on Earth as well as numerous ones that aren't native to the planet, due to having access to the memory of its creators obtained language filters from space. With that, Epitome is also well versed in hundreds of aliens languages from throughout numerous galaxies. However, due to it extensive computational knowledge and ability, it also has the natural ability to read and comprehend a wide variety of different communications systems on the planet, such as, coding and encrypted messages that make up an algorithm or cryptogram. Naturally, any form of signal or communication otherwise can be decoded and understood by Epitome. Furthermore, enhanced with these vast computational abilities, Epitome can also to achieve such effects of being able to influence and control a wide range of technology, both standard and exotic.
Master Combatant: While designed with directive of being completely harmless to any and all organic beings, Epitome is however equipped with the tactical ability to engage in combat, should the reason for it arise. And as such, it has since developed its own personal, adaptive fighting style that designed to allow it to operate with maximum capability, regardless of what environment that it takes place. Making it a unique and impossibly difficult combatant to defeat. As an extension of this, it has access to all knows forms of combat on the planet Earth, and can refer to any fighting move or complete style in an instant.
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Weaknesses To be found...
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