Post by Cordite on May 8, 2009 11:19:57 GMT -5
Name: Andrew Cheung
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5'4"
Physique: Slim, pale skin.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Clothing description: Seasonal, usually a t-shirt and shorts or maybe a hoodie.
Occupation (optional): High School student
Home City: Walsh
Housing location: Walsh Suburbs
Backstory:
Andrew Cheung was born an underweight and undernourished infant to impoverished immigrant parents. His doctors did not give him a hopeful lease on life when they first looked at him, and predicted chronic shortness of breath and physical illnesses in his life to come. Unable to shoulder the burden of another child, especially one so needy and weak, Cheung's parents entered him into a US state adoption agency, after which he was entered into an orphanage.
There, he stayed for three years, until his immense intelligence and capability for multitasking and spatial thinking attracted the eye of the then-shadowy VEIL government agency.
Interested in his capabilities, VEIL kidnapped Andrew, using a 'terrorist bombing' of the orphanage as a cover-up for his disappearance. Along with countless other talented children, VEIL entered Andrew in the unambiguously unethical VISCUS program, a military program designed to produce a coordinator capable of handling the usage of the largest single military investment the United States had seen.
The construction USS Midway, the first and only in the line of the enormous Midway class battleship-carrier hybrids, was organized and produced by the military division of EGOcorp, EGOarms, in a lucrative multi-billion dollar contract that was without a doubt awarded not due to the usefulness of the excessively large warship-- two whole miles long-- but due to the string-pulling of ex-generals in both EGOarms and government institutions like VEIL and the Department of Defense. The ship, capable of delivering devastating railgun barrages, short and long range missile fire, and fielding hundreds of unmanned supersonic stealth bombers and fighters, was largely panned, from the start, by a rightfully skeptical public as more an exercise in phallic imagery than a sensible government project.
For one thing, no crew and no captain could adequately control the entire thing. There were simply too many weapons systems, too much information, too much stuff in general for any ordinary human to handle, the latency between reports made dry-runs of the ship's operations too slow. Normal carrier groups were proven to be far more efficient.
Desperate to find a way to make the Midway ships click with the public and with the consternating President, VEIL launched the VISCUS program.
Drilled for four years on a constant regimen of advanced mathematics and engineering, far beyond a graduate level, as well as tactics, strategy, and logistics, 80% of VISCUS 'recruits' died of overwork, abuse, or were lost to insanity and suicide. Cheung was among the few who survived this early stage of the program, and was left mostly mentally intact, at that.
Then came a breakthrough. A Dr. Akatsuki, a VEIL scientist with few moral platitudes, discovered the technology behind what would become the basis for the HECATONCHIRE augmentation, and, in a two year process, applied it to the remaining 20% of the originally thousand strong group. Only one boy survived. The rest were twisted, consumed, or torn apart by the augmentation.
Cheung, the lone survivor, felt something he'd never experienced before, for he'd known nothing else-- hate. The agony of the augmentation turned him against his masters, and for another five years his resentment festered.
Then came the day of the christening. Cheung, placed within the interface-chamber of the USS Midway for the first time, was ordered to shove off into the harbor of Mercury City, as a part of its christening celebration. Nobody knew, of course, of the tortured soul behind its helm, and it was perhaps this unknowing that pushed Cheung over the edge. He fired his weapons into the city, launched his planes, and in his wrath created the incident that would come to be known as the Mercury Bay Massacre. After an entire week of fire, the military finally destroyed the wayward Midway, and the shadowy actions of VEIL were revealed in a massive public furor. The existence of Andrew Cheung, the Midway’s biological core, was never revealed, however, and Dr. Akatsuki and many VEIL operatives were never tried, and many received cushy jobs as professors at universities or received contracting works in other fields. To this day, the wreck of the Midway remains in Mercury Bay, too large to be removed (though it is thoroughly disarmed at this point).
Cheung, however, survived, and burning with resentment, he set forth with a new name-- Cordite, the substance that propelled bullets. Operating online as a gunrunner, Cordite slowly amassed arms and made a name for himself robbing banks and destroying EGOcorp labs, until one day, he vanished. The FBI had no idea where he'd went, nor did any other government agency.
Andrew had wanted to try his had at an ordinary life, and now, 17 years old, Cheung is a nondescript, painfully shy highschooler enrolled in highschool in Walsh.....
Cordite's alter-ego, Andrew Cheung, is not the same as the Andrew Cheung that was abducted into the VISCUS program. Here, attending high school in Walsh, Cordite is simply Andrew Cheung, the painfully shy, haltingly speaking engineering nerd who lives alone on an allowance from his parents, who work abroad.
Cheung's parents are divorced rich industrialists who do administrative work in Africa and Japan, and therefore send him money every so often to keep him afloat as he receives an education.
At school, he receives top marks in math and sciences, but struggles with English and social studies. He is unsociable and keeps to himself, though he is also nondescript enough to avoid being bullied as well.
Unbeknownst to most of his peers, who never speak more than a passing word to him, Cheung is living as a weary and tired Cordite in disguise, a basement laboratory filled with weapons no more than a few flights of steps from his living room, his Carapace armor hanging in his closet....
Other:
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5'4"
Physique: Slim, pale skin.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Clothing description: Seasonal, usually a t-shirt and shorts or maybe a hoodie.
Occupation (optional): High School student
Home City: Walsh
Housing location: Walsh Suburbs
Backstory:
Andrew Cheung was born an underweight and undernourished infant to impoverished immigrant parents. His doctors did not give him a hopeful lease on life when they first looked at him, and predicted chronic shortness of breath and physical illnesses in his life to come. Unable to shoulder the burden of another child, especially one so needy and weak, Cheung's parents entered him into a US state adoption agency, after which he was entered into an orphanage.
There, he stayed for three years, until his immense intelligence and capability for multitasking and spatial thinking attracted the eye of the then-shadowy VEIL government agency.
Interested in his capabilities, VEIL kidnapped Andrew, using a 'terrorist bombing' of the orphanage as a cover-up for his disappearance. Along with countless other talented children, VEIL entered Andrew in the unambiguously unethical VISCUS program, a military program designed to produce a coordinator capable of handling the usage of the largest single military investment the United States had seen.
The construction USS Midway, the first and only in the line of the enormous Midway class battleship-carrier hybrids, was organized and produced by the military division of EGOcorp, EGOarms, in a lucrative multi-billion dollar contract that was without a doubt awarded not due to the usefulness of the excessively large warship-- two whole miles long-- but due to the string-pulling of ex-generals in both EGOarms and government institutions like VEIL and the Department of Defense. The ship, capable of delivering devastating railgun barrages, short and long range missile fire, and fielding hundreds of unmanned supersonic stealth bombers and fighters, was largely panned, from the start, by a rightfully skeptical public as more an exercise in phallic imagery than a sensible government project.
For one thing, no crew and no captain could adequately control the entire thing. There were simply too many weapons systems, too much information, too much stuff in general for any ordinary human to handle, the latency between reports made dry-runs of the ship's operations too slow. Normal carrier groups were proven to be far more efficient.
Desperate to find a way to make the Midway ships click with the public and with the consternating President, VEIL launched the VISCUS program.
Drilled for four years on a constant regimen of advanced mathematics and engineering, far beyond a graduate level, as well as tactics, strategy, and logistics, 80% of VISCUS 'recruits' died of overwork, abuse, or were lost to insanity and suicide. Cheung was among the few who survived this early stage of the program, and was left mostly mentally intact, at that.
Then came a breakthrough. A Dr. Akatsuki, a VEIL scientist with few moral platitudes, discovered the technology behind what would become the basis for the HECATONCHIRE augmentation, and, in a two year process, applied it to the remaining 20% of the originally thousand strong group. Only one boy survived. The rest were twisted, consumed, or torn apart by the augmentation.
Cheung, the lone survivor, felt something he'd never experienced before, for he'd known nothing else-- hate. The agony of the augmentation turned him against his masters, and for another five years his resentment festered.
Then came the day of the christening. Cheung, placed within the interface-chamber of the USS Midway for the first time, was ordered to shove off into the harbor of Mercury City, as a part of its christening celebration. Nobody knew, of course, of the tortured soul behind its helm, and it was perhaps this unknowing that pushed Cheung over the edge. He fired his weapons into the city, launched his planes, and in his wrath created the incident that would come to be known as the Mercury Bay Massacre. After an entire week of fire, the military finally destroyed the wayward Midway, and the shadowy actions of VEIL were revealed in a massive public furor. The existence of Andrew Cheung, the Midway’s biological core, was never revealed, however, and Dr. Akatsuki and many VEIL operatives were never tried, and many received cushy jobs as professors at universities or received contracting works in other fields. To this day, the wreck of the Midway remains in Mercury Bay, too large to be removed (though it is thoroughly disarmed at this point).
Cheung, however, survived, and burning with resentment, he set forth with a new name-- Cordite, the substance that propelled bullets. Operating online as a gunrunner, Cordite slowly amassed arms and made a name for himself robbing banks and destroying EGOcorp labs, until one day, he vanished. The FBI had no idea where he'd went, nor did any other government agency.
Andrew had wanted to try his had at an ordinary life, and now, 17 years old, Cheung is a nondescript, painfully shy highschooler enrolled in highschool in Walsh.....
Cordite's alter-ego, Andrew Cheung, is not the same as the Andrew Cheung that was abducted into the VISCUS program. Here, attending high school in Walsh, Cordite is simply Andrew Cheung, the painfully shy, haltingly speaking engineering nerd who lives alone on an allowance from his parents, who work abroad.
Cheung's parents are divorced rich industrialists who do administrative work in Africa and Japan, and therefore send him money every so often to keep him afloat as he receives an education.
At school, he receives top marks in math and sciences, but struggles with English and social studies. He is unsociable and keeps to himself, though he is also nondescript enough to avoid being bullied as well.
Unbeknownst to most of his peers, who never speak more than a passing word to him, Cheung is living as a weary and tired Cordite in disguise, a basement laboratory filled with weapons no more than a few flights of steps from his living room, his Carapace armor hanging in his closet....
Other: