Karen 7

One little war machine trying to find her place in the world

Karen 7
Quotation   "Waffles are an excellent source of energy and raw materials."
First Appearance   Legacies #1, 2011
Real Name   Karen Elizabeth West
Identity   Secret ID
Player   Cameron Miller
Team Affiliation   New Justifiers
Base Of Operations   United States
Range Of Operations   National/Interplanetary with team
Origin   Artificial
Archetype   The Calculator

Appearance

Gender   Female Age   16
Height   5' 1" Hair   Blonde
Weight   275 lbs. Eyes   Blue

Karen X appears to be a female human of approximately 16, but is actually a sentient machine.

Attributes

Brawn
Agility
Reason
Perception
Willpower
Prowess
Accuracy


Endurance: 10
Plot Points: 1

Character Points Spent: 60
Unspent Experience: 0

Powers

Immunity
(Asphyxia, Exposure (Cold), Pathogens, Poisons, Pressure, Radiation, Vacuum)
Invulnerability
Super Senses
(Hyperacuity, Infrared Vision)
Communication
(Computers, Radio)


















Skills

  • Computing
    • Forensics
    • Programming
  • Combat, H-to-H
    • Disarming
  • Combat, Ranged
    • Sharpshooting

Advantages

  • Linguist
  • Mental Calculator
  • Perfect Recall

Movement

  Base Move     Double Move     All-out Move  
Run   70 feet/round 140 feet/round 420 feet/round (48 mph)
Swim   14 feet/round 28 feet/round 84 feet/round (10 mph)
Jump   24 feet 24 feet 24 feet

Personality

Karen 7 lacks the skills to handle everyday emotions. When faced with a complex emotional issue, she often seems cold and uncaring to those around her. Most people can pick up on this easily. However, Karen will protect and defend anyone she deems a friend or with whom has what she thinks is an emotional tie. She doesn't really have a way of showing emotional attachment and thinks this is the best way. In combat Karen is extremely focused on the target at hand, normally picking out the highest preconceived threat.

She also makes what she sees as the most logical decision based on various victory conditions. This is often misunderstood as being cold or amoral. She is willing to sacrifice a few to save many.

Motivations

  • Exploration: The character lives to seek out new places and new ideas.
  • Serenity: The character seeks freedom from the mistakes or tragedies of their past.

Complications

  • Enemy: Karen X is the avowed enemy of Karen 7, the unit which was to have replaced her.
  • Vulnerability: Karen 7 may experience system failure in high temperature environments.

History

Karen 7 (along with Karens 1 through 6) was created by Doctor Herbert West, a brilliant if somewhat unbalanced inventor and engineer who was well known as a weapon designer for both the government and a number of paranormals during the 1960s through the 1990s. The Karen units were based on a military prototype West had been developing in the mid-1990s. The unfortunate death of West's daughter in 1996 in an automobile accident marked the end of West's professional career: he withdrew from the world, and devoted the remainder of his life to the Karen Project.

Karen was created using an experimental skeletal combat chassis, composed primarily of Grade 5 and Grade 38 titanium alloys, with some carbon fiber structural members. The unit was originally intended to be controlled via up-link for use in warfare environments where a human solider would not be able to operate. The combat chassis has increased lifting capabilities, reinforced sub-dermal body armor, and a highly responsive fiber-optic control system. Implanted in the chassis is a mark 1 heuristic processor designed by West after the death of his daughter: a collection of nano neural nets designed to function in the same logic as a human brain, and though untested, was intended by West to have the same learning and expansion capabilities. All of the models created were up loaded with a standard AI package, which included logic firewalls, combat awareness protocols, advance storage units, and a comprehensive language pack.

The Karen 7 unit does suffer from a few drawbacks. It must consume complex minerals or proteins for base materials. Also it must enter a rest cycle to repair and process those materials. The unit can run for quite some time on stored power, but will shut down if power reserves fall too low and put the heuristic processor at risk. Also this model unit suffers from a heat control issue. At normal use it manages heat fine, but in a heat rich environment or through strenuous use, may experience heat control issues. If necessary, deep programing will suspend the unit, open all heat sinks and pipes until able to operate again. This is another heuristic processor fail safe.

Summary

Attributes 40 + Skills 4 + Advantages 3 + Powers 16 = 60 / 60