Name: Twisted Train Terror (Triple T for short).
Gender: Female
Race: Bullet Train (technically of the Anisophorus race)
Age: Presumably around 1,000+ years
Faction: None yet
Appearance: Think standard bullet train (
here) from Japan. Her front and back ends are the same to allow her to travel in either direction, smooth to the touch to provide minimal resistance from air. They are set with a single window pane which spreads across and above the “nose”, but unlike a standard bullet train, there is a single, red camera above the very center of the window through which she can see. Triple T often has
at least three passenger carrying cars, with three large windows on each side along with four doors. Cargo containers lack windows, but the top of the car will open up to reveal what is inside.
Additionally, she is painted black, with a white stripe running along near the bottom, and she is made of conductive metal. She runs along magnetic rails, hovering above them, so she has no wheels. Without the rails, however, and unbeknownst to humans, she projects her own with electricity, allowing her to ride in the air and above oceans, and even into space. Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Personality: Triple T is a bullet train, and as such, you would expect her to not have any personality. Cold, calculating, ruthless in performance and never complaining, that is how she should act. Indeed, that is how she acts with people on board, barring the occasional odd coding quirk. She pretends to be nothing more than a machine, and does it very well. The question is how does she act outside of this? Does she retain her ruthless façade and act without intention, or does she exhibit some other behavior, or shred of personality?
Ahahahahaha, no. Triple T is by no means a mere machine in regards to personality. As soon as the humans leave, as soon as she is alone, she breaks free from the confines of cold mechanical calculations. In truth, it is incredibly hard and boring for her to do the mundane task of cargo – and person – carrying, without blowing her cover, and she has to retain her jittery, excitable nature without a noise. To say that is difficult for someone of her nature would be a severe underestimation. Seriously, don’t do it.
She is the very definition of a screw not gone loose, but ripped completely off its bolt; that’s considering the fact screws don’t typically have bolts, either. She’s completely nuts. Yes, I went there. She is joyously insane, often laughing at her own fanciful, mindful creations that only she can see. If Triple T had a mouth, it would be cocked in a half smile or full on grin nearly one hundred percent of the time. It’s on full throttle, constantly spewing out what she sees or feels, or perhaps even a random word. She tends to repeat herself several times, lending credit to the theory she jumped off the cliff quite some time ago… or rather, did a belly flop.
Her patience level is another story, however. They change constantly depending on the task she is given. Hiding is not her forte, and it leaves her restless but not enough to risk breaking her cover too much. Being stuck doing mundane, boring tasks for too long however can lead this normally happy, nice train into a grumbling, irritated mood. She can be dangerous when like this, but generally due to forgetfulness (which aside from her tasks, she tends to have a bit) and coming down to a case of “I didn’t see you in front of me”. Coming from a train that runs at the average speed of 200 MPH and up, it boils down to quite a lot of pain.
There are very rare moments, however, when it seems a long forgotten shred of her personality can reassert itself within her core personality. It takes control of the situation, becoming commanding and calm, and while able to joke, she is a bit more serious when this occurs. It is very rare and just as soon as it occurs, it disappears, and when asked about it she remains as enigmatic as ever. Or she can’t remember.
Or she doesn’t care. Eh.
She also really likes swords and gets extremely excited when she sees them.
Weapon[s]:
Heat seeking rockets – Twenty four total, twelve on each end. The chamber is on her “head(s)”, the very top having well hidden hatches. Six lie on each side, which can be defined as left and right, from the reference of the camera “eye”. They can be fired simultaneously or rapidly with no break, the latter using the fact that as the right side reloads the left can be firing and vice versa. The other head remains inactive for the fight, however, she is capable of switching to it and firing as she flies away. Triple T is a bit tricky like that.
Built for cargo carrying, she really doesn’t have any other weapons.
Abilities:
Solar Charging/Cooling Capacity – She has potent batteries which recharge on light. Her black color scheme was designed to take advantage of this fact and absorb more light, while the long, wide white stripes on each of her chassis reflects light and act as heat vents to get rid of the excess heat caused by the very essence of light absorption. This helps her system, which normally cools by the volume of speed she travels as well as the cold of space, remain safe from overloading.
Electromagnetic Shield – Triple T is capable of projecting a shield around her, which is strong enough to repel small objects (a basketball would be a good approximation). It also can absorb electricity and heat, while blocking EMFs, various types of wavelengths and energy based projectiles. It strains her systems to block energy, however, so it’s often used to block debris as she travels through space.
Analyzing – She’s a machine, and as such, is capable of processing great amounts of information, storing it, and using it for later. She is a moderately good hacker, and has been browsing the internet to keep herself amused.
Vision – She can switch to infrared vision, enhance and zoom, and also block out sunlight. It is very sensitive to light, which she uses to track objects in the night sky as she travels.
Electrical Rails – With a special machine build into her main “heads”, she is capable of generation two electrical rails that she can run on. The electricity generates a small amount of magnetism, so while it appears she is running directly on the electricity, there is actually a
very thin gap between them that is invisible to the naked eye. Her entire body is conductive to electricity, however, and uses any stray taps to recharge the battery, from the rails or otherwise.
Gripping Claws – There are two hatches on her trunk, in front of the glass, for two mechanical arms to come out. They are lengthy and function very much like any human hands, although more pointed and much longer for the arm. They can move in any direction.
Dimensional Tear Device – A bit archaic, Triple T has a dimensional tear decide. It works based on speed and charge. In space, there is very little, if any, friction, so she is able to get to a very high speed and with the abundant light (she generally hops from sun to sun, outside of the atmosphere but still within the powerful magnetic field), she is able to get to a high enough speed where the machine can generate a pulse that opens a tear in front of her. She enters into a pocket dimension, devoid of sensory information, oxygen, light, and objects; the temperature is absolute zero. This pocket dimension cuts travel time by ninety-nine percent, by acting as a connection between destinations. She has to keep moving as she is actively travelling through the tear, if she stops the machine cannot keep it open and it will collapse, leaving her trapped. Should her battery run out, she will be doomed with no way to charge.
It drains a fair amount from her energy reserves, easily taking 25%. As such, she can’t spam it, and performing it in the atmosphere of a planet would drain more energy due to friction and cause abnormalities in the magnetic field, and an overall weakened stability in the affected area that other dimensions could exploit. This is due to the planet’s weaker magnetic field not being able to collapse the rift as quickly.
Background: Triple T did not start out as a flying, space faring bullet train. In fact, she is from a race of creatures best described as an electrical eel and dragonfly hybrid, going by the name of Anisophorus. Her home world is the giant moon Gloowe’Ma, which is tidally locked to the gas giant Zaok’Pa. There are several other moons that have been terraformed or mined, as well as other planets; the only other thing of note is the name of the solar system, Lital, and the star being Lital’Lo.
The race, to briefly put it, has four arms and two legs, along with four wings and a long tail (bipedal dragonfly), however, they bear the head of an eel with the antenna of the insect. Eyes are hidden behind a clear lens of varying colors (think of Flygon), and they had fins running down their head to their tail, as well as on their arms and back of the legs. There is some webbing between fingers, which have the two digits and a thumb (the feet have two claws and a big toe, but it is capable of rotating to the back). They are generally dark colored, with luminescent spots running down beside their fins, such as the back and arms. They breathe through their skin, and can survive in water for extended periods of time.
In any case, Triple T’s name is actually named Ru’Ella. She was an intelligent weapon smith and prided herself on the swords she could make, endowing them properties from the earth and being well respected. As time passed, however, she was struck with a crippling and rare ailment known as LRS (Limb Rot Syndrome), in which her body began to attack her limbs. The veins became so heavily damaged that blood flow could no longer reach them, and as such, the limbs began to die and eventually rot. Painful and inevitably fatal, she was given a second chance in the ABR (Anisophorus Body Replacement) Program, having her mind – and thus soul – bound into a bullet train to enhance trading with other worlds.
As decades passed, however, she began to lose her mind as well as become more outdated. She could not do what she wanted to do anymore, and missed being able to feel. She went nuts and took dangerous chances, trying to prove to herself that she was still alive. This last time, however, did not pay off very well, as she had jumped to Earth’s system to recharge. She tried to jump once more with her DTD, but did it too close to the asteroid belt, and as a result her shield smashed into one that was too large for it to take. It sent a shockwave and overstrained her system, frying the active device and stranding her until she could get it repaired. Effectively wounded, she travelled to Earth and slipped in during an intense solar flare – the satellites being turned off to avoid damage – and made landfall in Japan, where she hacked her way into the database and became “employed” there.
She’s been biding her time for the last few years, waiting as her system tries to repair itself, or until humanity becomes advanced enough to handle what she has to tell.
Other: Anisophorus – (Anisoptera + Electrophorus, the genus for dragonfly and electric eels, respectively.)
Gloowe – Corruption of Glow, “Ma”, like mother. The moon is a planet larger than Earth (called a "Super Earth") that was captured, and has a large amount of oxygen, and three times the gravity of Earth. It is covered by approximately 70% water, and has an orbit of approximately 3 Earth days. It suffers frequent eclipses due to its partner, and large tides. Due to how magnetic both its star and parent planet are, Gloowe'Ma has frequent lightning storms, and as such most life has learned to resist or use electricity.
Zaok – Zap and Shock, “Pa” like father. A large gas giant that's bigger than Jupiter, it is extremely active with its magnetic field due to its closer proximity to its sun. It lies in the habitable zone, and has around twenty-six moons, three of which are Earth sized or bigger, the biggest being Gloowe'Ma.
Lital – Light and Eternal. “Lo”, lord. A main sequence type of star similar to the Sun but slightly smaller, Lital'Lo is around 5.3 billion years old and will not become a Red Giant for another 7 or so billion years. Lital'Lo is small, but dense, and it is highly magnetic due to Zaok'Pa's close distance. Their extensive magnetic fields tangle and cause the sun to flare (hence dubbing it a "flare star"), increasing its brightness across the spectrum briefly. Due to this, it causes a lot of havoc on the other planets and moons, but it is possible it may have helped trigger life. Lital'Lo will become a Red Giant, but it lacks the mass to explode and will eventually ends its days as a White Dwarf.
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