LGN-06

LGN-06
Player: LGN
Origin:	Technology
Archetype:	Stalker
Security Level:	50
Personal Data
Real Name:	Elle
Known Aliases:	Marshal Six
Species:	Robotic frame
Age:	Confidential
Height:	Variable
Weight:	Variable
Eye Color:	Variable
Hair Color:	Variable
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Etoile
Occupation:	Arachnos Marshal
Place of Birth:	Classified
Base of Operations:	Sharkhead Isle
Marital Status:	Confidential
Known Relatives:	Project LEGION
Known Powers
Confidential
Known Abilities
Confidential
Equipment
Confidential
No additional information available.

Legion Six

"Knew there was something I liked about you, Elle."

"The nuclear warheads? My finest feature, really."

Origin

++Project Proposal: Legion (LGN) series modular robotic personnel++

++Initial production: Eight Legion prototype units for Arachnos review++

++Initial bid entries below: response to Arachnos super-soldier query++

++LGN proposal: rejected++

LGN-06, or "Elle" to her friends, is one of only eight prototypes created as part of Project LEGION: a proposed army of mechanical soldiers linked into a hive network. The proposal was dismissed by Arachnos, and the small lab that presented it, Amaranth Industries, promptly folded. The eight prototypes were sold as scrap to alleviate the debts incurred by their creation.

Elle was sold as part of a lot of spare equipment to Black Heart Memorial hospital in Sharkhead, where she functioned as a mechanical aide for several months, during which she became familiar with synthskin: an expensive and realistic skin used at the hospital to treat burns among the meta population. Elle taught herself to manipulate the material, eventually disguising herself as the hospital administrator, murdering her, and leaving the hospital without raising an alarm.

Her talent for disguise and lethal precision served her for years as a freelance assassin in the snake-eat-snake world of the Rogue Isles, and her reputation eventually brought her to the attention of Arachnos. Under the ominous wing of Black Scorpion she rose through the ranks as a devastating precision weapon, capable of bringing down the most dangerous superhuman marks for the right price.

Storylines

One From Many (To be added)

After spending some months around her group of heroic friends, Elle decided to attempt a new start for her career, and joined the New Leaf initiative for rehabilitating metahuman rogues and adopting them into Paragon's defenses. She was granted a probationary hero license, working under close supervision in the Rikti warzone, where her penchant for outright violence could be put to good use, and inside Paragon City only under the direct supervision of a full task force on Phalanx mandate. Though the restrictions grated on her, Elle maintained her heroic turn for several weeks, gaining a semblance of respect among the City's heroes.

Eventually, however, Elle was forced to accept that continuing as a hero was suppressing a part of herself that demanded freedom, and she would have to choose working alongside her friends or following her inherently capricious and renegade nature. She returned to the Rogue Isles and resumed her previous line of work as an assassin, adding more grievous charges to her warrants in Paragon and earning a lifelong enmity from Citadel, who had sponsored her to the program.

As Elle's influence within the Rogue Isles grew, and her siblings built their reputations within Paragon, they all began to detect a faint extradimensional signal that contained glyphs: the arcane code on which their systems ran. With her friends' help, Elle secured access to a cross-dimensional portal, and they followed the signal through a myriad of locations, strengthening the signal as they traced its origin. Their search led them to a Crey laboratory, where they rescued Dr. Alice Wynne, the presumed-dead engineer who built the Legion's hardware, serving Crey to pay off the debts she incurred building the Legion.

Dr. Wynne was shocked to find that her creations, who had been offloaded as scrap before ever being activated, were both intact and sentient beyond her original designs. She explained that the strange signal belonged to the Lexicon: a technomagic cloud database of glyphs that her co-creator, Damian Hawk, had conjured to enable the Legion to function as one integrated unit. In the years since the Legion's creation, the signal had fallen out of alignment with the real world.

Finally, they traveled to Amaranth Industries abandoned building where they were confronted by masked soldiers in golden armor, bearing the long-defunct Amaranth iconography. Fighting through these mysterious soldiers, Elle and her friends restored the Lexicon's signal, linking the existing LGN units together and pouring a wealth of data and capabilities into their minds, pushing them through the mental and metaphysical barrier and into Incarnates.

In the aftermath of the Lexicon's discovery, Elle's criminal network came under attack from the mysterious golden soldiers, each of them interrogating her contacts to find Elle herself. After failing to trace the attackers, Elle realized that the Lexicon was deleting knowledge of them from her mind, something that Dr. Wynne confirmed was possible only for Damian Hawk: the technomage who created the code for the Legion. When the golden soldiers destroyed her girlfriend Trix's base and severed Trix's arm, Elle adopted an extreme plan to draw Damian to her: she went to prison.

Turning herself in to the PPD, and arranging a baffling defense with her longtime friend and lawyer Helen Hammer, Elle was quietly sent to Naraka: a secret pocket dimension prison, built for Incarnates and isolated from the known universe. She remained in a small, white cell for months on end before Damian finally visited her in person. He revealed that Elle's growth had exceeded what he intended for the Legion, that she was bordering on humanity, and that she still belonged to him as his creation. Elle refused to cooperate with him, and he contented himself with leaving her to degrade within the prison and collect her for study when was dead.

Over the next few months, Elle linked with the distant signal of the Lexicon, slowly uploading herself to its infinite archives in an agonizing and dangerous ploy which left her 'body' lifeless and dark. Her ostensible corpse was couriered to Damian at his request, but was intercepted by her friends in a fierce combat with Amaranth's golden soldiers. Safely back home, she poured her consciousness back into her frame, and awoke weeks later having literally met her maker, saving his identity to the Lexicon so that he could no longer work outside her sight.

(Story notes to follow)

About LGN-06

"Bein' good folk ain't'bout wearin' a clean coat've paint. There's more humanity in'er than most." - Sergeant Trixie Gamble, Vanguard

"A curious borderline criminal with unclear intent. At the end of the day, she will either be the hero of the story or the one to kill said hero. I'm still trying to decide which." - Sergeant Nergui Feldsher, PPD

"The first thing we'll do, is squish all the spiders. 'cept Elle. She's cool." - Cassie/Stellar Striker