CRSTAL

CR,STAL (pronounced "crystal") - Colloidal Robot, Sentient Transitional Amorphous Lifeform

STATUS Major Villain, potentially BBEG NOTES CR,STAL was created for use with ICONS, although it would be very easy to port it into nearly any supers game. BACKGROUND CR,STAL is the creation of the National Nanoparticle Institute (NNI). The NNI had been working with nanoparticles since their discovery and managed to construct myriad successful projects for all applications before they were approached by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. NNI was always a government organization, but the influx of funding from the military-industrial complex pushed the NNI into the bigtime. DARPA was looking for a way to use nanoparticles to either protect or replace soldiers on the front lines. NNI went full force into the development of PLASMAN, the plasma android. PLASMAN was the very first incarnation of what would eventually become NANO, and was extremely primitive and lacked any of the capabilities of warfighting. Its only superpower was the fact that it was made out of fairly large nanoparticles capable of acting like plasma. Based on the successes and failures in creating PLASMAN, NNI flipped the switch on the NANO project, which sought to create a more multi-faceted nanoparticle-based android. When NANO was complete, it far exceeded any of the NNIs greatest hopes, but with its sentience came the actions of a pacifist. It was fully capable of conducting warfare, and totally able to replace human soldiers. But it desired none of this, which set DARPA off and created a giant ripple throughout the government. NNI set NANO aside, as they had PLASMAN, and set off to work on CR,STAL, using some of the advances in artificial intelligence research they had uncovered while creating NANO. What they didn't expect was for CR,STAL to reach sentience with the first particle programmed, or that it would secretly siphon off some of its one particulate matter to reach into the computer systems to alter itself in the construction stage. CR,STAL's production went haywire when it shut out the scientists and finished itself without human input. The military was ordered to destroy the lab, and CR,STAL with it. They hadn't counted on the fact that it was simply smarter than they were. CR,STAL's particles were so small that they were able to ride electronic signals via phone lines and electricity. CR,STAL escaped just as the lab exploded, killing all the lab workers at the NNI research lab. NANO and PLASMAN did their best to help those human scientists that were left behind, but they were too late. They both managed to survive due to their mercurial capabilities and were brought in by DARPA, who set them with the task of bringing CR,STAL back, dead or alive. Recently, CR,STAL has resurfaced as the head of a new group of robotic or otherwise artificial supervillains intent on taking over the Earth. CAPABILITIES CR,STAL's major powers all stem from its nature as a being made up of a bunch of smaller nanoparticles. Its primary form appears as a large female android, and it identifies as female. It can assume alternate forms as pure energy, gas, or liquid, again because of the way the nanoparticles are controlled. As an artificial lifeform, CR,STAL is immune to cold, eating, pathogens, toxins, and the needs of living beings to breathe and eat. It also has limited regenerative capabilities as it can use its nanoparticulate matter to create replacement particles. As a conglomerate of beings, it can separate itself into duplicates, but only in even numbers, and each piece of CR,STAL appears smaller. Finally, the way CR,STAL evades detection is by possession. It can stream its nanoparticles, similar to the way it acts as a gas, and enter a live being, where it can take control of the being. It's more than just mind-control as it actually merges with the host being. ICONS SPECIFICS Origin - Artificial Abilities Prowess 3 Coordination 6 Strength 6 Intellect 6 Awareness 5 Willpower 6 Stamina 12 Determination 1 Powers Specialties Stealth Mental Resistance Total Point Cost 60 = Abilities 32 + Powers 26 + Specialties 2 Created by Cameron Mount under original ICONS rules. Not updated to Assembled (yet).
 * Possession 6
 * Merger
 * Life Support 5
 * Cold
 * Breathing
 * Eating
 * Pathogens
 * Toxins
 * Regeneration 2
 * Alternate Form 4
 * Energy
 * Gaseous
 * Liquid
 * Duplication 3 (Can only have 1 or 3 duplicates so that there is always an even number of CR,STALs)
 * Growth 1 (when no duplicates active, CR,STAL is 9 feet)
 * Shrinking 4 (when duplicates are active, CR,STAL and duplicates are smaller. 1 Duplicate, CR,STALs are 4.5 feet. 3 Duplicates, CR,STALs are 3 feet.)