Room for one more? [hider=Mads Tao] [b][u]Name: [/b][/u] Mads Tao [b][u]Race: [/b][/u] Salarian [b][u]Age: [/b][/u] 22 [b][u]Weight: [/b][/u] 85lbs [b][u]Height: [/b][/u] 4'11" [b][u]Appearance: [/b][/u] Mads Tao is fairly average salarian, Grayish green skin and large black and blue eyes. His armor is a slightly modified STG variant produced by Aegor Munitions colored in a tan and brown camouflage pattern. [b][u]Personality:[/b][/u] In many ways Mads Tao is the atypical salarian, Fast thinking, fast moving, fast talking often interrupting or mumbling to himself while others are talking. He served 8 years in STG and was very much the company man. Assigned to a project monitoring Krogan growth post genophage, over the years he has grown to dislike the race and most members of it seeing them as brutes still high on a war that ended over 50 years ago. This was increased by his last mission which resulted in 2 month of imprisonment and torture by a small renegade Krogan clan. This has darkened his mood made him a more cynical man. But does enjoy his down time music especially. He plays over a dozen different instruments from all over the galaxy. [b][u]Class:[/b][/u]Sentinel [b][u]Powers and abilities[/b][/u] [b]STG tech specialist- [/b] Weapon training-basic weapon training with most weapon types but especially skilled with [i]pistols[/i] and small low-recoil [i]shotguns[/i]. Hacking-no real experience hacking AIs or robotic automatons,but very skilled with hacking security systems. Mads received specialized training infiltrating Krogan Military networks. Offensive tech- along with a good omni blade app, Mads Tao keeps a good portion of his omni-tools storage with offensive virus designed to [i]overload[/i] kinetic barriers, [i]overheat weapons[/i], or if he's lucky overloading the enemy's omni tool causing a [i]neural shock[/i]. Defensive tech- STG 'explosive' [i]tech armor[/i]- omni tool controlled holographic shield that boost the effectiveness of the equipped kinetic barriers. These are powered by a battery that has enough power for three powerful detonations, each detonation decreases the effectiveness of the tech armor and once used three times the tech armor requires hours to recharge to be used again. [b]Biotics-[/b] Mads Tao is not a very strong biotic even by salarian standards, but still uses his powers fairly effectively in combat. [i]Lifting[/i] or [i]throwing[/i] an enemy isn't out of the question but a determined or charging Krogan could be a problem. A large shockwave is out of the question but he has the power to knock someone down. Barriers and warp fields seem to be hard for him to maintain, however Mads has been known to use his biotic powers to [i]charge[/i] the enemy in tandem with his tech armor. [b][u]Biography:[/b][/u] His biotic potential was noticed when he was a young child on Sur'Kesh, and was put into early STG train and began operating as an agent at 14 in a small cell of sociologists and military agents who monitored Krogan expansion in the DMZ and the worlds sanctioned to the Krogan after The Reaper War. The KRUC seemed to be doing its best at controlling the populations, however not all clans were joining and those that did we're not in agreement with the KRUC Leadership. While monitoring population growth and Krogan attitude to the council races, Mads tao's unit discovered planed pirate raids on long haul supply ships and shady mercenary groups some tied to the KRUC but never tight enough to draw in politicians. His captain sympathized with the Krogan and gave them the benefit of the doubt. Tao started out this way but over 8 years of assignments grew to dislike most Krogan, and it seemed there work brought them with some of the worst of the species. One independent clan became the main focus of Tao's unit, Clan Udveks, A strong warrior clan who were present at both on Palaven and Earth during The Reaper War. After an argument with Urdnot Wrex/wrev?, Udveks Ling the clan leader left Tuchanka for good heading to Wrill taking with him several fertile females and gathering much of the local Krogan population support for the expansion of the empire including a large groups of Bloodpack mercs. Ling was proving to be dangerous and Taos group began focusing here efforts to monitor Clan Udveks. A three year black ops mission began monitoring traffic on the ungoverned planet of Wrill and performing hit and run raids on Krogan and Vorcha targets. The small crew of salarians had several losses during this time and was eventually cut down to three, Mads Tao, the munitions specialist, and the XO. And late one evening it they found it. It was barley a blip in the static but it was enough. The commanding officer noticed it first, a strange signal on the planets communication network, that was almost hidden too well. when the group decoded the transmission they discovered something horrible. Ling had gotten ahold of cloning technology and imprinting technology that created Urdont Grunt developed by Dr. Okeer. In the cloning facility he had striped the eggs from fertile women then fertilizing the embryos and using the clinging tech and imprinting to advance the age. The next decoded data pack showed the horrors, not only were a third of the females dieing during the egg harvesting process, but gestation was only taking 4 weeks. A trained Krogan army in matter of months. Rigging an explosive and sneaking it into the base seemed easy. The XO brought in the shuttle and the munitions officer loaded charges and detonator into packs, and Mads Tao and the munitions expert began moving out. A air vent on the roof was an easy access. They climbed through the air ducts and dropped into the unoccupied cloning center 6 large chambers in ythe room each with juvenile Krogan clones growing inside. "You set the charges Tao, I'll prep the detonator." He was setting the fourth charge when it happened. BAM! Then an electric hiss of kinetic barriers dropping. Mads looked over his shoulder the munitions expert lay dead on the ground. Clean headshot right through the sheilds. The Krogan guard had moved too fast, Mads missed. The Krogan grabbed a metal table in the he center of the room and threw it at Mads. He reached out grabbed the table with his biotics and redirected it toward a row of the cloning pods. Glass and the fluid in two of the cloning chambers crashed to the ground the clones gasping for life but appeared to be dying rather quickly "No" the guard screamed and charged at Mads. Upon impact his tech armor detonated both men flewe to opposite ends of the room. Mads jumped to the center of the room grabbing the detonator from his dead friends hands and flipped the switch, the four charges exploded, glass metal, cloning fluid and bits of cloned Krogan flew across the room. Smoke filled the air and Mads made a break for the door, but as he turned he hit something hard...Krogan armor. His eyes looked up Udveks Ling. A quick jump back and mads opened a comm line, "Commander, mission accomplished cancel evac, situation FUBAR" and detonated his tech armor again Ling just laughed as he reached down and grabbed the salarian by the neck "Look what we got here boys, a new punching bag" the last thing Mads saw was a Krogan fist headed to his face. The salarian awoke in a cage somewhere in the bowls of a the Krogan base, here he was beat and electrocuted daily for information Mads gave false info snide remarks. As far as the Krogan knew he was a c-sec officer tracking down leads on illegal cloning tech. It took 8 weeks before a the rescue came. Mads was sitting in his cell and the Krogan guard was taunting him with his rations on the other side of the kinetic barrier. Then a burst of blue and the Krogan went flying a second burst of mass effect energy and the krogans screams were silenced. "Mads Tao?" The Asari asked as she looked in the cell. "Hmmm... Asari, not what I expected. Let me guess... Spectre? This was STG black ops. Wasn't expecting extraction. Told commander abandon evac plans. Mission accomplished--" The Asari shook her head"We can talk or get out of here. Let's just say the council didn't like the idea of someone with Okeers tech producing an army. And your XO pulled some strings to recover you." Upon returning to the citadel he was offered retirement from STG and a position in the Spectre program[/hider]