Starnet

Human.

Doctor Coltrane is a human man, 6’1” in height and a little over 200 lbs in weight. He is of decent physique for a 235 year old man, and possess a body about forty years of biological age. He is half Australian and Half Indian, possessing a slightly tanned skin tone and dark brown hair. He has a rather lanky body, making him look much taller than her is. His eyes are pale blue in color. A studious onlooker would notice that Coltrane’s right iris is a slightly different shade of blue and has a very thin red rim around it. He has thick eyebrows that make him look stern and a fabulous beard that makes him look even more intimidating. His hair is of medium length and is combed back and out of his face, parted in the middle. Coltrane wears a long light silver lab coat that is buttoned all the way up, a pair of dark slacks, loafers, and large black gauntlets on his hands. The gauntlets appear to be made mostly of rubber, with a metal endoskeleton inside. The back of the left gauntlet’s palm is silver and contains a silver and black dial of sorts.

Coltrane is logic. He is generally a calm, taciturn, though he tends to have a pervasive air of strictness and decorum. He’s exceptionally inquisitive and is basically the most intelligent person you’ll ever meet. He’s rather Spockish in his demeanor, his speech calm, deep, and dripping with intellect. He uses massive words on a regular basis and will describe things grossly in-depth. He seems to assume that others are on his level of intelligence, and so describes things to them in very high-level terms. When people don’t understand what he’s saying, he generally becomes confused by their behavior. He’s not sociopathic in his understanding of humans, but is rather detached from reality, his head lost in another world. All of his decisions seem to be made by a computer. If you’ve seen them, think the Twelfth Doctor mixed with Doctor Manhattan.
Coltrane always believes that he makes the right decisions. It’s not hubris, but a defense mechanism. A destroyer of worlds must justify their destruction, and in Coltrane’s case his decisions are made off of a pure utilitarian-style calculus. He thinks hard about all decisions that need to be made and is rarely quick to act. He doesn’t like fighting, but will turn aggressive if provoked. If anything, Coltrane is more dangerous when angry. The little bit of humanity that he acts with is completely torn away and he becomes an organic machine. .

Born in Australia during the Last War, Eric Coltrane was orphaned at a young age when his family home was destroyed in a firefight. Australia had agreed to an arms deal with Eurasia and was thusly under attack by America. Coltrane was taken to Sydney, where he was raised by a physicist known as Doctor Victor Vandam. Vandam worked for a company called Equinox, an engineering and physics research company which wished to use its knowledge to end the war. Coltrane was an excellent student and never earned a grade below an A+ in his life. He whizzed through school, receiving a PhD in theoretical physics by twenty and two more PhDs in Astrophysics and Mathematics by the age of twenty-five. After Doctor Vandam and most of the leaders of Equinox were killed in a bombing raid, Coltrane took over and began to manufacture his own way to end the war: The TITAN Project. He constructed Starnet One and then built an enormous satellite, a weapon with such power that it could obliterate the planet in a single blast. He called it TITAN. He chose a select group of people from Australia, Indonesia, and the Indian Subcontinent and took them to Starnet One, claiming that it was to protect them from an attack by America that would destroy the world.
Then he pulled the trigger. The fire rained down for a half hour, obliterating Earth’s atmosphere, evaporating almost all of its water, and leaving it uninhabitable. He had destroyed the planet. Now it was time for a new age of humanity, an age of peace and prosperity. Coltrane has ruled Starnet for going on two hundred years now. He has kept himself young through advanced cell regeneration therapy, a therapy which he undergoes once every twenty years that reverts his body’s cells back to around the age of forty. He is the lone ruler of Starnet, a despot with an iron fist who uses cold utilitarian to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Neurochip: Doctor Coltrane’s brain contains a neurochip which functions like a high-speed computer. This chip doubles his processing power and assists him by filling in gaps in knowledge from the internet or old classified files. It is the secret to Coltrane’s nigh-omniscience within his universe. The chip can connect to internet to autonomously control machinery and remembers Coltrane’s exact positions in space within the last hour (you’ll see why this is important later). The chip is shielded from EMP bursts, but its connection to his other gadgets is not.

Cybernetic eye: Obtained after an assassination attempt, Coltrane’s eye is highly-advanced. It has a 10 terapixel resolution, a 400x optical zoom, and can see infrared and ultraviolet light. If Coltrane is connected to enough power, he can combine his neurochip and his cybernetic eye to slow down his perception of time, allowing him to react much faster than a human opponent.

Second Skin: Under his clothes, Coltrane wears a skintight layer of armor. This second skin of sorts covers most of his body, excluding only his head, hands, and feet. It is bullet proof, heat-resistant up to 1300 degrees F, can keep Coltrane warm in -100 degree weather, and absorbs radiation, allowing Coltrane to walk through radioactive war zones without so much as flinching.

CRONUS Gauntlet: The crowning achievement of Starnet Four’s research, the CRONUS is a personal time machine of sorts. If you’ve seen the characters Ekko or Tracer from League and Overwatch respectively, then you kind of understand how this works. Basically, the CRONUS can send the user back in time to a previous state and a previous location in the present. If Coltrane sets it to go back five minutes, for example, the CRONUS will send him to his location five minutes ago with his body in the state that it was five minutes ago. Coltrane can only move forward in time relative to his movements if he used the CRONUS at that time. So, say he went back five minutes in time one minute ago, he can teleport to where he was one minute ago before he went back in time. So, the power isn’t really time travel as much as it is teleportation with a heal. If Coltrane is damaged in battle, he can turn the dial on his left wrist, push the button on the center of the dial, and return to a previous position, healed of his wounds. He can go back a maximum of five minutes in another universe and ten in his own. This is due to the fact that his own universe contains a wireless charging system for the gauntlet. When not in his universe, the CRONUS runs on a powerful battery which allows it to move Coltrane in time a maximum of twelve hours.

CRONUS has a second ability as well. In addition to sending Coltrane back in time, it can move very small projectiles forward in time. Basically, CRONUS can open a small rift in the spacetime continuum small enough for, say, a bullet to go through. The resulting collapse creates a loud bang and a small shockwave. This part of CRONUS is very prototypical right now, so it can only fire a projectile up to three seconds into the future. Nonetheless, this allows Coltrane to track the movements of a single target, predict their next move, and then hit them after they think they are safe. He’s very new to this function of the CRONUS, and so he’s not very accurate with it yet.

Defense drone: Coltrane carries a defense drone with him, a small shoulder-mounted turret which fires bullets oozing with hot plasma. The drone can either rest on an apparatus on his shoulder and be controlled by Coltrane’s neurochip or it can detach itself and fight autonomously, protecting its master. It can fight disconnected from Coltrane for a half hour before needing to be recharged.

Energy Force Field: Only used if Coltrane is in a pinch, this spherical force field can repel any one lethal hit, protecting Coltrane from damage. It has a three minute recharge.

Goggle Analysis: By putting on his goggles, Coltrane’s neurochip can give him information on the dimensions, chemical makeup, and weak points of any structure. The goggles also sharpen his infrared sense, allowing him to pick out specific objects in a hot or cold area. The goggles also contain an omni tool of sorts, and are capable of taking apart and moving pieces of machinery via electromagnetic levitation. It has a tiny laser which can cut apart and fuse together metal.

So basically everything that Coltrane uses requires a wireless connection. His drones, forcefield, and goggles are all wirelessly controlled by his neurochip. While his chip itself can still work when disconnected to the other components, they are useless without its connection. Thus Coltrane hates EMPs. They greatly limit his powers, give him an awful headache, and limit his cognitive capacity for a minute or two. The CRONUS is still functional if hit by an EMP, but only its backward travel mode can be used and Coltrane has to keep tabs on his exact positions himself without the computer doing it for him.

Another thing with the CRONUS, it sends Coltrane back in time to that position while in the same physical contortion that he was in at that moment in time. So if Coltrane is standing flat on the floor, goes back thirty seconds in time, and thirty seconds ago was jumping up in the air with his hand up a pirate’s ass, then he will appear jumping up in the air with his hand in a position as if it were up a pirate’s ass. Because of this, even though Coltrane can go back and knows what he was doing then, he has to react fast enough to orient himself in an instant. If not, he could pull a trigger and shoot the opposite direction away from his target. So, using the CRONUS, even with neurochip assistance, requires a lot of concentration. Distracting Coltrane will make him slightly less skilled with the machine, but won’t prevent him from using it. Also, Coltrane has a battery life limit when not in his world. He wears a battery pack on his back under his coat. It has a 48 hour battery life, and damaging it limits that time. If Coltrane is cut off from his battery, almost all of his gadgets will become unusable (except for the backward function of the CRONUS, which has an external emergency battery).

Coltrane loves 2000s EDM and pizza.