Chronoton Duck
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| Chronoton Duck | |
| [[Image:|200px|Chronoton Duck]] | |
| Code Name | Duck Vertigo |
| Real Name | Chronoton Duck |
| Creator(s) | Legacy Optics Ltd. |
| Serial Number | LOL001 |
| Faction | Irregulars |
| Function | Deceptive Warfare |
| Primary Specialty | Mooching |
| Secondary Specialty | Doing Whatever Is Necessary To Continue Mooching |
| IC E-Mail | DuckVertigo@irregulars.net |
| Divisions | Irregulars |
| Weapon | Universal Remote Control |
| Weapon Type | Energy |
| Buster | Day-Glo Orange and Mottled Brown |
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Character Data
Profile
"One day, Chest, ONE DAY I SHALL PRO- ... Oh God, was that out loud?"
The first creation and show piece of Legacy Optics Ltd., Chronoton Duck is not quite what his creators had in mind. Chronoton is a neurotic geek with a tendency toward paranoid delusions involving GNN, not to mention the fact that he's a television junkie. Armed primarily with the "Universal Remote Control", Chronoton clings to the illusion of being able to manipulate time. Chronoton's hull, while reasonably strong, suffers from a severe inability to tolerate corrosives. He attempts, quite valiantly, to keep that information out of the press as best he can though. Joining the Irregular Overlords as much for valiant reasons as he did because he simply did not have anywhere left to go, after being fired from virtually every media outlet there is... Including his blog. Twice.
Background
Created in the upstate New York suburb of Keuka Lake in late 2215, Chronoton Duck is the key to several patents held by his creators, Legacy Optics Ltd. The company was founded by a crew of camera and holographics experts, seeking a better working environment than that to which they were accustomed. Mostly focusing on commissioned reploids, they had an R&D group for keeping at the head of the field.
Built as a showcase of the LOL crew’s technological innovations and ability to integrate technologies, Chronoton Duck was originally named as something of a joke between the engineers. As a showcase model, Chronoton was armed with a basic version of his current Universal Remote Control and some lessons in cameramanship. After that, he was hired out to GNN to work as a cameraduck, Chronoton proved unfit for such duty. He was summarily fired from GNN for a gross inability to perform under stress, abandoning reporters in the midst of reports, and, more frequently, refusing to leave the news van so as to continue watching television (including competing news stations). With that failure, Chronoton was sent on his way to POX, to render similar services in order to provide LOL with the capital to complete the Universal Remote Control and so properly open their doors for business.
Fired within just a few weeks of starting for POX, Chronoton moved on once again, slowly building up a list of failures in the media industry ranging from stupid to insulting. His last job, acquired just before Christmas of 2216, was working with Wonder Knight Studios as a special effects coordinator for its various holoflix (holographic movies). Fired for gross negligence on December 31st, Chronoton spent his New Year moping in his basement apartment at Legacy Optics Ltd.
Taken in by his creators, Chronoton Duck was left to try his hand at website design and janitorial duties for the company. It worked, to some extent; because of he could watch television while working. And so 2217 passed, in relative peace, as Chronoton Duck maintained both the website and corporate headquarters and laboratories. The founders managed to scrounge together the funding and support to keep working, though without paying Chronoton more than television and maintenance.
In March of 2217, their lead tech gurus did something amazing. Operating on the theory that the average optical processor, organic or mechanical, has only so much capacity for viewing changes in images, they began work on a direct optical laser. Essentially they were seeking to create a holographic emitter capable of condensing an intricately detailed series of images into a pulse of light-data lasting only a couple of seconds at a time.
The Universal Remote Control (version 1.0) was created and tested, using Chronoton Duck and assorted other test subjects. The results were amazing, when the device actually worked. The information was carefully given out to investors, bolstering support for the burgeoning company and Chronoton Duck was equipped with the URC v1.0. He was also promoted to security guard for the laboratory facilities.
Work continued for the remainder of the year on perfecting the device, which came in a burst of stupid questioning from Chronoton. His actual question, as pertains to the Rewind function, was "Why can’t it just be an instant replay of what’s been going on?" Needless to say, the assorted technicians scoffed at the idea at first. Then they found themselves preparing to test a device that could do just that by December 20th, 2217. The device was highly selective and still rather unpredictable, but now it at least functioned every time the power was tapped for that purpose.
Chronoton was re-armed with the URCv2.0, its capacities limited almost entirely by the angles at which people were placed relative to Chronoton’s hologram emitters. In test trials, it was limited to the condensation of one minute into a replay for one subject at up to 100 meters.
Chronoton Duck, fully outfitted and trained in the use of his URC, was sent packing. His tendency to tamper with people’s perception of time simply because he could was not going to be tolerated. Instead, his 'parents', the people that commissioned him, sent him to Repliforce to be taught some respect and discipline.
Repliforce was not entirely enthused by his attitude, but he shaped up quite quickly under the pressure. The fact that Chronoton's introduction to the military mind has been something of a culture shock that started with boot camp in March seems to have had something to do with it. Also, the threat of having his favorite, and only, toy, the Universal Remote Control, stripped away due gross incompetence has been a standing threat since the third day of boot camp and it has proven an excellent scare tactic.
Amongst his myriad of duties, not the least of which being his basic training, Chronoton Duck took it upon himself to set up a blog to deal with the daily stress of the military life. And possibly add his scathing, though sometimes misinformed, commentary on an array of subjects. Soon thereafter, the blog became entirely too much of an obsession for Chronoton Duck. He summarily quit Repliforce and went into business as a blog-writer.
It was about this point that Chronoton learned that the server space he was renting was owned by GNN. When Chest learned of the relative popularity of Chronoton's blog, titled 'The Chronoton Report', he first started displaying interest in Chronoton's activities. Within a month, though, Chronoton was blasting GNN for giving several bad reviews of Legacy Optics' prowess and their relative lack of output.
When the company went under, in part due to public outcry generated by one of Chest's scathing editorials, The Chronoton Report issued a scathing response.
In short, it was a critical review of GNN's marketing strategies, general broad base reporting activities, and the persistence of non-news programming that is a part of its subsidiary channels. In the end, Chronoton called for a governmental review of GNN's practices as being ripe with the stink of attempted monopoly. Chest promptly fired Chronoton from his blog, citing a number of contract violations and using the duck's lack of funds to force him to settle the potential libel suit by leaving peacefully.
Shortly thereafter, Chronoton Duck bought another block of space on the internet for another blog. This one persisted for a few months before he did a foolish thing. In his opinion, ‘The New Chronoton Times’ was an exceptional piece of reporting. To his readers, they thought it was a galling attempt at satire. When Chronoton opened it up reader intervention he was forcibly removed from the webspace and replaced.
With this latest round of failure, Chronoton Duck was left depressed and taken with wanderlust. He wandered around the world, looking for somewhere to fit in, where he would not be ridiculed and hurt by what little social contact Chronoton could acquire. That is when he came across the Prophet of Epsilon. He listened to the Prophet and felt that he had finally found someone that would provide him just that sort of social context.
The next day, Chronoton found the nearest camp of Irregulars, joining them with glee.
Trivia/Facts
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