Solo
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"You're not the one I'm after. So get out of my way."
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| Code Name | Solo |
| Real Name | Unknown to anyone at this time |
| Creator(s) | Black SHIELD, nominally |
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| Faction | Civilians |
| Function | Bounty Hunter |
| Primary Specialty | Bounty Hunter/Mercenary |
| Secondary Specialty | Stealth/Aerial Combatant |
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| Divisions | Mercenary |
| Weapon | Pulse Rifle |
| Weapon Type | Energy |
| Buster | Black and Gold |
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Character Data
Profile
A bounty hunter with contacts in the underworld, Solo is one of the oldest living Striders, though he no longer identifies himself with that group, nor wields the cipher for which Striders are typically known. His talents were discovered by Strider Grandmaster Meio during a martial arts tournament near the end of the 22nd century, and he trained in the arts under both Meio, and Yosho Roshi after Meio went in to sequester. During an infiltration mission into the United Nations, Solo was caught, and apparently killed, by the conspiracy group that would later be called Black SHIELD. Tortured and brainwashed to become an elite soldier, Solo was also cloned numerous times, creating an army with strength and agility that matched that of an enhanced human. The army was destroyed when Black SHIELD fell, and Solo himself escaped with the armor he was given during his training. The armor has several vision modes and a jet pack for transportation, though it reportedly does surprisingly little to augment the prowess of the fighter inside. Solo retains the military knowledge taught to him by the conspiracy, as well as his Strider training, though many details from his personal past are lost to his memory. Not much for idle conversation, Solo prefers to keep quiet unless he has something to say, and never removes his mask in public. He has an extreme dislike of genetic engineering, and is still trying to track down all the places to which his own blood may have spread.
Background
Solo grew up poor. Never met his own father. Mother didn't have two nickles to rub together, so he enlisted. He sent money home for a few years after he joined up, trying to keep things in order.
The military had holo training sims before anybody did. Solo was a lousy shot at first and scored poor marks in marksmanship. The first time he held a live gun he came close to shooting off his own foot. He was highly deadly, a real natural, at CQC, though, to the point where some people took notice. Training excercises varied in difficulty but he was always faster and stronger than really made sense. He looked like the sort of guy who, in a pinch, could maybe bench 300, but he actually stopped and gave up closer to 5.
The year was 2180. There was war going on in China. The US was building weapons and never realized they had access to a super solider waiting to happen before shipping Solo's unit off to an outpost in Cambodia. Solo never got access to an ion cannon like the really good shots. But he was deployed, and killed his first man without even really seeing his face. His marksmanship was improving.
On leave in that same country he saw posters advertising some kind of underground fighting tournament. His buddies all joked around about entering, and a few of them got brave enough and did. Stuff happened fast; a few guys got battered up in the first round, fist to face Fight Club style, smashed in to concrete with nothing but broken bones to show for it. Solo beat a few heads in at pursuasion from a few others in the company. He couldn't lose. For a while, he almost thought it was kind of unfair.
Then he got asked to the second round.
This kind of underground tournament was held from time to time by the Grandmaster...when he was looking for trainee Striders. The Grandmaster disappeared at some time during the start of the Robot Wars, but during this period there were always a few trainees he took in directly. Yosho Roshi was around at this point, too, and still about 20 years Solo's senior. He was considered a secondary trainer, but the Grandmaster had great interest in this particular young man.
Solo agreed to the second round; they were offering a cash prize and his mother's health was failing at this point. The money would make a difference. A few guys out there were just as good as he was, just, not many. They were going to become Striders, and most Striders were from Asia and knew about these tournaments. The American entrant was a fluke, but the Grandmaster thought at the time, with as quick as this young man was, that he just might be the Jade Man, the one they were actually looking for.
Solo didn't win the tournament. He came in third. Still, Meio talked him in to deserting. He wasn't enough of a patriot to avoid that silver tongue, and the old Master kept using the word "potential." Solo was able to get his mother out of debt before she died. Then, he followed his so-called potential.
Solo was a good Strider, even young. Probably not good enough. The war ended. The UN was formed. Roshi was still calling Solo a kid when he was nearly thirty. It's unclear why Solo was asked to infiltrate the new United Nations building in Korea on his own. The possibility exists that the Grandmaster knew what he was getting in to when he mentioned something suspicious. The possibility exists that it was a trap. The less likely possibility is that the Grandmaster had no idea what was going on. He did, however, have his own interest in creating other forms of Supermen, and Solo was, as it turns out, not the one he wanted. He was the best he had...but, otherwise, disposable. And sadly American. The Grandmaster broke the Eagle Cipher with his own two hands.
The conspiracy at the time was not called Black SHIELD. They've been called various things, after all. They used Solo for fodder for some of the earliest vat-grown clones. Clones don't happen overnight and flash-aging was still limited in scope, so other testing also went on. They fed Solo's head with images and wiped out memories of his old friends. They used him as a test bed for various procedures they would eventually transfer to his clones. They treated him with just enough respect to keep him as a commodity. "E-humans" created from SHIELD technology are e-human due to Strider blood. Solo was already well-trained both as a soldier and a Strider, and so, they augmented that training, filling him with languages and other things he would need to be an elite unit. Then, when he was fully conditioned, he trained his own clones to be more like he was. At that point, he didn't have a lot of his own humanity left, barely realized what he was doing.
Solo was occasionally sent on a political assassination, then, sent back to training. Chemically altered, he has no real memory of such events. The main cloning complex was underground in Korea. He saw little of the sun for long periods of time. They built a suit, and he lived in it.
The clones were considered disposable, but the army was nearly ready, all the soliders physically adult, when Interpol attacked the UN and destroyed the army. Everything fell apart and a lot of people left. Solo was one such person. He's been following some of the remnants, but it was obviously hard to do, especially when he first escaped and was so delerious he could not remember his past, or his name. The name "Solo" was on a dogtag around his neck when he woke up in some godforsaken jungle, pulling the helmet off the armor he'd been practically living in and unsure why he was still alive. It's a unit designation. He was Solo 000, so that's what he allows himself to be called.
Trivia/Facts
One of the original Strider characters from the game, but not added to M3 until recent times.
Solo turned 59 on his birthday, Feb. 3.
Descs
Armored
This suit of powered armor most likely has a human inside. Then again, just from the raw look of it, you can't be certain.
It's shaped like a man, with sculped panels on the upper chest, the midsection torso layered for movement. In contrast to most of the multi-colored reploids of the Robot Wars, this powersuit is gunmetal gray. The gauntlets, from the elbow down to the hands, are a copper tone, as are a few details on the knees and sides of the feet. The boots are standard bulky, and equipped with dash jets on either side. One or several firearms are likely to be in the figures hands, weapons that fit against the arms of the outfit perfectly. Black multi-barreled rifles, with laser targetting, they seem to have enough kick to require the large durable shoulder guards that they are typically braced against. The weapons fold into a subspace pocket when not engaged. From behind the body, two wing-like shapes, actually the engines of a jet pack, jut up and frame the head in a V. The face itself is hidden entirely by a flat mask. The chin-piece is gray; the bronze-colored shield over it is a dome over the head, coming to a pointed shape at the bottom. It's jointed on the side as if it's made to flip up, even though it is, for now, down and bolted. The mask is probably transparent on the inside, though from the exterior it's reflective and quite opaque, giving no chance at a glimpse of the armor's occupant.
The armor seems to fit to the figure inside about as well as an advanced Musica-style armor, which would immediately mark it as a rare design, something military
Unarmored
Solo, physically, is sort of the leading man in an action picture, but at least visually, a bit past leading man prime. He's built, not body-builder built but hard work built. There really isn't any visible fat on his body. He doesn't get a lot of sun, but his skin has gotten naturally leathery; maybe it's burned in. Hard shoulders, and a lot of scars. A knife that hit in his back under the ribs; a bullet that grazed his chest. There's a sort of pale etching on one arm where a tattoo was removed... maybe an eagle? It's not there now, but there's a faded black prison-style tattoo on his right shoulder blade in the back, a barcode with some Korean lettering etched underneath it. He has salt-and-pepper hair, more silver than black, and lines at the corner of his eyes that make his face look a bit older than his body.
