Sidewinder is a member of Polaris, and the first known posthuman to have successfully conceived a child.

Art and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Sidewinder

Name: Amanda Yemen
Affiliation: Polaris

Attributes:

Melee: 45
Reflex: 30
Muscle: 20
Vigor: 50
Acumen: 25
Observation: 40
Will: 25

Life: 14
Influence: 90

Abilities:

Physiological Enhancement: Along with various biochemical enhancements that contribute to her Attributes above, Sidewinder’s posthuman treatments increased her reaction times considerably, which give her +3 to Initiative rolls and a +1CS to defensive Actions.

Sonic Generation: Sidewinder’s latent posthuman ability is actually a subsonic sound generation from mutations to her vocal chords. It is below the range of audible frequencies for the normal human ear, but can interfere with her opponents’ balance, focus and hand-eye coordination. The Ability has an Intensity of 40 and a Range of 5, and can be used at the beginning pf a round without counting as an Action. All opponents in range must make a Vigor Save or be negatively influenced by this effect, with -1CS to Physical Actions, and must make an Acumen Save or become disoriented, suffering a -2 penalty to the following 3 Initiative rolls. The subsonic attack lasts for 1d6 rounds before she must reapply it, but if any opponents are not affected by the attack, they remain unaffected for the duration of that combat.

Melee Weapon Proficiency: Sidewinder enjoys the benfits of +1CS to all offensive and defensive hand-to-hand combat Actions, as a result of her extensive training, with an additional +1CS to Active Dodge. Further, she employs a special melee weapon, similar to a mace and cord, which she has trained to use as a weapon [25 DP up to 2m reach] and as a parrying device [apply the 30 AP of the weapon as Armor on a successful Parry] and has an Armor of 30 and Core of 20.

Origin:

Amanda Yemen was born in Afghanistan, to an Afghan mother and Egyptian father, both parents working for the Red Cross, delivering aid and medical relief in the war-torn country. After her father was killed in a tribal skirmish outside of Kabul, her mother fled the country with her infant child, under the protection of the United Nations troops escorting the Red Cross caravan, and settled in Vancouver.

As a young adult, Amanda was fascinated by dance and theatrical performance, training and performing as a spirit dancer in her high school, and going on to study dance and performing arts at University. She was also obsessed with martial arts, studying Aiku-Jujitsu, Tae Kwon Do and especially Capoeira, which she began learning through the influence of a Brazilian dancer with which she had become romantically linked.

One late evening, Amanda and her boyfriend were attacked by gang agitators outside of a popular nightclub. Her boyfriend was struck down by a broken bottle, and in her attempts to fend off her three attackers, she bagan using her long-strapped purse as a defensive weapon, sweeping it in arcs to parry attempts to grapple her, while spinning long, fluid kicks using her Capoeira techniques. A crowd of onlookers gathered, and cheered as she soundly defeated all three attackers, who fled as the authorities arrived. Unfortunately, her boyfriend slipped into a comma from the force of the blow to his head, and was declared to be in a persistive vegetative state thereafter.

Depressed and isolated, Yemen dropped out of University, and began dancing at an upscale exotic club in the red light district, devoid of interest in her former pursuits and emotionally isolated. While she was a popular dancer, over the next few months, she did very little business for the club, as her withdrawn personality and lack of enthusiasm made for a sour customer base.

Eventually, she was visited by three suited men who watched her performance with interest, then approached her off-stage. Noting that two were covering exits while the third approached her, she feared an attack and defended herself, sending the man over the bar, and fled out the back to her vehicle. She was overtaken by one of the other two, who anxiously identified himself as a government agent, working for Canada’s infamous Section Five. They had come to see her, after tracking her down, based on interest in the organization over televised amateur footage of her nightclub attack. She was offered an opportunity to train with the same advisers that worked with Madison Fehr, prior to her transition to the Posthuman Development Initiative in Newfoundland. The PDI and Section Five were, by this point, enjoying a loose alliance, with clandestine coorperation between the agency and the private posthuman facility, a relationship not known about or authorized by the Canadian government overall. Section Five had become a seeding ground for new posthuman candidate recruits, and the PDI reciprocated by loaning out Polaris, the facility’s defensive security team, for select posthuman-related crime investigations in Canada. Yemen was an ideal posthuman candidate, and was intrigued. Within three months, she had graduated from the accelerated posthuman treatment process the PDI had perfected, and was training as a posthuman combatant. She joined Polaris late that year, under the callsign Sidewinder, for the hypnotic and dangerous corded ball and mace that she utilized as a weapon.

It was eventually discovered, by a small town journalist living in the same neighborhood as the retired parents of Polaris member Ladybird, the team’s youngest recruit, that the PDI had been sitting on a curious secret: two Polaris members had apparently conceived a child together. Initially only looking into the rumor as the basis for an entertainment news profile, the journalist contacted Ladybird’s family, and interviewed them. Within 45 minutes, a Section Five team arrived at the house and extracted all three civilians, declaring a national security concern. While Ladybird’s parents eventually returned to their home, withdrawn and far less talkative in the community, now knowing they were under surveillance, the journalist issued his resignation electronically and was never heard from again.

In fact, the rumor was true. Amanda Yemen and Fábio Miranda, the Polaris operative known as MOAB, had begun an affair and eventually conceived a child together. Being a private security team for the PDI, Polaris was not a well-publicized posthuman entity, and Sidewinder’s absence in field missions was not noted by the media on any of their public outings, particularly since Polaris frequently utilized candidates for field training, on a temporary membership basis. The sensitivity of this birth was two-fold. The first, the identity of the child’s father was a security issue, as Miranda had been assuming a false identity provided for him by the PDI to avoid attention for his accused crimes in Brazil. Second, there had never been a posthuman childbirth to date. It was a disturbing fact that hadn’t been noted until the birth of Yemen’s daughter triggered the realization of it’s disturbing rarity. An internal, comprehensive study was underway, attempting to understand both why posthumans seemed generally unable to procreate with each other, yet why Yemen and Miranda were successful. As a result of this research, treatments would be developed over time that would be made available to existing posthumans and all future candidates that, at the very least, increased the chances of posthuman/ normal human childbirth, though posthuman/ posthuman childbirth would continue to be rare. It would later be suggested that something unique in Yemen’s genetic code was allowing for her fertility, a trait synthesized as part of the fertility treatments to be developed. The identity of Yemen and Miranda’s daughter would never be revealed to the public, as she would be raised within the compound and be given a civilian identity, as the child of PDI staffers.

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This is Guānghuī, The National Hero of Singapore, whose tragic fate demoralized a nation against it’s own corrupt government.

Art and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Guānghuī

Name: Eva Sun
Affiliation: National Hero of Singapore

Attributes:

Melee: 20
Reflex: 25
Muscle: 40
Vigor: 70
Acumen: 20
Observation: 25
Will: 15

Life: 155
Influence: 60

Abilities:

Radiation Emission: Guānghuī generates a massive amount of ‘clean’ radiation from her body, which is not visible to the naked eye. It causes no physical damage, even at close range, though plants grow at an accelerated rate in her presence, and observers have noted that their natural senses seemed to be enhanced, with foods smelling more fragrant, and vision possible at lower light levels. Researchers believe the radiation to be similar to a form of UV radiation, but bent through a harmonic frequency that renders it invisible. Molecules around her are extremely agitated, but no temperature or physical disruption can be detected. However, the benefit of close exposure to Guānghuī is of particular measure in two areas: battery power and posthuman latency.

Guānghuī’s ability enjoys an 80 Intensity and 30 Range. Batteries, dynamic power generators and energy storage nacelles become virtually instantly at capacity, and remain so for a period of days. Most posthumans whose enhancements were born from nano-chemical or bio-chemical means see performance boosts as well, with complete Life restoration on physical contact with Guānghuī’s skin, and an increase of +3CS to the Intensity of their latent posthuman abilities. This performance boost is triggered by touch, and can conceivably affect her adversaries as well.

Origin:

Singapore’s populist government was of the earliest vocal opposition nations criticizing the rise of Neo-Mystic culture in South-East Asia. The President of Singapore, Bok Fong, fervently opposed what he described as ‘cultural fanatasism’, and petitioned the Parliamentary legislature to officially censure China as a ‘new fascist regime,’ despite years of warming relations between the two countries in the wake of the Communist Chinese government’s exile. After his assassination, Singapore was unable to complete elections for a new President, as protests and civil disobedience disrupted the Pariiament-endorsed, unopposed candidate’s election. In the midst of this political unrest, and following growing instability among several smaller nations in the region not aligned with Neo-Mystic China, the American government sponsored the contract of posthuman National Hero to the Singaporean government, in an effort to help that body restore civic confidence in the leadership. Facilitated through a program coordinated by the Portuguese government, who enjoyed a prosperous trade partnership with Singapore, the United States’ involvement in establishing Singapore’s National Hero deployment was not public knowledge, due to general mistrust of American government involvement in regional affairs. At year’s end, a mere seven months after President Fong’s death, Guānghuī was presented to the people as the new National Hero of Singapore, in a public rally at the nation’s capitol, attended by several liaison teams from the NEAI and a small number of established posthuman representatives, including The Blue Islander, The Oslan, and Portugal’s own Lusitano.

The effect on the Singaporean population was immediate and exceeded all hopes. The people embraced Guānghuī and showered her with infatuation in the local press, at media events, and even crowding for autographs at disaster relief sites where the heroine was engaged in rescue efforts. Mobs of fans became violent at the sight of Guānghuī’s capture of a weapons smuggling cartel leadership, forcing the Army to engage in riot control just to allow the authorities access to the crime scene. Guānghuī ‘s popularity became so intense that her face was on every magazine cover, her uniform influenced popular fashion, and songs about her maintained position at the top of the popular music charts. She was so popular, in fact, that a movement to sponsor her candidacy as President gained moderate traction, even among government officials.

Then, Guānghuī disappeared.

National media remained silent, but local news reports ran the gamut of speculative stories, ranging from covert assassination by Chinese special forces, to mysterious alien abduction eyewitness sightings, to mundane drug overdose rumors. Nightly vigils were held in Singapore’s major cities, and throughout the rural regions, but as days became weeks, and weeks became months, hope slipped away and Guānghuī was given up for good. Demoralized and cynical, the population hardly responded to the call for elections the following season, and hardliners swept both Parliament and local offices. Within months, talks began with China, and Singapore ceased open diplomatic relations with the West.

Acting on data gathered by a private corporate intelligence agency, Japan’s Covert Star Initiative secretly initiated an operation deep into Singapore’s borders, infiltrating an aquatic power station off the Eastern coast of Pulau Puwai. There, as the intelligence had described, the Covert Star black ops team discovered and rescued Guānghuī, who had been surgically grafted to a massive energy battery which had been leeching her posthuman latent radiation, converting it into electrical power and bled off to many of the more affluent island communities in the country, and had been presumably since her disappearance. She was extracted to safe harbor in Tokyo, where she would remain in exile. Though the operation was never made public, independent journalists broke the story of the suspected betrayal, capture and enslavement of the Singaporean National Hero by the government, at the behest of the Secretary of Energy, who had gone on to take the Presidency. No evidence was presented, however President Rance Moy was found hung in his offices in the Istana, and ruled a suicide.

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