Technology

"The Hero Cop of Galaxy City." Good God , that's as embarrassing to hear as it is to see it in print. At the risk of veering into just-doing-my-job territory, what else could we have done? My partner and I weren't going to leave those people to fend for themselves, not if we ever planned on facing ourselves in the mirror again.

The "daring escape?" Well sure, it was a little risky, but it was basically the least bad choice. There was no way we were making our way through wall-to-wall Shivans to reach the beachhead Longbow had established, and hopping on the Yellow Line was hardly an option. The way I figured it, sneaking into Perez Park and getting to Steel Canyon via the Boneyard was our best bet. I figured the Skulls would be too busy keeping their heads down to mess with us.

Well of course I didn't expect to run into the Kraken! I know heroes who've been at it for ten years that have never seen a full-grown Hydra.

My lab’s research into gravitic manipulation was funded as a DATA/NASA joint venture with an eye toward asteroid impact avoidance; the idea is that any large body headed toward Earth can be shoved off course, avoiding the need to do anything drastic (like detonating a nuke or worse).  We were too late to save Galaxy City, but the prototypes have been incorporated into a cybernetic control rig, which I’m now using in an extended field test.

In 2004, a paramilitary group began testing a prototype droid designed for covert and dangerous operations.

Alexander is an enigma. He rose from obscurity about ten years ago when he made headlines with his murder of the famous philanthropist Vincent Merulio, who was posthumously discovered to have been at the had of nation-wide organised crime ring. For the next few years, Alexander was a ghost, appearing only in fleeting glimpses from chance witnesses at the scenes of high-profile murders of rich businessmen and high-ranking politicians with ties to organised crime, then disappearing without a trace.