Melissa Meteor
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Melissa Meteor | |
| Player: @Undying Enmity | |
| Origin: | Science (Technology on character screen) |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Security Level: | 50+ |
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| Real Name: | Project Meteor, Model V3-J47.2 |
| Known Aliases: | Melissa (chosen name), Lissa (nickname) |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 20 (physically), 13 months (chronologically) |
| Height: | 5'3" |
| Weight: | 97 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
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| Nationality: | American by birth |
| Occupation: | First-response soldier and captain in Atomic Gaslight |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City, RI |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City, RI |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Jane Sladen and Isabella Edison (mothers), Jason Roland (father), Cassandra Roland (technical half-sister), Amelia Edison-Sladen (adopted sister) |
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| Flight, fire projection, superhuman strength and durability | |
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| Expert training in military strategies, guerrilla warfare, spaceflight and ship maintenance | |
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| Artificially created from three involuntary genetic donors by Dr. Ishmael Phinius of the Future Evolution Research Bureau | |
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Melissa Meteor seems to be your average super powered woman: powerful, fiercely protective of her family and loved ones, and dedicated to her ideals. However, this initial impression only scratches the surface of her true character and origins, a much darker and more desperate tale.
Creation
Melissa was not born as most humans are; in fact, she wasn't technically born at all, but instead grown in an incubation chamber. A secretive paramilitary organization known as the Future Evolution Research Bureau wanted a more rapid advancement of their overall plans to understand human evolution and how to influence and control it. As such, Dr. Ishmael Phinius hatched a plan to experiment with the genes of heroes and villains who worked well as a group. The majority of the experiments were failures, with the traits either not properly manifesting or being so dangerous in child specimens that the experiments immediately died. The same was true of Project Meteor, a moniker derived from donor Jane Sladen's Hero Corps identification. Secretly acquiring genetic material from Jane Sladen, Jason Roland and Isabella Edison, Phinius created a stock crop of cells from which to draw their chromosomes and recombine them. Experiments were done rapid-fire, with multiple harvests of embryos in each round. Until every permutation permitted was proven to fail, the batches of embryos would remain listed alphabetically, adding numbers to them. For example, if group A1 failed, A2 would be next.
The majority of children created were exactly the same failures as before. Either they incubated to stillbirth or once their aging was accelerated they would die as their powers manifested. Finally, the runt of harvest V3 proved viable and the child created was artificially aged to maturity before having preprogrammed false memories uploaded into her mind. Project Meteor's appearance caught the Bureau by surprise. They had expected many things, but a short, pretty and incredibly curvaceous woman had not been one of them. Her proportions were generous, to be certain, but her strength and durability even more so. Meteor was powerful and possessed of Sladen's powers of fire manipulation and flight. However, while Sladen was fast and surgically precise, albeit at the cost of survivability should she actually be struck, Meteor was amazingly sturdy and could heal from grievous wounds in moments.
Programming and Experimentation
As any nerd will attest, the creation of super-soldiers is always problematic because they are people who possess free will and can easily turn on you. Phinius found a way around that, though memory implantation. Creating artificial memories of a childhood, Dr. Phinius went into detail that many of his colleagues thought to be obsessive, including favorite TV shows and books, and failed childhood crushes. Phinius would later berate his colleagues for ever criticizing his genius; he had always been the Bureau's most brilliant and innovative mind, and they had no justification to deprecate his expertise.
