Soundstream
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Soundstream | |
| Player: @Beta Ray | |
| Origin: | Technology |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Security Level: | 22 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | India Marshall |
| Known Aliases: | Indie |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 24 |
| Height: | 5'6" |
| Weight: | 125 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Blue |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Anglo-American |
| Occupation: | Superhero / College Student |
| Place of Birth: | Philadelphia, PA |
| Base of Operations: | ' |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Parents, |
| Known Powers | |
| Sonic and subsonic field projection. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Electrical engineering, circuitry design. | |
| Equipment | |
| Neuro-sonic circuitry-infused Soundstream suit. | |
| Soundstream has limited power levels when not wearing her suit. She seems to take the suit off less and less as time goes by. | |
Contents |
Early Life
Like many people, I started out as a baby. Ha! So, right, I was born in Philly to Matthew and Melanie Marshall. My dad was a journalist and Mom was a teacher at Liberty Community College. I guess it was from her that I got my interest in science. She was always bringing home experiments to show me or let me re-create them. I especially liked pulling apart radio and computer circuits to see what made them work. If I was especially focused that day I might even put them back together.
When I was 9, my Dad wrote his first book (The Creeping Darkness) that hit the New York Times bestseller list. After that, he quit his news job to become a full-time writer. His stuff is pretty good, if you like to scare yourself, but it's not like he's the greatest writer in the world. Plus, I'm 99% sure that he wrote that lame rip-off book Larry Zotter and the Wizard's Challenge. He totally denies it, but there's like twenty copies of it in his study.
Paragon University
So anyways, we moved to Paragon the year I started high school. My dad was contributing to POWER! magazine a lot and writing a screenplay about Back Alley Brawler, so it made sense to be where the action was, so to speak.
I don't want to brag but school was easy for me. I blazed through grades 9-12 barely paying attention in class. I got A's without studying. So I plenty of time to learn programming languages, I could have skipped it all and started college as a 15-year-old, but I really didn't want to miss out on my social life and my friends, you know?
(college snip)
So Professor Summers corralled five of us, his best and brightest, into this extra credit, after-school-hours project. He wanted us to design from scratch and build a "computerized neuro-social labor inteface" - something to make people's lives or jobs easier through micro-circuitry. Whether it was a laptop, a contact lens or a suit of armor would be up to us. This was a pretty great opportunity to show our skills and get the attention of a lot of future potential employers. It had cooperation from all the high-tech companies around town, so basically we had almost limitless freedom to design and build a prototype of whatever we wanted. We all jumped at the chance.
The Soundstream Suit
(Space to add the design team)
When the final prototype started taking shape, it became clear that it was going to have to be built and sized with the dimensions of the wearer's body kept in mind at all times. And due to the height, weight, and er, girth (sorry, Tag!) of the men on the design team, it basically had to be either Jess or me - if you're gonna build a liquid-cooled, flexible-ceramic-reinforced, teraflop-processing, with miles of neural-interfacing circuitry into a jumpsuit, you want to make it as small as possible to save time and money. I guess they all knew I was gonna be the only one brave(or reckless) enough to actually climb inside the suit. So, mostly by default, I became the guinea pig.
Neuro-sonic Circuitry Issues
