Salvo (vehicon)

From Axalon RPG

Vehicon version created for the Ultimate RPG.

Contents 1 Basic Info 2 Statistics 3 Skills 4 Physical Description 5 Personality 6 Weapons 7 Special Abilities 8 Traits 9 History 10 Quotes

Basic Info

• Name: Salvo
• Aliases: DCV-013
• Faction: Predacon (sort of)
• Subgroup: none
• Type: Vehicon
• Transformation Code: Salvo Devastate
• Vehicle Mode: aerial warship
• Size: 13ft Robot mode, 14ft long in vehicle mode
• Gender: male
• Primary Function: Heavy Assault
• Secondary Function: Air to Air combat
• Rank: none
• Voice Actor: Paul Dobson (the voice he used for Juggernaut in X-Men-Evolution.)
• Theme Song: stabbing westward – darkest day

Statistics

• Strength 10
• Stamina 10
• Speed 6
• Skill 5
• Firepower 10
• Aim 8
• Intelligence 7
• Discipline 4
• Luck 3

Skills

• Auto fire weapons
• Flight Assisted
• Hand to hand combat
• Heavy Weapons
• Melee Weapons claws
• Gravity Training: Zero-G
• Tactics

Physical Description

Image of Salvo.[[1]]

Robot Mode: Overall Salvo stands a full 13ft high at head height. His body is smooth avoiding any unnecessary detail. On his left shoulder is a decepticon symbol on the right is a predacon symbol. The armor that covers his body is highly reinforced to take large amounts of damage. Most of the damage that affects him would be dealt to his joints, which while weaker are still quite strong. Salvo is truly a walking tank. The claws that protrude from what pass from his hands are the closest thing he has to fingers. These claws while shape at the points cannot cut well. The claws can be pulled together and slide back in to turn his hands into punching spikes. They can also be pulled in the full way effectively turning them into battering rams. There are two pieces that hang form his back. His foot is made of three pieces. The back looks the same as the front but splits in two pieces that point back at an angle to help support his size. With in his body is a balancer system that helps to absorb the recoil of his weapons. Head: His face has two flat gold colored spikes that protruded from behind his faceplate. The raised portion on the top of his head continues to the base of his smooth helmet. His optics gives off no light. Vision wise his eye can switch into heat and night vision. Also he has a clear visual range of up to a mile. His hearing is no more powerful then normal, and Salvo lacks olfactory sensors. His voice is deep and commanding with a slight electronic sound mixed in.

Vehicle Mode/Transformation: First his head and collar slide into the body and are covered over. His upper body points upwards and the pieces on the back connect to the sides of his lower torso. His shoulders spin forward with the cannon barrels spinning to point upwards. The entire shoulders and cannons shift in to connect side by side on the front of his lower torso turned bottom of the warship. The upper arms pull into the lower arms as they connect to the sides of the ship. The hands convert to their pulse gun form with the barrels resting beside the vents. The plates that hang form the sides of his hips resize to completely cover all but the last third of his lower legs. The backs of his feet pull together, and the now two pieces fold downward before pulling half way into the legs to create the main engine.

Personality

What to say about Salvo. If somebody was to encounter him they might feel he is an anger killing machine without mercy, and said somebody would be about 80% correct. When it comes to anger he has a good many reasons to be. He has been striped of his former glory and made into a tool for a bunch of frails. By the way frail is the word his he chose to use as an insult to maximal and predacons, whom he is truly disgusted with. How could their truly superior race turn to organics? This isn’t to say he could never like a frail, they would just have to do something to show they live up to their decepticon ancestors.

Salvo is also a lot more then just a kill machine, though he is most certainly without mercy. When away from the battle field he enjoys spending his time plotting toward the completion of his goals. He also enjoys reading and reviewing battles. There is nothing that pleases Salvo more then picking apart what went wrong in combat, well accept maybe putting a spark offline. When it comes to manors Salvo is greatly lacking. When he speaks he is very blunt, and often won’t hold back how he feels. This isn’t to say he doesn’t keep his own secrets.

In battle Salvo is quite a cunning warrior. He uses his knowledge of tactics and his fire power to gain the upper hand. His mind is quick to deduce a plan of action for a battle, though nowhere near what once was. His weakness comes from his rage. Salvo suffers from fits of rage that take over his mind. The causes of this can vary, but failure against a frail seems to be at the top of the list. When enraged Salvo becomes little more then a rampaging lunatic. While he has enough power to devastate most anything in his path he is easily outsmarted.

Weapons

(2x) Shoulder cannons: Two large turret like cannons that rest one on each shoulder. These cannons are capable of turning 360 degrees around. The large shells that the cannons fires explode on impact, and have enough power too knock some of the largest bots off their feet. The shots of these cannons can make easy work of most objects. In vehicle form these cannons are on the bottom of the warship, and can only turn 180 degrees. R.O.F: 1 every three sec. Range: short to medium7 Area of effect: single target (3ft diameter.) Penetration: low Damage: high Damage type: Large semi-explosive shell

(2x) Pulse guns: For all of his heavy weapons Salvo is a bit lacking in the R.O.F department. That’s where these come in. In each arm is a quick firing pulse gun. The barrels of the guns, when inactive, are covered with metal caps that slide out around them. Half way up the forearms is gold bands that cover fans that open when the guns are active. These fans cool the guns so they don’t over heat. His pulse guns are used mainly for suppressive and close ranged combat. The color of the energy is green. R.O.F: 2 per sec. Range: short to medium Area of effect: impact area only Penetration: mid Damage: low Damage type: energy

(2x) Homing Missiles launchers: the two missile pods that sit on the two side pieces, which hang off Salvo’s back in robot mode. The missile pods are ¾ the size of the pieces they are connected to, and are centered on the sections. The ammo is pretty straight forward here. These fire black homing missiles with high fire power. They fire forward in vehicle mode, and upwards in robot mode. R.O.F: 1 every 3 seconds Range: med to long Area of effect: 10ft diameter Penetration: mid Damage: High Damage type: explosive Below is the shape of the missile pods.

(1x) Mag. Cannon (mass Driver): This is salvo’s favorite weapon by far. This gun is stored on the middle of his back, and sits collapsed behind his head in vehicle form. The shape of the gun starts with a round cylinder half the length of his forearm. His arms docks in it and his three spikes act as the triggers. On the bottom is a flat power cell that runs the length of the cylinder. At the end of the cylinder is a round piece that is ¼ the length and a ¼ larger in width. Extending out from inside the front are four bars the length of his upper arm. Within these bars are slightly smaller pieces that extend out. These bars can spread out in an box shape to create a kind of barrel. The main advantage to this cannon is that it gives of little sound since it is fire by magnetic. This barrel can fire an object up to width of his arm, so long as it can be magnetized. The most unique ammo for this gun is the solid rounds. These bullets are one solid pieces of metal. The solid rounds have a extremely high armor piercing rate, and leave nothing but a clean hole. R.O.F: Once every 3 minutes. Range: medium to long Area of effect: solid shell (only what bullet hits) hollow points (1 foot diameter.) Explosive (15ft.) Other. Penetration: solid (extremely high), hollow point (high), Explosive (med), other Damage: varies Damage type: Varies

Special Abilities

Flight: There is an anti-gravity unit in his torso that allows him to hover in both modes. Also there are the two main boosters that his legs form. In warship form he has full flight capability. In robot mode he lacks good maneuverability, but he can use the flight system skate over the ground. His can control himself with high skill in Zero G.

Traits

Reinforced armor: Armor reinforced to be able to absorb high amounts of damage.

Pervious identity: Salvos spark is that of a decepticon of the same name. He has some memories of that life. The longer he is active the more memories come back to him.

Control Program: This program was designed to prevent DCV-013 from going out of control and killing his creators. Unfortunately for them it was never finished. The system works by imputing in a list of allies. Once in the list the unit is able to target or directly cause harm to that ally. There are some self defense mechanisms however. If the unit was to come under attack form a non-controller the program will temporally remove that ally from the list till said attack is ended. The program also has control of his power supply. A controller could us this program to power down systems, or to overload them. These are also usual side effect of him trying to attack allies. Salvo would like nothing more then to rid himself of this program.

History

The story of Salvo starts not in the present, but millions of years before the maximal and predacons. Salvo was a decepticon, a fine warrior, but it was not has fighting ability that made him deadly. Salvo was a strategic genus with few his equal. He could turn even the sloppiest force into a well oiled combat machine. It was these skills that got him recognized by his leader Shockwave. For over a million years Salvo served Shockwave well. Even with the return of Megatron Salvo only true loyalty was to Shockwave. What happened in his later years is unclear.

Fast forward to present day to a group calling themselves Reset. Reset was a group of predacon techno purists with the lofty goal of resurrecting the decepticon race. And it was a lofty goal indeed seeing how few truly new how to build them, and they weren’t talking. So the group had to start from starch, using the closest thing they could find. Reset had much support from other purists include a few higher ups in the government who were glad to grant them access to the Vehicon project data. They took this information to a lab they built on an unnamed planetoid, doing all they could to avoid detection. The first year was rough to say the least. It took the scientists 6 units, which were codenamed DCV, before they even got the bodies fully functional. The biggest problem however was with the sparks, which were unable to coop with the implantation. Most went brain dead, other died, and some went dangerously insane. But their luck was changing.

A member of Reset came upon a badly trashed decepticon, with a still active spark near a small out post. The group quickly took the unknown decepticon to their labs and restored its spark as they took apart its body for study. It was not long before their new unit, lucky number 13, was ready. This body was different from any they had built before, because it was mixed with true decepticon technology. Unknown to Reset however the council had found out about their presence and had dispatched the secret police. The team had clear orders, silence Reset and bring back any items or data found. With the body completed the scientist became excited for it awakening. Late one night a member of the team decided to take it upon herself too install the spark. When the unit came online it was irrational and destructive. To top things off the control program designed to prevent such actions had not been completed. The result was the death of all those in the lab.

By the time the Predacon secret police team arrived the researcher had been dead over a week. What they found was lab that looked as if it was ground zero in a war. The team grabbed whatever they found, until Salvo found them. The battle lasted four hours and cost the team of 11 four of its members. Once they disabled the vehicon they restrained him and loaded him on the ship. During the flight the ship had a small accident, in the form of the main engine exploding. After that it wasn’t long before Salvo broke free, and one by one killed the crew. As the ship drifted aimlessly Salvo shut himself down to conserve power till some unlucky person found him. The ship crashed into the rock, but the inactive Salvo remained offline.

Quotes

• “These couldn’t possibly be are decedents. These are weak disgusting little freaks of nature.”

• “You’re no predacon. I can remember predacons, and they didn’t have weak bodies like yours. You’re nothing but a sad little frail.