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DarknessOfMemory — Deviant Universe - The Mother Ship

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Description I had initially thought of just having a living vehicle to get more firepower if one's vehicles weren't accessible, but they couldn't fit into doors that way. So she transforms into a vehicle during combat, it's more versatile.

She is also my interpretation of an airplane dragon, which I heard has been gaining popularity as a species.

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“The Mother Ship”
Real name: None
Species: Airplane Dragon
Age: at least 160 Earth years
Height: 6’ 5” without equipment
Faction: None or whoever pays her the most
Alignment: Depends on who is hiring her
Occupation: Fleet Warlord

Likes: Interstellar hypercredits, spiting people that cannot overcome vehicles by pointing other vehicles and anti-ship weapons in their faces, large-scale conflict, hatred, fear,  the fact that Earthlings can't agree to put aside their differences to fight a common foe
Dislikes: Banknote-based currency valid on less than a planetary scale, peace, mutual destruction of her clients

Motivated by: Getting whatever contract she has done by any means necessary even if it involves taking advantage of something or someone else
Demotivated by: Anyone that doesn't pay her on time

Positive interactions: Queen Arvelia (sometimes), Despair Mistress, Pale Horsewoman, Syndicate (sometimes)
Negative interactions: Queen Arvelia (most of the time), Final Crisis, Fury Raptor, Agent Tracer, Y2.1K, Syndicate (sometimes), Sorcerer
Mainly does battle with: Queen Arvelia, Fury Raptor, Sorcerer

Factory vessel: fav.me/dbov8px

Personality:

Since she can’t decide on a code name, she interchangeably responds to “The Mother Ship” or “Fleet Warlord”, although she is usually known as “that dragon woman that attaches starship parts to herself” since she does not have a name. She will also respond to "dragon woman", "airplane dragon", and "Great Space General".

As she learned Earth English from television, she sometimes uses stereotypical bits of dialogue from TV shows to communicate in English, and might say things like “Avast!” or “Make my day!” when she talks. She will indiscriminately imitate regional accents for any language she hears, including Engrish spoken by foreigners and aliens and poorly worded Japanese by Americans, though when talking to someone she will try to imitate their accent and regional syntax so they understand whatever she is saying.

As a Salauros dragon, she lacks the empathy that Terran humans have, and interprets everything informed to her as a potential weapon she can use against them in a social manner. She speaks bluntly and honestly, and because she understands how to weaponize social protocol, she might use them as an indirect insult. She takes little time to learn proper nouns and often refers to entities by description or just saying, “Hey, you!” She doesn’t care anything for socializing (or even being liked) since she is a mercenary and will do anything requested of her in exchange for an appropriate fee, and negotiates by putting her anti-capship weapons in others’ faces. She has difficulty distinguishing between humans/humanoids and will believe that two people are of the same demographic if they behave alike to some extent (although her HUD might prompt her if she has met them before).

As her business is in war, she tries to milk as much profit as possible from whichever faction hires her to wage war, first by agreeing to a general contract, then increasing or lowering her rates depending on the degree of her faction's chance of victory. If her side is about to win, she will sometimes try to get the other side to fight to the death just so she can get paid longer, and if her side is about to lose, she will cut her losses in the hope that her faction will pay her more. She uses the phrase “It’s only business” a lot and does not care for the ethics behind it. If she is instructed to interact with or engage specific demographics, she will ignore any entity that does not meet the criteria for that demographic and tell them to stay out of her way since she has no business with them (for example, she will tell Lyncians actively stationed on Earth that her current contract doesn't include them and won't engage them unless they interfere). She will make every effort to work around the visitors without interfering with their activities (such as by assassinating the target under their protection with a precision attack) but also knows to prioritize targets that she can dispatch with more efficiency, leaving heavily guarded targets alone in favor of lightly guarded targets.

Everywhere she goes, she tries to scan and gain blueprints of aerial vehicles native to the planet that she can use her mobile factories to construct, although modified to some extent to work in any environment and to bring their weaponry up to equal grounds with other interstellar armies. If she is not aware that the vehicle is supposed to be aerial (or that the machine is not a vehicle in the first place) she might scan it anyway, resulting in flying cars and boats when she builds them.

She fears no one in combat since her exosuit effectively grants her the weaponry and defensive capabilities of a capital ship and her gravity-differential super strength allows her to pull her aircraft out of the air and throw them at enemies as if they were javelins, or she can even wield them as if they were guns. She will often threaten people with capital ship weapons to spite the fact that they cannot overcome her. Though she possesses a mild sense of danger she puts very little value on her own life (mainly because no one likes her) so it is difficult to successfully threaten her, but it is easy to bribe her.

She is the nemesis of Final Crisis VII and dislikes him solving problems as opposed to her profiting off the problems without offering a solution. His defenses can similarly absorb her anti-ship weapons to some extent.


Known languages:
- Draconic (traditional dialect)
- Latin
- English
- Chinese
- Translator HUD will help her speak languages she is not fluent in but also include regional accents, syntax, and catchphrases in translation

Powers:
Gravity-differential dragon body: Since she is from a planet with higher gravity and the fact that she is a dragon, her super strength is considered to be as strong as 4-5 dragons on Earth and is similarly durable, with antipersonnel and low-yield energy weapons glancing off her scales as if they were popcorn and flashlights. She is extremely resilient to anti-armor weapons and she can be affected by anti-capship weapons, though since she is aware of this, she will use her shields and starships to mitigate the damage.

Cyborg enhancements: The modifications her body has undergone to become The Mother Ship has made her as durable as a starship and able to survive in a vacuum and atmospheric re-entry. To prevent obvious weak points, she has also modified her eyes with cybernetic implants so they are also as durable as her scales and cannot be injured in the same manner as an entity that requires their eyes to see, and her headpiece has a scanner in it so she doesn't need visibility to perceive things around her (meaning being deprived of any sensory input has little to no effect on her unless her scanner is also jammed). Due to these modifications and sometimes having to fabricate replacement organic body parts after combat, she is not certain how much of her original body remains and how much of it is artificial.


Arsenal:
Vehicles: Due to her gravity-differential super strength, her main weapons are vehicles, since as quoted by Earth driver's education, "licensing a person to drive a vehicle is like licensing them to use a weapon." Because of her Salaurian dragon mental state she interprets this literally and swings them around as if they were swords or throws them as if they were javelins or uses them as shields due to their high durability. If the vehicle has some kind of weapon built in she might hold it as if it were a gun. Since her factories can fabricate vehicles, she treats them as expendable and not as expensive things.

Anti-starship weapons: The weapons she wields are stripped from existing starships and modified with firing mechanisms that permit her to fire them as if they were handheld. She wields them as if they were little more than handguns, allowing her to take down capital ships from the ground and obliterating ground infantry simply by firing an anti-ship weapon at them. She can also pick up warheads and throw them if that amount of destruction is required.

Cybernetic exoskeleton: The exoskeleton she wears acts as a guide for where her factory ship is supposed to teleport starship parts onto so she can wield them immediately or transform into a starship quickly. It is made out of extremely durable materials and cannot be damaged with most non-starship weapons. The only necessary parts for it to teleport parts onto her properly are the cuffs. If the wires are damaged she will not be able to control the internal systems of whatever parts are teleported onto them with hand and foot motions (but she can still use her head implant). If the cuffs are damaged it can cause the parts to assemble on her improperly but she can still have whole starships teleported into her general area which she can board and fly personally.

Cybernetic wings: She modified her wings to have starship engines on them, permitting her to travel at hyperspeed.


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