User:Technocrat.

A relatively new face on the scene, Technocrat is the son of the once legendary (at least in Technocrat eyes) artificer Lucius Halos. He shares his father's passion and experimentation with electronics and metalworking. Technocrat is currently the head of Halos manufacturing Co, a custom order business that produces weapons and aircraft among other things...

Appearance
Technocrat is a white and black colored cat. He wears a black flight/mechanic suit comprised of a leather jacket, a black muscle shirt, black flight pants with added pockets, and black combat boots. He also wears a purple "court of violets" scarf, and a backpack containing tools and materials he needs for creating on the spur of the moment.

Personality
Technocrat is, for the most part, a laid back and friendly individual. He prefers to have chat and have fun rather then fight and trade. He is seen chatting in the R&amp;P pub and listening to the latest gossip. He always prefers to settle things peacefully rather then resort to violence.

However, when he gets an idea for a invention and gets to work, he becomes a entirely different person. Driven by his desire to construct beautiful, clever, and perhaps dangerous artifacts which he can test and use, he will work for hours trying to finish a new weapon, remove the kinks from an aircraft design, or simply build for the pleasure that he gets from creating another innovative device.

Inventory and Combat
Technocrat, previously stated, prefers not to fight. However, if the need should ever arise, he cares around with himself a number of devices that give him an edge in combat. He has been known to carry a two-handed katana, designed for slicing and shredding through armor and flesh alike, a semi-automatic rifle for longer ranged combat, and various grenades of his own making. He usually does not carry these tools of destruction around with him outside of planned combat, for their weight slows him down. However, he has been seen carrying and using a massive wrench as a formidable weapon.

Before his father's death
Technocrat was born on July 14, 200 AU on the skyland of Midgard, the son of Lucius Halos, a retired artificer, and Kia Halos, Lucius' wife and flight school sweet heart. The middle child of the family, with an older brother and a younger sister, he was accorded no special attention at first. In the family tradition, the eldest son would get the property, while the second son would go to flight school and be eventually forgotten about.

Technocrat's fate would have doomed him to obscurity had he not discovered he had a gift. From an early age, Technocrat show unique abilities with metal and electronics. For one, he could assemble and dissemble any electronic artifact, not matter the size or the complexity, without blueprints of instructions. Two, he could think of a part he needed and it would appear in front of him. Three, He seemed to have the ability to subtly manipulate any metal he touched in any way he wanted to. However, most people think that these "abilities" of Technocrat are rumors and hearsay.

Nevertheless, Technocrat was skilled at creating and repairing electronics. So much so, that his father took him to work in his shop as a apprentice. This gave him good pay, and experience that he would need to sell his crafting skills to others.

Technocrat's life was smooth until his dad was gunned down in his workshop at about age 16. As his father lay there dying on the floor of the workshop, Lucius gave his son title of Artificer and his journals. He apologized to Technocrat right before he died that he could not have been more of a father to him while he was growing up. As his father's life slowly drain away before Technocrat's very eyes, he swore an oath that he would find the coward who struck his father down and revenge his father's death. At the funeral, the broken family meet one last time to moarn the death of Lucius Halos.

Technocrat never saw his family again as a whole. His brother disappear shortly after the the funeral, leaving only a cryptic radio transmission as a clue to his whereabouts. The transmission told of a massive graveyard of airships and planes the collected in the area for decades. To this day, Technocrat still searches for his brother and the "Graveyard of the Lost Ships," hoping against all odds that his brother is still alive.

The Journal
To find his father's killer and have his revenge, Technocrat realized that he must attend flight school to be able search for the murderer. He immediately started to pack his bags for the trip to Echo flight school. As he was picking up his jacket, the journals which his father gave him slipped out of the jacket pocket, and on to the floor.

Thumbing through the journal, he realized the Lucius had been hiding parts of his life from his son. For one, Lucius had never told his son that he once took military contracts to build war machines. Two, his journal contain many blueprints and designs technocrat had never seen before. One of these designs caught his eye. It was Project Phoenix.

When Technocrat's father was still working in the military, he was ask to work on one final project. Knowing that they needed a advantage over their enemies, they ask Lucius to build them a new engine and a plane to house it. Working day and night for week, taking only small breaks to sleep, he constructed the world's first prototype jet engine, and had modified a Nova to house it. However, before it's capabilities could be demonstrated, it was stolen from the hanger, and never seen since. Deciding that creating and improving on his father's designs for the Phoenix would be a good project to work on, he put the journals in his trunk.

He paid his respect to his father's grave and was about to leave, when his friend, James Weston, asked if he could go along. In a moment of true friendship, Technocrat assented. With nothing more to do, the two friends set off for Echo and the Flight School.

After Flight School
Technocrat and James graduated from Flight School along with their classmates. Technocrat's main problem in flight school was his tendency to dangerous and compromising maneuvers to keep his planes aloft. One time during a field test, Technocrat's and James' CR-4P broken down in mid-flight. Rather then ending the mission early, Technocrat gave the controls to James and climbed onto the engine mid-flight to fix it. This caused commotion among the teachers, who punished Technocrat and James for such a foolish action.

After they got out of flight school, Technocrat and James decided to trade for a while, before they started their own manufacturing company. This proved boring, so they decided to start the Halos Manufacturing CO. right then and there. They have not regretted their decision since.

Friends
Technocrat is currently unaware of any friends he might have. This is because many of the people who might be his considered his friends act as though they were meeting for the first time: polite and friendly, but nothing more.

He has one love, though. Her name is Flower, and he first talked her at the R&amp;P tavern, after saving her from a plane crash. They currently are adventuring together as lovers.

Projects

 * Technocrat is currently working on creating the Phoenix MK II with an improved jet engine and getting it flying, to show the world what he capable of.
 * He is also trying to get the Halos Manufacturing Company up and running.
 * He is still searching for his father's killer, and the whereabouts of his brother and the "Graveyard of Lost Ships."
 * Rumors have it that Technocrat is working on some secret personal projects.

Achievements
None to speak of so far. However, he plans on making his name well known...