OMEGA SENTINEL

 

OMEGA SENTINEL

Real Name: Karima Shapandar

First Appearance: X-Men Unlimited (Vol. 1) #27, June 2000

Powers: Karima Shapandar was transformed into a Prime Sentinel cyborg during Operation: Zero Tolerance, using the most advanced Omega technology implants. These implants wired themselves into her physiology at a genetic level, and reconstructed virtually her entire arms and legs along with considerable masses of technology in her stomach and along her spine up to the control circuitry in her brain. The Nannites flooding her cells were capable of regenerating large amounts of damaged or lost tissue and circuitry, and analyzing these damages in order to construct protective measures that prevent her from suffering from the same form of attack again. Her cybernetics give her superhuman strength, reflexes, and naturally high resistance to many forms of physical injury. She is equipped with telescopic, x-ray and magnetic resonant imaging visual abilities, in addition to proximity sensors that can detect masses and movement in her general vicinity. Her broadband and individual bio-scanners can pick up on all life signs on an area as wide as the island of Genosha, and perform medical scans on people to determine the extent of any injuries they possess. She also bio-tags individuals she comes across with her sensors, letting her recognize and pinpoint their locations specifically as she chooses.

Karima's on-board central processing unit has vast data storage and collating ability, and a constantly active satellite modem allows her to access information the world over at a moment's notice. She has the capacity to project holograms of various kinds, usually technical in nature like full body scans or topographical representations of a landscape. She can also project an interactive hologram over miles to see, hear, and speak with people at distant locations. These holographic projections can lock on to one of her bio-tags to automatically materialize before a given individual she has met previously. For offensive purposes, Karima is capable of supersonic flight and has a wide range of weapons and devices stored in collapsible and retractable housings on her fingers, shoulders, wrists and forearms, abs, thighs and shins. In addition to searchlights, tracking lasers, rail guns, and plasma knives, she also has high energy volt-casters that telescope like tuning forks from the sides of her forearms. Her fingers are capable of extending razor sharp blades or projecting rapid-fire armor-piercing darts.

Karima Shapandar is a skilled markswoman, detective-inspector, and hand-to-combatant having graduated from the Stardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy.

BASTION

 

BASTION

Real Name: Inapplicable

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #52, May 1996

Powers: Bastion was the magically recreated form of the Nimrod/Mastermold Sentinel hybrid. During a battle with the X-Men, the hybrid was forced through the Siege Perilous, an inter-dimensional gateway bestowed upon the group by Roma, the Omniversal Majestrix. According to Roma, all who entered the portal were judged by “the highest of powers” and given a chance at rebirth. When it re-emerged from the portal, the Sentinel amalgamation was brought forth in a form no longer artificial, but one of flesh and blood. Unlike others who have gone through the same process, the Sentinel amalgamation would remember the process and assign his own beliefs to the motives of the “higher powers.” He would come to believe that the powers deemed him worthy of his most fervent desire. As such, this power, which he perceived to be feminine, transformed him into a man. Though now stripped of all artificiality and now a fully grown human male, the reborn Sentinel did not know what it was to be human. Furthermore, he had absolutely no memory of his former existence.

He originally appeared to be a synthezoid, a combination of mechanical and pseudo-organic parts which appeared outwardly human. He seemed to be stronger, faster, and possessed better sensory acuity than a normal person, and was immune to psionic probes. After Operation: Zero Tolerance was decommissioned, Bastion's old lives reasserted themselves somewhat, and he began to demonstrate the pre-programmed molecular conversion abilities possessed by Nimrod, reconfiguring his relatively normal techno-physiology to replicate many of the powers and technologies Nimrod once had. He even created an outer armored shell mimicking his old mechanical state. Since then, Bastion has frequently been reduced to little more than a disembodied head, but retains machine telepathy and contact molecular reconstructive abilities, enabling him to mentally override and control mechanical systems from a short distance away as well as fuse with other androids or robotics, converting them into new bodies for himself.

Briefly, he was transmoded into the being called Template after infusion with a techno-mechanical virus cultivated by Mainspring. A derivation of the transmode virus employed by the Technarchy and the Phalanx to convert organic matter into techno-organic matter, the techno-mechanical virus was capable of transfiguring inorganic matter in much the same way. Techno-mechanical substance was not self-powering, as it contained none of the "lifeglow" found in techno-organic matter, but was capable of advanced morphing and reconstruction when fed sufficient amounts of artificial power. As the core of Mainspring's techno-mechanical system, Template had adapted an entire space station as an extension of himself, and could use its satellite communications to transmit the techno-mechanical virus down to Earth, "infecting" computers and other receivers with the virus as well. This let him reshape and animate such receivers from a distance and spread the virus through anything they touched. Later, Bastion was reborn by connecting his head to the deactivated body of an alternate future Nimrod, giving him his original synthezoid body and yet the full power of a Nimrod.