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43. "Do you hear that? That is the sound of inevitability."
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   LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-17 AT 02:53 AM (EDT)
 
When I decided to make an AoY character on my alt account(*), so as to get the benefits of having one there as well as on my main, I took the concept of "Temporal Agent" and ran with it in a... slightly different direction.


Temporal Agent Smith is not really from the mid-23rd century, of course. He and his squad of time cops are all artificial beings of one sort or another - photonics, androids, etc. In the future, this isn't as strange or contentious as it is in the 24th or early 25th.

From left to right, we have:

Andi - an Andrea-type gynoid who's had her "companion" programming swapped out for infiltration and close-combat, ala the Major (or, if you prefer another flavor of ScarJo action heroine, the Black Widow). By the time most male (and some female) humanoids have finished goggling at her "attributes", she's dropped them with superhuman speed, strength, and acrobatics.

Otis - the Photonic Engineer hologram you get from completing the Delta arc. I've not changed his default appearance; his name isn't a ref to a certain bumbling sidekick, but to the elevator company. He's quiet, reliable, and does what you need him to.

Captain Agent Smith - Pretty much what you'd expect. After first thinking he might be a hologram, I've decided he's definitely some sort of synthetic... but I couldn't tell you what kind, or even if he's 100% non-organic(**). I do know that if you try to mess with the timeline, he will find you and stop you. It is inevitable.

"Doctor" Jones - the Photonic Science Officer you used to be able to get for getting someone else to subscribe for at least a month, back before the game got sold to PWE and went f2p. (Or he would be, if this was my main account; as it stands, I just have to grit my teeth and pretend. I've actually considered starting over on my main because of this, but it's not worth it.) Jones claims to know everything about everything, at least when it comes to science and medicine, and tends to drone on in his dry, didactic and faintly smug manner until something interrupts him.

Mac - the Photonic Tactical hologram from the Lobi store. Mac is an expert sharpshooter, a tireless sentinel, selflessly if not suicidally brave... and terrible at anything outside the realm of being a security program, like making small talk.


Rather than a timeship like the Wells class, Smith's usual ride (in this time period, anyway) is a Hestia class escort, the Themis. As he would explain:

"Themis was a Titan. Even before the Greek gods and goddesses came to be, she embodied not only justice and law, but custom and the natural, proper order of things. Those who offended or broke this natural order... even those untouchable by mortal justice... could not escape her attention. Or her judgment."

"Mother, with Zeus, of the Horae, who oversee the seasons, the planting and harvest... and of the Astraea, who maintain justice, peace, and the making of laws. Gifted with... divine foresight. Often depicted bearing both scales and... a sword."

"Some accounts claim that Themis was also mother of the Fates, while others say that they were present at her first meeting with Zeus. Of course, if the Fates are truly timeless, then... perhaps both can be true."


* Long story, but mostly a then-anticipated need to be able to play NPCs, including my main's bridge officers, and generally be in two places at once. It's come in handy a few times, but not as much as I thought when I did it.

** I suppose it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility that he started as one of Miss Shiori's assistants...


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