Very much a WIP with regards to content and edits. Just wanted a place holder.
Loadout:
Operational Role: Hybrid between engineer and vanguard. Think geth primes.
Biography: Given true sentient behavior through Legion's sacrifice, creation of the geth people was met by many moral barriers that the once machine race never encountered. Though deliberations were slowed due to each unit being an individual versus a collective of experiences, a method of natural procreation of future geth was reached. While reproducing via organic rituals was impossible, the leaders of the geth people - elected via a vote - hammered out the process after reviewing the memory databases obtained before what the geth people now regard as the Awakening.
Each unit, upon the final stages of creation, were to be given imprints of the memory databases that closely aligned to developmental experiences of organics. The new generation would be mentored by older geth until he or she chose a vocation to follow. Namely, the geth leaders provided each individual a blueprint. It was up to the individual to choose what path him or her wanted to embark on. Henceforth, the geth people were reinvented and reborn.
With much talks with the Council leadership via Tali Zorah vas Neema, the quarian leadership, the geth enacted a plan to make the geth more organic in lieu of staying very much mechanical. Cognizant of the taboo they were skirting about - the Reaper's atrocities committed during the great war - they used inorganic materials and some organic samples taken from none of the sentient races. Agreeing to a joint quarian-geth monitoring board, the recreation of the new generation of geth began. While the overall mechanical skeleton of the geth was kept, various tissues and nerves were grown and incorporated into the geth that enhanced performance. The enhancements were to increase durability, strength, and better dexterity than that of the older generation.
Cypher was of the fifth generation hybrids. He was lucky. He didn't have to go through ethical conflicts present in the first and second generation among his people.
Eschewing the ways of the scholar, the scientist, the pacifist, Cypher subscribed himself to the path of war. As with all under the Coalition's purview, he was paired with another quarian. Where his partner excelled in technology and technological warfare, he too contained the basic technological affinity characteristic of his race but possessed the violence of a prime. Brute force and ruthless tactics is always Cypher's preferred mode of operation. However, among the geth-quarian coalition, he has earned a reputation of digging into things unknown and bringing them to light. A trait earning him a whole host of enemies while earning respect from his people and the quarians. A respect encircled by dread from his cold disposition.
Growing older with each evolution, so does his devotion to ensuring the coalition and council species survivor. With the Empire Reborn growing strength and threatening his people and his allies, Cypher joined a special forces group within the Coalition military. Void Walkers - commonly called Walkers. Deploying to the front, his partner and him disrupted ER operations while ground and naval forces fought in the open. It was here he learned what the memory databases couldn't teach him. It was here he learnt the harsh lessons of war.
Mercy equated to death. Violence was the excess. Remorse was the cripple.
Responding in equal atrocities committed by ER military units, Cypher utilized every conceivable offensive choice available to him and his unit within a given scenario. From disabling life support to leaving nothing alive in his unit's theater of operations. It has earned him many reprimands, but he got the job done no matter what. If an ally fell in combat, the sacrifice was justified if the mission succeeded. A waste if it wasn't. The exception was his partner. That was collateral he could ill afford.
Word of his deeds reached Council ears. His and his partner's prowess on the battlefield eventually moved them from the Walkers to the rank of the spectres. It was only upon induction into the spectre ranks that he was asked to join the fire team tasked with assassinating the Prothean Emperor.
As the paragon of war's teachings stated back when he was mere evolutions old, "forget those replaceable. Remove those irreplaceable to scatter that which yet stands impregnable."
Talents:
Shield Boost
Adrenaline Burst
Charge
Overload
Combat Mastery
Tech Mastery