Name: Franz Berthold
Code Name: Kreuzritter
Appearance: A tall, strapping bear of man, with an almost perpetual grimace on his face and an ugly scar running along his left cheek, which he tries to conceal with his beard.
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 370 lbs.
Age: 42
Hair: black
Eyes: brown
Skin: caucasian
Clothes: Outside of his armor, he wears his uniform or fatigues. the Kreuzritter armor is designed to resemble a typical superhero costume with a blue torso and white sleeves and leggings, with silvery metal armor on the upper torso, back, and a nordic style full-face helmet with flared, swept back foils. the boots and gauntlets are slightly oversized to accomodate thrusters and armament, with an obvious high calibre wrist cannon on each gauntlet.
Personality: Direct and to the point, Kreuzritter a trained soldier with a sense of humor rumored to have been removed at birth, and no qualms about making hard decisions. Despite his grim and gritty outlook, he lives to see a better world for the next generation.
Occupation: Superhero, soldier and Special agent appointed by the United Nations.
Kreuzritter
PL: 11 (165)
abilities: (18)
STR 16 DEX 12 CON 14 INT 12 WIS 14 CHA 10
Combat: (40)
+5 init, +12/10 ATK, +10 DEF (+5 flat-footed)
+ DMG (unarmed
saves: (9)
TOU +12/4 FORT +5 REF +4 WILL +5
Skills (18/72)
bluff +6
disable device +4
diplomacy +4
gather info +8
intimidate +8
knowledge: tactics +10
notice +8
profession: soldier +10
sense motive +6
stealth +12
survival +6
feats (16)
attack focus: ranged +2, all-out attack, benefit (security clearance), defensive attack, diehard, elusive target, evasion, improved intiative, move by action, precise shot +2, power attack, startle, sneak attack, well-informed
Powers (68)
device: warsuit +17 (hard to lose) (68)
- blast: fission bazooka +10 (extras: area-burst +1, Penetrating +1, drawback: unreliable-5 shots -1) [22]
AP: blast- autocannon +10 (extra: autofire +1) {20}
AP: blast- plasgun +10 (extra: penetrating +1) {20}
- communication (radio) +2 [2]
- flight +5 [10]
- immunity +9 (life support) [9]
- invisibility +4 [4]
- protection +8 (feat: impervious tough +2, extra: impervious +1) [18]
- super-senses +13 (blindsight[radio, extended, radius], darkvision, direction sense, distance sense, infravision, radio, time sense) [13]
- super strength +3 [6]
drawback:
normal identity (full round, -4)
costs
abilities 18 + combat 40 + saves 9 + skills 18/72 + feats 16 + powers 68 - drawbacks 4 = 165 pts
Historical Facts Relevant to Stories:
For Franz Bertholt, the war was finally over. After a seeming eternity of fighting and peacekeeping in some of the bloodiest conflicts in the world, he was at last being sent home to be with his family, to at last enjoy the peace he'd fought for. His brother had even lined him up a job in his company as a security cheif. And most importantly, he could be with his wife Heidi, and their children, whom he had been forced to miss growing up.
But the nightmare came back in force, when on the hour of Franz's return, the airport was brutally attacked by a metahuman terrorist group. to this day, Franz is haunted by the memory of finding his family's mangled and burning bodies, and the chilling laughter of the lead terrorist.
From that moment, Franz threw his entire life into the military, wanting to make the enemies of the free world pay in full for their crimes. this passionate, almost obsessive zeal, and his own considerable talents, made him the first candidate for Project Crusade, a privately funded but UN approved plan to create a mobile peacekeeping force armed with advanced weaponry, making one soldier a match for any metahuman terrorist. As a German, Franz was assigned the codename Kreuzritter, and fully trained in the use of his armor, testing and proving it's effectiveness in middle eastern "Hot Zones".
However, recently Crusade's secrecy was violated, forcing the entire team to go public. to salvage the growing public relations nightmare, Kreuzritter was assigned to serve alongside the infinity force for the forseeable future, and while there is some conflict, he has the potential to become a vital team member.
Meanwhile, in his own time he's done what he can to track down the terrorists that set him on this path, having finally gotten the name of the laughing monster that took his family from him. A fitting name, he figures, the russian word for demon: Ordog.
this kreuzritter was heavy inspired by META-4's cyclone, mostly for the novelty of his "iron man meets punisher" concept. when I get around to making cylone, you can expect this as a basis
