Cryptolo:
PL: 11
Strength 2
Stamina 2
Agility 2
Dexterity 2
Fighting 4
Intellect 3
Awareness 3
Presence 1
Skills: Athletics 6 (+8.), Deception 9 (+10), Expertise [Civics] 6 (+9), Expertise [Computers] 18 (+21), Expertise [Criminal] 12 (+15), Expertise [Pop Culture] 6 (+9), Ranged Combat [Pistols] 4 (+6), Ranged Combat [Blaster Pistols] 4 (+6), Stealth 6 (+8.)
Advantages: Connections, Contacts, Daze [Deception], Eidetic Memory, Equipment 3, Taunt
Powers: Natural With Computers: (Innate)
Enhanced Skill 6 [Expertise (Computers) +18]
Enhanced Advantages 3 [Online Research, Second Chance (Expertise [Computer]), Skill Mastery (Expertise [Computer])]
Offense: Initiative +2
Melee Attack +4
Ranged Attack +2 // Pistol/Blaster Pistol Attack +6
Defense: Dodge +7
Parry +7
Toughness +7*/+2 [*Cyber Armor]
Fortitude +5
Will +8
Equipment: Cyber Armor [Protection 5]
Blaster Pistol [Ranged Damage 5]
Costs: Abilities 38+ Skills 19+ Advantages 8+ Powers 11+ Defenses 16= 92 pts.
Real Name: Trevor “Trey” Hicks
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 150 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eye Color: Black
Complications:
Behind The Scenes: Cryptolo prefers to operate without people knowing he’s involved and often times will work through intermediates he hires to represent him and/or his interests in certain situations.
Motivation ~Greed: Cryptolo is driven to make as much money as he possibly can.
Background: Trey Hicks hadn’t ever turned a computer on ever in his life, let alone learned to use one. He was too busy gang-banging and learning all levels of street crime as part of a local crew. But his grandmother, who’d been raising Trey since his single mother had dropped him off on her doorstep when he was three, had signed him up at the local community center to get a free notebook computer, a program that was sponsored by Steele Omnitech, that had an free connection to the internet as long as it was within the city limits.
Honestly Trey was going to go pawn it for some easy money but on a lark decided to turn it on to check it out. A few hours later Trey had unlocked his natural aptitude for computers and was on his way to learning how to put them to criminal use. By the end of two weeks he’d hacked his way across a few Federal databases and a couple corporate systems, taking valuable intellectual property, and thus ended Trey’s time as a street hood and his time as a digital raider begun.
Over the years Trey, who’d earned himself the name of Cryptolo, developed a solid reputation as an information broker and hacker who’d work for anyone willing to pay his fee. Trey also continued to do cyber-raiding on various companies, stealing data and then either ransoming it back to them or selling it to their competition. And while that was a very profitable means of making money it was also how Trey built up an impressive collection of powerful movers and shakers in the business world who wanted his head served up on a platter.
So when Freebooter heard the sum that Crytolo's former victims were willing to pay he couldn’t pass up the chance to show he was still at the top of his game (Cryptolo had been long saying in several hacker cyber meeting sites that it was time for Freebooter to retire and let the new generation of hackers (who were much better anyways) make their mark). So he electronically approached Cryptolo with an offer of them teaming up to pull off what would be the most impressive hack of this century and between the boost to his reputation from doing not only pulling off the cyber-scam would do but from working with the famous (at least in cyber circles that is) Freebooter (say what you want about him but he does have something of a following online) Cryptolo couldn’t accept fast enough.
Together they stole 1.5 billion dollars with a program that pulled just one dollar from a billion and a half personal accounts from around the globe in under just ten minutes and the money was pooled to a central account in the Caymans where Cryptolo and Freebooter would recover it and divide between the two of them. But that’s when things kind of went sideways: Cryptolo was planning on cutting Freebooter out of the deal and while their program was depositing money into their joint account, Cryptolo’s other program was transferring it into an account that was his alone. While Cryptolo was watching his retirement purse swell however Freebooter was pulling a double cross of his own: calling in an anonymous tip on where the Federal Government could find Cryptolo.
Cryptolo surrendered without a fight (he knew what would happen if he tried to resist, he’s a street kid after all, not stupid). By the time he was processed through central booking, all the money Cryptolo had stolen was safely tucked away where his traitorous partner would have a difficult time locating it. It’s been almost ten years now and Cryptolo has never given up where the money went to law enforcement, knowing that all he has to do is do his time, get released and then he’s free to pursue his “retirement”; buying an island somewhere very warm and setting up a digital storage haven that other hackers from around the world can safely store any information they wish, for a percentage cost of course.
What Cryptolo doesn’t know however is that Motherboard, the leader of the Cyber Tribe, stumbled across his hidden account about five years ago and figuring out what it was decided to tap it as a resource for her “family”. Currently the account is at about half of what was originally put into it, maybe enough for Cryptolo to set up his retirement plan (but just barely). So once he finds out what’s happened to his money he’ll go on the warpath – cyber-tracking Motherboard down as well as hiring metamen mercs to target her extended family that makes up the Cyber Tribe.
