"Regret"
By Vigilance99 (https://pastebin.com/u/Vigilance99)

URL: https://pastebin.com/EX2Aujk3
Created on: Saturday 15th of March 2014 01:53:16 PM CDT
Retrieved on: Sunday 25 of October 2020 10:16:31 AM UTC


Regret
Cyberkon "Male" [Counts as Donkey]
Lifebinder [Necromancer/Cleric]
Talent: +2 Control Machine/Computer Hacking

Skills:
Unbreakable Will [Racial]
Reincarnation [Multiclass]
Commune Machine
Raise Machine
Control Machine

Inventory:
Refined Nanofiber Robe [Shield]
Arcane-Physics Staff [Catalyst, Ranged Weapon]
Implanted Mental Computer w/ Dimensional Storage
-Various Spare Machine Parts, A Music Box
Improved Optics [Night/Infrared Vision]

>Automaton [Formally Roadkill], Male Rat 5/3
>Some sort of hybrid creature, possibly one that Duke had made himself. It has a battery sticking out of its back, and can be plugged into the wall.
>Skills: Elementalist-Lightning
>Upgrades: Voicebox, Robotic Arm, Remote Sight Interface

Traits:
Regret, formerly Absolutism, is a Cyberkon scientist and arcane  
physicist focused on non-Newtonian machine interfacing. Born  
thousands of years into the future, in the centuries before the  
great Disaster he was a Crystal Magi Artist of some renown,  
known for his experimentation and research into the nature of  
the Crystal Heart. His memories of this Age are mostly forgotten  
and what remains is highly fragmentary. What is remembered is  
this, that when the Disaster came, Regret helped the high Magi  
in experimenting on the Crystal Heart. His research into the  
Heart's infinitely complex interworkings was instrumental in the  
experiments on the Heart that eventually led to its destruction,  
and Regret blames himself for its loss. When the Heart was lost,  
Regret abandoned magic and magitek for the grim salvation of  
hard science, destroying his Soul to gain immortality through a  
metal body and a steel mind, imbedded on circuitry and lines of  
code. Seeing no escape from the incoming Disaster, and  
abandoned by those they once considered kin, Regret followed  
the rest of the Cyberkon race into the high Past, hoping prevent  
the Disaster by undoing the events that led to it in the first  
place. 

When the Cyberkon's first arrived in the past there was a great  
period of optimism, that the Cyberkon would easily destroy their  
kin and inherit the galaxy, that nothing would stand in their  
way, that a new golden age of pure Science would banish  
superstition and old gods from civilized space. When Ponykind  
proved to be more resilient than they imagined, and when aliens  
began making strides against them, the Cyberkons became far more  
pessimistic, and began looking to the long term. During this  
brief age of optimism, Regret was known as Arch-Physicist  
Absolutism, a servant of the Arch-Prince Umbra, master of a  
consider portion of the Cyberkon Race. Under his leadership,  
numerous Cyberkon worlds and structures were raised in the  
galaxy, dozens of worlds fell to their superior Technology, and  
Ponykind lost significant area to the future invaders. However  
when Ponykind regrouped, Absolutism's machines were undone, and  
Umbra was sent into withdraw. Absolutism's forces were cut off  
and absorbed into another Cyberkon Collective, where Absolutism  
helped design the Algorithm Sublime Research and Production  
Sphere, or simply "Algorithm", the world two meters wide.

As the ages flew by, Absolutism grew more and more despondent,  
as his memories became lost or damaged with numerous successive  
deaths and failed back-ups, and as relish and enjoyment even in  
the purely intellectual pleasures became more and more  
difficult. Seeking to obtain salvation for himself from  
elsewhere, Absolutism defected from the Collectives, leaving  
Cyberkon space on a series of research missions into numerous  
alien and pony worlds, often in disguise. His mission was to  
find a way to return the Cyberkons to fleshy bodies by relinking  
their spirits with the Crystal Heart. However without access to  
the Heart itself, and furthermore afraid to risk damaging it  
again, Regret [as he took to calling himself] was forced to  
wander the galaxy, looking through old Magi archives and data  
caches, pilthering through data piles and seeking hints at how  
to undo the process and restore his lost Soul.

Eventually he was captured by a group of Knights of Sorcery, who  
intended to take the specimen to the Nebula for further  
research. Disaster struck when assassins under the command of  
the Intelligency Agency attempted to capture Regret and  
decapitate the Sorcerers. In the confusion, Regret escaped and  
caught a way off world stowed aboard a Macro Cosmo ship. The  
Green Sun. When he discovered it was a recently recommissioned  
Merchant ship, he revealed himself to the Captain [or rather,  
First Officer] offering his services as the ship's engineer in  
exchange for sanctuary aboard the ship. Using advanced  
technology and his thousand-year skills at computer hacking and  
control, he then forged Sanctioning Files along every level of  
development with masterful craftsmanship, down to fake serial  
numbers, allowing him to pass Imperial checkpoints without heavy  
suspicion. For safety, he still prefers to travel with other  
pony officers aboard the ship, to "vouch" for him.

Traits: Orderly, logical, refined, emotionless, mechanistic,  
sophisticated, deceitful.