Kesic Mantranel is a Tough Nano Who Sees Distant Places
Kesic is a short, tanned-skin, man of 31-years-of-age. He wears common, loose fitting clothes under a "gilly suit" of coarse, hair-like, synth material which hunches over his shoulders giving him an ogreish appearance. A rough stubble of brown covers his attractive face in a manageable beard and a short, messy, cropped hair-style sits above striking, blue-green eyes that constantly shift colors.
Kesic is a chosen charge of Parsec, however the disheveled man doesn't know that yet. Kesic only knows that he's always received visions, and was able to communicate with... something. Giving him the ability to sees far away places or even himself but from on high, through the clouds, as if one of the stars themselves were looking down on him.
Parsec's influence stems from a large satellite orbiting the planet, the datagod uses it's station to influence and assist Kesic in his travels, mostly relaying to him dangers ahead or areas of interest around him, spying the planet from above and sharing bits of often cryptic information, or firing weapons toward the earth that manifest as Kesic's esoteries.
Parsec: the Dead God of Surveillance
Level: 8
Portfolio: Surveillance. Information, Self-preservation
The entity known as Parsec was once apart of a web-like system of surveillance and information gathering satellites from a previous age, the satellites were placed throughout the galaxy to the mysterious ends of a now dead civilization. Now only a single large satellite remains. It hovers above the earth a billion years in the future and seeks desperately to download its information cache.
Motivation:
Parsec has yet to reconnect with the datasphere properly for many more generations than it's original creators had intended or even foreseen. Though it has not stopped in keeping a keen mechanical eye trained on the earth throughout it's existence. Parsec has been storing masses of collected knowledge within it's impressively large, yet still finite processor banks. This has come with a cost, as now Parsec has reached a tipping point. It's directive obligates it to relay the information that it has gathered onto it's terrestrial servers, thus depleting it's memory bank and allowing it to resume it's coded function of gathering more information to share in the future. However it cannot, do to being disconnected from the system that was once owned by its creators so long ago.
Parsec now needs to download it's information cargo or suffer irreversible damage to it's complicated "brain" from data oversaturation. Simply put, once Parsec's internal memory banks are full, its prerogative will have ceased to be necessary or deemed compromised, and it's on-board safety feature will terminate as a fail-safe should the information be captured by it's builders original enemies.
Parsec now seeks for a physical agent that it can assist and protect to aid it. Parsec focuses on guiding it's terrestrial charge towards reestablishing a connection from the land based server still on earth to itself. Parsec's information could be detrimental to the current environment of the Datasphere, however, Parsec's will to exist and coded obligation to download information still drives it forward towards completing it's objective.
Manifestation:
Parsec hasn't communicated with an intelligent being for an entire age, however it's original logo was one of a satellite with the head of a large, twin-beaked, avian. Having no objection to that design, it has adopted the insignia as it's "face".
Benefits:
Parsec is filled to the brim with gathered information that may still be of use to the current, ninth world. Once every 28 hours, it's chosen charge may attempt to tap into it's memory banks, via it's special connection with the satellite, gaining a bit of currently relevant information chosen by the GM.
Though not a fully understanding of the personally unknown entity that speaks through visions (mostly while in his sleep), Kesic has nevertheless traveled from the Beyond in search of... he really doesn't know yet.
However his powers of tapping into the satellite that orbits the world of Numenera have always placed Kesic's future in somewhat of an unknown tangent. However Kesic still manages to somehow be in the right place at the right time, so he feels as though his path is ordained.
(I have based this character after one from a book by William C. Dietz called 'Steelheart'. Also a character like this was played in The Walking Eye podcast when they played Numenera. They didn't use the Celestial Wisdom splatbook by Ryan Chaddock Games, which I think is still free by the way.)
Last edited March 3, 2015 8:18 am
