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"I am the Censor"
Censorship
Player: Censorship
Origin:	Science
Archetype:	varies with version
Level:	varies
Primary Set:	Variable
Secondary Set:	Variable
Epic Set:
Personal Data
Real Name:	Ivan Kropenko
Identity:
Aliases:	Censor, Subject-14, The Desert Ghost, Russian Demons
Species:	Human
Date of Birth:	Unknown
Age:	Unknown. Calculations indicate something around 45
Height:	1.75m
Weight:	Around 80 kg
Build:	Sturdy and fit
Eye Colour:	Black
Hair Colour:	Black with strays of grey
Skin Complexion:
Distinguishment:	Multiple scarred tissue covering his visible body. Always wears sunglasses. Has a moustache
Medical Status:	No record found
Financial Status:	Trough his affiliation with the mercenary group EVIL its is tought that he has ammassed a small fortune on contracts
Religion:	Unknown
Sexuality:	Unknown
Marital Status:	Unknown
Known Relatives:	Unknown
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Commonly believed to be Russian, but no confirmation is available
Ethnicity:	Eastern European
Legal Status:	Wanted Terrorist
Place of Birth:	Unknown
Education:	Unknown
Occupation:	Mercenary
Group Affiliations:	Former EVIL mercenary, current stauts unknown
Base of Operations:	Unknown
Residency:	Believed to be the War Zone called Bloody Bay
Known Powers
Censorship has demonstrated a measure of gravitic/magnetic manipulation and there are several reports of mental abilities
Known Abilities
Military Advanced training, survival skills
Equipment
Unknown Origin battle armour
Awards and Collections
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Licenses and Certificates
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IC Accessibility of Article
Longbow has some of this info on file and those who have dealt extensively with The Council might know a great deal of this info.

@Censorship

Contents 1 Affiliations 2 Personality 3 Motivation 4 Powers 4.1 Primary Powers 4.2 Secondary Powers 4.3 Additional Powers 4.3.1 Travel 4.3.2 Power Pool 5 Abilities 6 Vulnerabilities 7 Equipment 8 Character History 9 Trivia

[edit] Affiliations

There is information about a possible conection to the SPETSNAZ and rumours of a strange underground russian META black-ops known as "The Russian Demons". The files are dubbed Top Secret by the Russian Government and have never been disclosured, tough the group is refered to as KIA. After that there are rumours of affiliations to a Cazakhistan terrorist group known as "Desert Ghosts", but the details are very sketchy. Censorship was more recently a Mercenary working with/for the group know as EVIL or European Villanous Immoralitty League, but since the group broke down his wearabouts are unknown.

Censorship has been recently sighted in the famous Pocket D in acompanied by individuals like the famous Rosegarden, Cx-1233 and Headbreaker, believed to have connections to The Corporation. This possibly indicates Censorship might now be a member of this same organization.

[edit] Personality

Censorship is a somewhat explosive character. He comes often as a socially relaxed person with a humurous side. He is seen often having a quiet drink, and even dancing at Pocket D is not something unheard of. He has demonstrated an extreme loyalty to those few he actually have called friends. He strongly defends a twisted concept of freedom and equality in the World, and has been known to make hard and feverish speechs about his views. He seems to mistrust most people he knows and that is possibly due to past events still undisclosed. It has been reported rare demonstrations of sorrow and gloominess. This is believed to be as a consequence of the privacies of war and traumatic experiences in his past.

[edit] Motivation

What drives Censorship is Anarchy, the destruction of the Human civilization as it is known. Besides his Terrorist acts, he is known to have financed personal Armies of Guerrilla, and Revolutions troughout the world. He considers himself a Freedom fighter, working to destroy Imperialism and the power of the Capital.

[edit] Powers

Power-wise, Censorship has demonstrated a mastery/control over Metalic objects, leaving especulation to a possible gravitational control or magnetic control. It is well documented his use of Mental Powers and he is considered a dangerous Telepath.

[edit] Primary Powers

Grav/Magnetic Control

[edit] Secondary Powers

Telepathy

[edit] Additional Powers

On rare ocasions, Censorship has demonstrated a usage of Force fields, tough that might be derived to technology or a different use for his grav powers.

[edit] Travel

Censor uses his gravitational/magnetic control to propel his body in long distance bursts.

[edit] Power Pool

[edit] Abilities

On several ocasions, Censorship has demonstrated an ability with various firearms and explosives. He Seems to be well instructed in Military tactics of several sorts, including urban/jungle and specially, desert warfare. He is also known to have higly developed survival skills.

[edit] Vulnerabilities

Censorship isnt a "Meta" in the absolute sense. He seems to have the vulnerabilities of a normal man altough his knowledge, training and equipment generally take him to superior levels. He is also known to be vulnerable to attacks on his known companions, driving him into uncontrollable states where he can be more easilly supressed. *This information has been made available by LongBow special operatives sent to study Censorship's vulnerabilities. Only one of the 10 sent returned and he has since retired from the organization.*

[edit] Equipment

Censorship wears a Battle Suit of unkown origin. The suit is surelly of Military tech and design and has the following known "abilities":

-Instant camouflage, -Preotection from Gas/Poison/Radiation, -Bullet/Fire Proof, -Weather Resistant, -High Impact Kinetic Defense

[edit] Character History

*Attention*

The following Biography is only acessible to characters with a deep Council background and even those would only know bits and scraps, since the council has colected fragments of this info along the years.

POVERTY AND THE EARLY YEARS

Ivan Kropenko was born into a peasant russian family. The year isn't determined by any liable source but has been put somewhere between 1960 and 1965. Growing up in the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era was't easy, specially for the less socially favoured. The period privileged Economic stagnation and the Winters demanded a lot from the lower classes.

Ivan soon established that his only way to survive was to escape the land workers way of life and moved on to the Capital: Moscow when he was 17 years of age. He started by working at the iron smelting factories. After a few months he managed to enlist in the army, the best career a young russian of humble origins could aspire at that time.

He was just in time for the War with Afeghanistan.

IN AFEGHANISTAN - THE RUSSIAN PATRIOTIC LOVE

Sources believe Kropenko would be around 17 when he joined the army and was sent to Afeghanistan to fight for the Soviet Army. Reports of letters sent home were recovered and denote an extreme patriotic fervour in the young soldier. It is believed he became part of the Spetsnaz around 85 and fought in the war until the Soviet withdrawal of 89.

Little is known about this period in Kropenko's life. There were psychiatric and psychological data recovered from the K project that refered to "extensive traumatic pathology derived from beeing exposed to the horrors of the Soviet-Afeghan conflict, specially the effects of the guerrilla-like fighting".

It is assumed that altough subject to Post-traumatic Stress disorder, Kropenko didn't feel like abandoning service and rose in rank amongst the Spetsnaz. Recovered letters to his parents had stated clearly his love for his job and painted a picture not in conformity with the reality of the conflict.

VOLUNTEER INTO HELL - THE DEMONS ARE BORN

Details are very sketchy about the period that followed. Intel obtained by Longbow operatives state that after a hand of black-op missions in the Balcan region and southern Russia, the supposedly Captain Kropenko misteriously vanished.

Council data report it is around this time that both his parents died. The reasons are somewhat connected to a conflict near the Khazakistan border and related to dissident groups of Terrorists.

A year ago a former Russian Government spook was interrogated and his confession taped. He had various intel about a group refered to as "Русский Демоны", whose rough translation is "Russian Demons".

Part of the tape is reproduced here:

• Play File X62748214-KKSJJD89*

((All the text is supposed to be spoken in Russian and thus only understandable by Russian speakers))

Female Voice: So, what about 14?

Male Voice: 14...no one knows about 14. He was a volunteer from the Spetz...thats what I was told by Mareshenko.

Female Voice: Where's Mareshenko now?

Male: He is probably dead...like the rest. The Intel we got was he killed them all

Female: Our data report it wouldnt be possible to kill the other 15 subjects by himself. His Power level...

Male: Hey, I dont know anything...you want details go ask you fat ex-KGB friends, they know what went down there with that huge fuck-up!

Female: What do you know about project K?

Male: Why am I beeing held and interrogated in the first place?

Female: I make the questions! You provide the answers. What is it you know about K?

Male: He volunteered, like everyone else. They messed him up really good. I recovered some K files and sold it to the Americans.

Female: What was in those files?

Male: Most tech data about the procedure...how they couldnt make it work because he was different from the others. 14 was the Telepath. They wanted to build a Psionic battle tank. The procedure was elaborate so they had to carve him up to install the electrodes...its techie stuff, I didnt understand half.

Female: But you're sure he was a volunteer, right?

Male: Oh...you guys are all in the dark, arent you? you want to nail him but you dont know shit.(male voice cracks laughing) It's one of you! You made a kiling machine then the leash broke! Now you are in big deep shit.

Female: Tells us his name or we will make things hard for you.

Male: Ah! I'll give you the name not because you threaten me, but because I'd love to see you chase 14 and get your minds wiped like the rest of the bunch...oh yeah, I know about the teams sent to the desert. He's under the protection of the Desert Ghosts now, you'll never get him.

Female: Tell us his name!!(screaming)

Male:Kropenko...it's Kropenko.

• End of File X62748214-KKSJJD89*

We have now pieced together the hypothesis Kropenko volunteered for a black-op meta program developed by the Government. We have reasons to believe he was altered trough a "Meta-Creationist" program, as part of a 16 man unit funded by a secret military branch of the Russian army. The purpose was to make a special unit capable of ending terrorist decident groups like those present in Cazakhistan, Chechnya and other former soviet provinces. The Project's name is still undisclosed, being refered to with the letter "K" in every data we have recovered. The thing we know for sure is that something has gone terribly wrong and the project was terminated. None of the refered "16 subjects" were ever pin pointed and are considered to be dead.

REBORN IN THE DESERT

The Council has aquired Government intel that pinpoint the resurgence of what was dubbed "Subject 14" of Project K. After the unknown demise of the Scientific/Military experiment that left all of its participants in a coffin, 14, or Kropenko (so it is believed) came to notoriety as part of the Group "Desert Ghosts" (أشباح الصحراء) in Cazakhistan, one of the strongest Terrorist cells in the region and connected to acts of terrorism from Prague to Los Angeles. The Russian Government was particularly affected by this groups iniative and thus moved as many resources as possible to destroy the group and take its leaders to justice, specially one of the most infamous leaders: جمجمة (translated as Skull).

It is believed "Skull" has served as a mentor to Kropenko and thus had initiated him into the cell. With Kropenko by his side, Skull initiated a wave of actions that set the region ablaze, amassing followers and striking more frequently than ever, carving a trail of blood and destruction that would stain the desert sands.

To this day we still cannot confirm this terrorist to be Kropenko. We have no data to connect the volunteer known has 14 (wich we can scarcely relate to kropenko too) to this armour cladded, masked fiend, that allied himself with the very enemies he was supposed to destroy (was he?). He wears a hight Tech armour of unknown origin (Council believe it to be Russian made for the Project K soldiers). He now publicly answers only to the name Censorship, reporting to have had no other identity.

The group left a deep mark in the Russian government, as well as shocking most of the Western world with several bombings, kidnappings, assinations, and other acts of terrorism that have put him (Censorship, whoever he is behind the mask) at the top of the Russians 10 most wanted. The US Government has offered a high sum for any information of his wearbouts.

After a joint national operation by US, British and Russian Military in the region the group is believed to have been dismantled.

MOVING TO THE ISLES

After Operation "Goliath" the main cell of the desert demons was dismantled and most of its leaders arrested. Its ties already reached the Cazach government and it was necessary a military black-op joint venture (Russian and American) to orquestrate a coup d'etat that would break the group's back.

Goliath was a sucess but they failed in achieving the grand prize. Neither Skull nor Censorship were ever captured.

Ten months after the Operation, Censorship was sighted in the "Rogue" Isles. Two teams were sent to capture him but he was then allied with a young rising group of mercenaries led by the infamous Whirlmeister. The group already counted amongst its ranks members whose notoriety would rise over the next years like Big Lunk, Echo Hammer and Terror Rat to name a few. It was the Mercenary Agency known as EVIL.

Unfortunetly, LongBow had spent the last years recovering and compiling information about the known terrorist and established a trap capable of nailing him without his friends ever realizing he had been captured. How they did it is still a mistery and an insight into a possible weak spot.

Censorship was taken to the Ziggursky Maximum Security, Meta-specialized Prison where he remained for 1 year, awaiting for the result of the judicial squable between the US and Russia over who would hang him first.

A RETURN TO "EVIL"

The delay of court decision would serve Censorshhip 's purpose, as well as his allies. An organized escape from the Zig, planned and executed by a group of survivors from the Desert Demons and led by Skull broke Censor out of prison.

He quickly established a base of operations inside a bunker in the city of Bloody Bay. He then promptly returned to EVIL, now jointly run by his friends Big Lunk and Echo Hammer. Censorship spent months taking contracts under the banner of the strong agency, helping it raise to notoriety.

The group then started to get hit by an unknown oposite force and some of its members started disappearing or taking long absenses and going underground.

It was by that time, in a run done to free his friend Tina Onders(they had become specially close in Censor's eyes) from the hands of the Council (who had turned her into a Vampyr) that Censorship came across some important files.

It was by then he found out the council was on to him. That didnt came as a surprise, what did came was the person they hired to bring them his head.

The data isnt clear about the identity of this threat. It is believed Censorship confessed this information to his friend Big Lunk but nothing is known about its details.

A few weeks later Censorship went underground and disappeared. What passed on in those weeks is fairly unknown. It is believed the battle between him and this enemy left him somwhat crippled for a long time, altough it is now believed Censorship was victorious.

E.V.I.L. crumbled a few months later.

TRAVELLING THE WORLD

There are no reports of Censorship during the second Rikti War. By all recounts he was never present at any of the major battles against the invading Rikti.

LongBow sent numerous agents to confirm his death but it was never official.

Reports then started to flood the CIA with stories about Central and South AMerican uprisings. Supposedly there were terrorist cells forming on contries well under control of the US government. Soldiers sent to quell this uprisings were faced with extreme oposition. It appears peasants and workers of lower classes that constituted the uprisings were now higly trained, armed and motivated.

The CIA got curious and worst: They got worried. As the stories of revolutions started appearing in Africa and other parts of the world, they decided to send intelligence specialists to understand the origin of this phenomenon.

The reports that came back refered to a higly Charismatic leader who spoke against the opressive social order and rose people to attain "true freedom". He was a battered soldier, dressed in a dirty camo, and wearing a tattered mask. He ate with the peasants, hid in the mountains and spoke to all who heard.

Strike teams were sent to assinate this trouble maker. None ever suceeded. Reports told he had the favour of the oppressed people, of the iliterate, of the lower classed. Reports claimed he had a personal guard of men, recruited amongst these rag-tags that were now higly trained soldiers and defended him with theyr lifes.

It wasnt long before this "warlord" landed in the Rogue Isles, now a businessman with contacts all over the world, responsible for a hundred small revolutions.

Pictures taken by Arachnos security cameras reveal a man dressed in a simple suit, surrounded by bodyguards. The pictures clearly show him smiling.

CENSOR NOW! Coming soon

[edit] Trivia

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