Notes

HTH Damage 2 1/2d6 END [1]

OCV 5 DCV 5

PER Roll 15-

ECV: 6

PRE Attack: 3d6

3/22 PD (0/19 rPD)

3/22 ED (0/19 rED)

Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12

END [1]

END [1]

2 1/2" forward, 1" upward

POWERS

Armadura del Pulso del Campo, all slots OIHID (-1/4)

1) Armadura: Armor (7 PD/7 ED) (21 Active Points); OIHID (-1/4)

2) Campo del Pulso: FF (12 PD/12 ED), 2 clips of 2 Continuing Charges lasting 20 Minutes each (+0) (24 Active Points); OIHID (-1/4)

Manipulación del Campo del Pulso: Multipower, 60-point reserve, (60 Active Points); all slots OIHID (-1/4)

1) Ráfaga Amplia del Pulso: EB 12d6 (60 Active Points); 5 Charges (-3/4), OIHID (-1/4)

2) Ráfaga Estrecha del Pulso: EB 8d6, Armor Piercing (+1/2) (60 Active Points); 5 Charges (-3/4), OIHID (-1/4)

3) Ráfaga Rápida del Pulso: EB 8d6, Autofire (5 shots; +1/2) (60 Active Points); 5 Charges (-3/4), OIHID (-1/4)

4) Ráfaga del Pulso de la Burbuja: Entangle 4d6, 8 DEF (60 Active Points); 5 Charges (-3/4), OIHID (-1/4)

5) Ráfaga del Pulso del Área: EB 8d6, Area Of Effect Nonselective (9" Cone; +3/4), Two-Dimensional (-1/4) (60 Active Points); 5 Charges (-3/4), No Range (-1/2), OIHID (-1/4)

Vuelo del Campo del Pulso: Flight 20", x8 Noncombat, 2 clips of 2 Continuing Charges lasting 20 Minutes each (+0), Usable as Gliding (+1/4) (62 Active Points); OIHID (-1/4) Knockback Resistance -15" (30 Active Points); OIHID (-1/4)

Life Support (Sleeping: Character only has to sleep 2 hours per night)

POWERS Cost

SKILLS

Battlesuit Training: +2 with Battlesuit

Acting 8-

Climbing 8-

Computer Programming (Hacking and Computer Security, Personal Computers) 15-

Concealment 8-

Conversation 8-

Deduction 8-

Electronics 15-

Inventor 15-

Linguist

1) Language: English (completely fluent; literate) (4 Active Points)

2) Language: French (completely fluent; literate) (4 Active Points)

3) Language: German (completely fluent; literate) (4 Active Points)

4) Language: Latin (completely fluent; literate) (4 Active Points)

5) Language: Spanish (imitate dialects; literate) (6 Active Points)

Mechanics 15-

PS: Research Scientist 11-

Paramedics 8-

Persuasion 8-

Scientist

1) SS: Battlesuit Engineering and Design 15- (3 Active Points)

2) SS: Electrical Engineering 15- (3 Active Points)

3) SS: Magnetics 15- (3 Active Points)

4) SS: Microelectronics 15- (3 Active Points)

5) SS: Physics 15- (3 Active Points)

6) SS: Quantum Physics 15- (3 Active Points)

7) SS: Theoretical Physics 15- (3 Active Points)

Shadowing 8-

Stealth 8-

Systems Operation (Communications Systems, Battlesuit Systems) 15-

Traveler

1) AK: California (2 Active Points) 11-

2) AK: San Francisco Bay Area (2 Active Points) 11-

3) CK: Palo Alto (2 Active Points) 11-

4) CK: San Deigo (2 Active Points) 11-

5) CK: San Francisco (2 Active Points) 11-

SKILLS Cost

TALENTS

Absolute Range Sense

Absolute Time Sense

Eidetic Memory

Speed Reading (x100)

TALENTS Cost

EQUIPMENT

Wardens Communicator:
- Radio and HUD Unit: HRRP (Radio Group), Rapid: x10, Satellite Uplink, 100km Range (22 Active Points); IIF (-1/4)
- Computer Link: Absolute Time Sense (3 Active Points); IIF (-1/4)
- Rangefinder and Computer Link: Absolute Range Sense (3 Active Points); IIF (-1/4)
- GPS and Computer Link: Bump Of Direction (3 Active Points); IIF (-1/4)
- Voice Recorder: Eidetic Memory (5 Active Points); IIF (-1/4)

DISADVANTAGES

Distinctive Features: Pulse Energy Signature (Not Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable Only By Technology Or Major Effort)

Hunted: Sangre Sociedad 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, PC Very Easy to Find, Watching)

Hunted: The Grand Empire 8- (As Pow, NCI, Harshly Punish)

Psychological Limitation: As Fortaleza Pretends To Be Male (Uncommon, Moderate)

Psychological Limitation: Code vs. Killing (Common, Strong)

Psychological Limitation: Hides True Extent of Her Genius (Common, Strong)

Psychological Limitation: Protective of Innocents (Common, Strong)

Social Limitation: Secret Identity - Solana Amendola (Frequently, Major)

Susceptibility: When Teleported 3d6 damage Instant (Uncommon)

Vulnerability: 2 x BODY Phasing Attacks (Uncommon)

Vulnerability: 2 x Effect Phasing Powers (Uncommon)

Vulnerability: 2 x STUN Phasing Attacks (Uncommon)

DISADVANTAGES Points

Base Pts: 200   Exp Required: 5   Total Exp Available: 5   Exp Unspent: 0   Total Character Cost: 350

BACKGROUND/HISTORY

Solana Isadora Amendola was born on June 6, 1983 in Orita, California. Her father, Isador, worked as a veterinary assistant at a local ranch and her mother, Maria, was a stay at home mom who took care of Solana and her three older sisters.

When Solana was four, her family moved to San Diego where her father and mother got jobs as caretakers working for the Keller Wendell family and estate. Part of the compensation received by the Amendolas was their own house on the estate property.

Solana and her sisters played with the Wendell children and spent much time in the main house. Solana was the same age as, Kelly, the Wendell's youngest daughter and they became best friends. So much so that Kelly convinced her parents to send Solana to the same school she attended, the Kristmann Academy. Solana was a good student but was a misfit socially and had no friends at school except for Kelly. Solana made straight A's in school. She earned a full scholarship to Stanford based on a very good SAT score, a very good school background and her Hispanic heritage.

At Stanford, Solana took a double major in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering. By the time she was 21, she had earned Bachelor's of Science degrees in these fields. She also completed all the necessary course work for a Master's Degree in Quantum Physics. Solana is currently working on her master's thesis part time and working on two research projects as a lab assistant. Once she has earned her Master's degree, Solana plans to work towards getting her doctorate.

Kelly was also accepted to Stanford and majored in Sociology. She is currently finishing up her degree.

Solana and Kelly have shared an apartment for the last five years.

SECRET HISTORY

Isador Amendola is in reality, Juan Carlos Santa Maria. He was attending veterinary school in his native Guatemala when his life took a turn for the worse. Juan Carlos was at a bar relaxing after finals when a fight broke out. One of the men in the fight was killed. Juan Carlos was mistakenly identified as both being in the fight and killing the man who died in the fight. Rather than face trial for a crime he did not commit, Juan Carlos fled to Mexico. He continued to travel north and entered the United States illegally. In Texas, he took upon the identity of Isador Amendola and bought a false birth certificate to support his new identity. He moved from town to town in Texas and then into New Mexico working on cattle ranches and horse farms taking care of the animals.

No one knows who Maria Chaves is. She was found wandering in the New Mexico desert with no memory of who she was or where she was from. When officials could find no information on who she was, they gave her the identity of Maria Chaves. Maria because she only spoke Spanish and Chaves from the county where she was found. A woman's shelter ran by the Santa Rita church in Carrizozo took Maria in. They gave her English lessons and training in secretarial skills.

Isador met Maria met while attending Santa Rita church. They fell in love and were married soon after. He figured it was fate that he, a man running from his past, would fall in love with a woman who did not know her past.

Solana is not aware of her father's and mother's pasts.

Solana was always told by her parents that men do not like smart women. Since about the age of seven, she has hidden her genius from others including her parents. Solana was always studying, reading and researching things on the Internet, but never showed her true capabilities in school or at college.

Sometime in her late teens, Solana discovered that she only needed to sleep a couple of hours each night to be properly rested. She took advantage of this to get in extra study and research time.

Solana started tinkering with the idea for the Fortaleza battlesuit a couple of years ago after being invited to observe a couple of research projects working on battlesuit design. Once she had finished her degrees, she took a job as a lab assistant on one of the battlesuit projects. She has taken parts and failed prototype modules from the project as the basis for the Fortaleza suit. She also works as a lab assistant on a project that is developing improved energy storage systems for use by NASA on deep space exploration missions. This is where she acquired the batteries used in the Fortaleza suit. Since both projects are government funded, a good case could be made that the Fortaleza suit is the property of the United States.

PERSONALITY

Solana is a brilliant and gifted young woman, who also happens to be completely inept in social situations.

She was raised in an environment that forced her to retreat into her books and hide her brilliance. Her parents were always telling her that men did not like smart women and that a woman's place was in the home raising children.

Her social ineptness was further compounded by the fact that she was not a very good liar and had difficulty pretending not to be smart. She got around this by not talking much in social situations including the classroom.

The only person outside of her family that Solana ever felt comfortable around while growing up was her friend, Kelly Wendell.

Recently, Solana's feelings for Kelly have her very confused. She loves Kelly very much and thinks her more as a sister than a friend but sometimes Solana feels an attraction for Kelly that goes beyond just friendship or even sisterly love. Solana has never had a lover and doesn’t know if she is "in love" with Kelly or not. Solana has not spoken to Kelly about her feelings.

It is through Kelly's coaxing that Solana has started to be a bit more outgoing as of late. However, she does not express this new more outgoing nature as Solana but as Fortaleza.

Solana chose to craft the Fortaleza suit in a masculine form with a masculine voice for one reason, respect. Her upbringing stressed men as the more active and dominant sex, so she thought a male image would be more respected than a female one. As an afterthought she realized that this also helps to better preserve her identity as most of her adversaries would be searching for a man rather than suspecting that Solana is Fortaleza.

Solana, even as Fortaleza, still tends to keep quiet in social situations and only offers her opinion when directly asked even in cases where she would be able to offer an expert assessment of the issue being discussed.

Solana is finding that being Fortaleza is exciting but it also causes her to question herself in ways she has never had to do before.

She is okay with risking her life to help others and she has found great freedom in taking risks in order to help others. She realizes that the power she has crafted into the Fortaleza armor enables her to help others but it must be used in a responsible manner. Therefore, she is cautious in her use of force, her Catholic upbringing makes taking another person's life an unthinkable action.

The issue that is causing her to have a great deal of self doubt is the fact that her teammates are depending on her. She is finding it very uncomfortable to have others relying on her as she has seldom had these kinds of demands made upon her in the past. She is used to being the youngest and always being cared for by others.

QUOTE

"Let that hostage go before I let you have it."

TACTICS

Fortaleza's battlesuit is based around a Pulse Field Armor shell. The armor shell is a combination of mesh and plates that provides the base structure and armored integrity of the battlesuit. It can be energized to provide an even higher level of protection. The batteries that power the energized state of the armor shell have a limited duration. There are four sets of dual batteries with each set capable of powering the armor for 40 minutes. Each set of batteries has to be manually activated. Fortaleza will not energize the armor when on a routine patrol unless combat is imminent. When responding to an alert, she energizes the armor as she is leaving the location from where she is responding.

Fortaleza's battlesuit is equipped with a variety of Pulse Blasts. Each type of pulse blast has its own battery that can support five shots before it is drained. Fortaleza uses her Area Pulse Blast and Pulse Blast Bubble against most foes. She reserves her Wide Pulse Blast and Narrow Pulse Blast for well protected or non-living targets. She has never used the Rapid Pulse Blast outside of training sessions.

Fortaleza's battlesuit is also equipped with a Pulse Field flight system. It uses a battery system with similar performance characteristics to the one used to energize the armor shell. The flight system also has a kinetic energy damping system that aids in station keeping while the system is active. The flight system has a battery backup and low-energy mode that allows for a controlled landing if the flight system's main batteries should be exhausted while the battlesuit is airborne. Fortaleza stays airborne during combat situations ranging from a couple of feet off the ground to whatever altitude is required to support team operations.

Fortaleza's training sessions with the Wardens have enhanced her ability to use her battlesuit in combat situations. She tends to stay in close support positions and utilizes her skills with her battlesuit to enhance her chance of hitting her target. Even when using her Area Pulse Blast, she tries her best to hit her target and minimize collateral damage.

APPEARANCE

Height: 5' 8"    Weight: 145 lbs    Hair: Black    Eyes: Green

Solana is tall and slender. She is also nicely proportioned and attractive. Not that those that see her on a daily basis would notice the later traits.

Solana wears overly large and baggy clothing that hide her figure and refrains from wearing makeup. Her black hair is shoulder length and though she keeps it clean, it is rather unkempt. Her long bangs typically hang down over her face. She has dressed and worn her hair this way over the protestations of Kelly since shortly after she turned fourteen. Her parents like the conservative way their daughter dresses and keeps her hair. Solana likes it because she doesn’t stand out in a crowd and others tend to ignore her.

As Fortaleza, Solana stands six foot two inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. The armor is built with a muscular masculine look and appears to be form-fitting rather than a bulky exoskeleton type of battlesuit. Solana has not had access to the specialized equipment it would take to miniaturize some of the battlesuit's components, so the extra space inside the armor shell is filled with system components, battery packs and padding. The battlesuit's armor plates are a dull silver colored and the mesh portions of the suit are dove gray colored. The helmet has a featureless faceplate that is black and the rest of the helmet is dull silver colored. The blaster ports project from the back of the each arm and are black in color. The three flight system disks are black in color and are located on the back of the battlesuit, one on each shoulder blade and the other in the small of the back. The battlesuit has a silver glow when the armor shell is energized.