Aluminiun Plus

History:

Mason Pendricks, before leaving the Earth for Star Systems unknown, was also responsible for the Earth's introduction to yet another Anthropomorphic almost as ludicrous as The Short Cute Funny Furry Purple Mutant Alien Animal From Outer Space.

In his early days, Mason Pendricks was a scientist of prodigious caliber; dabbling in chemistry, metallurgy, physics, electronics, engineering, robotics, etc., etc.

You name it, he dabbled in it.

One of his last creations was an amazing device capable of instantaneous transubstantiation of a metallic compound of his own design.

This device was able to rearrange the physical characteristics of an Aluminium Alloy allowing Dr. Pendricks to alter its shape into virtually any configuration imaginable.

Unfortunately, the control mechanisms involved were so complex, he had to devise an artificial intelligence of an advanced order just to properly calibrate and run the Transubstantiator

Although he was able to create an intelligence capable of managing this task, something went terribly wrong in the last stages of it's programming. Instead of the cool, collected rational thinking machine which Mason had designed, the end result was an imbecilic, infantile personality incapable of rational thought for any substantial period of time.

Considering this creation an utter failure, Mason deactivated it and left it forgotten in a storage locker in the basement of his laboratory,

Some time after this, Mason took his leave of the planet Earth. This did not go down well with the Canadian government. They do not approve of their top research scientist leaving the planet without so much as a "by your leave" and utilizing an interstellar technology that he had not bothered to share with them.

Wishing to recoup their losses, the Canadian government seized the contents of Dr. Pendricks' laboratories; including his last "failed" experiment.

In attempting to disassemble and examine this "robot" that they had discovered, government scientists managed to somehow reactivate this creation (don't ask them how, they're still trying to figure out how they did it themselves), imagine their surprise when the "robot" awoke from the table with a big cherubic grin on it's face and wished everybody in the room a "Happy Birthday!"

Being unable to find any way to deactivate this "robot" the scientists did their best to educate it and adapt it to society.

It was during this time that the "robot" became enamored with the super heroes he saw on television and in magazines. It adopted a heroic form (well, it's own vision of one) and dubbed itself "Aluminium Plus."

With all of his amazing abilities, it was virtually impossible for the Canadian Government to keep him contained under supervised control. Eventually, the inevitable happened and Aluminium Plus managed to sneak away and perform many "heroic" deeds,

The resulting damages from his many acts of heroism left the Canadian government with multiple lawsuits amounting to several millions of dollars.

In the wake of this, someone in the upper echelons of the ministry of defense decided it was time to cut their losses and "pass the buck."

Approaching the Quebec based Champions Of Peace, the government offered this deal to the C.O.P.s: "Take on Aluminium Plus as a member and teach him how to be a proper Super Hero, or lose your license to practice as a Super Hero Group."

And this was how Aluminium Plus joined such noted heroes as Nexus, Snow Owl, Professor Hummer, Snow Spirit, Firebird, Iron Gauntlet, Black Widow, Crustacean, Mind Storm, The Magi, Shadow Dragon, Weapons Master, Neutrino and Stalker among the ranks of The Champions Of Peace.

When their world was overrun by the forces from The Devil’s Domain, Aluminium Plus was one of the few survivors. Although he was rendered inert and lifeless in the conflict his consciousness survived until his body, or parts thereof, were be recovered by The Pantheon and brought back to their world. Technicians at Cyber-Tech were able to reactivate Aluminium Plus who has become a faithful sidekick and constant annoyance to The Australian Ninja, president and CEO of Multi-Tech industries.

What further part that Aluminium Plus will play in the saga of The Pantheon remains to be seen…

Gaming Details:

Aluminium Plus is comprised of a solid-state Artificial Intelligence chip attached to a Molecular Transubstantiator (AI chip and Transubstantiator come packaged together in a metallic "black box" measuring approximately 6cm x 4cm x 3cm) encased in an Aluminiurn Alloy chassis massing approximately 250 Kg.

Aside from being an artificial construct with superhuman attributes and little or no physical requirements, Aluminium Plus is able to configure his body into virtually any shape he can imagine (and believe me, he has a pretty vivid imagination) as long as his "black box" remains completely encompassed.

The Aluminium Alloy of his chassis is a special composition known only to Mason Pendricks and has roughly four times the tensile strength of Aluminium at approximately half the mass. This alloy is incredibly resistant to damage but, whenever pieces of himself are knocked off, Aluminium Plus is able to reattach them to any part of his chassis.

Aluminium Plus's major disability is his erratic and irrational behaviour. When confronted with a horde of rampaging demons, Aluminium Plus is more likely to adapt the form of Lou Ferrigno and warn them: "Surrender immediately or Hulk will smash!" than to come up with an effective battle plan.

The only reliable aspects of Aluminium Plus' personality are his naive gullibility and his inability to actually tell a lie,

But, despite all of this, Aluminium Plus has proven to be an invaluable asset to The Champions Of Peace and has saved them from total disaster on at least one occasion.

Of course, in all honesty, It should be pointed out that he is usually the cause of these near total disasters to begin with.

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