Sheng

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"I don't believe in miracles. I rely on them."

Note:
 * Sheng is cool, calm, and level-headed, even in the thick of battle. Possessed of a keen intellect, she is quite likely to look at a situation from every perspective to gain additional insight. On duty, she can usually be found guarding Rodimus Prime or assisting the Autobot scientists in their research.


 * Her troubled past has forged her into a hard and icy soldier and left her unable, or unwilling, to allow anyone close to her. Skilled in most forms of combat, she prefers to close the distance with her enemies, using her claws as opposed to her disruptor. In her hovercraft mode she is distinctly agile, utilizing her speed and dexterity to avoid her foes. Her deadly talons are her own greatest weakness, limiting her tactile efficiency and forcing her to remain distant from her comrades.

Skills: Climbing, Singing, Gymnastics, Dancing

History

 * Built sometime at the very beginning (or just before) the Second war, Sheng was, originally, part of a battle unit. The original number of this unit is uncertain, as their creator as killed and, indeed, several of the unnamed creations were killed as well, in an explosion of unknown origin (she’d just come on line, all she knows is something went boom and suddenly the person that was saying he was their creator was one with the landscape, she was on the floor with ringing audios and there was a lot of secondary explosions going off).


 * As they were originally designed, most of this unit had stealth technology, and their roles was to either set up traps or sneak into bases and kill designated targets or stuff as many bombs as possible into as many hidey-holes as possible, then get out of the base.


 * Preferably without being noticed… usually the ‘without being noticed’ part didn’t work out so well.  This includes the ‘foam’ incident.


 * As the second war drew to a close, Sheng and her remaining creation mates found that they didn’t fit into the utopian civilization that sprang up after the war. So when a call went out for volunteers for a new colony being set up in the outskirt of known space, close enough to the pirating ‘through-fares’ for warriors to be useful, most of the surviving creation-mates jumped at the chance.  They were upgraded, all of them giving up their stealth packages as no longer necessary, and getting new alternate-modes.

Alteron (Al-ter-on) is a planet about six times the diameter of Earth with an orbit that, were it around the Sun, would put it between Venus and Mercury... closer to Mercury. A planet of unbroken desert with gold sand, a lot of gold rock, and jags of black and red rocks, the wind never stops there, and the air pressure is somewhere between earth-normal and Venus. Sandstorms are common and can blanket segments as large as North and South America without difficulty. This is not a nice place to take your summer vacation. Time passed, and Alteron grew into a massive colony, easy 5 million strong, with high amounts of energon and supplies; and the weapons and skill to keep it safe from normal attacks.


 * Perhaps they should have seen it coming.

The Decepticons found out about the location of the colony and the energy and supplies it had amassed and attacked, using ships there were, basically, mass-production facilities for drones. Betrayed from within, almost all of the original Command Staff were killed from orbital fire when they met at a central location for a meeting. The only remaining members of the Chain of Command were Sheng, second in command of security, and Whitewind (the traitor) who had been third in the overall CoC. Whitewind became the new commanding officer, and Sheng functioned as both head of security and second in command, something she did her best at, but had no training for.


 * Despite Whitewind’s high position, the war between the decepticon forces sent out and the Alteronians dragged on for a good number of centuries. During the war, the Alteronians upgraded/redesigned themselves to be completely undetectable on their home planet.  Their energy signatures were pushed through their heat sinks to read as ‘heat’.  They cycled the heat of the desert planet through them so that they were the same temperature as their surroundings.  Largely due to the high metal content of the sand and stone on the planet surface, careful reworking of the metal of their armor and paint meant that to radar, they read the same.


 * They held on, they fought, they died and they sent out calls for help.

No help came, as the Autobots were both tight on resources and (as far as those on Cybertron knew) Optimus Prime and Megatron had just been killed on a mission in space.

But with the commanding officer a Traitor, … even if the people below ignored orders that made no sense or seemed likely to get them killed… sooner or later, you will fall. Whitewind managed to get the codes for the various security points into the primary base of Alteron, and let the Decepticons in. The colony fell, and the Decepticons experimented on the survivors, testing out new technologies, new designs, and more.


 * Time passed, and in the year 2005, an unknown transformer landed on Alteron and, stealthed, broke into the main base and released those Alteronians that still survived.


 * In one night, the Decepticons were killed. As far as Sheng and the others know, Whitewind was among them.  After honoring their dead, the survivors took stock.  Sheng decided to return to active duty among the Autobots, five Alteronians decided to accompany her.  One of them, Boom, was a creation mate.

…The problem with finding Cybertron was A: none of those that left really knew that much about flying shuttles and B: Cybertron has this annoying habit of MOVING. So after several probably interesting and probably humorous years later, they found Cybertron again and attempted to land.


 * …Worth repeating is that none of them really knew how to fly a shuttle, and they’d yet had to land on a planet. Suffice to say it didn’t go that well and the shuttle crashed in neutral territory, killing two of the three Alteronians onboard.  Sheng rejoined the Autobot and had several interesting adventures.

Recently called back to Alteron for unknown reasons for nearly a decade (as her player had a run of bad luck with computers, trees, hurricanes, cars and being broke for 5 years) Sheng has come back to active duty again. She has a secret, a plan, and she’s not talking about what she was doing in that ten year span.


 * So let us see what the future holds.

Players
Sheng was/is created/played by her player… who has yet to find time to play any other characters anywhere else.