Khathoom is a Mechanical Shell of Selosian design with a CCSD installed as a controller. The Cranial Contents Storage Device is an advanced A.I. core, designed and constructed by Farblank Skky, daughter of Armo Ang, based on alien technology, which was pilfered from Utopia Corporation's top secret R&D facility on Hur X. The alien technology itself was discovered on Kypri during the Utopia Expedition fifty years prior.

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Khathoom's knowledge and personality is a complete copy of Armo Ang as of 29 February 3200. After waking, the new sentient, though externally completely compliant seethed with anger at having everything in his life, his freedom, his clan and especially his power of leadership suddenly denied. Almost immediately, he began scheming to overthrow his former self for control of his clan and the Selosian government. He requested and was granted a commission in the Selosian Warrior corps and accepted as a full member of Razor Smoke, having the memories of training for the black ops corps over twenty years prior. Eventually, he was promoted to command a squad and sent out into the sector to cause havoc. When the information about the Jupiter came into his possession, he acted without hesitation.

 

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Khathoom's CCSD and the Capabilities of His Mechanical Shell

 

The CCSD process entails creating a perfect copy of every synapse within the brain of a subject and storing that copy inside a specially designed core, which closely resembles the look and function of an A.I. core. The core can be implanted into a shell, giving the sentient personality a fully independent body. In Khathoom's case the android body with superior stats passes as a Synth Mechanical Shell (pg 257). This shell is impossible to detect short of a physical exam and if discovered, his core cannot be differentiated from a typical A.I. without previous knowledge of the possibility and a TL5 technological workshop. 

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A CCSD core cannot be split as a typical A.I. core. If damage occurs to the actual core, that damage is likely to be fatal and at a minimum will render the brain stored inside unconscious, possibly causing permanent damage.

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While its external appearance allows him to pass as a human being, Khathoom's shell has super human physical abilities as an Omen Mechanical Shell (pg 257) without integral weapons. All other abilities remain the same.

1. STR 18 (+3 bonus, instead of +2, and immune to shock damage), DEX 14 (+1) & CON 14 (+1).

2. INT 18 (+2), WIS 12 (+0) & CHA 12 (+0) are unchanged from the original personality.

3. AC 18 with 15 bonus HP. +4 on all attack rolls and +2 to damage and shock.

4. It does have the integral sensors, but not the microjets. 

 

Khathoom can run the system “hot” to improve damage output at the risk of progressively degrading internal systems. Once per round as an On Turn action he can choose to accept 1d6 damage in order to attack twice with a single Main Action, targeting the same subject or splitting the attack between available targets. The overheating damage is applied after the attacks are rolled.