Augmenta

Unknown as Dr. Veronica Anne Kelsey

Name: Dr. Veronica Anne Kelsey Codename: Augmenta Faction: RESCUE Position: Wheels Age: 35 Hometown: N/A Gender: Female Height: 5' 4" Build: Petite Muscled Skin: Caucasian Hair: Short brown Eyes: Brown

Details

Background

• March 7th 1984 - Veronica Anne Kelsey born to Dr. Darren Michael Kelsey and Erin Elizabeth Kelsey.

• Well to do parents granted their daughter a happy, healthy young life and top-notch education for the very bright girl.

• Collateral damage during a supervillain attack - August 17th 1995 - largely destroys their vehicle on the highway. Only Veronica is rescued, and her injuries result in paraplegic paralysis.

• Veronica is taken in by her father's sister, Aunt Susan Adara Kelsey Drake and her husband, Michael Allen Drake as her guardians.

• Veronica adapts as best she can, devoting much of her time and effort to increasing her already significant studies and education.

• Veronica completes credits for high school graduation in June of 2000 and is accepted into Columbia University on an accelerated course of Biology and Chemistry with a specialty in Biophysics.

• Veronica begins her ideas for technology to compensate for or overcome her own limitations, and those of others, at the same time, and founds Cybernetics Unlimited Engineering, Inc. (CUE) using funds from parents' estates.

• Veronica accepted as a joint MD/PhD candidate to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in August of 2003. She completed her MD in 2005, and completed her PhD in Biophysics while working on her residency as an orthopedic and trauma surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

• Veronica's personal research developed her first-generation neural-interface and exoframe as part of the completion of her PhD dissertation and defense.

• Veronica achieved a DARPA grant and funding for a project rehabilitating soldiers with lost limbs and paralysis with the intent of returning those service members to active field combat duty status.

• CUE became Veronica's main employment, but maintained privileges and worked medial duty when and as needed.

• Veronica and her team originally develop advanced prosthetics, and then progress to integrated cybernetic replacements. Initial successes were followed with repeated issues with psychological issues, rejection and immunological problems.

• With initial phases successes, DARPA began pushing for the inclusion of enhancements in the cybernetics, with capabilities beyond human levels and inclusion of weapons systems.

• Highly resistant to the inclusion of weapons, Veronica develops her own non- and less-lethal alternative weapons systems with her teams, as well as bio-force multiplier systems.

• As a testbed for this technology, Veronica develops a significant upgrade to her mobility exoframe, calling it her Augmenta armor.

• Following The Incident in late 2014, with the ending of Sentinel deployments DARPA reiterates the need for more advanced, powerful and deadly weapons systems.

• Veronica makes contact with brilliant Toni Ho, and together they work to eventually integrate their companies into a new whole, RESCUE. They also integrate their technologies together into the projects, including materials improvements for the Augmenta armor and improved weapons and computer systems.

• One of the latest batch of recruits stands out from the others, managing to surpass most of her compatriots in various tests and metrics, and maintaining physical, medical and psychological stability where others have failed.

• While helping and supporting this subject and improving the designs for the cybernetics, Veronica worked with Toni to improve and eventually field the Augmenta armor, not just as a testbed platform, but in limited field operations for search and rescue and critical incident response.

• Eventually, their latest still-stable subject managed to requalify for active duty, although certain bureaucracy prevented reintegration with standard military forces. Rather than taking up a teaching and training position, the subject opted for a temporary assignment duty detached to work directly for RESCUE in their development of their Overwatch program for critical incident response, and serve to join the NYPD's PCB unit. RESCUE would continue to support their tech, and supply declassified versions of their technology to the PCB, FEMA, and other agencies.

Powers

None.

Skills

Medicine

Veronicas medical degrees focus on orthopedic and neurological medicine and surgery, which involve general knowledge of biology, biophysics, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics. Through her work with RESCUE she has become an experienced trauma doctor using her orthopedic medical knowledge.

Cybernetics

Veronica is a noted expert in cybernetics, which includes general knowledge of signal and data transmission, data communication, robotics, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, and physics. Combined with her medical skills, this makes capable of designing, fitting, and maintaining both cybernetics and her exosuit.

Business

Veronica is certainly not a wonderful or amazing businesswoman, but she has learned enough to do a passable job. She knows enough to understand what others are doing and ask intelligent questions; she hires professionals to do the jobs she isnt trained to do herself.

Advantages

RESCUE

Veronica is co-CEO and Chief Medical Officer of REsearch, Science, and Cybernetics Unlimited Engineering (RESCUE), an engineering and medical company that focuses on technology to overcome limitations and disabilities due to disease, condition or injury. It provides Veronica with both funding and laboratory space to work on her projects and personally wealthy as part owner.

REACT

A special program sponsored and supported by RESCUE, REACT (Rapid Emergency Action Crisis Team) is a crisis intervention organization specifically intended to lend aid wherever they may be needed. Suited up as Augmenta, Veronica is a member of REACT, having their support as well as contributing materially to their resources and directing their missions.

Personal Fortune

Though she would much rather have had her parents, Veronica became quite personally wealthy with their deaths and her own accomplishments. Her liquid and semi-liquid assets amount to about five million dollars. Her personally-owned real estate holdings expand this to approximately twelve million.

Augmenta Armor Mk1

Developed initially as a testbed for a variety of assistive technologies, now purpose-built for field operations in Search & Rescue and in crisis operations; excels at speed, agility, adaptability and keen variability of its sensors. Two suits (mk1 / mk2)

• Strength: 5 tons
• Jumping: 1200 feet horizontal, 300 feet vertical
• Spring-Running: 80 mph, difficulty in tight turns, needs 100 feet vertical clearance
• Sensors:
  • LIDAR mapping and targeting
  • Multi-medium SONAR mapping and imaging
  • Multi-spectral adaptive visual scanning (x150 magnification)
  • RADAR mapping
  • Thermographic mapping
  • Multi-spectral adaptive audio scanning (50dB amplification, adaptive noise filtering)
• Weapons:
  • Neuro-disruptor Darts: 150 ft range, gel-tipped, transduce disruptive electrical signal; need conductive contact with target, paralyzing in place; five minutes.
  • Multi-pod launcher: 300ft range with calculated parabolic arcs
    • Screamer pods: multi-spectral hot LED flash series, ululating screech 90 sec; deafens, stuns, disorients; bypass standard baffle defenses
    • Acoustic pods: sound-based detection, triangulation, sonic mapping, surveillance
    • Surveillance pods: short duration, most armor's sensor systems; sticky gel & magnetics for clinging
• Carbon nano-fiber weave ceramic armor:
  • Firearms: impervious to small arms fire, heavily resistant to heavy & higher velocity rounds;
  • Blunt force: impervious to under 5 tons force, highly resistant to anything up to 10 tons;
  • Sharp force: impervious to standard up to 0.5 tons, highly resistant up to 2 tons;
  • Electricity: impervious up to 75kv and 200 amps;
  • Heat/Fire: impervious up to 1000 F, highly resistant up to 2500 F.

Augmenta Armor Mk2

• Strength: 25 tons
• Jumping: 1800 feet horizontal, 600 feet vertical
• Spring-Running: 120 mph, difficulty in tight turns, needs 150 feet vertical clearance
• Magneto-impeller Drive: 20 knots near-silent running (water), 60 knots noisy speed
• Vectored Thrust Flight: hover-capable, top speed 650 mph in short 60sec bursts, cruising speed 350mph
• Sealed System: full environmental seals, 8 hours oxygen
• Sensors:
  • LIDAR mapping and targeting
  • Multi-medium SONAR mapping and imaging
  • Multi-spectral adaptive visual scanning (x350 magnification)
  • RADAR mapping
  • Thermographic mapping
  • Multi-spectral adaptive audio scanning (75dB amplification, adaptive noise filtering)
• Weapons:
  • Neuro-disruptor Darts: 250 ft range, gel-tipped, transduce disruptive electrical signal; need conductive contact with target, paralyzing in place; five minutes.
  • Magneto-propulsion driver: launch chemical rounds (gas, powder, liquids) 1000yrd range
    • Tanglers: single-target rapid-expanding fast-solidifying foam, 1.5 ton resistant
    • Tranq Darts: single target, contact splash, 5-10sec activation, 1hr duration
    • Pepper Dust: causes 5ft cloud of pepper spray effect
    • Water Rounds: transfer force bluntly, stun rounds
    • Glitterdust: 5ft cloud of clinging glitter
    • Tracer Rounds: tiny tracker to locate and follow target
  • Multi-pod launcher: 1000ft range with calculated parabolic arcs
    • Screamer pods: multi-spectral hot LED flash series, ululating screech 90 sec; deafens, stuns, disorients; bypass standard baffle defenses
    • Acoustic pods: sound-based detection, triangulation, sonic mapping, surveillance
    • Surveillance pods: short duration, most armor's sensor systems; sticky gel & magnetics for clinging
    • Anti-Grav pods: 5min max duration 2ton 125m^3 max capacity per unit, shorter duration by mass (90sec @ max)
• Carbon nano-fiber weave ceramic armor:
  • Firearms: impervious to small arms fire, heavily resistant to heavy & higher velocity rounds;
  • Blunt force: impervious to under 15 tons force, highly resistant to anything up to 40 tons;
  • Sharp force: impervious to standard up to 2 tons, highly resistant up to 6 tons;
  • Electricity: impervious up to 100kv and 500 amps;
  • EMP Hardening: Well beyond standing military standards
  • Heat/Fire: impervious up to 1800 F, highly resistant up to 3200 F.

Exoframe Wheelchair

Sleek and highly agile wheelchair; then strapped to hips, legs, and activated to carry signals from spine and brain, respond to will, enabling her to stand and to walk, transforms into exoframe; GPS, communications equivalent to high-end smartphone, much larger, more powerful antennae; can recharge four standard devices.

Humblebees

Intelligent flock of tiny inter-networked quadcopter- style drones operating on rotating encrypted spread-spectrum frequency- hopping channel, with adaptive, cooperative programming set. Maintain power for ten hours, carry weights individually up to ten pounds, usually to lift and move objects in the way.

Ramblers

Small six-wheeled independent-axled ground-operating drones with similar swarming, adaptive, cooperative programming set. 4' x 2.1' x 2.2' units, electric drive, fast, powerful, equal sensors to Humblebees & armor. Can pull 1 mton at ~1cm/sec.

Drillipedes

Larger worm-shape drones, 6ft long, 1.5ft wide, multiple small track-feed sections along length all around, heads full of high-speed grinding/boring units, acid sprayers, etc. Co-operative adaptive tunneling machines, top speed 1ft per minute through most materials.

Flaws

Paraplegic

Veronica is an injury-induced paraplegic, and has been for over two decades. She can crawl, and in water can swim arms-only, but she is at a significant disadvantage. She requires a wheelchair for real mobility on an everyday basis, or the use of her own advanced Augmenta technology and an exo-frame to bypass the failing of the spinal nerves and the atrophied weakness of her leg and hip muscles.

Alone

Veronica has no family. She is an orphan. She has no personal, private support network. The best chance she has of that is making friends … but she's not very good at that.

Obligations

Veronica is co-CEO of RESCUE, which means she has obligations. She cannot just mouth-off to the press, or to laissons for federal agencies, for fear of damaging her company, and in so doing harming all of those who now work for her company. Much of her time is not her own, because she is a vital resource for her company and she must be on-site to meet those obligations. If she fails to do so, the complications and consequences pile up.

Chip on Her Shoulder

Veronica has spent most of her life facing the challenges of life on her own, refusing to depend on someone else or find herself coming up short. All of that is great for accomplishing a lot with her life. That's great for proving herself and overcoming threats. But it sucks for getting along with others. Veronica cannot stand those who view her as lesser, weaker, or in need of help. And she makes no bones about letting them know it. She's not exactly overbrimming with friends or allies as a result.

Hackable

Veronica's greatest accomplishments are amazing; she can walk, and run, even fly! She can save lives, identify threats, and protect those in need. But she needs technology to make any of that work. And that technology includes computers. They may not be running standard consumer operating systems, but they are still computers, and can be hacked. And that can make her greatest assets into her greatest weakness.

AIM

Advanced Idea Mechanics as an organization hates Veronica's co-CEO with a passion for her success in routing them from their won division. And they are now targeting not just Toni, but RESCUE and Roni as well.

Hippocratic Oath

Veronica believes in and follows passionately the principles of the Hippocratic Oath, and its oft-shortened and much-oversimplified paraphrase: First, do no harm. It drives her, and it haunts her.

Contacts

Contacts

Contact	Relationship	Notes
R.E.S.C.U.E.	Corporation	This is the corporation that Roni has built for herself, the personification of her mission.
R.E.A.C.T.	Team	Rapid Emergency Action Crisis Team: This is the team of special individuals funded by R.E.S.C.U.E. and including Roni, her co-CEO and others as they try to help people in need and make the world a better place.
G.I.R.L.	Charitable Foundation	Genius In Action Research Lab is the non-profit foundation established by Nadia van Dyne with the mission of finding and supporting young women in STEM fields. This is how Roni originally met Nadia, and she and Toni avidly support the foundation and its mission.
Toni Ho	Friend and Partner	Veronica's partner, co-CEO, friend and teammate.
Sgt. Marie Ava Posey, aka Posse	Patient, Friend and Employee	Ava is Veronica's most successful cybernetic test subject, as well as her friend and the leader of RESCUE security and field leader of REACT.
Nadia van Dyne, aka Wasp	Friend and Employee	Nadia is the founder of G.I.R.L. Veronica and Toni now support G.I.R.L. through RESCUE, and have hired Nadia to work with them in RESCUE and REACT. Roni admires her spunk.
Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy	Colleague and Employee/Partner	Though each has followed the other's published papers and research for years, Roni and Hank only recently met. Already they are close friends and enjoy working with one another. Henry has joined RESCUE, and is completing his medical residency at the Wellspring.
Sharon Smith, aka Catseye	Colleague	Roni has met Sharon while she was working as Hank's research assistant. She admires the young woman's spunk, brains and dedication, and looks forward to seeing what she accomplishes.
Neena Thurman, aka Domino	Colleague?	Roni met Neena when she was recruited by Ava for a mission to the Ukraine. Despite the terrible fiasco that resulted, Neena has continued to prove herelf a valuable ally, and Veronica finds herself drawn to trusting the woman in spite of her better wisdom.
Hisako Ichiki, aka Armor	Intern	Roni has hired young Hisako as an intern with architectural engineering aspirations, and also enlisted her aid with REACT where possible.

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Logs

2020-08-09 - So, About Your Issues
Summary: Dr. Martin Almer decides to have a chat with Dr. Veronica Kelsey about her attitudes...
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2020-08-02 - Is It Moving Day Yet?
Summary: Nadia and Veronica discuss some of their latest science projects. Log Info: Storyteller:...
(nadia-van-dyne rescue social veronica-kelsey)

2020-07-31 - Now You See me
Summary: Time to test Posse's onboard holographic systems. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Fri Jul...
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2020-07-26 - Sub Rosa: Shark Bait
Summary: REACT works against the clock to shut down strange tech causing earthquakes and volcanos on...
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2020-07-19 - Thai Food Catchup
Summary: Ava and Roni show up to check on Toni and catch up with her. Discussions of RESCUE's...
(cyga hank-mccoy posse rescue social toni-ho veronica-kelsey)

2020-07-19 - Only Slightly Compromised
Summary: RESCUE recruits the services of Emma Frost to help remove conditioning implanted by the...
(domino emma-frost martin-almer posse social veronica-kelsey)

2020-07-12 - Cyberian Reopening Extravaganza
Summary: RESCUE, their Avengers allies and SHIELD finally make their move against the Cyberian. Log...
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2020-07-05 - Mercurial
Summary: BACKDATED SCENE 7/2 Pietro Maximoff is recruited for the raid on the Cyberian's new Arena....
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2020-07-02 - Cyberian, Here We Come
Summary: RESCUE reaches out to the Avengers for help. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Thu Jul 2...
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2020-07-02 - Credentialsless Spot
Summary: RESCUE puts its heads together to solve an albino's paperwork problem. Log Info:...
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2020-06-27 - Shuttle Run
Summary: Team-building at the RESCUE gym. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Sat Jun 27 17:21:18 2020...
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2020-06-06 - There Can Be Only One!
Summary: Ava and Veronica have some difficult conversations about the future of RESCUE and REACT....
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2020-06-05 - Information is Ammunition
Summary: RESCUE has intel on the Cyberian. Now it's time to put that intel in the hands of those...
(catseye cyga plot rescue veronica-kelsey)

2020-06-03 - Albinterrogation
Summary: It's all one big misunderstanding, right? It's probably all one big misunderstanding. Log...
(domino martin-almer posse social toni-ho veronica-kelsey)

2020-05-31 - AIMterrogation
Summary: Six AIM agents and two armored trucks may hold some answers, though all may not be as it...
(domino hank-mccoy hisako-ichiki io-niven martin-almer plot posse veronica-kelsey)

2020-05-30 - Information is Ammunition
Summary: Veronica catches up with Io on her upgrade work and the data efforts she is putting...
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2020-05-23 - AIMing for Answers
Summary: RESCUE and a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man band together to intercept an AIM convoy. Log...
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2020-05-19 - Some Explanation Due
Summary: The Hellcat may still be a mystery but for Veronica the albino possessed by it is about to...
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2020-05-18 - Deus Ex Blitznip
Summary: Hank's efforts to create an alternative food source for Domino's Hellkitty blows up in his...
(domino hank-mccoy hisako-ichiki martin-almer posse social toni-ho veronica-kelsey)

2020-05-09 - Hubba Hubba Doc
Summary: After their workout, Ava asks Roni a question which catches the good doctor off-balance....
(posse rescue social veronica-kelsey)

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