Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 4:34:33 GMT -5
First Name: Katarina
Last Name: Armstrong
Alias: Spy Smasher, Katie Strong, various others for undercover work
Age: 28
Height/Weight: 5'10"/134 lbs
Eyes: Blue (but sometimes wears colored contact lenses)
Hair: Blonde (but currently dyed brown)
Persuasion: Always on the side of the angels.
Powers:
Katrina is expert marksman on a similar level to Deadshot of the Secret Six (who was acclaimed to be the second-most accurate assassin behind Deathstroke). Katrina has extensive knowledge in various forms of hand-to-hand combat and is a somewhat of a strategist with formerly extensive government connections at her fingertips, which are much less extensive than before.
She was enhanced as a test subject by a group experimenting with OMAC technology, trying to replicate Sasha Bordeaux's abilities. Though not completely successful, the nanotechnolgy integrated in Katarina's body did enhance her physical abilities to around fifteen percent greater than an Olympic-level athelete, add extra oxygen to her blood when needed (allowing her to hold her breath for much longer than normal people), remove waste products from her muscles (allowing her greatly-enhanced stamina), quickly move to repair damage (wounds stop bleeding very quickly, and she heals faster than normal humans), and filter her blood of poisons or drugs. Her bones have been hardened to some extent with carbon-lacing, and her skin strengthened to the equivilent strength and kinetic energy-dispersion of a suit of flexible body armor. She is also somewhat cold-and-fire resistant, as a suit of Nomex armor would be.
History:
Katarina Armstrong is a high-ranking anti-terrorist government agent who’s affiliated with several American and International agencies. Becoming the second person to claim the name of Spy Smasher, it is unclear as to what Katarina’s exact ties to the first (Alan Armstrong) specifically are. However, her diamond insignia costume and personal identity clearly suggest they are in some way related.
Much still has not been revealed about Katarina’s past, but in college she met Barbara Gordon and struck up a most unusual friendship. Coming from different backgrounds and both highly competitive with one another, Katarina and Barbara disagreed on everything yet remained inseparable. Their friendship became strained when Katarina cheated in a track race by tripping Barbara to win. Friendship became rivalry after college as the two went their separate ways, but kept constant surveillance on one another from that point on.
Their paths crossed once again when Barbara sent a team of agents into to rescue the daughter of mob boss “Shark” Brennan, kidnapped to prevent him from turning state’s evidence. Katarina became determined to shut Barbara’s operation down by any means necessary. It wasn’t long before Katarina coerced Barbara into turning control of the Birds of Prey over to her. Kat sent the Birds into on a salvage mission that revealed the long thought deceased Ice (of Justice League International ) was still alive. While there Kat and the Birds fought the Secret Six , to which Kat found herself equally matched against Deadshot . Kat also removed Lady Blackhawk from the team for dissent.
As the team returned to the Bird’s base camp Katarina was challenge by Barbara for control of her entire operations. After the two beat each other to a stand still, Katarina found herself confronted by every former agent of the Birds of Prey. Threatened by Black Canary , Katarina left disgraced and humiliated. However, Kat left a final parting gift for Barbara that revealed some background information on the teenaged Misfit .
It is later revealed that Katarina was severely reprimanded by Checkmate . It is mentioned that Josephine Tautin personally carried out Katarina’s disciplinary action, much to her enjoyment. Sasha Bordeaux also apologized to Barbara in person for Kat’s actions.
***Added on to the history, to make her playable here.
Kat was reassigned to a remote Antarctic research facility to get her out of the way, though she kept her "Special Agent" status with the US Government. This turned out for the best, as Checkmate soon fell apart. With plenty of free time, she discovered that the remnants of her former organization had been absorbed by various other organizations, and that a UN security organization was working on a super-soldier program based on scans and samples they had of Sasha Bordeaux's OMAC nanotechnology. Kat saw her chance to gain an upper hand on Gordon and voulunteered to be a test subject. Though not as successful as the program hoped, Katarina was enhanced to a superhuman level.
Since then, Kat has been placed on detached duty, and just in time as the research was quickly shut down by unknown elements (though probably Batman-allies attempting to eliminate traces of Brother Eye and the OMACs). She has made sure that her paper trail is a bit less easy to follow, but has found herself fairly comfortable while she quietly tries out her new abilities.
Katarina has set herself up in Philadelphia as a Special Agent for the Department of Energy as "Katie Strong", and she produces her own "investigations" so as not to local agents too suspicious.
Comic character is from: DC Comics, Birds of Prey
Last Name: Armstrong
Alias: Spy Smasher, Katie Strong, various others for undercover work
Age: 28
Height/Weight: 5'10"/134 lbs
Eyes: Blue (but sometimes wears colored contact lenses)
Hair: Blonde (but currently dyed brown)
Persuasion: Always on the side of the angels.
Powers:
Katrina is expert marksman on a similar level to Deadshot of the Secret Six (who was acclaimed to be the second-most accurate assassin behind Deathstroke). Katrina has extensive knowledge in various forms of hand-to-hand combat and is a somewhat of a strategist with formerly extensive government connections at her fingertips, which are much less extensive than before.
She was enhanced as a test subject by a group experimenting with OMAC technology, trying to replicate Sasha Bordeaux's abilities. Though not completely successful, the nanotechnolgy integrated in Katarina's body did enhance her physical abilities to around fifteen percent greater than an Olympic-level athelete, add extra oxygen to her blood when needed (allowing her to hold her breath for much longer than normal people), remove waste products from her muscles (allowing her greatly-enhanced stamina), quickly move to repair damage (wounds stop bleeding very quickly, and she heals faster than normal humans), and filter her blood of poisons or drugs. Her bones have been hardened to some extent with carbon-lacing, and her skin strengthened to the equivilent strength and kinetic energy-dispersion of a suit of flexible body armor. She is also somewhat cold-and-fire resistant, as a suit of Nomex armor would be.
History:
Katarina Armstrong is a high-ranking anti-terrorist government agent who’s affiliated with several American and International agencies. Becoming the second person to claim the name of Spy Smasher, it is unclear as to what Katarina’s exact ties to the first (Alan Armstrong) specifically are. However, her diamond insignia costume and personal identity clearly suggest they are in some way related.
Much still has not been revealed about Katarina’s past, but in college she met Barbara Gordon and struck up a most unusual friendship. Coming from different backgrounds and both highly competitive with one another, Katarina and Barbara disagreed on everything yet remained inseparable. Their friendship became strained when Katarina cheated in a track race by tripping Barbara to win. Friendship became rivalry after college as the two went their separate ways, but kept constant surveillance on one another from that point on.
Their paths crossed once again when Barbara sent a team of agents into to rescue the daughter of mob boss “Shark” Brennan, kidnapped to prevent him from turning state’s evidence. Katarina became determined to shut Barbara’s operation down by any means necessary. It wasn’t long before Katarina coerced Barbara into turning control of the Birds of Prey over to her. Kat sent the Birds into on a salvage mission that revealed the long thought deceased Ice (of Justice League International ) was still alive. While there Kat and the Birds fought the Secret Six , to which Kat found herself equally matched against Deadshot . Kat also removed Lady Blackhawk from the team for dissent.
As the team returned to the Bird’s base camp Katarina was challenge by Barbara for control of her entire operations. After the two beat each other to a stand still, Katarina found herself confronted by every former agent of the Birds of Prey. Threatened by Black Canary , Katarina left disgraced and humiliated. However, Kat left a final parting gift for Barbara that revealed some background information on the teenaged Misfit .
It is later revealed that Katarina was severely reprimanded by Checkmate . It is mentioned that Josephine Tautin personally carried out Katarina’s disciplinary action, much to her enjoyment. Sasha Bordeaux also apologized to Barbara in person for Kat’s actions.
***Added on to the history, to make her playable here.
Kat was reassigned to a remote Antarctic research facility to get her out of the way, though she kept her "Special Agent" status with the US Government. This turned out for the best, as Checkmate soon fell apart. With plenty of free time, she discovered that the remnants of her former organization had been absorbed by various other organizations, and that a UN security organization was working on a super-soldier program based on scans and samples they had of Sasha Bordeaux's OMAC nanotechnology. Kat saw her chance to gain an upper hand on Gordon and voulunteered to be a test subject. Though not as successful as the program hoped, Katarina was enhanced to a superhuman level.
Since then, Kat has been placed on detached duty, and just in time as the research was quickly shut down by unknown elements (though probably Batman-allies attempting to eliminate traces of Brother Eye and the OMACs). She has made sure that her paper trail is a bit less easy to follow, but has found herself fairly comfortable while she quietly tries out her new abilities.
Katarina has set herself up in Philadelphia as a Special Agent for the Department of Energy as "Katie Strong", and she produces her own "investigations" so as not to local agents too suspicious.
Comic character is from: DC Comics, Birds of Prey
