Terra - Alpha 478Sex: FemaleAge: Classified (mid-30s)Ethnicity: CaucasianAppearance: Hair: Dark Brown Eyes: Brown naturally, computerized now Other: Implants from Sentinel proceduresDate Of Birth: ClassifiedPlace Of Birth: ClassifiedBasic Sentinel Upgrade: All Alpha Sentinels are gifted with standard upgrades. They are given bio-mechanical upgrades to their musculature to increase strength and durability. They have the ability to fly via projectiles located traditionally in their feet. Sentinels are given mental upgrades, making their minds essentially computer processing units. Armor is in place over vital organs and functions giving them an increased durability over standard humans. They also have mutant detection, tracking and identification software uploaded directly into their mind. They also share a communication network, allowing them to communicate with one another and seize control over the more traditional Sentinel Weapons. They are given an up link system traditionally either in the neck or left arm to allow for software upgrades and access to machines they come into contact with in their missions. Each Prime Sentinel is outfitted with an additional power unique to itself, designed to make them the ultimate in Mutant Killing Weapons.Basic Sentinel Weaponry: All Alpha Sentinels are given standard weapons upgrades. Both arms are replaced with mechanical limbs that have high powered energy blasters in each palm. They are given a shoulder weapon, a traditional gun style weapon. They are also outfitted with a limited number of grenades in various types, a standard Alpha Sentinel can only carry four grenades at any one time. The bombs can vary from traditional grenades to smoke weapons.Powers: Terra was gifted with a recreation of Magneto's powers, albeit on a much smaller level. She was built as a weapon to take out Magneto, before his death. She can create an Electromagnetic forcefield. She can also has minor control over magnetic fields allowing her to manipulate metal, although this control is designed by the electromagnetic field she produces, meaning she can only control metal in about a five foot radius from her, her control is also limited by how much power she has as it drains her power cells quickly in a fight situation.
Power Limitations: All Alpha Sentinels have two major limitation points, being still partially human they have a functioning heart and an additional power source. If one or both of these is destroyed, the Sentinel would be destroyed. They also still maintain some human thought processing and personality, this can cause for rejection of various software as well as the human mind making critical errors. If a Sentinel is badly damaged, a sub-routine will take affect making them leave the area. They can also be killed in traditional fashions, burning, beheading, etc.
Background: Most of Terra's background is unknown. It is known that she was once a member of the United States Air Force. She was stationed at a base attacked by Magneto and his followers. Her fiance was killed in the battle, a Captain at the same base. It was then that she grew to hate mutants. She signed up for the Sentinel program as soon as she heard of its existence. She was built and tasked with killing Magneto, a feat she never achieved due to his death by other means. She stayed on, taking the full plunge into becoming an Alpha Sentinel.Her hate for mutants grew and she was made a member of a squad of Alpha Sentinels. She was first stationed at the Airforce Base in Colorado Springs. She spent a few years there before being deployed as a Sentinel weapon. She has become very bitter and angry with the world. She had no qualms about killing a mutant as she doesn't view them as legitimate people. She got her first kill stopping a transportation of mutants across the border. The actual amount of deaths is unknown, but she managed to crush a vehicle containing multiple mutant targets.On May 7th, the President Michael Chase was murdered, an act by an unknown assailant that preceded the fall of the U.S. Government. A few days later, Therizo - a well known weapons and science division of the U.S. Army - and their CEO Ammon Machina took over, promising to succeed where the government had failed in protecting the American public.
In response, Purifier 1st Sergeant Landra Knight, proclaimed the Purifiers' independence from the Therizo Corp, questioning the safety of Sentinels not built around human intelligence. She condemned the Therizo company as unworthy of American leadership and invited all humans seeking shelter to their territory, promising to eradicate any mutants who step foot on their land.
Terra and many of the 1st Gen Alpha Sentinels chose to side with the Purifiers. Unlike Sentinels built and created by Therizo, they had their own sentience and therefore could not be controlled by Ammon and his military. Though the Purifiers and Therizo did not necessarily agree, they often joined forces against their mutual enemy Apocalypse. This ended when Therizo's leader Ammon was proved to be a sentinel himself, and it was thought he was creating new Alpha sentinels from humans against their will. Rumors that Therizo had created the plague that wiped out most of humanity sealed the deal.
The Purifiers and their Alpha Sentinels, Terra among them, remain the only pro-human force in the county.
Personality: Terra has hints of having once been a beautiful woman, though most of that is gone now do to her implants and Sentinel parts. She will blindly follow orders and kill those that get in the way. She has a personal wish to kill Oliver Bishop as he caused her major system repairs last time they fought. She feels the same way about Finn Howard. Her anger is strong enough at points to override her embedded systems and allow her to do as she pleases when it comes to those two men. Terra has upgraded her programming to include detection agents for Oliver's personal DNA signature since he can't be detected in the traditional mutant fashion.