Rhommer
The leader of the Lightning Corps, tough strong and short tempered. Created by Pulse
Name: Rhommer
Faction: Predacon
Function: Head of the ‘Lightning Corps.’
Type: Transmetal
Beast Mode: Bull
Alternate Mode: Terran Tank
TF Sex: Male
Height: 14 ft.
History
For a very short time, very early in his life, Rhommer was a rank and file infantryman in the Predacon Army. He served the minimum term, with no distinction whatsoever, and was then discharged back to the pubs and beer halls of Cybertron. After the military, Rhommer held a small unimportant post as a warehouse night watchman, and spent most of his free time drinking in local bars. A loud rowdy drunk, he developed a set of radical right wing ideas centering on Predacon ethnic superiority. The Lightning Corps., a group consisting of base thugs and fellow drunks was instituted to try and uphold these crackbrained ideals. Rhommer, using the clout he assumed he gained from service in the army, became their leader. A haven for the brutal and undisciplined, the Lightning Corps grew dramatically in some of Cybertron’s poorer sectors.
About a year after the conclusion of the Endport Resistance trial, an unnamed representative of Jonas’s Conformist movement approached Rhommer. After numerous discussions, and many many beers, the rep managed to inflate Rhommer’s ego to the point where he agreed to support Jonas, and move the Lightning Corps to the Outer Rim. If Rhommer, or anyone in the Lightning Corps managed to see how counter the beliefs of the Conformists were to their own, they turned a blind eye.
Drunk and buffoonish as ever, Rhommer has continued to operate the Lightning Corps at Jonas’s behest. Though he spends a great deal of his time drinking and carousing, he still retains a measure of control over his people, and is all the more dangerous for it.
Personality
Rhommer is a roaring temperamental drunk, under the delusion that he is an important military commander. Cheerful and friendly while drinking, this easy attitude belies the thuggish violent nature that led him to start the Lightning Corps. Rhommer is as rotten as his followers, and different only in the respect that he actually believes that he is following some sort of ideal. With the strength of the Lightning Corps at his back, Rhommer fears no ‘bot. His ego has grown accordingly.
Appearance
Robot Mode: In Robot Mode Rhommer stands fourteen feet tall and is nearly covered with thick brown armored plating. His boots and gauntlets, along with a heavy gorget encircling his neck are even thicker, with a lighter more glossy sheen to them. All the plating in between is more curved to resemble thick heavy muscles. His Beast mode head rests on his broad chest, eyes and ringed snout facing downward, horns flattened against his collarbones. Rhommer’s head is large and thickly featured. A lantern jaw, heavy cheekbones, and squashed looking nose rest below a set of bleary red optics. His head is otherwise a featureless dome. Rhommer speaks very bluntly in a rough uncultured voice.
Beast Mode: In this mode, Rhommer is a huge, thickly muscled Bull, seven feet tall at the head, with a pair of dangerous looking horns sticking out of his head at a convenient skewering angle. In keeping with his Transmetal state, his body parts are non organic in appearance, and covered with a glossy metallic sheen.
Alternate Mode: Rhommer, due to his Transmetal form, possesses a heavily armored tank for his alternate mode. In this mode his body basically collapses into a squat heavily armored box, complete with a small passenger turret and large artillery cannon. Though hints of his Beast Mode can be seen about the tank, most of his recognizable features are internalized in this state. The tank moves on thick durable tank treads, and is the same ruddy brown color he possesses in his Robot Mode.
Statistics
Strength: 9
Speed: 5
Skill: 7
Aim: 6
Intelligence: 5
Discipline: 9
Stamina: 10
Firepower: 9
Weapons / Equipment
Plasma Shotgun: This shotgun, sized to match Rhommer is the same type of weapon used by many PC ‘bots. It shoots a large blast of superheated plasma capable of removing chunks of flesh and armor from a standard Transformer. Rhommer has rigged it so that he may fire eight shots before reloading. Effective range about 20 yds.
Bludgeons: Rhommer can remove his two large bull horns in Robot mode and use them as melee weapons. He employs them whenever he needs a weapon, and the situation doesn’t warrant the shotgun. Wielded by Rhommer, they can deliver a painful disarming blow that doesn’t cause much more than superficial damage. A classic bar room brawling weapon.
Artillery Cannon: Available only in his tank alternate mode, Rhommer possesses a heavy artillery cannon capable of propelling a heavy mortar several hundred yards. The explosive charges are catastrophically damaging, and moreover, Rhommer has the ability to aim them in this mode. Though far from sniper like accuracy, after having the mode for so long, he has developed an instinctual knack for ballistics.
Quotes
“Spill that drink and I’m gonna make you a stain on that wall back there,” -Rhommer
“Lightning Corps? I am the Lightning Corps!!,” -Rhommer
Graphics Provided by Riboflavin
