Trance
Independent bounty hunter that has gotten caught up with the Maximals. Created by Gamma Prime
Name: Trance
Faction: Maximals
Function: Bounty Hunter
Type: Transmetal
Beast Mode: Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger
Vehicle Mode: Roadster
Sex: Male
Age: 275 stellar cycles
Size Class: Medium
Height: 8 ft.
Description:
-Beast Mode: Picture Here
General look of the Thylacine: Looks like a large dog, but with a stiffer tail and stripes on it’s body.
Overall color scheme is metallic brown. He has a black snout and his stripes are metallic tan and raised off his back slightly. There are metallic tan stripes around his tail. His legs are metallic brown with metallic tan paws. On each upper legs there are chrome circles with black circles around them, where the tires of his third mode pop out. His optics are dark blue with a chrome plate on his head.
-Robot Mode: His legs are colored brown with tan stripes around the outsides all the way up his legs. His feet are squarish, brown with tan rectangle on the top. A chrome circle is on the outside of each upper leg, but the tires cannot come out in this mode. His blaster holster in strapped around his upper right leg. His pelvic area is colored brown with tan stripes on the sides. He wears a black belt with various compartments. His torso is V shaped and colored brown with tan stripes on the sides. He has two straps coming across his chest, each from a shoulder to the opposite waist end, with a strap coming from each main one to the utility belt. One strap holds five small throwing knives while the other holds the Electric Energon Disrupters. On his back, a holster holds his plasma shotgun. His arms are colored brown with tan stripes on the outsides. On his upper left arm, he has six long teeth imbedded on, evenly spaced around his arm. On his left forearm in a control panel, hidden by a lid. This control panel is able to access the Nuclos’ main computer and control any of it’s systems from anywhere. On his right forearm in a four cylinder gauntlet. His hands are brown with tan squares on the tops. He has four fingers and the tips can extend slightly. His head is Terran in shape. He has a normal mouth and has carnivorous teeth. He has a slight raise for a nose, with two nostrils, and he has no optics, but he can see. His head is colored brown with tan stripes coming from the tip of his nose, between where his optics would be, and split and go opposite ways across the top of his head. His comm system is an extendable external one, where the mic pops out of the side of his head and comes down in front of his mouth. Small and compact, colored chrome. The receiver stays inside his head.
-Third Mode: From his beast mode, his legs fold up and his wheels, black with chrome rims, pop out of the chrome circles. His tail retracts into his body and two exhaust pipes poop out of the sides and wrap around to the back. On his back, a small seat pops up, able to carry a small bot with ease.
Personality: Not the usual Maximal. As a bounty hunter, he has lost all care or concern for the safety of any bot, whether it be a Maximal or Predacon, and thus is not liked too much. Along with his lack of concern for others, there is his lack of trust in others, especially after Toothpick left, and if you want to earn his trust, you will have to prove yourself numerous times over, and he’ll still keep a weapon handy when around you. Since his trust in others is lacking, he tends to keep to himself, but he does possess great socializing skills, especially with negotiating, and will socialize if he desires to. As a bounty hunter, his top priority is his job at all times, and he has never accepted a bounty that he did not complete, and he knows this and carries it with great pride. The only problem that he has with bounty hunting is that most of his bounties usually end up in the scrap yard, and out of all the bounties he has chased down, only two have survived to tell of him. He accepts any bounty, it doesn’t matter if the danger is great or the pay is small. If the pay is small, he negotiates to a higher price, and it always works because it usually involves his plasma shotgun. If the danger is seen as the problem, Trance simply shrugs it off with a laugh and does it anyway. He is always looking to increase the amount of credits in his wallet, and he sees every bounty as not only a job, but as practice to enhance his skills at all times. He has what could be called a conscience when a bounty that he is given is one for an accomplice of his, thinking about it for a while, comparing the benefits of it to the cons of it, and depending on this, he will or won’t take the job, most of the time he’ll take the job.
Outside of his bounty hunter life, he does enjoy a multitude of hobbies. Most of the time, whenever he is not hunting, he can be found working on the Nuclos, his prison ship, always looking to improve it with the latest technology to aid in his line of work. When not working on his ship, he can often be found playing some poker with others, often adding more credits to his wallet. During his days with Toothpick, they used to play poker all the time, and thus Trance has become a great player and a master of poker faces. And if the poker faces don’t work, his plasma shotgun usually does. At most times though, Trance can be found a hard energon drink in hand with a cigar in his mouth, puffing and drinking away the day. Every now and then, he usually makes someone around him a drinking buddy, depending if he likes you or not. If you are a crazy, messed-up, and hysterical bot who also enjoys drinking and poker, chances are he’ll like you. But if you are a melodramatic, childish, wussy bot who detests or dislikes drinking and poker, you better hope you don’t get slagged by him.
Despite his outer vibe of a tough, rough motha *****, he does have a quirks that tend to take away from this veil of toughness. He loves to cook, plain and simple. He just started this hobby and everything that he cooks just does not turn out right, but he continues to cook anyway. On the Nuclos, you can find a large collection of music, mostly hard rock, rap, and metal, but hidden within these mountains of CDs can be found CDs of old Terran boy bands, which he enjoys for some unknown reason, even to him. If anyone was to every catch Trance enjoying one of these pleasure of life, do not tell anyone and pray he does not find out you know, or you will indefinitely end up as junk on the planet of junk.
History: Trance was brought online and drafted into the Military, but after a few solar cycles, he was cut due to his inept abilities. He then began to search Cybertron for a job that interested him, and became a prison guard. He spent fifty stellar cycles as a guard, and met many different Transformers. Throughout this tenure, he saw how stupid criminals could be and began to grow bored. He finally resigned and began his search anew. During his search for a new job, he met a Maximal named Nuclos, who took him under his wing as an apprentice. Together, they traversed the cosmos, all the while Nuclos taught Trance various skills to be put to use as a bounty hunter. Nuclos then felt that he could no longer teach Trance and they departed ways. It was now that Trance adopted his loner personality and became a free-lance bounty hunter. He started out small, working jobs on Cybertron. Eventually, he felt that he should move on and went back to the prison he worked at. There, he purchased an old, yet effective prison transport ship and took it into get the systems fixed and the ship fixed up. When they finished with it, he named it the Nuclos after his mentor and left Cybertron.
He began his travels across the galaxy. He stopped at various bars and law enforcement facilities to pick up various bits of news and rumors, or bounties. One day, while traveling to the planet of Cardon, his ship was hit by a Trans temporal wave(?), changing his body to that of a Transmetal. He took a few days to get used to his new body, but did. He then returned to his bounty hunting. One day, while at a bar on Gratous, he met a Predacon named Toothpick and they became friends. Trance and Toothpick teamed up and became the bounty hunting team known as the Regulators. Their names spread across the galaxy and criminals feared them. But, unfortunately, they had their disputes and separated ways. Trance was traveling over the planet Giana when the Nuclos was shot down by a Predacon ship piloted by Zippo, the partner of a mercenary who Trance killed in an attempt of capturing him. Trance crash landed near Endport. After a few weeks there, he managed to get the Nuclos fixed, along with a few bounties added to his wallet, and he left Giana and began doing what he does best again. During his journey, he came across a ship, a Maximal ship…..
Specialties:
-Piloting: Astral: Able to pilot numerous types of space craft fit for astral conditions.
-Firearms: Has extensive knowledge in the use and working of various firearms.
-Autofire Weapons: Has extensive knowledge in the use and workings of autofire weapons.
-Melees: Knives: Has learned how to properly handle small knives, such as throwing knives.
-Bargaining: Throughout his years as a bounty hunter, he mastered the skill of negotiating prices on both his bounties and repairs for his ship, the Nuclos.
-Engineering: Has mediocre skills in this area, from watching others work on his ship, allowing him to tweak with his ship’s systems.
Strength: 4
Speed: 7
Skill: 8
Stamina: 7
Aim: 8
Intelligence: 7
Firepower: 9
Discipline: 7
Luck: 6
Weapons:
-Plasma Shotgun: Think the gun from the end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It is colored black and carries ten extra slugs, five on each side. It fires a shell filled with plasma energy. When fired, the shell is ripped open as it leaves the barrel, sending just the plasma energy. It has five times the force of a Terran shotgun and is able to knock a medium sized bot down, leaving it with a very large dent in it’s outer shell and pain that equals that of a Terran being hit by a car.The gun must be cocked after each fire, and is able to hold five slugs at a time. Kept in a holster on his back.
-Electric Energon Disrupters: When thrown at a bot, the disks send an electric surge through the bot and drain a fourth of his energon supply. The electric shock disables the bot for five cycles. Each can only be used three times before they loose their power and disintegrate. Used to disable his "prey".
-Plasma Pistol: A hand held black pistol that is held in a holster on his upper right leg. It is able to fire four blasts a second, but needs recharge after being used for five cycles. Each blast has a fourth of the power of the plasma shotgun and are able to pierce the weakest armors cleanly.
-Throwing Knives: Five small titanium knives strapped across his chest. These can penetrate weak armor, but are mainly used to disable his "prey" by sending an electrical charge, similar to the electric energon disrupters through their inner circuitry and their neural net, disabling them for a few cycles.
Equipment:
-Gadget Gauntlet: It is a thick gauntlet, wrapped around his left wrist, and has four cylinders. The top two cylinders fire laser beams, which are able to melt through weaker armors and metals. The bottom right one fires a grappling hook, made of steel wires, and has a tip shaped like the head of an arrow, which expands in size when released. This is able to hold Toothpick easily. The last cylinder is a laser knife, capable of cutting through weak metals. Usually used for maintenance or escaping binds. This is colored black and is removable.
-Scanner/Tracker: This is a special unit built into his head. It consists of special lenses that become his optics when commanded, and they have various tasks. The different types of lenses are a infrared lens and a night vision lens. The scanner part of this unit works as a normal scanner, with a range of a mile radius, and it displays the signature on special lenses over his optics.
-Comm System: Consists of a microphone, which pops out of the right side of his head and comes down to his mouth, and the receiver stays inside of his head. Picks up any transmission on certain frequencies.
-Claws: The tips of his fingers can extend to from small, yet sharp claws. While these can be dangerous, he never uses these as weapons, but uses them for climbing steep cliffs or what not.
-Control Panel: Located in his left forearm, this is able to control any and all systems of the Nuclos from anywhere.
-Nuclos: His prison ship. Large in size, with a bridge fitted for a crew of two. There is the engine room, located on the top deck, two personal quarters on the top deck, ten small holding cells on the bottom deck, and a small hangar in the back, capable of holding a small starhopper and two escape pods. It’s armaments are a plasma cannon on the top, two repeating laser blaster in the front, and two small missiles silos on each side. Colored burnt red with a black windshield and portholes.
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