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Project: DARKHAWK

A super-secret DoD initiative, run through S.H.I.E.L.D., Project: DARKHAWK was the codename for the Defense Advanced Research into Kenogenetic Human Augmentation With Kree biotechnology.

After the discovery of the Vision android in the Tunguska facility, S.H.I.E.L.D. began a research project to analyze and reproduce the self repairing nanotechnology of the android. They initially had very little success, after extracting the nanites they simply could get them to perform in any appreciable capacity.

But when the DARPA facility in New Mexico wass attacked by a Kree force, Pluskommander Mahr Vehl showed himself and was briefly incapacitated. After analysis, DARPA scientists decided they could combine Mahr Vehl’s battle suit technology into the slow-going Vision nanite research project. Using bits from the defeated Kree battle force, S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to recreate an inert version of Mahr Vehl’s battle suit. They original intent was to add the nanites to the suit and create a wearable superweapon armor to surpass Tony Stark’s Irontech Armor. But when the Vision-derived nanites were added to the reverse engineered Kree Armor, the combination remained inert. When given sufficient external power the suit would perform correctly, but it could not self-sustain. It was soon determined that for the suit to be combat viable, the device would have to draw power from the wearer.

The device was implanted in a human test subject, but within days the subject had been used up, as the suit leeched power (in the form of biologically charged potassium) off of the host in a parasitic fashion. After two more failed trials (and dead soldiers), it was determined that the human body simply could not power the suit. The host would have to be modified to produce enough bio-energy to satisfy the device. Project: DARKHAWK was born.

The DARPA team now faced two distinct challenges: how to re-write the genetics of a host to produce more bio-energy, and how to have the device self regulate its consumption of energy to coexist with the host instead of destroying it. The answer to both lay in on source, a long defunct project that was deemed to have no military viability: The Parker-Brock Rehabilitative Skin. Unfreezing the PBR Skin S.H.I.E.L.D. retained in its facility, the Vision-Kree Hybrid device was infused with the PBR Skin. Given external power, the device reworked itself. The Vision nanites disassembled the Kree battle armor and synthesized with the skin.

Considered a glowing success, the DARKHAWK device was tried on another test subject, who lasted longer, but ultimately was consumed as well, but only after the device had almost “starved” to death from a lack of energy. What the S.H.I.E.L.D. researchers failed to extrapolate from this test was the rudimentary sentience of the device, and the fact that its survival instinct was strong. But, with no demonstrable results, billions of dollars down the drain, over a year wasted, and four dead test subjects, Project: DARKHAWK was shelved.

In a bizarre twist, however, when Project: DARKHAWK was shelved, it was put into the same storage facility as the recovered Irontech Armor that had been worn by the Black Widow before her death. The hibernating device felt the lingering power in the core of the Armor, and crept to it. In much the same way as the suit synthesized its self, it assimilated the Black Widow armor, and resumed its dormant form of a luminous blue rhomboid. Weeks later, during a routine inventory inspection, the anomaly was discovered. S.H.I.E.L.D. Scientists theorized what may have happened, but unwilling to risk the death of another human subject, the device was bonded with an aging test chimpanzee. The rhomboid device latched its self onto the chest of the chimp, and biomechanical tendril-probes bored into its flesh.

The device insinuated its self into the primate’s system in minutes, devouring the digestive, circulatory and nervous systems of the beast, replacing them, respectively, with a power core resembling that of the Irontech Armor (but with the efficiency of biological digestion), a precise and regulated biotechnological liquid nutrient and chemical delivery canal network, and a high speed power distributing command and control neurological network. But when the device tried to process commands from the chimp’s brain, it could not communicate correctly with an organism it wasn’t designed to interface with, and the chimpanzee died on the table. The Darkhawk Device retuned to its dormant form. But the S.H.I.E.L.D. Scientists had seen what they wanted to see. When paired with a human host, Project: DARKHAWK could finally be implemented.

Christopher Powell
Christopher Powell was born in Queens, New York to a schoolteacher mom and a detective father. He grew up lower middle class, but with deep, abiding values instilled in him by his parents. Shortly after his sixteenth birthday he took his Mom’s car to see his father to tell him he’d passed his driving test. His father was very proud and offered to take him out to lunch. While at the restaurant, two men in suits asked to talk to Chris’ father, and they walked into the back. Chris got up to use the restroom, and saw his policeman father accept a bribe from a Mafia type. On the way home, Chris confronted his father about this, who denied it, and hit him. Chris tried to tell his mother, but she wouldn’t believe him. The next year of Chris’ life was very tense at home.

About a year later, Chris’s parents and little sister were killed in a van crash with a drunk driver. Chris, alone, finished high school and joined the army at 17. His values and discipline served him well, and by 20 he had completed Ranger School and served two combat tours overseas, and was well decorated. He was contacted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and joined under the Giant-Men program as a Reserve Ultimate. But SGT Christopher Powell never got to be a Giant-Man. After rigorous screening, the fact that he was an orphan of high moral character and loyalty to the US Government earned him a place as the test subject for Project: DARKHAWK.

The Darkhawk Device bonded with Powell in much the same way as it had the chimp, except that it was properly interfaced with Chris’ brain. Chris, Codenamed Darkhawk, now is an operative from S.H.I.E.L.D., now that the Ultimates have privatized. Chris has displayed trouble controlling his anger in his Darkhawk persona, in a similar way as Edward Brock did when he bonded with the PBR Skin.

Powers and abilities
Powell's body has been implanted with a cybernetic battle suit that can be activated by a device located on his chest. In appearance the armor is grey shades and thrums with bio-energy, and provides Darkhawk with greatly enhanced physical abilities, including strength, agility and reflexes. The retractable energy wings under his arms allow him to glide on air currents, or fly at decent speeds that let him fly from New York to California. Darkhawk can project energy from the rhomboid in his chest as a focal point, either as concussive force blasts, or as a powerful force field that can change its shape. He also has the ability to view the entire light spectrum, including has telescopic and infra-red vision, and a grappling hook claw-cable on his right arm shaped like a claw.

Even major injuries to Darkhawk’s body can be repaired by switching back to his human form; his Darkhawk body dissolves back to its host body, where it can be repaired via nanotechnology.

Description
Project: DARKHAWK

A super-secret DoD initiative, run through S.H.I.E.L.D., Project: DARKHAWK was the codename for the Defense Advanced Research into Kenogenetic Human Augmentation With Kree biotechnology.

After the discovery of the Vision android in the Tunguska facility, S.H.I.E.L.D. began a research project to analyze and reproduce the self repairing nanotechnology of the android. They initially had very little success, after extracting the nanites they simply could get them to perform in any appreciable capacity.

But when the DARPA facility in New Mexico wass attacked by a Kree force, Pluskommander Mahr Vehl showed himself and was briefly incapacitated. After analysis, DARPA scientists decided they could combine Mahr Vehl’s battle suit technology into the slow-going Vision nanite research project. Using bits from the defeated Kree battle force, S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to recreate an inert version of Mahr Vehl’s battle suit. They original intent was to add the nanites to the suit and create a wearable superweapon armor to surpass Tony Stark’s Irontech Armor. But when the Vision-derived nanites were added to the reverse engineered Kree Armor, the combination remained inert. When given sufficient external power the suit would perform correctly, but it could not self-sustain. It was soon determined that for the suit to be combat viable, the device would have to draw power from the wearer.

The device was implanted in a human test subject, but within days the subject had been used up, as the suit leeched power (in the form of biologically charged potassium) off of the host in a parasitic fashion. After two more failed trials (and dead soldiers), it was determined that the human body simply could not power the suit. The host would have to be modified to produce enough bio-energy to satisfy the device. Project: DARKHAWK was born.

The DARPA team now faced two distinct challenges: how to re-write the genetics of a host to produce more bio-energy, and how to have the device self regulate its consumption of energy to coexist with the host instead of destroying it. The answer to both lay in on source, a long defunct project that was deemed to have no military viability: The Parker-Brock Rehabilitative Skin. Unfreezing the PBR Skin S.H.I.E.L.D. retained in its facility, the Vision-Kree Hybrid device was infused with the PBR Skin. Given external power, the device reworked itself. The Vision nanites disassembled the Kree battle armor and synthesized with the skin.

Considered a glowing success, the DARKHAWK device was tried on another test subject, who lasted longer, but ultimately was consumed as well, but only after the device had almost “starved” to death from a lack of energy. What the S.H.I.E.L.D. researchers failed to extrapolate from this test was the rudimentary sentience of the device, and the fact that its survival instinct was strong. But, with no demonstrable results, billions of dollars down the drain, over a year wasted, and four dead test subjects, Project: DARKHAWK was shelved.

In a bizarre twist, however, when Project: DARKHAWK was shelved, it was put into the same storage facility as the recovered Irontech Armor that had been worn by the Black Widow before her death. The hibernating device felt the lingering power in the core of the Armor, and crept to it. In much the same way as the suit synthesized its self, it assimilated the Black Widow armor, and resumed its dormant form of a luminous blue rhomboid. Weeks later, during a routine inventory inspection, the anomaly was discovered. S.H.I.E.L.D. Scientists theorized what may have happened, but unwilling to risk the death of another human subject, the device was bonded with an aging test chimpanzee. The rhomboid device latched its self onto the chest of the chimp, and biomechanical tendril-probes bored into its flesh.

The device insinuated its self into the primate’s system in minutes, devouring the digestive, circulatory and nervous systems of the beast, replacing them, respectively, with a power core resembling that of the Irontech Armor (but with the efficiency of biological digestion), a precise and regulated biotechnological liquid nutrient and chemical delivery canal network, and a high speed power distributing command and control neurological network. But when the device tried to process commands from the chimp’s brain, it could not communicate correctly with an organism it wasn’t designed to interface with, and the chimpanzee died on the table. The Darkhawk Device retuned to its dormant form. But the S.H.I.E.L.D. Scientists had seen what they wanted to see. When paired with a human host, Project: DARKHAWK could finally be implemented.

Christopher Powell
Christopher Powell was born in Queens, New York to a schoolteacher mom and a detective father. He grew up lower middle class, but with deep, abiding values instilled in him by his parents. Shortly after his sixteenth birthday he took his Mom’s car to see his father to tell him he’d passed his driving test. His father was very proud and offered to take him out to lunch. While at the restaurant, two men in suits asked to talk to Chris’ father, and they walked into the back. Chris got up to use the restroom, and saw his policeman father accept a bribe from a Mafia type. On the way home, Chris confronted his father about this, who denied it, and hit him. Chris tried to tell his mother, but she wouldn’t believe him. The next year of Chris’ life was very tense at home.

About a year later, Chris’s parents and little sister were killed in a van crash with a drunk driver. Chris, alone, finished high school and joined the army at 17. His values and discipline served him well, and by 20 he had completed Ranger School and served two combat tours overseas, and was well decorated. He was contacted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and joined under the Giant-Men program as a Reserve Ultimate. But SGT Christopher Powell never got to be a Giant-Man. After rigorous screening, the fact that he was an orphan of high moral character and loyalty to the US Government earned him a place as the test subject for Project: DARKHAWK.

The Darkhawk Device bonded with Powell in much the same way as it had the chimp, except that it was properly interfaced with Chris’ brain. Chris, Codenamed Darkhawk, now is an operative from S.H.I.E.L.D., now that the Ultimates have privatized. Chris has displayed trouble controlling his anger in his Darkhawk persona, in a similar way as Edward Brock did when he bonded with the PBR Skin.

Powers and abilities
Powell's body has been implanted with a cybernetic battle suit that can be activated by a device located on his chest. In appearance the armor is grey shades and thrums with bio-energy, and provides Darkhawk with greatly enhanced physical abilities, including strength, agility and reflexes. The retractable energy wings under his arms allow him to glide on air currents, or fly at decent speeds that let him fly from New York to California. Darkhawk can project energy from the rhomboid in his chest as a focal point, either as concussive force blasts, or as a powerful force field that can change its shape. He also has the ability to view the entire light spectrum, including has telescopic and infra-red vision, and a grappling hook claw-cable on his right arm shaped like a claw.

Even major injuries to Darkhawk’s body can be repaired by switching back to his human form; his Darkhawk body dissolves back to its host body, where it can be repaired via nanotechnology.