Cerberus Daily News/Characters/Sarona Net

The Boss

The founder and effective supreme commander of Sarona Bounty Hunter Network.

• Badass Grandpa: He fought in the Rachni Wars. He still does the occasional combat operation.
• BFG: Carries the Ripper, a heavily-modified machinegun.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The Boss.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: There are very, very few people who know his real name.

Specialist Team Prime

The third-best team in SaronaNET (the other two are simply called 'Badass Team Prime/Subprime').

• Badass Crew: Despite the better teams being called 'badass', they still qualify. It's implied that if you can keep them working together, they're nearly unstoppable.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: They broke up for quite some time, though they kept working for SaronaNET.
• Five-Man Band
  • The Captain: Modem. She usually ends up commanding the team when they're together.
  • The Lancer: Victor. Occasionally refereed to as 'Number One' by Modem, since she trusts him the most with getting the job done.
  • The Smart Guy: Tracer T. He's not savant-grade, but he's a very good hacker.
  • The Big Guy: Wise Bomber. Comes with being a krogan and an explosives specialist.
  • The Chick: Mira, to a degree. She tends to keep everyone working together.
• Putting the Band Back Together: A potential future for the team.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: What they started out as.

Modulator_Demodulator (Modem)

An asari vanguard who lived on a human colony for quite some time; currently working as a bounty hunter for SaronaNET. Modem's also rather unusual because of her height: 6'11". Though cynical, she does her best to clean up the scum of the universe.

• Action Girl: Comes with the job description. She's been described as "Samus Aran meets Adam Jensen."
• Artificial Limbs: All of them, actually.
• Badass Family: Her mother and grandmother were commandos, her father was a member of the Migrant Fleet Marines, and her grandfather is a krogan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Not really someone who you wouldn't think dangerous, but still, don't get her angry.
• BFG: The napalm launcher, especially when loaded with more exotic chemicals. These include gelled piranha solution and chlorine trifluoride (though the latter is rarely used due to how nasty it is).
• Big Damn Heroes: Multiple times during the fall of Omega. Having a gunship helps.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: An HF-Blade, at that; it's built into her cybernetic arm.
• Bounty Hunter
• Broken Bird: What Elara's death is starting to show her as. Despite her apparent ability to cope with just about everything, she's internalized a lot of trauma over the years.
• The Captain: Her original role within the team.
• Cool Plane: The Nomad, Modem's gunship. Crosses over with Cool Starship, as it's FTL-capable. Also contains examples of...
  • Bigger Is Better: Is easily twice to three times the size of a Mantis gunship. For comparison, if you removed all the personal stuff she's put into the rear bay, you could just barely fit an M35 Mako in it.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Swarm missiles.
  • More Dakka: Has a pair of anti-gunship cannons on its wings, as well as nose-mounted and bay-mounted anti-personal machineguns.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Better than some, but seeing your friend get eaten alive can't be good for your mental health.
• Gundamjack: How Modem got her gunship. Exactly how is unknown, but the previous owner was not happy to part with it.
• Knife Nut: Only carries one, but the type (a krogan war knife) makes up for it; she calls it the Hellpick, but that name was chosen by the person who forged it.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Mild, but it's there; she often wonders if what she does really matters.
• Lightning Bruiser: Comes with being a Vanguard, but taken even further due to her augments - especially if MASC is active.
• Megaton Punch: Has focused her biotic power into a punch on a few occasions.
• Neutral Good: Follows her own morality to some degree, but believes in law and order as well.
• Never Gets Drunk: Sorta; she types almost-perfectly when drunk. Even when drinking Tactical Nuclear Penguin.
• Non-Lethal KO: She likes these quite a bit; her stun prod is specifically modified so that striking most species in the back will knock them out with a minimum of damage.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever happened on her long-haul operation, it involved an insane rouge AI and dodging a falling frigate.
• Oh My Gods: Subverted in that Modem doesn't use Goddess as a swear very much, even though she's an asari. Justified as she picked up other swears during her time on a human mining colony.
  • Humorously, she picked up "What the Christ?" somewhere.
• One of Us: Drops an analysis of a tabletop game weapon out of nowhere while drunk.

"20D20 would be more effective. 4D100 has a minimum damage of 4, while 20D20 has a minimum damage of 20. And if you really wanted it to be 'of death', you'd make it Slaying and Vorpal."

• Only Known by Their Nickname: Modem's assumed name is Sarah; only her handler, Tracer T, calls her that. Her actual name is Cidea Skamrev, and very few people know that.
• Super Mode: Myomer Accelerated Signal Circuitry (MASC). It massively boosts her speed and strength, but can only be used for a few minutes without doing serious damage to her limbs.
• Shout-Out: Quite a few. An HF-blade, a napalm launcher that acts like the GES Biorifle, synthetic myomer, Proximity Pinball grenades, a Stun Prod, Harpoon anti-armor and Tornado swarm missiles...
  • Interestingly enough, Modem is a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion in-character.
  • And Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which makes sense - it's another Studio Gainax work.
• The Prankster: Was this in the past, often focusing on mostly-harmless ones (such as a remote-control toilet on wheels), aided by her unnamed tech-savvy friend.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: ... however, if said civilian starts attacking her, all bets are off.

Mira

A drell infiltration expert.

• Cold Sniper: She's very detached and almost never uses contractions. She becomes more of a Friendly Sniper once you get to know her, apparently.
• Expy: Of Solid Snake and Sniper Wolf.
• The Medic: She knows a lot about species biology, making her both a deadly sniper and a very good medic. Apparently, she passed on some skills to Modem, explaining why she's so deadly with a knife.
• Red Baron: The Ghost of Miae’gor. Earned by utterly trashing Baterian State Sec operations on a planet without being detected until the very end (and only because she had to break a ship out of lockdown).

Tracer T

The hacking specialist and mission control for the team. He in particular is very loyal to Modem.

• The Cracker
• Non-Action Guy: He is terrible at combat.
• Stealth Pun: His name. Doubles as a Shout-Out to Deus Ex.
  • He's also a hacker. Naturally, he'd like a modem!
• Voice with an Internet Connection

Victor (V_for_Victory)

A combat operative, past unknown - at least to the members of CDN. Always wears a face-obscuring helmet.

• BFG: the SP-GRN missile launcher.
  • For comparison, the missile launcher you can use in Mass Effect 2 is an anti-personal/light armor weapon. The SP-GRN is an anti-armor missile launcher, similar in role to the modern Javelin.
• Cool Mask: His mirror-visor combat helmet. Which he never takes off.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. Jossed by Word of Player - he has other reasons for being so messed up.
• Dynamic Character: He may open up about what happened to him eventually.
• Enforced Method Acting: why so many things have been left vague.
• Expy: Of the USEC Marathon's Security Officer/Marine.
• Fridge Brilliance: His 'talking' text color is the same as the board's link/technical color because he uses a voice filter program. Confirmed by the one Elseworlds thread, where his text color changes to white after he takes his helmet off.
• Hollywood Cyborg: Maybe. It's intentionally vague.
• The Lancer: To Modem, originally. May end up taking over her role as The Captain.
• The Faceless: Thanks to the above-mentioned helmet. The important question isn't who is underneath, it's why he does this.
• The Quiet One: A defining trait; he almost NEVER speaks, and when he does it's always through a voice filter.
• The Stoic: To a rather impressive (and maybe even disturbing) degree.

Wise Bomber

A krogan EOD technician and explosives specialist.

• Improvised Weapon: Of a sort - 90% of his combat explosives are pipe bombs. Granted, they're loaded with enough explosives to go off like small mortar shells.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His anti-explosive shield.
• Mighty Glacier: Thanks to his bomb suit, he's essentially a small tank.
• Powered Armor: His bomb suit qualifies as such. It's heavily shielded and armored, making him very resistant to anti-personal explosives and even some anti-armor ones.
• Stone Wall: Once he gets into position and deploys his shield/MG combo, he's nearly impossible to get past from the front. It takes anti-tank firepower to do so.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: One of his specialties.