Kyle 'Gigabyte' Knight's page

Power Level: 12
Quote: "If there's a problem I can build a solution."
Concept: Armless engineer who copied Cyborg's project to enhance himself.
Occupation: Software and Hardware developer.
Real Name: Kyle Knight
Legal Status: American Born citizen.
Criminal record: Convicted for Digital crimes, hacking and thievery.
Heritage: ½ Human, ½ Machined
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Gotham
Marital Status: Divorced
Living Relatives: (Wife) Karla Knight, (Daughter) Katrina Knight
Height: 6'49"
Weight: 376 lbs., Varies
Eyes: Green
Hair: Short, greying. Originally hazelnut.

Power Level: 12; Power Points Spent: 180/180

Basic Stufff & Defense:
STR: +2 (14), DEX: +2 (14), CON: +2(14), INT: +4 (18), WIS: +1 (12), CHA: -1 (8)
Enhanced Attributes
STR: +9 (28), DEX: +2 (14), CON: +10(30), INT: +9 (28), WIS: +1 (12), CHA: -1 (8)
Saves:
Tough: +12*, Fort: (10+4=)+14, Ref: (2+0=)+2, Will: (1+2=)+3
* = Impervious 5, Limited to Physical
Initiative: +6

Combat
Attack: +4/+10* Melee , +4 Ranged
Defense: +0
Dodge: +0
Attacks:
Melee Strike +10 to hit, Damage 14 (Toughness DC 29)
Ranged Blast +4 to hit, Damage 10 (Toughness DC 25)

Skills
Computers: +26 (17 ranks, 9 Int)
Craft(Tech): +26 (17 ranks, 9 Int)
Disable Device: +18 (9 ranks, 9 Int)
Investigate: +26 (17 ranks, 9 Int)
Knowledge(Life Sciences): +14 (5 ranks, 9 Int)
Knowledge(Physical Sciences): +14 (5 ranks, 9 Int)
Knowledge(Technology): +26 (17 ranks, 9 Int)
Notice: +15 (14 ranks, 1 Wis)
Profesion(Software Developer): +11 (10 ranks, 1 Wis)
Search: +26 (17 ranks, 9 Int)

Feats:
Attack Focus (Melee 6)(12),
Benefit(Wealth 2),
Equipment 5,
Eidetic Memory,
Improved Initiative,
Improvised Tools,
Inventor,
Skill Mastery(Computers, Search, Disable Device, Investigate)

Powers: (101)

Communication (Radio) 2
--Area
--Selective

Flight Rank 2 25 MPH

Tesla Cannon array:
-Blast 10
or
-Disintegration 5
or
-Magnetic Control 10
Switching Modes is a Standard Action

Enhanced Cyborg Body
-Strength +14 ; Constitution +16 ; Intelligence +1p
-Immunity: Life Support 5
-Protection 2
--Impervious 5
--Limited: Physical
-Super Senses
--Infravision
--Microscopic 2
--Radio
--Ultravision
--Ultrahearing

Gigabyte's Mighty Cyborg Fist
-Strike 5
--Mighty (14 Damage total)

Data-Link 3
-Machine Control

Equipment:
Ford Mustang '69
-Sports Car
--+1 Speed

Kyle's Big Home & Office
-Medium Size
-+15 Toughness
-Features:
--Comms Center
--Mainframe Computer
--Concealed
--Defense System
--Fire Prevention
--Laboratory
--Living Space
--Independent Power System
--Security System(+5)
--Workshop
--Library

Gear & Wealth
-No 'combat' gear

Wealth: +18 , Status: Wealthy ; +8 base, +8 Benefit Feat, +2 Profession Ranks

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Stats: 20
Skills: 32
Feats: 18
Powers: 101
Attack & Defense: 14
Drawbacks: -5
Total= 180

BACKSTORY
Life gives everyone chances, opportunities. Fair chances in most cases, dire ones in others.

Well, then if you are born in the lowliest block of Gotham life isn't life.
Kyle grew surrounded by crime, corruption and gangs. A youth most would considerate hellish, but he learned to blend in. Not one to use words to sway things his way, he used to mix a quite above intellect with the physical fitness he inherited from his father.
He had good examples, of course, as Batman was fully active during his time on the block... but Kyle fell with a misguided crowd, indulging himself in vices, petty vandalism and other minor crimes.

A talented young lad, a genious you may say, his chance came signed by Wayne's enterprises: a full scholarship to study in a College of his chosing. And boy, did he choose. The MIT nonetheless. But there's no place like home, and when you are far from it you always try to bring it with you.

And that's how Kyle and other misfits -if by misfits you mean engineers with too much free time and not so much common sense or respect for authority- started their own monetary endeavour. Some of actual's CIA best hackers and techwizs teamed with Gigabyte and started making fat stacks.

We must admit that they always targeted what could usually be acknowledged like Evil Corps, but it was nonetheless digital robbery. They made quite the sum, but life once again presented Kyle with a chance. This time said chance had a name, long legs and an angel's face: Karla Starling, or Karla Knight as she would later be known.

Karla guided Kyle out of his criminal lige and into graduating with the highest honors the MIT could bestow. She guided him to the alter, too. Twice, when they baptised their daughter, Katrina.

It would seem Kyle's life took aa turn for the best. But as well as xhances, life also provides tragedy. In Gigabyte's case was a fire at work. After the ceiling caved in he was trapped for what semt to be hours in a blazing inferno. Thanks to the firefighters intervention, Kyle survived though not in one piece.
He'd been trapped for so long, the medics said.
They couldn't save his arm, they assured.
And the treatment was expensive, they feared.

A sum he did not have, as Kyle donated what he stole during his time as a hacker as a mean to 'purify himself'.
And so he fell again. It only took a quick call, two emails and a secured datalink and the kob was on his way.
A simple data rob with which he would earn enough money to cover the treatments and even spend a happy vacation on Bora Bora if he wanted to.

Well, little he knew who was the owner of said data... as every hacker worth his name knows that you don't try to get into Luthor's net. Ever.

He didn't knew at the moment, though, but when the cops kicked down his door hours later. This is the moment Gigabyte lost it all. His freedom, his company's respect... and most important of all: his wife's trust.

He spent five years in Gotham's prison, only exiting the cold, thick walls twice. Once to visit his dying mother and the other to assist his father's funeral, who died on a car accident.

This, coupled with the divorce and the phantom pain from his missing arm turned Kyle into a much more introvert man.

When he got out he found his life had totally changed. With the little money he had left he moved to Washington, closer to where his ex-wife and daughter were living now and bough himself a laptop.

His days went by grieving and thinking of ways to restore himself and his life. And onxe again, but he hoped not the last, life gave him the chance.
A coded message with information on procedures and techniques to restore his body not only to his former state but an augmented one. The writer gave him also hope and a sense of purpose.
"Only when we have nothing left we understand how much it was all worth... and how hard we need to fight to protect it." read the last message he got.
With a goal in mind Gigabyte worked hard. He started from nothing until he rose. And he become one of the most valued software developers of this age, and his line of state-of-the-art computers are widely used by developers and engineers all over the world.

But this was only step one of his plans: make money. Once complete he built himself a proper working place and home, complete with a laboratory.

And having completed step two he underwent the final step. They were painful months, as the surgery and implants were invasive enough to leave him bedridden for days at once. But once finished he was like new. Better than new.

Kyle had only gratitude towards his mysterious saviour, and he wanted nothing but thanking him in person.
Contacting him via the usual method, his helper only answered Come to the JL Headquarters. I have helped you, I hope you have the will to return the favour to the world.

COMPLICATIONS

Fell in with a bad crowd...
Gigabyte can be a reformed man now, but he did fell into a criminal life before and there are some who wouldn't live that down.

The easy way or the good way.
Being a hero ain't easy. Sometimes it's faster and less tiring to simply do the easier and less escrupulous thing instead of working hard and choosing the higher road, like capturing a dangerous criminal instead of frying him on the spot or bypassing the legal boundaries when it's fit. Gigabyte debates internally whether to be the man he wants to be or the man he knows how to be.

The Knight family.
Divorced or not, Kyle stills loves his ex-wife and dreams of one day living together with her. Even more than his wife, he loves his young daughter. Gigabyte would stop at nothing to protect them, even forgetting what's right or wrong.

The fire... it scares me off.
Gigabyte still remembers those dreadful minutes he spent trapped under burning debris, while e felt his life escaping him. He is rightfully scared of fire and even thinking of being surrounded by flames again give him the chills.

Magnetic Control: Can be used to trip, disarm, grapple and move items. Effective STR score 50 (Light 4256, Medium 8512, Heavy 12800, Push/Drag 64000 lb)