Michael Weiss was a flunky. Nightjack, his boss, kept Michael busy making nifty devices for him, as well as scouring the networks and recovered databases he returned with for future targets and "business ventures." He is good with computers and technology, and with enough time can build just about anything.
That is, until the day that he managed to "procure" a suit of Praetorian Class armor. Praetorians were a short lived experimental project started by the Star City Police to help deal with Super Villains, prior to the creation of SOCorp. During an attempt to knock off an armored car, his master, a short sighted powerhouse named Nightjack, captured a member of their team and brought him back to his lair to determine what the task force new about him. He tasked Michael to begin studying the armor.
Instead, Michael repaired and upgraded the armor with some of his own designs, tired of the way he had been treated here. When it was complete, he took Nightjack by surprise and obliterated him. None of the nonsense of "taking prisoners" or "gloating." He simply blasted him in the face before he could react.
Since then, having taken on the moniker of Renegade, he has also become quite a powerhouse in combat, though most of it is thanks to the armor and the alterations he has made to it himself. Ever since Renegade came onto the scene, his primary focus has been uncovering data and tech to upgrade his own source of power, and he will go to great lengths to get it. When the heroes all decided to go have their "party" with the aliens, he felt this was a prime time to make a move on an upgraded sensory module for his armor.
He attacked the warehouse of the Star City Police, and managed to overwhelm the guards with little effort. He had just gotten back outside of the building when news came in over his earpiece of what happened at the party. He took that as his cue to depart.
Renegade spent a year "underground," living in secret and trying to avoid being noticed by the V'sori. However, he had had a taste of the limelight, and couldn't resist his urge to continue working with the armor. He eventually made a move against a V'sori drone that had been sniffing around too close to his hideout, eager to study some of the alien tech.
It got the attention of Dr. Destruction, who immediately set about recruiting him in his usual overhanded way. Realizing that he didn't really have any options, he agreed to work with the rebel movement and joined up with a cell calling themselves "The Dark Legion." Their ambition ultimately got nearly the entire cell killed, save for Renegade and Profit, a man capable of turning invisible as well as unleashing powerful energy blasts from his hands.
Renegade managed to make it back to base, and for several days now has been awaiting reassignment from Dr. Destruction.
