HAWK TAILS

Hawk is a supreme martial artist, having belts in every major form including several non-human ones. He acquired his expertise at the Galactic Martial Arts Dojo on Betelgeuse IV under Master Sensei Erok Velatnin and was one of the top students of his class. (Several of his competitors for top honors we’ll meet later—some are cool, some aren’t.)

Hawk thinks of himself as a “natural” man having no “super” powers or cybernetic augments. While he likes stealth and edged weapons, he’s proficient with a wide range of projectile and energy weapons up to and including the gargantuan Masur planetary defense cannons. He’s had many adventures throughout the known systems and finally, after meeting the SuperSoldiers during a little affair on a moon of Deneb III, decided to settle down with a group of peeps (sic) he could trust to watch his back.

Hawk makes his way about the star systems in his state-of-the-art, super-hardened Mercedes “Cigarette” Fighter—almost all engines and guns. A beautiful ship, the sleek and graceful lines of its design belie its deadly nature. Polymorphic wings can be extended or retracted, in a variety of configurations depending on circumstances, for flight in gas or liquid, even plasma. The burnished plastanium skin of the vehicle can be programmed to reflect or absorb energies: light, electromagnetics, sound, J and T waves, and even quantum fractionals. This allows Hawk to be very stealthy indeed.

The Artificial Intelligence that controls all navigation, tactical, weapons, jump, and maintenance functions is named “Talon”. A self-programming intellect eventually develops a personality and Talon’s developed as counterpoint to Hawk’s over the years, settling into the distaff side of things. Though Talon is sometimes stubborn and willful she has pulled Hawk’s bacon out of the fire many times.

Hawk has a direct neural connection with Talon and, when they’re in a scrap, the Mercedes, with it’s dual triple tap fusion drives, is a match for any vessel in the galaxy—more than a match—to which his sad and sorry opponents would attest if they were still around to do any attesting!

Hawk is dedicated to the SuperSoldiers because of their code of honor and duty. He especially likes their slogan, taken from the Old Earth marines—Always Faithful!