Pleiades

=SDPA Personnel File=

Service Record
146-150 Midgard City Service Academy

150-151 Strike Force Six Training Cadre

152-156 Emergency Search and Rescue Service

156- Dangerous Artifacts Bureau (Detached)

Notable Cases
Scarletti Incident, 151

As part of her training assignment with Strike Force Six, Pleiades was tasked with helping apprehend the rogue research mage Dr. Julia Scarletti and her arcanocyborg Numbers. It was during this incident that Pleiades learned that she and her sister Andromeda were Scarletti's creations as well, engineered her own genome and the genome of the wife of their adoptive father, an investigator that Scarletti had killed and harvest for her genome when she got too close. Led by Commander Apocalyptica and Captains Supernova and Thunderstrike, Strike Force Six was able prevent Scarletti from destroying SDPA headquarters, and the rest of Midgard City. During the final battle, Pleiades was forced to fight her sister, who Scarletti had reprogrammed. Scarletti escaped, but her Numbers were captured. Those that were open to reforming were adopted by Pleiades' father, becoming her sisters.

Inheritor Incident, 153

While stationed on Midgard as part of the Emergency Search and Rescue Service, Pleiades became involved with the Inheritor. The Inheritor was a child of the Alhazzared Aliance, the clone-daughter of its ruler, who had survived the Last War in a stasis capsule. The SDPA discovered her capsule and brought her to Midgard to be revived and for medical care. Her awakening triggered long dormant Alhazzared Devices called Scions. The Scions tried to abduct the Inheritor and use her to reactivate the Alhazzared flagship, which had also survived the Last War within a pocket dimension. Pleiades and her partner Sagittarius were able to infiltrate the flagship and free the Inheritor, triggering the destruction of the flagship and wiping out the remaining Scions. Unfortunately the Inheritor was weakened by the experience and lapsed into a coma.

Bifrost Incident, 156

Pleiades' partner, Investigator Teresa Lancaster (call sign: Sagittarius), was dispatched to Unadminstered World 97fc3a5 "Earth" after the signature of a powerful weapon from the Last War, the Planetary Bifrost Cannon, was detected. A month after arriving on Earth, Sagittarius disappeared, shortly after reporting that she had discovered that Dr. Julia Scarletti might be on the planet. Pleiades, as someone familiar with both Scarletti and Sagittarius, placed on detached duty with the Dangerous Artifacts Bureau and sent to investigate.

She eventually found that not only was Scarletti on the Earth, but she was working with a rogue Guard Forces General, General Graham Grissom, who was part of a faction that sought to harness the power of Last War weapons. Grissom had the Al Hazzared Independent AI Device "Ragnarok" with him, but fortunately she never made an impact on the battlefield. Scarletti, realizing that Pleiades was on Earth sent her newest Numbers to try to abduct her as well. Pleiades was severely injured, but was saved by Earth heroes before she could be taken away. Around the same time, the Planetary Bifrost Cannon, in its jewel core form, was discovered by Earth hero Anthony Quinn (call sign: Q) and brought to his lab for analysis.

Scarletti launched a massive attack on Starguard headquarters, apparently to try to take Pleiades again, but in reality it was a feint, distracting Earth heroes while her Numbers stole the bifrost cannon from Q's laboratory. During the assault on Starguard, Sagittarius, who had been reprogrammed by Scarletti, tried to adbduct Pleiades, but was instead captured herself. A Starguard mentalist was able to eventually break her programming. Shortly thereafter, Scarletti visited Q and turned herself in.

Grissom's ship then appeared in orbit and he demanded that Scarletti be handed over to him. Scarletti revealed that she had been backed by Grissom's faction, but had gotten tired of working on what he wanted. Meanwhile, Starguard had tracked the bifrost cannon to Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, where Scarletti had hidden her base, as had Grissom. The Starguard heroes managed to arrive before Ragnarok, only to find a trap. The base was set to self destruct, with only one of Scarletti's Numbers, whose inherent skill was Gates, left behind with the bifrost cannon jewel core. The heroes managed to dive through the Number's portal and subdue her, taking the jewel core, and ending up in Washington, D.C. near the D.C. Starguard headquarters where Scarletti was being held. Back in Antarctica, the base exploded, triggering a directed eruption of Mt. Erebus, sending a massive chunk of lava into space, disabling Grissom's ship. Ragnarok's fate remains unknown.

In D.C., a massive fight erupted between the remaining Numbers and Scarletti against Starguard and other Earth heroes. Eventually, Scarletti and all but two her Numbers were captured. After the incident, Scarletti and the Bifrost Cannon were turned over to the SDPA, and the SDPA established open connections with Starguard, creating an SDPA Interests Office at Starguard headquarters in Colonial Bay. Pleiades was assigned as a Liaison Officer, under Commander Pescara Siata.

=Starguard Dossier=

Overview: Pleiades
Sergeant Sieglinde "Sigi" Nachtmann, AKA Pleiades is an extraterrestrial, extradimensional agent of a polity known as the Space and Dimension Patrol Agency. She first appeared in Colonial Bay in March of 2062. At first her origins were unknown, but she eventually let slip where she was from and who she was working for. Despite her secretive beginning, she is genuinely heroic and has assisted Starguard and other heroes multiple times. She currently serves openly as an SDPA liaison officer and has Starguard security clearance Green. She is classified by Starguard as a metahuman; based on her statements, she is a technomagical cyborg and novel genetically engineered organism, created by combining the genomes of two or more people and further engineering the resulting genome and embryo.

She is friendly, outgoing, and cheerful, though still occasionally confused by linguistic differences between Midgardian and English, despite their many similarities.

Tactically, she prefers to be front and center in the middle of fights, focusing enemy attention on her, and disrupting them as much as she can.

Observed Capabilities
Pleiades is an extremely flexible combatant, possessing multiple close combat and ranged attacks, as well as a large variety of support powers. Her powers are primarly magical in nature, but augmented by her technomagic devices, Panzerfaust, her gauntlet, and Blitzraeder, her skates. They also share some similarities with martial arts, as she assumes different stances while using her powers, varying from defensive to offensive. In addition, she has the ability to supercharge herself by using a zaubermunition (German: magic bullet); this seems to allow her to use her most powerful abilities, rather than serving as a general boost to her capabilities. She appears to only carry a limited number of zaubermunitions within her gauntlet. She tends to call out the name of her abilities when she initiates them; it is unknown whether this is a personal affectation or if she has to verbally command her technomagic devices. When she uses her powers, a variety of magical runic patterns appear beneath her, circles, triangles, or irregular buzzsaw-like patterns; it is unknown what the significance of these patterns is.

Specific Powers
Pleiades has been observed using multiple powers. As noted above, she conveniently provides the names of them.
 * Offensive Powers
 * Knuckle Hammer [Triangle Rune]: Her basic hand to hand attack. She creates a standing shock wave around her gauntlet and uses to augment her attacks. This is her most balanced stance, providing very few gaps in her defense, while still giving her great freedom to strike.
 * Shield Breaker [Triangle Rune]: She strikes the target and uses magic to weaken the structure of the target's basic defenses, making them more vulnerable to future attacks. Her stance during this move prioritizes defense over accuracy. We speculate it is intended to be used on slow but durable targets.
 * Sword Breaker [Triangle Rune]: She builds up a resonant shock wave around her gauntlet and strikes the target, shattering inorganic materials. This stance emphasizes accuracy over defense and is likely used to attack equipment or devices used by her target.
 * Barrier Breaker [Triangle Rune, Zaubermunition]: She creates some sort of magical resonance field around her gauntlet and strikes a temporary barrier or forcefield, usually annihilating it. This stance leaves her wide open to counter attacks.
 * Phase Breaker [Triangle Rune]: She created a disruptive field around her gauntlet and strikes a desolid or otherwise out of phase with physical matter target, forcibly reverting them to a solid state. While in this stance, her accuracy is very high, but she is open to counter attacks.
 * Dimension Chain [Circle Rune]: In addition to the rune circle beneath her, a rune circle appears around the wrist of her gauntlet. Blue-white chains of energy spray from the circle around her wrist and wrap around her target, immobilizing them. The magic of the chains also prevents the target from escaping by teleporting. Her stance is fairly balanced while using this power.
 * Cannon Shot [Triangle Rune]: She builds up a focused shock wave around her gauntlet and fires it at her target. This appears to be an armor piercing, but somewhat short ranged, attack. It is extremely accurate, but leaves her completely open to attacks as well.
 * Cannon Burster [Triangle Rune, Zaubermunition]: She creates an standing shock wave around her gauntlet, then unleashes it as a massive conical concussive blast that is optimized for momentum transfer, typically sending targets in the blast zone hurtling back several meters. As with her other zaubermuntion charged powers, she leaves herself nearly defenseless when she uses it.
 * Heaven Breaker [Circle Rune, Zaubermunition]: She creates a sphere of pink-colored energy in the palm of her left hand and punches it with her gauntlet, sending an intense blast of similarly colored pure magic energy at the target. This power requires a great deal of concentration, limiting her mobility and her ability to defend herself.
 * Defensive Powers
 * Panzer Shield [Triangle Rune]: When blocking an attack, close quarters or ranged, she can create a shield formed from multiple hexagonal plates of blue-white energy. Usually this is sufficient to deflect the attack, but even if the attack penetrates the shield, most of the energy of the attack is dissipated.
 * Armor Barrier [Triangle Rune]: She summons multiple 1 meter by 1 meter panes of transparent blue-white energy, each with a slowly spinning triangle rune embedded on its surface, and assembles them into a variety of shapes for defensive purposes. It appears that trying to englobe someone other than herself disrupts the magic, preventing the barrier from forming. The barrier is strong enough to take several metahuman class attacks before breaking.
 * Armor Guard [Circle Rune]: She summons a matching rune circle beneath her target. Motes of silvery light float up and adhere to the target's skin, briefly giving them a metallic appearance then quickly fades. Once it place, it either restores the target slightly, or provides a minor buffer against further damage, depending on the condition of the target.
 * Shield Jacket [Circle Rune]: In a flash of light that obscures her features, she can change from her normal clothes into her battle uniform. Her uniform serves as medium weight armor, even on her exposed sections, and provides complete life support.
 * Support Powers
 * Survival Guard [Circle Rune]: A bubble of pale blue-white light appears around her, out to a 4m radius. People within this zone are protected from environmental hazards to the same extent that Pleiades is.
 * Cyber Overcharge [Buzzsaw Rune]: Her eyes glow red and a yellow ring appears around her irises. Waves of heat radiate off her as she pushes her internal cybernetic mechanisms to their limit, boosting her strength by a factor of 64 and slightly boosting her reflexes. Maintaining this boost takes a tremendous amount of energy, limiting her to using it for very short times.
 * Restoral Wave [Circle Rune, Zaubermunition]: She punches the ground with her gauntlet, sending a wave of blue-white light in all directions out to 8m. Within that area, the targets that she chooses are healed of lethal and non-lethal damage they've taken.
 * Chain Breaker [Triangle Rune]: She sets up a standing shock wave all around her body, assisting her in breaking free of restraints or grapples.
 * Eagle Road [Triangle Rune]: She creates a ribbon of blue-white light marked with strips of runes that she can skate on, effectively allowing her to fly. The ribbon persists behind her, and other people may travel on it at their own rate. She can be knocked off the ribbon.
 * Hurricane Stampede [Triangle Rune]: Her skates energize, wings of energy sprouting from her heels, allowing her to skate along the ground at speeds up to 384kph.
 * Tidal Surge [Triangle Rune]: Her skates reconfigure, the wheels changing their orientation and turning into turbines, allowing her to swim at speeds up to 336kph.
 * Yggdrasil Scan [Circle Rune]: She summons nine small rune circles in front of her, allowing her to view life signs through them. Her scan has very long range, and can penetrate anything except living matter, but can be defeated by concealment powers. Using this power drains her energy very quickly, and leaves her almost completely oblivious to input from her other senses, making her nearly helpless.
 * Phantom Purge [Triangle Rune]: She raises her gauntleted fist over her head and emits a pulse of blue-white light out to 16m, temporarily revealing invisible or cloaked targets.
 * Veil Breaker [Circle Rune]: She passes her gauntleted hand in front of her eyes and her magic circle expands to an 8m radius. A wave of blue-white light races around the perimeter of the circle. Every target within its bounds has the severity of any temporary impairment of their senses reduced.

=Media Appearances=
 * [[Media:Interview:_SDPA|Wawa Interview]]