Anthony Quinn

Description
'''Mk. II Combat Suit:''' At roughly six and a half feet tall Q wears a battle suit of advanced design. Sleek and aerodynamic his armor is a highly polished black with a silver faceplate. Twin eye slits glow with a bright blue light within the highly reflective faceplate giving the armor at least minimal facial characteristics when the faceplate is not retracted.

The armor is in the basic design of a classical hardsuit as opposed to being designed of a flexible material though its articulation seems to allow for excellent mobility. Centered in the middle of the chest is what seems to be almost a circular window which gives view to an eerie sight, the Q-Drive. Energy swirls within the Q-Drive in patterns that cause the eyes to hurt if you stare at them for too long and seems to brighten and dim like some sort of pulse. Surrounding the Q-Drive is a broken circle which glows with a bright blue light and contains the emitters for the shockwave blast and thunderclap charge as well as the holographic projector and spotlight. Feeding outward from the ring are lines which clearly carry energy throughout the suit, energizing the various systems and glowing with the same blue light.

Small circular emitters sit on the back of each gauntlet containing the circuitry for the neural blast systems. The gauntlets themselves are slightly oversized with a slight bubble shape along their backs and snap open at a mental command to reveal the smartwave missiles inside. Larger emitters sit in the palms of each gauntlet housing the emitters for the force bolts, utility lasers, and his often used quantum bolts.

'''Mk. I Exploration Suit:''' Standing nearly seven and a half feet tall, Quinn's armor is considerably heavier than his normal battle suit. Large and hulking his armor is a highly polished black with silver trim. Twin eye slits glow with a bright blue light within a highly reflective faceplate giving the armor at least minimal facial characteristics when the faceplate is not retracted.

The armor is in the design of a classical hardsuit, though its articulation allows for a good degree of mobility. Centered in the middle of the chest is a large ringed circle which glows with a bright blue light and contains the emitter for the spotlight. Feeding outward from the ring are lines which clearly carry energy throughout the suit, energizing the various systems and glowing with the same blue light.

Small ringed emitters sit on the back of each gauntlet containing the circuitry for the suit's tractor beams. Even smaller emitters are found at the end of each finger for the suit's cutting lasers and large ringed emitters sit in the palms of each gauntlet housing the emitters for the quantum bolts.

Out of armor: Young and handsome with a slightly aristocratic bone structure, Tony has none of the swagger of your typical tough guy. Instead his mannerisms are relaxed and casual, those of someone who is king of the world and with nothing to prove.

His hair is a dark blond, the color of beach sand in the setting sun and he wears it neatly combed back over his head, the ends trimmed neat and off his collar. A well trimmed beard and mustache highlight a face that is just this side of thin, though obviously more from genetics than diet, and his skin is smooth and unblemished. His eyes are a bright sparkling blue, like twin sapphire chips and shine with an almost voracious intelligence. Physically he is of moderate height and build, his arms and chest lean but strong. Just a hair's breathe under six feet tall he probably weighs no more than 80 kilograms or so, though you would guess almost none of that is fat. Either he maintains a scrupulous diet or he has simply been blessed with a metabolism that refuses to gain weight.

Powers and Skills
Quinn's powers are all based around his ability to make devices, primarily armor. Rather than designing a single suit of armor that attempts to do everything he instead has focused on suits tailored to more specific tasks. The suits are commonly stored at his laboratory at Quinn Industries or his home workshop, however he also possesses specialized vehicles which are designed to rapidly armor him when required.

His current combat suit is capable of resisting most modern military weaponry while enabling Quinn to lift in excess of 100 tons. It is equipped with a wide variety of energy base weaponry including force beams, holographic emitters, speakers, lasers and quantum blasters. Each gauntlet houses a pair of micro-missiles which Quinn has termed 'smartwave missiles'. Equipped with a dozen small short-range force beam projectors the missiles can cyberneticly be given a selection of targets to hit and to avoid and a destination. When fired the missile will fly to the destination where it will fire the force beams at all designated targets within range.

The suit is environmentally sealed and capable of withstanding a wide variety of environments including extreme heat, cold, space, and deep ocean travel. Sensory equipment includes infrared sensors with thermographic capabilities and an advanced radar. Bootjets are capable of propelling the armor at speeds of up to ten and a half times the speed of sound through the air or sixty kilometers an hour underwater. Additionally the armor includes a short range teleportation system. Embedded in his chest is an experimental device that draws energy from extradimensional space known as a Q-Drive. It has physically augmented Quinn to a slight degree, giving him the strength and stamina of a professional athlete without the need for the strenuous training regime that such people have to maintain. Quinn frequently uses the excess energy of the device to power his suits of armor but this does create a certain danger. It is unknown as to how the Q-Drive keeps Quinn alive but if he overtaxes it he can suffer from a condition very similar to a heart-attack in a normal person.

Mentally Quinn is an acknowledged genius and polymath. At the age of 21 he currently holds Ph.D.s in electronic circuit design, mechanical engineering, and metallurgy. He is an expert in dimensional engineering, force fields, gravitics, cybernetics, and high energy physics. His studies have also made him highly skilled in the use of electronics systems and computer programming. Although he was never close to his father he did take the lessons of his father to heart leaving him well equipped to take over his father's company. Likewise, growing up as a member of the Quinn family he has extensive experience in how to move within high society.

Personality
Anthony is a study in contradictions. When working on a project he can be focused and driven, withdrawing into his lab for days on end and living off of Mountain Dew and cold pizza. When he's not he can seem to be an unfocused wastrel, only interested in having fun.

He is something of a metaphile, enjoying the opportunity life has given him to rub elbows with a wide variety of metahumans. To this end he often devotes a fair amount of his time and energies towards assisting recognized heroes in their various endeavors as well as doing things such as sponsoring various charities and consulting for organizations such as Starguard.

Additionally he is something of a thrill-seeker and explorer. When he is not working he can often be found flying in his armor simply for the enjoyment of flying. This has lead to such things as the creation of his exploration suit which includes extended life-support and an experimental Alcubierre-Quinn drive which enables him to travel at super-luminal speeds and visit the planets and nearby star systems.

Quinn frequently portrays himself in a rather self-centered manner, coming across as something of an overgrown kid with expensive toys. Despite this he also seems to possess a strong sense of obligation. Employees of Quinn Industries are all given benefit packages considerably better than the industry average and are encouraged to donate time to charitable and educational programs. Nearly any product that Quinn Industries produces will include a baseline model which offers what are felt to be essential functionality and which are sold nearly at cost (although without the 'Quinn Industries' branding). He funds numerous scholarships both by himself as well as through Quinn Industries and is responsible for the Wayland Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of technological solutions to world problems.

Origins
Born the son of Anthony Quinn II, a wealthy industrialist and the head of Quinn Industries, and and his wife Anna young Tony grew up as the heir apparent to both the company and the Quinn family fortune. Tony was raised largely by nannies and grew up in exclusive boarding schools, his parents far to busy with the running of Quinn Industries to attend to a child. From a young age Tony excelled at building and engineering and at the age of 15 he enrolled in the University of California at Berkley. During his time in school both his parents were killed in a car crash, leaving the company and family estate held in trust until his 18th birthday.

At the age of 19 he graduated from Berkley with Master's degrees in both mechanical and electronic engineering. Returning to the family home in Essex County, Massachusetts while planning what to do next Tony came across a diary of his father's detailing his experiments in a theoretical power source derived from esoteric multi-dimensional theories.

Intrigued by the ancient formulas and their possibilities he began conducting experiments and made several interesting breakthroughs including the creation of the Q-Drive.

Shortly after Tony's creation of the Q-Drive there was what can only be termed 'an incident'. The particulars of the incident are unknown due to the failure of all recording equipment and the loss of memory of all involved but it can be determined from the recording timecode that the incident took the span of 9.08087 seconds. Tony was running test on a prototype Q-Drive when all recording devices seem to simply skip ahead by 9.08087 seconds.

What occurred during those 9 seconds has never been explained. At the end of the lost time several of the researches where rendered unconscious and those who were not were in a state of catatonic shock. Everyone was covered with blood which was positively identified as belonging to Tony. Tony himself was unconscious and barely alive with the Q-Drive somehow implanted into his chest.

Neither hypnosis nor telepathic scans have been able to reveal anything about the missing 9 seconds although psychiatrists have noted that all affected by the incident seem to display a heightened anxiety and resistance to attempts to help them recover those memories. Several members also have developed teuthidaphobia, katsaridaphobia, and in one case scoleciphobia.

Links

 * [[Media:Anthony_Quinn_Moving_to_Colonial_Bay|Anthony Quinn Moving to Colonial Bay]]
 * [[Media:Starguard_and_Scrapper_vs_Captain_Frost_and_Freakshow|Starguard and Scrapper vs Captain Frost and Freakshow]]
 * [[Media:Anthony_Quinn_to_Build_Space_Station|Anthony Quinn to Build Space Station]]
 * Quinn Tower
 * Fetch
 * Quinntex
 * Quinnsat-1