| Regular Vehicle/s | Ducati 900, black in colour. With 1600hp, it's possibly one of the most powerful bikes in the Matrix. Vulcan paid top dollar to ensure this vehicle was up to what he needed. Unfortunately, some of the modifications required a dramatic increase to power levels, something on a scale which meant Vulcan was unhappy with it, despite the fact it has everything he wants/needs on it. The bike is still new, so there is the odd occasion when Vulcan makes a fool out of himself. These occurrences are rare, and they want to be, because Vulcan will lash out at anything that moves when it happens, often with fatal consequences. |
| Personality | He's a cold, uncaring killer-for-hire. That about sums up his personality. He has no morals or ethics, and would turn on you in an instant, if it made him a gain out of it. He lives for his own dark purpose, and will do anything to anyone to gain it. He is emotionally unattached, except to his cause, and when he engages in sexual intercourse with men or woman, he does it for one purpose only - to bend them to his will and gain what he wants. Afterwards, his partners often become victims, having been murdered, often gruesomely, after he is done with them. He derives no pleasure from the act of sex or watching the victims die, and yet, those few that survive (those he has further use for) always speak of Vulcan in awe, having had the most exhilarating moments of their lives. To Vulcan, sex is a weapon, a means to an end. His dark side often comes to the fore during these encounters. |
| History |
He has no family, having begun his life as, believe it or not, a virus, designed to infiltrate RedPills and their RSI code, disrupting the lines of communication with the physical bodies, one by one, eventually causing death. Even after the targeted RedPill had jacked out of the Matrix, the virus was still resident within the RSI file, becoming active once more when they were jacked in again.
However, in designing and writing the program, the machines were not to know they were coding in the same flaw inherent to the Matrix program - the Anomaly (The One). This caused fluctuations in the System's reading of the virus program, as source scripting conflicted with program scripting, resulting in some pretty spectacular errors and breakdowns. The errors became blatantly obvious when the virus back-flashed to Zero-One and ended up in the city's defense cannons. This caused the not-so-amusing problem of the cannons activating and discharging without warning or prompt, oft-times the tow-bomb/s disappearing from the Machines' sensors, only to reappear visually moments later in huge explosions that rocked Zero-One. The Machines were not impressed.
So the decision came to delete the program responsible. It would have to be deleted at the Source, not the city, as it was buried deep within the Source's coding, and would require partial re-coding of the Matrix. Deleting it from the city would do nothing, except perhaps aggravate it, as it was beginning to show signs of independent thought and movement. For example, by this time, the virus was targeting high-ranking BluePills, an action outside its programmed protocols. The Machines moved in, but somehow, the virus received prior word of its imminent deletion. It ran rampart within the Source after that, attempting to find a method for getting out. Hundreds of Blue/RedPills died as it attempted to take them over, much like Smith did. This caused a panic, as the Machine's power supplies were being affected. Finally, after some four weeks of turmoil, the Machines cornered the program with programs similar to the Agents that give RedPills so much grief. A tremendous fight ensured, with the virus gaining a body - one of the "Agents" sent to delete it. It took that Agent's name - Vulcan - and made it his own. Using his new-found abilities of combat alongside his programming as a virus, Vulcan defeated those remaining, then followed the Agent links, that he could now access, to the Matrix.
Since he entered the Matrix in the body of Vulcan, former Agent no longer among the "living", Vulcan has carried his original programming out to the best of his ability in his new body. He regularly infects RedPills, but since his original method is no longer an option, it is required he be close to them to insert his code. Just by holding his hand, you can be infected. More intimate acts cause the code to run faster.
He has built himself a vast fortune, since his methods make him a much sought-after assassin, being quiet and completely untraceable - by human sources. Here, he has discovered what was mentioned before - sex, as a weapon. Insertion of the virus code in this way can be regulated by Vulcan, meaning only a certain amount will enter, if he wills it, resulting in several intimate meetings before the code is complete and becomes destructive.
Of recent times, however, he is beginning to become known among RedPill circles. He is familiar to them, and has been tentatively identified as a suspect as to why so many RedPills are mysteriously dying in the Matrix, with no indication of how. As such, he is working on a device that will allow him to appear, sound and act like any person in the Matrix - RedPill or Blue.
In the meantime, he is extremely dangerous and should be avoided - by all humans, exiles and machines - at all costs.
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