Naomi Armitage, A.K.A Armitage the Third, A.K.A "The badge
toting terror in hot pants".
Armitage is the main character in the series (well the series IS named
after
her) and is a very
emotionally troubled individual. Let's start at the beginning.
Naomi is a product of the Assasinroid/ Third robotics program.
The assasinriods were designed as the perfect assassins and not only that
they
were the perfect
of Mechanical and Biological systems and self aware. Although to be honest
their mental faculties
were dedicated to combat. It is from the their basic design the Thirds
were
created
(If I'm spoiling the story for you stop reading right now!), but the Thirds
had a
totally
different purpose. This was to increase the Martian population though their
ability to conceive.
Armitage is a curiosity even when this is taken into consideration because
she
combines the strength
of assasinriods and the refinement of the Thirds.
Most Armitage's early life is a mystery, her "Father", Professor Azakura,
presumably raised her as a normal child and sent her to school.
It is about this point where she realized she was a robot trapped in a
society
that hates
them and led her to develop her normally defensive and anti social
personality.
She has a special "A class" license which gave the option to pretty much
do
any career she wanted,
but she chose to become a cop. This is probably because she needed an
outlet for her anger at
Mars in general. She was and is good at this job, but her personality meant
that she would never
go far in the force. It is roughly then that the series starts.
Her personality is one of a identity crisis. On one hand she has the Martian
feeling to wards,
on the other she has her confused origin. It's uncertain how much she actually
knew about herself
before the Third murders began. She obviously believed herself to be a
third
(not strictly true),
but was not aware of her ability to bear children. Her confusion increases
until
Wilber D'anclaude
explains the purpose of the Thirds to her. She also has a good side, consisting
mainly of an evil
sense of humour, she also grows Cacti as a hobby. Most of the time her
personality is a conflict
between the pleasant "Third" side of her and her aggressive "Assasinroid"
persona.
All this having been said, she is generally a pleasant individual,
but robots should be avoided in conversation. Now on to the impressive
bit,
her powers and abilities.
First up, she is a well trained Martian Police officer and trained in the
use of
the standard
issue weaponry (and probably in the use some that aren't). She has all
the
robot type abilities you
would expect. She can interface directly with machines and, to a limited
extent, control them from a
distance. Up to now she has only done this while wearing her visor, it
might
improve these abilities,
but this is speculation. She can punch through steel and run at incredible
speeds on foot.
She is also very resistant against most energy and ballistic weapons.
The only real exception to this are weapons designed to kill thirds,
but only D'anclaude has been known to carry weapons like this. She can
be
cut ,
but she has a generally high resistance to pain. The most impressive of
her
powers are the upgrade given
to her by Azakura shortly before his demise. The first of these is the
3 military
grade lasers built
into her left fore arm. These can be fired either as a focused cutting
beam or
as a longer ranged energy
blasts. The most impressive part of her upgrade was a fold out Flight pack
referred to as "Angel Wings".
These obviously gave her the power of flight and two additional lasers
similar
to those in her fore arm.
Sadly, the angel wings where effectively destroyed during the battle of
danich
hill, as they where not as
strongly made as Armitage. Well thats all you need to know about Armitage,
but in the words of Eddie Burrows: " ...When she puts on her visor, watch
out".