Post by Illusive Man on Mar 8, 2010 23:19:55 GMT -6
Illusive Man[/color]
Franchise: Mass Effect
Canon: Yes
Custom Title: Director of Cerberus
The Basics[/size]
Special Abilities
Weaknesses
Brief History [Spoilers][/size]
The Illusive Man was a normal civilian with a job and a family until the discovery of alien life. Not long after the Battle of Shanxi, an e-mail circulated throughout the internet calling for humanity to take its rightful place and assert its power to its new alien contacts. Alliance intelligence could not locate the originator of the e-mail, but referred to him as an "illusive man" in press releases to try and dismiss the human-centric diatribe. The name stuck, and the Illusive Man founded Cerberus, a human-centric splinter group. His long-term plans are ultimately unknown, but he has many different projects all factoring into helping humanity achieve its "rightful" place. He was responsible for breaking Cerberus away from the Alliance military, and building up Cord-Hislop Aerospace as a cover for the shadow operation. His justification is that "if humanity is to survive, sacrifices must be made for the greater good. The Alliance doesn't understand this. Cerberus does."
The Illusive Man believes that the political party Terra Firma has a part to play in humanity's ascension and even used an assassination in order to put the right man -- Charles Saracino -- in power. The Illusive Man's belief that biotics are the future of humanity led him to order the sabotage and detonation of Eldfell-Ashland Energy starships over human colonies, to ensure biotic children would be born. Somehow -- likely through unsavory means -- the Illusive Man claimed one of these biotic children as a baby and gave her to Paul Grayson to raise as his own daughter. A decade later he planted Cerberus operatives into the Ascension Project to take advantage of the Alliance's more sophisticated biotic research.
He also has an interest in the quarians and their Migrant Fleet. The Illusive Man does not trust an alien species that effectively has the largest armada of ships in the galaxy. However, he is also greatly impressed by the quarians' technological expertise, namely their creation of the geth and their continued survival despite the odds stacked against them. This curiosity has led him to seek the transmission codes for the Migrant Fleet to spy on them.
Currently, it appears that his main focus is on the Reapers after their discovery, realizing the vast threat they pose on humanity and appearing to dedicate all his vast resources to stop them by any means necessary.
After the attack on the Citadel, the Illusive Man became suspicious about the claim it was a geth armada, knowing that no ordinary geth attack could have been so successful. He knew that eventually word of what had really happened would filter back to him, but in the meantime he had greater concerns. Though he acknowledged Commander Shepard's role in creating humanity's new place in the galaxy, the Illusive Man also knew the suspicion and mistrust of the other races would soon close off the political channels that Shepard had opened, and decided to push ahead with his work in the Ascension Project. He also ordered Pel to go to Omega to get the Migrant Fleet codes, but Pel betrayed him and tried to sell Gillian Grayson to the Collectors.
When Paul Grayson reported to the Illusive Man, he gently confronted Paul about his addiction to red sand, but agreed Gillian needed to be pursued and authorised an attack on the Migrant Fleet itself. When the strike team, including Paul and the quarian Golo, failed to report back, the Illusive Man assumed they had died in the attempt as his vast web of informants did not stretch to the Migrant Fleet. He was surprised, therefore, to get a communique from Paul, and even more surprised when Paul calmly announced he was leaving Cerberus forever. He held the threat of revelation over the Illusive Man's head, and used it to get an assurance that Kahlee Sanders would be left alone. The Illusive Man was forced to agree for the sake of Cerberus' other projects.
credit to Mass Effect Wiki
Sample Role-Play Post[/size]
Sitting before the large star, the Illusive Man stared amused into the mixture of red and blue. Shepard was something of a feeble minded idealist; however, Shepard was still a necessity to humanity...to Cerberus even. The Reapers were still a major threat and unfortunately the Council and the Systems Alliance were all fools and couldn't see a threat that nearly consumed them. He clicked his tongue before standing up holding his glass of scotch and his cigarette before opening up a display of a planet.
"Spira." He pondered for a moment, "The home of a calamity known to the world as Sin."
He lifted his glass and sipped gingerly before smirking, something was telling him that they could easily find something to combat the Reaper threat. If reports were accurate...the ruins of Vegnagun or even the remains of Sin would give Cerberus and by proxy, humanity the edge needed against the Reapers and even possibly beyond the Reapers.
His eyes gleamed greedily as he scanned the planet's use of Machina. Oh indeed this was to be a boon of useful technology. He tapped a button bringing up a Cerberus Officer, "Prepare your troops Captain, I need you to do a little digging..."
Member Information
Franchise: Mass Effect
Canon: Yes
Custom Title: Director of Cerberus
The Basics[/size]
Real Name: Unknown
Alias: Illusive Man
Alignment: Neutral
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Family: Unknown
Alias: Illusive Man
Alignment: Neutral
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Family: Unknown
Special Abilities
By no means does Illusive Man possess any sort of powers that he visibly displays. The Illusive Man does have extremely talented skills as far as secrecy is concerned. He is exceptionally manipulative as he has sent his own operatives into hostile situations to force the enemy's hand.
Weaknesses
The Illusive Man is still by all means human. He can still be killed from any traditional means. Illusive Man is also exceedingly arrogant and thus can underestimate foes or even his own subordinates.
Brief History [Spoilers][/size]
The Illusive Man was a normal civilian with a job and a family until the discovery of alien life. Not long after the Battle of Shanxi, an e-mail circulated throughout the internet calling for humanity to take its rightful place and assert its power to its new alien contacts. Alliance intelligence could not locate the originator of the e-mail, but referred to him as an "illusive man" in press releases to try and dismiss the human-centric diatribe. The name stuck, and the Illusive Man founded Cerberus, a human-centric splinter group. His long-term plans are ultimately unknown, but he has many different projects all factoring into helping humanity achieve its "rightful" place. He was responsible for breaking Cerberus away from the Alliance military, and building up Cord-Hislop Aerospace as a cover for the shadow operation. His justification is that "if humanity is to survive, sacrifices must be made for the greater good. The Alliance doesn't understand this. Cerberus does."
The Illusive Man believes that the political party Terra Firma has a part to play in humanity's ascension and even used an assassination in order to put the right man -- Charles Saracino -- in power. The Illusive Man's belief that biotics are the future of humanity led him to order the sabotage and detonation of Eldfell-Ashland Energy starships over human colonies, to ensure biotic children would be born. Somehow -- likely through unsavory means -- the Illusive Man claimed one of these biotic children as a baby and gave her to Paul Grayson to raise as his own daughter. A decade later he planted Cerberus operatives into the Ascension Project to take advantage of the Alliance's more sophisticated biotic research.
He also has an interest in the quarians and their Migrant Fleet. The Illusive Man does not trust an alien species that effectively has the largest armada of ships in the galaxy. However, he is also greatly impressed by the quarians' technological expertise, namely their creation of the geth and their continued survival despite the odds stacked against them. This curiosity has led him to seek the transmission codes for the Migrant Fleet to spy on them.
Currently, it appears that his main focus is on the Reapers after their discovery, realizing the vast threat they pose on humanity and appearing to dedicate all his vast resources to stop them by any means necessary.
After the attack on the Citadel, the Illusive Man became suspicious about the claim it was a geth armada, knowing that no ordinary geth attack could have been so successful. He knew that eventually word of what had really happened would filter back to him, but in the meantime he had greater concerns. Though he acknowledged Commander Shepard's role in creating humanity's new place in the galaxy, the Illusive Man also knew the suspicion and mistrust of the other races would soon close off the political channels that Shepard had opened, and decided to push ahead with his work in the Ascension Project. He also ordered Pel to go to Omega to get the Migrant Fleet codes, but Pel betrayed him and tried to sell Gillian Grayson to the Collectors.
When Paul Grayson reported to the Illusive Man, he gently confronted Paul about his addiction to red sand, but agreed Gillian needed to be pursued and authorised an attack on the Migrant Fleet itself. When the strike team, including Paul and the quarian Golo, failed to report back, the Illusive Man assumed they had died in the attempt as his vast web of informants did not stretch to the Migrant Fleet. He was surprised, therefore, to get a communique from Paul, and even more surprised when Paul calmly announced he was leaving Cerberus forever. He held the threat of revelation over the Illusive Man's head, and used it to get an assurance that Kahlee Sanders would be left alone. The Illusive Man was forced to agree for the sake of Cerberus' other projects.
credit to Mass Effect Wiki
Sample Role-Play Post[/size]
Sitting before the large star, the Illusive Man stared amused into the mixture of red and blue. Shepard was something of a feeble minded idealist; however, Shepard was still a necessity to humanity...to Cerberus even. The Reapers were still a major threat and unfortunately the Council and the Systems Alliance were all fools and couldn't see a threat that nearly consumed them. He clicked his tongue before standing up holding his glass of scotch and his cigarette before opening up a display of a planet.
"Spira." He pondered for a moment, "The home of a calamity known to the world as Sin."
He lifted his glass and sipped gingerly before smirking, something was telling him that they could easily find something to combat the Reaper threat. If reports were accurate...the ruins of Vegnagun or even the remains of Sin would give Cerberus and by proxy, humanity the edge needed against the Reapers and even possibly beyond the Reapers.
His eyes gleamed greedily as he scanned the planet's use of Machina. Oh indeed this was to be a boon of useful technology. He tapped a button bringing up a Cerberus Officer, "Prepare your troops Captain, I need you to do a little digging..."
Member Information
Hello! My name is Jimmy and I have been a member on The Grey Divide since way back when. The other characters that I role-play are: Spider-Man, Darkseid, and Alucard. I plan to drop Darkseid and replace him with Illusive Man if I am allowed.