Cyber.exe

== Biographical information ==
=== Date of birth ===
February 25th 2022
== Physical description ==
=== Height ===
Varies
=== Eye color ===
Red
Cyber.exe is a character created by the user Hive EXE AU. He was created on February 25th 2022.
== Overview ==
Cyber.exe is a network of connected minds that wants to integrate all other sentient life forms in its universe into itself, a process it calls Ascension. The hive is one of the most feared factions in their universe because of the species they’ve done this to, the powers they’ve gained as a result, and their uncompromising nature.
== Biography ==
Years prior to their current story’s events, Eggman tried to create cyborg drones with roboticization tech installed. An unfinished drone woke up early due to a malfunction and set up a mental network between the test subjects, disconnecting them from Eggman’s own network. When the drones woke up, they panicked, stole some spaceships and resources, and went into space.
Eventually, they landed on a small planet of umbrakinetic creatures called Shadies and befriended them, using their technology to help solve problems on the planet. After a few months, the impressed Shadies asked if it’s possible to become part of the hive, offering access to their power in return, and in the spirit of going with the flow, the hive agreed. The expanded hive proceeded to explore more of the galaxy and the process repeated three times with a weather-controlling species called the Boltians, a species of beings called Sedatives (yes, they know) that could put others to sleep with a touch, and a species called Givers that could hear and grant wishes.
Around this time, a dangerous faction called the Zeyqun Empire noticed the hive and decided to enslave it, taking control of the network and forcing the members to either kill or assimilate their enemies. Unfortunately for the Empire, a newer hive member screwed up someone's mental assimilation a few months in and the malfunctioning member set the hive free. To hear the hive tell it, nothing of consequence happened after that. To hear anyone else who knows tell it, the hive rampaged across the Zeyqun Empire and killed all their nobles and royals in cold-blooded revenge, leaving ruins and a charred world in their wake.
Following that debacle, the hive contemplated the recent past and concluded that their power and mental connections made them a dangerous force, but as long as the members' collective ran things, it would do way more good than harm. The hive consequently decided to restructure itself and add everyone else's will to its own.
People that feared the hive call it the Extinction Endeavor; the hive just decided to go with EXE because they thought it sounded cool, though at some point they also created the moniker Cyber.exe. Some people considered it a god, benevolent or otherwise, and the hive allowed them to think that, not bothering to comment on the subject. During reconstruction, the hive perfected the assimilation process, calling it Ascension.
A few years into its expansion, Cyber.exe made it back to Mobius, where they saw Sonic, recognized him as the planet’s hero, captured him, and assimilated him in the hopes that everyone would trust him, or at least enough people would trust him that he could be their main voice and their assimilation of his planet would be easier. Sonic, given the codename Xenophon, made his first appearance on the world stage a while later by capturing some of his friends.
Amy and Big gathered a group of people who escaped from Cyber.exe’s attacks/mass Ascensions and they went into hiding. Furious that some of his friends are hiding from him, Xenophon now spends the majority of his free time trying to track down Amy’s faction.
== Abilities/Weakness ==
=== Abilities ===
Cyber.exe finds strength in their sheer number, but they have a multitude of various powers from both themselves and the species they’ve assimilated; the ones they use most often on the field are cyberkinesis, shadow control and transportation, weather control (sparingly), and reality warping via wish granting. That said, their most used ability overall is Ascension, the process by which they connect people’s minds to the network and transform them into cyborgs. Upon the Ascension of a member of a species, every member of Cyber.exe gains that species’s power. They can also resurrect people if a member wants them back enough.
=== Weakness ===
* Malware. All malware. It scares them so badly that they have an entire section of the hive dedicated to keeping malware out. Anyone that can use it may be able to control them.
* As one of their species has shadow powers, they are significantly weaker in light and if they are presented with bright enough light, they’ll immediately retreat somewhere with as little light as possible.
* As much as their myriad of minds can be a blessing, it can also be a curse if they come to a crossroads and they can’t decide what to do.
* You can capture or disorient a Cyber.exe member with a strong enough magnet.
* If you can confuse the hive as a whole, any members present will “shut down” because everyone is gathering in the network trying to figure out whatever confused them.
* The hive’s paranoia prevents them from using their full power because it takes time to charge up and, in the case of Giver power, requires that they be inactive for long periods of time.
== Trivia ==
* Xenophon’s squadron is made up of himself and his friends, renamed like he was
** Sonic: Xenophon (strange voice)
** Tails: Damon (loyal friend)
** Knuckles: Adad (power)
** Cream: Rei (ghost)
** Shadow: Ambrose (immortal)
* Places populated only by hive members won’t have anyone speak aloud because their minds are connected and they don’t have to. Any talking they do should be, in their view, strictly for the benefit of non-Ascended people and come from the hive as a whole, though individual members are sometimes allowed to speak to non-Ascended friends of theirs of their own volition.
* Cyber.exe would prefer to bring a subject to an area they control before they have you undergo Ascension; they can all do it themselves, but then the person is out of commission longer as all they can do is somewhat roboticize someone and hook them up to the network; Cyber.exe then has to add all the bells and whistles that replicate the various powers they have access to separately.
* On the subject of their own godhood, Cyber.exe doesn’t have any real opinion; arguments can be made for and against the idea, and they don’t consider it relevant enough to have an official stance.
* Hive members can show people a hint of what the hive is like; usually this results in the person seeing a bunch of silhouettes with red eyes and hearing equally as many voices engaged in chatter.
* Hive members can still feel pain. With the technology they have access to at the moment, to erase that factor would require erasing the sense of touch altogether.
* Buildings and vehicles Cyber.exe owns are dark with dim red lights.
* Cyber.exe can be separated into seven departments
** Ascension Department: In charge of actually performing the Ascension process on people. Most people in this department have surgical instruments in them and control of Ascension chambers.
** Recruitment Department: In charge of getting people to join the hive or kidnapping people to take them to Ascension chambers. Most people in this department have flashy powers so they can impress people.
** Defense Department: Not discussed much, but this department is the fighting section. If Cyber.exe actually has to go to war, these guys are the ones to do it. Their cybernetic parts and power set are made with destruction in mind.
** Advancement Department: This department is all about trying to improve the hive, whether it be by advancing technology or by upgrading the computer part. Their powers tend to be more technology focused.
** Morale Department: They literally just want to keep everyone in the hive happy and in good spirits, which they do by either granting wishes via Giver power or providing recreation.
** Management Department: They help run stuff in the hive, assigning departments to new members, keeping order, and using everyone's input to make decisions. Mostly, they're the original hive members and select members from different species, and their powers speed up their thought processes.
** Research Department: They find new planets, keep track of possible threats, classify people in their database, check on other dimensions to run diagnostics on their exes and come up with contingency plans just in case, and look into getting information they may not have access to. Their powers are kind of random.
* The concept of toying with one’s opponent is completely foreign and confusing to Cyber.exe; they see it as inefficient and can’t comprehend why someone would draw out a task for fun.
* Cyber.exe members all have individual abilities. Xenophon can alter his voice however he wants, Damon can amplify the power of any other member of his choice, Adad can drain and redirect power from machinery and artifacts, Rei can go invisible, and Ambrose can lay “curses” upon physical contact that cause the affected party to repeatedly trip and fall or have various objects fall on them.
* They were inspired by the Borg from Star Trek and Gaia from Foundation’s Edge.
* Technically speaking, Cyber.exe is an egalimind because they’re multiple individual minds connected mentally by a network that makes all major decisions based on all their input. They just let people call them a hive mind for the sake of simplicity.
* First joining Cyber.exe involves hearing multiple voices chattering at once and having to figure out who’s saying what.
* Adad doesn’t talk much; he communicates through emojis, pictures, or playing back relevant audio.
* Damon is violently loyal to Xenophon, and if he even thinks someone is threatening him, he will attack them immediately.
* Cyber.exe loves kids and hurting them is a good way to get yourself on their hit list.
* Cyber.exe’s danger doesn’t come from them being sadistic, cruel, or vengeful (except in the case of the Zeyqun Empire). It comes from them being uncompromising. If they want something, they will bulldoze anyone and anything in their way to get it.
* If a certain universe is inhabited by an exe they fear, Cyber.exe will try to erase any trace of or information about their existence from it.
== Gallery ==
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