Ulster

Cyber Street. . . knight?

# Character Information

### Summary

Ulster showed up pretty suddenly. Not a lot of folks know where he came from, but word on the street is that if you hire him for work, he'll send a hell of a message.

### Goals

* I AM NOT YET COMPLETE: Ulster has a pathological desire for more cyberware. He is left with a sense of "incompleteness," as though something is missing. . .
* SHEPHERD THE SQUISHIES: Ulster has a deep and unshakeable fear that whatever befell his home shall befall Seattle. He still doesn't fully understand exactly who attacked the monastery or why they did it. All he knows is that he must prevent anything like it from happening again.
* KNOW THYSELF: Ulster is left with a lot of unanswered questions regarding his origin. The Monks who raised him seemed reticent to answer certain lines of questioning. Now he must find the answers himself.

## Background

As long as he can remember, Ulster has been raised by a group of monks in a Trappist monastery located upon the small island of Skellig. Ulster, to the best of his knowledge, was born with his augmentations.

Yet there was something strange afoot in the monastery. An unusual number of monks bore augmentations, strange ones, too. "We are to lead simple lives," an elder explained to him, "To concern ourselves with their aesthetics is to mire ourselves in worldly purpose. Something expressly forbid to us. It is for this reason, and this reason alone that do we bear these augmentations." Ulster remembered this moment because it was the first time an elder had lied to him.

Ulster grew older still, and he required a new body. The monks provided it. One day, a visitor arrived on a VTOL craft. He was a human man, wearing a pin-striped suit. He beseeched the monks for entry, but they denied him. "Who was that man?" Ulster asked one of the elders. They explained to him that the libraries of old monasteries contain old books. Sometimes those hungry for knowledge sought out the monastery's library in hopes of finding some ancient secret. "Why did you turn him away?" Ulster asked. The elder explained that the purpose of a monastery was to be removed. A pious place, like righteousness itself, is a thing obtained only through devotion and effort. Any man who flew to the island in such a manner is clearly unworthy to enter it.

Ulster grew to his full size and towered above his comrades and elders. He had long since realized that he was not the offspring of parents, but of imagination and planning. He asked the elders for his origins. They said that, though he was created for some purpose, they knew not what it was. Though they had found and maintained him, they had not created him. There was, they said, a new kind of arms race afoot in the Sixth World. Great powers sought to swell their numbers with these new weapons, and in their haste they made mistakes, and one of these mistakes had allowed Ulster to be freed. There were others like Ulster. Others who had escaped. Desperate and without any connections, they sought whatever shelter might be available to them. In many cases, this led them to houses of faith. Certain religious communities had become accustomed to them.

Things were well for a time. Ulster became something of a point of contact between those of the monastery and those from the outside world. He lived as a friar and journeyed from the monastery to the mainland. He was not present when the VTOL's returned. When he returned, all but a handful were dead. The precious few survivors told him, as best they could, how they had been attacked. They told him that they had heard of other havens for ones such as them, and that he should flee there as fast as he could. Ulster could not do this, for he had to to bury what remained of the dead. When the survivors succumbed to their wounds, he buried them also. Finally, three days later, he left the island and used what remained of the monastery's connections to flee to Seattle.

After arriving in Seattle, Ulster met with Spades who, in turn, put him in contact with Dr. Wallace. The two of them helped set him up with a living space, tucked away in the Ork Underground. However, Ulster soon found himself in a tight spot. Having been raised in a monastery, he had few marketable skills outside of a deep reservoir of theological knowledge. His obvious prostheses also made it impossible for him to blend into normal society as a 9-5er in a stuffer-shack or data-entry job. As far as he's aware, whatever mysterious agency created him doesn't know his whereabouts, but he didn't want to run the risk of alerting them.

Bereft of options, he turned to the criminal world. He didn't have a lot of marketable skills, but he cut a fearsome figure and is inhumanly durable. Fixers were more than willing to hire him for jobs which called for brute strength and durability. He discovered with some concern that primal violence came naturally to him, leading to a gnawing concern regarding the purpose of his creation. Since then, he has served as a faithful bodyguard and enforcer ever since. Even so, he labors to broaden his horizons, and prove himself as more than just a brute.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Code of Honor (Avenging Angel): Ulster will not seriously injure someone unless he believes them to be unrepentant
* No Man Left Behind: Ulster will not abandon a comrade
* Mild Insomnia: Eternally restless, Ulster has a difficult time sleeping.
* Mild Allergy (Canines): It's a strange thing, perhaps a quirk of his biology, but canine dandruff seems to give him quite the allergic reaction.

## Run History

A Man of Little Faith (Run by Cal)

Kick 'Em While their Down (Run by Mad)

Ghostbusters (Run by Glyph)

The Silence (Run by Cal)

Das Schachtverschwörungszentrum (Run by Cal)

Reception of Witnesses (Run by Cal)

Where the Demon Dwells (Run by Cal), obtained 2 PA on this run due to being witnessed by many people while fighting Pralka

4Fast6Me (Run by Vent)

The Oath Crisis (Run by Cal)

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 Dr. Henry Wallace
 H#sh
 Murphy Alexander
 Maurice Minaskus

# In Character Information

## Symbols and Signatures

He tries to avoid leaving any traces, but sometimes he'll end up leaving around pieces of synthskin which peel off from where his cybertorso meets his neck.

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

```
  Cullen Montrose, UCAS, R5

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```
  R5 Augmentation License
  R5 Bodyguard License
  R5 Driver's License

```

## Appearance

### Clothing

Ulster loves wearing simple, baggy clothing. Anything which doesn't catch the servos of his cyberlimbs is fine in his eyes. He'd wear his simple monk's robe if it didn't draw so much attention. As is, he likes to wear baggy coats since it helps disguise the full extent of his augmentation.