Rahn

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*"So, you think you can compete?"*

- Rahn to the Legion moments after his birth in South America

## Tactical Analysis

* *Survival of the Fittest, So they must all die*: Rahn is a terrifyingly capable commando who directs his psychic talents towards making men fight like supermen while turning the enemy's own strength against them with a Terranova cannon that turns his foes into one of the commander's selection of creatures, most often brutes (or spooks for animals) for the high rate of fire and tears apart mechanical targets caught in a lethal line of death from every shot Rahn makes. Stronger than just about any brute and smarter than humanly possible while having reflexes so fast that he can dodge already fired bullets with ease, getting close to Rahn just means that you die more quickly, and neither water nor cliff faces are obstacles, or even walls which he can simply smash through like some sort of powered drink mascot. He is immune to dog bites, shinobi blades, and most conventional anit-infantry weapons simply bounce off his shielding, armour, or physique; nevermind his incredible regenerative powers.

* *Do you feel in charge Proselyte?*: Rahn passively improves the morale, accuracy, discipline, regeneration speed, and rate of fire of troops around them, but he can temporarily focus his tactical psionics to push people beyond their limits to make veterans out of raw recruits and gods out of heroes; even affecting himself. This makes him especially dangerous when paired with his typical escort of drain cannon equipped Stalkers and ever growing menagerie of monster as he is a peerless force multiplier.

* *You can still join me!*: Rahn and his clones are not perfect and unbeatable thankfully, robotic enemies thankfully only take damage from his weapon, and while he's destructive against structures, it is clearly not his specialty to deal with fortified complexes, taking a rather long time to do so. Enemies who refuse to bring infantry against him also deny him one of his best assets, and he can be overwhelmed by enough fast moving aircraft for him to shoot them all down before they can reach him, with air support craft being one of the best ways to take him out of a fight.

* *The New Era begins now*: Rahn clones that have attained a certain level of distinction unlock more of their potential to the point where they do not need to focus to elevate friendly troops to their true potential and with the same focus as before, whip even the rawest recruits into battle dominating elites and tease forth blatant superhumanity out of the already accomplished.

## Background Information

### Background

Rahn is like many in Epsilon, an artificial being. There were many things to bear the name Rahn in now no longer relevant timeline as Epsilon sought again and again to try and set fate right. Each iteration more and more perfected, using the experiences of the successes and failures to achieve the platonic ideal of the Rahn project. Rahn is many, not all from this timeline, but the present iteration of the creature was something that had to be crafted within the reality that Geoffrey and his acolytes had found themselves in. Aware of how chaotic and broken the timeline had become because of the constant alteration of reality to try and push fate one direction or the other, Geoffrey tasked Anca Albescu and her team with ensuring that there would be no need for another attempted re-do lest reality morph into something even less comprehensible than a quantum superpositioning of multiple branching timelines around a vague cluster of shared events that in essence made the earth far larger full of people and countries that did not exist before or should not be able to exist simultaneously.

Operating from within the underbelly of the Alliance, Epsilon worked day and night to develop their genetic engineering towards this end, to elevate the path towards ascension of mind, body, and soul without letting their patrons have too much that they couldn't deny them at a moment's notice. It was Epsilon's biological research that allowed armies to be mostly filled with people born in vats and for citizens to be made on demand, destroying all prior notions of growth; while intentionally leaking the information to other blocs to prepare mankind for its evolution. They convinced the Allies that another war was needed, and was possible with the means to grow a vast army and a sprawling web of psychic counter-intelligence to hide their efforts. All the while, secretly disappearing those who showed promise to experiment on them, to see if it was merely material circumstance and situation that lead to greatness or if there was something that could be manufactured about it. Geoffrey would return to project Rahn time and time again, offering encouragement and advice to his followers to make for an almost perfect soldier of his revenge.

The original Rahn of the present timeline, or rather the initial genetic basis of the creation of Rahn, was likely some manner of Syndicate Mercenary before being used as a template for the monstrosity that has come to be associated with many of the most destructive and lethal operations of the dominion. Most likely one of great skill and formidable intellect, but a degree of bloodthirst that not even Legion Security could put up with; leading to him being put on ice in the El Dorado Sprawl in South America so that his talents wouldn't be entirely wasted. With the Syndicate using the newly set up El Dorado Sprawl to coordinate their sector of the Allied Occupation of conquered territory in the region so that they could assert overall control over the Alliance in the aftermath of the fall of the greater Gallo-Romantic region to Epsilon and the siege of the North Sea by the Axis. Using some remnants of Psi-Corps technology that the Syndicate had modified to ignore the shut down order, particularly a series of bio-factories to mass produce more legionaries even faster than the normal cloning and vat processes could, the Syndicate had established a formidable presence in the rechristened city in the midst of a fortress of Objectivism that they had foolishly deemed impenetrable.

Epsilon Infiltrators and apothecaries would, at Gluckel Horowtiz's command, seek to show the Alliance just how little they truly fathomed about the technology that Geoffrey had granted to them. Sneaking through intensive security, the infiltrators carried a package designed by Anca Albescu's team with Geoffrey's guidance that had been custom designed to achieve a certain outcome. Whether the process transformed an existing person or merely used the prisoner's genome as the starting basis of the creation of Rahn is unknown and probably will never be known, but the effects were immediate and dramatic. Equipment printers and bio-weavers churned out a constantly growing stampede of monsters while the original Rahn would emerge from the middle-most bio-factory with the weapons that would make him infamous. Emerging even taller than the brutes laughing as they poured out of the factories, Rahn cemented his infamy for all time.

El Dorado was a slaughter so terrifying that even the Satyrs were shaken. Being razed to the ground would have been a kinder fate for the city than what Epsilon ended up turning it into. Vast clouds of deadly chemical gasses encompassed the city and its surrounding countryside. The lucky were killed by virus gas, the unfortunate tore each other apart under the influence of chaos gas or were twisted into monstrosities with Terra Nova gas. Terminus gas turned those with the receptors for it into supermen able to fight far beyond their normal limits. And when Rahn left the city behind, he had left the city "evolved" and "enlightened" into either thralls of the dominion or a horde of abominations continually reinforced by the bio-factories set to constant production. Rahn in this timeline would make his first kill within a second of being "born", and had caused the deaths of millions within a single day of coming into being. All of course, greatly pleased him as he exulted in the chance to make loyal servants of foes and ruin of the artifice of unbelievers.

### World War III

Ur-Rahn, like Ur-Libra, was a cut above the rest, a monster who had come to be the stuff of the nightmares of whole cultures. Even his lesser clones; whether his Prime Clones or Secondary Clones could tear throughmost things in their path with almost terrifying ease. Rahn himself would come to find a position of importance in the command hierarchy thanks to his military brilliance, coordinating many of the most inventive or fiendish operations and strategems.

### Post War

Post-War, Rahn has advised the inner circle on how to succeed the legacy of Geoffrey, using the experiences of his prior iterations in the great Rahn-Thought to tell them what Geoffrey would do in their situation. He is astonishingly unphased by the failure of the Mental Omega Network and the disappearance of Geoffrey; or the dismantling of countless back-up plans Epsilon had in store to pull out a win anyway. The cause had risen from far greater falls before and Geoffrey had returned from more certain dooms many times before. The way was eternal, and the prophecies were already coming to pass as JADE spread across the world and dramatically altered the face of economics and warfare just as had been foretold.

### Known Activities

* Destroyed the primary Tanya Adams program training facility.
* Was the one to finally kill the Chrono-warped first Tanya Adams as well as the first Boris Bikov at the climax of the battle for the Mental Omega device while she bought time for Colonel Reznov and Sanchez to set the device to explode, bringing about the end of the legacy of the Tanya and Boris programs.
* Lead the counter-attack to wipe out all remaining enemy forces from Antarctica.
* Killed all of Yoshiro's remaining biological children in the invasion of Kyoto.
* Turned Crown Prince Charles into a brute fed into the nearest grinder during Epsilon's attack on London.