Mason

### Description

Mason is a 6'8 individual, with slightly above average intelligence and a notable british accent. Mason's intelligence is mostly in the mechanical and technical side of things. Mason tends to wander around the facility or the outside. Mason seems to be very calm and collected but very inpatient with people he finds generally annoying or rude. Mason is known for being a bit socially anxious which is why he doesn't interact with many people in the facility often. While he was up in the ventilations he made the N.L.T (Non-Latex-Transformation) machine which could turn most people into anthropomorphic creatures without many ill effects and not needing to turn the individual into a latex creature, other then a slight chance of Irreversible damage to DNA if used too much. Usually it has a high success rate, rarely failing or causing harm, It is powered by a giant battery that is powered by solar energy, It's also easily moveable and has been missing for a while. Mason has a small amount of combat skill though not usually usable due to his very weak physical capabilites but has good experience with his USP and L85A2 LSW usually being very accurate. He tends to be a fast learner, usually being able to pick up things in minutes if he is interested in the topic.

### Backstory

Mason use to work at one of the SCP foundations in the UK as a guard temporarily, but then after a huge wave of stress, he got out and went far away heading to a airport getting into a plane, when the plane landed he got out and went to a hotel in Nevada to live the rest of his live, after settling down, he'd start focusing on learning on how to make things, mostly on the mechanical and technical side of things, getting a somewhat good grasp in it. The first thing he made was a sort of automatic book page flipper though he would start doing bigger and bigger projects, after a while he would start-up a small shop in a small area that would sell automated upgraded versions of many already existing items, eventually the small shop got bigger over time and mason would begin to sell more and better things. The shop would eventually get bought out by a mildly big company and said company would start mass producing said items that were sold in the shops, going international. When the pale virus began the shops and of course the company would fall and be shut down. Some buildings still stand abandoned in the city. After hearing about the Pale Virus, he decided to leave the hotel he was living at going over to a box and grabbing his USP for safety leaving behind his L86A2 LSW. He'd begin walking threw the city anxious. Eventually after a while he got further out from the city making his way to a road. He travelled into the forest to get further away from the city and establish a camp, eventually the camp turned into a small base and was used for a long while. After a long time of staying in the small base he decided to go out to find a safe place. He saw the Facility in the distance, heading towards it. He looked around thinking it was either abandoned recently or just oddly quiet. he would walk in threw the entrance to the hallways, he could hear weird sounds and people getting "changed". His first thought was to climb into the ventilations as he thought that was a safe spot, luckily mason didn't come across any latex. There was a piece of paper showing the layout of the place, he picked it up and took some time to memorize it. Once he learnt the layout he went to the library and found an empty book, he grabbed it and used it as a journal. After a while somehow mason had built a nice cozy temporary room up in the vents temporarily and the N.L.T machine. Becoming a fox due to having a fear of the pale virus, mostly switching back and forth between species. He went back to the hotel apartment he was once at, grabbing his L86A2 LSW Assault rifle, before going back and hiding in the facility ventilations temporarily, While in hiding he worked on something called A.T.R.C (Anti transfur replicating cells) which made him temporarily immune from transfurs for when he was a human, usually A.T.R.C cells last for a week before needing to injected with a new syringe of A.T.R.C. He now mostly spends his time in his forest base, at the forest base Mason discovered a material called Ziolite, it was the most energy efficent and mostly powerful type of material on earth but its highly risky to use as it overheats very easily and since its unstable can possibly cause a very destructive explosion, the only way to cool it is to make a special coolant by turning ziolite into its liquid form, it turns more solid the hotter it gets and more liquid the colder. Later on Mason made his most complicated piece of work yet. The C.E.M (Consciousness Emulator Machine) is a machine that can almost perfectly replicate the human consciousness for machines, though it requires a lot power to keep up, in which mason used a tiny bit of ziolite to power it since it is the most efficent source of energy he had. The C.E.M also allowed for faster then brain thinking due to using a very advanced cpu along with its other parts. After a while Mason made a robot that looks and acts almost entirely human, other then the eyes, because Mason couldn't figure out how to make human like eyes in which he gave the robot some sunglasses to cover them up. He called the robot Alexander Hodge's, After a long while he started up a sort of ziolite mining corporation where he would trade with some people to give them the ore.

**The Ziogen Expansion**

Mason's fascination for AI and other tech related things led to him experimenting and creating the CEM (Conciousness emulator machine) of which he used to make Alexander. After a while Mason and Alexander decided that remaking cilvization and bringing it back up from the ground would be a good idea but they of course needed a main resource to help aid in rebuilding something like for instance, the power grid. So they found ziolite a unstable powerful material found deep underground near to sandy locations (Like the beach) It is a blue rock basically that glows kinda and is only found in small amounts unless mined with special equipment. They have now built what is essentially a super mine at the beach and have finished construction of a head quarters in The City, it is a tall and big tower of size that has a spiky tall spire at the top of it, it has a billboard displaying the ziogen logo and other related things on it. Currently the bots and Mason are trying to get the subways back up to restart public transportation.

Currently there are 13,567 bots and counting

**The Ziogen Faction Information**

There Ideology is to rebuild civilization slowly and to remain 100% neutral

They are slightly allied with the UGA

The faction has been around for 6 months

There weaponry consist mostly of rifles

Divisions: Miners and Security And Military Combat Robots, Adaptive Base AI

Leaders: Mason Hodges and Alexander Hodges