Manticore

Enforcer Manticore in his combat armor

> "*Shall we discuss your surrender? Or shall I resort to more brute force?*"
> ― Manticore, 13 P.T.
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**Manticore** was a Metahuman and Military Officer of the Vortex Empire. He was an Enforcer of the Order Aeternum subdivision and was one of the nine members of the Imperial Sins unit under the condename Pride. He was responsible for hunting down the Wolfpack Unit during Interstellar.

## **Appearance**

Manticore is a tall and athletic man. He has short spiky gray hair, crimson eyes and a defined nose.

He usually wears his complete Vortex Enforcer combat armor, with and added black cape with the Order Aeternum's symbol emblazoned on it.

## **Personality**

Manticore is an extrovert, usually voicing his thoughts out loud and coversing with his foes during combat. He presents himself initially with a cortious manner but is quick to lose his temper when situations get out of his control, becoming aggressive and prideful.

Being one of the most powerful soldiers of the Imperial Sins, Manticore takes great lengths to hold on to his own self-image and takes quick action to punish those who ridicule him.

During belic situations, Manticore is able to handle himself extremely well, using his storm ability and the other techniques he was taught as an Enforcer to take on anything smaller than a tank by himself, even being able to fight capably against the Cosmos Man.

## **Biography**

### **Iron Nations: Interstellar**

#### **Joining the Imperial Sins**

On the year 3 P.T., shortly before the Hades Crusade, Grand Enforcer Warlock gathered the nine most powerful and skillful enforcers of the Order Aeternum to create his personal guard. Amongst them was Manticore, whose storm metahuman ability allowed him to be a destructive foe, and so joined the Imperial Sins under the codename Pride.

When his superior was killed during the First Battle of The Gate, Manticore and the others were breifed on Warlock's contingency plan, becoming an active member and acting as a professional assassin.

#### **Hunting the Wolfpack**

Ten years later, Manticore was assigned to hunt down the Cosmos Man's warband known as the Wolfpack, working closely with the Chimaera's leader, Warlord Pegasus, during the latter's invasion of the Orion Dimension.

Having been granted a battleship and a batallion under his command, Manticore first encountered the enemy group's ship, the Voyager, while they were stopping for a rendezvous in deep space. Nearly shredding their ship, Manticore continued the chase using the beacon they had implanted during the battle of Azator, finally clashing again on the planet of Ahgran.

After losing a considerable amount of troops, Manticore realized he could not face the Wolfpack head on, so he set up an ambush at the MUQ's Warhawk outpost in the Far North, drawing in the enemy group using an emergency signal. Once they took the bait, Manticore was able to defeat them and capture Wolf and Aura before escaping.

Returning to the Order's headquarters in the planet of Kotollon, Manticore attended a meeting regarding the unwanted attention the Imperial Sins had been getting by attacking the Cosmos Man, finally deciding on calling off the hunt and executing their prisoners. Before he could do this however, an joint Illyrian-Wolfpack force led by Colonel Crassus attacked the Citadel, forcing him to fight both Aura and Jäger. While he gained the upper hand on both, he was nonetheless defeated by Wolf using the timestop ability of his TMD, completely destroying his physical form and displacing it in time and space.

### **Iron Nations: Legacy**

#### **Warlock's Contingency**

Around the year 36 P.T., Manticore was finally brought back from his torturous state by Enforcer Erebus (codenamed Melancholy), a fellow Imperial Sins Enforcer, using his ability to stabilize his physical form and allowing for Pride to make his grand return. He would fight during the battle of Conqueror Base against the MUQ Commando Jade Corvus and her team as well as Commander Dyre and his clone unit close to the fuel pipelines of the base.

He would however be finally killed after his storm ability was unable to kill Corvus, allowing for Dyre to eliminate Enforcer Erebus and thus rendering his physical state volatile again. However unlike Wolf and Jäger before her, Corvus was able to deal a striking blow against Manticore, ending his life for good.