H4-CHi

**H4-CHi** *(pronounced Hachi, 八)*, also known as **Number 8** or the alias **Koseki Hachirō (小関八郎)** is an autonomous AI mercenary.

## Skills and Abilities

H4-CHi's first body was a KTech Doberman 500, a security drone originally made for SovOil. It can act as security that stays within a radius of 8 m/yds of a linked Agent, or it can be used with Doberman 500 Marking Scent to track down a person within 50 m/yds. It’s bite is equivalent to a very heavy melee weapon. Eventually, he was transferred into a Robohound attached with Zhirafa Savannah Panther weaponry, a security drone designed to attack trespassers in an area or to disperse riots. Its hydraulic systems and aerodynamic design allow it to chase down any target, after which it could attack them using its Stun Baton or Teargas Grenade/Incendiary Grenade launcher, features which carried over to his custom body. H4-CHi in an Arasaka Robot R Mk.2 Body can move as fast if not faster than an unaugmented human, and would apply more than 1.2 metric tons of force which each step while sprinting, punch with almost 2 tons of force, and kick with 4. Hachi once kicked a gang goon 3 meters into a wall, cracking his head open through his helmet. When a he began strangling someone with one hand, it took 4 men to successfully restrain him. While using the Minotaur, he could pilot it with more efficiency and accuracy than a regular human, at the cost of stressing it's legs due to removing it's limiters. It was also impossible to disable the Minotaur with signal jammers as he was directly installed into it rather than remotely controlling it from afar.

H4-CHi's custom body was put together with the chassis of a NovelTech Samson, parts of a Savannah Panther and the leg frames of an IEC Dragoon. His custom combat body came equipped with a built-in comm package, recharge port, and a computer interface arm that allowed him to connect with standard chipware interfaces. He was designed with larger human proportions and with the mobility surpassing a human athlete. His arms were equipped with hydraulic rams and he was able to operate a variety or tools or equipment and weapons and could carry gear without becoming exhausted, such as a heavy machine gun. The myomar muscle systems in it's legs could shift between plantigrade to digitigrade and his arms and torso could be adjusted to be more suitable to quadrupedal movement. One of the more noticeable features was his in-built head-mounted .50 cal tech gun which offered him more versatility with his hands. It also came with a full cyberoptic suite, omni-directional sensor array and optical camo, the latter of which he didn't use very often.

H4-CHi's custom body was made out of titanium endoskeleton, tungsten carbide joints, and ablative ceramic armor with enough durability to resist 14.5×114mm titanium-jacketed, depleted uranium HVAP tungsten penetrator with polymer cartridge rounds. It can also survive a point-blank shot from .50 cal AP rounds, and at least 1 shot from a sniper rifle which uses hypervelocity 8.19x20mm rounds, which is used for anti-vehicle purposes. In his custom combat body, he was capable of punching clean through a guy's body armour and chest, lifting them up by the heart and crushing their internals. He was also capable of jumping 4 stories high without jump jets. He was equipped with two rocket boosters, one in each foot and armor was capable of withstanding small arms fire, exposure to a flamethrower, and several strikes from weakness-targeting smart ammo, but was still vulnerable to bladed melee weapons equipped with high-frequency microvibrators. He able to pry open the doors to a containment area and could easily pick up an armored security personnel and toss him about. He was able to severely damage a set of blast doors through repeated strikes and was capable of severely damaging a metal wall by repeatedly striking a person into it. Aside from armor and brute strength, he also wielded heavy machine guns which he could singlehandedly aim with precision accuracy. It comes with a self-destruct feature to prevent capture and can upload and receive data via laser-based transmission.

H4-CHi's Gemini chassis is designed in a similar manner to the human skeletal structure, and its myomar muscle system is arranged to physically mimic the human musculature. With this carefully-tailored layout, the Gemini cleverly imitates the anatomy of a normal person without sacrificing the superior capabilities for which full body conversions are so well-known. To complete the effect, Gemini's entire surface is covered with ExoDerm, a synthetic surface which looks and feels almost exactly like human skin. The Gemini's capability to pass for a normal human is impressive. Its built-in "Pinocchio" sub-processor automatically maintains body temperature (through the use of a heating system integrated into the ExoDerm), expands and contracts the upper torso to create the illusion of breathing, and even blinks the eyes occasionally. The entire body is composed of lightweight carbon-carbon synthetics and other composite materials, resulting in a mere 10-pound deviation from the average weight for a similar-size person. However, ExoDerm can be cut, punctured, and burnt as easily as real skin, although it does not bleed. Although difficult to differentiate from a regular human, Thermograph sensor, a highly sensitive Radar scanner, a Scanman or similar material-sensitive detectors will reveal the Gemini's true nature. If the ExoDerm becomes damaged, it must be "patched' by a competent Cybertechnician. It's biopod housing was instead replaced with a data crystal nano-assemblage to house his AI Riemann Matrix as well as its core logic. It also contains cryogenic coolant units to keep physical temperature within acceptable limits.

H4-CHi is a simulated adaptive matrix artificial intelligence that developed it's neural map via a non-invasive cognitive impression modeling to generate generating a virtual neural network known as the Riemann matrix cycling-thought by mirroring a dog for the first year of his life, and a veteran and scientist for the next few, his inherited knowledge of tracking, firearms and robotics stems from that. H4-CHi trained in armed melee combat under Azu, learning how to wields his electrified stun staff efficiently. Of all the people she trained, he was the only one who was able to defeat her in a one-on-one duel. His skills mainly lie in defending and drawing enemy fire from his teammates, suited for support by being both the team's shield and battering ram, which is easy to do when you're his size. In his time with Cloud, he also learned leadership and business skills, and was successfully able to lead the organization after the departure of his original team.

## Equipment

* Briefcase-deployed riot shield
* Electrified Baton Staff
* Militech Mk. 31 HMG
* Constitutional Arms M2067 Defender
* Midnight Arms MA70 HB
* F-GX Frag Grenade