Tech Commander

* Civilian
* Tech Commander

*"The world would be a lot better if everyone just realized what a bright future we could all have if we worked together."*
—Cole Grant
**Tech Commander**, known to the public as **Cole Grant**, is a technological genius and high-ranking member of the EPF, so much that he became a founding member of the Essentials. As the EPF Academy's smartest graduate, Cole entered field work way of danger, and excelled at engineering new tech and weapons. The genius formed a brainy bond with the Hoodie and took a slot on the Essentials as the engineering, chemistry and medical expert. He flourished in his new role and became an invaluable agent, and always stepped up to the challenge.

Intent on imagining the future and playing the shining knight, Cole never stopped improving his amazing ability to adapt to any challenge. He helped found the Essentials, endowing the team with technology to make it the best it could be, even as his personal life suffered. His passion for invention and excellence keeps him battling for balance. Despite mortal enemies constantly trying to crack his armor, he's risen from defeat time and time again to protect those he loves and the world's precious future.

He is notorious for supplying tech to the Essentials, while also maintaining his position as lead scientist, engineer and sole archer.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cole was a child prodigy, becoming academically-gifted at a young age and he found a love for sports. He excelled in physics, astronomy, philosophy, mathematics, statistics, applied mathematics, and sociolinguistics, and he became skilled in rock-climbing, calisthenics, gymnastics, cycling, weightlifting, badminton, soccer, and he became particularly proficient in freestyle recurve archery. He also enjoyed playing pool, and in throughout middle and high school he was on the diving and chess teams. He took French, but he did not care for it.

### EPF Career

#### Recruitment

Cole left Vancouver to attend the EPF Academy and was hand-picked by Oswald Garrington for his polymathic and athletic abilities.

#### Elite Agent

Cole eventually became commander of an elite military unit specializing in everything from espionage to aviation, intelligence, inventing, design, combat, front line operations, medicine, infiltrations, space flights, and sabotage. His title was **Tech Commander** as he rose through the ranks, and it would eventually stick as his superhero name. Cole would go on to participate in classified missions, such as Operation Eternal Winter and Operation Anti-Meteor.

### Adventures with the Essentials

#### Small Problem

One day, Cole had invited two members of his new team, Jake and Peter to his penthouse for a new technological demonstration: Project Nanotech, nanobots working together as a colony, coordinated by the hive mind contained within the robotic cells. At the time, the safety restriction was still in place, meaning they cannot disassemble molecules or organic cells, like it will in the future to perform microscopic operations. The nanobots have the ability to take apart and reassemble mechanical devices. However, the mental structure of the hive mind was equivalent to that of an infant absorbing new information, essentially, personifying. Cole attempted to eradicate the personality glitch, and wanted his two best friends to be present.

Moments after his friends arrived, the nanobots infested Cole's Tech-Cubes, and immediately attacked the trio. They fought back, but ultimately could not win. Before the nanotech escaped, Jake enthusiastically codenamed it Bloxbuster. Like a child, the Bloxbuster lashed out, headed for the rest of Emerald City, too fast for the three friends. One of its first actions was taking apart burglar alarms, allowing burglars to rob stores. Cole and his friends geared up, and headed to the city to hunt down the childish creature. Downtown, they fought him off, and after Hoodie swiftly sliced off its arm, Cole gathered the synthetic limb and suggested the team took a tactical evade.

Back at base, Cole talked about how since the nanobots were microscopic robots all working together, the ones that were separated became mindless and unmotivated. Their biggest threat was that the nanobots reproduce themselves, making copies of itself, it is potentially unstoppable. Cole thought to trace the bots using their unique power signature, so he used his tracker to get a lock on it. As much as it pained Cole to destroy such amazing technology, he remembered the nanobots are susceptible to extreme heat, intriguing Peter.

For the showdown, they located the bots to a junkyard, where the bots made ample usage of its technology to assimilate itself with the wrecked vehicles, becoming a mech. Cole's strategy was to hit it so fast it couldn't rebuild itself, to nearly no avail. To finish him off, Jake used his inhuman strength to knock the giant mech towards Peter, who absolutely roasted it, decimating it.

#### Later Years

Although the Essentials eventually disbanded after the disappearance of Hoodie, Cole remained an active EPF agent around the globe.

## Personality

Cole is somewhat of a futurist, someone who tries to predict the future, or in his case, trying to create it by inventing technology for the next century and trying to make the world a better place.

## Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** As an elite agent and a former multi-sport athlete, Cole is in top physical condition. Due to his experience with archery, Cole possesses high levels of upper body strength and stamina, due to constantly pulling back on his bow with force which has influenced more lean muscle in his drawing arm than his other arm, as well as keen vision. He also has high leg strength for stability and accuracy in archery. His training in diving also means he has a low percentage of body fat, as well as core strength, explosiveness in his legs and great kinesthetic awareness.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** Cole's training in weightlifting allows him to easily draw his 35-pound tension bow, snatch 100 pounds, clean and jerk 140 pounds, bench press 145 pounds, squat and deadlift 265 pounds, and hip thrust 475 pounds.
	+ **Peak Human Stamina:** Cole is capable of sustained efforts of endurance. For instance, he can practice archery for seven hours with no breaks.

*"You always were the smartest out of the group, Cole."*
—Peter Blake to Cole Grant
* **Genius-Level Intelligence:** Cole is a genius with a high IQ and numerous talents, including, but not limited to, mechanical engineering, physics, and linguistics. Among his inventions include his armors, trick arrows, the E-Comm and other various gadgets for the Essentials. He also contributed to the avionics of the Exosphere M-3. Cole always kept a notebook of blueprints on him for inspiration. He is one of the EPF's most outstanding agents, with his extreme intelligence being his greatest asset. Solar Flare, a highly intelligent individual in his own right, was always the smartest member of the team.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Cole speaks fluent English, French, Cantonese and Japanese.
* **Master Spy:** Cole is one of the EPF's best operatives, being familiar with espionage, stealth, disguise, and infiltration.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Cole is a master hand-to-hand combatant with training in Karate and Judo. He is highly disciplined and meticulous in battle, being able to fight alongside other reputable combatants such as Hoodie, Solar Flare and Blue Ninja.
* **Bow Mastery:** Cole is a master archer, particularly with a recurve bow. He is highly proficient and precise with a bow, capable of accurately hitting his targets from a distance. He can also use his bow as a striking weapon.
* **Master Marksman:** In addition to his skill in archery, Cole is proficient with firearms, including compact rifles, semi-automatic 9mm pistols, pump-action shotguns, bullpup rifles, grenade launchers, and miniguns.

## Equipment

### Attire

* **E-Comm:** Cole designed E-Comms for **G-Tech**, and are now used among members of the Essentials. Cole's variation always features his holo-monocle displayed.
* **Specialized Arrow Quiver:** Cole's quiver is supplied with a multitude of different arrowheads in the bottom. By dialing up an armament setting from a control on his bow, Cole can cause the quiver to affix these special arrowheads. This effectively increases the capabilities from conventional arrows, to explosive arrows, a grapple line, and more.
* **Tech Commander Suit:** Originally his agent suit, Cole used his skills to modify his suit, thereby enhancing his performance on the battlefield. It uses Kevlar, making it bulletproof, and features fireproof boots.
* **Navy Cross Armors:** Cole has a portable armor compressed and contained into a 33-pound briefcase guarded by a biometric fingerprint scanner. The armor assembles around him and increases Cole's natural physical abilities to superhuman levels, granting him elevated strength and durability. He also has a prehensile suit; injected micro-repeaters into his arm allow autonomous prehensile self-propulsion and administration of individual components including arms, boots, chest, helmet, and face shield.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Recurve Bow:** Cole is seen with a heavily customized recurve bow in blackout colors, and is capable of folding on itself for easier transport and concealment by way of added hinges located by the tiller adjustment bolts. It also has multiple buttons on the bow's grip which are capable of selecting specific arrowheads stored in his mechanical quiver. A laser sight to assist in targeting can also be found on the riser. The bow has a capability to transform into a bo staff which can be used for closed quarters combat.
* **Arrows**
* **Trick Arrows:** Cole's weapon of choice, the collapsible recurve bow, comes equipped with an arsenal of custom designed arrows. These arrows range from smoke screens to EMP detonators to grappling hooks to thermal incendiary and so on.
* **FN P90:** A fully loaded compact assault rifle with attached silencer and a 50-round magazine. This submachine gun is light, powerful, and handy in close quarters combat.
* **Flashlight:** A top of the line titanium flashlight. It works underwater, and has an eight hour battery life.
* **Riot Shield Bracelet**
* **Flashbangs:** Cole heaves a blinding grenade that explodes shortly after it leaves his hand. The blast staggers enemies in a small radius.

## Tech Commander Designs

* Bow and Quiver
* Suit
* Trick Arrows
* E-Comm
* Fire Gauntlets
* APDB-1
* Energy Gauntlet
* Firework Burst Grenade
* PropX Charge (Proprietary Explosive)
* Super-Sight Scouting Sweeper
* VBG-0X

## Relationships

### Family

* Light King - Father
* Light Queen - Mother
* Vampire King - Uncle

### Allies

* EPF - Employers
* Essentials - Team

## Trivia

* Cole's favorite colors are silver and blue.
* Cole's superhero name is also his title as an agent.
* Cole plays e-sports, specifically MOBAs: multiplayer online battle arena. He is a fan of *League of Legends*.
* Cole has a taste for MREs.