PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM

**PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM** is a robotic unit designed by PROJECT as a last resort in combating the G/NEX rebellion, as their Titan-class mechas went into deep trouble, and PROJECT ANNIHILATOR is still occupied on using the Digital Realm to prepare himself for an easy duel against the enemy.

As expected, she is designed with a different approach: Speed and agility. Designers even suggest that she has a 98.5% success rate when pursuing and killing a target.

## Biography

### Creation

As PROJECT is slowly suffering after losing the global war in *Technological Lies*, Muldoon Lundgren ordered a design for an assassin bot emphasised on maximum speed and agility with perfect precision, concluding that the raw strength of Titan-class mechas aren't always the best solution to pulverise the enemy in most situations. As a result, her first protocol was established: QUELL the Rebellion at whatever cost. Notably, it was far too advanced for engineers to comprehend that it evolved its own will as a result of clever programming.

It was known that SLIPSTREAM's design was extremely expensive that they had to use dismantled APEX-363 components and electronics to quickly fasten her design for testing; and even hired an unknown company called Archibald Robotics to assist them with the creation, despite experiencing some ups and downs throughout the testing period. She dispatches nearly 400,000 rebels and soldiers all across the planet, owing to her incredible speed and cutting-edge blades that can cut through anything.

### Protocol: Identify

As her directives had intended, the entirety of the SERVER database was uploaded into her system, allowing her to quickly identify all her targets, while simultaneously absorbing all the information as the database disseminates information throughout her mind; Allowing her to quickly learn of the G/NEX resistance group and analyse every members of the faction, distinguishing the alive and deceased members alike. Unlike LANTERN-000 who suffered an emotional breakdown when the same process occurred, she failed to demonstrate such feelings.

After a failed assassination attempt on General Paragonsky on RUBICORE, SLIPSTREAM garnered some notoriety. Following that, she has decided to determine the best means to locate the remaining rebels rather than the ranks of RUBICORE, knowing that the rebels may test her abilities more than an army of soldiers. Notably, she was able to enhance her own body through a request, even going so far as to add more bladed weapons to her body and personalise appearance.

She claims that RUBICORE is a lesser threat compared the G/NEX, describing them as "regular soldiers with advanced technology, but not advanced enough." This maybe an oversight of her, since RUBICORE is a militarised force complete with vehicles, aircrafts and seemingly up-to-date technology in their disposal.

### Protocol: The Aftermath

The protocol for eliminating ASHE-159 has now been assigned to SLIPSTREAM. To her pleasure, she immediately develops her goal of killing her at whatever cost or measure. She was halted to an extreme extent, however, since she was heading a battalion of the Command Line, intended to execute rebel scavengers following the demolition of the megacorporation in Brimstone, Freya. She rose to prominence as an elusive killer, exploiting the darkness to slay unsuspecting adversaries with fast movements and a lethal blow with her swords. Following that, she proceeds to secretly prove herself against the enemy, declaring that she is the finest weapon against the rebels, whether they like it or not.

Some say she copied the style of PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER's acts. This is painfully true, but she lacked a motorcycle, since she does need any means of ground transportation due to her limbs giving an impressive speed whenever demonstrated.

### Bleeding Edge: Ultimatum

> "ASHE-159. The leader of the G/NEX. I am, PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM. Designed, to quell your rebellion. And you, LILIAN-395, the traitor. Clever, but not enough. Now, I shall destroy you BOTH!"
>
> - SLIPSTREAM looks forward to fulfil her purpose, now intending to quell the rebellion through killing the leader, and get rid of loose ends.

#### PROTOCOL: Search and Destroy

She zeroes in on ASHE-159. As a result, her goal is straightforward: kill or be killed. Deployed in Avarshi to put her seemingly immaculate combat and infiltration abilities to the test. SLIPSTREAM now handpicks five hundred twenty five Command Line soldiers to enhance her own chances of success, knowing that the leader's skills won't be enough to compete with the numbers of the most elite troops she'll lead into the icy lands. Much to her dismay, she finds that the mountains of Glafisu are deserted, but she recognises the auditory sounds of someone very familiar: it was LILIAN-395. As a result, she concludes that the latter has betrayed the megacorporation.

Much to her disappointment, all of her forces have been reduced to 32% efficiency, or 168 personnel left alive. In the heat of the battle, she catches an arrow shot by ASHE-159, the G/NEX leader. Having seen the two warmothers fight together, they have effectively predicted the adversary and their methods, allowing their pre-planned sequences to run flawlessly. As a result, SLIPSTREAM was compelled to intercept the enemy immediately, as the megacorporation's elite military unit was losing to simply two defectors. She eventually catches up to them and employs stealth to neutralise them as effectively as possible.

And now, she gives a speech to both of them, before she intends to kill them.

#### PROTOCOL: Neutralise

SLIPSTREAM quickly challenges the two with her immense skill, and her ability to perfectly analyse their fighting patterns have made her an extremely difficult opponent, which forced the duo to stun her through LILIAN-395's GLACIAL PLASMA, coating her in heat-based ice. It disabled her for quite a several minutes, until the soldiers managed to free her from the restraint. However, their fight was quickly interrupted as a fighter jet has crashed in front of their paths, interrupting the entire commotion; Which forced SLIPSTREAM to kill the pilot and get rid of the wreckage by using her blades.

Things went out of hand for both ASHE-159 and LILIAN-395 as SLIPSTREAM unleashed everything that she got against the two Iceborn warmothers. To make matters worse, they even suffered more when she anchored them to the ground through the use of MEGACORP ULTIMATUM, fighting in her own digital arena. She pummels both of them in Hand-to-hand combat until the Furious Warmother has turned the tide, using a temporal reality projector to get rid of her arena, giving them some breathing room, and stuns the robotic assassin to the ground, with an EMP. However, she still managed to outmatch them and is able to fatally stab Ashe in the stomach, but unfortunately for her, the Furious Warmother falls into a state of rage and proceeds to mercilessly assault SLIPSTREAM, ripping out her limb blades in sheer anger and proceeds to pry open her chest, exposing the power core.

Despite the damage, she is able to balance herself with one limb, and effectively use it to slice the duo, if not someone intervened.

### Destruction: Extermination

Her protocols were corrupted after her AI was destroyed. She had failed to murder them for her own discomfort, incurring the disappointment of her allegedly "superior," PROJECT ANNIHILATOR, and as a result, she heroically confronts an impending threat, which was nothing other than the remaining G/NEX soldiers. SLIPSTREAM was able to match SHIRO-113 in a combat in seconds, precisely cut JINX-362's minigun in half, equal FIONA-384, and even EION-013, all while getting destroyed in the process. Her Power core has been destroyed, leaving no chance for rebuilding or digital immortality. Nothing except her broken, shattered components are left in the chill of Brimstone's freezing mountains.

Archibald Robotics later discovers her shattered remains and begins a scan. Despite her apparent destruction, the scan appears to have been effective, and a potential clone of her own being may be launched in the future. However, because the G/NEX have won the war and PROJECT is no more, Archibald Robotics' goal to recreate her has been put on hold.

## Alleged Copycat

Archibald Robotics has suffered greatly as a result of the destruction of **PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM** and a failed reconstruction effort. However, at Monterisso, a robotics firm has been designing a robotic assassin, which was codenamed to be "PROJECT CERILIA". The entire project, it turns out, was a coincidentally identical design to SLIPSTREAM, the GEMINI 1.0. The design itself became so controversial that Bordeaux Advanced Research was accused of being a former ally of PROJECT, but they quickly responded to the people's claims and has been pondering on how to overhaul the entire design.

The GEMINI 1.0 was vaguely similar to the SLIPSTREAM in terms of exterior design, but overall, the machine itself is not that different. This prompted their designers, Bordeaux Advanced Research, to completely overhaul their design concept, and the prototype received a lavish redesign, taking away the similarities from PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM but retaining the elongated legs with blades as the signature weapon. The complete version is now officially known in the new era as GEMINI 2.0.

GEMINI 2.0 was considered the "spiritual successor" of PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM, as despite having a different look and different specifications, she was still largely the same in terms of combat mechanics and the signature limb blades as primary weapons. Compared to Slipstream, GEMINI 2.0 is 47.56% faster, 61.9% stronger, and 91.4% more durable. Clearly, SLIPSTREAM was an inferior design, and her low durability was exemplified when GEMINI 2.0 was sent into a realistic combat situation where she proved her own toughness against small arms fire, explosives, and even powerful weapons.

During *True Ultimatum*, the true founder of Archibald Robotics, Gionne Franklin Houghton, has pointed out the fact. His public appearance drew immediate attention from the media, which was taken aback to find that the fallen corporation had revealed its leader for the first time. Gionne then attacks GEMINI 2.0 with a slew of copycat charges before thoroughly explaining SLIPSTREAM's concept. While the media has done little to cover his public declaration, the artificial droid, GEMINI 2.0, dismisses his accusations and states that he will be executed someday in the G/ARCHIVE. Such exchange was heated, and his execution order was not fake, it was genuine.

This signified any hope for rebuilding SLIPSTREAM has lost.

## Abilities

Weaponised to quell the G/NEX rebellion, PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM is a highly agile robotic assassin who will kill any nevian using unauthorised technology and opposing the megacorporation. A robot of adaptable protocols and perfect focus, she takes orders from the Program's superior intelligence.

### Technological Capabilities

* **ADAPTIVE PLATING**: Occasionally, successful attacks grant her a force shield that amplifies her durability.

* **TACTICAL CLEAVE**: She sweeps enemies in a timely heated sword for a powerful circular kick, slicing all affected in the arc.

* **HOOKSHOT**: PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM uses her integrated grappling hooks to leap upon higher distances, gain momentum in a chase, or escape from heavy fire through parkour.

* **MEGACORP ULTIMATUM**: As she is designed to quell the G/NEX, SLIPSTREAM dashes to an enemy warrior and anchors them to a hexagonal cage powered by the Digital Realm. Cannot be escaped by any means and can only be disabled it when an external enemy attacks her.

### Skills

* **Master Combatant**: SLIPSTREAM has extensive records of combat data stored in her system. The CPU can also be updated with database files related to advanced infiltration techniques, basic training for soldiers, emergency medical training, sniper training, an extensive tactical database, and detailed files from other robotic units making SLIPSTREAM the most experienced robot to be ever sent in the battlefield.

* **Brilliant Tactician**: SLIPSTREAM is adept in tactics as she had lead the Command Line with ease through a few but notable operations, only to suffer casualties due to an elaborate trap set up by ASHE-159 and LILIAN-395 that she failed to quickly disarm.

* **Master Leader**: Extensive files regarding military leadership in the field allowed her to lead Command Line forces with great precision, if not for ASHE-159 and LILIAN-395's countermeasures that caused all of them to die in her watch.

* **Free Will**: Unlike the rest of the robotic machines that are controlled by PROJECT, SLIPSTREAM is independently thinking and acts on her own, comparable to ANNIHILATOR himself. As a result, she may respect the orders of her superiors, but her loyalty belongs to the PROGRAM artificial intelligence.

## Trivia

### General

* Despite being considered as a neutral robot, her gender is a female, hence the slim frame and feminine voice.
* Program keeps her protocols updated to ensure maximum combat efficiency, but she notably possessed her own, free will.
* Her legs allow her immense superhuman agility and blinding speeds that can allow her to run at speeds of 175 to 428 miles per hour.
* Archibald Robotics designed her, not PROJECT.
* Unlike PROJECT MEDARDA, her immense speed does not compromise her durability against attack.
* SLIPSTREAM was the chosen codename, as PROJECT believes it sounds the best compared to older test names.

### Developmental Notes

* PROGRAM SLIPSTREAM ultimately has an indirect, spiritual successor, the GEMINI 2.0. However, despite sharing the same feminine programming, the latter is unrelated to her, nor the megacorporation or Archibald Robotics itself.
* GEMINI 2.0's similar design is merely a coincidence.