Pollux

Boy (By Project TITAN Scientists)

**Pollux** (Created December 1, 2419) is the culmination of **Project TITAN**. He is a Remnant super soldier created to be the ultimate weapon and, unbeknownst to him, the father of Cassius Dolores.

Pollux is currently the Second Head of Cerberus, controlling the largest sector of the galactic underworld aboard his flagship, Agamemnon.

## Appearance

Due to his augmentations, Pollux poses an intimidating frame. He stands at 7ft 5 without his boots and 7ft 7 in his boots. He has a slender frame that masks his muscular build well. He has long brown hair and his eyes were naturally blue. He lost his right eye in an explosion and it was replaced with a cybernetic eye that has a black sclera, a neon blue iris and a bright white pupil. He generally wears a silver mask to cover his apperance while he's in public as he's still wanted by the Magellan government.

He wears a faded black and gold coat that reaches to his feet with a red undershirt. He has grey pants and black boots and carries his favourite pistol, Goodnight, strapped in a shoulder holster on his left side.

## Early Life

Pollux was created on December 1st, 2419 at Facility TC1. He was engineered to have improved strength, agility, and intelligence. During his creation, one scientist altered his pheromones to natrually smell like Petrichor, as it was his favourite smell.

He was referred to as 'Boy' by all the scientists conducting tests around him. For the first few years of his life, Pollux was tested daily in intelligence tests. Mostly puzzles and problem solving. He was determined to have an IQ of 239 and accelled at Physics, Calculus and Algebraic geometry. From the time he was 7, his new schedule included physical training.

Pollux's home was Facility TC1, the test chamber was all he knew of the world for the beginning of his life. He was given weekly phychhological therapy when, by age 8, he was showing signs of disinterest with the program. A psychologist determined he was suffering from depression and suggested he be allowed to leave the Facility weekly to ease his pain. After some time, scientists agreed to one monthly supervised leave outside the Facility for the boy to explore the nearby city of Alexandria. Pollux was told he would be allowed out of the Facility if he completed all his excercises that month. He was accompanied by one scientist, Dr. Archer.

When he was 10, Pollux gave himself his name after constant questioning about why he was only known as 'Boy'. Scientists initally refused, as they saw him as an experiment, but Pollux refused to do any exercises unless the instructor said his name.

## Teenage Years

At 14, Pollux was starting to show signs of rebellion, something the three trials never showed. He requested he be allowed to leave bi-weekly instead of monthly, something that was immmediatly shut down. Pollux's physical training mixed with his artificial genetic structure had given him immense strength, which meant that he could eaisily overpower any opponent. He quicklly grew angrier with his freedoms being taken away. During a sparring session wtih five elite marines, Pollux snapped and killed all five within a minute. He threw one body at the cieling and into the dome's observation deck, screaming "Will you listen now!" to the scientists peering in.

Due to this outburst, Dr. Archer decided to give Pollux what he wanted. He was allowed a bi-weekly outing to the city accocmpanied by Dr. Archer. While this initally calmed Pollux down, he wanted to be allowed to explore on his own. Archer, the only scientist who showed any affection to Pollux, said the higher-ups wouldn't agree to that. But, he would organise a phone for Pollux. So that, when they went out, Pollux could explore by himself and call Archer to meet up and go back to the Facility.

## Meeting Athena

At 16, Pollux had started to respond to training more willingly. He had been learning military tactics for the past four years exclusively in addition to his daily physical training. His secret lone outings hadn't gone noticed. He had requested a few outings at night, which was agreed upon once a month. During one of his night outings, he saw a small woman getting robbed in a parking lot. After rushing in to help, he guided the woman to her destination, a nightclub. She asked if he'd like to come in with her and meet her friends. Pollux initailly declined, but agreed and went into the club. He spent the remainder of his night with this woman and her friends. Pollux asked if they could meet again, and the woman replied yes. She gave him her number and name; Athena Dolores.

Pollux spent his next few outings with Athena, going out on casual dates. Pollux trusted Athena with his secret that he was a test subject for creating the perfect soldier, which is why he was only heard from a few times a month. Athena thought he was joking and that he was a military brat that was bored and wanted to make a story up. Pollux decided to go with her thoughts and pretended this was the case.

## Final meeting

At 18, Pollux was freed from Project TITAN, which meant he would be aloud one month of freedom before he would be enlisted in the Military. He was still housed in Facility TC1 but was not monitored and allowed to leave when he wanted. He spent most of his days with Athena, particularly at her farmhouse in the outskirts of Alexandria. He told her he was going ot be gone for at least a year before he could be given shore leave and see her again, so he wanted to make his final days with her count. Before his departure, the pair took a photo together.

The day Pollux left, Athena told Pollux she had a surpise for him and wanted to tell him in person. But, Pollux was unable to meet with her as he was going off to serve that morning. He told her he would be back in a year and she could hold on to her surpise until then. Athena agreed, and wished Pollux good luck.

## Augmentation

Before Pollux was sent into the Military, he was taken back to Facility TC1 to recieve a round of augmenataions. While he was already enhanched to the peak of physical fitness, there was a wish to go further. Pollux was sedated and operated on for 3 hours before the procedure was complete. He required a week of recery time before he could be released. The augmentations included:

* Muscular Enhancement Injections
* Artificial Thyroid Implant
* Occular Enchancement

These augmentations made his muscled incredibly dense like cables, meaning he wouldn't be able to strain them eaisily. His thyroid implant was designed to allow him to grow larger muscles with proper training and would deactivate in a year. It had the unintentional side effect of streching Pollux to his 8ft 5 frame. The Occular Enhancement was designed to increase his perception and field of view. The Ocular enhancement was ultimatley rejected by Pollux's body and he was forced to undergo another procedure to reverse it. He was blinded for a month after this, but his vision untimately returned.

## Military Service

While his eyes were healing, Pollux was aboard the EverDusk. He was refined to his personal quartes and was checked on regulary by a doctor until his eyes healed. Once he was deemed fit for service, Pollux was immediatly deployed on his first mission to test wether Project TITAN was a succes. He was dropped on a jungle world with the task of rescuing a captured unit from behind enemy lines. Pollux was able to save every officer without being detected or killing a single person. When he returned, he was told that he was the finest soldier and hope for the Magellan military. He was routinely sent on resuce operations, as well as Black-Ops raids. Due to his size, Pollux towered over any other marine unless they were in Power Armour alongside him. Pollux was captured during a failed operation and spent two months in a high security prision called Bleak Hole, a prison built on an asteriod orbiting a Black Hole just outside its gravitational pull.

His time in the prison ultimatley changed Pollux. Early on, he realised that, without someone ordering him around or pushing him through training every single day, he was enjoying himself. His disillusionment with military life started to show. His resentment of his treatment growing up was only exascerbated when he talked to fellow inmates about his creation, with all agreeing that what was done to him was wrong.

One day, Pollux was released from Bleak Hole under a military pardon, and was immediatly sent back into strike missions. His performance suffered greatly due to his dissatisfaction and dissolution with military life.

After thirteen months of service, Pollux was sent back to Facility TC1 on Magellan and met with Dr. Archer. Dr. Archer was glad that Pollux returned, as he could see the beginning of Phase Two of Project TITAN.

## Phase Two

Even though Pollux had been missing and imprisioned, his creation was concidered a success. Shortly before returning, Phase Two was greenlit. A streamlined version of his own upbringing. Soildiers were being grown into adulthood and educated through virtual programs. They were also pumped with the same implants Pollux was administered, but with other enhancements to make them far more superior. Dr. Archer said that only three subjects were being grown at the moment, but if they wwere as successful as he was, then the government would be paying for a full squadron of TITAN soldiers. Pollux expressed disgust of what he saw, and said that everything that was wrong. Archer said that it was no more than what Next-Gen research was, but instead of babies, it was full adults being grown.

Pollux urged Archer to shut down the program, but he refused. Pollux asked if Facility TC1 was the only Black Site where Phase Two was conducting, Archer replied yes. Pollux flew into a murderous rampage and destroyed all the research and development, including the unfinished subjects and the personnel. Pollux left Archer for last, asking the man he considered family if this twisted research was worth everything, if he was worth creating in the first place. Pollux asked if he thought what he went through was really the right thing, and Falco responded that he was the reason Pollux was even allowed out in the first place. Pollux asked again, if what he went through was the right thing, Archer replied yes. Pollux's suffering was worth creating more soldiers to protect the planet and the galaxy.

Distraught, Pollux picked up Falco and hugged him, wishing that they could've fled and been a real family. Pollux then squeezed Falco until he started to suffocate. Falco tried to push Pollux off him, but it was impossible. Falco's last words before dying were "Pollux, son. Please..."

## Leaving Magellan

After killing Dr. Archer, Pollux worked his way through the facility, making sure nothing was missed and he'd desstroyed everything. The only thing left was a small transport shop he'd flown in on. Pollux rigged the facility to be destroyed, collapsing in on itssef and burying any evidence or possible salvage, then quuickly made his escape.

Knowing that he couldn't return to the planet, Pollux made for the nearest Gateway and travelled to a random sector. He landed close to Filo's Den, a small colony in the Vhanos Cluster. He send the transport ship on an automated course to the nearest sun, ensuring nothing could be tracer or recovered. He took only a spacesuit, a pair of civillian clothing, one days of rations and a gun with two magazines.

## Filo's Den

Pollux was picked up by a mining vessel shortly after jettisoning himself and was taken to Krate 1, the second largest hub of Filo's Den. After being dropped of, Pollux set out to try and start a new life, taking a bodyguard job to O'oro Dir, the owner of Lucky Me Casino.

Due to his stature a strength, Pollux made the idea bodyguard for O'oro, who found himself constantly in danger due to the multiple gangs that would try and rob the casino on a near weekly basis.