Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Nov 20, 2009 17:38:04 GMT -5
'Nother Time Squad character...
Full Name: Diplomatic Unit L3K, or the Lawrence 3000
Nicknames: Larry
Age: 24
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 142 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Android
Alliance: Good
Home: As of his establishment in Dimensional Clash, an apartment in Dimensional Island decked out like the Time Squad satellite in the 1,000,001st century where he'd otherwise be living
Franchise: Time Squad
Physical Description: Larry's main pieces are made from a pale brown metal. His head is a thin cylinder with a dark brown dome on top which can pop open to hook up to and interface with the supercomputer if necessary. His eyes are dark brown headlamp shapes with a light blue glow. His mouth piece is an arch shape, which also glows as he talks. It can "smile" or "frown" depending on his mood (obviously).
Larry's head is connected to his bowl-shaped torso by a flexible beige tube. On the torso is a radio receiver that glows either light blue or yellow (usually light blue) depending on the frequency he's picking up. The receiver is adjusted by two red buttons below the meter.
At the sides of the torso's "bowl rim" are two shoulder pads that hook up to two more tubes. These are joined at the "elbows" by forearms which contain flip-open mini-computers with contain transtemporal wireless access to the space station's supercomputer. His fingers are dark brown.
The bottom of the torso "bowl" connects via another tube to a pale brown sphere, which separates two halves of a dark brown sphere which serve as Larry's hips. Two more tubes connect to dark brown kneecaps, which in turn hook the tubes to his flask-shaped legs. These legs are kept balanced by two dark brown "toe" pieces.
Weapons: None, though he does know how to use one
Abilities/Powers: The Larry 3000 is an ambassador droid, and is programmed to understand the languages and cultures of all the known countries in the world and some off-world. When the famous Planetary Nation Treaty merged all the planet's nations into a single central government and Larry's original function became obsolete, he was reassigned as a member of the Time Squad organization and given time travel software.
This software allows the user to open a rip in the fourth dimension which sucks the user and those around them into a transtemporal wormhole and spits them out at their destination; no "time vehicle" involved. When observed from the outside, those time traveling are seen appearing or disappearing in a brilliant flash of light and a loud crack. Larry's time travel software, though, is a bit outdated, though it has been upgraded somewhat recently to allow Tuddrussel's unit to escape Dimensional Island temporarily for their missions.
Skills: Being as knowledgeable as he is about all cultures, he's an excellent chef and can whip up a whole variety of cuisines. He's also talented at sewing, organization, computer sciences, financial sciences, and typical household chores.
Larry has also been learning karate from Otto in the last year at the latter's insistence, though he'd been reluctant to learn it at first. Nonetheless, he's getting quite good at it.
As stated above, Larry can also maintain and use firearms. Although he detests the thought of using them, he discovered he had a knack for it while he and Tuddrussel were stuck in each other's quarters and Otto was stranded in 15th century North America... long story.
Personality: Larry has an aristocratic demeanor with a taste for the finer things in life ("I might not have taste buds, but I do have taste."). He sometimes shows a somewhat cynical side from time to time, though this is mostly brought on by the endless undignified time spent with his idiotic, overconfident superior officer over the past several years.
Due to having been in some pretty elegant scenes of international political life, Larry often expresses feminine tendencies. Bear in mind, no matter what the SLASH-happy fans tell you in their stories, LARRY IS NOT GAY, especially NOT FOR TUDDRUSSEL! In fact, Larry was programmed to be asexual, though advanced A.I. programming like Larry's can evolve overtime, and Larry has shown interest in females on occasion (i.e. Cleopatra). However, Larry does show his masculine side from time to time.
History: By the 1 millionth century, all of Earth's nations were generally practicing the same political policies. But they still had their own unique customs and languages that differed from each other. There's where diplomatic units like the Larry 3000 came in. After coming off the assembly line, Larry spent nine years boxed away in storage before he was activated and put to work.
When he did get to work, however, he proved to be one of the finest ambassador robots in the field. His efficient negotiation skills have generated and maintained peace among many nations. Ironically, his efficiency turns out to be his undoing. On June 18, 99999996, the famous Planetary Nation Treaty was signed, merging all civilization on the planet into one harmonious "supernation."
Since ambassadors were no longer among the old countries, Larry was put up for sale. The history-monitoring police force known as Time Squad soon bought the obsolete diplomatic unit and equipped it with the necessary equipment to operate in their business. Unfortunately, a simple oversight caused historical knowledge programming to be skipped in the process.
Still, the superior officer he'd be paired with would know a little something about the subject he's monitoring, right? Wrong! Larry was paired with the violent and dim-witted Buck "It's go time!" Tuddrussel, who had just recently been divorced by his wife and fellow officer, Sheila Sternwell. With their lack of knowledge of their subject and clashing personalities, they made a horrible team--and they knew it. More often than not, they've had to call for back-up from another team--and it usually turned out to be Sternwell's that came.
Going on the turn of the century, after a few years of failure after failure, Tuddrussel and Larry were assigned to check out Eli Whitney. However, Larry punched the coordinates wrong, but Tuddrussel forced him to confirm them anyway. Instead of Georgia of 1793, the team appeared in New York of 2001 in the room of a frightened orphan named Otto.
It became clear that Otto's life was miserable at the orphanage. It was also clear that Otto was a complete whiz at the subject of history--the very subject they were supposed to know. At Otto's insistence, Tuddrussel decided to take the boy with them to be their third member, despite Larry's arguments of what a huge violation it was. But Otto came to stay, and their missions improved dramatically with his presence. Larry grew fond of the boy as, although he'd often engage in immature activities with Tuddrussel, he also served as friendlier company to the robot after having spent three years with no one but the selfish and egotistical Tuddrussel.
Tuddrussel and Larry let Otto grow up with them in secret, as his presence in the future was technically illegal. However, going on the boy's 10th birthday, a surprise inspection by Time Squad Central led to his discovery. A trial was held for Tuddrussel's team, and it was suggested that Otto be returned to his own time and Tuddrussel and Larry be fired for their severe violation of the rules. Fortunately, Otto was allowed to stay on the grounds that not only had he improved the team's success rate drastically, but his removal from time was proven to have had no historical impact whatsoever and had he stayed, he would've died of malnutrition by the age of 9 anyway. This verdict was reached based on evidence given, surprisingly, by then Lieutenant Sheila Sternwell. Although Sheila still has little feelings for her ex-husband, she's admittedly grown fond of the boy he and Larry had taken under their wing.
After Tuddrussel and Larry spent a month demoted (the court had decided they still needed some sort of slap on the wrist), Otto was commissioned as a semiofficial member of the team and reserved to enroll at the Time Squad Academy when he turns 13. Larry also gave him his watch (described in Otto's "powers/abilities" section) around this time as a congratulatory gift.
The team then continued working together... then came one mission to Millard Fillmore. When Larry miscalculated on the coordinates, he somehow landed the three in the Interdimensional Travel Station of Dimensional Island. Any attempts to zap off of the island were futile. When Larry did manage to escape for a short time, he made it back to T.S. Central's research department to find out what was happening. The scientists there determined the interference from multiple timelines was continuing to suck the three back onto the island. They were able to update their old software to allow them to escape to another time of their own dimension for a day or so at a time, but they still haven't developed a permanent solution. The three have managed to secure an apartment they have set up with their various necessary equipment, and they will generally be seen hanging around different parts of the island when they're not being called on a mission.
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Full Name: Diplomatic Unit L3K, or the Lawrence 3000
Nicknames: Larry
Age: 24
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 142 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Android
Alliance: Good
Home: As of his establishment in Dimensional Clash, an apartment in Dimensional Island decked out like the Time Squad satellite in the 1,000,001st century where he'd otherwise be living
Franchise: Time Squad
Physical Description: Larry's main pieces are made from a pale brown metal. His head is a thin cylinder with a dark brown dome on top which can pop open to hook up to and interface with the supercomputer if necessary. His eyes are dark brown headlamp shapes with a light blue glow. His mouth piece is an arch shape, which also glows as he talks. It can "smile" or "frown" depending on his mood (obviously).
Larry's head is connected to his bowl-shaped torso by a flexible beige tube. On the torso is a radio receiver that glows either light blue or yellow (usually light blue) depending on the frequency he's picking up. The receiver is adjusted by two red buttons below the meter.
At the sides of the torso's "bowl rim" are two shoulder pads that hook up to two more tubes. These are joined at the "elbows" by forearms which contain flip-open mini-computers with contain transtemporal wireless access to the space station's supercomputer. His fingers are dark brown.
The bottom of the torso "bowl" connects via another tube to a pale brown sphere, which separates two halves of a dark brown sphere which serve as Larry's hips. Two more tubes connect to dark brown kneecaps, which in turn hook the tubes to his flask-shaped legs. These legs are kept balanced by two dark brown "toe" pieces.
Weapons: None, though he does know how to use one
Abilities/Powers: The Larry 3000 is an ambassador droid, and is programmed to understand the languages and cultures of all the known countries in the world and some off-world. When the famous Planetary Nation Treaty merged all the planet's nations into a single central government and Larry's original function became obsolete, he was reassigned as a member of the Time Squad organization and given time travel software.
This software allows the user to open a rip in the fourth dimension which sucks the user and those around them into a transtemporal wormhole and spits them out at their destination; no "time vehicle" involved. When observed from the outside, those time traveling are seen appearing or disappearing in a brilliant flash of light and a loud crack. Larry's time travel software, though, is a bit outdated, though it has been upgraded somewhat recently to allow Tuddrussel's unit to escape Dimensional Island temporarily for their missions.
Skills: Being as knowledgeable as he is about all cultures, he's an excellent chef and can whip up a whole variety of cuisines. He's also talented at sewing, organization, computer sciences, financial sciences, and typical household chores.
Larry has also been learning karate from Otto in the last year at the latter's insistence, though he'd been reluctant to learn it at first. Nonetheless, he's getting quite good at it.
As stated above, Larry can also maintain and use firearms. Although he detests the thought of using them, he discovered he had a knack for it while he and Tuddrussel were stuck in each other's quarters and Otto was stranded in 15th century North America... long story.
Personality: Larry has an aristocratic demeanor with a taste for the finer things in life ("I might not have taste buds, but I do have taste."). He sometimes shows a somewhat cynical side from time to time, though this is mostly brought on by the endless undignified time spent with his idiotic, overconfident superior officer over the past several years.
Due to having been in some pretty elegant scenes of international political life, Larry often expresses feminine tendencies. Bear in mind, no matter what the SLASH-happy fans tell you in their stories, LARRY IS NOT GAY, especially NOT FOR TUDDRUSSEL! In fact, Larry was programmed to be asexual, though advanced A.I. programming like Larry's can evolve overtime, and Larry has shown interest in females on occasion (i.e. Cleopatra). However, Larry does show his masculine side from time to time.
History: By the 1 millionth century, all of Earth's nations were generally practicing the same political policies. But they still had their own unique customs and languages that differed from each other. There's where diplomatic units like the Larry 3000 came in. After coming off the assembly line, Larry spent nine years boxed away in storage before he was activated and put to work.
When he did get to work, however, he proved to be one of the finest ambassador robots in the field. His efficient negotiation skills have generated and maintained peace among many nations. Ironically, his efficiency turns out to be his undoing. On June 18, 99999996, the famous Planetary Nation Treaty was signed, merging all civilization on the planet into one harmonious "supernation."
Since ambassadors were no longer among the old countries, Larry was put up for sale. The history-monitoring police force known as Time Squad soon bought the obsolete diplomatic unit and equipped it with the necessary equipment to operate in their business. Unfortunately, a simple oversight caused historical knowledge programming to be skipped in the process.
Still, the superior officer he'd be paired with would know a little something about the subject he's monitoring, right? Wrong! Larry was paired with the violent and dim-witted Buck "It's go time!" Tuddrussel, who had just recently been divorced by his wife and fellow officer, Sheila Sternwell. With their lack of knowledge of their subject and clashing personalities, they made a horrible team--and they knew it. More often than not, they've had to call for back-up from another team--and it usually turned out to be Sternwell's that came.
Going on the turn of the century, after a few years of failure after failure, Tuddrussel and Larry were assigned to check out Eli Whitney. However, Larry punched the coordinates wrong, but Tuddrussel forced him to confirm them anyway. Instead of Georgia of 1793, the team appeared in New York of 2001 in the room of a frightened orphan named Otto.
It became clear that Otto's life was miserable at the orphanage. It was also clear that Otto was a complete whiz at the subject of history--the very subject they were supposed to know. At Otto's insistence, Tuddrussel decided to take the boy with them to be their third member, despite Larry's arguments of what a huge violation it was. But Otto came to stay, and their missions improved dramatically with his presence. Larry grew fond of the boy as, although he'd often engage in immature activities with Tuddrussel, he also served as friendlier company to the robot after having spent three years with no one but the selfish and egotistical Tuddrussel.
Tuddrussel and Larry let Otto grow up with them in secret, as his presence in the future was technically illegal. However, going on the boy's 10th birthday, a surprise inspection by Time Squad Central led to his discovery. A trial was held for Tuddrussel's team, and it was suggested that Otto be returned to his own time and Tuddrussel and Larry be fired for their severe violation of the rules. Fortunately, Otto was allowed to stay on the grounds that not only had he improved the team's success rate drastically, but his removal from time was proven to have had no historical impact whatsoever and had he stayed, he would've died of malnutrition by the age of 9 anyway. This verdict was reached based on evidence given, surprisingly, by then Lieutenant Sheila Sternwell. Although Sheila still has little feelings for her ex-husband, she's admittedly grown fond of the boy he and Larry had taken under their wing.
After Tuddrussel and Larry spent a month demoted (the court had decided they still needed some sort of slap on the wrist), Otto was commissioned as a semiofficial member of the team and reserved to enroll at the Time Squad Academy when he turns 13. Larry also gave him his watch (described in Otto's "powers/abilities" section) around this time as a congratulatory gift.
The team then continued working together... then came one mission to Millard Fillmore. When Larry miscalculated on the coordinates, he somehow landed the three in the Interdimensional Travel Station of Dimensional Island. Any attempts to zap off of the island were futile. When Larry did manage to escape for a short time, he made it back to T.S. Central's research department to find out what was happening. The scientists there determined the interference from multiple timelines was continuing to suck the three back onto the island. They were able to update their old software to allow them to escape to another time of their own dimension for a day or so at a time, but they still haven't developed a permanent solution. The three have managed to secure an apartment they have set up with their various necessary equipment, and they will generally be seen hanging around different parts of the island when they're not being called on a mission.
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