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Iron Man of 2020

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Iron Man of 2020 (gh)

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Health: 

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Real Name: Arno Stark
Occupation: Munitions designer
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States in the 21st century with no criminal record
Identity: Unrevealed to the populace of 20th Century Earth.
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Father (deceased, name unrevealed), Cynthia Stark (wife, deceased), Arno Jr. (son, deceased)
Base of Operations: Stark Enterprises, early 21st Century
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Armor: Arno Stark introduced 21st Century state-of-the-art technology into Tony Stark’s Iron Man armor. He designed the armor Specifically for his physiology, and when he wears it, he has the statistics listed above. Aout of the armor Arno has the following statistics:
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The suit consists of Amazing material strength metals which give Iron Man Good Resistance versus acid, heat, cold, and most energy attacks, Remarkable Resistance versus physical and force attacks, and Shift-Y protection against radiation and electrical attacks.
Rocket: The armor also possesses rockets which allow Stark to fly at Monstrous airspeed. The boots also contained roller skates, which could be extended to allow Iron Man Excellent ground movement.
Telekinesis: Iron Man’s gauntlets can fire a re tractor beam, which provides Incredible strength Telekinesis with Typical control.
Shuriken: The Iron Man armor can throw two disk-shaped edged weapons, each of which does Amazing damage and has a 10-area range.
Energy Blast: The armor can fire energy bolts of enormous destructive capacity. The bolts have a range of ten areas. Every one in the target area and each adjoining area takes Un earthly intensity damage. A draw back is that Iron Man cannot “pull his punch” to deliver less than Amazing level damage.
Computer Link: Perhaps the most significant improvement in the 21st Century armor is the cybernetic computer link-up. The computer, named SX-9, can guide Stark’s aim, improving his firing by +2 CS. It also acts as a Danger Sense of Typical rank and provides basic bookkeeping functions as well. It is, however, particularly fragile. If Iron Man’s suit sustains any damage, the computer will go down for 3-30 turns, readjusting and repairing itself.


Talents:
Arno Stark is a genius, even by 21st Century standards. He has the Engineer, Computers, and Electronics skills.
Contacts:
Before his wife and son died, Arno Stark was a rash and egotistical inventor, proud of his work on time travel and the Iron Man armor. He felt that the attention he was receiving was certainly justified. But he was troubled about his munitions work. He tended to ignore interpersonal problems until they reached serious proportions. His attitudes after his bomb went off, killing his friends and family, is unrecorded. Certainly, he would do anything possible to some how save his family.
Role-Playing Notes:
In 2015, Stark Enterprises had been bought by Arno Stark (no relation), using his father’s fortune to gain him access to the technology Anthony Stark had invented decades before. However, Arno’s father’s fortune proved insufficient to support the younger Stark’s two pet projects: a more sophisticated suit of Iron Man’s armor and a functioning time machine. To support research on the time machine, Stark volunteered his technological skills to the military, building enormous nuclear munitions.

This put Stark in conflict with a number of anti-war groups. Like many of his other problems, he brushed these protesters aside until one of them, a terrorist named Robert Saunders, rigged a nuclear bomb kept at Stark Enterprises to detonate. Saunders didn’t reconsider when he found that Stark’s wife and son were visiting Stark Enterprises at the time, because Saunders intended to deactivate the device before it was to go off, scaring Stark and revealing the bomb to the public, but harming no one.

Unfortunately, Stark, as Iron Man, accidentally killed Saunders as he was trying to escape the sealed S.E. compound. Even worse, Saunders’ retina patterns were needed to defuse the bomb, and those patterns were unavailable now.

But Stark had a time machine. He traveled back to 20th century Earth to read the retina patterns of the twelve-year-old Saunders, but there were complications. Saunders had been kidnapped by the original Blizzard. Iron Man rescued Saunders and then, when Blizzard pressed the attack, killed the criminal.

Then, Spider-Man interfered as well, accidentally dropping the retina scanner. Stark therefore found himself required to take Saunders back to 2015. Spider-Man, frightened and confused by the unfriendly attitude of someone who resembled the more familiar Iron Man, fled with Saunders. Tragically, the child was caught by shards of flying glass from a window blown out by one of Stark’s powerful blasts.

Enraged, Spider-Man attacked, crippling the Iron Man armor. The fight ended when Stark was sent back to his own time, only to find that the bomb was somehow defective, detonating several minutes early and killing his wife and child.

Several years later, Iron Man was shown accepting contracts from other industrialists. His track record was pretty good until he accepted an assignment from Madame Summer Bain, to lead a raid on a group known as the Wreckers. This put him in conflict with Machine Man, who defeated him in battle twice. Iron Man’s exploits past this time are unrevealed.