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Real Name: Unrevealed
Alias: Maria Pym, SODAM
Occupation: Weapon
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Unrevealed
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile, usually a laboratory of AIM
Past Group Affiliations: AIM
Known Powers:
Force Field: Modam can manipulate her psionic energies to surround herself with an Incredible rank personal force field.
Mind Control: Modam can override the conscious mind of another being at Good rank. The target may attempt a Good Intensity Psyche FEAT roll to avoid this effect. If the roll is missed, Modam controls the conscious actions of the character, who has no memory of the time he is controlled. The victim gains another Psyche FEAT roll in an attempt to break control each time he is placed in a Karma-losing or life-threatening situation. Initially, Modam must be within 1 area of her victim, but after control is established she can influence the target telepathically at a range of 64 areas (about 1.5 miles)
Multitasking: Her computerized brain allows her to use any two of her abilities, either psionic or those derived from her hover-chair, at once.
Synaptic Disrupter: This form of mental attack projects blasts of psionic force at Incredible Intensity and range (11 areas). If hit, the victim must succeed at a Psyche FEAT or be knocked unconscious for 1-10 rounds. Psi-Screens and force fields operate against this attack.
Telepathy: Modam has the Excellent rank ability to establish dirict mind-to-mind communication between herself and others at a range of up to 64 areas. Willing targets and those with a Psyche lower than Modam’s can be contacted automatically. Subjects of equal Psyche require a yellow FEAT result, and those with mental powers or psionic screening a red result. Those who are unwilling with a higher Psyche are impossible FEATs.
Equipment:
Modam’s hover-chair provides her with an exoskeletal shell of life-supporting machinery. It has the following statistics:
| Control | Speed | Body | Protection |
| Ex | Rm | Rm | Pr |
Besides monitoring both bodily and mechanical functions and transmit ting this data to AIM headquarters, the hover-chair grants Modam other abilities:
- Flight: Anti-gravity generators in the hover-chair enable Modam to fly at Remarkable airspeed (15 areas per turn) up to a maximum flight ceiling of 19,000 feet.
- Headband: This device aids Mo dam in focusing her psionic energy. Without it all of her mental powers are reduced by -2CS.
- Plasma Cannon: This laser-guided weapon is capable of inflicting Incredible energy damage.
- Telescoping Arms: Her titanium-steel arms have Amazing Material Strength and can elongate up to 1 area.
Limitation:
Because her musculature is atrophied and her head is grotesquely enlarged, Modam is physically dependent on the exoskeleton provided by her hover-chair. If the chair’s systems malfunction, she is extremely vulnerable.
Talents:
None
Contacts:
AIM agents around the world
Role-Playing Notes:
While Modam must have once been a normal person with a normal per son’s emotions, she is now a biomechanical organism devoid of such “flaws.” Modam is totally loyal to her AIM creators, and she is eager to prove her abilities.
History:
Although Modam’s origin is as yet unrevealed, it has been alluded to that she is Maria Pym, the deceased wife of Doctor Henry Pym. Accompanied by the rest of the West Coast Avengers, Dr. Pym discovered that his wife was alive and being held captive in a Bratislava prison, which also served as part of that country’s superhuman research complex.
Dr. Pym found his wife attached to a huge life-support system. Although she was alive, she was not unchanged: Her brain was freakishly large and encapsulated in a glass dome. Maria explained that she had been subjected to experiments designed to increase the intelligence of apes; these experiments had caused her brain to expand. She pleaded with her husband to end her misery.
Refusing to kill his wife, Dr. Pym returned with her to the Avengers’ compound, where he feverishly worked to find a cure that would reverse the expansion of Maria’s artificially enhanced brain. He was making progress, and had just completed a mobile support system for her, when Maria rendered Dr. Pym unconscious with a blast of knockout gas. Maria escaped to AIM head quarters, where she underwent further mutations, becoming the creature called Sodam: Specialized Organism Designed for Aggressive Maneuvers. In a battle with Dr. Pym, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird, Sodam was eager for victory, but she was ordered to retreat by the secret rulers of AIM, who were reluctant to endanger their creation further.
A number of months later, at AIM’s first International Weapons Exposition, the creature resurfaced as Modam: Mobile Organism Designed for Aggressive Maneuvers. After having undergone extensive mutation, including the addition of cybernetic implants, Modam emerged from the alteration chamber as the latest product of AIM’s research.
For her first mission, Modam was sent to acquire Quasar’s quantum bands. She placed a strange device within the Statue of Liberty that emitted a power surge to attract Quasar’s attention. Upon arriving at the scene, Quasar mistakenly believed the device to be a bomb, when in fact it was designed to act as a magnet for his quantum bands. As Quasar was held fast against the device, Modam moved in for the kill. Though she assailed his mind and blasted away at him with her plasma bolts, Modam could not force Quasar to surrender. Overcoming Modam’s mental attack, the cosmic Avenger lashed out and blew Modam’s arms off. He then broke free of the magnetic device and towed his attacker into Earth’s upper atmosphere, where Modam was rendered unconscious. Modam was given over to the custody of officials at the Vault, but was presumably freed by members of AIM.
Most recently, Modam was sent to bring Diamondback, Anaconda, Black Mamba, and Asp to a luxury liner for a mysterious cruise. All four of these women had been, or are currently, members of the Serpent Society. During the assignment, Modam hijacked the serpent saucer, and Diamondback’s apartment was demolished. Flying the serpent saucer, Modam took the women to the luxury liner off the coast of Florida. On the way, each costumed woman was given an invitation and $100,000 in cash.
Captain America discovered Diamondback’s ruined apartment, and became concerned for his friend’s safety. Cap contacted Paladin to see if he had any information concerning Diamondback, but Paladin had little knowledge of her whereabouts. The two men then went to the hospital, where two members of the Serpent Society (Rock Python and Puff Adder) were being treated for the wounds they received in their fight with Modam. From Rock Python’s description of Modam, Cap realized that AIM was involved, and he decided to fly to their headquarters on a small Caribbean island. Paladin persuaded Cap to let him come along.
During the flight, Cap received a homing signal coming from a tracer Diamondback had activated in her costume. As the Avenger’s ship closed in on the luxury liner, Modam was launched to deal with the intruders. Modam used her powers to put the pilot, John Jameson, in a trance, which caused the ship to fall into a power dive. Captain America could not pull the ship out of the dive, forcing himself, Paladin, and John to eject. As the three men floated toward the ocean, Modam destroyed their parachutes with her plasma cannon, plunging them into the ocean. Paladin disabled Modam’s headband and damaged her hover-chairs gyroscope, causing her to flee. Modam’s current whereabouts are unknown.