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Real Name: Dr. Earl Cowan
Occupation: Robotics Technician
Legal Status: U.S. Citizen judged legally insane
Identity: Known to the authorities
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobil
Past Group Affiliations: Employee of Stark International, Detroit
Known Powers:
None
Equipment:
Robotic Body: The Red Ronin automaton is a huge robot. It has Monstrous protection against physical and energy attacks. It stands over 100-feet tall, giving it Shift-Z Growth and a +3 CS to be hit. The robot can move at Typical land speed (3 areas/round) or fly at Excellent speed (10 areas/round)
The Red Ronin robot is controlled cybernetically, and therefore possesses the mental statistics of its operator. The user sits in a control cabin within the helmet and mentally directs the robot’s actions.
The robot can be accessed by hatches in the feet or an emergency hatch in the rear of the helmet. The interior is a maze of conduits and cables.
Solar Blade: Red Ronin wields a solar blade from his shield
that can do Monstrous energy damage. It has no range, but the blade extends out
to 3 areas.
Gatling Laser Device: Red Ron in can use his shield to project a
laser beam capable of doing Amazing damage to a range of 10 areas.
Shield: The shield which Red Ronin uses, as well as allowing him
to use the Solar Blade and Laser Device, can generate a magnetic field giving
him Remarkable protection against energy attacks. It can also be thrown 2 areas
away for Monstrous Thrown Blunt damage.
Power Blaster: Red Ronin’s left hand gauntlet can fire an
electron beam capable of doing Incredible damage.
Talents:
Earl Cowan has the Electronics, Physics, and Computer talents.
Contacts:
Cowan was a former employee of Stark International, but he is not on good terms with them after his rampage.
Role-Playing Notes:
Cowan was mentally unstable, believing that the only way to save the world was to start World War Ill. This obsession blinded him to the obvious, such as the fact that in all likelihood there would be no survivors of such a war to unite into one nation. An inferior technician, he preferred to rely on the brute force of the Red Ronin construct.
History:
The Red Ronin is a hundred-foot-tall robot designed by Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi and built at Stark International’s Detroit factory for the express purpose of subduing the mutated dinosaur called Godzilla. Although it was intended that the robot would be piloted by an agent of SHIELD, Takiguchi’s young grandson Robert sneaked aboard the huge automaton and donned the cybernetic helmet by which the robot’s actions are controlled. The robot’s computer system calibrated itself to the boy’s brain patterns, making the robot inoperable by anyone except the young Takiguchi without time-consuming reprogramming. Robert Takiguchi named the robot “Red Ronin,” after the Japanese word for a samurai without a master.
When Godzilla escaped from where it was being held, Robert reentered the mammoth robot and activated it. Robert Takiguchi believed Godzilla was not evil, just misunderstood, and he hoped to use the robot to protect Godzilla from accidentally destroying a nuclear arsenal. Inside Red Ronin, Takiguchi managed to remove Godzilla from the missile base, but due to SHIELD intervention, he was unable to drop the creature into the middle of the sea. Instead, they both plunged into San Diego’s harbor, and continued their battle there. The boy eventually convinced the monster that he meant it no real harm, and he allowed it to escape inland, to SHIELD’s consternation. When Godzilla was reported to be in Nevada, in combat with a huge mutated prehistoric hominid dubbed Yetrigar, after the legendary shaggy men thought to live in the mountains of Japan, Robert sneaked into Red Ronin again and followed the trail. Entering the battle, the Red Ronin tried to keep both creatures from harm, but Robert Takiguchi finally decided to bury Yetrigar beneath a rockslide in order to save Godzilla. Ashamed of his actions, Takiguchi fled.
Shortly afterward, he returned to the fray in Red Ronin in order to help Godzilla repulse an invasion by the alien Megans who dispatched Godzilla-scale monsters to rampage outside Salt Lake City. However, Red Ronin’s robotic head was severed from its body in the fray. Robert Takiguchi was unharmed.
The Red Ronin robot was shipped by train back to Stark International’s Detroit plant where Dr. Earl Cowan was given the task of repairing and reprogramming the giant automaton. Unknown to the Stark management, Dr. Cowan was mentally unstable, and when told he would have to give the robot to the testing crew, Cowan slew his immediate superior and hijacked the robot. Flying the robot to New York, Cowan was attacked by the Avengers and SHIELD. Cowan’s intent was to attack the U.S.S.R. in order to start World War Ill so that humanity would be united in its struggle to survive nuclear holocaust. Apparently, Cowan did not realize that it would be quicker to fly over the North Pole to the U.S.S.R. and so he passed over New York. After a protracted battle, the Avengers managed to stop Red Ronin by using its own laser blade against it to carve it to pieces. Miraculously, no one was killed during Red Ronin’s rampage through the Bronx and Queens, and its parts were taken into custody by SHIELD. Dr. Cowan was institutionalized. It has been rumored that SHIELD has contracted Stane International, the successor to Stark International, to reassemble Red Ronin for emergency use.