Location: Department of Superpower Affairs – Megalopolis Offices
William Gaunt had a headache. Not your typical ‘can’t see because of the spots’ migraine headache. This is the ‘return from death of Megalopolis’ greatest hero, Freedom Eagle’ headache. Fortunately he had gone to the New Super Society HQ thinking it was the Super Society he had been a member of. Blitzkrieg had immediately contacted the DSA offices. The office lead quickly sent two agents to investigate and sent a code: Resurrection to Director Gaunt. Immediately media lock down was placed on the area.
He had special powers from the President to do this for 48 hours. The media couldn’t be kept in the dark forever but a 48 hour blackout was allowed. It was a short time but enough to validate if this was the true Freedom Eagle returning or not.
The DSA technical staff and the last two people to see if Freedom Eagle alive were sent to the location. When Freedom Eagle came into contact with Shatterman and Condor he recognized both of them. This raised suspicion that this was a hoax. Freedom Eagle had never seen Shatterman in costume and wouldn’t know of the changes that Condor had made to Freedom Eagle’s old costume. When Shatterman attempted to return Freedom Eagle’s powers back to him, he blacked out. When subject came to he no longer claimed to be Freedom Eagle but claimed to have no memory of its origin.
Further review determined that “He” wasn’t even biological but was an android facsimile. Unfortunately DSA has very little experience with Androids so he had to get external assistance in performing the evaluation. StarCorp was contacted for assistance. The Director of DSA pickup the report and read it, again.
Technical Analysis of the Cortical Processing and Memory Functions of the A.I. known as “He”.
“He” appears to be suffering from the computer equivalent of a form of amnesia, as the result of some self-defense mechanism. “He” appears to have a form of retrograde amnesia, as “He” is able to retain new memories of events after the incident with the Super Society. His declarative memories have been totally lost. “He” seems to have almost no knowledge of his personal identity or knowledge skills prior to the incident. On the other hand his procedural memory seems to be fairly intact. “He” is capable of coherent speech, he can read and write, and seems to have a working knowledge of the abilities inherent to his android body.
While having suffered a number of physically traumatic effects, none of them appeared to have been to his memory storage unit. Accounts from individuals involved in the incident recall “He” suddenly becoming immobile and incoherent, once he was confronted by the arrival of two meta-humans referred to as Shatterman and Condor. Psychologically, this would tend to indicate the computer equivalent of a form of dissociative amnesia. In this case “He” appears to have repressed his original programming. It is unknown at this time if “He” can ever again access his old memories or they have been lost forever.
However, at this time as far as we can observe, “He”, unlike human patients who suffer from a dissociative memory disorder, appears to have developed no alternative personality. Or rather it is slow in developing and seems to require more time and input that a human brain would require. His condition is more strongly related to a type of retrograde amnesia. “He” had almost no answers during the AMI (Autobiographical Memory Interview) test.
This is such a unique circumstance and all analogies break down at some point when we try to anthropomorphize any new artificial intelligence with their human creators. That is when their creators are even human. At this point it is the opinion of StarCorp that the entity current known as “He” has no access to any memories or knowledge he may have had while impersonating Freedom Eagle. It is the further opinion of that he is no longer under the control of any outside influences and no more a danger to society than any other “normal” human with meta-human abilities and should be allowed to be released under the temporary supervision of Shatterman and Condor.
Gaunt did agree with the recommendation to have him under the supervision of Shatterman and Condor. The New Super Society showed no interest or time availability while Shatterman and Condor felt a bond to him. Even though he wasn’t Freedom Eagle for more than one day they considered him apart of the Legacy.
Gaunt shook his head. He would never understand the mindset of the superhuman. Fortunately his job didn’t require it. All he needed was the ability to manage the community toward a beneficial role. So while the mystery of who created the Android was bothersome it was more important to give ‘him’ a purpose.
Gaunt thought it was best to align that purpose to include the change to search for an identity as well. He looked at the list of possible creators.
· Dr. Bennet Morrow – He had the invention skills and the android could easily be a moment of inspiration that he let go play. He would think it was a great joke to create Freedom Eagle. Dr. Morrow’s handlers stated he hasn’t been working of anything of that size recently.
· CyberDoom – The Android wouldn’t be much a leap from the Robots that he had ambushed the New Super Society with. Could he have created a convert operative to join the New Super Society as payback?
· Motivator – She has the intelligence and the resources with her Black Legion but CHESS replied she has not been active in the States for a few years.
· MEDUSA – Did the military create its first Android? Dr. Vlasov swore to him that they haven’t. All their agents still meet the definition of human. Which means each agent still has a living human brain. Gaunt wasn’t totally sure he believed Vlasov or not. It wouldn’t be the first time an agent left and MEDUSA denied the agent ever existed or was a part of their agency.
· Professor Malevolence – There was no history on this person beyond today. He had contacted a Mayoral candidate this morning threatening him. Telling him to drop out or else. The ‘or else’ turned out to be a miniature robot bomb which exploded under the candidate’s bandstand. He was not in it at the time. Except for a few minor injuries, no one was seriously hurt.
Gaunt considered the possibility that Professor Malevolence could have sent the faux Freedom Eagle to the New Super Society as a distraction while he set in motion plans to manipulate who would be the next Mayor of Megalopolis.
The Director called Shatterman into his office. He informed him about the attack made by Professor Malevolence. He requested Shatterman and Condor to investigate this situation and to take ‘he’ with them.
“Red Hawk”
Gaunt gave a confused look to Shatterman. Shatterman explained that ‘He’ had chosen the name of Red Hawk for his superhero identity.
Gaunt smiled and said, “So get him a DSA Superhero License with his name on it and take him with you.”
<Due Date: January 28th, Actions? Replies?>
