Scarlette's Soliloquy

It was on this day 30 years ago that my father, Dr. Alessandro Tamzarian, founded Tamzarian Industries after having success with coming up with the cybernetic and nano-technology to repair or completely replace damaged organic parts in humans.  Several years before, I was his first successful design of fusing mechanical parts together with flesh as he created a new pair of legs and completely rebuilt spine for me after I was rendered a paraplegic for life due to a car accident.  I remember how he feverishly worked on the schematics and design of my prototypical prosthesis night and day until he was successful, as he wanted his only daughter to be able to walk again.  It was also at this point where he dedicated his life to use his knowledge of cybernetics and bio-modification to help humanity, thus leading him to start the company.

When I was young, I too shared my father's vision of using cybernetics, nanotechnology, and genetic augmentation used for only repairing damaged or non-functioning organic parts.  I learned from my father the beautiful art of melding man and machine as one, as well as attended the same prestigious higher learning institutes that he did in my college years...excelling with higher marks than even my brilliant father did as well as attaining a M.B.A. in Corporate Business.  Together, he and I came up with breakthough discoveries and modern marvels of science and technology with our designs and creations...my father even won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.  

However, as I got older and with the more success we achieved, I had a new vision different from that of my father.  I realized that there were other practical uses for cybernetic parts and implants...not just for health and prosthetic purposes.  I had noticed in the world of professional sports that steroids and other performance enhancing drugs had become such a big problem that instead of ban them, the government regulated them for legal use. Next thing you know the market was flooded with performance enhancing drugs...every pharmaceutical company under the sun had their own brands of performance enhancing products that assured that it would make its user stronger, faster,  more durable, and would give them the cutting edge to excel in their sport.  My father was content with the business that we were doing as long as we were helping people in need, however I saw that our products only catered those who could afford the expensive cybernetic enhancements...in my eyes, it was time to broaden our key demographic.  

My new found vision was that Tamzarian Industries could benefit if we were to take part in the fun of performance enhancement and become the top bio-modification company in the world.  So I not only perfected performance enhancing drugs on the genetic level with nanotechnology, but I tweaked the modifications to replacement cybernetic limbs, implants, and such to aid in increased speed and strength.  Soon, athletes from every sport from Basketball to American Football to Blitzball to Fighters to Curling lined up at our door to give them the edge on their respective fields, courts, arenas, and tracks.  World records would be shattered all across the board and the nature of how some sports were played had changed greatly due to the legalized performance enhancing products.   Several new sports had even been created to capitalize on of the extreme nature of enhanced athletes and new parameters had been implemented to capitalize even further the popularity of the sports craze,  for instance gender barriers were torn down in many cases as enhanced females were able to compete on the same level if not better than enhanced males and metahumans were allow to compete legally without having to refrain from using their powers.  Due to this, sports had become more brutal in nature...and we all know that the masses are entertained by drama and things of a violent nature dating all the way back to Ancient Roman times where Colosseums would be filled with bloodthirsty spectators watching gladiators hack and slash each other to bits as they cheered for more.  Before this, reality television entertained the masses...after watching the gratuitous violence and action that came with the newly improved sports and the athletes capable of doing extraordinary feats, live Sports had become the most watched programs of the day.  

I spearheaded the initiative for Tamzarian Industries to be the frontrunner in performance enhancing abilities much to the dismay and disapproval of my father; he considered the use of performance enhancement and cybernetics for sports to be cosmetic and frivolous, yet he reluctantly allowed me to continue.  He soon became sick with Lupus Erythematosus and couldn't run T.I. anymore...as his only daughter and heiress, I inherited the family company and became C.E.O after he stepped down; he continued to serve as a consultant however.  After our athletic enhancement products took off, I was approached by several government organizations as well as law enforcement agencies to create more efficient soldiers and law enforcers into living bio-weapons...super-soldiers in layman's terms.  My father as well as his closest colleagues and business partners all looked down upon me for doing this and disagreed with everything that I was doing with T.I. at this point, yet I was firmly in control of the company and began to venture into other areas asides merely saving lives.  Some of our shareholders had even sold all of their stock in T.I. once they found out that we had began to create weapons of war...that hurt business for a little while, but I stayed true to my vision.  I had several ideas and designs that I had come up with years before I was even approached to create super soldiers...due to the nature of my father only wanting to create helpful products, I kept them to myself and developed them behind his back.  One of the prototypical designs was for a new powerful body for myself, as for some reason my organics had began to reject my cybernetic lower body and spine.  I did not bring this to attention of my father, who had become terminal with his condition, as not to add any extra stress to his misery.  I had several of my technicians and scientists to perform the surgery on me, transforming me even more extensively into a highly efficient cyborg.  

I proudly presented my new body to my father as he lay on his deathbed and told him that I had designed a new body for him as well hoping that he would be proud of my accomplishment, yet he scoffed at me for "playing God".  I pleaded with him as tears streamed down my face to let me help him as he helped me many years before by fixing my body with cybernetics, yet he refused to have his own creations used on him.  He then said that he had noticed that my soul had turned dark and that I was now a metallic monster for trading my humanity in return for wealth and power. I have strayed from the vision that he had to help people...after seeing me and his creation being used for the wrong reasons in his eyes, he wished that he never had succeeded with his innovations in cybernetics even with the cybernetic legs and spine that he created for me as a adolescent.  He then told me goodbye, that he still loved me, and closed his eyes...never to open them again.

Though his final words to me weren't so pleasant, I took my father's passing rather hard.  Although now it was mechanical, I still had a heart and the emotions that coursed through my cybernetic body were very real.  My father was all that I had asides from my creations and technological research and I loved him deeply.  My father's last words stung really bad...never before had he ever talked to me like that; I was always his "cyber-angel" as he would affectionately call me.  All I wanted was for him to be proud of how I took his designs and greatly improved upon them; is it so wrong for me to enjoy the wealth, fame, and power that come along with success?  I can't even imagine if he would have let me turn him into a cyborg and both of us in charge of T.I....we would have been unstoppable!  However, with my greatest loss it was not too long after that I would also discover my greatest creation.

The frustration left in the wake of my father's death with the words that resonated in my memory banks that he spoke caused me to basically bury myself in my research....I feverishly toiled in my laboratory for hours upon hours until I had a breakthrough.  I had discovered an indestructible alien symbiotic metallic substance which was capable of changing shape and density.  I thought of a way to fuse this material to the body and take control of its action with thoughts.  To serve as a litmus test, I fused some of this substance to my own body while creating a direct link from the substance to my cyber-enhanced brain, and was fascinated and amazed at the capabilities of it.  I then thought of how to create a near-perfect fusion of organic and cyborg that was completely covered with this mysterious liquid metal symbiotic material...yet I needed the right specimen to inhabit the body and technology.  After going through an extensive list of athletes, soldiers, superbeings, and the like...I had caught wind of a phenomenal and charismatic young woman by the name of Nicole "Diamond" Vetter.  She was an Olympic-level athlete who was great at various sports without the need for any augmentation, yet found herself in disarray as she was getting lost in the shuffle of everyone else "cyber-juicing" as more and more athletes would enhance themselves to keep them on a competitive level.  

If you are one that believes in a higher power, you could say that God was showing off when He created her as she was blessed with almost perfect traits all across the board.  She was beautiful, highly intelligent, a great personality, her genetic makeup was astounding, and she was the perfect physical specimen.  She would serve perfectly for my latest project...no flaws whatsoever, except for the dislocated and broken right arm plus the cracked ribs that she suffered on the night that I had met her in the infirmary.  Her body was broken, but not as much as her pride and spirits were that night, as she had just lost a championship Blitzball match that she almost won in the final seconds of the match...that is until she was tackled into a steel wall at full speed by and opponent with superior genetic and cybernetic modifications as she ran to score a goal that would have secured her second championship win in a row.  I approached her as the medics were attending to her wounds and made her the proposition of submitting herself to become "Project: Adora-1", the prototype of the perfect all purpose cyborg...I explained from the business standpoint that nearly every athlete was cyber-juicing to some extent and that pretty soon normal humans wouldn't be able to compete in a fair competition against an enhanced human, a metahuman, or a cyborg.   Being that Miss Vetter was in dire straits, highly competitive and passionate about winning, she agreed.  Within the next few days after our initial meeting, I operated on Nicole, replacing much of her body with cybernetic parts and implants, infusing her with nanotechnology, and ended with the bonding of the cyber-symbiote to her enhanced body.  Tears of joy streamed from my bionic sensors as she awoke to discover her newly transformed body...I had created the perfect cyborg!  She meant more to me than merely just another project or experiment...I saw her then and still see her as my daughter.  She hates that I call her my daughter as well as the fact that I refer to her as Adora-1 rather than call her Nicole, Nikki, or Diamond as she would prefer; she was a new creation in my eyes, therefore I gave her a new name.  It doesn't amuse her at all....in fact, I can tell that she doesn't particularly like me at all, but in my eyes she is my child and I love her all the same.

Adora-1 had completely blown all of my expectations out of the water; the specs and such that I had figured out were actually just a fraction of what she was actually capable of.  She returned to her sport of Blitzball and went on an incredible winning streak, eventually becoming a champion once again.  She later fixed her focus as a fighter in the Female Fighting Federation per my request, as I wanted to see her in action in pure combat....she liked the idea of competing in a new environment with new challenges and goals to accomplish.  I implanted a microchip into her brain that was preloaded with thousands of martial arts techniques and combat sequences....Once again, she proceeded to exceed my expectations as she has not lost a match since being in the Triple F...which has been five years now and her achieving championship status and maintaining it for the last 3 years....she is indeed the ultimate fighter!  ADORA-1's success brought a lot more attention to T.I., as I was her corporate sponsor and she was legally the property of T.I., thus driving in more revenue from other athletes wanting to receive augmentations from us, not to mention that she was a megastar and received all sorts of endorsements from other companies.  Some previous consumers were upset and T.I. began to amass quite a few lawsuits, as some consumers felt that they didn't get a good bargain after seeing what ADORA-1 had become.  We would win each court case, as performance varies on a case-by-case basis.  However they did make an interesting point...I came to realize that while her cybernetics were state of the art and far advanced beyond any other cyborg on Earth, with the possible exception of my own body, it is her indomitable will and her heart that drives her to excellence and to champion status...I cannot create that in a laboratory.

Occasionally, I would discover upgrades to her system replacing more of her organic parts with machinery and with each one she would become even more stronger and even more powerful, yet remained humble...you would think after becoming the world's more popular female athlete that she would be conceited to no end...not her.  Fascinating enough to me, she had an heirloom in the form of an actual diamond from which she got her namesake installed into her torso cybernetically without my knowledge, and that seemed to enhance her abilities even farther!   Unfortunately, she soon "bought herself" from me and T.I....therefore I no longer legally had control over my daughter nor able to run tests on her power levels just to see what new energies that the precious gem has infused her body with.  Even with her utter contempt for me and what I've done for her, she continues to make me proud nonetheless knowing that I created her!  

And so, since Adora-1's meteoric rise to fame and now her being a high profile superheroine, that leaves me and my company to my own devices.  As much as I would have loved to have her here at my side, I am on to bigger and better things with my vision for my company and becoming the most powerful entity on the face of this planet and throughout the entire universe...by any means necessary.  Just recently, I took over what was left of formal rival company Cybercom after one of their top operatives in the way of Sataria, the so-called "Cyborg Queen" megalomaniac had a few of her screws loosened and proposed her plan of exterminating all of the male populous and turn all of the women into cyborgs.  I'm all for turning people into cyborgs in the name of making the human body better, but that whole idea is ridiculous even to me.  Besides, I love men...why would I want to destroy them all?!?  I am also in the process of building even stronger bio-weapons as well as creating more "daughters" to carry out my bidding.  My latest daughter came in the form of former death row inmate and deranged psychopathic murderer and metahuman Deidra Cross, I renamed her Wraith after I resurrected her by transforming her into my first "Necroborg"; I would go as far to say that she's my next greatest creation behind Adora-1.  

Also, when I created Adora-1, I didn't intend for her to be the only Adora Unit...being that this is a milestone for my company in our 30th anniversary, it is time to once again revolutionize the evolution of human and machine to the next level in the way of me creating the next ultimate cyborg, a new A.D.O.R.A. Unit that will be even greater than the original!  And I already have my sights on the perfect candidate as to who I will transform into Adora-2...her name is Sapphira Reese.  Her specs might not be exact to that of Nicole Vetter's when I first transformed her, but her already genetically modified body makes her an even better choice at bearing the mantle of the next Adora...and it is through her, Wraith, and my entire private army of loyal soldiers that I will eventually rule this universe!  No one will be able to stop me...and if they attempt to, they will be eradicated...that includes my wayward daughter Adora-1 as well.