US1
Real name: Ulysses Solomon Archer
aka Ulysses "Ace" Archer

"What the universe really needs are truckers! Why sure! Men of courage and intelligence who are strong-willed and independent! Men who could stand up to the rigors, and most especially the solitude, of space!" -Al the Alien

Fighting: 6 Typical
Agility: 10 Good
Strength: 10 Good
Endurance: 20 Excellent
Reason: 6 Typical
Intuition: 6 Typical / 100 Unearthly - see powers
Psyche: 11 Good

Health 26
Karma 117


Powers:
"CB Skull": a large segment of US1's skull bone was replaced with alien technology, giving him constant voluntary connection to CB Radio bands and any other communications based on electromagnetic energy. This forms a technological eavedropping and communications equivalent to Unearthly telepathy and clairaudience. US1 can also use this power to simply communicate at sublight speeds with anyone else who can send and receive in electromagnetic frequency bands.

Technopath: US1's CB Skull also gives him Amazing control over any electromagnetic based technology.

Ridealongs: There is an Excellent chance at any time that US1 has a random (and not necessarily human or even humanoid) hitchhiker, client or fellow superhero riding with him in the cab of US1. White result - no Ridealong; Green result: hitchhiker; Yellow result: client; Red result: superhero.


Equipment:

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+U.S. 1

U.S. 1 is a technologically enhanced semi-trailer big rig truck and trailer. All of its advanced systems and features fold away or are covered by panels resembling ordinary truck controls and panelling when not in use.

Control: Amazing
Speed: Amazing
Body: Remarkable
Protection: Remarkable
*Reason: 6 Typical
*Intuition: 6 Typical
*Psyche: 50 Amazing

On-Board Systems include:
+Auto-Pilot: The on-board computer can maintain Amazing Control. It can be controlled by US1 using his CB Skull during which time his attributes determine the Control of the vehicle.
+Communications: Monstrous rank and range for all CB Radio and other Communications devices. When used in conjunction with the CB Skull rank increases to Shift-X and range to Unearthly.
+Security: Breaking into the cab or trailer requires overcoming Amazing rank passive security devices or picking an Amazing security lock.
+Sensors: Amazing rank and range Radar detection.
+Life Support: Secured environment provides atmosphere and Artificial Gravity of Earth normal.
+Reconstruction: The interior and exterior can be reconfigured to accommodate the situation, such providing seats for extra passengers, with Good ability.
+Assimilation: Amazing ability to assimilate other technology into it
+Oil Slick: U.S. 1 can project a Remarkable area Oil Slick which forms an Excellent hazard for any wheeled or tracked vehicles or characters attempting to cross the affected area on foot.
+Bio-Degradable Anti-Tyre Shrapnel bombs: damage: Remarkable / Good; affects one area within Good range of the vehicle, Rate of "Fire" (they are dropped from hatches on the vehicle) 2 per round.
+Bucket Seats
+Amazing intensity Smoke Screen
+Amazing range homing devices
+Unearthly meteorological detection (weather radar and onboard computer)
+Remote control resembling silver dollar providing same level of control as CB Skull
+AI: U.S. 1 has the RIP scores listed above and can drive itself
+Amazing rank atmospheric flight
+CL3000 space flight
+Amazing rank astro-navigation
+faster than light communications with Unearthly range, only when in the vacuum of outer space

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+Pack of gum: US1 always carries a pack of gum of the sort with individual gum sticks wrapped in foil. Chewing the foil rather than the gum removes his Mind Control Susceptibility.


Talents:

+Engineer
+Martial Arts B
+Truck Driver
+Pilot
+Space Pilot
+Jury Rigging
+Truck Repairs
+Foreign Language: CB Radio lingo


Limitations:

Hunted by villainous brother: wherever US1 drives or flies U.S.1, his villainous brother the Highwayman and his Black Rig (another U.S.1 type aerospace ATV truck) will be chasing him and trying to mess things up for him due to the Highwayman's hyper-sibling-rivalry.

Mind Control Susceptibility: US1 is considered to have Feeble Psyche for all purposes related to resisting possession, mind control, telepathic spying and hypnosis.


Background:
Ulysses Solomon Archer is a trucker from America. After his parents, also truckers, were killed in an accident, he and his brother were taken in by Poppa Wheelie and Wide Load Annie at the Short Stop Diner.

US and his older brother Jefferson are the sons of a pair of truck drivers. US idolized his older brother and thought he let him win all the time to make him feel good. However Jefferson was too humiliated to admit that his little brother was better at everything. Even as a child, US wanted to be a truck driver, but his parents insisted on him getting a good education. When their parents were killed an accident, US and Jefferson were informally adopted by Poppa Wheelie and Wide Load Annie. They were the owners of the truck stop their parents frequented, The Short Stop. Jefferson took a job driving truck co US could go to college. Jefferson hated US, blaming him for making him give up his own dreams. US was the college's star quarterback and graduated with many degrees, including Electronic Engineering and Computer Programming.

A group of aliens came to Earth seeking to recruit truck drivers to become starship pilots. Led by Al, they wanted to recruit US but got Jefferson instead, since to them all humans look alike. They customized his truck with advanced technology and taught him how to use it. Jefferson worried that the aliens would realize their mistake, so he tried to keep his distance from US. In order to do this he convinced US he was dead and became the Highwayman, naming his truck the Blackrig.

After college US went on a ride with Jefferson when they were ran off the road by the Blackrig, the truck was actually under Jefferson's control with a dummy in the seat. The truck went over a cliff and US was severely injured in the crash. The dazed US looked up the cliff to see the Highwayman and some demons mocking him. The demons were actually the aliens that were beginning to realize their mistake and were trying to contact US. The aliens took US to a hospital where they replaced his shattered skull with a metal one that could pick up CB transmissions. Jefferson then persuaded the aliens to keep him, and let him prove that he was better than US.

After recovering, US returned to the Short Stop and built his truck, US1.

Months later, believing that Jefferson was Highwayman's hostage, US went out on the road to find him. The Highwayman in the Blackrig ambushed US. US managed to defeat him, and Highwayman's truck over a cliff, but it never reached the bottom.

Highwayman then sent Midnight to attack US. She took control of him using her Hypno-Whip. US convinced her to grant him a last request, a stick of gum. He kept the gum in the foil and stuck it in his mouth, letting him escape her control.

Jefferson than posed as an old trucker to spread rumors of Highwayman having a demonic past. US chased after the old man, while being attacked by other trucks, and being bombed by blimps. When he finally caught up to Jefferson he found out that the old man was actually the Highwayman.

Baron Von Blimp then challenged US to a race. The object was to deliver chickens for the Great Chicken Colonel. Despite Blimp's cheating, US easily won.

US found that he actually came in second in the race to his friend Taryn O'Connel. The Colonel allowed a second race race between him and Taryn. This time US was interrupted by the aliens, having him run through a giant maze. It was a test by Al to confirm that US was the one he was looking for. Al then pretended that his ship had broken down and that he required the chicken parts US was hauling to fix it. Al then flew US allowing him to win the race.

Later, Midnight took control of the people at the Short Stop and challenged US to redeem herself. US defeated her again learning to use his CB skull to remote control his truck. After the fight, US and everyone at the Short Stop believed Taryn was Midnight. US chased her, but was confronted by the real Midnight. US and the people at the Short Stop fought Midnight, Baron Von Blimp, and his neo-nazis. US learned to use his skull to control Midnights whip, and she was unmasked by Taryn, revealing her to be Short Stop waitress Mary McGrill. They were then all confronted by Highwayman revealing that Mary was innocent and under his control.

Jefferson started to explain his actions, but noticed he was followed by the aliens. Seeing this Jefferson went into a blind rage and started strangling US. The aliens subdued Jefferson and brought them both back to the Short Stop. There the aliens explained the mix up to both of them. The aliens then arranged a contest between them.

The aliens altered the Blackrig and US1, and sent them on a race that circled the globe, and went into space. US got the hang of space flight quicker than Jefferson and got the lead. Furious, and refusing to loose again, Jefferson attempted to ram US and kill them both. US dodged, and highwayman crashed on the Moon. After US was declared the winner, the aliens revealed why they wanted truckers. US and most of the crew of the Short Stop were taken to space. There they renamed the Short Stop as the Star Shop.

Sometime after leaving Earth, US married Mary McGrill.

Xemnu the Titan tried to convert US1’s son into his own race, but was stopped by the Sensational She-Hulk. When Spragg attacked the Star Stop, he recalled the Sensational She-Hulk to battle him and helped her defeat Spragg.

Later, responding to a distress call from Taryn and Razorback, he is captured by Skrulls, along with Sensational She-Hulk and Weezi, and later is present when Sensational She-Hulk switches body with Weezi.

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Roleplaying Notes:
US1 is a cheerful, tough minded and unusually well spoken and pleasant trucker. He seems completely oblivious to the wider implications of his exceptionally improbable life and adventures which has kept him psychologically optimistic and happy in the face of situations which in some circumstances present cosmic levels of horror and implications of the most serious nature.


Contacts:
+Poppa Wheelie
+Wide Load Annie
+Al the Alien
+Highwayman: brother, nemesis, super villain
+She-Hulk
+Rocket Raccoon
+Razorback
+Deadpool