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The Mk III Sentinels were the final iteration activated, and were operational as early as 2007. In 2012, the Sentinels were deployed under [[DEO]] authority to suppress and detain violent metahumans. Six years later, Sentinels running amok in Europe killed thousands of mutants. Many in the United States perished, and many that survived were driven underground, only to be hunted down by [[Morlock Massacre|mercenaries]]. | The Mk III Sentinels were the final iteration activated, and were operational as early as 2007. In 2012, the Sentinels were deployed under [[DEO]] authority to suppress and detain violent metahumans. Six years later, Sentinels running amok in Europe killed thousands of mutants. Many in the United States perished, and many that survived were driven underground, only to be hunted down by [[Morlock Massacre|mercenaries]]. | ||
| − | With the signing of the [[ | + | With the signing of the [[Sokovian Accords]], global limits were placed upon the use of Sentinels, metahuman abilities, and AI in global conflicts and internal peacekeeping alike. |
Revision as of 16:20, 16 May 2020
Sentinels are robots specifically designed to combat and detain metahuman threats.
Sentinels are 20' tall and weigh 10 tons. They sport cutting edge armor that is resistant to small arms fire and energy weapons. They are powered with a variant of the Tesla Tokamak Reactor and a proprietary operating system. Sentinels can lift approximately 20 tons and are capable of tearing into armored vehicles with their bare fingers. However, they are relatively slow moving and lacking agility. Rocket systems allow them to accomplish sustained overland flight.
Primary weapons include wide-spectrum energy weapons in their palms and precision lasers in their eyes. Sonic discharge weapons are concealed in the vox box. Prehensile steel cables are stored in their forearms and used to restrain metahumans or electrocute them.
Sentinels sport a complex onboard computer with a proto-sapient AI learning system. Not truly self-aware, they are still extremely intelligent learning machines. They each contain a master list of known registered metahumans and their unique talents and known weaknesses. Sentinels share information with one another and can communicate via shortwave encrypted radio as well as verbally.
- History**
The first Sentinels were designed by Bolivar Trask in 1990. Clumsy and under-powered, they were inefficient albeit deadly. It took several attempts for Trask to design a more efficient machine, and ultimately required access to proprietary reactor technology owned by Stark Industries.
The Mk III Sentinels were the final iteration activated, and were operational as early as 2007. In 2012, the Sentinels were deployed under DEO authority to suppress and detain violent metahumans. Six years later, Sentinels running amok in Europe killed thousands of mutants. Many in the United States perished, and many that survived were driven underground, only to be hunted down by mercenaries.
With the signing of the Sokovian Accords, global limits were placed upon the use of Sentinels, metahuman abilities, and AI in global conflicts and internal peacekeeping alike.
