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Mother Machine (Prime Earth)

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Mother Machine was an enemy of the Blackhawk Program.

The person who would become Mother Machine was a lieutenant affiliated with the Blackhawk Program. Kidnapped by Parademons mere hours before the formation of the Justice League, she was placed in a pod of otherworldly tech. She was the focus of a rescue mission by her teammates, but they were too late: the nanocytes had bonded totally with her, making her into a new posthuman being. Seeing nothing in her future except a career as the U.N.'s brainless goon, she made a run for it, vowing to upgrade all life on planet Earth as her consciousness was backed up across numerous online servers.[1]

Mother Machine established a sub-terranean city named Bespoke to serve as a base of operations, populated by other augmented humans like herself. She also created a space station armed with an orbital bombardment weapon. Mother Machine sold some of her technology to the weapons dealer Steig Hammer (a.k.a. Matteo Bischoff), who used it to arm a group of mercenaries. The mercenaries were defeated by the Blackhawks, but in the process Blackhawk agent Kunoichi was infected with nanocytes. The mercenaries were subsequently imprisoned in the Central Asian Supermax Meta-Human Facility, which Mother machine destroyed using her orbital weapons platform in order to ensure no traces of her technology were left.[2]

Mother Machine sent one of her agents, Titus, to engage the Blackhawk operatives investigating the destruction of the prison. Titus was defeated and captured by the Blackhawks, but Mother Machine was able to capture Blackhawk agents Canada and Wildman and bring them to her underground city. There she offered them the chance to join her new society, but Canada bludgeoned her with a step-ladder and he and Wildman escaped on one of Bespoke's shuttles. The shuttle brought them to the orbital weapons platform, where Mother Machine quickly made contact with them again. She triggered the station to de-orbit but, out of compassion, offered the two of them one last chance to join her. However Wildman took control of the station's weapon and fired it at Bespoke, destroying it completely. [3]

Unknown to anyone else, Mother Machine survived by uploading her consciousness into an artificial neural network constructed within Kunoichi's brain by her nanocytes. After Kunoichi was incapacitated by a nanocyte-based weapon during a raid on Hammer's compound, Mother Machine took control of her body, and subsequently copied herself into the mainframe of the Blackhawk's base, the Eyrie. However, a digital copy of the recently-deceased Wildman, created when he and Canada were aboard the orbital weapons platform, helped Kunoichi fight off the avatar of Mother Machine within her mind. This caused the artificial neural network within her head to overheat and be destroyed, while the copy of Mother Machine within the Eyrie's computers was destroyed when Andrew Lincoln detonated the base's nuclear self-destruct.[4]

Sometime later, Mother Machine returned. Determined to possess the secrets of the Metal Men's Responsometers for herself, she hired a Nameless hacker to take control of various internet-connected robots and send them on a rampage in order to draw the Metal Men out. After Nameless failed and was captured by Doctor Magnus, Mother Machine entered the fray in person, but was completely absorbed by the responsometer and imprisoned within it.[5]

Mother Machine returned once again, this time attacking RoboCon 2020, intending to upgrade all the patrons into her new servants. Tin and Lead fought off her servants while O.M.A.C. attacked Mother Machine herself, but her nanocytes were able to overpower the New Genesis technology within him. Rather than allow its technology to be compromised, Brother Eye triggered a massive EMP to destroy all technology on site, including Mother Machine and her servants.[6]

Powers

Cybernetic Enhancement: Due to having been half converted by Apokoliptian technologies, Mother Machine now sports a host of mechanomorphing capabilities.[1] Her body is largely made up of memory downloading technorganic micro machines that enable her to store her entire consciousness and transfer it over the internet and recreate her physical form from scratch as many times as need be.[7]

  • Technomorphing: Mother can assimilate and reformat any kind of technology into herself as well as cast her own will into it, controlling, alternating and reformatting both it and herself into a host of different forms.[8]
    • Computer Interfacing[9]
    • Interactive Holographic Projector
    • Cyberspace/Digiverse immersion
    • Metamorphosis: Mother Machine has complete and total control over her components allowing her to change and morph any technology she has on hand into whatever she desires at will.[1] [8]
  • Nanocyte Manipulation: Mother has the ability to procreate and generate a series of microscopic nano-robotic drones, which allow her to infest and manipulate matter from a molecular-subatomic scale.[10] They also allow her to fabricate entire technologically advanced cities, which can change according to the thoughts and desires of those who they pick the brainwaves from.[11]
  • Superhuman Strength: Mother Machine has strength enough to contend with the physical might of O.M.A.C.[11]
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Enhanced Intellect
  • Superhuman Stamina

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect

Espionage

Military Protocol

Equipment

  • Orbital Bombardment Platform: In the years she had spent under the radar, Mother had used her access to her nanocytes to construct a personally crafted stealth satellite she used to spy on the whole of the world.[10] Through it she could broaden her technopathic reach through the global infonet, as well as keep in contact with anyone whom possessed or was afflicted with her microtech. It's main offensive armament was its ability to drop kinetic rods into low orbit at any designated target she saw fit through it.[9] The station itself was sizable to a small country, housing it's own fleet of space worthy vessels and onboard personnel serviceable to Mother Machine herself.[14](Formerly)
  • Bespoke: Mother Machine had constructed her own underground acropolis hidden within the base of a dense mountain range, far away from any prying eyes.[12] The city itself was comprised of Nanocytes and could scan as well as read the living data off of it's inhabitants to essentially read their thoughts and transform accordingly to accommodate their wishes, desires and fondest memories. Literally changing infrastructure and architecture to set its occupants at ease while they occupied the sentient rural cityscape.[13] It was mainly populated by semi-sentient smart dogs whom were cosmetically enhanced collars which enable thought based articulation and vocalization through adorned speaker dials. This would serve as Mother Machines main base and her beachhead from here she would seek to change the world.[10](Formerly)


Related

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 DC Universe Presents #0
  2. ↑ Blackhawks #1-5
  3. ↑ Blackhawks #2-5
  4. ↑ Blackhawks #5-8
  5. ↑ Legends of Tomorrow #1-6
  6. ↑ Metal Men (Volume 4) #4-5
  7. ↑ Blackhawks #7
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Legends of Tomorrow #5
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Blackhawks #5
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Blackhawks #1
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Metal Men (Volume 4) #5
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Blackhawks #2
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Blackhawks Vol 1 3
  14. ↑ Blackhawks #4
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