After the war's end, Epsilon was driven out to the village to "clean up." He was not happy with the appropriation of his powers, but left in the dark about his actual task, he was more or less led down the stairs in the dark in unhappy silence (he did light the stairs up upon request) before being showed the vast collection of remains. The sight left him aghast, but he was shown no sympathy by the human soldiers. His orders were to eliminate the entire thing using his photon powers. At the first countdown, however, his sensors picked up the signal of a single living thing, and he abandoned his post--despite orders to the contrary. Racing up the stairs, he ignored the soldiers' commands and found a single child crouching beneath the burned wreckage of a building. The boy, filthy and deeply traumatised, burrowed into him, repeating the same word over and over again: "Bora. Bora." Epsilon, openly horrified by what he has almost done, held the boy close, but the soldiers ignored him, removing the boy and leading him from the village before ordering Epsilon to take care of what he was brought to do. As a robot, he had no choice. Deeply disturbed, Epsilon returned to the chamber under the mosque and waited for the countdown before unleashing a wave of power so immense that it engulfed the village, completely incinerating the robots... and the mosque, and the village, all in one instantaneous release of photon energy. As ordered.
That is the full sum of Epsilon's involvement in it, however. While the other six of the world's most advanced robots all played an active role in the war's events, Epsilon--the world's strongest robot--declined to participate in the conflict. In doing so, he earned the worldwide scorn and contempt of humans and robots alike. From there, he returned to Australia, where he began adopting orphaned children from the conflict--many of them deeply traumatised, left with permanent emotional and psychological scars from the horrific things they saw and experienced.
This is where canon events more or less start, with a lot of political stuff relating to the war, its true causes, and the nature of humanity and "perfection" as it relates to A.I. Hate and sorrow are also addressed--but while many of the other six experience "hate," Epsilon never does, save by proxy from Gesicht. Instead, he--like Pluto, the titular robot and original "villain" of the story--is connected to "sorrow."
There are no good links to his canon, and I really don't want to go The Full Johan unless absolutely necessary, so I hope that will suffice.
(Epsilon dies and Pluto continues to exist until Atom ends him. That's all that really needs to be said.)
Strengths/Weaknesses: I already covered these in personality and in abilities, I don't want to repeat myself!
Abilities:He's a bloody robot that can channel the fucking sun. No, really. Epsilon, for all his shortcomings and seeming passivity, is officially recognised as the strongest robot in the world. (Pluto and Bora are illicit creations.) And this is no exaggeration: when in direct sunlight, Epsilon's power is nearly limitless, and he has been mistaken for a second sun on more than one occasion. And this isn't just by humans--other robots have made this mistake too, which is remarkable for reasons I'll explain in a bit. Applications of his power in canon range from the mundane (such illuminating a dark basement--photons are the quantum of light; emitting photons means emitting light) to the immense. He is demonstrated melting the weaponised horns of the monstrous robot Pluto by superheating them with photon energy emissions; another time he destroys an artifically created tornado with his power--obliterating Pluto's left arm in the process, thereby doing more damage to him in one blow than all the other "strongest robots" combined. Right before he dies, he uses the last of his energy to detach his arms (he's a robot, roll with it) and use his disembodied hands to erect a protective barrier of photon energy around another robot and one of his adopted children. Finally, and most tellingly, there is his demonstration of power in the cleanup of that old mosque... a release of energy so immense that it erases an entire village from the map in a single blow.
This is a robot who can literally produce levels of light and heat generally seen in stars.
Of course, unless the sun is out in full force and photon energy easily accessed, doing something like that last bit would drain him dangerously, if not outright end him.
Re: [CANON] Epsilon || Pluto || No Reserve
That is the full sum of Epsilon's involvement in it, however. While the other six of the world's most advanced robots all played an active role in the war's events, Epsilon--the world's strongest robot--declined to participate in the conflict. In doing so, he earned the worldwide scorn and contempt of humans and robots alike. From there, he returned to Australia, where he began adopting orphaned children from the conflict--many of them deeply traumatised, left with permanent emotional and psychological scars from the horrific things they saw and experienced.
This is where canon events more or less start, with a lot of political stuff relating to the war, its true causes, and the nature of humanity and "perfection" as it relates to A.I. Hate and sorrow are also addressed--but while many of the other six experience "hate," Epsilon never does, save by proxy from Gesicht. Instead, he--like Pluto, the titular robot and original "villain" of the story--is connected to "sorrow."
There are no good links to his canon, and I really don't want to go The Full Johan unless absolutely necessary, so I hope that will suffice.
(Epsilon dies and Pluto continues to exist until Atom ends him. That's all that really needs to be said.)
Strengths/Weaknesses: I already covered these in personality and in abilities, I don't want to repeat myself!
Abilities: He's a bloody robot that can channel the fucking sun. No, really. Epsilon, for all his shortcomings and seeming passivity, is officially recognised as the strongest robot in the world. (Pluto and Bora are illicit creations.) And this is no exaggeration: when in direct sunlight, Epsilon's power is nearly limitless, and he has been mistaken for a second sun on more than one occasion. And this isn't just by humans--other robots have made this mistake too, which is remarkable for reasons I'll explain in a bit. Applications of his power in canon range from the mundane (such illuminating a dark basement--photons are the quantum of light; emitting photons means emitting light) to the immense. He is demonstrated melting the weaponised horns of the monstrous robot Pluto by superheating them with photon energy emissions; another time he destroys an artifically created tornado with his power--obliterating Pluto's left arm in the process, thereby doing more damage to him in one blow than all the other "strongest robots" combined. Right before he dies, he uses the last of his energy to detach his arms (he's a robot, roll with it) and use his disembodied hands to erect a protective barrier of photon energy around another robot and one of his adopted children. Finally, and most tellingly, there is his demonstration of power in the cleanup of that old mosque... a release of energy so immense that it erases an entire village from the map in a single blow.
This is a robot who can literally produce levels of light and heat generally seen in stars.
Of course, unless the sun is out in full force and photon energy easily accessed, doing something like that last bit would drain him dangerously, if not outright end him.