Hauer

Category : Comic Books

Subcategory : Marvel Universe
Type : Anti-hero
Game System : DC Heroes (Blood of Heroes S.E.)

Hauer v1

By Sbastien Andrivet

Source of Character: Super-Soldiers (Marvel Universe)

Reasons: Hauer's rank is given as both Major and Captain - here I assume he's a Major.

Game Stuff

Major Hauer

"Of course it's obscene ! It's war !! They should have though of that before they started
firing !"

(while charging the enemy with guns blazing) "Come on !! You wanna go !!"

Major Hauer

Dex: 07 Str: 08 Bod: 06 Motivation: Unwanted

Int: 05 Wil: 06 Min: 06 Occupation: Soldier
Inf: 05 Aur: 04 Spi: 05 Resources {or Wealth}: 005
Init: 021 HP: 050
Powers: Regeneration: 03
Skills: Acrobatics (climbing,)*: 07, Martial artist*: 07, Military science: 06, Thief
(stealth): 05, Vehicles*: 07, Weaponry: 09
Advantages: Credentials (first None, then British Govt (Low) then Mercy Corp (Low)),
Iron nerves, Lightning reflexes, Schtick (paired firearms)
Connections: UK Super Soldiers (High)
Drawbacks: Serious Rage
Equipment:
BODY ARMOR [BODY 08, Flame immunity: 04, Skin armor: 03]
Targeting system [BODY 02, Telescopic vision: 04, Thermal vision: 07, X-ray
vision: 06, Limitation: X-ray vision only to detect heat sources through obstacles -
such as walls)]
.44 magnum semi-automatic combat pistol (x2) [BODY 04, Projectile weapons:
05, Ammo 12, R#02 - usually loaded with super-efficient armor-piercing rounds
with the Claws (sharpness): 04 Power]
 Adamantium combat knife [BODY 20, EV 03 (09 w/STR), Claws (sharpness):
04]
Royal Enfield X-4 Retaliator assault rifle [BODY 04, AV 06, Projectile weapons:
07, Range: 06, Ammo: 12/07 - Notes : the Range and second Ammo score are for
the built-in grenade launcher ; usually fires armor-piercing ammunition with
Claws (sharpness): 02]
Grenades for the Retaliator are usually straight offensive rounds - [BODY 02, EV
07 (Area of effect), Grenade Drawback)], but he seems to sometimes uses some
kind of HEAT ammunition [BODY 02, EV 12, Grenade drawback - HEAT stands
for High- Explosive Anti-Tank. If you want to impress with your knowledge of
the fashionable military cutting edge call it a EFP-HE-FT round (Explosively
Formed Projectile, high Explosive, Follow Through. Yeah, that's a mouthful).]
Hauer also has four grenades of various types on his uniform

Background

Real name: Major Joseph Hauer (ret.), formerly codenamed "Invincible".

Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Unnamed father
Group affiliation: UK Super-Soldiers
Base Of Operations: Formerly London, now Alaska
Height: 6'5" Weight: 240 lbs
Eyes: Dark brown Hair: Black

Powers and Abilities

Hauer has been engineered for superhuman strength, speed and healing ability. He can
secretes a variant of the "Red" drug used by Nuke through a genetically enhanced organ,
which gives him formidable aggressiveness and speed - although it seems much less
powerful than the Red pills used by Nuke. He can also secretes a variant on the "White"
drug with his organ, to calm down and counter the effects of the Red. Under Red his
vision is actually red coloured and he tends to kill everything that moves - but he can
break that at will with White, which actually colours his vision white.

The dosing between red and white is intricate ; however resulting in a Serious Rage.
Hauer pretty much always uses maximum force in combat, as on occasion almost
deliberately killed bystanders, and knows he needs a release - lest he one day blow a fuse
in the middle of the street and start a rampage.

Hauer has formidable skill with extremely destructive weaponry and can take large armed
formations with military vehicles and win.

History:
Very little is known of Joseph Hauer before the Falklands war in 1982 - although his
father was described as a Dutch refugee. He became a SAS trooper and later officer, and
was heading his unit in the Falklands when he was grievously wounded by a shot to the
head. By that time, however, the UK had a super-soldiers program going. Previous
attempts in the 60s never gave much and were abandoned when dangerous Soviet super-
soldiers such as the Crimson Dynamo or Omega Red defected or disappeared - but the
projects in the 80s were almost entirely based on the program which, in the US, resulted
in the super-soldier Nuke. Much of the work was done by the government's main
contractor, the ECE corporation.

The UK super-soldiers used reconstructive surgery and the three drugs used by Nuke -
Red (speed), White (down) and Blue (hypnotic). However, the drugs were used in
different dosage and were produced by an artificial organ invented by doctor Khan,
originally from Pakistan. The super-soldiers also received amnesia treatment, which had
to be re-applied at regular intervals. Six such soldiers were created, code-named
Revenge, Dauntless, Dreadnaught, Victory, Challenger - and Invincible, Hauer's
codename.

The Super-Soldiers were apparently deployed numerous times, including in Cold War
operations and numerous murder campaigns against IRA activists and terrorists.

During a mission in Cambodia, when of the soldier, Revenge, snapped and slaughtered a
whole village and most of the other Super-Soldiers. Hauer apparently killed him then
collapsed.

Hauer was believed killed but was recovered and brought back to England for heavy
treatment. During that time, the US super-soldier Nuke also went postal in the middle of
Manhattan (where he was opposed by Daredevil and Captain America), causing carnage
and devastation. It was decided the Super-Soldiers project wouldn't be revived, and Hauer
was kept in suspended animation.

The scientific team working for ECE decided to go public with the drug-producing organ
technology, rightly seeing it as a formidable breakthrough for medicine. Whitehall said
no, and when most of the scientists tried to force the issue they vanished.

Years later, Hauer accidentally woke up. He was at first quite amnesiac (the effects of the
treatment gradually vanished over the next few days, however) and disoriented ; when
met with violent opposition from heavily militarized ECE security he slaughtered them
and escaped, commandeering the car of Sarah Wilde, a left-wing investigative journalist.

During the following days Hauer survived attacks by the British Army (including a SAS
squad), discovered that the super-soldier Dauntless was still alive in Cambodia (where he
had become a monk), and that the super-soldier Revenge was still alive too and serving as
the attack dog for ECE's CEO. While starting a crusade against ECE he fought the
U.S.Agent, who had been deceived into thinking Hauer was a "commie traitor freak", and
later allied with him. They also allied with the sole surviving member of ECE's other
super-soldier squad, the Welsh Super-Squadies.

The rag-tag team managed to reach ECE's CEO and kill the psychotic Revenge. Captain
America, who had been called for help by the U.S.Agent, convinced Hauer not to kill the
CEO - who of course, being a man of enormous influence, was never worried by the law.
After having had a talk with Captain America, Joseph Hauer decided he would be back to
serving the government despite the heavy past abuse. He, Dalton (formerly code named
Dauntless), Owen (the surviving Welsh Super-Squaddie) and Wilde started to work, often
collaborating with S.H.I.E.L.D. They later recruited Dragonfly II, the Guvnor and
Princess Xantia.

However, about a month later, the Super-Soldiers were quite simply privatized, and their
contracts were bought by the shadowy Mercy Security Corporation, who was quite
interested in Hauer and Dalton's modified organisms to improve their own super-soldiers
program. They relocated in Alaska and were soon to be sent to protect a Central
American dictator against attacks apparently conducted by the Punisher when the serie
stopped.

Description:

See illustration. Hauer is extremely tall and is built like a garbage truck.

Personality

Major Hauer is a brutal, professional SAS soldier - not a super-hero. In combat he's a
killing machine, and on some level enjoys the adrenaline rush and violence. His training
and value will mean he'll always shoot to kill, and he never hesitated to terminate
wounded opponents by shooting them several times while they were laying on the
ground. He has no problems with the slaughter of hapless enemy troops, either. Those
values, normal for a professional combat soldiers, are liable to provoke friction with
heroes.

Out of combat, Hauer is calm, almost fatalistic. He does not seem much at ease in relaxed
situations, and never strays from a rigid, crisis-management mindset no matter how
casual he tries to be. He can be surprisingly warm and sincere, however - but in short
bursts. Hauer usually pairs one of his pistols and shoots his assault rifle one-handed with
the other hand. He has little problems ridding targets with bullets *and* doing a Multi-
Attack with the grenade launcher., and no reservation whatsoever of going mano-a-mano
with his trusty knife if disarmed.

DC Universe History:

There's not much precedent for the UK Super-Soldiers in the DCU. Just import Nuke as
suggested in his writeup, then import the Super-Soldiers. Unless your game is set in the
UK, they'll probably be more useful as mercs for Mercy than as a national black ops
outfit.

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