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Julio Basilio Rodríguez<br/>Alias: Jules Roderick<br/>Nickname(s): El Commandante, El Jefe,<br/>Hero Name:<br/>Age: 29<br/>Date of Birth: 14th February 2020;<em>Aquarius</em><br/>Gender: Male<br/>Sexuality: Heterosexual<br/>Occupation: Gunstore co-owner, Firearms/Tactical Instructor, MCPD SWAT trainer, Retired Navy SEAL/DEVGRU Operator<br/>Rank: Delta<br/>Affiliation:<br/><br/>Place of Birth: Agua Fria, Arizona<br/>Ethnicity: Half Mexican, Half Cuban<br/>Citizenship(s): American<br/>Current Residence: House with 2 car garage in an average suburb<br/>Education: Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Academy<br/>Wealth: Middle class<br/><hr/><br/>(https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjMyLjAwMDAwMC5VR2g1YzJsallXd2dSR1Z6WTNKcGNIUnBiMjQsLjAAAA,,/comic-balloon-new.regular.png)<br/>Height: 6’0”<br/>Weight: variable, build equivalent to 200 lbs but typically weighs more<br/>Hair Color: Brown<br/>Eye Color: Brown<br/>Complexion: Tanned<br/>Physique: Athletic<br/>General Description: Being that Julio is a recently retired DEVGRU operator and spent some time as a Tier One Operator, he had kept up the habits that maintained his physique even after he had received an honourable discharge upon completing his service terms out of a sense of familiarity. Clothing-wise, he’s typically found wearing whatever he feels is the most comfortable for the occasion. He doesn’t feel the need to show his physique off so he’s most likely to be found wearing a t-shirt and jeans. No matter what casual clothing he’s wearing at the time, he tends to have his self-made and machined full-size 1911 pistol with custom barrel and slide porting chambered in .45 Super in a concealed carry holster.<br/><br/>Costume: In order to take full advantage of his ability, Julio wears a dark grey sealed CBRN-rated undersuit made with kevlar layer sewn in which includes an internal temperature regulating layer that has the ability to keep him warm or cool and an external temperature regulating layer controlled by a second thermostat programmed to match ambient temperature. This undersuit can be paired with a balaclava to be worn under a sealed CBRN-rated helmet and connected to an internal life support system. In order to remain mission-flexible, the undersuit is designed to accept additional modules and padded armor plating or armored pads.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>(https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjMyLjAwMDAwMC5VM1J2Y25rLC4wAAAAAA,,/comic-balloon-new.regular.png)<br/>Personality: Perhaps counter-intuitively for someone with his skill set, service history and rank, Julio has a very relaxed demeanor. This was a resurgence of his pre-Naval Academy personality and deliberate pushback against potentially getting into too dark a place from the pressure he experienced during his SEALs training immediately after graduation from the Naval Academy. Do not mistake his relaxed demeanor for unprofessional conduct however. When he’s on the job training SWAT officers, even if he may not be the type to angrily shout at the people he’s training, he’s still the perfectionistic taskmaster-type who believes fervently in the age old belief that the more one sweats in training, the less they bleed in combat. This is especially relevant in SWAT because the ones who bleed may not necessarily even be the officer in question, it could be a civilian or the perpetrator. This goes against the idea that SWAT is an organization meant to save lives and Julio takes that very seriously.<br/>Likes: Driving, Off-roading, Camping, Sports Shooting, Cooking<br/>Dislikes: Stolen Valour, Littering, Illegal Use of Public Space, Bad Parking, Government Spooks<br/>Psychological Quirks: Despite being more or less well adjusted after leaving the Navy, Julio is rather sensitive to improperly disposed trash, unattended luggage, goods and vehicles. Those things tended to be bits of cover that either hide surveillance equipment, booby-trapped proximity explosives or remotely detonated explosives in his experience. He would know about those because in his previous line of work, he had to deal with both sides of that coin.<br/><br/>Backstory: Born to a Mexican American father and a Cuban American mother, Julio’s born into a family where the military’s held in high regard. His father was an Army Ranger and his mother was a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy. With that sort of lineage that he could draw upon, it would’ve seemed like a given that Julio would eventually join the military too in his parents' footsteps.<br/><br/>This almost did not come to pass as his father was dead set on not letting Julio enlist. When asked why, the elder Rodríguez simply told him that he and his mother served the country with the specific expectation that Julio wouldn’t have to do the same since they were of the opinion that between them, they had served the country enough that Julio did not have to. Unbeknownst to them however, Julio found a loophole in his mid-teens and proceeded to work extra hard in secret towards achieving his goal of attending the Naval Academy with the full knowledge studying there came with the responsibility of having to serve his country in the Navy or one of the other branches.<br/><br/>When it came time for him to leave Arizona for Maryland, Julio finally told his parents that he was going to the Naval Academy for his college education and what that entailed. While his parents were surprised and rather upset, they were also somewhat proud that even if he intentionally disobeyed them, he still did it with such conviction, in such a way that left them completely unable to object and alter his course.<br/><br/>To commemorate Julio leaving for the Naval Academy at age 17 with an early high school graduation, his parents gave him a polished, red stone pendant that allegedly had a fragment of the Pembrook Meteor in it. Little did they know that it was a legit piece of the Meteor that was obtained by a local who had hacked off a chunk of the meteor before the government swooped in to secure it. Said local kept his chunk and broke it up into smaller pieces before polishing them up with the intent to sell them as genuine meteor memorabilia. As it turns out, the genuine article easily got lost in the sea of fakes and once the hype around the meteor impact died down, the pendant that eventually came into Julio’s possession simply became a pretty red stone pendant that went under the radar of those who might try to seek it intentionally while he got it by sheer happenstance in a rather ironic turn of events.<br/><br/>In the four years that he wore his pendant while in the Naval Academy, his powers slowly developed without his noticing it. It was only after he had passed through his Navy SEALs training at age 22 that he had found out about his ability by accident during a hostage rescue mission. In that fateful mission, Julio took a solid round from an enemy that was rated to punch through his vest and was supposed to have enough energy in it to keep going and kill him. Not only did the round not kill him, the round flattened itself against his skin after being slowed down by an unusually dense amount of ballistic polymer fibres and ceramic plates at the point of impact. When he cross-checked the gear of his troop and found the discrepancy to his vest to be vexing, he tried to get to the bottom of how he managed to survive.<br/><br/>It took Julio until the end of his time as a SEAL and DEVGRU operator testing whenever he could spare the time and personal budget to do so before he figured out what was going on and the extent of his ability. During the 6 years since that mission he had learned in bits and pieces how his ability worked and worked out that the source of his power was in his pendant. With this knowledge, he had figured that it was his time to leave the military since he had paid his dues to his country.<br/><br/>Once he left, Julio reconnected with his family and tried to figure out what to do with the rest of his life before he decided upon settling down in Meteor City. He figured that he would at least be able to get a better idea as to what he could do while making use of his training and experience. To that end, he decided to get into the business of opening a gunshop with some associates that he had kept in contact with who were living in the city and applied for a job as a SWAT trainer for MCPD, correctly anticipating that they would probably want additional trainers for the city’s police force.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>(https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjMyLjAwMDAwMC5RV0pwYkdsMGFXVnouMAAAAAAAAA,,/comic-balloon-new.regular.png)<br/>Talents:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Home cooking</li><li>Gunsmith</li><li>Mechanical Work</li><li>Hunting</li></ul><br/>Skills:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Former Tier One Special Operations Operator: Being that he’s a recently retired DEVGRU Operator and is currently a SWAT trainer, Julio is well-versed in the special tactics that are in vogue in Military and Law Enforcement circles and has trained in the use of a variety of firearms, explosives.</li><li>Close Quarters Combat: From his time in DEVGRU, Julio had trained in hand-to-hand combat, unarmed and otherwise in multiple styles, most notably Sambo, Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun. He also has experience in orthodox boxing.</li><li>All-terrain Driving: Julio has experience as a getaway driver in multiple operations that he had undertaken with DEVGRU with a multitude of captured enemy vehicles under hostile conditions.</li><li>SEa Air and Land: As a former Navy SEAL and DEVGRU operator, Julio is fully certified and trained in HALO and HAHO jumps, general parachuting, diving and the use of Fulton Recovery Devices.</li></ul><br/>Power:  Density Manipulation  (https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Density_Manipulation)<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Enhanced Physiology: Julio’s control over density allows him to have more muscular and bone mass for the same amount of bulk as well as skin that is more resistant to tearing, resulting in enhanced strength and overall durability.</li><li>Superior Vertical Mobility: Due to a combination of Julio’s increased muscular strength and ability to modulate his own density, he’s able to jump significantly higher than a normal human being and fall from a greater height without hurting himself.</li><li>Air Shield: By greatly increasing the density of air around something he means to protect from physical projectiles, Julio can prevent the projectiles from impacting against their intended targets by weaponizing air resistance.</li><li>Contactless Density Control: Julio is able to control the density of an object that he concentrates on without needing to touch it. To give a use case example, he is able to control the density of a bullet that he fires at a target with the express purpose of increasing the kinetic energy of the projectile at point of impact. Conversely, Julio is also able to reduce the lethality of falling objects by reducing the kinetic energy of an object via reducing the density of the object.</li></ul><br/>Advantages: Julio deals primarily in manipulation of kinetic energy via the use of density changes. Changes in density also has the effect of making materials stronger or weaker.<br/>Disadvantages: Julio has a complete inability to deal with energy weapons without the use of ablative-material. The only way he could defend against such attacks would be by making the intended sacrificial layer denser and more protective.<br/><br/>Weapon(s): Julio has a veritable arsenal that he maintains but typically defaults to some tried and tested designs that are modernized with newer manufacturing techniques and materials.<br/><br/>These include but are not limited to:<br/><br/>His custom full-sized, single-stack 1911 in .45 Super with adjustable tritium sights, bevelled magazine well, slide and barrel porting which serves as his everyday concealed carry<br/><br/>His fifty-round capacity select-fire AR-57 10.5 inch barreled carbine in 5.7x28mm FN with 10.5 inch barrel with quick detach suppressor, Hera Arms CQR stock and foregrip plus a variety of optics options<br/><br/>Gear:<br/><br/>Mk.51 Physical-Augmentation Combat Hazard Suit - The Mk.51 PACHS is the standard combat uniform used by Special Mission Units under Joint Special Operations Command in 2045. It is a CBRN-rated, sealed dry suit that carries a 15-minute life support system by default, an external and internal thermal regulation system, a ballistic fibre layer suspended in shear-thickening fluid and contains a piezoelectric artificial muscle fibre layer powered by an onboard capacitor that is charged by the user’s movements. This piezoelectric artificial muscle fibre layer powers the onboard systems as well as provides physical strength augmentation by a factor of 2 but does not offer additional resistance to water pressure when diving.<br/><br/>The Mk.51 PACHS is always worn with a compatible sealed combat helmet co-developed alongside it in different configurations for different combat roles. Whatever the configuration, the helmet always includes an integrated communications suite, integrated augmented reality visor overlay, mission camera, voice recognition software for use in conjunction with personalized commands for suit feature activation and a set of flashlights.<br/><br/>The suit includes mounting points for other modules and components of DARPA’s Next Generation Asymmetric Warfighter “Spartacus” program such as the Nemean Modular Up-Armored Plating System (MUPS), the Wraith Stealth Camouflage System, the Daedalus Parafoil, the Athena Tactical Ruggedized Wristpad Dock, the Atlas Light Automatic Crew-Served Weapon Load Bearing Field Pack and the Kangaroo Modular Equipment Stowage Harness (MESH).<br/><br/>The Nemean MUPS comes in a multitude of variants but the standard mounting points for titanium alloy plating pieces are on the back of the hand, the forearms, the biceps, the thighs, the calves, the knees, the feet, the upper torso clamshell that covers up the front and the back and the crotch guard. When combined with the shear-thickening fluid-suspended ballistic fibre layer of the Mk.51 PACHS, the armor plating can provide its user with NIJ Type IV protection.<br/><br/>The Wraith Stealth Camouflage System is a device that uses current run through metamaterials to project a deflection field that diverts electromagnetic waves in the visual spectrum around the user for a short period of time of about 10 seconds before the capacitor needs to be recharged.<br/><br/>The Daedalus Parafoil consists of an aerodynamic rigid shell that holds a standard-issue parafoil with a quick detach in case of entanglement. The shell can be used for additional equipment storage after landing or discarded for matters of weight reduction.<br/><br/>The Athena Tactical Ruggedized Wristpad Dock is a relatively simple addition but it is still very important to JSOC’s Special Mission Unit Operators. It is an armored docking point for the standard, approved commercially-available portable personal computer solutions that is mounted on the Nemean forearm plate that the operator chooses to place it on. Typically the Wristpad Dock is worn on the left arm.<br/><br/>The Atlas Light Automatic Crew-Served Weapon Load Bearing Field Pack is compatible with the Daedalus Parafoil as long as the parafoil shell is mounted on the field pack itself. The field pack allows the operator to carry an extra long continuous belt of ammunition for their belt-fed general purpose machine gun or squad automatic weapon far beyond the normal transportable box magazines that hold 100 round to 200 round belts.<br/><br/>The Kangaroo Modular Equipment Stowage Harness allows the operator to mount clips, holsters and sheaths for weapons and ammunition in loose-round form or magazines, soft pouches for general purpose storage and hard cases for more fragile materials that need to be protected either on the Mk.51 PACHS or the Nemean MUPS plates.<br/><br/>Connections:<br/>