I tried writing a short story in regards to the origins, but hit an utter wall for some reason. Grr. So I'll just stick it here.
While Portal Corp is the only organization legally allowed to develop and use interdimensional travel technology, it's often suspected that there are
several other groups with access to the technology. As is common in Paragon City, Crey's a popular suspect. And its true... sort of. Crey doesn't have
the technology, despite their best attempts, but they do have people in Portal Corp that have 'hired' their Paragon Protectors or conventional Crey
security for a number of other-world recon and research missions. In the process, Crey have secretly stolen the technology of a dozen worlds.
One such mission was to quake-ravaged Megatokyo, a city defended by a police department as outgunned as Paragons Police (But under tight corporate control),
and four Tech heroes known as the Knight Sabers. The Superbuma Largo, as part of his campaign for imagined godhood, created duplicates of the Knight Sabers in
an attempt to destroy their public reputation and make it easier to destroy them. Upon learning of this, Crey decided to claim these four 'sexaroids'
for themselves, intending to use them as deniable weapons in situations that the Paragon Protectors were unsuitable for.
The theft was easy, as the new Sabers hadn't been activated yet, but during an attempted reprogramming, Sylia Stingray woke up, still possessing a memory
and personality rather close to her original. Getting loose, she managed to recover her armor and escape the Crey facility, vanishing into Paragon. A
remarkably intelligent woman, she managed to determine her situation on this world and registered as a hero under the name Silicon Sabre. Shortly afterwards,
she met Lady of the Peace and was recruited into Riot Force 6.1. For a while, she maintained a hidden identity to all, but she eventually made the decision to
tell Ifrit the whole story.
Both women were determined to locate the rest of Sylias 'family', eventually locating Nene during transport from a hidden research facility by a
remarkably generic security firm. Nenes mind had a primitive control program placed over the top of any independent thought, and her armor modified by Crey for
better effectiveness against non-mechanical enemies. Still, against the two of them, she was quickly subdued and secured at a hospital, where the program was
removed. Attempts to confirm that Crey was responsible for her plight slammed into a paper trail that went nowhere, the research facility belonging to no one.
Nene joined Riot Force as Net Sabre.
Priss was the next to be recovered, by sheer luck. A Rikti raid in Galaxy City blew up the truck her crate was in, pulling her back to reality rather confused,
and with a hangover. The Rikti never really knew what hit them, but Sylia and Ifrit were in Galaxy at the time, quickly bringing her up to speed. When the dust
settled, Priss was granted a license and took the name Street Sabre (An in-story way of describing the experience of 'roll up Priss, load
GalaxyOMFGRITKI!!')
After this, the trail seemed to dry up on Linna for some time, all details and rumors about her vanishing utterly. It wasn't until Knight, Nene and Ifrit
tracked the head Crey scientist on the now 'dead' project that they discovered he'd actually stolen her from Crey and had her at home as a
combination guard and maid. Stripping the control programs from her, Linna turned on the scientist, who managed to escape with the help of a Paragon Protector.
After some time to get her bearings, Linna joined Riot Force as Dance Sabre.
Even with all four of the 'Sabres of Paragon' loose, Crey hasn't abandoned the technology, which has led to a number of other failures. COMBOT Mk
III gained sentience and escaped to the Rogue Isles, and it's rumored that another Street Sabre has been seen on the streets of Paragon, and that's
only the ones we know of...
In Riot Force, despite their low security levels, all four of the Sabres serve as mentors to the other new heroes, applying years of experience taken from
their originals. Sylia, having made a life in Steel Canyon, has become something of a social climber, which serves as a powerful source of information on
groups such as the Family and Tsoo. Priss, having claimed an old apartment in the Hollows (It reminds her of Megatokyo, and she's come to like the
countryside), serves as Riot Forces primary source of information on street gangs like the Trolls, Outcasts and Lost. Ifrit's trying to talk her into
taking a criminology course at Paragon University, as there's a surprising degree of skill there, but she's busy working on rebuilding her band. Nene
has claimed half of Ifrits apartment in Atlas, and serves as the teams internet genius, pulling together information and equipment from a hundred sources. And
Linna, crashing with Sylia at the moment, is trying to figure out what she wants to do.
While Portal Corp is the only organization legally allowed to develop and use interdimensional travel technology, it's often suspected that there are
several other groups with access to the technology. As is common in Paragon City, Crey's a popular suspect. And its true... sort of. Crey doesn't have
the technology, despite their best attempts, but they do have people in Portal Corp that have 'hired' their Paragon Protectors or conventional Crey
security for a number of other-world recon and research missions. In the process, Crey have secretly stolen the technology of a dozen worlds.
One such mission was to quake-ravaged Megatokyo, a city defended by a police department as outgunned as Paragons Police (But under tight corporate control),
and four Tech heroes known as the Knight Sabers. The Superbuma Largo, as part of his campaign for imagined godhood, created duplicates of the Knight Sabers in
an attempt to destroy their public reputation and make it easier to destroy them. Upon learning of this, Crey decided to claim these four 'sexaroids'
for themselves, intending to use them as deniable weapons in situations that the Paragon Protectors were unsuitable for.
The theft was easy, as the new Sabers hadn't been activated yet, but during an attempted reprogramming, Sylia Stingray woke up, still possessing a memory
and personality rather close to her original. Getting loose, she managed to recover her armor and escape the Crey facility, vanishing into Paragon. A
remarkably intelligent woman, she managed to determine her situation on this world and registered as a hero under the name Silicon Sabre. Shortly afterwards,
she met Lady of the Peace and was recruited into Riot Force 6.1. For a while, she maintained a hidden identity to all, but she eventually made the decision to
tell Ifrit the whole story.
Both women were determined to locate the rest of Sylias 'family', eventually locating Nene during transport from a hidden research facility by a
remarkably generic security firm. Nenes mind had a primitive control program placed over the top of any independent thought, and her armor modified by Crey for
better effectiveness against non-mechanical enemies. Still, against the two of them, she was quickly subdued and secured at a hospital, where the program was
removed. Attempts to confirm that Crey was responsible for her plight slammed into a paper trail that went nowhere, the research facility belonging to no one.
Nene joined Riot Force as Net Sabre.
Priss was the next to be recovered, by sheer luck. A Rikti raid in Galaxy City blew up the truck her crate was in, pulling her back to reality rather confused,
and with a hangover. The Rikti never really knew what hit them, but Sylia and Ifrit were in Galaxy at the time, quickly bringing her up to speed. When the dust
settled, Priss was granted a license and took the name Street Sabre (An in-story way of describing the experience of 'roll up Priss, load
GalaxyOMFGRITKI!!')
After this, the trail seemed to dry up on Linna for some time, all details and rumors about her vanishing utterly. It wasn't until Knight, Nene and Ifrit
tracked the head Crey scientist on the now 'dead' project that they discovered he'd actually stolen her from Crey and had her at home as a
combination guard and maid. Stripping the control programs from her, Linna turned on the scientist, who managed to escape with the help of a Paragon Protector.
After some time to get her bearings, Linna joined Riot Force as Dance Sabre.
Even with all four of the 'Sabres of Paragon' loose, Crey hasn't abandoned the technology, which has led to a number of other failures. COMBOT Mk
III gained sentience and escaped to the Rogue Isles, and it's rumored that another Street Sabre has been seen on the streets of Paragon, and that's
only the ones we know of...
In Riot Force, despite their low security levels, all four of the Sabres serve as mentors to the other new heroes, applying years of experience taken from
their originals. Sylia, having made a life in Steel Canyon, has become something of a social climber, which serves as a powerful source of information on
groups such as the Family and Tsoo. Priss, having claimed an old apartment in the Hollows (It reminds her of Megatokyo, and she's come to like the
countryside), serves as Riot Forces primary source of information on street gangs like the Trolls, Outcasts and Lost. Ifrit's trying to talk her into
taking a criminology course at Paragon University, as there's a surprising degree of skill there, but she's busy working on rebuilding her band. Nene
has claimed half of Ifrits apartment in Atlas, and serves as the teams internet genius, pulling together information and equipment from a hundred sources. And
Linna, crashing with Sylia at the moment, is trying to figure out what she wants to do.