Hound (SG)

Hound likes to proclaim himself as the "Master Of Fear", using his Psycho-Projector to cause people to hallucinate their worst nightmares and incapacitate them with terror.

What he's truly a master of, however, is dissent and mutiny. Throughout the various changes in the Autobot ranks, Hound has managed to escape notice by remaining quiet and feigning apathetic disinterest. In secret, however, Hound has provided assistance to a number of attempted rebellions, including an attempted coup by Ultra Magnus, and being a secret supporter of the Old One, Alpha Trion. Ever since Trion was banished, Hound has been silently waiting for his return...

Ironically, Hound has his own deep-seated fears as much as anyone — organics and their filth scare the scrap out of him.

"It's a planet of greasy dirty things! Oily, squirting, water-filled waste-blobs with their filth and their mold and their plants and their rocks and bugs and things! If that doesn't scare you then you're the one that's crazy!"

- Hound's assessment of Earth

While in his Mitsubishi J59 Jeep mode, Hound uses his turret gun to sweep over the landscape from horizon to horizon, like a radar scope, and, with the help of internal 3-dimensional simulation circuitry, stores this information as a topographical map. Error distortion is no more than one inch per 150 feet distance from point of data collection. In robot mode, Hound's turret gun becomes an infrared radiation collector. It can detect heat differentials as small as .02 degrees Centigrade, and he uses this ability in tracking machines as well as humans. Hound's shoulder-mounted Psycho-Projector can cause people to hallucinate their worst nightmares and incapacitate them with terror. He sometimes also can use it to project 3-dimensional grid laser light images of terrain maps stored in his memory.

Hound's infrared tracking ability can be countered by thermal interference. High frequency electromagnetic waves can distort or completely destroy his map-making ability. Sophisticated manipulation of such waves can even result in the recording of false images within his memory circuits.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
Hound has provided assistance to a number of attempted rebellions, including an attempted coup by Ultra Magnus, and being a secret supporter of the Old One, Alpha Trion. Ever since Trion was banished, Hound has been silently waiting for his return...

MUX History:
Hound is working very hard NOT to be assigned to the Ark mission to Earth.

Players
Hound is available for temping for the Shattered Glass TP.