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 ==== Physical ====
   * **'Body'** - Bootstrap is, essentially, a sentient cumulus cloud. The specific coloration changes with his mood - however, this is rarely seen.
-  * **'Head'** - The most recognizable part of Bootstrap is his 'head', the primary component to his pressure suits. Effectively, it consists of a roughly melon-sized burnished sphere, akin to a ball bearing, with all of the sensitive computer parts, life support, and interfacing components kept safely within. If removed from a pressure suit, the sphere can roll to safety at a fairly quick pace.
+  * **'Head'** - The most recognizable part of Bootstrap is his 'head', the primary component to his pressure suits. Effectively, it consists of a roughly basketball-sized burnished sphere, akin to a ball bearing, with all of the sensitive computer parts, life support, and interfacing components kept safely within. If removed from a pressure suit, the sphere can roll to safety at a fairly quick pace.
   * **'Eyes'** - Belzan vision uses LiDAR to see the world - this manifests as a pair of ethereal, glowing, viridian ovals of light on the face of Bootstrap's 'head'.
   * **Pressure Suits** Given that Bootstrap would die a horribly painful death if he were to attempt to enter a normal atmosphere, the Bezlan uses a variety of modular, humanoid, robotic suits to get around and explore the world. His 'head' is the modular control component for each of the suits, and can be readily transferred between them as needed.
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     * **Magnetic Attractor** - Set in the center of the Combat Claw's crushing 'fingers', this device is able to generate a magnetic field strong enough to draw in unattended objects from afar and wrench weapons from their wielders' hands at close range.
     * **Arc Rifle** - This heavy weapon takes up the lower portion of the Combat Armature's left arm, and has a straightforward purpose: the Arc Rifle induces an arc flash phenomena by manipulating the electrical charge in the atmosphere surrounding its target and ionizing the air between it and the Arc Rifle before discharging the stored electricity directly into the target - in layman's terms, the Arc Rifle fires a powerful bolt of lighting toward the target area after a two-second charge-up period. The weapon needs time to cool afterward and build charge once more, resulting in a fifteen-second cycle time overall.
-    * **Integrated Pulse Laser** - Swivel-mounted on the Combat Armature's right shoulder is a modified [[https://wiki.wanderingstar.online/weapon/plpc_rebuke|PLPC "Rebuke" laser pistol]], fitted with a more durable focusing lens and modified to tap into the Combat Armature's capacitor bank.
+    * **Integrated Pulse Laser** - Swivel-mounted on the Combat Armature's right shoulder is a modified [[weapon/plpc_rebuke|PLPC "Rebuke" laser pistol]], fitted with a more durable focusing lens and modified to tap into the Combat Armature's capacitor bank.
     * **Electrostatic Discharge** - The Combat Armature can briefly discharge its capacitors, sending a snap of current across its outer shell to stun or incapacitate targets in physical contact with the armature.
 ==== Mental ====
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 === Languages ===
-As a Belzan, Bootstrap is only able to inherently speak the Belza's own tongue - with electronic assistance, however, he can quite fluently speak Aleph Basic, and is well-versed in a number of machine languages.
+As a Belzan, Bootstrap is only able to inherently speak the Belza's own tongue - with electronic assistance, however, he can quite fluently speak Aleph Basic and Common, and is well-versed in a number of machine languages.
 ===== History =====
 ==== Pre-RP ====
-Bootstrap's early existence was exceptionally harsh - as one of the first few Thundercloud Belza, quickly found himself forced to dwell within the confines of Traveler's abandoned research station - the true birthplace of the Belza themselves - or risk having himself die in an exceptionally catastrophic explosion. As the Belza are traditionally aloof, carefree beings, known to drift freely throughout the atmosphere of their native home,
+Bootstrap's early existence was one of isolation. As one of the first few Thundercloud Belza, Bootstrap quickly found himself forced to dwell within the confines of Traveler's abandoned research station - the true birthplace of the Belza themselves - or risk having himself die in an exceptionally catastrophic explosion. As the Belza are traditionally aloof, carefree beings, known to drift freely throughout the atmosphere of their gas-giant home, such restriction was suffocating to the young Bootstrap, who resolved himself to leaving this world behind and exploring what lay beyond. To do so, however, there was a lot of learning ahead of him.
-==== Current ====
+The computers aboard the research facility were a wealth of knowledge to the young Belza, who acquired his name from a mathematical procedure within the mathematical database. He learned quite readily that Traveler was one of the few worlds that would not kill him outright - as such, he would need protection before he could venture unto the unknown. Bootstrap drank heavily from the research on magnetics, electrodynamics, chemistry, physics, and topics beyond, using the knowledge acquired to forge his first pressure suit and signal the Units to request transport off-planet. The Unity Protocol responded readily, and Bootstrap - alongside a few other Belza who hadn't caught the first transport ship off-world - finally escaped the cage which was his birthplace.
+While the environment of Sargasso was extremely toxic to his kind, Bootstrap reveled in the sheer freedom he was afforded from the confines of his pressure suit. He wandered the streets freely, taking in all the information he possibly could. He quickly picked up Aleph Basic and Common, learning to not only speak but also read in both languages. He tore through Sargasso's libraries, devouring the information within to expand his knowledge further. Truly, Sargasso was Bootstrap's paradise - but it was not always such peaceful bliss.
+Not long after Bootstrap's arrival, the Belzan ran afoul of a group of street thugs, who mistook him for a robot and tried to scrap him for parts. Bootstrap barely made it out alive, having to use his telekinetic abilities to seal a leak in his pressure suit before retreating to a machine shop for repairs. As he worked to repair his broken body, Bootstrap came to realize that Sargasso was not the perfect paradise he once thought it was - there were those who would seek to destroy him, and any others they came across who they thought they could take advantage of. Bootstrap vowed that he would protect his new home by defending it from such threats to society, using his engineering knack to begin creating and modifying pressure suits to meet this end, installing self-defense measures and creating the first iteration of his modular 'head'.
+==== Current ====
+Years passed, and prototypes rose and fell, with Bootstrap establishing himself as both a bounty hunter and brilliant mechanic, making enough credits to purchase a bunker outside Sargasso to house his personal workshop and a pressurized environment for the times when modifications to his Control Sphere need to be made. Now, Bootstrap seeks to test his latest iterations against a much larger foe - and the Kaiju sightings in Sargasso seem like the perfect opportunity for such a test.
 ===== Skills =====
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 **Vehicles**
-  * Armored Van - an armored, unmarked moving van used to transport Bootstrap's Combat Armatures.
+  * Gernsbeck Lorry - A three-doored van with double doors at the back, two seats in front, and a roomy back space which Bootstrap uses to transport his body frames.
 **Property**