GC_Rust

I'm a newcomer to Virtue. I migrated from Pinnacle less then a year ago, and never really got to know much of anybody. You might have seen me snarking off in Help under the alias "Demon Digger" or "Thoughtforce", but I doubt those names mean much to anyone.

I'd just like to say it's been my honor and privilege to play on Virtue with such a fine and awesome bunch of people. You made CoH fun to play again after the wastelands of Pinnacle. I wish I could have known you.

But in this, our final hour, know that I shall not abandon you. I plan on being there the day the servers are turned off, even if I have to skip work.

CoH was my first MMO - I plan to be there, holding it's hand, as Life Support is shut off. I've brought over the last batch of Pinnacle refugees so you might see a Level 50 Dark Melee/Super Reflexes Scrapper by the name of Night-Raider wandering around King's Row - or a maniac named Grinmace Redside. Or maybe you'll still see Demon Digger smarting off in Help.

Regardless, I guess all I can say is... "See you on the other side, Ray."

It's not that I'm complaining, but this is the only day I'll have solely to myself for awhile (Be it helping with family, work, or girlfriend), so I was looking forward to getting some stuff done on my villain (Letting my main Hero have some down time to accumulate some Patrol XP for the big push to my first five oh), and then work on revising my MA arc (Currently it's a Maxi Arc of 3 parts. I want to condense it down into one 5 mission arc).

Well scratch the "not a long maintenance" comment. Two hours. Blegh.

Good thing it doesn't sound like this is going to be a very long maintenance. Halfway to Coldhearted, Redside. Then I've all but obtained the Demonic Aura accolade (Just got to level and do the mission for Traxis).

Thanks for taking the time to make this thread.

My questions:


1) What's the deal with Nemesis? I've scoured the Wikis as well as the game itself, along with reading "The Web of Arachnos", but I still don't get Nemesis at all.

Is he a Human Intellect turned Artificial Intelligence a la The Doctor? (Given in the Vanguard arcs he plans to download his intellect into the Rikti Homeworld Datanet)

Is he a Pre-Well Metahuman with effective immortality? (The Web of Arachnos)

Or is he akin to the Clockwork King, in that his brain is functional but his body has long been replaced?



2) Similarly, the Nemesis Army. Is the bulk of it Human Followers, or are they mostly Nemesis Automatons? I know he has Human Officers, but it seems to me his Automaton technology is to such a degree there'd be little incentive to introduce the wild card that is the Human Element. Then again, I suppose Nemesis does need some outlet for his massive ego.