BIOGRAPHY:

A Reaper starship’s crew must always include a torturer, because theft and piracy are not merely crimes for Xonadian culture: they are insults that must be answered with endless agony. Additionally, the cargo must be safeguarded by a specialist in long-range weaponry to counter external attack.
That is why a Reaper’s contingent of Gorebreaker Soldiers must include both a Virgum and a Fiero Soldier: the former, masters of torture; the latter, elite marksmen of the Xonadian army. The making of a Virgum begins early. They are taken into custody by the Xonadian pain priests as soon as they reach the age of fifty (the equivalent of nine human years) and trained for a century in the most advanced techniques of physical, mental, and soul torture. This intensive education prepares them for perfect integration with their torturer’s exo-suits. Fiero Soldiers undergo a different path: two centuries of combat training in the most hazardous warzones, mastering firearms, explosives, and long-range battle tactics.
Only those who survive these brutal regimens earn the titles of Virgum or Fiero and the honor of serving aboard a Reaper starship.
But one among them was different. He began his journey as a Fiero, then voluntarily submitted to the Virgum program. Not content with simply surviving, he slaughtered all his fellow trainees, just to be the sole victor of his class.
The Xonadian priests watched. They saw not treachery, but divinity. Supremacy. Ruthlessness. The core values of their creed.
And so, they chose him as the test subject for a new type of exo-suit: one that could combine both Virgum and Fiero skills. As soul-targeted tortures were found to be the most effective, the engineers designed a weapon that could shoot and torture with equal proficiency. After fifty years of agonizing calibrations and integrations, the project reached completion. The resulting warrior was branded: Crystal Soldier For the first time in Xonadian history, a Reaper no longer required both a Virgum and a Fiero.

Because Crystal Soldier is both: a master of the most agonizing forms of torture and the most unique and formidable shooter ever bred.

KROGMORG INFO:

Pain is a feeling, and the Soul is composed of five cardinal feelings, with pain being one of them. The Soul resides in the non-matter dimension, and the brain acts as a connector between the Soul and the body.
That’s why Xonadian priests chose to focus Crystal Soldier’s exoskeleton on crystallization: because crystal is one of the most effective materials for physically connecting the mind with the non-matter dimension.
The exo-suit is equipped with TRW-4 emitters that can crystallize any living matter molecule using Tetrawave vibrations. Through crystallization, the soldier can connect to a victim’s Soul and “damage” it. At that point, the victim’s brain, being connected to the injured Soul, fails to properly convert the timeless action into time-space, causing a “conversion error” and triggering the most agonizing form of pain a body can experience.
To match the Fiero Soldiers’ skills, the TRW-4 emitters have been boosted by two Directioners-46, which allow the Crystal Soldier to crystallize the air and remove part of the space between it and the target, thanks to the non-matter property of the crystal, literally creating crystal bullets fired at immeasurable speed. Using the same principle, the Directioners-46 can implode the crystal structure by reducing the space within its mass, turning it into a bomb. Crystal Soldier can reproduce almost every kind of firearm effect in crystallized form: machine-gun shards, crystal shotgun blast, crystal bombs, crystal mortars, crystal blades and more.
Enemies torn apart by Crystal Soldier’s shards and bullets seem almost grateful for death: an end that spares them from the most excruciating pain ever conceived in this universe.

SIDE EFFECTS:

It seems that Crystal Soldier’s brain generates a conversion error during the process his Soul undergoes when connecting to the victim’s Soul for torture. This conversion error appears to interfere with his physical development, making prolonged torture sessions dangerous even for Crystal Soldier. This is one of the reasons why his muscular structure is so advanced, even though his skills are not primarily focused on physical activity.