Group Members:

• Dave Lynn - Tinker
• Simon Gray (originally) - Spectre
• Jenny MacClare - Mackie
• Spirit

Also See:

• Wheels of Fury

CLEA Classification:

• Specialist Engineer (Tinker)
• Vehicular Lifeform (Spectre and Spirit)
• Specialist Combatant (MacClare)

Special Properties/Skills:

• Lynn acts as the team's mechanic is fully trained to deal with the unique oddities presented by Spectre and Spirit. Though regarded as a civilian Lynn is known to take direct action in the team's "missions" by driving his own vehicle and placing himself in harms way.
• MacClare is an ex police officer. During her time with the EPD she recieved unarmed combat and firearms training. She originally "piloted" Spectre's car before gaining her own vehicle so that she could act as another mobile unit for the team.
• Spectre and Spirit are classed as vehicular lifeforms (the classification was originally created to describe Spectre). Since they combine elements of "human" within the systems of a car they have a capacity to heal wounds by absorbing power from nearby sources (via EM fields). The pair can also hack into communication systems the same way. Since the pair are actual cars and not people every part component that is connected to them they can control (in much the same way a human can control their arms and legs etc.) They can thus drive anywhere and frequently do so at the alarm of people who do not know what the are and see driverless cars. For this reason they will often generate a hologram of themselves in the drivers seat (see below).
• Spectre and Spirit can also emit a fully formed hologram of themselves (but must be within twenty feet of the vehicle). When using internal power the "hologram" has no substance and appears ghost like. However if they can feed off a power source, the boosted power allows them to become "solid" but though they look like "humans" they do not feel human to third parties who decribe being close to either one being similar to standing next to a CR tube.

Rap Sheet/Criminal Traits:

• Double homicide (MacClare - charges later dropped when it was discovered she had been framed by the true murderers, corrupt officers in the EPD)

Potential/Known Weakness(s):

• Lynn has received no armed/unarmed training so is weak against a skilled fighter.
• Though Spirit and Spectre can repair a lot of damage by absorbing power they cannot repair everything which included natural wear and tear. They therefore rely on Lynn to fix any of the systems they cannot.
• As soon as Spirit and Spectre take on their hologram form outside the confines of their vehicles they cannot self repair until they return to inside of the their vehicles and abandon using their alternate form.
• Spectre and Spirit are vulnerable to EM based weapons.
• The Renaissance Mob has single the Road Warriors as their "enemies."

The Road Warriors are a New Tokyo based team of heroes that get their names from the fact they tend to use vehicles in order to complete their mission. They were originally pulled together as a group in order to oppose the Renaissance Mob operating in the Australian wilderness and then after the group split each part chose to use their unique talents to help those less fortunate.

History

In the beginning the Road Warriors consisted of just two members. Dave Lynn had become disillusioned with working for the Renaissance Mob since he noticed them becoming more violent and was not at ease with the fact they had begun to expand their business operations into kidnapping women to use as prostitutes.

He had been forced to leave their “employment” after freeing an assassin named “Rose” that had been captured trying to kill the mobs leader, Big Ron. Unable to bear seeing her tortured he released her and would have been killed had it not been for the fact his brother was prominent member of the mob. Dave therefore was able to settle down in a small outback town of Irwin’s Crossing that just fell under the control of the Green Dragons, a rival gang. Rose joined him since she had nowhere else to go. Failure to take out a target had exposed the "organisation" she worked for "The Twelve" . That was not permitted so she was now a target for the other assasins who worked for the Twelve. A quiet country life therefore was in her best interest.

In time the Green Dragons reached a power sharing agreement with Renaissance Mob and handed him leases to farmland they owned so that he might begin growing his own drugs supply. Some of that land was in an area surounding Irwin's Crossing so very quickly Dave found some familiar faces in the area. Though the mob enforcers they recognised Dave, the town mechanic, they ignored him since he was not a threat to them. Since the thugs were not high up the ranks they did not recognise Rose so she was relatively safe from the Mob, although Dave viewed that as a blessing for he had no doubt she could easily take care of any mob enforcers. Since he had abandoned his old violent life he persuaded Rose to simply let things be but she found that difficult when the rest of the town were growing tired of being co-erced into growing illegal crops and perfoming menial tasks for the mob.

As the townsfolk began to suffer, the mob found its members under attack at night by a masked vigilante. Rose figured since the local police had been paid off she had to restore justice. The people saw the vigilante as a hero despite the fact the mob started to punish the people of Irwin's Crossing in retaliation. Dave guessed the vigilante was Rose as he had caught her sneaking out at night on a number of occasions. She promised him she would stop once the mob gave up the town and then the situation got worse when Jade showed up.

She wanted revenge on the mob after they had kidnapped her and place her into a life of prostitution. After escaping she had trained to become a mercenary and once she had the skills had returned to Irwin’s Crossing for some payback. Rose saw a kindred spirit in Jade and suggested they work together to detroy the mob's presecence in the area. Jade did not need much persuading and the Road Warriors were born.Using their skills to their best advtage the two women succeeded in breaking the Renaissance Mob's strangle hold on the town but not the area. That was when Spectre and MacClare appeared in Irwin's Crossing.

The pair had heard about some trouble in the outback and had set off to help. Upon arriving in the town, the pair were tricked by Atlas (Dave's brother) and told that the two women on bikes were the source of problems in the town. Since he was such an eloquent speaker, he convinced the pair with his lies and they set off for Dave's Garage. Atlas thought that in sending MacClare and Spectre after Jade and Rose, both groups would take each other out and thus the town would be eradicated of heroes.

That plan though did not came to a fruition becasue the battle between the four ended in stalemate and nealry brought about Spectre's demise. However both groups survived and once MacCLare and Spectre learned the truth they sided with Jade and Rose, doubling the team. Together they made the town a no go area for the Renaissance Mob but the crime gang was not yet finished.

Nearly a year later the Mob returned with a plan to eliminate the strongest member of the group, Spectre. In a deliberate method to provoke the Road Warriors the mob drove a van into the town and roughed up a few folk befor tearing off. Spectre (with MacClare) gave chase but once they got behind the van the doors flew open to reveal an experimental EM cannon. Firing the weapon at Spectre was supposed to shut down all the electric in the vehicle which would effectively kill him. However instead the pulse split off part of his "psyche" and merged it with part of MacClare's psyche. The upshot of this was the creation of another entity similar to Spectre, but female in appearance.

As both vied for control of the vehicle it was realised by MacClare and Dave that both “entities" could not co-exhist within the same car. The new being though could not be simply killed either since is was technically alive. Dave instead proposed the try to transfer the to another vehicle, namely his. Though there wasa risk they could "kill" Spectre, the team agreed it was the only option they had. Since nobody had every move a living consciousness before it was a small mirale that the transfer worked on once inside Tinker's car the new entity took the name "Spirit". Very quickly it became apparent that Spirit was prone to making mistakes. Though she was part Spectre and part Mackie she had none of their experience. In fact she was making the errors of a child due to a lack of guidance. Accepting she had been “created” from them, Spectre and MacClare made a decision that if Spirit was a “child” then she was their child and therefore it was their responsibility to teach her and raised her as “parents”, albeit they were far from a typical family!

Spirit learned at a greatly accelerated rate once given the correct tutelage and it was not long before the Road Warriors gained another new member. With the new warrior as part of the team, the Renaissance Mob finally withdrew from the time. Things quietened down and Jade and Rose decided to head out together to find somewhere they could use their warriors skills for helping others and they became the "Wheels of Fury".

The others elected to remain at Irwin's Crossing in case the mob returned but it was nearly eighteen months before that scenario presented itself. During this last final push by the mob to defeat the Road Warriors they cpatured and used Spirit to create a team of vehicular lifeforms, Carnage. The Road Warrior were vastly outclassed and so the Wheels of Fury returned temporarily to assist. Though Carnage was not defeated the Renaissance Mob lost control of their "team" when their host personalities grew used to the power and decided they should work for themselves and left Irwin's Crossing to reap mayhem elswhere.

With that final defeat the Wheels of Fury left the Road Warriors to continue their "work" and since the town was now "free" the Dave, Mackie, Spectre and Spirit chose to follow Jade and Rose's lead by using their unique gifts in the service of others.