String Theory

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>String Theory</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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Deceased

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox>String Theory is a supervillain imprisoned in the Birdcage.

Personality

String Theory likely has a megalomaniacal personality, coming up with extravagant, over the top plans including blowing up randomly selected locations in a scheme to make money and threatening to blow up the moon. Even during Gold Morning, she exited the Birdcage with a grin on her face.<ref name="27.3 e1" /><ref name="27.4BG" /> When asked to minimize collateral damage, she was disappointed.

String Theory has been shown to have a condescending attitude toward Lab Rat, though it's unclear whether this is meant to be playful or mocking.<ref>“I’m not an ordinary tinker,” String Theory said. She tapped her head. “I’ve had four years to think, plan what I’d build if I got out. All up here.”

“Me too, seven years of thinking,” Lab Rat said. “Need a lab. Not sharing one with her.”

“I wouldn’t let you, darling,” String Theory said, condescending. I could see Lab Rat’s lip curl, but I wasn’t sure if it was in irritation or amusement. - Excerpt from Extinction 27.4</ref>

Appearance

String Theory is a short, slouching woman with a petite build, her dark hair tied back into a braid, and her lips pulled back into a wide expression halfway between a grin and a smile. She wears glasses.<ref name="27.3 e1">String Theory and Lab Rat stepped out of the same portal. String Theory was short, shorter with her slouch, and petite, her dark hair tied back into a braid, her lips pulled back into a wide expression halfway between a grin and a smile. With her glasses, it made me think of a frog, or a small lizard.

[...]

String Theory had made her tinker devices and then auctioned away ‘safeties’. Not uses of the weapon or offering targets, but only guarantees that the owner of a ‘safety’ wouldn’t be one of her randomly selected targets. The targets had ranged from gas stations in Indonesia to a filled football stadium in Cardiff.

As one could imagine, there had been a high demand for her arrest. - Excerpt from Extinction 27.3</ref>

Abilities and Powers

String Theory is a Tinker similar to Leet; with few restrictions on what she can build only having to work off of a timer to achieve the best results, her only issue being the resources she has access to.<ref name="SB44">String Theory is like Leet, with few limits or specialty restrictions, but her stuff has a ticking countdown timer from the moment she starts constructing it. All about time management and having the funds/resources on hand.

Want to freeze the Earth's oceans? Maybe doable, but it's going to take a lot of rare/valuable resources, three months of steady work, and it's going to happen 1 week and seven hours after the job's complete. Fuck up, don't have the materials, or lose track of schedule? Get out of dodge, backfire incoming.

Except she leveraged the resources from initial threats/ransoms to ramp up and didn't stop until the authorities came down on her head. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="27.4"/>

She claimed to be able to work extremely rapidly as a result of having had four years to design new technology in her head while imprisoned. As a result, she was able to complete the G-Driver in under forty-seven minutes.<ref name="27.4" /> This was later expounded upon to be due to loaned time manipulator capes and her construction of specialized drones to do the construction for her.<ref>Interlude 10.y II</ref>

Her Driver weapons were capable of significantly injuring and potentially killing Endbringers. As a result, the Endbringers coordinated their appearances so they would never face her devices in combat.<ref name="R93">[taking about one punch man]Not going to happen in any incarnation of the Wormverse, or Behemoth would be built stronger to counteract (Or, as in the case of String Theory, Endbringer cooperation/timing would keep her from ever being able to set up a proper hit). - /d0rih8a/ Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

G-Driver

The only one of her creations described in the story, the G-Driver was a weapon designed for combating Scion. The name stood for "God-driver", as well as indicating that it was an upgrade of the earlier F-driver.

The G-driver was operated remotely from a laptop during the oil-rig battle. It fired through one of Doormaker's portals, and targeting was further refined from the laptop using coordinates provided by Number Man. The firing time could not be changed and was set down to the second.

In operation, the G-driver was distinctly underwhelming: it resembled a bug zapper more than a shot from a gun. There was a faint distortion in the air, and Scion rocketed upward, leaving a golden trail that suggested he'd been blown straight out of the atmosphere.<ref name="27.4">Extinction 27.4</ref>

Later, the G-driver revealed as actually highly destructive, but only to anchored stationary targets, while making a weird exception to the smaller flying objects, which tend to be thrown around with an extreme force.<ref>Dauntless, too, was in the path of the beam. He had his shield, and he was rooted into the ground in a way that resisted being thrust away with the kind of power that could push a moon out of orbit, but the grazing hit still demolished one of his arms, tore out a chunk of the Titan’s side. - Excerpt from Last 20.a</ref>

History

Background

String Theory auctioned off "safeties" to people who would be guaranteed not to be one of her random "targets". Targeted places ranging from gas stations in Indonesia to a filled football stadium in Cardiff.<ref name="27.3 e1"/> By 2006, she was making threats online of targeting government buildings, landmarks, and nuclear sites.<ref>[Scharader] [...] "[phooey] doesn't know what they're talking about. The plants are designed to weather interruptions and this is no exception, but people need power."
[...]
Snowfall [...] "You could try making that argument in Earth Aleph, but here there are too many factors to consider. We aren't out to hurt anyone but there are others who might be."
[...]
It may also be that Snowfall is referencing String Theory, who made comments online in 2006, naming things she could blow up, including government buildings, landmarks, and nuclear sites. - PHO Sunday, FEY seizes reactors, leaving Millions without power</ref> At the time of her incarceration, she was threatening to knock the moon out of orbit, this was not disclosed to the public.<ref name="27.4BG">“Sources corroborating the visual,” Tattletale said. “Direct hit. It worked.”

String Theory pumped her fists in the air.

“What was that?” Vista asked.

“G-driver,” String Theory said. [...] “Upgrade of the F-driver.”

“The Firmament Driver,” Defiant explained, over the earbuds. “At the time of her arrest, String Theory was threatening to use her Firmament Driver to knock our moon out of orbit.”

“And we didn’t hear about this because-”

“Morale,” Defiant replied, as if that was explanation enough. - Excerpt from Extinction 27.4</ref>

At some point in 2009,<ref name="27.4" /> she was incarcerated in the Birdcage. She became a cellblock leader.<ref name="16.z">All in all, there were twelve cell blocks with leaders. That meant that there were eleven leaders with eleven lieutenants arriving. Acidbath, Galvanate, Teacher, Lab Rat and Gavel were leaders of the cell blocks on the men’s side of the prison. Lustrum, Black Kaze, Glaistig Uaine, String Theory, Crane and Ingenue were the female leaders. There were other cell blocks, but twelve was generally agreed on as a good number. It left room for discussion without too much chaos, and it left enough cell blocks leaderless that they had elbow room to do business elsewhere. - Excerpt from Interlude 16.z</ref>

Gold Morning

She was released to participate in the oil-rig battle,

After inspiring Lab Rat to finally think bigger,<ref>Interlude 10.y II</ref> she was the only one to successfully inconvenience Scion at first and died when Scion eliminated the whole rig.<ref name="27.3">Extinction 27.3</ref><ref name="27.4" />

Ward

G-Driver was appropriated by Dragon and Defiant. It was installed on one of dragoncrafts and put to use with a great success.<ref>G-driver charging. 1:59:03

Borrowed tech. Dragon had taken it and revived the project. He had integrated it into this model of the Marduk. He’d fired it five times today alone - Excerpt from Last 20.a</ref>

Trivia

• Even given the power at her disposal it is unlikely she would have been able to knock the moon out of orbit, however blasting the moon in half seems to have been a possibility.<ref name="PRT29">"You know you're having a vision, then?"
  
  "Not usually. It's like dreaming. Sometimes you can figure it out. I use cues. Sometimes I notice colors are off, or there's some big part of the world that's different, like, half the moon is gone. Then I have a moment where I'm like, 'Yeah that isn't right', and 'duh, my power'."
  
  "Half the moon? You work from alternate histories?"
  
  "I think I work from alternate histories to alternate futures, but I dunno. The power testing guys always say different things when I see 'em. Like I said, my power screws around at my expense. There's usually a point of contact or something so it's close. It's never, like, crazy different. Same people, same place, things moving in the same direction." - Department Sixty Four, PRT Quest thread i p29</ref>

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