Matthias

"Welcome, rangers! Welcome to the dawn of the new age!"

Matthias is the leader of the military arm of the New Citadel.

Background
Matthias is the end result of the Guardians' attempt to create a suitable shell for the Cochise AI to inhabit. Born in the process of experimentation on the Guardians, Dugan was one of two shells created, the other success being Matthias. When the Rangers destroyed the Guardians and took down the Guardian Citadel, these two managed to escape the slaughter. The Cochise AI was stuck beneath the Citadel, confined to a single node, while the two synths conspired to find a way to take revenge on the Rangers and free their master.

They reached Los Angeles, beyond the radiation walls, where they set up the Children of the Citadel. To cover up their plans, they created a masquerade: Matthias would pose as the Messiah, seeking to uplift humans from their squalor by merging flesh with machine, while Dugan would be the terrifying robotic menace, seeking to exterminate all life. The ruse worked and while Dugan's worker bots scoured Los Angeles for supplies, fighting with the locals from time to time, Matthias built an army of half-man, half-machine soldiers in the depths of Seal Beach, the New Citadel. The ruse worked well, until Team Echo came to Los Angeles...

In appearance, Matthias is a middle aged man with pattern baldness and speaks with a soft tone, not unlike a caring father. He wears full length robes obscuring his synthetic body and carries himself like the prophet he claims to be.