Image Sourcebook: Blindspot

Real Name: Murdock Ellison
Occupation: Scientist and inventor
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Tribe
Base of Operations: Brooklyn, New York
First Appearance: TRIBE #1 (1993)

History: Europan destroyed Murdock Ellison's company, taking most of his money, and plunging his world into darkness. After existing past this defeat, Ellison gathered others who shared his circumstance, banding together to stop Victor Von Grock and his technology-thieving company.

Ellison retained a connection to Rumble Wear, the fashion house and costume designer for the enhanced being in your life, whose owner Michelle Byrd always worked overtime. Byrd assisted in Ellison's ongoing conflict with Europan, including providing his Rumble G.E.A.R. and alerting Blindspot of a Diamond low security switching station in Brooklyn that was part of its G.E.M. (Global Emergency Mainframe) that would allow access to the enemy corporation, who were Diamond subscribers. Elias Banneker drove a van with Blindspot, Rosalyn, Shift, & Hannibal to break into the G.E.M., but they were immediately detected by Diamond Headquarters. Control teleported in a strike team, but they were repelled by a car thrown by Rosalyn, prompting an emergency reorder back to base.

Ellison's group escaped with valuable information, passing Ditto along the way. The breach was reported up to the Pentagon's Office of Sanctions, but wishing to handle the matter externally to avoid involving I/O (International Operations), communications were scrambled and a file with the D.L. Group was authorized to be opened. They presumably outsourced to Shelter, whose Dreux Baker recognized his former associate Ellison from security footage.

Not wishing for another debacle, Blindspot alone entered Europan's New York headquarters to hack their main data base, but was soon detected and attacked by Lord Deus. Ellison fared slightly better against Victor Von Grock, but still had his mind partially read before jumping out a window to escape. Recognizing that he would need still more associates to confront this level of power, Ellison set about recruiting The Front and Steel Pulse. Besides Europan, Tribe faced figures associated with organized crime, such as Out Cold. Tribe eventually faced Europan Manji and Lord Deus himself, but Blindspot devised an attack that prompted their retreat.

In an revealed later episode, Blindspot would have met Fly Girl.

Height: Tall
Build: Athletic
Eyes: Dark
Hair: Black
Strength level: Normal.
Known superhuman powers: Murdock Ellison is a genius innovator. Upon seeing similarities between the android Hannibal and Eurpan's Manji armored troopers, Blindspot whipped together a device that could shut down the units remotely in a matter of moments. This may have been a Dilithium Q 36 Spacial Modulator, as he handed such a device off to Shift to use against Lord Deus, though it proved ineffective. Blindspot's $50,000 state of the art Rumble G.E.A.R (General Energy Absorbing Rags) includes D.S.R. (Dynamic Spatial Reconstruction). This stealth garb cloaks Blindspot from all sensory apparatuses. With the help of Slate and Desmond Negril, the stealth unit also includes a Stromium alloy with 94% energy dispersion, defending Blindspot against kinetic impact as well as absorbing and redirecting energy attacks through discharge circuits. Lord Deus was able to see through Blindspot's invisibility and fry his stealth circuits. It also contains a communication headset and scatter scan technology for monitoring other people's communications.

© & ™ 1996 Todd Johnson & Larry Stroman

See also: Spawnometer 0:0:3:0: Tribe