Lance Marshall

Lance Marshall was a police officer, and later an informant for the Blackbloods, and eventually became one of Lionel MacTavish's most trusted compatriots, making him one of the three Blackblood Champions.

In his youth, he was involved with Victor Moore's expulsion from public school after Victor nearly beat him to death, justified by Marshall harassing students with cybernetic body parts. Marshall's face was left heavily disfigured after the incident.

Sometime between then and his allegiance with the Blackbloods around 2073, he had received facial reconstructive surgery and studied law to become an officer with the NYPD in 2070.

Corruption never took long as he became an informant to the Blackbloods around 2074, bribing the police to turn a blind eye to actions and trading sensitive/restricted information. Their growing power used through police corruption is most likely the main reason why the Blackbloods shifted morals so dramatically.

As the Blackbloods attained a higher force over the police department, Lance resigned and recieved the title of Champion for his service. He became a regular customer of dancer Flame at the Laserlust Club, whom helped Victor Moore gain reach to Marshall in his efforts to take down the Blackbloods.

In April of 2078, Victor apprehended Marshall in the Laserlust Club, questioning him about the Blackbloods' operations and motives. It ended with Marshall shooting Flame in the chest and escaping. Victor rushed Flame back to the Argonauts' bunker where she was operated on by Tyson Riche as Victor planned another attempt at taking out Marshall.

Several weeks later, Victor and Tiger Eye apprehended Marshall in a restaurant, turning into a car chase that ended in Marshall crashing his car into a ditch and being berated by Victor and T before they beat him with baseball bats. As ways of payback, Victor finished him off with a revolver shot to the chest. Before leaving, Marshall stood back up, still holding on to life. Victor impaled him with his Lazarus and pulled the sword upwards, vertically bifurcating Marshall's head and most of his torso. They quickly escaped the scene as they marked their first of four Blackblood leaders dead.

MacTavish alongside a patrol of Blackbloods found Marshall's disfigured body shortly after the murder. They brought it back and preserved it, spending the last couple months ordering a group of Blackblood techs to restore his brain and digitally transfer it into an AI. This AI survived the end of the Blackbloods, and makes an appearance in Scars of Pyrrhic Domination, as a handler or an enemy, depending on the group's allegiance.