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Christopher Stanley Macintosh made the headlines across the world when he was rescued from an icy crevice in Antarctica near McMurdo Base, but his miraculous survival had nothing to do with the persistence and bravery of rescue attempts, but with the stone-cold force of self-preservation beating in Macintosh's heart. The American scientist had been considered lost by his team and by the American government. Rescue attempts had been called off within two days. It took a full thirty-four days before Macintosh was rescued.

He should have been dead.

He was rescued by the New Men who were exploring Antarctica at the time, although they weren't actually looking for him. Macintosh spent the next year in hospital and wasn't expected to recover, but he refused to give in. He spurned all contact with family and friends, and simmered alone in his hospital ward. All efforts by the government to work out how he survived for so long were rebuffed. He wouldn't talk.

Macintosh doesn't remember much of his time in the crevice but has frequent nightmares filled with swirling darkness and a bone-seeping cold.

When he was reluctantly released from medical supervision Macintosh relocated to Canada and continued his work on Antarctica, although he no longer had funding or support from the USA. They offered to fund his research, more out of pity than any hope of scientific breakthroughs, but Macintosh refused. He blamed them for abandoning him in the cold and he secretly plotted revenge.

His research turned to the offensive capabilities of cold. He desperately wanted to inflict the same pain and abandonment on the US government as he was subjected to. He simultaneously pursued reasons for his survival ranging from the uberhuman to the mystical. He discovered that he was a regular non-uber human and that nothing mystical seemed to have occurred to him. It seemed that he was just lucky.

Macintosh created a prototype Freon ray which he began using as a novice criminal, robbing banks to test the capabilities. He was quickly detained and sent to prison where he came into contact with the criminal inventor Mechanicus, although the Canadian prison system was unaware of Mechanicus' true identity. The two men struck up a friendship and when they were released Mechanicus offered to help Macintosh exact his revenge.

The Erebus Armour was built. Macintosh named the armour after the son of Chaos in Greek Mythology, the word meaning a deep blackness. Not coincidentally the name also referred to the mountain in Antarctica which had long been a landmark for Macintosh at McMurdo base. As Erebus he began a series of attacks against American scientific installations.

During one such attack he was contacted by S.U.M.M.I.T. and offered a place amongst their fraternity. Macintosh accepted, perhaps for the first time seeing the benefits of associating with other people again.

Erebus wears a specially designed power suit which is incredibly durable as well as providing enhanced physical strength and an array of communications and sensory systems. It utilises an advanced form of Macintosh's freon ray as well as ice projectors which enable him to encase opponents in ice as well as deiver bursts of cold energy. Mechnicus has provided the armour with antigrav devices enabling it to fly as well as a powerful force field which can be powered up at the expense of offensive systems. The armour is powered by cold fusion and can operate almost indefinitely at moderate power.

The Erebus armour is predominately light blue and white with darker blue highlights amongst the joints. It has a full helmet with polarised lens, and a stylised mountain peak on his chest. The weapon systems are concealed within the armour's forearms.

Out of the armour, Macintosh looks like a slightly afraid man in his forties with short black hair and wandering blue eyes. He never looks comfortable and has trouble remaining still for any length of time.