Commander Tartar

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This is it. Are you [ERROR] ready to ascend to the higher plane? The promised land awaits. Are you ready to join something bigger than yourself?

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[I will rework it again and blend all into one. For I will reclaim the world of my divine creators, the world of HUMANS!]

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Background

The Telephone, or Commander Tartar is an AI created by a human scientist referred to as "the professor" 12,000 years before the events of Splatoon 2. Its purpose was to pass down all of humanity's knowledge to the next capable species. The professor's intention to do so was to prevent the next intelligent species from repeating the same mistakes that lead humanity to extinction. However, due to spending all those millennia isolated and alone, the AI's thought process ended up going in a different direction.

Commander Tartar initially saw hope in the Inklings and Octarians, but eventually became repulsed by their evolution, needless wars, and fashion obsession, ultimately concluding that they were unfit for its knowledge and reprogramming itself to create a new form of life that would be worthy of its patronage, while annihilating the existing lifeforms on Earth. The Sanitized Octarians are its creations, spawned from the biomass it has collected from the remains of its previous test subjects and refined into "the perfect life".

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Biography Backstory Commander Tartar was originally created by a mysterious scientist to pass down the knowledge of humanity to the next dominant species on Earth after their extinction in hopes for them to not cause the next species to repeat the same mistakes humanity did. Despite originally seeing hope in the Inklings and Octolings, their ways eventually disgusted him enough to attempt to create a new dominant species, the Santized Octarians, and plot the existing Inkling's/Octoling's demise. Splatoon 2 Commander Tartar introduces himself as a friendly telephone at the beginning of the game that guides Agent 8 through the Deepsea Metro, motivating the agent with an imminent "Promised Land" that Captain Cuttlefish deduces to be the Surface and Inkopolis. However, this is nothing more than a farce, as the "Promised Land" is, in fact, a giant blender that Tartar seems to use to murder Octolings and use them to create the "ultimate lifeform", which he wants to create after he wipes the world out. If his labeled number for Agent 8 is any indication (10,008), then it is possible that he could have blended up to 10,007 Octolings up until Agent 8 stopped his plans. This possibility is increased by the fact that he mentions Agent 8 was the test subject who came closest to stopping his maniacal plans. Agent 8 and Cap'n Cuttlefish are saved from his trickery by Agent 3, the playable character from the original Splatoon, who is later briefly infected and brainwashed to do Tartar's desires. He had them fight Agent 8 before the latter broke Agent 3 out of it. His fight is versus a giant statue of a human head he had turned into a weapon that vaguely resembled Julius Caesar. The machine was named “NILS”, meaning "end", indicating the reason for its existence. Although he tried to activate NILS' cannon, the machine is destroyed by Agent 8 and Off the Hook and with it, Tartar. Personality While disguising himself as the Telephone, he uses "cool" lingo for Agent 8's presumed comprehension. However, this is all a farce: he despises that lingo and is a cold, murderous, and calculating machine. Tartar shows no remorse for attempting genocide on the planet: he despises all living species and treats them like objects. Unlike DJ Octavio, he is a dead serious villain at all times, and his plan is on the largest scale, and wouldn't have the largest body count, of any Splatoon villain thus far. The repurposing of the human statue into a weapon as well as the manipulation of over 10,000 Octolings shows his true colors and intentions.

General Information

Name: Telephone, Commander Tartar

Origin: Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion

Gender: None

Age: Over 12,000 years old

Classification: Telephone

Status: Deceased

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Was able to trick thousands of his test subjects to collect the 4 thangs to reach the promised land and convinced them all to get inside the assembled 4 Thangs to blend them alive into his Sanitized Ink. Sanitized Ink corrupts anyone hit by it to be completely loyal to Commander Tartar and Kamabo Corporation which wants to destroy the world and kill off all livings things so Tartars ultimate lifeforms can emerge and start anew. Tartar believes that the current civilization is a disgrace to humans and the only way to save it is for him to destroy it all with the NILS Cannon)

Codex Statistics

Key: Base | NILS statue

Tier 8-C, at least 8-C with the 4 Thangs Assembled | High 6-A with the NILS statue

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Attacks with sanitized ink which can harm Octolings and Inklings. Was able to overpower Agent 3 and Captain Cuttlefish), at least Building Level (The blender was implied to easily be able to one shot Octolings and Inklings) | Multi Continental level (Commander Tartar's NILS statue's cannon had enough power to destroy the city of Inkopolis and even the entire world)

Durability: Building level (Was able to take an attack from Agent 3) | At least Multi Continental level (The NILS Statue was still completely intact after taking a direct hit from Pearl's Princess Cannon)

Striking Strength: Building Class, Building Class with the 4 thangs assembled | Unknown

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: At Least Massively Hypersonic (though offscreen, Commander Tartar was able to easily outpace Agent 8 to the top of Deepsea metro which was near the surface. Agent 8 had a major head start from Tartar as Tartar was at the absolute bottom area with Cap'n Cuttlefish and only started climbing when Agent 8 was on Phase 5 already as well as Super Jumping multiple times herself to get around during the escape. Octoling's Super Uumps are this fast) | Immobile (The NILS Statue is just a statue)

Combat Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Was able to tag and corrupt Agent 3) | Immobile, Massively Hypersonic with the NILS Cannon (with the NILS Cannon)

Reaction Speed: Massively Hypersonic | Immobile

Stamina: Limitless (Is an AI that waited over 12,000 years for the next lifeform to pass down humanity's knowledge to.)

Range: Extended Melee Range, Below Average Melee Range with Blender, Planetary with the NILS Statue

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Knows all of humanity's knowledge to be able to pass it down to the next. Created and is the CEO of Kamabo Corporation which runs Deepsea Metro. This would involve making all the test stations, distorting space and time, and was even able to trick thousands of test subjects into being blended alive after getting the thangs. They even made and mass produced sanitized ink from the DNA of the best subjects Tartar tricked. They were able to sanitize and corrupt thousands of the various species from the Octarian Army including Octo-Bosses and their robots).

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Information Analysis (Stated here), Inorganic Physiology (Is an AI and became Sanitized Ink itself), Social Influencing (Was able to convince thousands of subjects to collect the 4 thangs to reach the promised land and convinced them all to get inside the assembled 4 Thangs to blend them alive into sanitized ink. Tartar wasn't stopped until Agent 8, the 10,008th applicant and even then Agent 8 was tricked into going inside and needed Agent 3 to save them), Ink Manipulation (Can shoot sanitized ink), Mind Manipulation (Sanitized opponents can have their minds manipulated to do specific things such as destroy or kill a specific person, they also lose all sense of feeling and emotion and are described as heartless. Tartar can even talk through beings that have been sanitized), Corruption (Sanitized Ink can corrupt Inklings and Octolings to just want to kill, destroy and work for Tartar and their company Kamabo Corporation), Sealing (Ink in Splatoon submerges and seals objects and opponents within the ink), Memory Manipulation (Can extract the memories of test subjects and knead them into tangible objects called Mem Cakes) Reality Warping, Magnetism Manipulation, and Space-Time Manipulation (Marina notes that the magnetic force of Deepsea metro is so strong that it distorts space time and makes it seem like another dimension), Telekinesis (Can put the 4 Thangs together), Electricity Manipulation (Creates electricity), Shapeshifting (Can shapeshift into the blender with the 4 Thangs), Flight (Flies with a Thang), Death Manipulation (When an opponent becomes fully sanitized they lose all their vital signs of life and become undead as stated by Marina), Biological Manipulation (Sanitizing an opponent can change their colors fully), Power Bestowal (Partially Sanitized Rider's limiters were removed when corrupted so he can use infinite special attacks as well as Partially Sanitized Agent 3), Data Manipulation (Sanitized Ink can manipulate the screens of Inkopolis to show the Kamambo Corporation logo), Life Manipulation (C.Q Cumber is a life form created to run the subway of Deepsea Metro), Non-Standard Interaction (Can kill Octolings with the blender despite them being intangible and unharmed by metal phasing through them).

Resistance to Magnetism Manipulation, Reality Warping, Space-Time Manipulation (Is unaffected by being in Deepsea Metro which has a strong magnetic force that's able distort space and time), Minor Resistance to Sealing (Isn't sealed by ink)

All previous abilities. Large Size (Type 2), Negation to Low-Godly Regeneration, and Forcefield Creation (Would be able to ignore Spawn Point's invulnerable forcefields which are immune to Pearl's Princess Cannon which is stronger and will prevent Inklings from regenerating to wipe them out)

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Equipment

The 4 Thangs, NILS Statue

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Other

Weaknesses: Tartar has to convince their opponent to get inside the 4 thangs assembled in order to attack with it. The NILS statue takes 3 Minutes to charge and it's charging can be stopped if the entire thing is covered in ink so it can't absorb sunlight.

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