Origins

The device was created by a team of scientists led by Xavier Emeka. It has gone through a number of iterations and prototypes. It was intended to be used for military personnel to camouflage themselves among foreign adversaries. In summary, the L.I.A.R. device has applications in the fields of spying and espionage. It also was intended as a form of imitation to mimic world leaders & install puppet governments into foreign target nations.

Powers & Abilities

The device grants the user the capability to morph into any target they have selected, whether it be an electrician, plumber, construction worker, mailman, doctor, Asian, American, European, African, Australian, etc. The device works by obscuring & refracting arrays of light beams, interpolating/estimating gaps between rays in order to generate nearly any image. This is where the device gets its name, but also for the dual purpose of allowing anyone to lie to another about who they really are.

Limitations

The device cannot transform anyone into something unless it has a prescanned copy of the target's physical structure. It also does not do anything to change an individual's composition or size, only how they appear to the outside world. For instance, if a 5-foot-tall person projects themselves as a 6-foot-tall person, the additional foot above their head is nothing but smoke & mirrors. The device is sensitive to temperature constraints above 150°F and below -10°F. It also cannot withstand pressures of above 3000 psi. Early models also required the wearer to aid the illusion as much as possible by wearing clothes or fashioning their hair in a similar style to the subject that they were attempting to impersonate.