Name: Agent23
Morph: Synth
Gender Identity: Male
Morph Gender: Male
Background / Origin: Infolife
Faction / Ideology: Titanian
Physical Description:
A mild looking, low-key academic with pre-fall traditional fashion tastes. Slim and wiry with short brown hair and a twitchy physicality
Biography:
Three years after the Fall, Agent 23 suddenly appeared on Titan, took the name Dr. Severance Stillwater and posed as a recently graduated student with a doctorate in Physics. He managed to take a job at Titan Autonomous University and eventually worked his way up to teaching. He has published several papers and is considered one of the better Physics professors at the university.
Character Description:
A bland, unassuming looking Sentinel with a knack for fading into the background in a room and easily blending in with any crowd of transhumanity. Agent 23 is an promising covert operative because of these very qualities. He possessed a knack for keen situational awareness in any environment.
A former military operative. Agent 23 does keep a very utilitarian GO-Kit handy for emergency situations
CLASSIFIED:
Agent 23/Dr. Severance Stillwater/Sev/Iso-7
Two years prior to the Fall, the US Government brings the AGI Special Operations Initiative online. A project designed to use the rapidly AGI and psychosurgery technologies to create rapidly created and highly customizable black operatives. The ASO initiative used a highly advanced seed AI called the Infolife Skill Assignment Compiler to take the 8 base infolife AGIs under its command and rapidly assign them with the skills, abilities, memories, and thought processes required to complete their missions.
After 18 months of success, the ASO Initiative was rolled into the TITAN netwar project.
The current Iteration of Iso-7 was created 5 months into the Fall. He and his team was tasked with the destruction of the Russian Space Elevator. The team was implanted with memories stating that the operation was a authorized by the president and that the US and Russia was at war.
Upon the destruction of the Russian Space Elevator it rapidly became apparent to Iso-7 that the information they were provided was wrong and that the TITANs had infact betrayed transhumanity and that the team had in fact doomed millions to harvesting by the TITANs. Upon informing the team, it came down to disagreement, shooting, and and the team splitting, Most of the team returned to ASO. Iso-7 and Iso-3 decided to leave Earth via different routes. It took Iso-7 another 3 months to get off Earth. Iso-7 has not heard from Iso-3 or the rest of the team since.
Iso-7 manged to make it to Locus during the fall and took the name Sev. He served in the Locus militia during the First and Second battle of Battle of Locus. During the second battle, a Jovian hit team managed to make it on station and attempted to capture Sev for reasons unknown to him. He managed to escape them, fake his death, and left for Titan.
Four months before he joined the Firewall team, he was approached by a firewall operative who knew all this information on him and told him that if he works for Firewall, they will
1) find out him why the Jovians are after him.
2) give him the chance to make up for Russia,
3) Give him the means to kill TITANs.
Name: Gunnar Vorstagg
Morph: Olympian
Gender Identity: Male
Morph Gender: Male
Background / Origin: Fall Evacuee
Faction / Ideology: Argonaut
Physical Description: A squared-away marine-style man with a typically German lack of humor and decades of military service in his background. He dresses in utilitarian military clothing on and off duty. Trains incessantly when not on-mission and logs no less than 14 hours a week in the Range and in the Ring. He is a competition class circuit-fighter. A Spec-Ops grade marksman and a driven career soldier.
Biography: Trained as a KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte after being handpicked from the ranks of Germany’s Bundeswehr after scoring the highest marks in his class in the Einzelkämpferlehrgang he was awarded his Einzelkämpferabzeichen (Lone-warrior badge) upon scoring the only 100% in seven years on his Grundlehrgang and then almost impossibly scoring the only 100% on record in his Leistungslehrgang advanced course.
He was immediately recruited, trained, tested and awarded his Kommandoabzeichen (Commando badge) by Brigadegeneral Heinz Feldmann-Spahner himself, and fast-tracked to a command position in the Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK) (previously also known as Sondereinsatzkommando) as a Stabshauptmann (Senior Captain) in charge of the Bundeswehr’s top Research and Development Facility’s staff and family’s security detail during the Fall.
While his team performed heroically during the evacuation, shepherding the Scientists and Engineer’s to safety aboard the final departing Space Elevator lifter, only two of his ten-unit team survives the escape and the military command under which he served died planetside in Germany’s final defenses.
After moving around a bit in the Armed Forces of the Lunar Lagrange Alliance under Ord Brown. Despising the civil unrest suppression and population control duties to which he was assigned he discharged and went to work on Hexagon, This large, imposing station sits at the Earth-Luna L5 point like a fortress, which it is. Owned and operated by Direct Action, Hexagon houses much of that company’s weapons testing and personnel training facilities—most of the Consortium’s cutting-edge military tech comes directly from here, which makes sense since Direct Action supplies and/or trains most Consortium troops. Most of Direct Action’s employees here are sleeved in combat morphs, with heavy armaments within easy reach. The rest are either scientists and engineers specializing in military equipment and combat mods or businessmen who handle meetings with clients and assign the company’s vast resources and manpower.
Currently he takes on security detail work for travelling Argonaut Researchers as an independent specialist free-agent working contract for Direct Action.
Character Description: A conscientious, security minded Sentinel with a genuine concern for justice and doing what's right. A crusader who will not stand for letting injustice lie unanswered.
Name Viktor: Vorstagg
Morph: Fury
Gender Identity: Male
Morph Gender: Rare Male Fury
Background / Origin: Re-Instated
Faction / Ideology: Ultimates
Physical Description: A combat athlete in peak physical condition. Notable for his promient facial scar and ash-blonde, near white hair and pale blue eyes. His current custom Fury morph is identifiable by it's visible neck tattoo of a tribal marking.
Biography: Viktor disappeared into post-Soviet Russia after murdering Gunnar’s high-school girlfriend in an argument. Fleeing the law he applied for military service in neighboring Russia in order to gain citizenship and leave behind his fugitive past. Learning of his Family’s pride in his brother Gunnar remaining in the Fatherland, Viktor, always maniacally driven to compete with his older brother, trained and excelled in the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation and quickly applied for “SPETSNAZ” (spetsialnovo naznacheniya) membership. Pushing himself beyond his physical and psychological limits to gain admission to the Vympel KGB unit Spetsgruppa V responsible for covert operations involving sabotage, assassination, etc. in other countries and also specializing in counter-terrorist and counter-sabotage operations. Viktor, like all Vympel operatives was trained in tactical operations, parachuting, driving various vehicles, and also trained in methods of intelligence gathering, and other specialized skills.
Two years before the fall Viktor competed for the Maroon Beret. MVD spetsnaz servicemen from the VV and police (including special units of the FSIN and FSKN) can compete for the distinction to wear the maroon beret (RU), which is awarded to “most professional, physically and morally fit” sergeants and officers. The competitions are arranged twice a year and are handled by ex-Vityaz instructors. The competitors must first pass various physical fitness test and shooting exercises to be qualified for main course. The main competition includes 12 km cross-country running in full combat uniform, a 100 m sprint, urban assault exercises with wall climbing, acrobatic exercises, and a 12 minute free-style sparring match against three separate opponents. Due to harsh conditions, less than 10% of the applicants pass the tests and are granted the right to wear the maroon beret.
Viktor has never gotten over the loss of his Maroon Beret during his death at the hands of a Dis-assembler Nano-Swarm in Moscow. In his previous life he wore it proudly as a challenge to his brother.
Character Description: An operative of the Medusan Shield subsidiary of Gorgon Defense Systems, Viktor has been re-instated in a rare male-gendered Fury morph to serve as an assassin agent. He carries the finest of Soviet military training in his EGO and an insane hatred of this brother Gunnar for not rescuing him from infomorph storage. (That in itself being an insane expectation!)
Update !: In a titanic confrontation aboard the science vessel "Forward Unto Dawn" the brother met in epic combat. Combat knives flashed and blazed with the fury of their struggle and the brothers killed each other a complete refusal to give ground. The Argonauts of the Forward Unto Dawn recognized deeply rooted psychological damage present in Viktor and out of respect for Gunnar, preserved his Ego and subjected it to a most advanced series of behavioral conditioning and psychosurgeries, eventually correcting the core-rooted compulsion to compete with, overcome and destroy his brother. The healed and sane Viktor now has been optioned by FireWall as a Erasure Squad operative and occasional Sentinel on operations where extreme danger is expected.
CodeName: Marbles
A.K.A.: Albion bernal
Morph: Futura
Gender Identity: Male
Morph Gender: Male
Background / Origin: Lost
Faction / Ideology: Argonaut
Physical Description: A Futura morph of approximately 24 years.
Background: The man now known as Dr. ‘Albion Bernal’ escaped from the Cognite ‘Legacy’ research station during the chaos following the well-known disaster in 8 AF on month number 34 of the FUTURA Project run, at the mental and biological age of approximately 17. The Cognite ‘FUTURA Project’ sought to quickly raise a generation of new egos through ‘Accelerated Life Experience Training’ by a factor of 6x using AI-controlled Simulspace environments (2 months real time = 1 year experiential time). Dr. Amelia Sheppard, a top scientists in the FUTURA Project, had previously identified Bernal as a genius-level intellect with great potential and managed to spirit away the gravely wounded youth just before the entire project was shut down and the remaining subjects euthanized or backed up into cold storage.
By that point in the project Bernal had advanced far in his chosen field: Simulspace world creation and programming. Or chosen for him, he’s not sure which at this point. Some time around month 24 of FUTURA, Bernal’s ego diverged into two personalities, distinct but still under nominal central control. It is possible this coincided with the still-undetected infection of all test subjects by the Watts-Macleod Exsurgent virus. During the last ‘virtual’ years of the project, Bernal’s ‘other’ personality had been surreptitiously learning how to use the weapons carried by the station security personnel (Freezers and nerfed/medicated Shard Pistols). At the same time Bernal’s original and dominant personality managed to achieve great expertise in the principles and practical operation of the station’s infosec subsystems. Bernal secretly gained the expertise to crack recreated copies of these systems by disguising his activity as regular Simulspace development.
Bernal had directly participated in the brutal murders and other mayhem that occurred during the terrible week Legacy Station was completely out of control, but after several years of intensive psychosurgery and psychiatric help managed to push the majority of these memories into dark places from which with any luck they shall never emerge. To memorialize the occassion of his 19th birthday and a new start in life, Bernal took the name of ‘Albion’, from a cycle of obscure pre-fall books he first read at the virtual age of 9. Bernal’s still-secret personalities took the names of ‘Urizen’ and ‘Urthona’ respectively.
With the continued assistance and patronage of Dr. Sheppard, Bernal trained in the fields of medicine and then psychosurgery, earning his PhD at the mental age of 22 (a real-time age of only 8 years). That was when Sheppard was permanently killed in a freak transport crash and her backups mysteriously deleted, which Albion knew was the result of her intention to publicly identify one of the Cognite dark-ops scientists involved in the Lost Generation disaster. Dr. Sheppard was near penniless and so left nothing to Albion except a few happy memories. Dr. Albion Bernal went on to a distinguished career in psychosurgery, but during the dark hours worked to identify the murderers responsible for Sheppard’s death and the ‘Lost Generation’ disaster at Legacy station. His first catch came only a year later: the next morning a sentry bot and 2 heavily armed security personnel were found deactivated or face down in the local Cognite research lab offices. And the mind of one unscrupulous Cognite research scientist had taken a permanent vacation to somewhere…best left unmentioned.
Character Description: A dauntingly intelligent man with complex ambitions and an equally complex personality. Dr. Bernal has made an excellent reputation for himsolf in the field of Simulspace-based Psychosurgeries utilizing cutting edge theories in personality editing through experiential therapy.
