NPCs and Key Characters:

Name: Diego Nazari (First Lt, Brazilian National Army)
Age: 28
Hair Color: Black
Eyes: Brown



Bio: Growing up on the wrong side of progress deep in the backwaters and cane fields of rural Columbia, Diego's future could be accurately mapped out in three distinct paths: join the cartel, join the militart and fight the cartel, or end up another hapless sustenance farmer and probably die on the wrong side of either group. Before his father set the last example for him by not smuggling cocaine bricks and ending up headless in a well, it might have been a difficult decision.

After that, though, the military seemed a better option, and he joined up at 17.

The government education gave Diego decent standards, but military training tapped deeper than that. He found a gift for languages and linguistics, taking on codes and cyphers as though they were child's play. An eye for patterns and a good instinct with patience netted him a ticket to intelligence training, and from there the life of an analyst beckoned. During this time he lost contact with his family and never picked it back up, but is in a committed relationship with his fiance.

Pertinent Information:

4 Years in the National Army of Columbia (basic training, weapons training, combat training)
Graduate of Army Logistics School, bachelors in linguistics and psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Lancero (guerilla and counter-narcotics special forces)
Fluent in Spanish, English, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Africaans
Trained in hostage negotiation
Licensed to fly Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota helicopters

Name: Marek Yolish. (Sergeant, Australian Airborne Army)
Age: 25.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 210 pounds.


Bio: Marek is the son of a Polish Army officer and a mother that is part Australian, part indigenous Australian. He was raised mainly by his mother in Australia as his father was gone most of the time serving in Poland. His father did visit as often as possible however, and the family was very well off. Marek also had a younger brother and older sister. They were raised in a middle class area of Perth and Marek’s mother worked at a car dealership doing clerical services. During High School, Marek started gravitating towards the idea of becoming a police officer while his brother debated joining the Australian Army. The sister ended up becoming an accountant and moving to the United States after college, and several days after the departure, Marek’s father and brother were killed in a boating accident.

Marek and his mother grieved but got through it, although his mother was never really the same after that. Within the year, she died of pneumonia and Marek was left with nothing as most of his mother’s family was not known to him because they avoided him for being an “outsider,” something the family struggled through since the marriage.

Marek joined the Army at 18, directly out of high school and ended up serving in the airborne infantry. After serving his 5 years with one deployment to Afghanistan, he rotated home and joined the Australian Tactical Response Team, (ATRT or “A-tart”) which is the equivalent to SWAT, but with broader jurisdiction. He did this for 2 years before activating himself back up into the Army after the Sydney Church Bombings, opting back into the Airborne. Not long after however, he was interviewed in Syria during his deployment and selected to apply for Operation 8.

Pertinent combat information:
Marksmanship training with assault rifle and pistol.
Army Parachute Training.
Demolition expert (assembling and disarming).
SCUBA insertion.
Blackbelt in Brazilian Jui-jitsu.

Name: Song Haoi (Special Agent, CSIS)
Age: 26
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black



Bio: Diplomatic backrounds almost always come with an advantage, and the wise make use of them if possible. For some it is college acceptance, political clout, or just free drinks for good stories. For Song Harrisburg, daughter of Japan's ambassador to Canada, it meant citizenship in the country she had always called home and a chance to serve that selfsame nation.

And to scale tall buildings for a living, but that came second to national pride of course.

From a young age Song had been the catcher for all of her mother's failed dreams. Her childhood was a constant cycle of gymnastics lessons, dance lessons, and trying to live up to impossible maternal standards while also climbing trees with the boys at school. Her grades were flawless and she always put a smile on at diplomatic events, but both she and her father knew she wanted more.

When the Quebec City Police Department found her scaling the side of the Édifice Marie-Guyart on a dare from her senior class, that 'more' was given a name and a pathway to success. She enlisted into the Canadian Royal Navy for mandatory minimum, and then shook the devil's hand and joined up with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Most missions include object or intelligence retrieval and target neutralization both lethal and nonlethal.

She maintains a relatively close relationship with her parents, though has given up her diplomatic immunity as part of her service, and has a pattern of declining the increasingly common 'dates' that her mother sets up with men from their home country. Currently single.

Information:

2 Years in the Canadian Royal Navy (Basic Training, Physical Fitness, Radar and SOSUS Training)
Agent Training in CSIS (Espionage training, retrieval services, phone tapping and general intelligence gathering)
4 Years Training in Pekiti Tersia (Specializing in balisong combat)
5 Years training in Lameco knife to knife combat
Diplomatic training and familiarity with world politics from a young age
CQB Training
2 years long range sniper training

Name: Ricardo Emmanual (Police Sergeant and Detective)
Age: 30.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Hazel.
Weight: 170 pounds.


Bio: Ricardo has been battling South American and Mexican cartels and gangs his entire life. Life in Rosarita Mexico was not bad when compared to many of the crime ridden holes in Mexico, but it was by no means good. At an early age, he was involved in fights and while he never joined a gang, he did commit crimes on many occasions and was friends with several members of various gangs. He avoided any criminal action because police only really cared about big time busts depending on what the mood was on organized crime at particular points, or because cops were more interested in shaking down criminals for money than they were prosecuting them.

His mother and father both worked at a large restaurant near a high traffic area, so they had steady income and Ricardo was actually able to go to school and a friend of his father owned a boxing gym near them and he was allowed to train so long as he helped maintain the place with the owner.

After graduating high school, he made money by boxing and also working at the gym and with his parents. When he was 19 his life changed entirely when his parents were hit by a construction vehicle and injured. His mother put into a coma and died 3 years later while his father was paralyzed from the waist down, became blind in one eye, and suffered nerve damage. While Ricardo wanted nothing more than a simple life, he was forced into a situation where he had to make enough money to pay for his parents medical bills and care. In Mexico, there are generally 3 options at that point:
1. Try to sneak to America and make enough money to support family.
2. Join the Cartels or gangs.
3. Join the militarized Federal Police.
Ricardo chose the third.

Over the next 8 years, his actions are extremely varied. He worked for the police but did cross training with US, Canadian, and French militaries. For about a year at one point, he was working with local police in southern Mexico as an imbedded Federal Agent in a major cartel until the Cartel’s top 5 members were arrested, tried, and convicted. After once again returning to the Federal Police, he and several other agents worked with the CIA in several places in South America, working to overthrow at least one government and to destabilize oil assets in another.

The most recent two years of his life were spent working with a Joint Border Task Force that involved Mexico, the US, and Canada. If border patrol could be considered a police force, JBTF was like the SWAT team. They were the group that kicked down doors, did surveillance on, and all but went to war with illegal, and often violent, organizations that navigated the border from illegal activities. Similar to ICE agents, JBTF agents are generally greenlit by Cartels for gangs with the promise of high payouts for successful kills. His own role in the JBTF was slightly different as he once again was used to infiltrate organizations, live the life of those he was actually trying to bring down, and it was not easy. He was authorized to sell weapons, drugs, move people illegally, sanction illegal activity and bride officials all in the interest of bringing down criminals not respecting the borders.

Pertinent combat information:
Federal Officer Training.
Tactical Breaching.
Wiretapping, hacking, and espionage tactics from the CIA and FBI.
Years of intel and counter intel and deep cover infiltration tactics by CIA.
United States SERE training.
4 months of training with Marine HET teams (Human exploitation).
Close to 2 years total of deep undercover assignments.
Two time country boxing champion.
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Name: Jon Erikson (Staff Sergeant, United States Marine Corps).
Age: 27.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 195 pounds.


Bio: Jon joined the Marine Corps several years after graduating high school. Immediately he took to it and even though he enlisted as an administrative clerk, he attached to and deployed with an Expeditionary Unit, seeing combat for 2 tours (one to Somalia and one to Iraq). At the end of his first 4 year enlistment, he decided to raise the bar and opted to go into Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance and did another 2 deployments (one to Afghanistan and another to Iraq). While his military career took off, his personal life plummeted as his wife left him during his fourth deployment. Because he was deployed at the time, he lost access to his wife and kids and rarely sees either.

Jon’s childhood was nothing traumatic by any means. His parents divorced early in his teens and he moved with his mother while essentially becoming estranged from his father. After graduating high school, he worked and took some college classes until one day he was convinced to talk to a recruiter by his girlfriend at the time. The rest is history as they say.

He met his wife before his first deployment and they were married before his second, settling down in California after some time in South Carolina.

Additionally, Jon has worked on and off for the past 2 years directly for and with the CIA over seas.

Pertinent combat information:
6+ years in the Marine Corps
4 Combat tours
Marine Corps weapon and close quarter training
Marine Corps Force Recon training
Army Jump School
Scout Sniper Training
3 years in Krav Maga training (currently training)
SERE training