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[b][code]B A S I C  I N F O[/code][/b][hr]
[b][code][Name][/code][/b] [code]Theodore Howser[/code]
[b][code][Callsign][/code][/b] [code]Teddy Bear[/code]
[b][code][Gender][/code][/b] [code]Male[/code]
[b][code][Age][/code][/b] [code]41[/code]
[b][code][Rank and Designation][/code][/b] [code]Staff Sergeant[/code]
[b][code][Place of Birth][/code][/b] [code]New Halcyon[/code]
[b][code][Official Statement][/code][/b] [code]"Why'd I join up? 'Cause I've got a bunch of people back home countin' on me: I put food on the table n' keep them safe. 'S more than that, though. There's the kiddos I met out here, too. Teenagers puttin' themselves in the line of fire, seein' things nobody their age ever should. Breaks my heart. They need me. I wanna be the place they can hunker down when things get bad, y'know?"[/code]


[b][code]C O M B A T  A B I L I T Y[/code][/b][hr]
[b][code][Mech Model][/code][/b] [code] MBM-78 'Grizzly'[/code]
[b][code][Type][/code][/b] [code]Direct Fire Support[/code]
[b][code][Size][/code][/b] [code]60 ft tall, 225 tons[/code]
[b][code][Core][/code][/b] [code]Epsilon[/code]
[b][code][Armaments][/code][/b] 
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[*][code]X-66 Prometheus rotary cannon with a 16,000 RPM fire rate, 30mm rounds, mach 6 muzzle velocity and an effective firing range of 12,000 feet[/code]
[*][code]SmartWorks Autofactory Backpack recycles discarded battlefield material and converts it into ammunition for the Prometheus, extending combat effectiveness near indefinitely [/code]
[*][code]Augsburg Arsenal Auto Shotguns built into each forearm for close quarters combat [/code]
[*][code]Scavenger drone for retrieving high quality construction material for the autofactory. Equipped with a small personal defense turret [/code]
[*][code]Optionally, can carry a 'Guardian' tower shield in offhand for assaulting fortified positions [/code]
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[center][h3][b][code]Profile[/code][/b][/h3][/center]
[b][code][Surface-level Impression][/code][/b]
[code]The universe is a dark place and worth fighting for. Theo's life hasn't been an easy one. He lost his ancestral homeworld when he was born and has spent the last twenty years at war. Slipping into nihilism would be all too simple; natural, even, some might say. Theo couldn't disagree more. He's always tried to look hold out hope for a brighter future- to a future without the Aberrants or their genocidal hate. The road ahead is long, however, and in meantime he embraces the little victories of life: a battle survived, a night out with friends, a cool beer and a starry night. He mourns lost squadmates and embraces new ones as friends with equal fervor. Every month he has video calls scheduled with his family, his mentor and some of his old comrades who rotated off the front. [/code]

[b][code][Personal History][/code][/b]
[code]Theodore Howser was born on a refugee barge fleeing New Halcyon as it was consumed by Abberants. Life on barge 117-Beta was harsh: food supplies were thin and medicine supplies even thinner. People died in the hundreds every day. those who worked earned more rations than those that didn't, so Theo spent his childhood repairing oxygen scrubbers and cleaning out waste recyclers. Unlike some ships, the refugee barge wasn't a permanent settlement. It was part of a larger fleet that flew ahead of Aberrant incursions, rescued as many people as they could, and then fled. 117-Beta spent seventeen years in transit before Theo's boots touched soil for the first time in his life.

Poverty loomed over the Howser family even here. 

Levi Howser, Theo's father, was paralyzed during the invasion. The cybernetics necessary to repair his spine cost far than than they can afford. Even with minimum medical attention, his bills are astronomical. He's trying to make a career out of dictating novels with a speech-to-text program, but it isn't going well. 

Asmara Howser worked for a non-profit education advocacy group before her planet was destroyed. She works fifty hours a week as a public educator and another fifteen as a private tutor. Its enough to scrape by even if it leaves her children to fend for themselves most days. 

Theo decided he needed to ease the burden on his mom, so he decided to pitch in. His application to military service was accepted near instantly- the machine always needed more bodies- and he was shipped off world for training two weeks later. It was the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life. The regiment's doctor nearly failed him out after he vomited all over himself and passed out during a run. The human body could only take so much punishment and he was already malnourished when he showed up; Theo wasn't ready. Be it luck or providence, it just so happened that the chief medical practitioner at that particular boot camp was a Halcyonite too. Major Russom Samir prescribed an expensive physo-gene therapy program that built Theo back better than he'd ever been, and two months Samir cleared Theo for service.

Thanks to recommendations from  Major Samir and Lt. Colonel Strutzheim, Theodore was accepted into the pilot program. No one would've called the boy a prodigy: he made more mistakes than most every single time he climbed into the cockpit. But none could deny his passion. There was a fire in his heart that drove him harder than anyone would've thought possible. 

The flame followed him through his next two decades of service. He never let the tragedies of his youth define him. He never let himself dull to the little pleasures of life, like a hot cup of terrible coffee or a night dancing with a pretty woman. Even at forty-one years old he lives every day with the same passion of his youth, for he knows full well it could be his last. A universe cursed with the Aberrants was a harsh one- but life was about more than its darkest hours.[/code]

[center][h3][b][code]Home World[/code][/b][/h3][/center]
[b][code][Planet Description][/code][/b]
[code]New Halcyon was a garden world on the frontier of human-controlled space. Its terrain is as varied as Earth's, though the planet itself was slightly smaller and orbited by twin moons rather than one. It was settled hundreds of years ago by Neo-Reformist Liberation Theology pilgrims fleeing the coreworlds from persecution. Over the centuries it developed an average economy stifled by sanctions and isolationism. Most of its settlements were clustered around the original landing site, though some adventurous sorts crossed the ocean to settle other continents and islands. Its population hovered around eighty million when the planet was conquered by Aberrants. [/code]

[b][code][Culture][/code][/b] 
[code]The first settlers of New Halcyon considered it a paradise gifted to them by God. They christened their landing spot as the Rock of Mercy, and built upon it a massive cathedral. The first settlers were all canonized as saints, and hundreds of statues were erected in the halls of the cathedral to remember their sacrifices. Reformist influence promoted government and economy policy based on their religious teachings, including: the elimination of poverty, equitable distribution of resources and a reform-first criminal justice system. Anti-coreworld sentiment was common enough that the Halcyon government faced regular censor by federal authorities.[/code]

[center][h3][b][code]Notable Contacts[/code][/b][/h3][/center]
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[b][code][Name][/code][/b]
[code]Major Russom Samir[/code]

[b][code][Relation to Subject][/code][/b]
[code]Russom was the senior medical officer at Camp Triton, where Teddy first trained[/code]

[b][code][Analysis][/code][/b]
[code]Russom Samir is a military doctor and major in the Armed Forces. He's a native of the planet New Halcyon, which was lost to an Aberrant invasion over forty years ago. Many of his peers consider him a sardonic man that is difficult to work with, with utterly terrible bedside manner. Still, Russom cares deeply for his charges, and tries to maintain relationships with those few people willing to put up with his bitterness. He has a service record longer than his arm and has earned many a favor from higher ups by saving their lives. Teddy is one of those friends- the two trade messages frequently and make plans to share a drink or two whenever their paths cross. Theo owes Samir everything for saving his career when he was only a teenager, and he does whatever he can to pay Samir back for his...unique brand of kindness. 
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