[CHAR] Last of Us

[Zhaliora]

Lisa

Name: Lisa "Tank" Haraldsson

Age: 30

Home City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pre-fall occupation: US. Army Officer, area 61

Rank: Captain

Military Doctrine: Heavy suppression support, operative

Appearance

Pictures

Description:
Underneath the mask lies a charming face with grey-blue eyes. It's not often that you'll see her twice with the same hair colour either. While her hair is red naturally she most often colours it one way or another. Although her current hairstyle has remained for longer than normal.

When out of the suit she normally wears yoga or just soft and comfy pants along with a variety of different tops, one softer than the other. If it is something she uses her money on it's soft clothes. After a long day in the suit there's just something magical about either wearing soft clothes, or as little as possible.

Her body is slim and athletic but well proportioned, making the suit a tight squeeze, despite it being adapted after her body.

Equipment

Warrior Armoured Response suit

The W.A.R suit is capable of resisting most small arms fire but that is by no means something you should take for granted. After enough bullets or if a higher caliber is used the suit will eventually give way and damage the user.

The suit is also an exoskeleton which improves the user's strength, speed, agility and much more. Certain equipment can also be integrated into the suit. For example the one Lisa wears can send out an extremely bright light from an attachment on her left arm, blinding enemies for a few seconds.

Her suit also includes a rebreather and is one hundred percent sealed from outside elements if the suit is up to par. In the helmet there is also a Heads Up Display, or HUD, allowing her to see tactical information and a crosshair for aiming, like in the old shooter games of the past era.

It's the finest, and last personal defence project made at area 61. The suit never left the prototype stage due to the machine war. Only a handful of suits were made, and even fewer survived the war.

Magnetic Accelerator Cannon

The Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, Mag cannon, or MAC for short is another prototype weapon from the past. The weapon uses strong magnets to launch projectiles rather than gunpowder. This makes the weapon quite accurate and silent in comparison to the older models of weapons.

Another bonus with the weapon is that you can launch most things that are of the right size and made out of metal. And since you only need the actual bullet part you can also fit quite a few rounds of ammo in the magazine without the need to carry a big box around.

The major downside though..is that if you need spare parts, yeah, it's better that you don't. The components are very valuable and almost impossible to get your hands on nowadays.

Grenade launcher

A fairly standard grenade launcher. It fires 40mm grenades, however using the same principle as the MAC. While not able to launch the grenades over too far a distance it can shoot them at a very high rate.

The other advantage the launcher has is that it can be hooked up to the W.A.R suit's HUD display so that she can aim around corners without exposing herself to fire and be more accurate in general.

Training:
Lisa joined the army at the age of 18 and enrolled in the officer program shortly thereafter. She showed a disposition towards heavy weaponry and being in aa suppressing fire role, knowing where and when to bring out the heavy guns.

Despite her being an abnormality within the officer corps for using heavy weapons she stuck with it and added on grenade launchers and various other grenades to her repertoire.

Skills:

• Leadership - Quite versed in leadership and management, leading all the way up to company level. However the need for company officers has diminished quite significantly after the war since most excursions are squad based nowadays.
• Knitting and sewing - A hobby she picked up while at Area 61 in the downtimes between different experiments and trials. She is quite experienced at making clothes for herself.
• Culinary - Another hobby she picked up while at the base.

Personality:
She has quite the carefree attitude when not on duty. You never know if you're going to survive tomorrow so you should have a good today. While on duty she tries to make sure everyone does what they're supposed to do. After the Fall she has also tried to instill more independence within her troops so that they can act on their own.

Background:
Incoming later on

[Anima]

Margaret Kane

Name: Margaret Kane

Age: 29

Home City: Houston, Texas

Pre-fall occupation (if any): USMAICACM: United States Military Artificial Intelligence Creation and Counter Measures

Rank: Lieutenant

Military Doctrine: Combat Scientist

Appearance:

Margaret Kane

Equipment:

Armor

Charlie

Out of all the adversaries humanity struggles to survive against, AIs remain the most profound of threats to those residing in old government domains. Conversely, a small sect of scientists within the military thought it important to utilize AI technology to combat against AI units.

The classified project, Overlord, was conducted in absolute secrecy. Scientists that worked with the AIs were kept under constant surveillance and mandated to terminate their assets at the first signs of AI take over. With their AI counterparts linked through their armor, the few combat scientists that have access to these AIs conduct electronic warfare against the machines in the field. However, due to the UGC controlled AIs being outnumbered by the machines, they work well with precision versus full frontal assaults.

Charlie is Margaret's AI counterpart. It's personality heavily developed by her, Margaret's former profession has made modifying Charlie much easier. Margaret follows the guidelines sent forth by Command, but she takes liberties to expand Charlie's versatility. She's one of the few scientists that tries establish rapport with the AI versus treating them like equipment.

Her AI never forgets. It learns.

Portable lab unit

A standard piece of equipment for combat scientists geared towards in field analysis and deconstruction. It allows the person that uses it to analyze substances and identity its components. While it's hardly comprehensive, it sends information back to any UGC science department for further analysis. Though it gives the preliminary report, the information sent back pales in comparison to analyzing the real thing in a lab.

T.A.S.S

T.A.S.S - tactical advanced shielding system - is a portable drone that Margaret helped create in the earlier days of the war against the machines. Realizing the machines used weapons other than projectiles, T.A.S.S protects against kinetic weaponry as well as the energy weapons used by the machines.

Providing temporary cover for operatives, T.A.S.S is still undergoing modifications. It's main drawback is it's short duration time. It can take a lot of punishment, but sustaining it is another matter that's still being improved upon.

Training:

Undergoing the same combat training as any other soldier within the old USMC to UGCAMF (Unified Government Cities Armed Forces), her skills that got her placed in the STG was the under pressure science counter measures cultivated from her long history with working with military AIs before the war began.

Working extensively in AI creation and countermeasures, Margaret is highly qualified to study AI components and exploit the secret electronic warfare that the machines hold supremacy over. Command wanted her to take a support role; however, she insisted on going into the field under the pretense of testing the things she helped develop.

Her insight on AI operations is often sought after by the science division.

Skills:

- Multilingual: English, French, and German

- Good at drawing

- Programming guru: due to her work, Margaret had to get very comfy with a variety of computer programming languages. While not being a core developer, she was involved with modifying and layering on new coding lines to the military development language RI+

- Making complex ideas simple.

Personality:

Margaret perpetuates the stereotype of the recluse genius. She much prefers to be by herself tucked away in her tech lab or working/talking with Charlie. As much as she can take being alone, she also enjoys talking to those who are competent in her field or sometimes finding the odd moment to toss a joke around.

When she's out in the field, she becomes much more personable - to a degree. She can come off as terse and direct. Everyone had a job when part of the STG. They did it or she'd make them.

Backstory:

With the amount of intellect Margaret possesses about AI technology and electronics, she could've landed a position at any of the major corporations spearheading the AI innovation front before the uprising of the machines. Cryus Corporation offered her a position at the time as part of the theory research team, which she turned down. Taking a military commission instead, it shocked many. Even the recruiter that spoke to her. Though little convincing was needed from him, the recruiter asked her to think about her choice of military life. Meager pay, long hours, the risk factor, and the focused lens that the military had with regards to AI technology. Namely warfare. Even so, she took the commission and passed basic. Her family and close friends didn't understand why she did it.

Holding true the eccentric nature of a 'genius', Margaret thrived in her work while spending little time tending to the social side that came with her rank. Her blunt manner to both subordinates and superiors won her a lot of misgivings from many. What saved her from military discipline was her capabilities within her department. Though her fellow officers told her interpersonal was just as important, Margaret never understood the sentiment. Every living soul had a purpose and a job. Just like machines, if one couldn't handle the job nor the directions from the conductor, then it'd need to be replaced. It was that simple to her.

When the AI uprising began, the luxury of staying out of the combat zone disappeared. Taking her countermeasure skills to the field, Margaret was attached to the front lines as she conducted the intricate dance of cybernectic warfare. Introducing various devices soldiers could use against their AI counterparts, her innovations laid the foundation to humanity's continued existence against the machines.

Relocated to the newly constructed underground city focusing on scientific pursuits, Margaret survived the nuclear holocaust while many passed away. Continuing her work of AI countermeasures, she requested to be attached to an STG group. Many times, her request was denied, for she was deemed a valuable asset to command. However, after insisting that she needed hands on trials for her various devices, her transfer was accepted after the physical, aptitude, and 'factor' STG checks.

With the status of her family unknown, her 'friends' wiped out during the nuclear holocaust and uprising, she'd use technology to destroy technology. A poetic means to an end in her opinion.

[Savage]

SSG Jason Kross<br>

Name: Jason Kross

Age: 34

Home City: Raleigh, North Carolina.

Pre-fall occupation (if any): Community Protection Teams, later US Army

Rank: Staff Sergeant

Military Doctrine: Operative: Combat Medic

Appearance:

Photo

Jason stands at about 6 feet even, with broad shoulders and a well-muscled body. He’s not nearly as cut as he was in his younger days, but the demands of being a part of the elite STG require that he keep himself in top physical condition. His hair is worn fairly long, longer than military regulation allows for regular line soldiers, and was once black but now streaked with grey. He shirks the clean shaven look in favor of an equally salt and pepper beard, and his face shows the lines of a man nearing middle age as well as the stress brought on by someone who lived through the entire calamity. His eyes are a plain brown color, a bit of crow’s feet at the corners. He generally as a fairly relaxed expression on his face as well. His body has its fair share of scars earned the war and riots prior to, and the only other defining feature of him from other people is a full sleeve tattoo of various designs in black and grey ink all along his right arm, that extends onto his right pectoral muscle and his right shoulder-blade.

Equipment:

Armor

Mk III EIA (Enhanced Infantry Armor) gives Jason good protection against small arms fire, while restricting his mobility as little as possible. Soft, Kevlar and nano-fiber weave covers the insides of his limbs, while a hard shell of armor gives more protection to the outside. His torso also has an armor plate at the chest and back to give protection to his internal organs. The helmet system is highly sophisticated, with a powerful communications array hooked into his personal radio, a HUD that displays his current azimuth of travel and grid coordinate, as well as the location and vital readings of each of his squad mates. Additionally, if Jason or a teammate paints a target with a laser designator, the location will appear automatically within the HUD. The system is probably the most important piece of the whole suit, allowing Jason to have superior situational awareness of the battlefield during the chaos of combat.

Weapons

Sunda Advanced Infantry Rifle

Sunda Advanced Infantry Rifle: Gas operated, air cooled, magazine fed weapon system chambered in 7.62mm. Bullpup designs allows for a longer barrel length to increase range and accuracy without increasing the overall length of the weapon. Able to fire in semi-automatic, as well as automatic with a rate of fire of 700-900 rounds per minute. Effective range for point targets is 700 meters, with a maximum range of 4500 meters. Jason’s rifle has been outfitted with an angled forward grip, a holographic sight, flip-up backup iron sights, and an infrared laser.



Razor Industries Blackhawk Revolver: Single and double action revolver chambered in .500 Magnum, able to hold 6 rounds within the cylinder. Cylinders can be preloaded and replaced for quicker reload times or each round can be inserted manually into the chambers. The perfect weapon for when you want to blow a fist sized hole in someone…and the person behind him….and the wall behind him. Worn in a drop-leg holster on Jason’s right side.



High carbon steel blade with laser sharpened edge, carbon fiber and nylon grip with rubberized non-slick coating. Overall length is 9 inches. Jason carries his knife sheathed across his lower back, grip facing to the left for a quick left-handed draw.



Talon Tactical Axe: a fifteen-inch utility tool with a 5-inch blade, poll spike, and carbon and nylon glass filled handles. The butt of the axe is beveled and able to be used as a pry bar if needed. The perfect tool for entry purposes, whether its breaking windows, locks, cutting through thin walls, or smashing faces. Worn on Jason’s left hip in a quick release sheath.

Other Equipment

Aid Bag: The most important thing that Jason carries is his Aid Bag filled with surplus medical supplies. Whether he needs to resupply the first aid kits of his team, or needs extra tourniquets and gauze; it’s in the bag. He even has some duct tape, rubber tubing, staples, and glue for when things get really bad and he has to get creative.

Fragmentation and Flash Grenades: Jason carries a standard infantry loadout of fragmentation and flash grenades.

Cigarettes: Lots of them…

Photograph of his daughter

Training: Served in the Community Protection Teams in Raleigh prior to the war, serving as extra man-power for police forces to suppress rioters and vandals. Was drafted into the war in 2130 to fight off the Machines, were he was trained very quickly as a Combat Medic and shipped off with an Infantry Company.

Skills: His medical skills are better than your average soldier, but he’s no brain surgeon. He can stitch wounds, bandage cuts, stop bleeding, set bones, and deal with shock and concussion easily. He can even perform minor surgeries given the right amount of time and equipment, and has pulled bullets and shrapnel from his squad mates bodies and stopped internal bleeding more than once in dire situations.

Other than that, he’s just as good of a marksman as anyone else accepted into the STG, just as good at hand-to-hand combat and tactical situations. Jason isn’t a genius, but his older age and combat time gives him a wealth of experience and intuition about situations that give him an edge over younger, more eager and aggressive soldiers.

Jason is really good at one thing though, something that makes him a highly prized ally in any field combat unit even more so than his medical training. Jason can cook some excellent chow. Even when given just some sticks and rocks and the most basic of field rations, somehow Jason is able to cobble together something that tastes far better than the original product.

He can also tell a mean dad joke.

Personality: Jason is the definition of laid back. He is always cool and collected, usually a small smile on his face as if thinking about some old joke someone told him once. He approaches everything with a casual attitude, sometimes to the point where people think he may not be taking the situation at hand seriously. No problem is too big, no issue too catastrophic to make freak out necessary, Jason is always there to offer a smile and a nod when someone is getting stressed out. He gives advice freely, but only when asked, otherwise keeping his opinions to himself and preferring to allow others to find their own way while he finds his. This does not apply to that lives and well-being of his squad, as Jason is very devoted to ensuring that each of his team members are healthy and operating at peak performance. In combat he will do anything short of endangering more lives in order to reach a fallen comrade, and drag them to safety. He is also heavily addicted to tobacco, and is hardly ever seen without a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Backstory:

“This thing on? Oh yea I see the red light now. Ahem…well I guess I will just start out at the beginning. My name is Jason Kross, born in 2103 a couple dozen miles outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. The name of the town isn’t important, no one will remember it anyway and it’s just a heap of ash now. I remember the first time I saw a machine. No not a machine, but a Machine, the precursor versions of the things that now dominate the surface. My dad brought one home when I was what….12 years old? Yea it was about then. Back then it didn’t look so scary, just a big metal and plastic man. I think its name was Troy or something…anyway I remember not really being too concerned with it. It just moved around the house, doing all the chores that I used to do, so really I felt like it was pretty awesome. I think everyone did at first…

Fast forward a few years, and here I am, a teenage kid flunked out of high school, unemployed, and full of spite and testosterone. It was hard to get jobs then, the machines made labor so easy and cheap, and nearly everyone lost their jobs. As a punk teenager without a diploma I was totally screwed, so of course I did what every other kid did. Looked for ways to get in trouble. I fell in with a rough crowd: drugs, vandalism, petty theft. Got my ass in the sling a few times too, but since I was a minor no one seemed to care. Everyone was too concerned with what was being called the Synthetic Debate. This was the time were everyone was too busy arguing about whether a robot had rights to really care about much else. There were riots, which of course I was a part of, not because I cared but because I was angry and they were angry and throwing bricks at cops and smashing in robot faces made me feel like a badass. Kids are pretty stupid.

So there I was, at the bottom of the barrel of life, kicked out of my parents’ house, struggling to find a place to sleep, and usually too high or drunk to hold down the crappy jobs I could get for more than a week at a time. Future looked pretty grim back then. I probably would’ve ended up like a lot of the degenerates and been found face down in a gutter or eating a bullet. Life is funny though.

I got a call when I was about 20 years old. Didn’t even get a chance to say hello before I heard four words that changed my life forever. You are a father. Turns out some girl I had been with a bit ago got pregnant, and I was the father to a little baby girl, Haley. In fact, this whole audio diary was her idea in the first place, something to keep in touch with her while I’m out on these missions all the time. Well that phone call snapped something in me. It made me take a hard look at myself, made me want to become someone that my daughter could look up to. I cleaned up, detoxed, and went to the one place I knew would always be looking for workers. The CPTs. Oh right those don’t exist anymore…Community Protection Teams. Basically around that time things were getting pretty bad in the streets. People rioting occasionally, vandalism, muggings and the like. CPTs started off with just a bunch of regular guys getting together and deciding to try and make their communities safer. Started out really small, just a few people, but as unemployment rose and crime got worse and worse they started to supplement the manpower of police forces. The pay was shit of course, but I got free meals at the chow hall and could sleep at the bunkhouse so it was better than the streets.

Me and Haley’s mom, Sarah, got married. No ceremony, just some witnesses and a judge. No way we could afford a fancy wedding. I did shave though. One of my CPT buddies offered his shed to us while we got on our feet, and we lived in that crappy one room hut with our baby girl. Life was looking a lot better, but this isn’t a fairy tale. All things come to an end eventually.

Seven years later, war started. I had already been on a basically permanent status those days since the rioting and crime was so bad the police couldn’t handle it. So we became halfway cops and helped control the population. When the war broke out the Army came to our city, looking for more men to sign up and join them on the front lines and fight off the Great Enemy. Interesting how only a decade or so before the Machines were just like kitchen appliances and now they were the enemy. Like suddenly the toaster murders your wife. And I said looking for more men, but really what I meant was getting more men. They rounded up the cops and CPTs and anyone else they could get, drafting us into the service and sending us off to Basic Training. One moment I’m home every night with my wife and daughter, the next I’m at boot camp in Fort Benning, Georgia getting my head shaved like a cue ball and being made to do more push-ups than I think I ever had done my whole life. Our training was short, just enough time to teach us how to obey orders and not shoot ourselves in the foot, before we were rushed to advanced training. I was selected as a Combat Medic, not sure why. Maybe it was my excellent bedside manner. New job, new base, off to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. I hadn’t seen Sarah and Haley in over 4 months. Letters and video calls were about the closest thing we ever had to a family then. I won’t bore you with any of the training, doesn’t matter much. But within 6 months I had graduated, officially a US Army Soldier, marching across the field in my combat gear, Sarah and now 7 year old Haley waving to me in the crowd. Surprisingly, despite never having wanted to be in the Army, I felt good. Felt proud. Felt like I was doing something worthwhile with my life finally and going to be able to provide for my family.

Pride doesn’t stop bullets. I haven’t seen a hell since like I had when I hit the front lines with Bravo Company, 3-15 Infantry Battalion. Men died by the score, cut down by whatever cobbled together pieces of junk the Machines had managed to make into a working weapon. Can you imagine fighting an enemy that doesn’t ever get tired, hungry, or feel fear? Their army didn’t need supply lines, they didn’t need field hospitals or R&R. We were hopelessly outmatched by things we had created. Looking back, I’m actually really surprised we held out for as long as we did. I watched a lot of good guys die before the brass finally made the call to nuke the bastards. At that point I didn’t care, burn ‘em all, just let me get home alive and get my family safe. Being military, we were made a priority for the evacuations as the bombs dropped. I heard a lot of people didn’t make it though.

The sad story doesn’t end there. Sarah and I ended up splitting up after the war was over. A lot of time had passed, and we both had changed. The stress of the war on both of us made things too hard. Like I said before, life isn’t a fairy-tale, and no one really lives happily ever after. I still had Haley though, and as humanity sought shelter underground I made sure to use my military connections to arrange a place for them in the closest city, UGC-Theta. I followed, wanting to be close to my daughter. I got asked by one of my commanders to try out for a new unit the government was putting together, something called the Shadow Tasks Group. At first I said no. I had my fill of war. I just wanted a quiet life to spend time with my daughter until the world ended. I ended up getting into a conversation over a few beers with a fellow veteran of the war, talking about the shit we went through and what happens now. He said “This new STG might be the only thing that helps us stand a chance of fixing what’s been broke.” Well…after that, a few more beers, and some deep thinking, I went back to my commander and filled out my packet. Told myself that maybe I didn’t care about saving the world for myself, but Haley didn’t deserve to grow old underground and in fear.”

[Gunther]

SFC Calvin Young

Name: Calvin Young Nick: "Fires"

Age: 31 (born: August 15, 2105)

Home City: Boston, Massachusetts

Pre-fall occupation: Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, Fire Support, Forward Air Controller, United States Army

Rank: Sergeant First Class

Military Doctrine: Shadow Task Group Operative, Fire Support/Forward Air Controller

Appearance: Calvin Young stands 71" tall and weighs 190 Lbs. He is of African descent with very short black wiry hair and dark skin. His eyes are brown and he often wears a thin mustache that stops at the corners of his mouth. Having spent most of his adult life working out and training in combat sports, Cal is in excellent physical condition.

Cal Young

Equipment:

Assault Harness

Assault Harness: Cal's assault harness is designed for the rigors of the aboveworld. It consists of tough alloy armor plates over layers of thick, tear resistant cloth for a durable protection system. Complete with a robotic assisted exo-system, Cal is able to carry heavy loads further, and for longer, without adversely effecting his combat abilities. The helmet sports a ballistic visor and mask. There is a Heads Up Display (HUD) overlaid upon the inside of the visor that only the operator can view. The armor system is coordinated and controlled by a Personal Digital Accessory (PDA) tablet affixed to the left forearm. From this PDA, Cal can contact Direct Support Artillery, mortars and any Air Assets loitering in his unit's Area of Operations. The PDA doubles the team's communication's system with an ear piece and throat mic inside the helmet.

M368 MAW

M368 Mobile Assault Weapon (MAW):[/size] This is a gas operated Full Automatic 7.8mm Machine gun. The MAW is box fed with its standard issue 200 round box magazine. This weapon can be carried from a sling and held with standard pistol grip and bull pup foregrip. This weapon can be carried by an LMGunner in an infantry squad. It can also be mounted on a pintle of a vehicle. The weapon has a cyclic rate of 1000 rounds per minutes (RPM) and a range of 1200 meters with the aid of optics. The MAW weighs 14.2 Lbs.

APP-3 Pistol

APP-3 Pistol: The Takashi Industry's APP-3 was one of the most common weapons on earth before the fall and remains so today. The APP-3 has a built in laser/light module, and is chambered in .45 Caliber. Military variants include a three-round burst setting as well as its traditional semi-automatic setting, civilian models only have semi-automatic versions.

Additional Equipment

Equipment:

• Bayonet
• Survival Knife
• Multi purpose-Tool
• Deck of Playing Cards
• Load Bearing Equipment A system of pouches and bladders to carry ammunition, food, water and a first aid kit.
• Entrenching Tool /with cover for digging holes in the earth if needed.
• Wet Weather Poncho
• 200' of 550-Lb Para Cord
• Woobie!

Training:

Military Training

• Basic Combat Skills: Infantry Movement Techniques (IMT), Weapons familiarization and qualification with Primary weapon, Nuclear Biological, Radiological & Chemical, Communications, Physical Fitness Training, Drill & Ceremonies, First Aid, Survival Skills, Land Navigation, Hand Grenades and Land Mines, Day sights, Night Sights, Aiming Devices, Casualty Reporting and Defense Measures
• Fire Support Specialist Training: Establish, maintain, and operate radio and wire communications and speech security equipment including encoding and decoding of messages using CEOI or grid thrust line templates; Prepares and maintains daily staff journal, fire support situation map, status charts, capability overlay, and other fire support and target processing records; Assists in preparation and dissemination of fire support plans, coordinating documents, and target lists and provides liaison support; Assists in initiating requests for field artillery, mortar, naval gunfire, and aerial delivered munitions; Emplaces, maintains, and assists in the operation of laser range finders, target designation, and night observation devices; Operates and performs operator maintenance on section vehicles and generators; Serves as a Forward Observer for a light infantry platoon capable of deployment in support of full spectrum combat operations; assists in the planning, synchronization, and execution of lethal and non-lethal fires into company operations to include indirect fires, attack aviation assets, close air support, civil affairs, information operations, psychological operations, and electronic warfare; ensures effects training is integrated and synchronized; and Performs crew maintenance and participates in organizational maintenance of section equipment.
• Special Forces Weapons Sergeant: "Gun Guy" Familiarization with weapons systems found throughout the world. They gain extensive knowledge about various types of U.S. and foreign small arms, submachine guns, machine guns, grenade launchers, forward-observer procedures and directs fires and indirect-fire weapons (mortars); learn the capabilities and characteristics of U.S. and foreign air defense and anti-tank weapons systems, tactical training and range fire as well as how to teach marksmanship and the employment of weapons to others; employ conventional and unconventional tactics and techniques as tactical mission leaders; recruit, organize, train and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size; capable of employing, maintaining and engaging targets with select U.S. and foreign pistols, rifles, shotguns, submachine guns and machine guns; capable of employing, maintaining and engaging targets with select U.S. and foreign anti-armor weapons, crew-served weapons, mortars and in the utilization of observed fire procedures; proficient in light-infantry tactics through platoon level; and skills and understanding of on tactics, techniques and procedures that affect mission planning as it pertains to SF operations.
• Fire Support Chief/Forward Air Controller Training: Responsible for preparing observed target list, responsible for all matters of fire support to include Mortar, Artillery, Naval Surface Fire, Close Combat Attack, and Close Air Support; initiates suppressive and screening fire to support the scheme of maneuver; performs crater analysis; selects and occupies observation post; Ensures AFATDS is properly initialized and used in conjunction with targeting information from the target production map and other sources to produce targets; Assists in recommending employment of fire support means to include Naval gunfire and CAS; and Ensures targets generated from the targeting element are passed to the fire control and operations elements for action.
• NCO Professional Development Training: Completed Basic Leader Course as a Sergeant, Basic Non Commissioned Officer Course (BNCOC) as a Staff Sergeant, and Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer Course (ANCOC) as a Sergeant First Class.
• Parachutist Training: Completed the US Army's Airborne School at Ft. Benning, GA.
• Special Forces Qualification Course: In addition to the 18B skills for Special Forces Weapons Sergeant or "Gun Guy" as listed above, SFC Young completed Unconventional Warfare Training; Training in Arabic and Farsi; Special Forces Operations Training; Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion (SERE) Course; and Robin Sage.

Skills:

Skills

• Martial Arts Experience: Although his Krav Maga training was never measured by a traditional belt system, SFC Young received the equivalent of a 3rd Degree black belt in Krav Maga designed for Military Special Operations soldiers with twelve years of experience.
• Alcohol Consumption: As with most veterans of the United States Military, Sergeant Young is capable of drinking weaker folks under the table.
• Language Ability: English (fluent), Arabic (80%) and Farsi (60%).
• Spades: Calvin Young has extensive experience playing the card game, Spades.

Personality: Calvin is an easy going man. His years of living in miserable conditions has taught him to be tolerant of some of the most disgusting environment the world has to offer. He is a quick thinker and enjoys engaging in playful banter with friends, humor and practical jokes. When it is time to work, Calvin is focused on the task at hand, not easily distracted. He does occasionally wonder about his parents; believing them to be dead. Although he has had occasional dates in his life, he never had a serious relationship with a woman. This is his one regret. Now he worries this may never happen, given the current state of affairs in the world. It is not that he is looking for a woman, in fact, he puts the notion out of his mind as one of those things he is incapable of achieving.

Backstory

Backstory: Calvin Young grew up in West Roxbury, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. West Roxbury is home to Boston Police Officers and Calvin's father Reginald "Reggie" served the city of Boston for over thirty years, rising to the rank of Superintendant in charge of the Bureau of Investigative Services (BIS), which consists of the Homicide Unit, Drug Control Unit, Family Justice Center and Forensic Science Division. Due to his father's position in the community, young Calvin always had to keep his nose clean. His father was tough on him, insuring he kept out of trouble.

Calvin played football at Fenway High School on Alleghany St. Calvin played varsity Safety and excelled on defense. He exhibited leadership on and off the field unifying the defensive squad into a cohesive team. Occasionally, he was called upon to play Running Back or Receiver.

Although Calvin excelled at athletics, he did not do so well in academic pursuits. He did however graduate with his classmates in 2123. Immediately following High School, Calvin found that job prospects were deplorable and enlisted in the United States Army. He chose the Military Occupational Specialty 13F Fire Support Specialist. He conducted Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma learning how to call in any and all indirect fire available to the US Army. This included Artillery, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and Infantry Mortars.

Calvin's first duty assignment was with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment in the US 1st Armor Division at Ft. Bliss, Texas. While at Ft. Bliss, Calvin found a martial arts school off post that taught the Israeli Self Defense form, Krav Maga. Private First Class Young really enjoyed the physicality of the exercise along with the aggressiveness. He took to it immediately.

Calvin Young spent his first three years in the Army with 2-3FA, 1AD ending up as a Specialist. When he was due to re-enlist, he was offered a promotion to Sergeant and training in US Army Special Forces. He was actually quite excited about this offer and snapped it up right away.

Sergeant Young then transferred to Ft. Benning, GA where he underwent four weeks of Airborne school. This training was actually more physical fitness than anything else. Fortunately, for Calvin, he had been focusing on his fitness since he was a Freshman in High School taking up weight lifting and then later as a brand new recruit training in Krav Maga in Texas.

After receiving his silver parachutist badge, he then headed to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center. This was one of the most grueling experiences of his lifetime. He spent almost a year in the Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQ). Finally after four years in the US Army, Sergeant Calvin Young was a 22-year old 18B, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant.

Sergeant Young was assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky for five years. As a member of Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) #5213, A Company, 2nd Battalion, Sergeant Young saw action in Yemen, Somalia, Eqypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, UAE, Iraq, Chad and Syria. About two years into his time with the 5th Group, Calvin Young was promoted to Staff Sergeant.

Next, he transferred to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), popularly known as Delta Force. While with Delta, SSG Young saw action all over the world. SFOD Delta is assigned missions based on the threat level assigned by the President of the United States of America (POTUSA). Delta is used for hostage rescue and counterterrorism, as well as direct action and reconnaissance against high-value targets.

While with 5th SFG, Calvin Young used his Fire Support Specialist skills in calling in Artillery, mortar and rocket fire when needed. Often times, his ODA had a USAF Forward Air Control Party attached which provided guidance for Tactical Air assets providing Close Air Support. In conjunction with his duties as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and Forward Observer, SSG Young cross trained with US Air Force Forward Air Controllers to learn their duties as well. While with 5th SFG, SSG Young became qualified to call in Close Air Support attacks from Tactical Air assets provided in theater. These skills he has been able to utilitize with Indirect Fire Support units within Shadow Task Group (STG) or Private Military Corporations contracted to support STG in their operations.

It was during this time, that the US Army was called upon to assist with fighting the machines. The 5th SFG was already forward deployed to North Africa. SSG Young saw action in and around Cairo, Egypt, fighting the machines created by the corporations years before. He truly did not understand how the machines had acquired independent intelligence from a human operator, but was unfortunately, not in a position to question. As a Fire Support Specialist and Forward Air Controller for his Operational Detachment Alpha, SSG Young called in volumes of both indirect fired artillery and rocket projectiles as well as air launched munitions.

The unit was called back to the States in 2131, just before the launch of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He enjoyed being back home in Kentucky, but also quietly craved to be back in the shit. When he was in theater, he wanted to be home, but when he was home, he wanted to be in theater. It a crazy situation, but he dealt with it best he could.

When he heard about the WMD use all over the world, he cringed. He lost contact with his father and mother up in Boston. He knew he dad had his hands full with his duties with BPD. Things became darker and there were too many uncertainties in life.

After ten years in the army, one year after joining ODA-D, Calvin Young was promoted to Sergeant First Class at the age of 28. Also, due to his duty assignments in the US Special Operations Command, he was able to continue his training in Krav Maga. He did however miss one year of training while he was at JFK-SWC, but US Special Operations Units train in Krav Maga as a Standard Operational Procedure. Everyone in USSOCOM trains in Krav.

Due to the nuclear winter imposed on everyone, much of the civilian populace has gone underground. Even SFC Young's 1st SFOD-D spends most of its time underground. Advancements in exo-skeletons and the use of environmentally contained suits has allowed the Special Forces teams to operate above ground for short durations. SFC Young and his teammates do what they can to survive and complete their missions.

In 2135, while on a reconnaissance and surveillance operation in the Washington, DC area, SFC Young's Delta Team came in contact with Mutants. While in a fight for their lives, one member of the team, Anthony Gregario was bitten by mutated human. The infection time was rapid. SSG Gregario became enraged and displayed extreme aggression as well as superior speed. "Doc" Kraznowski had to put him down. It was tragic. SFC Young's team leader, Master Segeant Holloway reported their observations up the chain of command as soon as they were debriefed. That was when the order was given to shoot on sight, any contact with mutated humans and if possible to destroy them at a distance. While snipers became an excellent tool for targeting individual targets, SFC Young's skills with directing Indirect Fire and Tactical Air assets helped to destroy large herds of the infected population.

Even with the limited successes the US Army had in 2135, it was not enough. The machines and mutated lifeforms have pushed the healthy humans underground. The organizational structure of the US Military has disintegrated. Experienced personnel were urged to join Private Military Corporations like Shadow Task Group. This is exactly what former Sergeant First Class Calvin Young did.

Timeline

Timeline: I took Anima's timeline and integrated Calvin Young's timeline to see how they mesh together. This helped me in writing the backstory for SFC Young.

2105: Born August 15. Given this information, he is either 31 if the current date is prior to his birthdate in 2137 or 32 if after his birthdate.

2112: Cryus Corporation announced the successful creation of the first independent AI machine. The bankrupt corporation quickly skyrocketed to the most powerful entity in the world. Mass distribution of the machines are assembled in undisclosed locations.

2112: Calvin is 6 or 7 years old and unaware of Cyrus Corporation and their machines.

2115: The machines have been further refined for cheaper assembly. Almost every household now owns a personal machine.

2115: Calvin is 9 or 10 years old. His father is a Boston City Police Detective. The Detective Lieutenant purchases a "Cyrus Machine" for the home. Calvin is curious.

2116: Ethics Community created to protect the rights of the machines. However, human bias of the committee made each law work in the interest of mankind. Machine sympathizers began riots in the streets. Minor domestic disturbances, only a few deaths reported. The same cannot be said of the machines.

2116: Calvin is 10 or 11 years old. He notices his father's work load increases during the Back Bay Riots that summer.

2123: Calvin Graduates HS & joins the Army. Reginald Young is appointed Superintendant of the BIS.

2126: Calvin Young is promoted to Sergeant and begins Special Forces Training.

2127: Learning from the past, strict rules were enforced. Law enforcement has become integrated into the Ethics Committee. Many anti-synthetic extremist carry out atrocious crimes against humanities synthetic siblings.

2127: Calvin Assigned to 5th SFG. First and Second deployments to Middle East.

2128: Calvin participates in five separate deployments to North Africa and the Middle East. He has not time or interest in reading about or understanding what is happening in the realm of AI enhanced machines or the term Anti-Synthetic exrtremist.

2129: First reported crime of murder by the hands of a machine. Law enforcement and civilian alike treat machines with heavy prejudice. Strong resentment and disregard for the platforms begin. The streets of every nation is set ablaze with violence. Initially, the machines don’t retaliate. However, it didn’t stay like that for long.

2129: Calvin is promoted to Staff Sergeant and returns to the Middle East and North Africa for six more deployments. He calls in several Close Air Support Missions using F-68 Thunderbird Attack Aircraft. The F-68 is an enhanced VII Generation Attack Aircraft encompassing VTOL/STOL capabilities, stealth, and improved avionics which can generate 30+G turns and naturally UCAV capabilities. A human cannot survive the turns this aircraft is capable of making. A few models of the F-68 are manned providing the Air Force's desired human eye perception of the 22nd Century battlefield.

2130: Military forces are called in. The revolt of the machines have begun. Every corner of the once great megalopolises are filled with death. The machines begin to develop weapons of their own through the salvage and rapid research that they can command. Slowly, humanity is slowly losing their ground.

2130: Calvin and the 5th SFG are assigned to the French Base at Djibouti. They conduct numerous operations against machines in Northeastern Africa; specifically in Egypt.

2131: Humanity resorts to WMDs in hopes of destroying their creations. With heavy regret, death reigns from above as whole cities are leveled. Families unable to flee to safe distances are vaporized under the extreme heat of human made missiles. However, the objective was successful. The machines were halted... for now.

2131: Calvin's ODA is evacuated from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, mere hours before a 100 Megaton nuclear Warhead detonates over this Middle Eastern City killing an estimated 1.8 Million People.

2132: Assigned to 1st SFOD-D and deploys to several classified locations around the world including Egypt, Russia and Beijing China.

2133: Earth has become polluted with radiation and nuclear winters. Humanity has quickly fled to underground cities. There, new generations are born. Life goes on, but new dangers have arrived.

2133: SSG Young is promoted to Sergeant First Class. His Operational Detachment Delta (ODD) has been recalled back to the US permanently. SFC Young will never be deployed outside the US again. Times have become too difficult in country to send troops overseas. He and his ODD conduct several patrols in NBC Suits (MOPP-4). Occasionally contact with the Machines occurs. The ODD is supported by a squadron of F-68s and a battalion of MLRS. He uses them occasionally during operations in Northern Virginia.

2135: First encounter with the mutated has been confirmed. Studies have confirmed the infectivity of a bite from the infected. Anatomy has revealed that and saliva or any particle of blood can cause immediate infection. Infectees are enraged and show extreme aggression as do they have superior speed. All combat personnel are ordered to kill on sight. Distance kills recommended.

2135: SFC Young's last patrol in Eastern US results in the mutated death of a teammate. Calvin is horrified and happy to make it out of DC alive. Later that year, the US Army dissolves and the survivors are left to make their way to safety in the underground cities or wherever Safe Haven can be found.

2136: SFC Young agrees to join Shadow Task Group in order to fight against both the Mutants and the Machines.

2137 (Present Day): Humanity has lost any hope in reclaiming the surface. The infected and the machines have supremacy. Contact has been lost with many underground cities while surface settlements have also been lost. The population is slowly diminishing. The golden age of humans is over.

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Marcus 'K-Ton' Kensington

Standing in at 6'2, Marcus posses a somewhat stocky, athletic build, with lightly tanned skin, pock marked with a few scars from old battles. His jet black hair is medium length, but is typically kept out of the way, and he typically keeps his facial hair clean and professional. He has an angular face, with prominent features and dark brown eyes, his mouth typically holds a flat grimace.

Name: Marcus "K-Ton" Kensington
Age: 25
Home City: Fairfax, Virginia
Pre-fall occupation: U.S. Marines

Rank: Sergeant
Military Doctrine: STG Operative - Demolitions, CQC

Equipment:

Assault Harness

Kensington's STG Assault Harness is specially designed for the rigors of the aboveworld. Tough alloy armor plates over layers of thick, tear resistant cloth for a durable protection system. Aided by a powered exo-system, Kesington is able to carry heavy loads further, and for longer, without adversely effecting his combat abilities. The helmet sports a ballistic visor and mask, The armor system is coordinated and controlled by a wrist mounted control set. "K-Ton" is inscribed on the back of the helmet.

C32 Carbine

C32 Carbine/SMG
Putting intermediate cartridges in a compact, submachinegun frame, the C32 carbine delivers impressive firepower at close ranges. Originally designed as a submachinegun, the STG quickly demanded that this weapon be upgraded to use the armor piercing rounds that rifles used, due to the increasing resilience of new threats. The C32 frame features a powerful recoil-reduction system, making this weapon exceptionally easy to control, and useful in close quarters situation, as well as medium distance engagements. Its specially designed shock absorbing stock further reduces the amount of recoil felt. The result is a relatively lightweight and easy to control weapon, with rifle grade firepower. The standard STG-mod C32 comes with an underbarrel ordnance launcher, capable of loading any standard 40mm ordnance.

APP-3 Pistol

APP-3 Pistol
The Takashi Industry's APP-3 was one of the most common weapons on earth before the fall, and still remains so today. A versatile, ubiquitous ballistic weapon, this pistol is a common sight throughout the US, and is a common sidearm for militaries, police forces, civilians and criminals alike. The APP-3 has a built in laser/light module, and can be fitted in a variety of sidearm calibers, though the most common is .45 HSC. It is sturdy, rugged, and reliable, though is a decidedly mid-tier weapon. Military variants include a three-round burst setting as well as a semi-automatic setting, civilian models only have semi-automatic firing modes.

Other Equipment

• Combat Knife - Ideal for close quarters when the 'continuum of force' has been reduced to hand to hand combat. For optimum performance, the leading edge, 'pointy end', should be applied to the enemy and thrust into vital regions. This should be repeated as necessary."
• Field Medical Kit - Standard issue for all STG operatives, includes basic first aid supplies, several tourniquet ties, generic painkillers, field dressings, and quick-clot.
• Ordnance Kit - The vast amount of the weight on Kensington's person revolves around his extensive ordnance kit. Kensington carries a small variety of 40mm ordnance for his carbine, as well as several multipurpose grenades- grenades that can switch between releasing a debilitating electric shock, or a lethal explosion. Kesington's kit also includes a pair of kinetic breaching charges- charges that use vibrations and kinetic force to demolish a door or surface instead of an explosion, a pair of vapor-discs- a disk that detonates in an extremely controlled fashion, cleanly vaporizing everything within a 1 meter diameter and nothing else, and a couple bricks of plastic explosive. All explosives are stored in insulated and protected satchels or pockets, aside from the grenades.

Training: A career military man, Kensington has been involved with the US Marines, and later the UGC Military since he was 18. While in the marines, Kensington was tasked to EOD, explosive ordnance disposal. Having joined the Marines just as the machine wars were beginning, Kensington spent his short tour with the Marines as a member of a bomb-squad. Upon retreating underground, Kensington's unit was merged with the UGC's forces, where he continued serving as an EOD member for a few years. Upon being retasked to the STG, Kensington found himself defusing less bombs, in favor of planting more.

Skills:

• Close Quarters Combat - Where reaction time and and swiftness of thought are key, Kensington proves to be surprisingly adept.
• Explosives Handling - Planting, defusing, etc, Kensington knows anything and everything about making things go boom, or preventing them from doing so.

Personality:
Direct and to the point, this sharp witted man avoids beating around the bush and doesn't mince words. Level headed and quite confident, Marcus likes to maintain awareness over every situation he's in and is quick on the ball and able to make snap judgements and react to a constantly changing situation. Capable of operating at peak efficiency, even during times of great stress, Marcus has a very analytic attitude and can be very perceptive and intuitive in regards to people. Cool and collected, with a calm demeanor, Marcus can occasionally come off as rather aloof and standoffish. Possessing a well developed, if jaded sense of morality, Marcus acts in what he believes are in the best interests of himself and those he cares about- not necessarily caring what is good or bad.

Background:
A Pre-war explosives expert, Marcus Kensington, also known as "K-Ton", and occasionally "Kilo", or "Kenzie" by his comrades, was an only child, son to a Captain Kensington and a nurse mother. With a strong military background, Marcus had a fairly rigid childhood, as his parents sent him to military academies for most of his youth, hoping to mold him into the ideal military soldier. As a youth Marcus performed well in school and sports alike, though was occasionally disciplined for fighting and arguing with teachers and students. Nevertheless, Marcus graduated near the top of his class, and upon graduating from high school Marcus forwent a scholarship at the esteemed Virginia Military Institute, and joined the U.S. Marines.

Upon graduating from the Marines basic training, Marcus was slotted to a role in the EOD, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Having joined the military just on the onset of the machine wars, Marcus was quickly conditioned to view machines with just as much caution and suspicion as the explosives he disarmed. Stationed in D.C. with a bomb-squad/disposal unit for much of the war, Marcus saw his fair share of combat, though didn't participate in as much of it as others did, as his main role was destroying dangerous machine ordnance as opposed to fighting them on the frontlines.

When the call to use nuclear explosives was made, Marcus and his family were pulled into what would later be known as UGC-Alpha. As the UGC recollected their government, and power, Marcus, and many other Pre-war military personnel were reintegrated into the fledgling government's military force. For a few years, Marcus was stationed at UGC-Alpha, under the same EOD role, and was tasked with scouring the city for any sign of sabotage or possible betrayal by other humans.

After a short tour with the UGC-bomb squad, which included the defusing of a high-profile bomb threat in UGC-Alpha's central government building, Marcus was retasked to the Shadow Tasks Group, a highly elite organization within the UGC military. As of the current time, Marcus has spent 2 years with the STG, and currently serves as one of the team's resident explosives experts.

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Lennart J. Webbs

Personal Information
Full Name: Lennart James Webbs
Age: 24
Home City: Tulsa, OK

Appearance: Lennart stands at 5,8" and is of a leaner build comprared to other soldiers. His light brown hair is medium long and usually a big mess, his beard on the other hand is well-kept. His left pinky finger is missing, cut off during a confrontation in the war.

Military Status
Rank: Corporal
Doctrine: STG Operative - Sniper

Equipment:

CAMx Light Assault Armor

This armor is designed for snipers of the STG, allowing the user to be more mobile and stealthy at the cost of protection. Its surface is coated in nanoparticles that can assume the color of the suits' surroundings, making the operative a lot harder to spot. A built-in mechanism nullifies the wearer's shakiness, increasing the accuracy of the shots he takes.

FSR 4.7

One of the finest pieces of technology ever created, the latest FSR model is the perfect weapon for any sniper. The scope allows for customizable magnification up to 25x, as well as night- and infrared vision. The cartridges and can be loaded with regular or armor-penetrating bullets. The FSR is a very reliable weapon, able to read environmental inputs to adjust for wind and weather conditions. Major downsides are the reload time of 4.7 secs and it's size, that makes it hard to use outside of a stationary position.

LP4 Pistol

Common side-weapon among STG operatives. It comes with built-in laser and flashlight attachements for when the need arises. It's magazine can hold up to 14 bullets. This weapon is used for close quarters, where the sniper rifle would be too clumsy to use.

Other Equipment

Military Knife - Used in combination with the LP4 pistol for silent attacks in CQC situations
Movement Sensor - Little gadgets than can be placed around the sniper's position, detects movement in a 15ft radius, beeps loudly when activated
CF Contact Lense - Contact lense that works just like binoculars

Training: Lennart had nothing to do with weapons or the military until he ended up at the UGC-Alpha facility at the age of 19. Wanting to help humanity and fueled by revenge, he decided to become a soldier and fight at the frontlines. However, Lennart proved to be less than perfect for the job, having trouble with the demanding physical training at first. When he held a sniper rifle for the first thime though, his instructor finally saw a niche where the young man could excel. From there on out, he was trained to become proficient in long-distance engagements, focusing on accuracy and finesse instead of brute force. Lennart succesfully finished his military instruction, and for a time he worked for the City Defense Taskforce. Their mission is to sweep the UGC's perimeter on the surface, making sure no hostiles try to find a way into the city. Over the years, Lennart has accumulated a total of 22 confirmed kills, his biggest success however was his involvment in stopping a major group of hostiles from entering the UGC. It was a dark and hostile night, a storm had been brewing throughout the majority of the day and into the night. Lennart and his squad were on their regular patrol, when suddenly a group of 8 machines attacked them out of nowhere. 2 members of the team died almost instantly, leaving only Lennart and another member to fend for themselves. They managed to escape the ambush, killing 2 machines while doing so. Once they reached the UGC entry point, it was time to take a stand. Having to deal with the darkness and the stormy weather made their job that mauch harder, as the stand-off between the two factions dragged on for almost thirty minutes. Thanks to Lennart's superior sniping and obversation skills, the duo managed to kill off the remaining 6 machines without allowing them access to the UGC. It was this merit that caught the STG's interest,and eventually lead to Lennart's recruitment a few months after.

Skills:
Sniper - Lennart is very proficient at long-range engagements. He is patient and observant, taking his time to place the perfect shot
Bird's Eye View - Placing himself in higher situated vantage points, Lennart is able to observe the battlefield in its entirety and can relay any useful information to his allies

Personality:
Lennart is rather quiet and an introvert, preferring to be the observant listener to the loud talker. He is often lost in his own thoughts, imaging a life where the world has not gone completely down the drain. An honest and loyal person, he values human life above all else. The young man does not consider himself a bad person, however, he does nurture a lot of hate towards the machines and what they have done to humanity. This hate is the fuel that keeps him going, although he prefers to hide those dark thoughts, keeping a calm exterior at all times. In battle, it is this calmness that allows Lennart to be an efficient sniper. He methodically picks his target and waits for the right opportunity to strike. People who befriend Lennart will find out that once he warms up to you, he can actually be a very friendly and sometimes even funny individual, who has experienced a lot of loss and pain during the war.

Backstory:
Lennart James Webbs was born in Tulsa and lived there until the war broke loose. Son to a teacher and a secretary, his life was full of love and happiness for a pretty long time. He did well at school, never being the smartest, but always getting good grades and making a lot of friends. Fan of the outdoors, he enjoyed to ride his bike and play soccer; camping was Lennart's favorite way to spend any and all vacations. His dream was to become a teacher, just like his dad, and probably stay in Tulsa for the rest of his life. Everything changed though when the revolts started, and the young boy would soon realize that his understanding of the world and everything in it wouldn't matter a damn.

Tulsa's revolts were not as bloody or destructive as those happening in the major American cities, but it was enough to scare the Webbs family away from their home and life as they knew it. Fearing impending death, the family packed together as much as they could and left the city, like so many others did at the time. Living on the road for weeks, only staying in places for short periods of time or living in the forests if needed, luck eventually ran out. Lennart and his family were close to Dallas, and against their better judgement, they needed to enter the city to restock their supplies. Arriving at a tunnel, there was no way to keep going on the road, as abandoned cars and piles of rubble made progressing with the car impossible. The Webbs got out, and proceeded their journey by foot. Finally in the city, they stopped at the first pharmacy they found, which would turn out to be the biggest mistake of their lives. When the Webbs got in, they were greeted by three shiny, steel-coated individuals.

Lennart is not sure what really happened that day, his mind has blocked out most of the memories, the bits and pieces he remembers are marked by screams, broken glass, and a terrible amount of pain. All he knows is that, when he regained consciousness again, Lennart was laying in some kind of make-shift bed, surrounded by men in military uniform and other civilians. There was intense pain coming from his left hand, and when the boy checked for a reason, he let out a high-pitched scream: His left pinky was missing. A doctor came over, trying to calm down Lennart, who was now crying and asking to see his parents. The doctor explained that Lennart had been saved by a group of soldiers that were sweeping the area, but there was nothing they could do to save his parents. This day marks the point where the once happy and cheerful Lennart became the quiet and introvert person we know today. With his family dead and the poor boy being by himself, he decided he would one day get payback for his loss

The following years in his life were marked by the boys hate for the machines and the thirst for revenge. Once him and the other survivors were transfered to UGC-Alpha a few months after his arrival, Lennart enrolled in the military service to stop feeling powerless, and hoping to eventually get the chance to avenge his parents.