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"Everything has a cost..."
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NAME:
Dawson, Michael R.
NICKNAME:
Mike
RANK:
First Lieutenant
NATIONALITY:
Unitary Republic of Terra
AGE:
28
GENDER:
Male
HEIGHT:
5'9ft or 179cm
BIRTH-DATE:
13th of August, 2117
APPEARANCE:
Michael is a young looking Lieutenant, properly fed and fit for active duty. He has multiple scars from previous battles on his torso. His eyes are hazel brown and are down turned. He is often described as having a thoughtful facial expression that puts people at ease.
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BACKGROUND:
Michael was born into a military oriented family, military personnel aren’t known to be very affluent and while there was a life insurance policy it was usually a one time payment of twenty thousand republic credits. If only his family had higher ranked officers that they could live a bit of a better lifestyle. To make things worse his mother and his brothers couldn’t hold down a job on Thane – their home planet.
Thane is a relatively affluent region of Republic rule, however, Thane had an abysmal employment rate and a staggeringly high unemployment rate. These problems were mostly a consequence of Republic reforms happening in the region. Thane was a small world, around forty-eight percent smaller than Earth with proportionally weaker gravity. Thane is also a mostly water world meaning that infrastructure would be restricted to the small amount of landmass that the world has. People who wanted to generate income either had to join the military or become a merchant or economist. Other sources of income are lucrative and shady at best – shared with the fact that the planet has limited arable land which causes problems if crops are hit by some calamity like hurricanes which are frequent on Thane.
Michael and his brothers were forced to choose between the available options for familial income. Michael, like his father before him, joined the military. Thane would subsequently fall to ruin when the Federation kicked up its offensive. His family was reduced by three – all of them were his brothers. His mother is still alive alongside his final remaining brother who is a war correspondent for the Republic.
COMBAT EXPERIENCE:
Michael’s joined the military when he was 21, his early experience in the army was of intense training under the very well funded military of the Republic. Most of his combat training depended upon “Wargaming” scenarios by the higher echelon. While these wargames did not prepare them for the battle with the Federation, it did however allow Michael to showcase his leadership abilities. In most of the wargames, Michael was able to showcase his small scale squad tactics to be superior to many of his peers. While there were people who were better than Michael, his performance was enough to earn him a promotion of first sergeant.
Michael got his first taste of combat when he was 26 at his homeworld of Thane which depended largely on aquatic and aerial based strategies to engage the invading Federal force. His actions at Thane would earn him his recommendation for the ODIN program as one of the pioneering troopers. On Thane he was able to trick the enemy sea based force into thinking his force was larger than it was driving them into a trap laid out by the Republic coastal defenses on one of the few islands that served as strategically important locations on the planet. Michael continued his string of successes on many of the battles of control over the planet’s main islands, his homefield knowledge allowed him to out maneuver the enemy and make sound tactical decisions when facing them. Ultimately however, the actions of one squad cannot amount to the pressures of warfare on such a small planet – Thane fell to the Federation along with over two million enlisted fighting men.
At Lusitania, he proved himself again to be a capable leader as he pushed the boundaries of what ODIN was capable of. He was able to use the tactics of the enemy against them which was quickly adapted by many other ODIN units on the planet. He was the reason for ODIN being able to produce results against a numerically superior enemy. The major defeat came when the ODIN research station on Hesperus was attacked as the defending fleet was overwhelmed by Federation forces – ODIN technology fell into enemy hands.
The rest of the war was a brutal stalemate with back-and-forth battles that seemed endless. ODIN units were deployed everywhere and more often than not Michael and his squad would face them. At the end of the war he would be promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and was decorated over eight times for meritorious achievements, distinction of service, and acts of valor in the field.
PERSONALITY:
While Michael may have a soft, thoughtful facial expression that would put most at ease, he is more than a face in combat. He is a responsible, practical adult who has been decorated many times under the Republic Military. That said, his practical and logical reasoning skills falter when it comes to the men and women under his command. The people under his command, in his opinion, are more valuable alive than the cost of any objective – if push came to shove, he would put himself first in line for any suicide mission unless it was absolutely necessary for someone else to go.
This contradicts with what he needs to do as a soldier – furthermore, he feels the need to voice his thoughts about every order the high command gives and borders on insubordination, however, he never sets that example to his men. He is honest kind hearted, but he is also tough and rugged when it comes down to getting the business done. He makes a point of being an example for the rest.
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EQUIPMENT:
- MARTIAN ARMORY M25A3 AUTOMATIC RIFLE
- MARTIAN ARMORY M9A1 PISTOL
- 4 FRAGMENTATION GRENADES
- 2 SMOKE GRENADES
- ODIN JET PACK
- ODIN POWER ARMOR
ROLE:
SQUAD LEADER
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- Rowan R. Dawson - Brother
- Susan R. Dawson - Mother
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