[OOC] Stargate - Alliances

[GravityFlux]

Sep said
Will take a look at it later Flux, too early in the morning right now in honesty.

Sure, I'm fine with that

[Sundered Echo]

The Character seems fine to me GravityFlux - though my knowledge of specificly military things is quite lacking so I'll leave Sep to check those facts with time etc.

Assuming that all checks out, I'm happy to accept the character.

[Ellri]

quick question... Why would a 14-year old fight in the gulf war?

feel free to check the double-checked math...

current year: 2014
gulf war year: 1991
2014-1991=23
His age: 37
37-23=14

Wouldn't it be more logical to have experience from more recent wars instead? Pretty sure the IOA wouldn't look at people who fought in long-ago wars before looking at those who fought in recent wars, especially not for strike teams. Or pick former child soldiers, for that matter.

[Sep]

1) Where is his basic training.
2) He seems to be a bit too young at 14 to fight in the Gulf War... (1990-91) and 20 years in the military I suppose Colonel would be possible but he's getting older. 18-joins military. About 6 months basic training, put on top of that officer training and any specialty training and you have a couple of years. So he would be at least in his early 20s to be an officer in the Gulf War, then working in the UN and such.
3) What about more recent conflicts? Afghanistan? Syria? Libya?
4) What made him stand out for the SG program.

[Ciphra]

Name: Cody Brown

Call Sign: No specific one, varied from mission to mission though the majority of the time he was just designated as Arch Angel for kill missions.

Age 24 (June 9th 1990)

Gender: Male

Rank: First Lieutenant

Appearance: Cody is five feet seven inches tall. White but with a clear tan. Muscled but not overly muscled, normally just sean with combat pants and a t-shirt to go with it. His hair is brown and military cut with no facial hair. While his eyes are a gray blue with a light layer of green. If one took off his shirt they would be able to see several scars along his back where he had been tortured in the past.

Role: He's a soldier put on the team for exploring other planetsand defending against hostiles, also has been assigned to watch for any signs of traitors.

Nationality: American. From Missouri to be specific.

Biography: Cody grew up getting good grades throughout school but half way through high school he kept fighting with his dad. This led to him being shipped off to the military at the age of 17. His shooting skills were quickly acknowledged and he was trained as a sniper in the Marine Corps. Shortly after Cody and his Spotter William were dropped behind enemy lines in the middle east. They had over 18 high value target kills within 9 months among other lesser value kills. This was unusual but given his skill the higher ups didn't want to take any chances so they would send Cody and William. At this time Cody was unaware, but the CIA had started to take an interest in him and William. They started receiving black ops and they carried them out to the letter. This was until one mission went terribly wrong.

Cody and William had been captured by a terrorist group and were being tortured. For weeks, even months they were tortured for information. William died off after a few months from catching some sort of bug, which was probably painful, but sadly it was merciful compared to what was being done to him. Cody however never caught the bug and was continuously tortured for another month before a team finally came to get him. When he was being debriefed though Cody learned that they were thought to be KIA.

After Cody had recuperated Cody joined the CIA only performing unofficial missions for them. He knocked off drug lords, terrorist targets, political figures posed against the United States, and countless others. This of course was more than just in the middle east. At this point Cody had started traveling everywhere for this job. Cuba, Russia, Chechnya, even a few unknown areas. He'd been everywhere, except space of course, but that is Cody's next destination though as he has been reassigned to the Langford and will be working to ensure the safety of everyone on board.

Personality: The mission. Anything other than that doesn't matter. He however is good with lies and as such puts on a friendly mask for the benefit of others. In reality though, if he is contacted by the right people on earth and is told that it's his mission to kill an on board member. No matter how close they grow together he will carry out the mission without fail, and without regret.

Trivia:
Sniper: Cody's primary weapon of choice is any sniper rifle, but due ot the nature of the mission that probably won't be involved much.

Covert: Due to his training and experience sneaking around and gathering intel is something that he is extremely good at. Also it will also be noted that interrogation does not seem to work on him since he can put his mind in a different head space so that he can bear the pain.

Poker Faces: He can be whoever he is ordered to be. Whether it's a drug lord, a highly religious priest, or a servant. Nothing is off limits to him when it comes to a mask.

[Sep]

That is a lot in little time.

18- Brings you up to 2008. At least 6 months basic training, then if you are immediately enrolled in sniper training that is 24 months. You need to fit officer training on after that which can be another... twelve I believe. SO that is 42 months of training which is 3 years and a bit which brings you up to 21. You then have 3 years to make 18 HVT kills as I doubt it is possible within a course of 3 months. Depending on high up, do you mean like minor warlords or major warlords? As a lot of them are hard to find. Hell 18 kills in a short amount of time like that is impressive for snipers now adays.

I'll see if Echo has any other issues for you to address.

[Ciphra]

For the record he was 17 going into basic lol. Though I will admit I overlooked the time for those 18 HVT's. I'll make some adjustments real fast.

-Edit- Alright made some changes for the timeline.

[Sundered Echo]

Looks alright to me.

[Sundered Echo]

Hmmm, why exactly is he assigned to look for traitors?

Being a Sniper is not really something that will make him automatically good at that.

[Ellri]

We're wondering about this bit:

also has been assigned to watch for any signs of traitors.

We can't see any training for this in the history... So why would the CIA (or similar) assign him to do so without training him for it?

its natural for anyone to be expected to be wary of traitors, but you don't assign anyone specifically to do just that without giving them training in identifying such. Higher-ups may be not-too-smart at times, but they know their stuff in this area.

[Ciphra]

Guess I was a bit discreet in the biography. Basically he had to infiltrate for some of his ops and they had to send someone that would appear to have a good reason to be on the ship other than that. His combat record gave him that ability to mask his mission, and since only the IOA rep and Commander (Maye a couple others) Would have access to his records (And that's only if they were American). Basically he's a spy in the way that his true motives aren't known, but he's there to sniff out and deal with other spies if possible. Like you noted though he has no specific training in this field so the way he does this job goes back to his official assignment of protecting the crew.

-Edit- And If I start making no sense I'm doing a lot at once so I apologize!

[Sep]

Ciphra said
For the record he was 17 going into basic lol. Though I will admit I overlooked the time for those 18 HVT's. I'll make some adjustments real fast.-Edit- Alright made some changes for the timeline.

In America you must be 18 years of age to enlist.

Ciphra said
Guess I was a bit discreet in the biography. Basically he had to infiltrate for some of his ops and they had to send someone that would appear to have a good reason to be on the ship other than that. His combat record gave him that ability to mask his mission, and since only the IOA rep and Commander (Maye a couple others) Would have access to his records (And that's only if they were American). Basically he's a spy in the way that his true motives aren't known, but he's there to sniff out and deal with other spies if possible. Like you noted though he has no specific training in this field so the way he does this job goes back to his official assignment of protecting the crew.-Edit- And If I start making no sense I'm doing a lot at once so I apologize!

Even if not American they will have access, they have one of the highest levels of security clearance especially Mr.IOA who is american anyway.

[Ciphra]

With parent signature you can enlist at 17 and his dad signed to get rid of him, hence their fighting. As for the records sorry I meant full access. His CIA missions would not be viewable by foreign eyes, considering some of the missions could possibly be involving their country. His military record and regular records like that would be accessible though.

[Sep]

Good thing Mr.IOA has contacts and is American.

[Sep]

Also as soonnn as we sort out Prince and Echo posts up Ariadne/Idalia we can get going. I might make a science type to fill in the void of science chars but that will be easily enough done.

[GravityFlux]

Ellri said
quick question... Why would a 14-year old fight in the gulf war?Wouldn't it be more logical to have experience from more recent wars instead? Pretty sure the IOA wouldn't look at people who fought in long-ago wars before looking at those who fought in recent wars, especially not for strike teams. Or pick former child soldiers, for that matter.

WHAT.
MY GOD MY HISTORY SUCKS.
I THOUGHT I KNEW BETTER
I APOLOGIZE, WILL RECTIFY

God dammit, what was I thinking? That it was 2007?
Note to self: Don't be an idiot and speedwrite bio's

[Sep]

I don't like Bios either, but it is always good to double check anything you don't know :P

Remember if he is older please state why he is joining the program now.

[GravityFlux]

Sep said
I don't like Bios either, but it is always good to double check anything you don't know :PRemember if he is older please state why he is joining the program .

I apologize. I've edited it slightly more, and am currently seeking how to make it better.
Feedback is much appreciated.

[Ciphra]

Sep said
Good thing Mr.IOA has contacts and is American.

Very true! Gr...Now I have to endure my least favorite thing...waiting...

[Sep]

Well only a couple of people are still waiting on stuff so it shouldn't be long. Now is the time to polish up on anything you don't know (basics) the rest people will fill you in on IC.