Name: Rick Buchanan
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Skills: Leadership, driving, firearms, hand to hand combat, some knowledge in engineering.
Background: Rick was born and raised in a small settlement called Walker’s Post, it had been set up as an outpost originally for a settlement that had been abandoned years previously, it was nothing more than a few small wooden huts and a watchtower. His parents farmed a small patch of grass that surrounded the watering hole that sustained their existence. Rick grew up quickly, working on the farm with his parents and later his younger siblings. Rick always had a wanderlust and would often go exploring in the hills around his home, learning all he could about the land and its creatures.
When he was 16 a group of armed men arrived at Walker’s Post, they were heading east to an area of land where they claimed a large untapped water source lay hidden, they were moving to join up with a larger contingent of men who were on their way to claim the water source and create their own settlement. Rick begged his parents to let him go with them, so he could see more of the world and find adventure, his parents expressly forbade him to go. However, Rick let his rebellious side get the better of him and sneaked out the night that the men were leaving and caught up with them, he offered to go with them. The men, seeing much of themselves in young Rick, accepted and took him along.
They were a part of the, now infamous, Tannhauser Legion, led by General Wolfgang Tannhauser who was an eccentric military man who had assembled his own private army to install himself as a king. Leading his army into the desert, Rick with them, they toiled through endless scorching days and constant harassment by bandits and beasts alike. Men began talking of deserting or saying that General Tannhauser was insane and that there was no water source at all. Tannhauser heard the rumblings among the men and responded immediately and violently, he shot the first man he heard voicing his doubts and told the rest that any other men who doubted him would meet the same fate. A further 3 weeks of constant travel and no sign of water pushed the Tannhauser Legion to the brink of mutiny but just as things seemed to be coming to a head they found it, an oasis in the deep desert.
General Tannhauser claimed the land as his and they built a fortress and town around it which attracted new occupants from far and wide. Tannhauser Gardens was established as a utopia, canals were dug to allow the flow of water through the streets and allowed grass to grow. It was certainly a Garden of Eden on the surface however Tannhauser descended further into his madness, many of his trusted officers were purged and any dissent among the citizens of Tannhauser Gardens often disappeared. He tried to control every aspect of life in the settlement and many chafed under this, Rick Buchanan included. One night he and a few of the other soldiers who had been part of the original legion stole one of the tanks, a Sherman, and fled into the desert. Men were dispatched to stop them but they managed to escape and struck out on their own.
Rick became the group’s leader after the original leader was lost in a skirmish with desert bandits, he decided to put the tank to good use and got into the dust runner trade, starting out small he began developing a reputation as a reliable and courageous man. His crew came and went but he stuck with the tank and lived the adventurous life he had always wanted.
Equipment:
M4A3E8 Sherman tank, with radar installed. An extra MG 34 has been attached to the back to allow a tail gunner. A trailer is attached to the back of the tank in order to haul cargo, water and extra fuel tanks are attached the sides of the vehicle.
FN-Fal assault rifle.
M1911 pistol.
Telescope.
