Bios
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 3:23 pm
Well, I was hacking around on <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> Desecration</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> today (slow day at work) and ended up writing up a personnell bio of Ambush Bug. So, I thought I'd go ahead and post it, just to give ya an idea of how his commanding officers see him. I'll probably end up doing this for some of the other characters in the story as well, just for the heck of it.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> Desecration</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> is shaping up quite nicely by the way... couple of neat plot-devices got changed//cooked up, and I think they're gonna shock the daylights out of you. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Anyhoo... here be the bio!<br><br>----<br><br><br>PERSONNEL FILES<br>CLASSIFIED: EYES-ONLY, FENECIA DEFENSE COMMAND STAFF, DTM COMMAND STAFF<br><br>**********************DO NOT REPLICATE**********************<br><br><br>Mercenary Profile<br>Warnom: “Ambush Bug”<br>Real Name: Undisclosed for security reasons<br>Height: 2.13 meters<br>Weight: 224/317 kilograms (no armor/armored)<br>Eyes: Left, purple; right, cybernetic<br>Skin: Carapace--olive green<br>DOB: 3/15/3876<br>Age: 65<br><br>==============<br>Description, History, and Evaluation, compiled by <name removed><br>==============<br><br>Bug (as he is commonly known among the mercs), stands seven feet tall when fully erect, not counting his antennae. He resembles a cross between a humanoid, an ant, and a praying mantis. Like the mantis, he has four legs and an elongated body. Both pairs of legs start at the joint between his abdomen and thorax, then diverge, giving him a very wide and deep stance. The legs are similar to ant legs—they are thin and multi-jointed, with various spikes and sharp ridges running the length. His thorax is shaped somewhat like a human torso, but thinner all around. His arms are jointed like a human’s, and he has hands with opposable thumbs. On the end of each digit is a retractable talon. Sprouting from just below his wrists are backwards-pointing forearm blades.<br><br>His history prior to joining the Dragon Talon Mercenaries is not fully known. We do know that he spent a great number of years avenging the death of his birth-mother at the hands of the Blood Eagle. We suspect that he was also a for-hire assassin due to various comments he has made over the last few years, though this has yet to be proven. He is extremely close with information regarding his past and his birthplace, and even more so regarding the various cybernetic systems in his body. <br><br>Those same cybernetics are perhaps the greatest mystery surrounding this merc. All medical and engineering analysis reports that his cybernetic equipment is almost three-quarters Cybrid in design and implementation. This has been confirmed by both various ideograms stamped into some of his parts as well as radiological dating of samples. The other quarter of his artificial parts are very recent in manufacture, as little as fifteen years ago in some cases. The sheer amount of both Cybrid and non-Cybrid implants absolutely mandates the need for an extensive surgical period to implant them, so we can assume that they were emplaced when he was much younger, and likely still at home. Wherever his home is, the thought of a third race with skills enough to create warriors like him is the stuff of generals’ nightmares. Also, one wonders how his race managed to deal with the Cybrids, and when the two species clashed.<br><br>While his past is a mystery, his service is not. Ambush has served with distinction since his application to the DTM. Specifically, he has lead several important deep-strike raids to great success, as well has helped increase the hand-to-hand fighting skills of most of our mercs. Another area in which he has excelled is espionage, and currently he is part of our ‘special advisory’ group which is responsible for evaluating data sent in by our spies. <br><br>He has refused every medal, award, and promotion we have offered.<br><br>Socially, he is not the best of our ranks… but that is to be expected. Though all of our mercs are used to seeing him about, not all of them have been able to readily socialize with him. Bug is commonly described as ‘cold’ by those who interact with him. This is not helped by his artificial speech module. Capt. RedSirus is his closest friend, and has accompanied him on almost all of his missions. The two are hard to separate. One social area that Bug excels at is battlefield camaraderie. While he may be cold and impersonal while off-duty, placing him out on the battlefield changes him. The chill melts away and he becomes both fierce and protective, going to great lengths to ensure the survival of everyone near him. No mercenary yet has refused to fight at his side once this became apparent. Why he changes like this is uncertain, and no amount of prodding or psychological evaluation has been able to discern the cause.<br><br>Our only concern about him is that keeping his presence a secret is nigh impossible. Though he stays near our mercenary bases for the most part, far away from any public or prying eyes, when he goes to battle it is inevitable that he will be seen by someone. Spectre has been careful to assign him to missions where recordings are unlikely to be taken of him, and so far, we have been lucky. Incontrovertible proof of the existence of an alien race would have the BioDerms, the Empire, and most of the Tribes vying to either use or destroy him. Personally, I think this is the primary reason for his reluctance to share information about his homeworld. Ambush has been very careful to destroy any evidence of himself left behind each mission as well.<br><br>We take a risk in having him within our ranks. But we are sworn to protect each other as part of our service, and he took the oath just like every last one of us. We will not abandon him, just as he has stayed true to our cause.<br> <p><BR><img src=http://scribers.midwestmail.com/ambushbug/BugSig.jpg align=LEFT><BR>Member: DTM, XMEN<BR>Professional Tank Driver<BR>Card-carrying Base-Cracker<BR>Ugly Son-Of-A-Gun<BR><BR>Bug's Tank Bumper Sticker:<br>"If you can read this, you're already street pizza."</p><i></i>
