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Cadet Ebon Hawke fm2.htm
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Cadet
Hawke,
You
mentioned in your E-mail to me that this isn’t your ideal situation and that
you have little interest in the goals of this organisation. Allow me to clarify
your situation for just a moment, that man who ‘referred’ you to our
organization is probably the single most dangerous and ruthless Human being ever
to have walked the face of this earth. Your choices at this juncture are simple;
Us, or Him, and I believe he has already ruled out the possibility of a position
within the black road. Something you should know about Esteban kiddo, what he
can’t control or chooses not to control, he destroys. I think I’ve said
enough.
If you
feel you need to discuss this some more, you know where my office is, but
we’re going to be turning you loose on the world soon so I suggest you deal
with it. That being said, I must admit I’m quite glad Cortez did send you our
way, we can certainly use someone of your talent in the rangers, and I think you
can make a real contribution, if you’re strong enough.
Besides,
we’re offering you a pretty sweet deal. Your ‘colourful’ past disappears,
this has already been cleared with several state officials who have reason to
dislike you. We give you a paying job, and a damn fine paying job if you do it
right. Not only that but we’re giving you a house , land, and a position of
authority, so don’t give us that “I didn’t want this” crap. I’ve been
where you are, I “didn’t want it” either, but someone didn’t take NO for
an answer, it sucks, live with it and then make em pay later. Anyhow neither of
us have any say in the matter, State wants you off the streets after their new
deal with the road, they aren’t looking after their guttersnipes like they
used to.
Your
thoughts for the day
-250 RC per week. That’s 400 old state dollars.
-Land. YOUR land.
-Position of authority.
-Not winding up a footnote in “The bloody rise of Esteban Cortez”
-A chance to BE SOMEBODY damn it!
I’ve
been more aggressive than I meant, but I can’t stand to see a talented Kid
waste themselves on small time theft and street scrounging, you’re better than
that. Or rather you might be.
Be All
You Can Be?
Why not?
CADET
HAWKE, BRIEFING.
SUBJECT:YOUR
PARTNERS.
Kid,
Here’s
the heads up on your new partners, read it carefully, and remember you have to
live and work with these people, so try and make it work.
CADET
PETRA
We
don’t know much about P, we rescued her from a bandit raid in the deep wastes
not a month back. Her ways may seem a bit odd to a city kid like yourself, but
they’ll be invaluable when you wind up on waste assignment. She’s quite the
physical specimen, with some impressive flexibility and a low end Chi
manipulation capacity. She carries the least ‘baggage’ of all of you, but it
remains to be seen how badly the destruction of her convoy by bandits has
affected her.
Species:
Mutant human
Distinguishing
features: Vaguely feline physiology
CADET
PAUL
Paul’s
an interesting character. Atlantean as you’ll probably already know, what you
may not know is that Paul is not a gene boosted Atlantean, he’s the real deal.
About 4 of them survived the incident in stasis pods, we were really worried
they might cause trouble, but it turns out that they were children who had been
deep frozen a while back. Stasis leakage caused them to age slightly, which
added up, so Paul has the physical appearance of a 20 year old, in reality
he’s only been up and about for 5 years.
Incredibly
intelligent nonetheless, however, and this is a big however, he is a committed
pacifist. This does not mean that he won’t fight, it does mean he will be
reluctant to fight, and he will not kill. His knowledge skills are definitely
superior though, and he has potential for off the map TK, so you might get some
pointers off him. As an original atlantean, he possesses a small amount of
telepathic skill, but its stunted due to deep freeze.
CADET
ROCKY
Full
name Rocheron Sylmian Induras Nakimo the 6th. Rocky has refused to
comment on its Gender, but It couldn’t be much more Xidus if it tried. Rocky
is a bit problematic for the corps, as far as the Shadowstalkers go it’s a
walking diplomatic disaster, fortunately we don’t have much diplomatic banter
with them these days. Rocheron is a genocidal killer, do you know what one of
them is? It’s a person who destroys beyond recovery an entire genus or
species. Rocky exterminated an entire 25,000 strong tribe (and distinct genus)
of mutants because “they served the forces of evil”. Don’t let that put
you off, Rocky’s a great kid, honourable, dedicated and probably the most
experienced fighter of you all.
Do keep
it in check though, we don’t want repeat incidents. That could be bad.
