X-Com: The Darkest Hour

[Vudukudu]

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Name: Matthew Turner


Nickname / Call-sign: Central


Age: 40


Nationality: American


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Height: 6'1


Weight: 190


Role: Central Command


Personality: Matthew is a particularly callous, but undeniably successful leader. While he does value the lives of his men, he is more than capable of making the tougher calls and sending soldiers to their deaths. He is a fairly no nonsense type of guy, but has occasionally been known to show his especially dry humor. He's intensely dedicated to his job, and will stop at nothing to get it done, which is one among many reasons for his selection as X-Com Commander.


Biography: Matthew grew up in an affluent suburb in Connecticut. By the time he graduated from high school, he still hadn't made a decision in regards to his life plan, and settled on the military as a possibility. His parents, unwilling to send their boy off to be a grunt in some foreign country, sent him to West Point where he graduated a few years later. He's served in the Middle East recently, and is considered one of the more successful commanders to have worked in the region.

 

[Th3Tru3Cr33p3r]

Name: Gustav Krieger


Nickname / Call-Sign: Tombstone


Age: 28


Nationality: German


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Height: 6'2"


Weight: 200 lbs


Role: Assault/CQC


Personality: While Gustav is professional when doing his job, he's the man to buy the first round of drinks after a successful mission. He usually makes for good company when off the job and can usually be found tossing back a cold one with various comrades. Very loyal to his squad, he is the kind of man to step in the line of fire to save a friend.


Biography: Gustav was born and raised in Berlin. He got good marks in school and after he completed secondary school, he faced a difficult decision. He could take his education further at a university of he could join the military. He chose the latter option and enlisted in the German army. After excelling in training, he opted to begin the training and selection process for the KSK. The training was incredibly rigorous but he pulled through.


His squad of the KSK was contacted on several occasions to help deal with HVTs in the middle east. They maintained a 100% operational success rate across these missions. After a particularly bloody mission, he was contacted by the Xcom initiative and placed on their roster. He continued normal operations with the KSK for another several months before the events in South Africa. He was pulled from his squad and placed on active duty under Xcom command.

 

[Der Kojote]

Name: Ezekiel “Zeke” Zaken


Nickname / Call-signeadbolt


Age: 24


Nationality: Israeli


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Height 5’11”


Weight: 180 lbs.


Role: Sniper


Personality: Ezekiel has two distinct sides to his personality, around the barracks around his fellow soldiers he’ll be the guy with the smile on his face, always trying to find the silver lining to any situation. He doesn’t seem capable of panicking, nor being upset.


On the field, or in front of command though, the happy go lucky guy most people know from the barracks disappears. He assumes a much more dedicated and no-nonsense personality. He is a solid extension of command’s will. He’s a sniper; his job is to take targets out… it is that simple. When shooting over long range, one does not have a chance to make mistakes. There is only you and the target…you missing the shot means failure of the mission, you dying, or your allies dying.


Biography: Zeke has lived in Israel for as long as he can remember. Life was normal as it could get, he grew up in Tel Aviv, went through education like anyone would do, and like everyone in Israel, was conscripted for mandatory service at age 18. That is when life got interesting… He scored well on his marksmanship tests. Really well… He was selected to be trained as a sniper. He’s done covering fire, spotting, taking out of priority targets. The most active front he’s served on were the operations on the Gaza Strip…he’s not too keen on talking about that time…after leaving the military and being placed in the reserves, he attended college for a brief stint, trying to pursue his goal of becoming a mechanical engineer… though he fell back into the military after two years, again picking up his skills for a sniper. He was recruited for “special assignment” after the successfully covered up Johannesburg incident, he figured it was something special...Never thought it would be fighting aliens...

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Name:Kaila Van Der Merer


Nickname / Call-sign:The Shrink


Age:29


Nationality:South African


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Rolesionics/support, Scientist


Personality:Friendly and caring but straight laced and professional becoming snarky with troops that are unprofessional to her. At times though she can be erratic speaking silently to herself about nonsensical things and come of cold to interrupt her at that state.


Biography:A psychiatrist by trade she was brought in to xcom by a connection to maintain the troopers mental fitness and help research psionics amongst humans and aliens. She helped develop psionic testing to see whether a soldier had the "Gift" and was found out she had it as well. Due to there being fewer psionic then called for by the commander she pressed into service and trained to use her powers and general soldiering. She began alternating her role as scientist and soldiers as a need required. However as her psionics developed so she become more erratic claiming to hear things and in one or two operation being able to understand the aliens. However though there was some concern on her mental health she had done nothing to make her a liability(yet) so was kept on duty, though under watchful eye.

 

[Cokes]

Name: Sergei Krepky


Call-sign: ?????/Nesti/Bear


Age: 34


Nationality: Russian


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Role: Gunner


Personality: Sergei is a simple man, he enjoys simple pleasures. Working outdoors, drinking with family and friends, carrying his PKP to protect his brothers in battle. Prone to bouts of swearing in Russian and inappropriately-timed humor. High conscientiousness, average extraversion, high agreeableness, low openness to experience, average neuroticism.


Biography: Sergei came from a family of rural farmers. An uncle who worked for an unspecified branch of the Soviet government taught him at least marginal English. During his conscription in to the Russian Ground Forces, Sergei was a designated machine gunner, carrying his squad's RPK or PKP. When his conscription ended, Sergei signed a contract and remained in service, seeing combat in the Second Chechen War, the Five-Day War, and various incidents along the Chechen border. Most recently he was withdrawn from action in Crimea to be deployed to X-COM. Sergei fears no man or beast, Sergei will not fear filthy prisheltzi invaders. Even if Sergei must use inferior NATO weaponry.