Name: Cohen "Whirl" Brayden (Soldier Corporal, 7th Special Operations Squad, Kukure Federation Military)
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Equipment:
KM-44 P Assault Rifle (A modified version of the standard assault rifle used by the Special Operations Squads, it's designed to be able to function in the widest number of world possible, even those that are non-conducive to firearm use. It tends not to work as well in these worlds.)
Medium Rifle Ammunition (5x35)
Combat Blade (Heavy knife with a slight bend two thirds up the blade. Razor sharp and something no Kukure would be without, it's a cultural thing, besides being lethal as heck if the current location doesn't allow the assault rifle to work)
SOS uniform (with general shadow camouflage, in some world's it has light bending affects to reduce visibility)
Steel Chain Dog Tags Dragon ClawDamaged Combat Blade(The blade is bent and nicked, bloodstained and tired. It's engraved with the name and serial number of Whirl's cousin Robert, who was lost 10 years ago. It was found during the Liberation War and later given to Whirl)
Basic Equipment(A pistol belt with various objects, some twine, a wire saw, 2x1qt canteens, that sort of thing. There's also an IR transmitter)
The Kukure Federation actively trades and exploits a few alternate worlds, while doing their very best to make sure that no one gets the ability to bring armies into their own. They're not exactly evil about it, but they've got a policy leaning towards non-intervention in other worlds' business, after the events of the Liberation War. Still, the job of world jumping is important to find new sources of trade and keep others from getting the means to world jump themselves is important. Initial scouting of worlds is the responsibility of the elite Special Operation Squads. World jumping isn't a perfectly precise science though, and there's a small chance that jumping troops end up in a Plane other than the one they intended to go to. Recovery of these troops is attempted, but it's very possible that tracing their destination leads no-where, if the plane shifts quickly. SOS troops are elite troops, trained to hold out either alone when isolated, or to complete surveys of a world as a squad. They are roughly equal to a US SEAL team in training, but with slightly better equipment, although they don't carry equipment optimized for any one world on their surveys (instead, their payload is designed to as well as possible in as many places as possible).
Kukure society puts a fair bit of emphasis on honor, and duels do occur, although they are generally rare (especially amongst regular military troops). The combat blade is a major personal item for every soldier, very few will be willingly removed from their blade. Unsurprisingly, the average Kukure is a very good knife fighter, and their elite military troops are little different.
Besides that, Whirl has the skill-set of a commando, as well as some knowledge about a lot of different styles of technology, although he's no expert at it. The soldier has a very deeply rooted dislike of reptiles, especially humanoid ones.
Description:
Cohen stands about 5'7", with another inch or so between his sandy boots and helmet (it's a fully armored helmet that has a removable faceplate, visor, and gas mask. Like many veterans, Cohen tends to keep all the accessories off unless he needs them, valuing peripheral vision over protection and gadgetry. It does have a spotlight on it). His hair is the same color as his boots and of a spike-able length, although helmet use isn't conducive to spikes. Body type roughly that of a runner, and he's vaguely British in looks.
Overall, Cohen regards other cultures with suspicion and curiosity. He's trained to be ever polite, but mostly to study whomever he's interacting with. A soldier first and foremost, a comrade in arms who earns his respect will have a good friend. He's got a very strong aversion to dragons especially, and anything dragon like.
Biography:
Like most of his family, Cohen ended up in the KFMF. He'd always greatly admired his elder cousin Robert (10 years his senior), the proud commando of 7th SOS. A year before Cohen was old enough to join, Robert went LIT (lost in transit). His location was unknown, but this made Cohen dead set on getting into the SOS. Like all soldiers, he started as a basic marine, before moving up to the elite soldier class (while marines guard the ships, it's a very rare occasion that a KFN vessel is ever boarded, while soldiers are the preferred troops for offensive actions, be they ship or land based SOS>Soldier>Marine in the KFDF). He'd never served in a hostile action, having been assigned to the Homefleet (which guards Terra and the other core worlds). He got lots of training there and showed himself to be a top caliber soldier.
Cohen got his chance be moved to SOS with the advent of the Liberation War, the first major conflict in a generation (there'd been battles against pirates, the occasional crazy revolt on a outworld, but nothing major and obviously, SOS teams got shot at every other week), with the 1st fleet being used.
The Liberation War started with the 7th SOS doing a standard scope of a new world. They found a pretty fucked up world. No humans anywhere, just anthropomorphic creatures. The sort of thing you'd find in a weird story. There were dragon-people too. Dragon people who practiced slavery. And cannibalism. And all sorts of nasty things against sentient creatures.
The 7th, being a nine man squad (with weaponry that's not optimized for the world) all by their lonesome in a strange world, and witnessing slaves being tortured, killed, and worse did about what you would expect from the super-disciplined, highly elite troops they were. They started to fuck shit up.
The standard first contact for a world is gate in, 24 hour pause, gate to let the SOS out. By the time the 24 hour period was up, the whole squad was out of ammo and had about 100 freed slaves. This is to go with about 150 dead dragons and assorted guards.
The group exited through the portal and a fair number of hostiles came through as it closed, to be cut down by machine gun fire once they were through (once they were through the portal, they were in the Kukure's plane, with nice high-level technology working very well). However, the 7th left five of their own on the "Animal world." Three were confirmed as dead, but two had been captured.
Kukure don't like leaving men behind (the amount of effort that goes into finding those lost in transit is immense). So, negotiations began between the Kukure Federation and the Draconic Empire. It went south fast, with the bodies not being recovered and the 1st, 8th, 26th, and 31st going in with the remnants of the 7th going in to get the prisoners.
It became a moral imperative for the people of Kukure to liberate the planet, not that the military objected much (the last real war was barely within living memory). The 1st fleet was moved in, pride of the KFN, the Expeditionary Fleet. Centered on the Son class Dreadnaught Wayward Son and the Perseid class RFG, the entire fleet was equipped with gating drives.
Considering that the Animal world didn't especially like having anything more technologically advanced than steel with a touch of magic, the high orbit ships had some trouble moving. However, it's a rare world indeed where force doesn't equal mass time acceleration; the RFG was designed to drop items of mass from orbit. Meanwhile, the Wayward Son landed
((Still working on it, heck if Whirl doesn't have a buncha back-story already.
Almost done now! Not really, but you know.))
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