Post by Rift on Aug 18, 2013 6:18:40 GMT
Name: Richard Traynor also known as Rift
Designation: Sargent
Species: Terran (Human)
Occupation: Marine/Pilot free lance mercenary
Psi Index Rating: 3.8
Age: 28
Skin: White
Eyes: Dark green
Hair: Dark brown
Body type: Medium, athletic. He is naturally slim and more suited for endurance but has gone through lots of training as well as combat that has given him both burst strength as well and incredible endurance.
Height: 6 ft. 0 in.
Weight: 180 lb.
Physical description: Rift is a little on the tall side with a strong but not overly large build. He keeps his hair short often a buzz cut. He has a horizontal scar under his left eye, along the cheek bone.
Skills: Has a basic understanding of how most Terran vehicles work, he can get any vehicle moving, to escape from a bad situation and can at least make them fire, though with very questionable accuracy but is an ace Viking pilot both in the air and in the walker form, though he is better in the walker form.
He is also quite skilled at repairing his Viking, though of course any major damage can’t be repaired in the field without an SCV.
Through experience and training Rift has also become quite skilled using camouflage and the general art of physical stealth, though he has never used a cloaking devise.
Knowledge of how to operate under combat conditions for any environment, this includes things such as repelling, mountain climbing, amphibious assaults and more.
Excels at hand to hand combat particularly with his combat knife. It is only with his combat knife that he knows how to quietly assassinate someone. Most of the time though he prefers a more up front approach.
Psychic Abilities: Rift has a very strong mental resistance to psychic assaults on his mind, as well as has learned to use what psychic powers he has to interfere with psychic assaults on his mind as well. This makes him very hard to mind control or to implant thoughts into. Though it is not easy he is still more susceptible to mind reading and influence.
Rift is also aware of others around him with psionic powers, though he can only tell there general psionic power level as well as the general direction they are in if they are nearby and can only tell them out of a crowed if he is face to face with them.
Weapons: C-20A gauss rifle, configured to be an assault rifle with a fixed bayonet on the barrel as his primary weapon or a AGR 14 with a fixed bayonet on the barrel, P500 Side Arm, Combat knife and standard explosives (Similar to C4).
Vehicle: Viking, with Pobos class weapon systems, increasing the effective range of his gatling canons and lanzer torpedoes.
Technology: Standard Scope, Hostile Environment Suit and his CMC-400 suit, with the built in stem pack, though he dislikes using the stem packs.
Likes: Hand to hand combat training, swimming, fishing, which he on average has little luck with and sleeping, which he often doesn’t get enough of.
Dislikes: Country music and anyone who does not value the lives of their soldiers or their own life.
Brief bio and personality: Richard is a brawler; he loves a good fight and is not afraid to start a fight, though he won’t pull a weapon on someone unless they do first. He isn’t shy about talking to people and is quite blunt, though most of the time he does avoid being around others, unless it’s to pick a fist fight or for work.
Richard loves to fight and though he is used to death and knows it is a part of battle, he still doesn’t like to kill be around death. It comes with the job, though so he deals with it but also as the larger the battle, the more people dieing, the less Richard expresses, the more he shuts it out and stops enjoying the fight and purely focusses on the battle and what must be done.
Richard goes by Rift, which he even signs on his contracts, for being a freelance mercenary. He is an X marine and Viking pilot for the dominion. He is typically wearing an environmental suit, since it gives him some armor, yet is still slim enough for him to get in his Viking unlike his CMC-400 armor, though of course if he is expecting to only be able to act as infantry he wears his CMC-400 armor.
Bio: Richard had a rather normal start to life; he was the son of a normal middle class family. He was for the most part a typical young boy, rough, mischievous, received a normal education and loved to run around outside. The only thing that was a little different about him was that he loved to fight, though he didn’t take it too far and would even sometimes help his opponent after the fight, though if heavily outnumbered he would quickly escape and slip out of sight and hide. He was so good at slipping away and hiding though that people said he it was like he would slip through a rift. Eventually this is how he gained the nick name Rift, which still uses to this day.
As he got older though the fights got worse, just do to the fact that he and his opponents were getting stronger. One day though Richard’s opponent, who was tired of losing to Richard in fights, pulled a gun on him and Richard killed him without hesitation or remorse. To him it was natural but for those around him he had already been a trouble maker and most now saw him as a killer. He was not convicted of murder, it was determined to be self-defense but he might as well of have been. Richard hadn’t even graduated from high school when this happened, he was in his senior, and before the end of the year another student pulled a gun on him, looking to get a reputation. Richard was shot twice, the first bullet grazed his face, going all the way to the bone, and the second was shot into his shoulder at point blank range. The shot to his shoulder stopped Richard but he managed the knock the kid over and cracked the kid’s skull open before he could shoot Richard again. Once again Richard was not convicted of murder and had no qualms about killing the other kid.
Rift graduated while in the hospital and had already signed up for the military so that the moment he was released from the hospital he would head to basic training. Rift considered there to be nothing left for him in his home town, so he left and didn’t look back. To him the military was a way for him to fight without persecution as well as a way for him to start fresh in a new place. He quickly found out though that the fighting he would be doing was not what he was looking for at the time.
During Richard’s training he excelled and was taught to properly use a gun. He quickly learned to become quite a good shot and was moved to and advanced training program, nothing too special but was considered advanced infantry. He was taught to kill as well, though he had already had no problems with this. His trainer though had also taught him and the rest of the recruits that it was a soldier’s job not to kill on command but to protect civilians as well as each other. It was during this training the Richard became very loyal to the dominion.
Rift knew that there was a difference between a fight and a war but he quickly found out how big of a difference it was. Richard’s first battle was against the zerg, he fought just like he had been trained to, just like all those around him, yet only a hand full of the hundreds of marines lived, the mission failed, the zerg over ran them and the civilian where slaughtered, before even a fourth of them were evacuated. Rift survived, though he wasn’t sure why he had lived and made it out when so many around him did not. He had followed his orders, followed his training, yet the mission failed and almost everyone around him died.
Though for a few days after his first battle his thoughts messed with him, Rift quickly got a hold of himself. There was no point to dwelling on what had happened he would keep moving and he wouldn’t let the harshness’ of battle keep him from enjoying himself. He trained more, learned how to use all of the standard terran infantry weapons. He found though that he thoroughly enjoyed using his combat knife, as well as that he liked to have a heavier hit behind each shot he fired rather than rapid fire, so he started carrying AGR 14s and A20s into battle rather than the standard C14. Many of his superior officers didn’t like this but since most of the time Rift was stationed in areas that were fighting the zerg, his commanders had bigger concerns. There were several battles though where Rift did fight against other terran and he was even in one battle against the protoss. Though he caused a ruckus with other marines from time to time and didn’t use the standard C14 like instructed, he was put up with do to his battle prowess and battle experience as well as. When he was offered the chance to join the Viking pilot program he jumped on it, he had seen why the zerg were such a fierce enemy, they were always changing, so he would change too. He wasn’t going to stand still until his luck ran out and he died.
Rift quickly learned to pilot the Viking, as he took a liking to the aggressive nature of the vehicle, as well as its versatility. At first though he only excelled in the walker form, since he was used to being on the ground but he learned fast to pilot, since most of his missions as a Viking pilot were anti-air and it was learn or die. Once Rift got used to piloting rather than just being infantry he enjoyed it and even started to become quite skilled but he always loved more close quarters fighting and still excelled in the walker form of the Viking more than the flight form.
During the first part of the second great war Richard’ loyalty to the dominion quickly started to fade. He knew that sometime sacrifices had to be made in order to protect the many, even having shot through civilians himself, in order to complete a mission but it wasn’t under order, the order was if necessary and he thought it necessary but when he heard the Dominion had given orders to kill civilians, he lost his loyalty to the Dominion. Thankfully Richard’s contract with the Dominion was just about over, so he was able to leave the Dominion, without becoming a trader. He counts himself lucky also that he was never given the order to outright kill a civilian.
Since Richard left the Dominion he became a freelance mercenary. He has mostly taken job to help protect fringe worlds from zerg attacks, these jobs on average don’t pay very well and are very dangerous and though Richard is a mercenary he still considers himself a soldier, just a soldier for hire, so he still considers it his job to protect civilians, which is why he takes those contracts. He also likes the tough fight, though often many die around him so he always takes the battles seriously.
Richard is also often mistaken for a ghost, when he is acting as infantry or just walking around, since he wears environmental armor and carries/uses the AGR 14 or C-20 rifle. From time to time this has caused him problems but as of yet nothing major.
Do to the low paying jobs that he does get and that since he doesn’t work for a group and is a solo freelance mercenary, he doesn’t find work too quickly and is always short on money. He often has trouble paying for ammunition, fuel and sometimes even food but he doesn’t regret it and enjoys his life.
Designation: Sargent
Species: Terran (Human)
Occupation: Marine/Pilot free lance mercenary
Psi Index Rating: 3.8
Age: 28
Skin: White
Eyes: Dark green
Hair: Dark brown
Body type: Medium, athletic. He is naturally slim and more suited for endurance but has gone through lots of training as well as combat that has given him both burst strength as well and incredible endurance.
Height: 6 ft. 0 in.
Weight: 180 lb.
Physical description: Rift is a little on the tall side with a strong but not overly large build. He keeps his hair short often a buzz cut. He has a horizontal scar under his left eye, along the cheek bone.
Skills: Has a basic understanding of how most Terran vehicles work, he can get any vehicle moving, to escape from a bad situation and can at least make them fire, though with very questionable accuracy but is an ace Viking pilot both in the air and in the walker form, though he is better in the walker form.
He is also quite skilled at repairing his Viking, though of course any major damage can’t be repaired in the field without an SCV.
Through experience and training Rift has also become quite skilled using camouflage and the general art of physical stealth, though he has never used a cloaking devise.
Knowledge of how to operate under combat conditions for any environment, this includes things such as repelling, mountain climbing, amphibious assaults and more.
Excels at hand to hand combat particularly with his combat knife. It is only with his combat knife that he knows how to quietly assassinate someone. Most of the time though he prefers a more up front approach.
Psychic Abilities: Rift has a very strong mental resistance to psychic assaults on his mind, as well as has learned to use what psychic powers he has to interfere with psychic assaults on his mind as well. This makes him very hard to mind control or to implant thoughts into. Though it is not easy he is still more susceptible to mind reading and influence.
Rift is also aware of others around him with psionic powers, though he can only tell there general psionic power level as well as the general direction they are in if they are nearby and can only tell them out of a crowed if he is face to face with them.
Weapons: C-20A gauss rifle, configured to be an assault rifle with a fixed bayonet on the barrel as his primary weapon or a AGR 14 with a fixed bayonet on the barrel, P500 Side Arm, Combat knife and standard explosives (Similar to C4).
Vehicle: Viking, with Pobos class weapon systems, increasing the effective range of his gatling canons and lanzer torpedoes.
Technology: Standard Scope, Hostile Environment Suit and his CMC-400 suit, with the built in stem pack, though he dislikes using the stem packs.
Likes: Hand to hand combat training, swimming, fishing, which he on average has little luck with and sleeping, which he often doesn’t get enough of.
Dislikes: Country music and anyone who does not value the lives of their soldiers or their own life.
Brief bio and personality: Richard is a brawler; he loves a good fight and is not afraid to start a fight, though he won’t pull a weapon on someone unless they do first. He isn’t shy about talking to people and is quite blunt, though most of the time he does avoid being around others, unless it’s to pick a fist fight or for work.
Richard loves to fight and though he is used to death and knows it is a part of battle, he still doesn’t like to kill be around death. It comes with the job, though so he deals with it but also as the larger the battle, the more people dieing, the less Richard expresses, the more he shuts it out and stops enjoying the fight and purely focusses on the battle and what must be done.
Richard goes by Rift, which he even signs on his contracts, for being a freelance mercenary. He is an X marine and Viking pilot for the dominion. He is typically wearing an environmental suit, since it gives him some armor, yet is still slim enough for him to get in his Viking unlike his CMC-400 armor, though of course if he is expecting to only be able to act as infantry he wears his CMC-400 armor.
Bio: Richard had a rather normal start to life; he was the son of a normal middle class family. He was for the most part a typical young boy, rough, mischievous, received a normal education and loved to run around outside. The only thing that was a little different about him was that he loved to fight, though he didn’t take it too far and would even sometimes help his opponent after the fight, though if heavily outnumbered he would quickly escape and slip out of sight and hide. He was so good at slipping away and hiding though that people said he it was like he would slip through a rift. Eventually this is how he gained the nick name Rift, which still uses to this day.
As he got older though the fights got worse, just do to the fact that he and his opponents were getting stronger. One day though Richard’s opponent, who was tired of losing to Richard in fights, pulled a gun on him and Richard killed him without hesitation or remorse. To him it was natural but for those around him he had already been a trouble maker and most now saw him as a killer. He was not convicted of murder, it was determined to be self-defense but he might as well of have been. Richard hadn’t even graduated from high school when this happened, he was in his senior, and before the end of the year another student pulled a gun on him, looking to get a reputation. Richard was shot twice, the first bullet grazed his face, going all the way to the bone, and the second was shot into his shoulder at point blank range. The shot to his shoulder stopped Richard but he managed the knock the kid over and cracked the kid’s skull open before he could shoot Richard again. Once again Richard was not convicted of murder and had no qualms about killing the other kid.
Rift graduated while in the hospital and had already signed up for the military so that the moment he was released from the hospital he would head to basic training. Rift considered there to be nothing left for him in his home town, so he left and didn’t look back. To him the military was a way for him to fight without persecution as well as a way for him to start fresh in a new place. He quickly found out though that the fighting he would be doing was not what he was looking for at the time.
During Richard’s training he excelled and was taught to properly use a gun. He quickly learned to become quite a good shot and was moved to and advanced training program, nothing too special but was considered advanced infantry. He was taught to kill as well, though he had already had no problems with this. His trainer though had also taught him and the rest of the recruits that it was a soldier’s job not to kill on command but to protect civilians as well as each other. It was during this training the Richard became very loyal to the dominion.
Rift knew that there was a difference between a fight and a war but he quickly found out how big of a difference it was. Richard’s first battle was against the zerg, he fought just like he had been trained to, just like all those around him, yet only a hand full of the hundreds of marines lived, the mission failed, the zerg over ran them and the civilian where slaughtered, before even a fourth of them were evacuated. Rift survived, though he wasn’t sure why he had lived and made it out when so many around him did not. He had followed his orders, followed his training, yet the mission failed and almost everyone around him died.
Though for a few days after his first battle his thoughts messed with him, Rift quickly got a hold of himself. There was no point to dwelling on what had happened he would keep moving and he wouldn’t let the harshness’ of battle keep him from enjoying himself. He trained more, learned how to use all of the standard terran infantry weapons. He found though that he thoroughly enjoyed using his combat knife, as well as that he liked to have a heavier hit behind each shot he fired rather than rapid fire, so he started carrying AGR 14s and A20s into battle rather than the standard C14. Many of his superior officers didn’t like this but since most of the time Rift was stationed in areas that were fighting the zerg, his commanders had bigger concerns. There were several battles though where Rift did fight against other terran and he was even in one battle against the protoss. Though he caused a ruckus with other marines from time to time and didn’t use the standard C14 like instructed, he was put up with do to his battle prowess and battle experience as well as. When he was offered the chance to join the Viking pilot program he jumped on it, he had seen why the zerg were such a fierce enemy, they were always changing, so he would change too. He wasn’t going to stand still until his luck ran out and he died.
Rift quickly learned to pilot the Viking, as he took a liking to the aggressive nature of the vehicle, as well as its versatility. At first though he only excelled in the walker form, since he was used to being on the ground but he learned fast to pilot, since most of his missions as a Viking pilot were anti-air and it was learn or die. Once Rift got used to piloting rather than just being infantry he enjoyed it and even started to become quite skilled but he always loved more close quarters fighting and still excelled in the walker form of the Viking more than the flight form.
During the first part of the second great war Richard’ loyalty to the dominion quickly started to fade. He knew that sometime sacrifices had to be made in order to protect the many, even having shot through civilians himself, in order to complete a mission but it wasn’t under order, the order was if necessary and he thought it necessary but when he heard the Dominion had given orders to kill civilians, he lost his loyalty to the Dominion. Thankfully Richard’s contract with the Dominion was just about over, so he was able to leave the Dominion, without becoming a trader. He counts himself lucky also that he was never given the order to outright kill a civilian.
Since Richard left the Dominion he became a freelance mercenary. He has mostly taken job to help protect fringe worlds from zerg attacks, these jobs on average don’t pay very well and are very dangerous and though Richard is a mercenary he still considers himself a soldier, just a soldier for hire, so he still considers it his job to protect civilians, which is why he takes those contracts. He also likes the tough fight, though often many die around him so he always takes the battles seriously.
Richard is also often mistaken for a ghost, when he is acting as infantry or just walking around, since he wears environmental armor and carries/uses the AGR 14 or C-20 rifle. From time to time this has caused him problems but as of yet nothing major.
Do to the low paying jobs that he does get and that since he doesn’t work for a group and is a solo freelance mercenary, he doesn’t find work too quickly and is always short on money. He often has trouble paying for ammunition, fuel and sometimes even food but he doesn’t regret it and enjoys his life.