<div class="floatright">(http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201403/43ad45506d86bb4bce2a2f6c3501a6ed.jpg)</div><strong>Player ID:</strong>Blackstone<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Basics</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Lieutenant Geoffrey Barnes<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Uriel<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Scotland<br/><strong>Specialty:</strong>Sniper<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Lieutenant in British Special Air Service, Rank 4 Operative in X-Com<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Appearance</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'0"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>165 lbs<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>As picture<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>As above<br/><strong>Build:</strong>Lean muscular build like a Olympic swimmer with broad shoulders<br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong>SAS tattoo on left arm, scar tissue about left shoulder and back, like a healed over burn.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Cold and professional, even more so than one might associate with a British Officer when on mission.   He has a wry sense of humor and a way of getting others to talk to him when not on mission.  There is a bit of darkness and pain inside him.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Geoffry is the heir to a minor British barony and a noble line that extends all the way back to the time of Queen Elizabeth the First reign's, his father one of Lord Francis Drake's privateer captains that fought off the Spanish Armada.   That and further acts in service to the crown earned him his noble title.   Like many nobles following in tradition, Geoffrey enrolled in Sandhurst, and it was during his term there that he was earmarked as a man to be recruited into the SAS.   He passed all of his training and such was given his chance, and for the next four years off an on served in the war on terrorism in all corners of the world.<br/><br/>It was one of these missions that his unit came up against something that was the impossible, and that hammered home that the Earth was not alone in the world.   Geoff's units was among the best, and even so they lost three men that mission against the aliens.   They did manage to secure the alien craft and right then was recruited into what would become Project: X-COM.   For the next year Geoff served on team Alpha till he was wounded by a Sectoid plasma pistol.    That would kept Geoff in the infirmary for the next two weeks, and as such he missed the next two missions for Team Alpha,   That was why he was not present when they all died to a man.<br/><br/>It was a looking into the disappearance of a town in Newfoundland that had reports of alien activity.    It was a change in the war, and demonstrated that the Aliens were no longer working in the shadows.   The alien remains recovered from the follow on were of an alien type never seen before.   One of the team members had been...changed, she no longer entirely human from what was found investigating her remains.   All that was found was that her physiology was that of many of the humans found in the small fishing village.   The team was torn to pieces, much of their bodies not recovered.   It was still not known if they succeeded in stopping the aliens, or not.  Geoff still blames himself a bit for being careless on the mission that he was wounded, that if he had been there that perhaps his skills would have been the tipping point.<br/><br/>Geoff is now the new leader of team delta, and given a new team to break in.  Unlike before, this time it will be him in command.   It was a challenge that while he had trained for, he was not certain if he was ready for, but with the Aliens making their presence more and more difficult to hide, it was becoming clear that X-COM was humanity's best and only line of defense, and he and his team were to become the pointy end of the spear.<br/><br/>