One thing I think we should keep in mind for our missions is that we<em>are</em>operating under the banner and authority of the military, and at least two of the characters are trained, professional soldiers (dunno about Rick, after all). This would lead to several questions and observations:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Aside from the obvious PR stunts, shouldn't we mainly be operating in the kinds of missions the military would do, as opposed to law enforcement? There's a big difference, in nature as well as execution. A special forces hostage rescue tends to go down a lot differently than a SWAT one. SWAT is a life saving organization; soldiers, especially special operations, are trained killers. Take a look at several historical examples of raids to rescue hostages by military and paramilitary organizations, like the SAS and the Iranian Embassy or the GSG9, German counter-terrorists, storming the Luftansa plane in the 1970s; they don't stop to ask questions or take anyone alive. SWAT teams, no matter what they are called, try to save lives and make arrests; they are cops, after all. I think it's important for us to know where we stand, both as mandated ICly and in the kinds of stories a military based team like ours could expect to operate.</li><li>Which leads to an obvious question, when you think about it: do we have powers of arrest? Unless it's been specifically given, since we're not law enforcement officers (unless Rick's PC is), this would be good to know.</li><li>How are we organized as a team? We have our two superior officers, but who's in charge in the thick of it? Athena is a USMC Captain and has the Leadership talent, so she's an obvious choice, but I don't want to assume. Oscar is very experienced, and I don't know if he carries any kind of military rank, but he could be squad leader too. And again, I dunno anything about Rick's character.</li><li>That begs the question, besides Dr. Jane, are the other three all active military? If we're from different branches, it might be nice to have a made-up reason how that got worked out (could be as simple as there's just so few super-humans in general that the Armed Forces as a whole had to pool theirs to make the team).</li><li>If we're not all actively serving in the military, then what brings those who aren't in? Again, this can be simple, civilian contractors, but I'm just asking the question in case it inspires a more interesting answer!</li><li>Finally, the most important questions I could think of: do we have action figures of ourselves yet? How about a deal for our own cartoon?  ;D</li></ul><br/>Things the other characters may have noted about Captain Rachel "Athena" Keyes (I'm going to cut and paste her physical description at the end...they'd have<em>seen</em>her, obviously!):<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>She is very professional. Clearly, she is highly trained and very capable, regardless of her mutations. She has a very broad skillset, though that's not unusual for a special ops type, including Marine Scout-sniper training, SCUBA, and advanced hand-to-hand combat.</li><li>Despite her usual air of professionalism, she's actually a pretty laid back person with a good sense of humour. The team has probably seen hints of this, at least, though while on a mission she tends to focus on the task at hand.</li><li>It's also pretty obvious she takes her new role as a high profile poster girl for the military in general and the USMC specifically with a stoic sense of duty. Rachel loves her country and the Corps, and is happy to serve, she'd just rather it was still anonymously overseas on a battlefield, defending the USA from it's enemies.</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Description:</strong></span><br/>Rachel Keyes is a tall and beautiful woman. While she was beautiful before the experiment that made her super-human, Rachel became truly stunning afterwards, if slightly unusual. The chemicals bleached her out, her sandy blonde hair turning to a delicate shade between cornsilk and platinum and her eyes lightening, yet somehow looking even more brilliantly blue than they did before. The most shocking thing, however, is her skin, which lost all pigmentation. If she had red eyes, and if she looked at all frail, people might mistake Rachel for an albino with her stark white skin. Given her enhanced beauty, however, it all just serves to make her look more exotic. As a somewhat mixed blessing, the experiment also left Rachel without body hair. Besides the hair on her head and her eyebrows, there's not one hair<em>anywhere</em>on her body.<br/>Physically, she's near perfect now, barring specific tastes, of course. But scientifically speaking, Rachel's post-experiment body is almost completely symmetrical, something that keys into everyones sense of beauty. Rachel is tall and athletic, her body toned and lightly muscular in that way of someone who comes by their strength 'honestly', by doing, more than training. Her breasts are high and firm, and Rachel has even gone up a full cup since the experiment. Her bottom is taut and gently rounded, small but certainly not flat. Rachel's legs are gorgeous, perfectly formed and toned, seemingly longer than before as well. It look like the entire three inches of height Rachel gained from the experiment went into her fantastic legs.<br/><br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'11"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>142 lbs<br/><strong>Measurements:</strong>36C-25-34<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><br/>In the guise most people meet her in, that of the US government sponsored 'super-hero'Athena, Rachel wears the form fitting not-exactly spandex costume designed for her. Designed with ties to the USMC in mind, Rachel's costume uses the marine dress blues colours. The costume is mainly blue, save the arms, shoulder to gloves, and legs from about mid thigh, all of which are scarlet.<br/>The colour division on the top is triangular, running from the bottom of the collar, which is scarlet, down diagonally above her breasts to underneath her arms. The whole area above that cut is scarlet. covering her shoulers, collarbone and shoulderblades on the back, like a shrug, all the way down her arms to the gloves integrated into the design. Below that cut, the costume is blue over her entire torso, down her back and over her bottom and crotch. At mid-thigh the suit gets another splash of scarlet, a sharp, upwards pointing triangle on the outer thigh that forms the top of the scarlet 'boots'. The 'boots' are smoothly integrated right into the costume, save for that they are rather high-heeled (Rachel protested the high heels, even though they can be effective offensively, but the people in charge want her strong<em>and</em>feminine).<br/>Of course, symbols are also important. On the upper arms Rachel wears the eagle, globe and anchor of the Marine Corps, and just below that, the flag of the United States of America. On the collar, which is made like the standing collar of the male dress jacket, Rachel has her rank insgnia, the silver double bars of a captain. Finally, a single, small white star on her upper chest, a couple of inches below the collar.<br/>Rachel wears white ceramic gauntlets/bracers, though the finish makes them look metallic. Her fingers only covered to the first knuckle so as to not interfere with the operation of any weapons or any other fine manual dexterity needs, and the knuckles and back of the hand are desinged to reinforce her punching and protect her from damage. The bracers cover her wrist to elbow, and about 2/3 of the way around her forearms with the solid, high-tech ceramic armour. They are highly suitable for parrying.<br/>Finally, the last pieces of the costume are the white leather holsters and pouches strapped to each of Rachel's thighs. On the right she carries her sidearm, it's silencer, and a couple extra magazines. On the left is more a collection of varrying pouches to carry other small pieces of gear as well a sheathed KA-BAR combat knife.<br/><br/>When she's not dressed up in her super-suit, Rachel is most often found in uniform. Of late, that tends to be dress blues at some function or another, but sometimes, when she's tasked to help her 'home' unit, that can find her back in field uniform with camo paint all over face and covered in dirt and dust. The latter is definately what Rachel prefers.<br/><br/>On what little downtime she is allowed, Rachel tends to dress practically for whatever she is doing, jeans for chores, sweats for working out, that sort of thing. When she's just doing nothing in particular, people are often surprised to learn the tough marine captain dresses pretty girly, favouring skirts and light dresses.