The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)
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				Title: <strong>The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Healergirl</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 00:27:41</strong>
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				Recreated the thread in the proper forum.&nbsp; Please post your character descriptions/biographies here.<br><br>IC Thread:&nbsp; http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=113972.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=113972.0)
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Athos</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 08:12:23</strong>
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				(http://roycedorazio.com/show/AdrianPaul.jpg)<br><br>Character Sheet:<br><br>Name: Samuel Edward Mackenzie<br><br>Gender: Male<br><br>Age: 42<br><br>Background: Samuel Mackenzie was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. His parents were Scottish immigrants and he had two older brothers, Dale and Scott. As a child, he excelled in school. In 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour both of Samuel’s brothers enlisted in the army. Despite his desire to follow, Samuel was too young to enlist. He was forced to remain behind until 1943 when a clerical error allowed him to enlist at the age of 17. <br><br>Following basic training, Samuel was assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion and participated in the invasion of Normandy in June of 1944. He saw heavy combat in France for several months until he was wounded at the Battle of Brest in August of 1944. His first taste of intelligence work came while he was recovering in London. He was approached by the OSS and asked to courier a small case of documents to a resistance cell operating on the German border. Upon successful completion of that mission, he was used as a courier twice more in 1945. <br><br>Samuel returned to the United States in 1947 and attended Stanford University where he studied language and politics until 1952. Upon graduation, Mackenzie was recruited into the newly founded CIA and returned to Europe where he was stationed in Berlin until 1958 when he was transferred to Asia.<br><br>In 1959, Mackenzie was deployed along with the 77th Special Forces Group into Laos as a part of Operation “Hotshot.” There he helped train the Royal Laotian Army and members of the indigenous Hmong and Yao tribesmen as they struggled against Communist incursions into that area of the world. Mackenzie remained there until 1962 when the operation officially ended. <br><br>From there, Mackenzie began working as part of a counter insurgency taskforce codenamed “Iron Monkey” that worked to identify and neutralize key Communist figures throughout Vietnam and Laos. Eventually his unit was merged with the Phoenix Program when it was established in 1967.<br><br>Current profession: CIA Operative<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>kobrakid92</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 18:49:16</strong>
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				Name- Alex Fields<br><br>(http://mimg.ugo.com/201105/5/6/2/194265/cuts/willem-dafoe-as-sgt-elias-819-main_willem-dafoe-platoon_528x297.jpg)<br><br>Gender- Male<br><br>Age- 35<br><br>Brief background up till character's current age- Born during the depression. His father fought and died in World War 2. He dropped out of school and joined the Marines at age 17 and fought in the Korean War. He has slowly climbed the ranks ever since and now serves in Vietnam at Khe Sanh.<br><br>Current profession- Sergent First Class, Squad Leader for III Marine Expeditionary Force.
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>CarnivalOfTheGoat</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 21:04:49</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/72/Ricoeur.jpg)</div>Name: Etienne Gervais<br><br>Gender: Male<br><br>Age: 45<br><br>Background (entirely open to change if needed):<br>Born in 1925, his father was an early electronics repairman with a small shop on the outskirts of Montreal. Etienne wanted to sign up in 1942 but his Catholic father was vehemently opposed to his son (as he put it) "becoming a killer" and prohibited his enlistment.<br><br>The morning of Etienne's eighteenth birthday, he snuck out well before dawn and was standing in front of the registration center before it opened, waiting to sign up. He was promptly disowned by his father. Etienne was sent to Camp Valcartier for basic training, then was held back from deployment for radio and signal operations training due to his experience in his father's shop. Etienne participated in the landings at Juno beach, Normandy in June 1944 as a radio operator with 3d Canadian Division.<br><br>Discharged in 1945, Etienne returned to Canada but felt out of place and uninvolved in the civil sector. In 1946 he returned to France and joined the Légion étrangère, being deployed to Indochina in early 1947, again as a field radio operator. Shortly after the Battle of the Day River, he was promoted to Caporal Chef and recommended for officer's candidacy. He returned to France in late 1952 for cadet training.<br><br>By the end of the year as a fresh Sous-Lieutenant with field experience against the Pathet Lao and Viet Minh, Etienne had been snapped up by the SDECE's 11e bataillon parachutiste de choc, given a brief series of course introductions to parachuting, counterespionage tactics, psychological warfare and guerrilla recruitment/liaison, and returned to Indochina as part of a unit which started out training the Groupement de commandos mixtes aéroportés and went on to establish and train Partisan units among the Northern Hmong and Nung montagnards.<br><br>During the transition, Etienne remained in Laos as a SDECE liaison officer among the Hmong, working with the American CIA (who were picking up the reins of the French-created montagnard units) until 1959, when he was shot during the Vietnamese invasion of Laos and lost his left leg below the knee.<br><br>Etienne returned to France and an SDECE desk job as a full Lieutenant, writing about operations in Indochina, the use of Partisan troops, and specifically his military experiences among the Hmong.<br><br>Now, almost nine years later, he is returning once more as a field liaison in Vietnam (and probably Laos) with a memorized list of personal and also recommended contacts (both American and Hmong), freshly minted brevet-Capitaine's bars, and a prosthetic foot, to see what can be learned about the bizarre ultimatum which has surfaced.<br>&nbsp;<br>(Etienne is: Fairly mild and moral; farsighted; missing his left leg below the knee; an adequate pistol and rifle shot; a reasonably good speaker and translator of French, Hmong, Vietnamese and English; good at orienteering, radio comms, and electronics repair; and a responsible leader. Hopefully his CIA connections and history will make him easy to fold into the group? He's no commando or Rambo, but an officer with some combat experience primarily focused around communications and liaison. He has carried a rifle, but rarely if ever shot it at a person, being more concerned with radio operations and command decision-making in the field while others handled immediate security.)<br><br>Current Profession: SDECE (French rough equivalent to the CIA) Liaison
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>TheHangedOne</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 21:15:00</strong>
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				Name Aaronn&nbsp; Blacke<br>Gender: Male<br>Age: 18<br>Brief background: Aaronn was a good student in both middle school and high school; with high grades and commendations from many of his teachers, it seemed like he could become anything he wanted to be. Then the draft hit him, though, and instead of being a lawyer, or a doctor, or an investor, he ended up a soldier.<br><br>Aaronn has proven himself to be quite the capable person when under fire; a heavy dose of intelligence allows him to often keep his emotions separate, not allowing them to influence him away from what is the most logical course of action.&nbsp; He is also quite precocious, and loves to study new things, some times simply for the sake of keeping his brain active.<br><br>Intelligent and perceptive, and able to keep his cool under fire (as well as having the patience to sit around, hours at a time, unflinching) has earned Aaronn the role of sniper; a task he excels at . Aaronn himself uses an M21 sniper rifle, as well as packing a service revolver (chambered to fire .38) as a sidearm.<br><br>Current profession: Sniper<br><br>Fun facts! (To be added to; check back for updates.)<br>*Grew up in Maine, where, as a young teen, he hunted with his father; years of doing so explains his familiarity and skill with rifles. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NiceTexasGuy</strong> on <strong>22-07-2011, 22:33:41</strong>
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				<strong>Name:</strong> Gerald (Jerry) Browers<br><br><strong>Gender:</strong>&nbsp; Male<br><br><strong>Age:</strong> 27<br><br><strong>Job:</strong> 1LT, U.S. Army, Helicopter Pilot<br><br><strong>Physical Description:</strong> Tall and thin, with long hair and scraggly beard.&nbsp; His trademark clothes are an imitation leather jacket (he believes wearing real leather results in bad karma) and old style flying helmet (also imitation leather) complete with goggles. <br><br><strong>Picture:</strong>&nbsp; (http://www.trailershut.com/actor-images/donald-sutherland-4669.jpg)<br><br><strong>Hometown:</strong> South Park, Colorado<br><br><strong>History:</strong> Jerry was a typical middle American middle class teenage boy... experimenting with sex and alcohol, and (very rarely) other substances; bullying the smaller kids; playing at various sports; and taking dares at the drop of a hat.&nbsp; Both gross- and fine motor skills not only made him a natural athlete, but also later served him as a pilot.&nbsp; His first two years of college his major was "undeclared" and when forced to pick, chose psychology as a major.&nbsp; He doesn't remember why, but it may have been because one of the instructors in the psychology department was female.<br>&nbsp; <br>Jerry also joined ROTC, not out of a sense of patriotism, but for the financial assistance the government provided.&nbsp; After graduation from college, Jerry was commissioned and went to flight school to full the increasing demand for UH-1 Huey pilots in Southeast Asia.&nbsp; He wasn't necessarily for or against the war when it started (technically, it wasn't a war, and it's starting point was ambiguous, so we'll say when things started to heat up and U.S. involvement grew), he was just trying to survive training.&nbsp; He arrived "in country" on his 24th birthday.&nbsp; The year was 1965, and Vietnam still looked to most eager young Army officers be a great adventure.<br><br>In that first year, he had experienced the same traumas that many people experience in war ... witnessing traumatic injuries and death, loss of friends, survivor's guilt... naturally it changed him, but he was still the dedicated Army officer and had built up a reputation as an outstanding pilot.&nbsp; Near the end of his first tour, Jerry disobeyed orders and picked up some wounded soldiers out of a "hot LZ" which had been closed due to intense enemy fire.&nbsp; One of the lives he saved was the son of a general.&nbsp; Now, in the general's eyes, he could do no wrong, and was rewarded for his skillful flying with a tour on the general's staff back in the U.S. and as his "personal pilot."&nbsp; <br><br>Meanwhile, anti-war sentiment in the US was growing, and Jerry's exposure to high ranking officers and their conduct was causing him to question a lot of things he took for granted.&nbsp; Falling out of favor with his boss one evening (the details are sketchy, but there was rumored to be alcohol involved .... and a stolen mule ... maybe some fireworks ...&nbsp; and a cocktail party involving some Army brass and a couple of senators) Jerry was on the next flight back to Vietnam. <br>&nbsp;<br>Now, he's the crazy guy with a reputation as the guy who take the risks nobody in his right mind would take. A lot of GI's owe their life to this guy most of them only know as "Crackpot" ... He let his hair grow out, and wore a cheap toupee in a halfhearted attempt to remain within regulations.&nbsp; Eventually, he just stopped wearing it altogether and let the beard grow, too.&nbsp; Because he continued to perform admirably, his superiors simply tried to keep him out of the public eye (meaning visiting brass) ... and kept him tucked away at remote locations as much as possible.&nbsp; Of course that sort of thing can't go on forever.<br><br>Disciplinary action was pending when the word came down that things were heating up for the jarheads at Khe Sanh.<br><br><br><strong>Persona:</strong>&nbsp; Jerry is now a very spiritual man, though many theologians would have some difficulty figuring out what it is he believes.&nbsp; He'll often quote philosophers, but usually attribute the quote to the wrong person.&nbsp; He is seldom drunk but his manner of speech would indicate otherwise.&nbsp; He usually slurs his words, goes off on a tangent talking about things nobody else cares about, and has pet names for everyone, or strange terms of endearment he uses at random.&nbsp; Even when the meat in the chow hall is identifiable, he doesn't eat it.&nbsp; He is an expert on teas of the world, and has a collection of every conceivable type of tea known to man.&nbsp; He will often suggest cures for what ails a person by prescribing different blends of tea. Jerry seldom worries about anything, and when something goes wrong, blames it on the negative thought processes of those around him. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Domino Theory:  An Invasion from Space (Character sheet thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>27-07-2011, 17:52:27</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://i.ehow.com/images/a07/ua/c9/everyday-hairstyles-60s-800x800.jpg)</div><br><strong>Name:</strong> Michelle Jane Rawlinson; "Mitch" to her very close friends or "Em-Jay" - to her professional colleagues, it's "Ma'am".<br><br><strong>Gender:</strong> Lady<br><br><strong>Age:</strong> 38<br><br><strong>Background:</strong> Born in Sydney, 1930 to a lawyer father and orthodontist mother. Her family lacked nothing and was financially "robust" (in other words white, middle class and democrats). Educated at St. Andrews Cathedral School and Macquarie University, Mitch graduated in 1944 as a BA in psychology with a degree in Bachelor of Laws.<br><br>She practiced in her fathers law partnership of Melksham, Rawlinson and Grundie until the age of 29 before accepting a post of assistant under-secretary to the State Department for Internal Affairs (Immigration) in 1960. Progressing at a meteoric rate she joined Australia's diplomatic ranks and was posted to Manila during the Abercrombie-Coulson affair in 1964 and was seconded to the Australian embassy in Saigon in 1966, with a specialist portfolio in "military projected politics."<br><br>During her time in south-east Asian politics she has learned a small amount of Vietnamese and can speak it tolerably well and read it in limited amounts. She has also dabbled in teaching herself the Laos tongue but not progressed far. Her French (of a formalised classical variety) has been learned in school and a little more as a necessity in the diplomatic corps. While she can hold a basic conversation she is by no means fluent.<br><br>Further additions as the game progreses.<br><br><strong>Current profession:</strong> Diplomat. There are also rumours of an affair with a high ranking U.S.N. officer.<br><br><strong>Personality:</strong> Generally a self-confident woman, and well-balanced with a sharp sense of humour and a quick turn of phrase, Michelle is outgoing and enjoys dancing, music and other social pursuits. However she suffers from seeing females treated as second class citizens, particularly in the workplace, her own career having been held back for that reason, she is convinced. This has led her to develop a lack of patience in response to certain pushy males. Had she been born fifty years earlier she would probably have been a Suffragette and twenty years later she would no doubt have been a rampant feminist and bra-burner. As it is, in the late 1960s she merely tries to get on with her job, acutely aware that many women could do the tasks men do, just as well.<br><br>Further additions as the game progreses.
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