Post by The First Doctor on Jan 22, 2011 0:37:27 GMT -5
Going for my first non-Time Lord here.
Original
Name: Galen Hall
Age: Chronologically 32. Actually 33, thanks to a 9 month stint trapped in a parallel universe.
Species: Cybernetically-augmented human
Planet of Origin: Sol-3.
Occupation: MAJESTIC-12 field agent (assigned to Project MOONDUST). Currently on loan to Torchwood Australia.
Utilizing less cryptospeak, Galen is an agent of the American answer to UNIT. Project MOONDUST is the arm of MAJESTIC-12 that confronts hostile EBEs ("extra-terrestrial biological entities") in both proactive and reactive capacities.
Physical Description: Galen is pleasantly average in appearance. His hair is a light brown, not quite blonde, and he keeps it short enough to part on the right. His eyes are hazel. Well, one eye is. The left one. The right eye is a dull silver. If you look close, you can also see a faint network of scars radiating from just in front of his right ear. He wears mirrored aviator sunglasses quite a lot.
He's in good shape - he has to be, given his job. Not overly muscular, but it's obvious he takes his shirt off that he works out. Not that you're likely to see him take his shirt off. If he does, his physique isn't the first thing you'll notice. That goes to the dull silver of his right arm, obviously artificial. He wears loose, long sleeved shirts a lot, and gloves.
He doesn't smile much.
Personality: Serious, when on the job. He's a professional, and he expects others to be professional as well. Off the job, he loosens up. Not a lot, but he'll crack jokes, and make small talk, and generally act like one of the guys.
History: Galen was born in Chicago and raised all over the world; his father was in the US Army, and he never lived anywhere for more than two years. This is probably why it seemed so natural for him to go to West Point, where he graduated with honors. He served for six years, attached to UN peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Somalia, before getting headhunted into MAJESTIC-12's Project MOONDUST.
That's what nearly destroyed him.
Four years ago, a rift opened in the Zion National Park. Six campers went missing. Project MOONDUST was sent in to secure the area, and to recon through the rift.
The other side was a world where the Cybermen of Mondas succeeded in their 1986 invasion of Earth.
The recon squad was captured by the Cybermen, and put to work as slaves, mining uranium in White Canyon. The work was brutal, but the Cybermen were not. They merely pushed their human workers without pity.
The entire purpose of the exercise was not actually to mine uranium in an efficient manner - their machinery could have done that, and any Cyberman would have been more efficient than any four human slaves. The slaves knew that, because the Cybermen labored in the mines as well. No, the purpose was to teach the humans that Cyberconversion would make them better, and to drive them to the point that they would accept what the Cybermen had to offer.
Why? Why not just forcibly convert the populace. As an example to the human resistance. If humanity was voluntarily embracing conversion, the Cybermen believed that eventually the human resistance would stop and all would embrace the perfection of conversion. In the long run the war would be won, with less waste of resources.
A mining accident crushed part of Galen's skull, and shattered his arm and part of his ribcage in a dozen places. Cybermedicine was simple: replace the damaged parts, allowing the remaining flesh to heal faster. Then let the wounded human see for himself the superiority of his upgraded components.
Months later, a raid by the human resistance allowed the captured Project MOONDUST squad to escape. The rift was still open, and they made their way through to learn that the time differential was substantial. In the nine months they had been gone, only 6 hours had passed in their homeworld.
Therapy and rest and relaxation helped, but Galen is still glad he escaped when he did. Because every night, when he stares at the world through an eye that can see across some 60% of the electromagnetic spectrum at an arm that never grows tired, and he feels the aches of the day, a traitor voice speaks.
"Maybe they were right. Maybe machinery is better than flesh."
And he shudders, knowing how close he came to losing his humanity.
Additional medical information Galen's right eye and right arm are fully cybernetic. The eye can be tuned to see from the near-microwave wavelengths through to the near-X-ray wavelengths. The arm is substantially stronger than his original, with a grip strength that can crush thin steel.
Most of the right half of his ribcage has been replaced with a tough, flexible plastic. His right lung, punctured by broken ribs, has been replaced with a pump that can store and circulate oxygen.
He also has a short-range receiver embedded in his right mastoid. He can hear Mondasian Cyberman communications (but not respond to them). Contemporary Earth technologies are unable to interface with this receiver, and the recovered Cybus technologies (from the "Day of Ghosts" invasion) are incompatible.
Oh, he also has frequent nightmares about losing his humanity.
Original
Name: Galen Hall
Age: Chronologically 32. Actually 33, thanks to a 9 month stint trapped in a parallel universe.
Species: Cybernetically-augmented human
Planet of Origin: Sol-3.
Occupation: MAJESTIC-12 field agent (assigned to Project MOONDUST). Currently on loan to Torchwood Australia.
Utilizing less cryptospeak, Galen is an agent of the American answer to UNIT. Project MOONDUST is the arm of MAJESTIC-12 that confronts hostile EBEs ("extra-terrestrial biological entities") in both proactive and reactive capacities.
Physical Description: Galen is pleasantly average in appearance. His hair is a light brown, not quite blonde, and he keeps it short enough to part on the right. His eyes are hazel. Well, one eye is. The left one. The right eye is a dull silver. If you look close, you can also see a faint network of scars radiating from just in front of his right ear. He wears mirrored aviator sunglasses quite a lot.
He's in good shape - he has to be, given his job. Not overly muscular, but it's obvious he takes his shirt off that he works out. Not that you're likely to see him take his shirt off. If he does, his physique isn't the first thing you'll notice. That goes to the dull silver of his right arm, obviously artificial. He wears loose, long sleeved shirts a lot, and gloves.
He doesn't smile much.
Personality: Serious, when on the job. He's a professional, and he expects others to be professional as well. Off the job, he loosens up. Not a lot, but he'll crack jokes, and make small talk, and generally act like one of the guys.
History: Galen was born in Chicago and raised all over the world; his father was in the US Army, and he never lived anywhere for more than two years. This is probably why it seemed so natural for him to go to West Point, where he graduated with honors. He served for six years, attached to UN peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Somalia, before getting headhunted into MAJESTIC-12's Project MOONDUST.
That's what nearly destroyed him.
Four years ago, a rift opened in the Zion National Park. Six campers went missing. Project MOONDUST was sent in to secure the area, and to recon through the rift.
The other side was a world where the Cybermen of Mondas succeeded in their 1986 invasion of Earth.
The recon squad was captured by the Cybermen, and put to work as slaves, mining uranium in White Canyon. The work was brutal, but the Cybermen were not. They merely pushed their human workers without pity.
The entire purpose of the exercise was not actually to mine uranium in an efficient manner - their machinery could have done that, and any Cyberman would have been more efficient than any four human slaves. The slaves knew that, because the Cybermen labored in the mines as well. No, the purpose was to teach the humans that Cyberconversion would make them better, and to drive them to the point that they would accept what the Cybermen had to offer.
Why? Why not just forcibly convert the populace. As an example to the human resistance. If humanity was voluntarily embracing conversion, the Cybermen believed that eventually the human resistance would stop and all would embrace the perfection of conversion. In the long run the war would be won, with less waste of resources.
A mining accident crushed part of Galen's skull, and shattered his arm and part of his ribcage in a dozen places. Cybermedicine was simple: replace the damaged parts, allowing the remaining flesh to heal faster. Then let the wounded human see for himself the superiority of his upgraded components.
Months later, a raid by the human resistance allowed the captured Project MOONDUST squad to escape. The rift was still open, and they made their way through to learn that the time differential was substantial. In the nine months they had been gone, only 6 hours had passed in their homeworld.
Therapy and rest and relaxation helped, but Galen is still glad he escaped when he did. Because every night, when he stares at the world through an eye that can see across some 60% of the electromagnetic spectrum at an arm that never grows tired, and he feels the aches of the day, a traitor voice speaks.
"Maybe they were right. Maybe machinery is better than flesh."
And he shudders, knowing how close he came to losing his humanity.
Additional medical information Galen's right eye and right arm are fully cybernetic. The eye can be tuned to see from the near-microwave wavelengths through to the near-X-ray wavelengths. The arm is substantially stronger than his original, with a grip strength that can crush thin steel.
Most of the right half of his ribcage has been replaced with a tough, flexible plastic. His right lung, punctured by broken ribs, has been replaced with a pump that can store and circulate oxygen.
He also has a short-range receiver embedded in his right mastoid. He can hear Mondasian Cyberman communications (but not respond to them). Contemporary Earth technologies are unable to interface with this receiver, and the recovered Cybus technologies (from the "Day of Ghosts" invasion) are incompatible.
Oh, he also has frequent nightmares about losing his humanity.
