Aberrant: War Journal - WJ2 personnel files

[Asbjørn]

Name: Hood

Rank: 2nd Lieutenant

Branch: Scouts

Age: 26 (?)

Skills and abilities:

- High-powered nova with temporal powers and enhanced physical abilities.

- Experienced scout. Infiltration, sabotage and close combat specialist. Several commendations for exceptional tactical assessments.

- Experienced instructor

Background:

TOP SECRET: SIDESTEP EYES ONLY

Psychological evaluation:

Lt Hood is a remarkably intelligent man for a soldier, with a good head for practical solutions and an outstanding ability to think on his feet. However, he seems slightly out of touch with reality now and then - a well known symptom in veterans - and is consequently surprisingly ignorant of both current and historical events. This may be caused by his PTS, a condition he shares with many veterans. His case is fairly mild, but he does display signs of stress in inherently non-stressful situations. However, I might add, the exact opposite seems also to be the case, since all reports indicate that the lieutenant is cool and levelheaded under fire.

[BlueNinja]

Name: Judy Kapriski

Rank: Senior Specialist

Branch: Engineers

Age: 31

Skills and Abilities:

Top-notch engineer, with experience in multiple fields. Best in areas of construction, road maintenance, and mechanics.

Conjurer. Capable of manufacturing tools and weapons from pure quantum. Limited life span makes replacement part manufacture problematic at best.

Background:

TOP SECRET: SIDESTEP EYES ONLY

Psychological Evaluation:

Specialist Kapriski is a brilliant mind, and regularly surprises her superiors in the Engineers with leaps of insight and pieces of work that others are unable to duplicate. She uses a carefree, almost childlike manner to conceal her cunning intellect and keep the personnel under her command at ease. Despite the burn scars that cover her face, she has little problem reach out to people, but she has a tendancy to hide behind a literal mask when dealing with unfamiliar personnel.

[Alex Green]

Name: Alejandro 'Vlad' Muñoz

Rank: E5 (Master Chief or MCHF)

Branch: Engineers

Age: 22

Skills and abilities:

- Moderately powerful nova with Earth & Stone related abilities.

- Extremely unusual movement and combat abilities. Vlad can travel though the ground and attack objects above him.

- Experienced Engineer, tunnel constructor, sapper, and saboteur.

- Highly capable sculptor and capable of creating permanent stone objects out of pure quantum.

Background:

Vlad’s mother was a member of the Greens’ (a Cobra) and was killed 5 years ago. He erupted two weeks later during a tunnel collapse with Earth abilities. Since then he has worked constructing tunnels and/or destroying enemy ground based assets.

Psychological evaluation:

MCHF Muñoz has been spared much of the horrors of the war. In almost every combat situation Vlad has been able to put at least a dozen feet of earth and stone between himself and the ugly business of war. This has left him somewhat insulated, whether this is good or bad is open to debate. He is intelligent, charismatic, and compensates with the isolation his powers bring by immersing himself in social situations at every opportunity. Whenever possible he combines the two by getting people (especially women) to pose for him while he sculpts. Any base with him present will predictably grow a collection of stone figures and other objects.

[phoenix]

Name: Sarah Chu'mana Adoette

Rank: Master Seargeant

Branch: Special Operations

Age: 23

Skills and abilities:

- High-powered nova with the ability to transform her body into a gigantic, flying mass of hot water in the form of a snake.

- Has also displayed the ability to create and weild water in a few other ways, and to fly without effecting the transformation.

Background:

Sarah was essentially "adopted" by the Greens after she had already erupted, after her reservation home was made a casualty of the war by a presumably taint-mad aberrant.

Psychological evaluation:

Sarah seems to be in fair mental health, despite the past trauma of returning to her village to find it in flames, immediately after her eruption. She says that she saw her home being destroyed in her mind's eye despite being miles away, but since then she has demonstrated no sensory powers at all.

Her status as a woman working in the Special Operations department makes her an extreme minority, and part of her gung-ho attitude may result from a desire to prove herself the equal of her accomplished and often heavily mutated colleagues. This is, on the other hand, not necessarily unhealthy.

[ProfPotts]

Name: Halle 'Emerald' Jordan

Rank: Private

Branch: Regular Army

Age: 19

Skills & Abilities:

- Nova ability to create fields of translucent green force which she can manipulate for a variety of effects, including: flight, walls & barriers, remote manipulation of objects, & impact-based attacks. Emerald can utilise her powers on multiple targets at the same time.

- Exotic dancing... not much tactical use, but it keeps the troops' moral up... ::ultracool

Background:

Orphaned & raised in the camps Halle worked first as a kitchen hand, then as a waitress, then (as she grew old enough to start catching men's eyes) as an exotic dancer. A Nova battle resulted in one of the combatants crashing, dying, into the camp - Halle was the only one who approached the man &, as he died, his powers (& eufiber) somehow transfered themselves over to her. Now a Nova herself Halle fled the only home she'd ever known, eventually encountering & joining the Greens.

Psychological Evaluation:

Halle usually comes across as joyful & confident. Although she lost a lot by erupting &, for a long time, resented the Nova who 'did that to her' she'd come to feel - with the help of her Green friends - that it was actually a good thing. Life with the Greens has taught her that not all the government propoganda was true, & that Nova / baseline co-existence is, if difficult at times, still possible.

A performer at heart, Halle still likes to dance in her spare time & can often be seen putting on a show for her fellow Greens.

[Centimane]

Name: Lorelai 'Brick House' Yevtushenko (often referred to simply as 'House')

Rank: Sergeant

Branch: Special Operations

Age: 25

Skills and Abilities:

- High-powered nova with density- and gravity-related abilities, she can increase both her durability and strength exponentially and is widely considered to be one of the strongest novas in the Green Machine (not to mention the heaviest)

- Extremely high level of super-human attractiveness, comparable to novas such as Alejandra and General Chimera

- In addition to the skills and training of a Cobra she also possesses all the skills of a fully trained Scout

- Sings and plays the piano at a professional (though still baseline) level

Background:

Lori used to be a baseline Scout, serving with the 7th battalion up until fairly recently. But her unit had a run in with some of DAD's Tac-Suits out in the field, and she erupted with enough power to stave them off and allow her unit to escape. Unfortunately she also erupted with all the wrong powers, and way too much taint, to ever be useable as a Scout again. Her powers were absolutely ideal for frontline combat however so, much to her dismay (and others - initial - chagrin), she was transferred to Special Operations. She has since learned to accept this change in her life, and she does her best to pull her weight as a Cobra. Not all of her fellow Cobras feel the same however.

Psychological Evaluation:

Lorelai's eruption, and subsequent transfer to Special Operations, has left her isolated on several levels. Her status as a former, female Scout suddenly thrust amongst Cobras left her with few allies and she has had to fight for every ounce of respect she's gotten since then. Her taint-derived conditions of constantly bleeding soft radiation from her body, as well as her excessive weight of more than half a ton have caused many to view her as unsafe to be around, further isolating her. Lastly, and not a little ironically, her immense sex appeal has left her isolated as well. Lorelai's beauty is considered by most within the Greens to be unequalled, except perhaps by such novas as Alejandra or General Chimera. But unlike Alejandra or the General, Lorelai's presence and personal charisma still operate at baseline levels and this leaves her without the necassary social skills to wield her beauty effectively, or to deal with the steriotypes, assumptions, and expectations that come as a result of her appearance. This has caused her to put up barriers between herself and those around her as a means of protection, and she rarely opens herself up to others since becoming a nova.

Despite this Lorelai is a very caring and compassionate woman, and despite not having nova-level social skills, she is quite charming, sensitive, and likeable in person. She tries very hard to be a support and a helper to those around her, and she has been a fervent believer in the Greens' cause since before her own eruption.