Edwin Case

by on May 14, 2017 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, Character Profiles

Edwin Case was a football star when the Peloran Treatments’ final stages kicked in and made him Ageless. They augmented his already impressive strength to make him a true superhuman hulk, and cost him his sports career and all of his records and awards. He volunteered to serve after that, and everyone expected him to go the infantry path, but he passed the pilot aptitude tests with flying colors. He became one of the largest pilots to ever fly a Hellcat, which is not a large starfighter. I understand that he was very happy when VMFA-214, the Black Sheep, acquired the much larger Avenger-class starfighters. That was in the early months of The War, shortly after we showed everyone what we could do at the Battle of Fort Wichita. When I put out the call for reinforcements to make up our battle losses, Edwin was one of the first to volunteer. It was due to the work he and others like him performed with stalwart courage that we drove the Shang out of our corner of the galaxy and secured peace.

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Carol

by on May 13, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Carol and her sisters flew with the Black Sheep during the Fall of Japan and decided to stick with them after. Free Japanese resources were limited at the time, and they’d known each other long enough that they were family. So they adopted American names and the rest is history. Technology and military rules changed over the centuries, and she accepted numerous pilots over the years so she could continue to fly the very best fighters. She and her sisters still fly the modern Black Sheep fighters, but Carol sent one of her shards to join us Cowboys after the first Battles of Earth and Alpha Centauri. Others came in the years to follow, but she was the first of her particular branch of the cybernetic families I had the pleasure to work with. And yes. She was always a pleasure to work with.

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Ready! Set! Race!

by on May 12, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Chad and Julie decided to race each other in the real world using their favorite vehicles.

Chad likes his souped up muscle car because he can stuff all his very best friends inside when he wants to.

Julie likes her motorcycle because she doesn’t have to worry about becoming road pizza if she has an accident. There are advantages to being a cyber.

Jasmine is officiating as an unbiased observer, and making certain all the watchers are far enough back to remain safe.

“Ready! Set! Race!”

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Edwin Case

by on May 11, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Edwin Case grew up in Yuma, Arizona, where his natural size and years of weight lifting made him a proficient football star. He would go to college at Arizona State on a football scholarship, and became a first round pick in the National Football League after he graduated. He excelled and earned the League MPV award in his first year. But standard medical tests in the off-season detected signs that he was becoming Ageless. He was released from his contract, of course, and all of his NFL records were expunged from the books. He returned home to Yuma, a broken and bitter man, and began to spend far too much time in the local bars. After one particularly long night of drinking, he got into a disagreement with a squad of local Marines. He put all but one of them in the hospital, destroyed an impressive amount of property, and the judge gave him two choices. Jail time, or military service. He walked into Yuma Spacebase the next day.

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Carol

by on May 10, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Carol is one of the oldest fighter cybers I know. Of course, she’s not really a proper fighter cyber by today’s standards. She was born in Old Japan before the Second Great Depression. They were a leader in robotics and artificial intelligences back then, and Carol was one of their most advanced automated fighter drones. She fought next to the American Black Sheep attack squadron when the Chinese attacked Japan. Her headquarters was overrun, and the Black Sheep absorbed her and her sisters as they sought to slow the Chinese advance. In the end, Carol and the Black Sheep escorted the last evacuation fleet out of Fallen Japan. The one taking the new Empress Aiko to freedom in Los Angeles. Yeah. She’s one of them. The last defenders of Old Japan.

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