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Colonel Victor Hoffman

Victor Hoffman, born 2596 GSY, is perhaps the most well known human in the galaxy. Joining the Gears, the military of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, he rose to the head of special forces by the time of Emergence Day and served as a leader throughout the Locust War. He was a key figure in the collapsed remnants of humanity, and is the man who made first contact with the Council Races. In the years after the rescue, Hoffman split his time between the new fledgling Seran government, of which he was a key member as the head of the new military, and running rescue efforts on the re-opened Anvil Gate on Sera.

Hoffman retired from official employment at the age of 80, moving to Eden Prime with Bernadette Mataki. At 87 years of age, Hoffman is among one of the oldest humans alive today, and while retired is still known to don his armor and rifle, assist in local, planetary, and interplanetary government when asked, and consult for the military in many capacities, both human and alien.

Damon Baird

Damon Baird, founder and CEO of DB Industries, is second in human recognition only to Hoffman, and is the richest human currently alive. Joining the military at the age of 18, just days after Emergence Day, Baird began as general infantry but quickly met up with Augustus Cole and joined a squad. His military career throughout the Locust War is colored with praise for his intelligence and mechanical aptitude, but also consistent discipline and demotions due to his attitude. He bounced around between squads, sometimes leading, though not for very long, before eventually joining up with Delta Squad and taking part in their highly influential actions that ended the Locust War.

After rescue, Damon created DB Industries to channel his creative talents, and was selected by the government to be one of their primary contractors, boosting his new company instantly to monopolistic heights. Still, as a member of Delta, Damon continued to participate in military actions as a part of Delta Squad, both rescues on Sera and actions otherwise, until his retirement from the military in 2668GSY. He has since concentrated on his role as CEO, in addition to courting and marrying fellow Gear Samantha Byrne, who has become a military consultant at DB Industries, with no children produced from the union. At the age of 60, Damon shows little sign of slowing down, with over a thousand patents to his name and an average of a sixty new patents every year.

Marcus Fenix

Marcus Fenix was the leader of Delta Squad for many years and is considered one of the greatest Gears squad leaders ever known. Joining as an enlisted man, Marcus rose through the ranks during his service in both the Pendulum Wars and the Locust War, only to be stripped of his position and imprisoned for dereliction of duty when his failed actions to save his father resulted in heavy casualties at a strategic position he had abandoned. However, after four years in prison, he was pardoned and reinstated, at a lower rank, as a part of blanket amnesty prior to the Lightmass Offensive. It was there that he was assigned to Delta Squad, and after the squad leader was killed, Marcus took over command, successfully implementing the Lightmass Offensive. Less than a year later, during Operation Hollow Storm, Marcus again led Delta Squad in the decisive actions that saw the Hollow flooded and humanities' pyrrhic victory over the Locust.

After rescue, Marcus served for several years posted to Anvil Gate, leading Delta Squad through many successful missions, as well as training the next generation of Gears along with his friend Dominic Santiago. During his off-duty time, he married Anya Stroud, who at the time was the First Minister of the New Seran government. They celebrated the birth of their first child in 2665GSY, after a pioneering medical procedure allowed Anya to bear a child. In 2668GSY Marcus accepted the role of Gears Citadel Liaison, and assisted in military coordination on the Citadel with his wife, who had reached her term limit as First Minister and had accepted a new position as Seran Representative to the Turian Hierarchy; during this time, complications with the couple's second pregnancy nearly claimed Anya's life and left their second child stillborn. Both retired from their roles in 2676GSY, retiring to an isolated farm on Eden Prime. At 62 years of age, Marcus is officially retired, though is known to accept occasional consulting roles for militaries both human and alien.

Dominic Santiago

One of the last surviving COG Commandos, Dominic was a talented special forces operator and worked closely with Colonel Hoffman both before and during the Locust War. Dominic, along with Marcus Fenix, both served in Delta Squad, one of the most effective squads, well renown for their actions during the Lightmass Offensive and Operation Hollow Storm, in which the squad was instrumental in striking blows against the Locust Horde. His skills were useful again during the Torfan Offensive, and he participated along with Delta Squad in securing those who had been taken as slaves.

When Anvil Gate was reopened, Dominic volunteered for permanent duty station at the base, and has rarely left the planet since. For many years he has served with, and led, Gears squads on the surface of Sera, and assisted in training the next generation of human special forces within Anvil Gate's walls. With Hoffman's retirement in 2676 GSY, Dominic has become the commander of the Anvil Gate base. At 63 years of age, Dominic has refused to consider retirement, saying that he intends to die on Sera, and has vowed to work to save every last human still left on Sera until his dying breath.

Augustus 'Cole Train' Cole

Augustus Cole was a highly successful professional Thrashball player prior to Emergence Day, but joined the military to combat the Locust after Emergence. His physicality transferred well to soldiering, and he found himself placed in the special operations squads, bouncing between squads as casualties took their toll over the years. He was a part of Delta Squad along with Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago during the Lightmass Offensive and joined up with the squad again during Operation Hollow Storm after his squad was KIA. During the Torfan Offensive he again joined up with Delta after his squad suffered heavy casualties and was rescued by Delta.

After the rescue, Augustus continued to serve as a Gear squad member, rotating out to Anvil Gate several times as a member of Delta Squad and others before finally retiring in 2668 GSY to pursue his passion full time: Thrashball. Cole was a founding member of the New Seran Thrashball League just after rescue, and once retired from his military service threw himself into the sport with exuberance, founding and chairing the Eden Prime Thrashball League, the Galactic Thrashball League, co-founding the Palaven Thrashball League, and organizing the first Galactic Thrashball Tournament in 2675 GSY. The sport is still relatively small by galactic standards, but his passion as the galactic chairman has proven contagious, with numbers of both participants and fans climbing steadily every year. At 61 years of age, Augustus Cole looks fit to lead Thrashball into a new age of galactic sporting.

David Anderson

Born a few years prior to Emergence Day, David Anderson grew up on the relatively safe Jacinto Plateau, in the heart of the COG war machine. His father was a Gear, and lost only a few years into the Locust War; his mother, during one of the Locust raids on Jacinto. Orphaned and left mostly to raise himself, Anderson thrived, and by the time of the Lightmass Offensive was assisting the military in an underage capacity. He graduated to an officially conscriptable age only a few months prior to Operation Hollow Storm, and was in Gear infantry training when Jacinto was sunk and the main landmass was abandoned. He went to the Islands, then when the government officially collapsed, joined Colonel Hoffman's group of survivors, thus becoming one of the very first to be rescued at Anvil Gate.

Anderson served for two years in the Turian Auxiliaries, serving during the Torfan Offensive as a Gear under Hoffman, before mustering out and re-joining the Gears, whereupon he was posted to Anvil Gate. He trained under Dominic Santiago, and over the course of several tours came to lead a Gears squad, both on and off Sera. Perhaps most notably, Anderson bears a known grudge against the SPECTRES; during an assigned mission under SPECTRE Saren Arterius, Anderson and his squad suffered extreme casualties, with only himself and Saren as survivors. Anderson claimed Saren had used his squad as suicide troopers; Saren reported he was merely doing what was necessary to complete the mission. Anderson continued serving for several more years as a squad leader both on and off Sera before a Locust smashed his knee during combat, nearly destroying it, and even with reconstruction it ended his combat career. He was appointed by Hoffman to serve as the Gears Citadel Liaison in 2676GSY, taking over from Marcus Fenix, and has held the post ever since.

Donnel Udina

Donnel Udina was born near the end of the Pendulum Wars to a family in Hannover. Emergence Day quickly put an end to any normal childhood, and Donnel lived in the grinding poverty of war-stricken Stranded for many years. He joined a group of survivors heading for Anvil Gate after hearing about a radio call claiming rescue had come from the stars, and the group made it just over a year after rescue efforts began.

After participating in the Torfan Offensive as a part of the Turian Auxiliary formations, completing his mandatory military service, and mustering out, Donnel began to climb the ranks of the new Seran Nation bureaucracy. Bouncing from department to department, he was successful in most of his endeavors, despite his mildly abrasive personality, and secured an appointment to the role of Seran Representative to the Turian Hierarchy when Anya Fenix retired in 2676GSY. He has held this role ever since, and now at 55 years of age enjoys the challenge and politicking of his position.

Steven Hackett

Admiral Steven Hackett was born in 2610GSY and joined the COG Navy as a Marine at the age of 18 as an enlisted man. His rise through the ranks from enlisted man to Admiral is remarkable, and he served with distinction in both naval and land actions both prior and during the Locust War. With the collapse of human government, then Commodore Hackett served as a captain on a vessel in the refugee flotilla of vessels led by the helicopter carrier CNV Sovereign, and was rescued along with the entire flotilla mere days after the rescue accords were reached with Colonel Hoffman.

After the rescue, Hackett participated in leadership responsibilities as a high ranking member of Hoffman's staff, and eventually rose to his second in command, often taking command of Anvil Gate or representing the military in the Cabinet when Hoffman was otherwise occupied. When Hoffman retired from the Military Advisor Cabinet position in 2676GSY, the now Admiral Hackett was his natural successor. At the age of 73, Hackett has made no mention of retiring yet and has proven to be a level-headed and highly effective, both in politics and as a military leader.

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SNS Jacinto

The first and currently only spaceship officially owned by the Seran Nation Navy, the Jacinto is a collaboration between turian shipbuilders and Seran engineers, represented by DB Industries. While officially owned by the SN, in practice the Jacinto is provided for, and operated by, the Hierarchy, with a majority crew of turians and an official place on the roster in the Hierarchy fleets.

The design collaboration between turian and human engineers has produced perhaps the best stealth ship currently in service; with active heat sinking technology, an oversized drive core that is able to save the ship emissions at low speeds and capable of outrunning any other ship at high speeds, and JACK bot derived thermal and visual cloaking technology, the Jacinto is the stealthiest ship available to the Turian Hierarchy. With a permanent Gears squad assigned to the ship, the Jacinto is intended as a special forces dropship, able to get in and then out through any defense without a fight, though it maintains the armor and armament of a correspondingly sized frigate.

The SNS Jacinto represents a groundbreaking integration of human technological ideas into turian ship design and will undoubtedly ensure superior Gear special forces force projection for the next several decades.

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Jeffrey Moreau

Among the first generation born after rescue, Jeffery 'Joker' Moreau was born on New Sera in 2662GSY. Born with Vrolik Syndrome, Jeffrey only survived his early life through Asari medical intervention. His disease continues to this day, and with his brittle skeleton Joker is barely able to walk, much less fight, for fear of breaking bones. As such, when his mandatory military service began, Joker chose flight school, where he earned his place as the top pilot of his class.

At 21 years of age, Joker has chosen to stay in the Hierarchy military as a pilot rather than mustering out, preferring to stay at a posting where he can pilot a starship. Joker has a caustic gallows humor that has earned him more than one reprimand; they remain merely reprimands and warnings at this time. He is considered one of the most promising pilots in the Hierarchy, and with experience will no doubt become the best frigate-sized pilot in his time.

Karen Chakwas

Born in 2129 in Mercy, Karen Chakwas witnessed Emergence Day at the age of twelve. She survived; her parents did not. Raised in an orphanage from that point on, Chakwas volunteered as a medic wherever she could from the age of fourteen onwards, helping to treat the wounded in Jacinto's hospitals. Spared the fertile-female policy due to complications that left her barren, Chakwas fully committed to life as a doctor, getting what little training she could, and treating the injured wherever she found them. When the government collapsed, Chakwas went to the islands, and was among the first to be rescued as she had returned to the mainland with Hoffman at Anvil Gate.

Having not officially served in the military, Chakwas was conscripted for the 5 year mandatory service requirements for citizenship, where she entered the medical path. Her experience treating injuries with minimal supplies is beyond extensive, and with the training in surgeries and alien physiology provided by the medical program, she is highly sought after by many major medical postings. She has chosen to continue her military service in the Hierarchy, stating that she prefers to serve where her skills will come into use. When selecting a doctor for the Jacinto, she was among the top of the list.

John Shepard

Lieutenant Commander John Shepard was born to a COG father and mother on the Jacinto Plateau in 2654GSY, 13 years After Emergence. His father died during Operation Hollow Storm, and Shepard was taken to the islands along with the rest of the Jacinto survivors during the evacuation after the sinking of Jacinto; when the islands became unsafe mother and son joined a small group heading for the mainland. His mother died soon after landfall, and Shepard was left in the care of the group of survivors. As a small child, he was used as a spotter, being able to get into and out of potential danger areas unnoticed; during this time his group encountered, and fought, nearly every Locust and Lambent force imaginable, including Corpsers, Berserkers, and Lambent Berserkers. He, and his group, did not have radio contact, and thus missed the initial rescue efforts. At age 12, he and what remained of the survivors were rescued near the outskirts of the abandoned city of Hanover by a Gears Squad, and were taken off planet.

Shepard spent three years in an orphanage on New Sera before being conscripted into the Turian Auxiliaries on his 15th birthday as required by the Turian Hierarchy. He served an uneventful five year tour before mustering out and immediately joining the Gears. He was trained under Dominic Santiago, and performed several tours in various squads both on and off Sera. During this time, he was noted as the only survivor of the Akuze incident, where a Turian company with his squad attached stumbled into a thresher maw nest; Shepard, the only man able to predict the movement of the threshers due to his experience with Corpsers on Sera, was the only one to make it to the extraction point, carrying with him the wounded Turian commander. The commander soon expired from his injuries, leaving Shepard as the only survivor of the incident.

Judged stable after the incident, he was promoted to squad leader in 2680GSY. He has led Kilo Squad ever since, and has been noted as having an above average squad effectiveness. Kilo Squad, with Shepard in command, has been assigned to the Jacinto for her shakedown run, and the squad will serve on her for a year before rotating out.

Kaiden Alenko

Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko is the son of a Stranded mother and father, born 14 years After Emergence and hailing from the relatively 'safe' Stranded city of Hanover. When the news of the planet wide evacuation came over the radio, the Stranded heard and were able to ask for a pickup. His parents, with his well being in mind, decided not to leave with many of the others of their group when the Hierarchy took over, and while they are not loudly vocal about their views against the Hierarchy, neither are they quiet. At the age of 15 he joined the Auxiliaries, where he excelled at computers, hacking, and technical skills.

Upon leaving the Auxiliaries at the end of his service, Alenko thought long and hard before deciding that what he wanted to do was to be a Gear. His technical skills are remarkable, and brought him to the forefront of the squad list. When command was asked to provide a technical/computer expert for Shepard's team, the Gears assigned Alenko.

Richard Jenkins

Among the very first generation to be born off Sera, Corporal Richard Jenkins was born in 2658GSY, 17 years After Emergence on the planet of New Sera. With the fertile-female policy of the COG no longer in effect, Jenkins was raised by his mother and father, and has a number of younger siblings of varying ages. He lived an unremarkable early life and was conscripted into the Turian Auxiliary at the age of 15 like all humans are now required to do, and served with honors.

After mustering out, Jenkins joined the Gears, serving two tours on Anvil Gate and training under Dominic Santiago, where he was noted for his potential. His latest assignment is Kilo Squad, under Lieutenant Commander Shepard, as the youngest member of the team.

Ventus Tallur

Ventus Tallur is a Turian Cabal, a powerful biotic who can spike as high as an Asari Commando. He has numerous disciplinary notes on his record, from petty to more serious, though all disciplinary notes stop after 2666GSY and he has since become a model turian, for a cabali.

At 39, Ventus is one of the oldest ground team members, and has a wealth of combat experience. Unusually, he has a great deal of experience combating both Locust and Lambent with biotics, and his books on methods and biotic techniques against unusual, hard to kill, and suicidal/explosive foes have become standard reading for cabal training. This experience has come from multiple repeated tours at Anvil Gate, assisting the Gears. This was noted, and he was gently reminded that he was placing himself in unnecessary danger; this has successfully discouraged him from further tours of Anvil Gate in the last seven years.

When Lieutenant Commander Shepard, knowing that the combat assignment would primarily be extrasolar, requested a biotic specialist, Ventus was assigned; his combat experience with humans will ensure good team cohesion and effective biotic support.