General Information Name: Markus Aleksandr Age: 28 Date of Birth: March 3rd. Sexuality: Asexual Nationality: Atlas Religion: Atheist Theme Music: Carpenter Brut - Hang'em All Friends: Director Leu Trän (Status Unknown) Shawn Rhodes (Status Unknown) Clint Ardzasch (Solid working relationship: trusts his judgement) Esas (Seen as an equal: would side with him in most situations) Enemies: No personal enemies. Citizenship Status: Retains Dual-Citizenship with Haven. Occupation: Military. Current General of the Atlas Defense Force Skills: Combat Proficiency (Specializing in mid-ranged engagements), Scouting, Tactics. Has come into his own as a proficient negotiator/ambassador. Personality: Manipulator. ISTJ-A Phobias: Fear of loss and, by proxy, intimacy. Likes: Old movies and Jazz Dislikes: IPAs and Ideologues Physical Appearance Physical Description: Short, dark hair with sideburns and trimmed beard. Brown eyes. Broadly built; appears toned. Tech and Augments used: Templated from the Vagobot Mk III line. Later augmented for strength and durability. In combat, prefers the use of exosuits and power armor. Height: 6'1" Race: Synthetic Android Species: Converted from Human Gender: Appears Male Backstory and More On-going Story: As General of Atlas' Military, his sole focus is the preservation of presence and strength ofinfluence. He has assessed the new Ruin crisis as tantamount to Armageddon, and must be stopped at all costs; going so far as to leave the Olympus Reclamation Initiative in the hands of his officers in order to combat this threat on a more personal level, much to the chagrin of the Board. Backstory: Originally born with the name Christian Laubi, Markus was orphaned as a toddler (absentee fatherand mother who fell to illness). At nine years of age, he was adopted by what the agency thought to be an eccentric philanthropist; in reality, he was the leader of a small-time mercenary group, looking for someone he could groom to become his successor. Receiving an informal education from old books and the ramblings of his nomadic, adoptive 'family', Markus learned the ins and outs of survival, tactics, and maintaining ships and weapons. By the time he came of age, and was finally ready to take all he had learned to the field, hisadoptive father, Garrion, took a large swath of their manpower and fleet on a contract to parts unknown in the Fringe: undoubtedly some wetwork for the USCM. Leaving what remained of his fleet in Markus' charge, Garrion was never seen or heard from again. Over the following years, what remained of the group disbanded under Markus' undeveloped leadership skills. As the years wore on, he took on small contracts for himself, either operating alone or as aplus-one to another PMC. Eventually, he took on a contract from the USCM to track down an AWOL Lieutenant; a cold bounty that still had a hefty reward (likely never updated by their desk jockeys). The trail lead him out to the Fringe, where a freak accident crippled his ship; draining what money he had on repairs. With no way to find his mark or a way back home, he joined up with Atlas' Asset Protection department. He is presumed to have given up the chase on that AWOL Lieutenant. Throughout Markus' tenure with Atlas Corp, he was witness to a number of significantevents and changes: from the rise and fall of the New Basra Pact to the beginnings of Atlas' shift from multi-billion pixel robotics mogul to full-on Empire. To his recollection, his advancement from 'Asset Protection Personnel' to 'General of the ADF' was steeped in luck: far as he has figured, it was only ever because of his attendance and propensity for not getting shot that netted him his initial promotion to 'AP Officer' alongside one Shawn Rhodes, former High Atlas during the days of the Federation. It was during the days of leading AP that lead Markus to initiate, what he believes to be, the firstgreat stride in advancing Atlas' efficacy as a military force: unifying tactical focus through soft-link, virtual-reality training simulations. While the training provided was no challenge to most recruits who enlisted with Atlas, it helped convey a singular focus, allowing larger and larger groups of AP Personnel to become more cohesive. Incidentally, the development of these various virtual environments gave birth to a new passion project for Markus; the fruits of which are yet to be seen. During the height of the New Basra Pact, and by proxy the Shifter conflict on Haven,Markus was inadvertently infected with the Shifter Virus from an incident involving the SOLUS Club. He was offered a choice: either rot away and become a shifter, retaining his consciousness, or voluntarily end his life and be reborn clean. This singular event, and the choice he made, inform his philosophy on consciousness and its purpose to an incredible degree; arguing that "whether (his) consciousness is actually (his), or a copy of (his former self), is irrelevant. This is what (they) would have done, given the choice." This thought process is what, eventually, convinced him to convert his consciousness to a synthetic core some months following the incident. Soon after his promotion to General of the renamed Atlas Defense Force, he became intimatelyinvolved with Rose Avalice, daughter to one of the few remaining minds capable of replicating the works of Vago Kepp, Lange Avalice. It was during this period of time that he was offered the opportunity to convert his biological identity to a synthetic one. As Markus became more familiar with life as a synthetic, he started fiddling with his own emotional state: whether this was in response to his personal life or if it was purely for the benefit of his own knowledge and work, is a question that not even he is able to give a straight answer to. It was, however, this forced emotional-distancing that Markus had put himself through that addedyet-more strain to an already difficult relationship. The breaking point appeared to revolve around a certain digital aberration of Lange Avalice's corrupted and fragmented SI infecting Markus' peripheral systems. The resolution of this event included Markus and Rose's separation; the reasoning behind the separation is a topic he rarely comments on, preferring to not think about it when possible.
