J-0 – Former G.I. Joe program unit J-0, codenamed J.O.E. by A.E.G.I.S. becomes the leader of a Private Security / Mercenary Team known as R.I.O.T. (Reconnaisance/Infiltration/Operations Team) based out of a secret submarine base SeaLab 3000 off the coast of Italy. Among it’s resources are
- an Atomic Submarine "R.I.O.T. ‘Ticonderoga'"with Nuclear Weapons capabilities,
- a N.E.O. stealth LandMate defected with by expatriate Agent Jaqueline Smith
- two N.E.O. customer LandMates, a Space model and a Heavy Assault modeL
- an Arasaka DAIONI full conversion command armor LandMate
- a MAPPO corporation Submersible Helicopter Gunship
- two MAPPO corporation Amphibious LandMates
- an M-99 Hunter-Killer android
- facilities for up to 150 troops at submarine base
The group operates as "Soldiers for Hire" to world governments, corporations and private concerns (billionaires).
Jaqueline “Orbital Jack” Smith – Tapped by POSIEDON Industries to head up Japan’s fledgeling “Channeling Division”. This Class A ESPer now runs the most advanced and well-funded ESPer organization on Earth. Along with Public Security Section 6 and Section 9 she also wages an unending manhunt for the M.I.A. Principality of Near Earth Orbitals war-criminal Captain Victor Vorstagg, now revealed to be Victor Rothschilde, Heir to the enormous Rothschilde fortune and son of Karl Rothschilde, the founder of Contolism, the philosophy that enabled the Near Earth Orbital alliance. Her alliance with the Flannagan Institute gives her first pick of the finest ESPers graduates in the Solar System as recruits.
Brigadier General Stuart Dirth – Promoted for meritorious service to the Earth Federation Army, General Dirth now leads the 1st Army A.P. Division, commanding all A.P. Teams for planet Earth. Based out of A.E.G.I.S. High Command in OLYMPUS he directs the deployment of the most powerful SpecOps teams in the Earth sphere, controlling the course of covert operations of the EX future.
A.E.U.G. 1ST ARMY A.P. DIVISION COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY: OLYMPUS ISLAND
Experimental Subject 23 codenamed: Bill – flies the skies of the Earth and beyond as a test-being for endless experimental craft. From orbital Fighters to High Mobility Exo-Armors, Bill is on the cutting-edge of all flight technology. He was also among the first earth-beings to be fully downloaded into an artificial cyber-brain rendering him effectively immortal. Using reverse-engineered mind-control technology developed by MAPPO, and the ESP efforts of Director Jaqueline Smith of POSEIDON’s Channeling Division, his biological brain has been reconditioned to a state of human normalcy. While his downloaded consciousness retains the quirks and features of his original personality. His status as a dual entity is near unique as a citizen of OLYMPUS, he has the rights of a biological citizen for his meat-brain biopod and his cyberbrain ‘ghost’ is still considered government/military property. He is legally two people. OLYMPUS bioroid engineers have approached him to fashion a replacement biological body, cloned form his remaining brain dna, so that he may live a normal life if he so desires.
TEST SUBJECT 23 IN EXPERIMENTAL 'ORNICOPTER' BODY OFVER RUINS OF JAKARTA
Commander Atma Dunes – promoted for meritorious service to the Earth Federation Aerospace Force, Cmdr. Dunes now leads the Einherjar Fleet Division of Assault Exo-Armor “Strike Wings”. From his Fleet flagship “Odin's Bane” he hunts down remaining N.E.O. loyalist rebels and dissidents committing space-borne terror operations. His famed fleet of pirate hunters are the elite of the E.F.A.F.. These hard-fighting pilots are ‘the Texas Rangers of Space’ keeping peace among the wilderness of the Earth Sphere and the out-worlds colonies. So successful are Cmdr. Dunes soldiers that even the rumor of their coming is enough to send rebel bandits into hiding. The Tanelorn Fleet consists of :
- The Fleet Flagship “Odin's Bane”
- Satellite BattleStation "Leviathan” orbiting the Moon. A full shipyard dry-dock platform capable of Exo-Armor and BattleCruiser fabrication and repair.
- Five Pegasus class carrier-cruisers
- 20 Strike wings of 3 to 5 Exo-Armors optimized for rapid assault. Including the Elite Fenrir and Sleipnir Wings of media fame.
- Over 2000 spacemen ( aerospace equivalent of navy sea-men ) including technical crews and command officers
Elite Mechajocks comprise his forces. Berths on his ships are among the most sought-after in the Aerospace Force.
Citizen Zen Paine – Once again in possession of a biological body, Zen serves as an ambassador for NEKOs as recognized citizens of the A.E.G.I.S. world government. Social discrimination exists against the NEKO people due to the MAPPO war of the ElephantMen. Transgenics are viewed with suspicion and hate in much of Europe. Ambassador Paine is the most recognized public face of OLYMPUS’ cat-human hybrid bioroid project of 2120. A.E.G.I.S. recognizes NEKOs as a distinct race and accords them due rights and protections, however a NEKO homeland is in dispute as the world is redistricted after the War.
