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<blockquote data-quote="Storn" data-source="post: 4995059" data-attributes="member: 6698"><p>This got a bit long.. but I like it. The bio (and phases) for my PC Anton Kilkenny</p><p></p><p>Bio: </p><p>Childhood [Phase 1]: Born to Ashton and Markeena Kilkenny, two professors at Charleston University. A child of some privilege, Ashton was a willful boy. Always filled with a spirit of adventure and a love to tweaking authority figures, he also had a keen interest in games of all types. Love to play just about anything. Despite his liberal upbringing, Anton felt confined and maybe ...too safe. He ran away at 11 to join the Vestal Navy as a cabin boy. By the time he was a teen, he had moved into the junior officer academy. </p><p></p><p>Navy Service [Phase 2]: The navy gave some important structure to the young, wild Anton. He was a promising officer, smart, quick, had an aptitude with mechanical systems. There was always a poker game going on base somewhere. But his disdain for bad leadership continued to hold him back and sometimes get him into downright trouble. His first tour he saw action as a young 2nd Lt at 16 on the cruiser class VES (Vestal Empire Ship) Valiant Griffin. His silver spoon captain, Jon Richart was incompetent, getting the job through connections as opposed to merit. The action saw the Valiant Griffin holed in 5 separate places. 2nd Lt. Anton led repair teams while under fire and kept the Valiant Griffin afloat. He was rewarded with a 1st Lt. promotion and the command of long range recon Scout "boat" B-122. His 2nd tour once again resulted in a fiasco from higher command. During the last days of the war, the B-122 was sent on a deep recon far out from the Binghamton system, because the Admiral Leon Schneckty was convinced that Ovid ships had slipped through before the blockade was in place and where hiding (for 5+ years) somewhere out there. This was over Lt. Anton's serious objections. Not only did B-122 miss the final battle of the war when the Ovids made a push for the bargaining table by attacking the small Vestal fleet at Binghamton, B-122 almost ran out of fuel and water because of orders to continue to stay far, far on the periphery of the system. Lt. Anton came back to find Leon Schneckty then denying he sent the B-122 out and it was Lt. Anton's own initiative and that it was Lt. Anton's own desertion that left a hole in the blockade. Anton got back at Schneckty by sneaking into the admiral's quarters and sending the private log of the admiral on a news drone back to Vestal. Then punched the admiral out on the review deck of Fort Trafalgar in front of everyone. Anton was drummed out of the navy.</p><p></p><p>Moment of Crisis [Phase 3]: Given his almost supernatural ability to count cards, keep statistics and read people, Anton found that gambling could actually be a living. By the time he was 25 he was a full time professional gambler, travelling all over the cluster for a game or two. And while he could do sleight of hand, create mechanical cheats for every type of gambling, he disdain cheats and cheaters... often going out of his way to punish them. No, he preferred Lady Luck and a whole lot of prep work called research. He will study vids of other professional poker players, he will read voraciously about sports teams and statistics. He has worked as a croupier at various Casinos for 2 months to 1/2 a year. Eventually, he became well-known and eventually was invited to invitational only Mah Jong tourney on Covert. Which rarely invites non-Ovidians. At the same time, and underground poker tournament was happening. Anton did extremely well and won the freedom of some 50 clone slaves when the Tong boss Ibichi put them up as collateral. Then at the public tournament, he discovered that Jung Soo and Rennie Gertz were in collusion and using sleight of hand to build the best hands so Jung Soo would win, Anton called the two on it. Jung Soo drew on Anton, Anton shot him, severely wounded him and then covered Gertz who was thinking of drawing his own hideout. The court was going to be stacked against Anton Luckily, Paul Rojas was at Covert, looking to recruit some naval clones. He also pieced together that Jung Soo and Rennie Gertz were Ibichi's men and had deliberately provoked Anton to try and kill him. With diplomatic pressure from the Vestal Navy and gov't, blackmail by Rojas, Anton was released into Rojas's custody. </p><p></p><p>Sidetracked [Phase 4]: The 450 passenger Starliner Passionate Embrace was the way back to Vestal space for Rojas, Anton and most of the 50+ clones. Sabotage is suspected, but never been proved. When Passionate Embrace Slipped into Vestal space, it was waaay off track. And just to add fire, the jump seemed to trigger some kind of coma-like flu in most of the ship's crew. The firepan is that several subsystems were off-line and oh yeah, Vestal's largest gas giant with the biggest gravity well was right outside the window. Carter Manning, a "named" clone came to the rescue. Having been trained as a naval officer, Carter took control of the remaining standing crew and more than a few civilians. Anton quickly fell into old navy habits and help get key systems back online while Carter plotted a slingshot maneuver around the massive planet. </p><p></p><p>Recruited [Phase 5]: Rojas, having gotten the okay to put together a crew for a Valiance Arms ship, offered both Carter and Anton jobs. While Anton is not convinced that Valiance Arms is the benevolent megacorp we all see in the AdVids, he does owe Rojas and he does like Carter. Carter gets a ship. Anton gets to travel and see if there are more games to be had. And maybe a bit of adventure too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Storn, post: 4995059, member: 6698"] This got a bit long.. but I like it. The bio (and phases) for my PC Anton Kilkenny Bio: Childhood [Phase 1]: Born to Ashton and Markeena Kilkenny, two professors at Charleston University. A child of some privilege, Ashton was a willful boy. Always filled with a spirit of adventure and a love to tweaking authority figures, he also had a keen interest in games of all types. Love to play just about anything. Despite his liberal upbringing, Anton felt confined and maybe ...too safe. He ran away at 11 to join the Vestal Navy as a cabin boy. By the time he was a teen, he had moved into the junior officer academy. Navy Service [Phase 2]: The navy gave some important structure to the young, wild Anton. He was a promising officer, smart, quick, had an aptitude with mechanical systems. There was always a poker game going on base somewhere. But his disdain for bad leadership continued to hold him back and sometimes get him into downright trouble. His first tour he saw action as a young 2nd Lt at 16 on the cruiser class VES (Vestal Empire Ship) Valiant Griffin. His silver spoon captain, Jon Richart was incompetent, getting the job through connections as opposed to merit. The action saw the Valiant Griffin holed in 5 separate places. 2nd Lt. Anton led repair teams while under fire and kept the Valiant Griffin afloat. He was rewarded with a 1st Lt. promotion and the command of long range recon Scout "boat" B-122. His 2nd tour once again resulted in a fiasco from higher command. During the last days of the war, the B-122 was sent on a deep recon far out from the Binghamton system, because the Admiral Leon Schneckty was convinced that Ovid ships had slipped through before the blockade was in place and where hiding (for 5+ years) somewhere out there. This was over Lt. Anton's serious objections. Not only did B-122 miss the final battle of the war when the Ovids made a push for the bargaining table by attacking the small Vestal fleet at Binghamton, B-122 almost ran out of fuel and water because of orders to continue to stay far, far on the periphery of the system. Lt. Anton came back to find Leon Schneckty then denying he sent the B-122 out and it was Lt. Anton's own initiative and that it was Lt. Anton's own desertion that left a hole in the blockade. Anton got back at Schneckty by sneaking into the admiral's quarters and sending the private log of the admiral on a news drone back to Vestal. Then punched the admiral out on the review deck of Fort Trafalgar in front of everyone. Anton was drummed out of the navy. Moment of Crisis [Phase 3]: Given his almost supernatural ability to count cards, keep statistics and read people, Anton found that gambling could actually be a living. By the time he was 25 he was a full time professional gambler, travelling all over the cluster for a game or two. And while he could do sleight of hand, create mechanical cheats for every type of gambling, he disdain cheats and cheaters... often going out of his way to punish them. No, he preferred Lady Luck and a whole lot of prep work called research. He will study vids of other professional poker players, he will read voraciously about sports teams and statistics. He has worked as a croupier at various Casinos for 2 months to 1/2 a year. Eventually, he became well-known and eventually was invited to invitational only Mah Jong tourney on Covert. Which rarely invites non-Ovidians. At the same time, and underground poker tournament was happening. Anton did extremely well and won the freedom of some 50 clone slaves when the Tong boss Ibichi put them up as collateral. Then at the public tournament, he discovered that Jung Soo and Rennie Gertz were in collusion and using sleight of hand to build the best hands so Jung Soo would win, Anton called the two on it. Jung Soo drew on Anton, Anton shot him, severely wounded him and then covered Gertz who was thinking of drawing his own hideout. The court was going to be stacked against Anton Luckily, Paul Rojas was at Covert, looking to recruit some naval clones. He also pieced together that Jung Soo and Rennie Gertz were Ibichi's men and had deliberately provoked Anton to try and kill him. With diplomatic pressure from the Vestal Navy and gov't, blackmail by Rojas, Anton was released into Rojas's custody. Sidetracked [Phase 4]: The 450 passenger Starliner Passionate Embrace was the way back to Vestal space for Rojas, Anton and most of the 50+ clones. Sabotage is suspected, but never been proved. When Passionate Embrace Slipped into Vestal space, it was waaay off track. And just to add fire, the jump seemed to trigger some kind of coma-like flu in most of the ship's crew. The firepan is that several subsystems were off-line and oh yeah, Vestal's largest gas giant with the biggest gravity well was right outside the window. Carter Manning, a "named" clone came to the rescue. Having been trained as a naval officer, Carter took control of the remaining standing crew and more than a few civilians. Anton quickly fell into old navy habits and help get key systems back online while Carter plotted a slingshot maneuver around the massive planet. Recruited [Phase 5]: Rojas, having gotten the okay to put together a crew for a Valiance Arms ship, offered both Carter and Anton jobs. While Anton is not convinced that Valiance Arms is the benevolent megacorp we all see in the AdVids, he does owe Rojas and he does like Carter. Carter gets a ship. Anton gets to travel and see if there are more games to be had. And maybe a bit of adventure too. [/QUOTE]
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