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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2123246" data-attributes="member: 1125">Marcus RewiAge 38, NZ Maori Ex-Airforce AEOP, Ex-SAS, Ex-FarmerHeight 6'2" Hair Black Eyes BrownAppearanceMarcus is tall man with an athletic build and a big smile. He is reasonably handsome though not outstandingly so and as a New Zealand Maori with a European grandfather he has the complexion and features that could pass for middle eastern, mediteranean, latino or even asian in the right circumstances. Marcus has a keen mind and is friendly but he can be slow to act as he ways up the various possible outcomes that might result from his actions  HistoryRaised on a dairy farm in the central North Island of New Zealand Marcus Rewi had a happy childhood helping with farm duties, hunting and fishing and all the other activities of a rural childhood. He excelled at school and was a good athlete competing in a number of interschool triathlons and cross country events. Eventually he joined the Royal NZ Air Force initially wanting to be a pilot (doesn't everyone?) but eventually gravitating towards Air Electronics Operator learning advanced radar , computer communications and electronic/acoustic surveilance and tracking.  As AEOP Marcus was part of a number of relief operations throughout the Pacific and Asia and the occasional Search and Rescue in New Zealand often involving parachute drops into difficult terrain. He soon learnt to break his falls and to land safely despite the terrain difficulties or occasional misjump. In these scenarios his rescue training merged well with his childhood hunting experience and his ability in the wilderness was acknowledged with promotion. He was eventually approached to join the NZ Special Air Services (SAS) where he was trained for CSAR missions.In the SAS he honed his survival talents and further developed skills in camoflage, tracking and stealth sometimes remaining days in the bush undetected. His further ability to be unobtrusive and blend in to the crowd around the world eventually had him sent to China as part of a joint effort with the Australian SIS. Here he was teamed with an M16 agent Lydia Hardy and sent to run reconaissance on a military target involved in interrogation in a remote village.   After tapping into a call to the target that seem to indicate an escalation in events Lydia  pushed for her and Marcus to make a preemptive move. Marcus was relunctant but after further insistance from his partner was persuaded to go into a direct tracking through the market. However Marcus got distracted by a pair of street performers leaving Lydia to forge on ahead of him - he never saw her again. By the time he caught sight of her she had been arrested and was being driven away in a military vehicle, when next he heard of Lydia she was dead a crash during transport.MArcus was severely reprimanded for this event and after some diplomatic wrangling to get him back to New Zealand he chose to retire from active service. He eventually rejoined civilian life as a sales rep working for a Farm Supplies distributor. This allowed him to get back to his rural roots, travel the country and also involve some training in safe handling and dangers of the industrial chemicals the firm imported (he was put into the dangerous chemicals division due to his military background). Most of the training was warnings about the dangers of mixing the wrong combinations of substances, or results from contact with water or air, but it was easy to extrapolate  (especially with help of the internet) how those same chemicals could be used to make acids, poisons and even explosives. It was a good break from military service but then one day an old ex-SAS freind told him about contracts being offered for protetion services in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. The money was lucrative and so Marcus signed up initially in a few escort jobs. However when he and his client were kidnapped things become more complicated. Marcus found himself in an abandoned warehouse in the custody of terrorist. He was thus able to call upon his knwledge of chemicals stored in the warehouse to create enough sulphide gas and then an explosion to allow himself and his client to escape where they were picked up by Espion agents sent to recover them. After this meeting he became interested in Espion and eventuall joined...It is from this 'Contract Protection work' (he avoids the word mercenary) that he comes to EspionTalentsUnobtrusive: Marcus has a complexion and features that could hail from anywhere in the world and thus whereever he maybe he is able to blend in and not draw attention to himselfBreakfall As a parachute specialist Marcus has learnt to control his fallsElectronic and Acoustic Surveilance - Skilled in radar, and other electronic and acoustic Surveilance systemsSurvival - knows how to survive in most environments, including the ability to move undetected and to use his surroundings as camoflage MacGyver Marcus can identify and safely handle many chemicals (including industrial chemicals). He may even be able to mix chemicals to create acids, smoke fumes and even dangerous explosives!HubrisIndecisive: Marcus spends too much time considering the possible consequences of his actions and this can keep him from acting quickly, at its worst it manifests as procrastination.</blockquote>

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