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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3688596" data-attributes="member: 1213">Additional Character:  Max Rosenbaum, "The Debtor"Max Rosenbaum was raised in luxury, and his parents drilled into him day after day that he had America and capitalism to thank for that.  He was taught to work hard for his money, his God, and his country, and oppose any who would threaten any of the above.  His grandparents has fled the Soviet Union with nothing, and eventually built a massive defense corporation, which was left to his father and would eventually be left to him.  True to his hypernationalist upbringing, and not having to worry much about his financial future, he joined the military after graduating from Harvard, becoming a SEAL and later moving to Naval Intelligence.  He loved his job and his life, until one day, he found out it was all a fraud.  He was called back from a mission in the field, and arrested.  He was informed that his parents, Joel and Ettie Rosenbaum, were communist spies.  Everything they had ever told him was a lie, a sham, a cover story.  To make matters worse, he had had his guard down around them, and they managed to monitor his activities and steal classified information in  his possession. While he was acquitted of all charges, he was dishonorably discharged from the military.  His parents were not as lucky, and were executed for treason.  He agreed with the sentence.  Good men died because of them.  Oppressive governments were strengthened because of them.  He was shamed because of them.Though his views were tempered by both his parents and his country turning their backs on him, he still believed in his country, and wanted to prove that he was better man than his parents were.  He vowed to redeem himself, not in the eyes of the public, but in his own eyes.  He wanted to undo the injustice that his parents had unleashed upon the world.  He managed to find their stash of illicit technology before the authorities, and still retained the family fortune, his military skills, and some of his contacts.  From that day on, he became a masked hero, calling himself The Debtor...</blockquote>

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