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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cougar" data-source="post: 46160" data-attributes="member: 2772">Edge's Military HistoryIn response to the questions posed by Black Omega and (especially) The Crimster (the GM) about why a government agency would allow an experiment to leave after spending millions on it, let me go a little deeper. It still may not hold water with you all, but hey, I have a mysterious group hunting me, this may well be them.First, allow me to ask if Black Omega ever served any time in the military or government? I know The Crimster hasn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The government agency that created Edge was a black ops type, no official funding, not answering to any official committees or agencies. So when the funding was cut the personnel in charge pretty much got reassigned elsewhere, in other black ops stuff or simply vanished. Edge, along with some of the paperwork on him, like his entrance medical exam and psych eval got transferred to the CIA, where they tried to make him into a field agent. They didn't know about the full extent of the experiment or about his abilities because the documents and serum that were important got stolen by leaving personnel, destroyed, or just plain lost. Edge was not sent to the CIA as a meta-human, but as an excellent civilian martial artist, who might be able to fill certain roles needed by the Agency. Edge began to feel the pinch of being a low-level government employee, especially while supporting his sister to go to college, then law school. So he decided to leave the CIA by being a less than stellar performer. A few training missions botched and a few bad evals and the CIA decided they didn’t need another martial artist with a huge ego. So he quit, with no questions.Now I think this is reasonable because people can quit their jobs in the CIA. This is what Edge did. I am not directly familiar with any real black ops agencies or experiments (of course), but from the way they are portrayed in the movies, they are managed by one person or a small committee and if they close up shop, they close up shop for real. The only other option is KILLING Edge, which wouldn’t be very fun for me as a player, although I would like to try a character with a battlesuit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> So they transferred him, but kept the serum and records for themselves, maybe to make other meta-humans. Maybe the agency that created Edge is now Umbra, the main villain organization. If it wasn’t before, it probably is now, eh Crim?When I was in the Navy (in real life) and got transferred to other stations, I hand-carried the ONLY copy of my service record. I could have taken out or altered anything I wanted to in them. Sure they had records of me being in other places, but not all the info I had in my record. And even though I was no multi-million dollar test subject, I don’t think it is that different in other areas of the government.Any comments good or bad let me know.</blockquote>

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