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Description

Robert is man with a slightly muscular figure, six feet tall the last time he was measured, with crew cut hair of salt and pepper. Although he is of Caucasian decent, his homeworld, Regina is a tropic and jungle covered planet, who's sun has darkened the complexions of her human population into a dark bronze, of which, he is no exception.. His face is lean and angular, with a sharply hooked nose, which dark blue eyes peer around. A few scars dot his person, mostly small and on his limbs, gathered while he was out in the field during training exercises. A few are from bar fights and one on his back is from a knife. He normally dressed in his unit's standard light green utilities (pants, under tee and button up shirt, with a patrol cap) and black combat boots but as been known to wear his dress uniform or on rarer occasions, civilian clothing.

Major Rogers, in our own time, would be considered to be doing very well for a man of forty-eight years but he has yet to reach middle age for his own time period and is fairly average for a military man of similar age and still in a combat unit. A good many of his peers have started getting fat as planetary governors or as part of such men’s staffs, letting younger soldiers take to the field.

Personality

Stony and firm. Loyal to those under his command but addicted to Carlia (a tobacco-like plant that when smoked relaxes the muscles, reduces pain and releases stress but can have effects on the mind like acid, he is currently in a secret program testing a patch that counteracts the effects in the mind)

Equipment

Mark IV Pulselaser Carbine
Mark IX Pulselaser Pistol
Powercells for both weapons
Tin of Carlia cigarillos
Lighter

History

Just like so many others on Regina, Robert had a normal childhood. He went to school, got bullied, ran from girls with cooties, later romantically chased those same girls and graduated high school. During high school, he enrolled in the Army ROTC and was recruited on his eighteenth birthday. After officer's training, he joined the 9th as a Second Lieutenant. Over the years, he managed to work his way up to captain through a series of favors and bribes, until the 9th was assigned to guard a research facility located on Regina. Being an officer, he was allowed to intermingle with the staff and managed to meet Doctor Carlos Vega, whom was working on a compound that would turn Carlia from the scourge of the Federation to the wonder drug of battlefield medicine.

Doctor Vega recruited Rogers into testing his product by getting the captain hooked on Carlia. He also managed to get Robert promoted to major and a waver for him to carry both drugs and patches signed by Marshal General Meade, a member of the council. It came in handy a few years later, when the 9th's new Colonel tried to court marshal him for illegal drug abuse.

When the war with the Tarnakians broke out, the 9th remained at the research facility, where a corporal under Roger's command shot the Lieutenant Colonel (who did not identify himself) during a night patrol. He was forced to make a deal to save the man's life and the Colonel used his own power and bribes to make sure that Rogers would not be returning. Ever since then, things have gone to hell.

Robert Rogers's Story