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Thaddeus Kraggen

What are you slack-jawed rookies staring at? Get your ass on the street before I put my boot in it.

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a character in “The Multiverse”, originally authored by Lobos, as played by RolePlayGateway

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Name: Thaddeus Marcus Kraggen
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Occupation: WCPD (Chief of Police)

Height: 6'6"
Weight: 213lbs
Eye Color: Maroon
Hair Color: Greying
Build: Heavy, solid
Handedness: Left

Thaddues is a large, heavy man with an intimidating appearance and a gruff demeanor. Despite appearances, however, he is a suitable choice for the chief of the WCPD, a man that expects his officers to get their job done and ensuring the overall capacity of his department remains capable to handling the challenges of his jurisdiction. He may come across as abusive, aggressive, and an overall man to avoid the attention of, but to date, he got his job done. As the new Chief, he intends to clean up his department.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it busted hell, smash it, pick out the good bits, and build a new one."

His personal equipment comes in the form of a pair of gauntlets and boots, each sporting protruding crystals. Constructed of adamantium with a laminate of mithril, at a glance they seem like archaic weapons. Until one realizes what powers they possess. The crystals are resonating sources of power, magnifying the strength and speed of blows to exceed standard human capabilities, while mitigating the effects of exceeding boundaries on the wielder.

Additionally, they can generate a powerful energy current that can be discharged as extremely high velocity beams, heavy concussive blasts, or great electrical currents. A beam holds the power of a battering ram, a blast the force of a slow vehicle collision, while the current discharges enough energy to effectively tazer most dragons. These abilities are listed at their lowest available powers, and can be magnified to take down the sturdiest of lawbreakers, or to deliver lethal force when absolutely necessary.

. Their final purpose, however, is erecting a defensive field around the wielder's body, capable of significantly large amounts of punishment before failing.

So begins...

Thaddeus Kraggen's Story

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The Detective frowned only slightly. "Sit in on the interrogation?" She said, cantering her head slightly. "I'm sorry, my English is not so good, Will I be allowed to Question Mr. James Brayden or will I be relegated to silently observing.. If you are concerned about torture, I am not quite trained in forceful extractions, I simply want to confirm the information from a suspect we have in custody." Yukiyama explained.

"I want to make sure all the pieces fit."

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#, as written by Lobos
Turning, Thaddeus met her gaze with his lone eye. "Give me your questions, specifically, and they'll be asked. The matter's already been taking out of my hands by those higher than me on the ultimate fate of our suspect, but I'll be the one doing the questioning. You can be in the room, and you'll get your answers, fair enough?"

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Keiko scowled, and still scratched her head in confusion. "What difference is it who asks the questions? You know my intent, I want to confirm his involvement with Joshua Mattrix, and verify why he lied to the Frumentarii when he was questioned by one of their Frumentarius." Keiko said calmly.

"I want to know if he knows the whereabouts of our primary suspect in the case, the identity of whom I am not at liberty to discuss with you."

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"Policy wise, allowing any member of an investigative force outside of the NPA or WPCD to interrogate, even benignly, a suspect without the presence of an officer of one of those two law enforcement branches is a serious breach of protocol. I'm only just beginning to drive it into my department's heads after the shortcomings of my predecessor, so I'm not going to just throw away that work. Either I'll ask the questions you have, or I can't allow the questions."

His explanation clearly stated, he glanced down the hallway. "As I said before, it's moved into higher hands than mine, and I'm just following orders. Given that all I'm aware of is that he broke with the department, that's all I know of as far as any cases he might be involved in. So any names you have really won't mean anything to me, and unless they directly affect any ongoing investigations here in Wing City, are out of my jurisdiction anyways."

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Keiko chuckled slightly. "I never requested that an officer not be present, just that I ask the question. If protocol forbids that, than you must consider the relevance of your own protocols." Keiko explained, standing slightly square with the taller, imposing man.

"This is a very important investigation, The Crown Prince himself has taken direct interest in our side of the investigation, so you understand that it is out of my hands, and I too have orders to follow." Keiko said calmly. "And to that effect, if I am not allowed to personally ask the questions that are pertinent to my case, than i have no business here. I will report to my superiors your agency's unwillingness to cooperate, and we will exhaust all diplomatic options to see that the terms of our investigation are satisfied."

The woman's tone was firm, yet polite, her accent mincing her words only slightly.

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Shrugging, Kraggen relented. Dealing with these people wasn't his job, and as far as unreasonable went, he'd made the effort to be as reasonable as possible. If the question was as harmless as she said, what amounted to a bottom level officer on the chain of command wasn't much of a concern, but foreigners were foreigners. "Very well. If you have a weapon, leave it outside the room."

Leading the way down the hall, he paused outside the room, waiting to see if indeed, Detective Keiko had brought a weapon with her.

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The Officer nodded slightly, and then withdrew her weapon, a small framed Seburo M-5. "I'll check it with the desk officer." She said, handing it to the officer to be checked in, and then she followed the Chief down the hall.

"I am glad we were able to come to understanding."

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Bray was glad to be finally moving. Except normally in the interrogation room he was on the other side. This was the first time he was the one getting questioned. And he didn't like it. Though he looked calm and relaxed, if a little bored, he was feeling unsettled inside. He moved to the room though as told, cooperating as if nothing was wrong. He took a seat and waited trying to predict what questions were going to be asked and how he was going to answer them.

It was only when Thaddeus entered with another person that Bray looked up and even looked confused. He wasn't stupid and he recognised that the other person wasn't with the WCPD. What was going on? He glanced from Thaddeus to the other person and back again. Was this the person that Thaddeus had to go and see?

"What's going on? I thought this arrest was about my cover being broken?" He frowned.

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"It is, and that hasn't changed," the Chief growled. "But first, Detective Keiko is here to ask a question, for her own reasons."

Turning to Yukiyama, Kraggen made it clear that her time was there. "And then, she'll be leaving us so that we can get down to the business at hand, Mr. Brayden."

Returning his one-eyed gaze to James, the half of the grizzled old officer's face that wasn't present to the ISSP detective twisted in a deeper scowl. Even though it avoided all sorts of political problems, it was clear enough how displeased Thaddeus was about this whole case already. Bad enough to have to even be charging a once officer of the law, but having it turn into a circus act of jurisdiction claiming and foreign interference.

He suppressed quickly the snort that wanted to find its way out.

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The Detective nodded slightly. "I won't be long, I only want to verify some information before I proceed with another lead." She said, producing a small envelope and opening it up, going over the papers which were printed in barcode. This meant that only Yukiyama, with her Cyberbrain was capable of reading the information that was printed.

After she read the paper, she folded it back up and then she set it aside. "I'm with the Taiyou Empire's Inter Solar System Police, you may or may not have heard of us. First I would like to confirm your name as James Brayden, on an undercover assignment working with the O'Leary Trafficking syndicate, and I would like to confirm your absolution regarding Shanthi Hakkar."

Keiko paused, and then she checked the barcode text again. "Do you know a Vulpes Inculta?"

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Bray frowned as he listened to the woman speak and connected the dots with the visit he'd received over a week ago from Vulpes. "My name is James Brayden. I was undercover. Seven years ago I dropped off the WCPD radar but I was still working for O'Leary. I suddenly quit working for O'Leary two months ago and am known as MIA to him currently. I haven't been in contact with him or anyone involved since." Bray told her, not looking at Thaddeus now as he admitted dropping from the radar.

Bray could have quite the temper when angry, and he was getting angry now with where this was going because he didn't know anything. "I don't know Shanthi Hakkar, though. Never met them before. The first I heard of her name was when Vulpes threatened to kill Devon and his mother when I couldn't give the information he wanted. And if you're with him, you better not be here for them. They know nothing and I know nothing. You will not be executing them on my front lawn like he promised. I don't know anything."

He glared at the ISSP officer now, holding eye contact with her to make sure she got his point.

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Keiko nodded. "You and your family are in no danger, what the TNG Chooses to do with your crimes against them, is between you and their justice system." She said, taking some notes in Taiyou. "I wanted you to tell me about O'Leary, we know where he's at and roughly what he's doing." She said, taking down some more notes. "You worked with him undercover, I'd like you to tell me what we'll be up against when we make our move." Keiko said.

"I want you to tell me what you learned while you were undercover, details about his operations, what sort of weapons he's been known to use, that type of thing."

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Bray stayed silent for a few moments, obviously deciding his words carefully or choosing what to tell her and what not to tell her. He was really tempted to tell her to go fuck herself. She hadn't got any proof that he was involved. No evidence. He was arrested on some other charges so he didn't have to answer her questions, nor would he be resisting anything or being uncooperative because of it. After all, she hadn't arrested him, Thaddeus had. There was a lot to consider. Everything that he'd done for O'Leary, killing Corey, where O'Leary was hiding. Bray sighed and rubbed the side of his head. His thoughts were getting carried away. They couldn't know about all of it. Bray had to think of a better story.

"Who knows what he's up to. I haven't seen what he's up to in two months. He could be up to anything. That Vulpes guy seemed to think he's got that Shanthi. But I have no idea. If he did have her, she's probably far gone now. Josh was stupid to take her if he did. And the only option O'Leary would have would be to sell her or kill her. So one or the other has happened already. I doubt you'll find her if he's somehow managed to get her off Terra. If I was him I certainly wouldn't keep her on Terra."

Bray remembered Josh been a bit of a wild person, making spur of the moment decisions.The boy was dangerous. Bray had always thought that and thought it now. If this girl was missing and in the Trafficking ring then he knew it was Joshua who had done it. And he knew that O'Leary would be getting rid of her. Fast. O'Leary wouldn't keep her. It would be too dangerous. He'd be getting rid of her and moving everything to his hide out in the East of Solinus. Then he'd make preparations to bail Terra. But if there was a search of O'Leary's place... Corey's body... Bray frowned at his thoughts.

"One thing I learned when I was with O'Leary, is that when things look to be going wrong, he chops and changes his plans telling no one. Therefore I haven't got a clue what he's doing, which men he's using, what his weapons are. Someone will probably know that you're onto him so he's probably moving things as we speak. I don't know. Like I said. I haven't been in contact with him for two months, nearly three."

"This has nothing to do with me. I might have worked for the guy, but I had nothing to do with that girl's disappearance. And I want you to pass a message to Vulpes. If he so much as comes and touches Lena or Devon. I will kill him. Make sure he remembers that." Bray added, his mood soured completely by the fact of what he was being questioned over and for the fact that he had no idea why the hell Josh had gone and implied that he was a part of it all. That threat that Vulpes threatened me with will fail. He will not crucifix them on his lawn. The WCPD have them now. It's impossible to do that now that we're in the WCPD custody.

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Keiko remained silent as she listened to his answers. She considered them and noted them down. "We have Josh." She said, tapping her pen against the table. "He was arrested in Shintenchi, the ISSP and the Frumentarii interrogated him, and he told us everything. Your involvement, and his own involvement with Kidnapping Shanthi, we know you're not involved with that part, but we had hoped that when you worked with him, he might have told you something that would have been of use to us, so that we could be more discreet when we moved on him." She said with a frown.

"We know O'leary is in solinus, just not specifically where at this time. You don't know of any contingencies he might have had should he be discovered?"

While she waited for Bray's response, she sent a cybercomm to her superiors.

"This guy isn't any help, I have the feeling he's not telling me everything, we'll need to move quickly if we're going to find Shanthi."

She then leaned forward. "We plan to move on the mansion and turn over any evidence we find to the NPA, unless you have insight to a better location where he might be."

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Shelly watched quietly from the observation room adjacent to where Bray was being questioned. She pursed her lips against Bray's flood of thoughts. Eastern Solinus was a huge place, they would need Bray to narrow things down. The news that he would try to get off planet was potentially key though.

She pulled her phone from her pocket and put it to her ear.

"Get a bulletin out on O'Leary," she spoke into the phone. "We have reason to think he might try to leave Terra. Make sure it gets out to every space port."

There had been something about Corey's body that had crossed Bray's mind, but his thoughts had shifted too swiftly for her to get more than an impression that the man was dead - possibly at O'Leary's place.

She didn't know who this Vulpes was that they were talking about, but she intended to find out. For now though she was relegated to sifting through his thoughts on whatever line of questioning Thaddeus and Keiko instigated. Unfortunately trying to access Keiko's own thoughts directly would be highly illegal and likely grounds for an international disaster.

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"I'm fairly certain Brayden's answered the question on knowing the contingencies, Detective Yukiyama." The chief finally spoke up, his tone firm and unrelenting. "If this O'Leary changes his plans often, the information he has for you is likely badly outdated. You know as well as I do that criminals don't leave critical information in the hands of the people that betray them."

'Isn't that right, Mr. Brayden? Any information you might hold is as good as worthless, after two months out of the loop of a man known for his paranoia regarding his own plans, correct?"

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Except O'Leary doesn't know I have betrayed him. He never knew that I was undercover. Killing Corey ensured his trust and seven years as his most trusted man has given me everything. But I'm not telling them jack shit. Or I'll use it as leverage when I need to. But when Vulpes threatened my family, he stopped me from cooperating with them. I'll choose what information I give and when Bray decided watching the exchange between Thaddeus and Keiko.

"Yeah." He finally confirmed. "Whatever I know will have been changed around the moment I went missing. He doesn't know I disappeared of my own accord. He'll think an enemies gotten me and I'll be spilling my guts on his plans. He'll change them up. So whatever I knew is worthless." Bray confirmed, looking from Thaddeus to Keiko again and waiting to see if his answer was acceptable.

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Keiko nodded rather innocuously, and then she stood up. "I think I have everything." She said, folding the paper into it's envelope, inclining her head to Brayden, and Thaddeus.

She then moved towards the door, and with two knock, the officer opened it to allow her to leave, it was then she stopped and turned to the officer outside the door. "I'd like to speak with the NPA Agent that's here." She said calmly, and the Officer scowled but reluctantly lead her to the door of the observation room, opening it to allow Keiko to enter.

Her eyes fell on Shelly.

"May I have a word with you?"

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"Now isn't the best time," Shelly replied.

Skimming Bray's thoughts while also holding a discussion wasn't liable to work well in her favor. Keiko would only prove a distraction from the questioning at hand.

"What did you need?" she asked.

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Waiting until Keiko had left, Thaddeus turned to view Bray directly, his eye hardening. "So, onto business."

"Records show that you were sent undercover in Solinus, but I find you here. Do you deny that you broke your cover and attempted to use your status to leave the Wing City Police Department?"

Unpleasant business, interrogating a police officer, but it had to be done, and done publicly. Bray just happened to be the unfortunate first one that the new Chief had uncovered to purge from the department.