Player: Alton Reich
Name: Jordan Stern
Age: 29
Height: 5'-9"
Weight: 150 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
POB: Worcester, MA
Rank: SA-4
Current Assignment: Team Leader - Team Zulu
Skills: BS in Mechanical Engineering
Programs in several computer languages.
Trained in small arms marksmanship by the USAF.
Weapon of choice: SIG-Sauer P225 - 9 mm. The P225 is a light weight semi-automatic pistol that takes an 8 round magazine. On occation he will use the P225's big brother, the P226 with a 15 round magazine.
Background:
1968: Born in Worcester, MA. His parents lived in Spencer, about 15 minutes outside the city, at the time.
1972: Younger sister, Sarah, born.
1974: Moved to Indianapolis, IN when his father took a job as a research chemist with Eli Lilly.
1986 - 1990: Attended Case-Western Reserve University on an AF ROTC scholarship. He majored in mechanical engineering with a particular interest in electro-mechanical systems (motors, servos, and such).
1990-1993: Stationed at Olmstead Air Force Base working as an intelligence analyst.
1993-1995: Stationed at Edwards AFB in a AF Intelligence unit. He spent most of his time trying to reverse engineer systems and components based on plans smuggled out of foreign countries and information provided on former foreign nationals. It was there he became convinced of the existance of extra-terrestrials (see below).
1995-1997: FBI field agent attached to the Boston branch. Recently transfered to the X-Files division based in Washington. The transfer was motivated by his personal desire to seek the truth about human encounters with extra-terrestrial intelligance and technology.
Extra-Terrestrials:
One particularly challenging assignment at Edwards involved the deciphering of a linear servo control system. The sophistication of the supposedly Russian technology surprised Jordan, since he believed the US to be the world leader in linear servo design.
Several months later he was tasked with going through classified files from the 1950's to determine which should be declassified, destroyed, or maintained. As he went throught them he came upon a report on the same servo system he had analyzed. What he found advanced, had baffled the engineers of the 1950's. He also found several other studies on technologies that were highly advanced for the 1950's, but are relatively common today. Jordan Stern believes that the government has had some contact with extra-terrestrial life forms, perhaps in 1947 at Roswell, and their technology has been the inspiration for many technological advances in the US.
The Brief Alton Reich Bio:
I'm an engineer at Proto-Power Corp. in Connecticut, an engineering consulting company. I have a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensaleer Polytechnic Institute.
At home I have one wife, two children, a dog, two cats, and a snake. I have been playing interactive RPGs since January 1996, and currently play 6 characters.
My take on extra-terrestrial life: The universe is a REALLY big place. There's life out there. There's probably intelligent life out there. The problem I have with the idea of aliens visiting Earth is one of practicality. Dr. Bryce Cassenti of the UTC Research Center has proposed sending an unmanned space craft to Alpha Centauri, about 4 light-years away. According to his estimates, the one-way trip would take about 40 years. IF Einstein is right, and so far he's been right, interstellar travel takes too long to be practical. Einstein might not be right, though, and faster than light travel might not only be possible, but it might be practical. After all, Newton was right for a couple of hundred years before people began understand that in his theories had limitations.
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