Name: Allan Mercado (Graz Thompson (pseudonym) )
Age: 33
Appearance: [img=http://cdn.filmschoolrejects.com/images/stargateatlantis-s05e19.jpg]
Nationality or Place of Residence: San Diego, California, USA. Resides in Desert Shores, CA
Title / Rank: Sergeant First Class
Biography / history: 

Thompson grew up in Barrio Logan, a slum area of San Diego, California. His mother died during his early childhood, leaving his father in a depressed state, which snowballed into drug addiction, unemployment, and eventually petty crimes to keep up the habit. 

Graz spent most of his time away from his destructive home, often taking refuge in the city library, where he spent his time reading and eventually writing, a skill he honed and began to use to make some small profit for himself writing for internet publications. 

During his early teens, his father was murdered after failing to pay off a loanshark he had utilized for drug purchases. Thompson was present for the murder, was taken captive by the criminals responsible, and sold into a human trafficking network. After being passed around various forced labor operations on Earth for two years, he was eventually sold to a mining contractor working in the Regillus VI mines. 

While accompanying a transport ship from the mines to a nearby spaceport to sell off precious ores, his ship was intercepted and assaulted by a group of pirates. Thompson, hardened by his years working as a slave and seeing an opportunity, turned on his shipmates, making sure the pirates saw him murder several of his crew. He surrendered himself to the pirates, offering himself as a recruit. Impressed with his brutality and hoping to capitalize on his knowledge of the mining operation and the ship’s schedules and security measures, the pirates adopted him into their crew. 

Thompson ran with the pirates from his early to mid twenties, during which time he learned to operate a variety of guns, pilot fighters, freighters, and even a few large cargo ships, and developed the less romantic but incredibly important criminal skill of finding and researching data to plan heists. He developed a knack for spotting trends, patterns and anomalies in data, which the criminals used to obtain fake identities, falsify financial records, and identify security flaws to exploit during heists. 

During a botched heist when he was 26, Thompson was wounded when the pirates miscalculated a private security force’s response time. Many of his fellow pirates were killed in the attack, though Thompson, piloting a mid-range fighter, was able to escape the battle and crash land on a small agricultural settlement away from the system. His ship totalled by the crash, Thompson had no choice but to seek refuge in the local farm towns. 

Recovering from his wounds with limited medical attention and without purpose or allies, Thompson used funds from his hidden bank account to rent a small cabin on a farmer’s land. He spent his recovery time writing a brutal, stylized account of his early life, his slavery, and his time with the pirates. 

He released the work over the course of several months on a personal blog, utilizing an encryption service which protected his location and posting under a pseudonym. His story became well followed, and eventually was noticed by the editor-in-chief of a highly read, alternative news magazine “The Colonial”, who contacted Thompson on his blog, asking if he’d be willing to sell the publication rights to the magazine, and run the remaining entries of the story in the magazine. 

Seeing this as a chance to start a clean career and finally take his life into his own hands, Thompson agreed. Following the success of his story in the magazine, he was offered a position as a journalist, undertaking stories which required him to delve into criminal elements undercover to report on strange subcultures, political and corporate corruption, and injustices across the colonies. 

Due to the sensitive nature of his reporting style, he has used several pseudonyms over the course of his journalism career, frequently using his former criminal contacts to make himself “disappear” and “reappear” with a new name and background information when necessary. 

At age 30, Thompson took on a long term project, requiring him to enlist in the TCMP. Utilizing friends and informants within the military, as well as creating a false background with matching records, “The Colonial” managed to slip Thompson into the police force.

 During his time operating in the TCMP, he would serve as any other soldier, but, unknown to the military command, would investigate allegations of impropriety and criminal acts being carried out against colonists by the military police forces. While carrying on his research, he became aware of the explosion on his former place of captivity, Regillius VI, and has pulled strings to land himself on the investigative team being sent to the mine. 
 
Equipment (out of combat theatre): 

Modified Tempest Long-- The Tempest Long is a common energy rifle used by colonists and pirates alike. Originally meant for agricultural workers on planets with large, dangerous fauna for protection, modified “short” versions of the rifle started appearing on the black market, which allowed the user the stopping power of a large rifle with the concealability of a large pistol. 

[img=https://img1.etsystatic.com/038/0/6066104/il_570xN.585722227_jsxt.jpg]

Zahn Industries Personal Repulsor (ZIPR)-- An inertial dampener/repulsor which creates an invisible field around the wearer, capable of stopping or greatly reducing the impact of energy and concussive weapons. Though it does not stop projectiles, it does greatly reduce their speed, utilizing it’s repulsor technology to slow smaller caliber bullets to non-puncture velocities. The ZIPR is only good to take a few hits from small arms before it has to recharge, making it good for personal protection, but poor in large conflicts or conflicts employing more powerful energy weapons or larger calibre bullets. 

Equipment (in combat theatre): Thompson, being of only enlisted rank, has no control over his in theatre loadout and is equipped as commanded by his superiors depending on the mission’s details.

Specialised Skills: 

Criminal Network-- Thompson has kept in contact with certain elements of his former criminal life, utilizing information brokers, identity specialists, and other unsavory but highly useful services when his investigations have called for such. 

Experienced Pilot-- Unlike many in the TCMP, Thompson has actually piloted a variety of vehicles and while he couldn’t stand in the shadow of the actual naval pilots, he can reliably handle his craft and lend a hand in space combat.