EDIT: Pretty long bio. Let me know if I messed anything up.

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[b]Diego Sandoval[/b][/center]

[b]-Crew Position:[/b] Security Officer 
[b]-Age:[/b] 35

[b]-Background:[/b] Diego was born and raised in Florencia, Columbia in 2072. His life was hard under the charismatic regime of the dictatorial Presidente Hugo Bolivar. His father, Professor Pablo Sadoval, was always keen on making sure his son earned a respectable education, despite the hostile, propaganda filled atmosphere the boy was raised in. Diego took after his father, he was deeply interested in the world around him, and not just the world itself, but the people who made it the way it was. He had a deep longing to know, to simply have the answers to the questions his little brain thought up. Even more so, however, Diego wanted an adventure. He read the Hitchhikers guide extensively, watched the evolving nature of space exploration and the width of human expansion. He dreamed, behind those soft fluttering eyelids, of American troops storming the Bolivian palace and releasing the people of Columbia from their self-laid trap. This was only furthered as he read about the 20th century history of Europe. 

Eventually, due to Diego’s keenly literate and dexterous mind, he was accepted on a scholarship to Oxford. He was smuggled out of the slowly transforming fascist state, and tucked gently into the ivory cushions of the well-respected university. 

He studied history and literature and culture until he was overflowing with knowledge. 8 years and a couple of doctorates later, Diego returned back home to the dusty, suffocated streets of Florencia to learn that his father had been killed, suspected of “treason” (which is all anyone needs to suffer that fate in a state run by secret police). Living in his dilapidated home with his mother, Diego was invited to join an underground resistance. The boy had been reading Lennon, and Marx, and Jefferson, and Franklin, and Trotsky for the past 8 years, he was looking forward to a velvet revolution, with minimal bloodshed. And so he tried. He met up with some of the brightest minds in South America and invited them to write with him, speak with him, lecture with him. This went on for a few months, gaining footholds with the youth of Bolivia, he spoke the unspoken. That was until his home was raided by secret police. His documents were burned, his home was even further destroyed, and, so not to make a martyr out of him, his life was spared. His mother’s life, however, was not. 

This led to Diego abandoning his velvet revolution. The regime showed such brutal opposition, such concise subversion that Diego realized, in the moments when he watched his mother’s life slip from her eyes, the only way to defeat them would be through a clear, and unabashed reflection. And so, he joined the underground rebellion. He studied up on military tactics and scoured the continent for resources and aid. The reputation he’d built for himself had already been cemented in Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. The assistance from each of those partners, plus an overwhelming interest from the American CIA, allowed the resistance to form a base of operations in Florencia. Using subversive, and sabotaging tactics Diego made himself an integral part of the operation. He made it very clear that his intelligence was not [i]only[/i] good for reading communist literature. After the year-long operation was over Diego couldn’t let himself settle down and become a Governor. He realized that his dreams from those sad humid nights had come true, and it wasn’t an American who’d been the protagonist, but himself. He’d finally found that adventure, that sense of thrill he’d always desired which was aside yet, eventually, perpendicular to his thirst for knowledge. 

America was certainly pleased, Diego had helped fulfill a requirement of a soon to be realized desire. The United Americas was the next step in Western Hemisphere politics, and Hugo Bolivar was not going to make that easy. Diego took the extended hand of the CIA and planted his new roots in Texas as a special agent. From here he was sent all over the world for espionage missions, and occasional fieldwork with the marines. This relationship led to Diego being picked for a sweep and clear mission on a confidential American satellite station, pinging an intruder alert signal. The station was one of a few buoys for “recon and analysis”, as the briefing read, settled somewhere just at the edge of the solar system. Using an American prototype [i]Atheon[/i] class ship, the team set off for the station in 2103. 

The mission was plagued with problems from the very beginning, making infiltration harder than it should have been. They were expected at the docking port and lost two men in the gun fight. The intruders were mechanized troops, ordered to take control of the station. During the last encounter with some of the last machines the rest of the squad were killed. Diego was barely able to retreat with his life. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach Command, Diego decided he would need to escape on the ship they’d brought here. Just as that decision was made the station's self-destruct protocol was enacted, something most likely ordered from Command back on Earth. Diego managed to get the ship away from the stations vicinity before it blew, but the aftershock managed to send his craft hurtling, end over end, into space. Thankfully he was found by a Weyland Yutani patrol and brought back to one of their space stations. 

He made this place his home for the next three and a half years, serving as a security consultant on the station. He helped settle spats, root out smugglers, and even take down a maniac or two. As far as he knows, the CIA and the Marines believe he’s dead, or, at the very least, do not know of his whereabouts. Weyland Yutani, however, knew exactly where he was, and made sure he was as snug as a bug on that station. When they realized they had a military genius and hardened soldier working for them as a consultant, they thought he might do better as an officer aboard one of their newest vessels. 

[b]-Personality:[/b] Diego has a quick wit and deep wealth of knowledge, making him easily annoyed by vapid personalities or bland intellectuals. He's a man of philosophy and decadence, of honor and dignity. He's a no nonsense sort of individual when it comes to his work but a generally aloof, yet charming, intellectual in most other regards.[/hider]