[hider=I present to you, your antagonist] [color=red][b]Name:[/b][/color] Dai Anson - Lieutenant General [color=red][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] [hider=3-star General Dai Anson] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/440368915080544256/447631339840077834/image.jpg[/img] [/hider] [color=red][b]Age:[/b][/color] 38 [color=red][b]Allegiance:[/b][/color] Red Star Shelter Solutions [color=red][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Dai possesses an utopian personality. His utopia is basically a world of classless and safe society, where lineages or social status do not matter. They still exist, but does not boost or hamper their progress in life. A place where the people work more for the benefit of the commons and less for themselves, and every individuals would be evaluated according to their ability, and rewards are distributed accordingly to that aspect. An ideal that is almost dead in this world, with the rampage of self-interests, greed or just plain ignorance or laziness. He is a true egalitarian, rarely prejudiced and would not accept social biases. His motivation for his generalship is to fight, not for the Red Star corporate, but rather for the world he envisioned. It just so happens that the Red Star has a relatively similar ideology. And because most people consider such views naïve, he is initially very disappointed of various aspects of life. As he progress on in his studies and travels of the world, he eventually grew to distaste many of the corporates handling the world, either because he thinks their ideologies, despite looking effective at first glance, will turn back and bite them in the long-run, or just plain disgusting (i.e Denver-Vegas's prison games). But on the other hand, he had grown to be more pragmatic, but still fighting for his ideals. Dai will work tirelessly to make his utopian dream come into reality, or at least a fraction of it, or die trying. And with it, he is not above committing acts like brainwashing or propaganda to keep his people in check. But he mostly do this out of care rather for personal interests. He also regards immoral evil acts very critically, and will not hesitate to punish them brutally if they refuse to rehabilitate To his army, Dai appeals the most to the common soldiers, with each soldiers referring Dai intimately, and their commander loving them as if they were his sons, but were not afraid to send them to their deaths if it proves a necessity. In both combat and non-combat scenario, he is a strong-willed, calm yet sensitive and considerate person. [color=red][b]Backstory:[/b][/color] Dai was born on Paracel Islands, a group of island in South China Sea, to a quite well-off intellectual yet total commoner family. He is, as expected of his family lineage: an intelligent and non-linear thinker, with keen interests in economic (he dreamt of being an economist when he was a little kid) and military strategies, allowing him to earn enrollments in many places around the world. The Red Star Corporate soon took notice of him, and promised to back his education abroad in Military Academies. And there...is when his disappointment began. He first visited the North American Corporates and was disgusted at how the ruling classes acted. So he left and stayed at Paragon Industrial. His stays was alright, but the condescension to his commoner status drives him away too. His only prolonged stay in his trip is to Al Amir, to which the only faction he sympathizes, at least to his standard. He disliked the genius tax policy, but learnt his pragmatism there. He did not go to other places, but learnt extensively of their situation there. Returning to Red Star Shelter Solutions after the long study trip, the now 27 years old Dai, from all the problems of Corporates worldwide, Dai was convinced that only a centralized, authoritarian but benevolent and open-minded government would be able to solve these problems, and that the citizens should not contain the characteristics of self-interest. But then, the war happened between Volkov and Red Star, a forgotten war, concealed by media coverage. Volkov and Red Star is commonly known to be allies and trade partners, but inside, there were overall dispute and hatred for each other over foreign policy, and were concerned of each other's advancement in military technology. Border clashes occurred more and more frequently until one day, after a failed agreement, Volkov's board of directors decided to initiate a massive attack on the Red Star's North Eastern border, a move in which they perceived as 'punishment'. Dai enlisted for military service as a result. He was initially placed for NC pilot testing, but his sync ratio was fairly low. Normally, Red Star would try to modify him to fit, but because of his educational background, Dai was placed in the officer role, and received proper training. He is granted the rank of Captain by the age of 29. His first successful victory is at an occupied village called Hien, where he personally, on the field himself, led an NC vs NC attack on the Volkov forces. The attack was completely unprecedented, with Red Star forces managing to hang on to their close ranged combat tactic. All Volkov's NCs were disabled, their pilots captured, with no Red Star casualties. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for his outstanding action. He proceeded to execute a variety of raid attacks across the occupied Red Star territory in Volkov's hand, thus furthering his ranks and reputation among Red Star officials. The peak of his career occurred during the battle of Seoux, the only large engagement and publicly-known battle in this 'taboo' war. In this particular battle, the Volkov initially entrenched themselves in this particular valley, attempting to employ the Al-Amir style of defensive tactics, in response to Dai's raiding tactics. They expected the Red Stars to be unable to employ their usual tactics, but they were proven very very wrong. Dai secretly redesigned and deployed his carriers directly into combat with the NCs. So instead of having the NCs being deployed elsewhere and then move up close for combat, the carriers went straight into combat, acting in conjunction with the NCs. The newly improved design slightly decreased the speed, the load capacity of the carriers, but with a higher protective armor and fast firing secondary guns that allow for close range brawls. This shocked the Volkov, as their forces were unprepared for the firepower that came their way. They were swiftly wiped out, and many were taken prisoners. Some perished in those enclosed and brutal prisons. The Volkov and Red Star discreetly came to a peace treaty. For Dai, this ensured an instant promotion to Lieutenant General, and was passed the baton of command of his newly improved army he led at Seoux, along with one more army corps. [color=red][b]Tactical Preferences and Skills:[/b][/color] Dai is an establish tactician, capable of adopting many different strategies and tactics. He has studied many battlefield theories from the great military generals in history. He firmly and highly emphasizes the value of 'logistics', that his army must be well-supplied both in terms of the physical and the mental. One of his principals of war includes: attack quickly if you know your enemy can sustain themselves better than you, and slowly when your enemy cannot. In an encounter battle, Dai prefers a close ranged attack strategies, the same strategies employed at Seoux, sending in his carriers and support ships to work in conjunction with the NCs to overwhelm his opponents. Outside of generalships, Dai is a capable foot soldier, capable of using his guns well. In other fields, he is also pretty good at administration and economy. [color=red][b]Miscellaneous:[/b][/color] He is currently single [/hider]