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[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Sentinel Derek Irving

[u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] Irving is a fit Caucasian man of average height in his mid-40's, whose face and body shows signs of the hard life that he's lived.  He has short, graying black hair and light stubble.  His body harbors several scars, as well as several bullet fragments from at least one AP 5.56 round- and possibly more.

[u][b]Affiliation:[/b][/u] Brotherhood of Steel Mojave Chapter

[u][b]Previous Affiliations:[/b][/u] Brotherhood of Steel San Francisco Chapter

[u][b]Gear/Equipment:[/b][/u] Irving's personal combat attire includes T-51b Power Armor formerly owned by a now-fallen Mojave Chapter Paladin, and a suit Recon Armor when out of his power armor.  Having gone up against the NCR's Rangers and snipers in the past, he has opted to not include any rank markings on his armor.  His preferred weapons are a P94 Winchester Plasma Rifle, an AEP7 laser pistol for a sidearm, and a Ripper for a melee weapon.

[u][b]Background:[/b][/u]
Derek Irving was born to Brotherhood parents in Lost Hills in 2243.  During his early life, he chose to pursue the path of a Paladin and upon attaining the rank, was assigned to the San Francisco Chapter.  While Irving distinguished himself in the war with the NCR, even scoring two confirmed Ranger kills (and one unconfirmed), he harbored a number of outspoken views that strained his relations with his superiors.  He claimed that the war with the NCR was a mistake, that they should have targeted the Shi and Van Graffs instead.  Furthermore, he had a reputation of destroying technology that he deemed too dangerous to fall into the hands of the "unenlightened".  

In one particularly controversial incident, Irving's team discovered a lost Robobrain maintenance and repair facility, he set its atomic reactor to melt down rather than risk anyone getting their hands on what he saw as a travesty of life and technology, despite his elder's wishes to use the facility against the NCR.  Because of the increasingly dire situation that the Brotherhood was in, they couldn't afford to get rid of a seasoned veteran like him, so instead they had him "kicked upstairs", being promoted to Senior Paladin and tasked with training initiates inside of the bunker.

When word reached his ears of the young Arthur Maxson's successful ascension to Elder, Irving became an outspoken supporter of Maxson's policies and interpretation of the Codex.  When the western elders received instructions from Maxson to deal with The Green, Irving was promoted to the formerly East Coast exclusive rank of Sentinel and sent with a group of other veteran Brotherhood members to the Mojave Wasteland under the cover of NCR refugee waves.  He suspects that his promotion to this station is less due to the elders' confidence in him, and more a way to kick him even further upstairs and away from them.

While McNamara remains the Elder of the Mojave Chapter, his declining health has allowed Irving to serve as the de facto leader of the Brotherhood.  Since arriving at Hidden Valley, Irving has worked to understand the situation in the Mojave, its major players, and the Brotherhood's own position here.  He's had to deal with the logistics of the chapter's increased numbers and the harsh reality that even with the NCR gone, the holdouts still want them dead and have the numbers to make it happen.  His time in San Francisco may have prepared him for weirdness, but the situation in the Mojave is nothing like anything he's seen before.
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