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Name: Stephen Stokes (born Viktor Bakalli)
Age: 50
Nationality: Yugoslavian - Kosovan - Ethnically Albanian
Branch: Field Research
Role/Occupation: Mission Supervisor & EOD
Skills: Expert at mine clearance, seasoned combat veteran, expert driver, combat first-aid experience, guerilla warfare expert, knowledge of criminal operations, ties to the south Slavic underworld, basic rotary aircraft operation ability. Speaks fluent English with a slight unplaceable accent. Fluent Albanian speaker. Passable Serbo-Croat language speaker. Flawless eyesight. Generally intelligent, broad knowledge based, quick learner.
Weaknesses: Pacemaker, double knee replacement, mild hearing loss, fear of explosives, currently living under a false identity, wanted by the Hague for atrocities in the early 2000s. Deep prejudice against Serbians.

Background/Biography: Stephen was born into conflict. Facing ethnic violence from birth radicalised him and he turned to Kosovan nationalism. At age 15 he joined the KLA and participated in the initial raids against the occupying Serbian police. Despite losing many friends, and much of his family he survived this tumultuous time. After the official end of the war, he continued to stoke the flames of insurgency on the Kosovan border, inciting violence against Serbian 'peacekeeping' forces. These activities and various incidents of killing Serbian settlers resulted in drawing the attention of international law enforcement. As the insurgency wound down in 2003, most of the key players in the insurgency were either killed or taken prisoner. Viktor was fortunate to escape the hangman by exploiting ties within the extensive Albanian criminal underworld. After establishing a new identity and escaping the Balkans via sea journey, he established himself for a decade in the UK, earning a place in Excalibur International as a grunt technician, due to his experience handling explosives. During this fruitful decade he managed to rise to a middling rank by nature of him surviving (that's the way the money goes in DC). Stephen has lived a life surrounded by better and more heroic men. But as he has discovered, the best men aren't the men that survive. In 2015 he defected from Excalibur on amicable terms and was taken in by Acheron in a trade deal. Excalibur was happy to be rid of him, as paper pushers within the organisation had noticed irregularities within Stephen's paperwork and realised the people investigating Viktor Bakalli weren't far behind. The clandestine transfer to Acheron's US offices have thrown the team off of his trail for sometime. Since 2015 Stephen has been acting in Acheron mainly as a training officer, with only occasional mission deployments. Due to the nature of his existence, it is unrealistic for him to ever lead a normal civilian life. For him to maintain his liberty it is imperative he lives in the shadows. DC is one of the few industries that he can operate within. His loyalty is ensured by the quiet understanding of who he really is, and what he is running from. His continued operational usefulness ensures his safety within the bowels of Silent Mountain.
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