Sir Geoffrey
GENERAL INFORMATION
Full NameSire Geoffrey Neville Cockburn, Knight of the Realm in the service of His Lordship, King Henry VI Lancaster. Noble of the great house Cockburn, and defender of the Catholic faith.
SpeciesIn actuality, he is Krogan, however he believes himself to be Human.
Age354, though in his mind he is an aging man of 40, on the cusp of retiring from active duty.
GenderMale
PERSONAL DETAILS
Personal ProfileSir Geoffrey is a very odd individual for a Krogan, one that has given him all too many curious looks on his long journey since being released. In his mind, he was raised as a young noble, and thusly acts according to the chivalrous code and the ways in which a knight must conduct himself. At all times he is kind and courteous to others, giving them respect until the point at which his respect is no longer warranted. Beyond his attitude, he truly believes in the image cast about him, deluded into thinking he is a human in the service of the King of England nearly seven hundred years ago. Needless to say, he is often looked upon as mentally unstable, and especially so because of his adamant belief.
SexualityAs he believes himself to be a christian in good faith, he is heterosexual. To suggest otherwise may anger him.
APPEARANCE DETAILS
Physical AppearanceDespite what he would have you believe, Geoffrey is a prime example of a Krogan in his middling years. At nearly eight feet in height and almost 175 kilos, he cuts an imposing image and is capable of exerting great strength with little effort. His emerald green eyes seem always alert, seeking out the eyes of those he speaks to and remaining attentive.
Clothing and ArmourHis typical armor is a custom made suit of plate armor built for him by the London Institute for Traditional Craftsmanship. Though on the exterior it appears to be a modified suit of plate, it is layered with ceramic armor strands and temperature filtering layers. This allows his armor to function as equivalent to the most basic heavy armor available on the open market. Beyond this, he has in his possession a tailored suit for wear outside combat.
EquipmentHis main weapon is that of a modified morning-star with an emitter that produces an electrical field upon impacting a solid object with enough force. Upon activating, the electrical field snaps outward, producing a wave of force that tears asunder exposed flesh in a radius and may be able to buckle armor it impacts. His left-hand weapon is not a weapon, but a tower shield built for him by the LITC, one with a discreet shield emitter within that polarizes the surface of the shield. Though by no means equivalent in strength to even the most basic of personal shields, the important part of this is that it protects him far more than the shield would normally, and allows him the air of belief that it is not advanced technology behind it.
Though he is seldom to use it, he has acquired a standard issue rifle from the Systems Alliance. The basic operations of the rifle fail him at times, and it is often which he wonders why it is the thing works the way it does. Nevertheless, he will use it in practicality to remove threats at range.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
As his neuro-indoctrination has created him to believe, Geoffrey is a capable fighter in close combat, even without factoring in his size and Krogan strength. Both his morning-star and shield are used as if extensions of his body, and his ability to move within his armor as if it was nothing make him a deadly force in swinging range.
Beyond his martial capability, Geoffrey is the image of a gentleman, taking upon himself the Knight's code of honour and conduct. This he does in the belief that it is only the proper thing to do.
BIOGRAPHY
Early in 2180 discussions were made within the Systems Alliance over the viability of a program to train fresh soldiers through psycho-indoctrination and neural-linked learning. The theory was that a person could learn volumes of tactics and training in a thousandth the time it would normally take, via direct uploading of the information to the cortex. Despite favourable sentiment towards the idea, the leadership was unwilling to initiate human testing without full understanding of the process. So it was that an inquiry was sent to the scientific database to find other species to test the method on, and find one suitable for the process. As the inquiry went on, many of the citadel races were found unsuitable, due to limiting factors from high frequency of biotics to political tension between the SA and the particular government.
In the end, a choice was given between a Krogan subject, or abandoning the project all together. Not wanting to give up on the project, an offer was made to some of the outlying clans and to their surprise an individual accepted the offer. Granted, the offer was veiled as one that promised many things that were not even part of the original proposal, but regardless, they had their subject. Due to their unique biology, changes had to be made for testing on the Krogan, such as the need for anesthetics and many chemical balancers for the neuro-treatment. With preparations complete, and the Krogan on the table, the test began with him remaining awake.
As part of the experiment, the entirety of human history and early battle tactics had been selected to be uploaded, so as to see how well the process took to the subject. In the beginning, it went well, the subject responding positively to the psycho-conditioning and taking in the information at an acceptable rate. However, as the process entered into the half-way point, a fault occurred in database, creating a surge which fried the connectors to the subject's body. For a full thirty seconds, the subject writhed upon the table as his mind and body were fried in the surge of electrical energy from the damaged connectors.
Despite hastily removing the connectors and shutting down the test, the damage had been done, and the subject had suffered severe brain damage from the fault. All the scientists could do at this point was to induce the subject into a coma and treat what they could of his wounds, attempting to discover exactly what lead to the fault and what damage had truly been done. For six weeks the Krogan lay in a deep coma while he was worked upon, his vitals stabilizing as they discovered the extent of the damage. When it came time to awaken the subject, the scientists expected to be greeted by a vegetable, a once proud Krogan reduced to barely being capable of speaking.
To their astonishment and horror, they found that the test was both a success and a terrible failure. The Krogan had awoken in a strange time and on a world unfamiliar to him, though it was more so for the process which taught him human history had done so from a point of view of specific individuals through time. When the fault had developed, he had been witnessing the height of the Hundred Years War, as a knight in the service of King Henry VI Lancaster. This development confused the scientists almost as much as the Krogan himself, both parties equally bewildered by the event. With some very careful questioning, they discovered the subject to be believing himself to be one Sir Geoffrey Neville Cockburn, supposedly knighted by King Henry in 1440 and serving in the war against the French in the defense of Normandie.
Unsurprisingly, when parliament heard of the results, the test was shut down for good, no commander wishing the risk of troops believing themselves to be seven hundred years in the past. Geoffrey's fate, however, remained undecided. On one hand, he was deemed incapable of functioning in society due to his fervent beliefs in being a man in 1444, a rightful belief reinforced by his steadfast refusal to see the truth of the matter. On the other hand he was still a Krogan, and frighteningly capable of medieval combat tactics, a skill which could see him of great use even despite his instability.
In the end it became too expensive to continue to hold Sir Geoffrey, and so the scientist team was forced to release him into neutral space. What followed was a long spiral in which he found himself lost and confused where ever he went, struggling to come to terms with the amazing feats which came up at every turn. He found it difficult to maintain a living, swiftly becoming a vagrant and taking whatever he could to feed himself while maintaining the appearance of a good christian in service of his king. In time he found himself on Omega, working for a local fight organizer, believing it to be a tourney against fellow knights. Here he has lived and served since his arrival, and is where he was found by Ticus, and earned his eye...
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