I'm totally up for this!
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Forum: Casual Interest Checks
I'd be real interested in this. Room for a Phillip Marlowe style former detective on board?
I'm definitely Interested!
Name (or known Aliases): Major Tom Carson, SOE Codename ORANGEMAN
Age:43
Nationality: British
Affiliation: British Army, Special Operations Executive
Role: Soldier, Spy, demolitions expert
Appearance:
Personality: Carson is a harsh-voiced officer from Belfast. A loyal subject of the King, his bloody experiences of the fighting against the German Empire in the First World War shaped his personality into a more ruthless and selfish person than he had been. He serves his country as he always has, but he's keeping an eye open to serve himself too.
Service History:
Tom Carson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in May 1900. He grew up in the fiercely loyal enclave of the city, his family being dyed in the wool Protestants. When the Great War rolled over Europe in 1914 he was too young to be called to the colours, which pained him greatly until, lying about his age, he joined the 36th Ulster Division along with many of his mates in January, 1916. He was deployed to France just in time for the Battle of the Somme, which forever changed him. On the first day, as carnage raged around him, he was inspired and horrified in equal measure by the battle-cry of one of his officers leading the men of Ulster over the top; "Come on, boys! Remember the Boyne! No surrender!" Carson survived the battle, and the rest of the war. After peace was declared he found life boring and dull back home, so he moved to Alsace, the newly-French region on the German border. There he became a journalist, learning to speak both German and French. As the march towards war continued inexorably on, Carson had a front-row seat of the rise of the Nazi Party. He even met the Fuhrer during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His early sympathy for the Nazis as men rebuilding a shattered nation quickly turned to revulsion as their oppression increased. In 1938, shortly before the Munich Agreement, he rejoined the British Army, this time as an officer himself.
It was as a lowly lieutenant that Carson met the Wehrmacht for the first time in combat in France, just before his birthday in May 1940. He fought as well as he could against the German onslaught, and was captured by a German infantryman on the outskirts of Dunkirk shortly after the conclusion of Operation Dynamo, the mass evacuation of British and allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk. He was only in German hands for a week, escaping from the train taking him to a prison camp in northern Germany. What followed was an epic tale of misdirection and guile as the British officer lived amongst the Germans for almost a year, gathering intelligence and having a ball whilst doing it. It was here that Carson first began to see that the war might just make him rich.
In early 1941 Carson, now a captain, had returned to the UK and was assigned to the Parachute Regiment, where he served for a further year. Finally, in mid-1942, he was approached by a member of the SOE and offered a chance to hit back at the enemy in their own back garden. So, promoted again to Major, Carson began operations for the SOE to help set Europe ablaze.
1916-1918: 36th Ulster Division, France.
1940: Royal Ulster Rifles, British Expeditionary Force.
1941: Paratroop Regiment
1942-1943: SOE
Other: Speaks fluent German and French, having lived and worked in Alsace during the inter-war years.
Age:43
Nationality: British
Affiliation: British Army, Special Operations Executive
Role: Soldier, Spy, demolitions expert
Appearance:
Personality: Carson is a harsh-voiced officer from Belfast. A loyal subject of the King, his bloody experiences of the fighting against the German Empire in the First World War shaped his personality into a more ruthless and selfish person than he had been. He serves his country as he always has, but he's keeping an eye open to serve himself too.
Service History:
Tom Carson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in May 1900. He grew up in the fiercely loyal enclave of the city, his family being dyed in the wool Protestants. When the Great War rolled over Europe in 1914 he was too young to be called to the colours, which pained him greatly until, lying about his age, he joined the 36th Ulster Division along with many of his mates in January, 1916. He was deployed to France just in time for the Battle of the Somme, which forever changed him. On the first day, as carnage raged around him, he was inspired and horrified in equal measure by the battle-cry of one of his officers leading the men of Ulster over the top; "Come on, boys! Remember the Boyne! No surrender!" Carson survived the battle, and the rest of the war. After peace was declared he found life boring and dull back home, so he moved to Alsace, the newly-French region on the German border. There he became a journalist, learning to speak both German and French. As the march towards war continued inexorably on, Carson had a front-row seat of the rise of the Nazi Party. He even met the Fuhrer during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His early sympathy for the Nazis as men rebuilding a shattered nation quickly turned to revulsion as their oppression increased. In 1938, shortly before the Munich Agreement, he rejoined the British Army, this time as an officer himself.
It was as a lowly lieutenant that Carson met the Wehrmacht for the first time in combat in France, just before his birthday in May 1940. He fought as well as he could against the German onslaught, and was captured by a German infantryman on the outskirts of Dunkirk shortly after the conclusion of Operation Dynamo, the mass evacuation of British and allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk. He was only in German hands for a week, escaping from the train taking him to a prison camp in northern Germany. What followed was an epic tale of misdirection and guile as the British officer lived amongst the Germans for almost a year, gathering intelligence and having a ball whilst doing it. It was here that Carson first began to see that the war might just make him rich.
In early 1941 Carson, now a captain, had returned to the UK and was assigned to the Parachute Regiment, where he served for a further year. Finally, in mid-1942, he was approached by a member of the SOE and offered a chance to hit back at the enemy in their own back garden. So, promoted again to Major, Carson began operations for the SOE to help set Europe ablaze.
1916-1918: 36th Ulster Division, France.
1940: Royal Ulster Rifles, British Expeditionary Force.
1941: Paratroop Regiment
1942-1943: SOE
Other: Speaks fluent German and French, having lived and worked in Alsace during the inter-war years.
Name (or known Aliases): Major Tom Carson, SOE Codename ORANGEMAN
Age:43
Nationality: British
Affiliation: British Army, Special Operations Executive
Role: Soldier, Spy, demolitions expert
Appearance:
Personality: Carson is a harsh-voiced officer from Belfast. A loyal subject of the King, his bloody experiences of the fighting against the German Empire in the First World War shaped his personality into a more ruthless and selfish person than he had been. He serves his country as he always has, but he's keeping an eye open to serve himself too.
Service History:
1914-1918: 36th Ulster Division, France.
1940: Royal Ulster Rifles, British Expeditionary Force.
1941: Paratroop Regiment
1942-1943: SOE
Other: Speaks fluent German and French, having lived and worked in Alsace during the inter-war years.
Age:43
Nationality: British
Affiliation: British Army, Special Operations Executive
Role: Soldier, Spy, demolitions expert
Appearance:
Personality: Carson is a harsh-voiced officer from Belfast. A loyal subject of the King, his bloody experiences of the fighting against the German Empire in the First World War shaped his personality into a more ruthless and selfish person than he had been. He serves his country as he always has, but he's keeping an eye open to serve himself too.
Service History:
1914-1918: 36th Ulster Division, France.
1940: Royal Ulster Rifles, British Expeditionary Force.
1941: Paratroop Regiment
1942-1943: SOE
Other: Speaks fluent German and French, having lived and worked in Alsace during the inter-war years.
I'm up for this, big time. Never pass up a chance to return to a Galaxy far, far away.
Might be good to get an OOC up? That way we can start putting characters together.
Cool. Would it be too much to ask to introduce another PI into the mix since there's already one? If not I've another character in mind.
Still room for another character in here?
Yeah, definitely interested in this. An SOE operative with a distinctly unhealthy appetite for enriching himself wouldn't go amiss I'm hoping?
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