Post by lwcoyote on Oct 18, 2011 21:06:25 GMT -5
(Pre-approved by Dakota. Character Sheet will follow. Please excuse typos)
Full Name: McKenzie Jackman
Current Age: 32 (apparent, 26)
DoB: Feb 18, 1979
Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska (officially)
Rank: Chief Warrent Officer, Two (WO2)
Serial Number: 19892004
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 225lbs (due to experiment side effect, 3% body fat, dense bone structure infused with metals)
Hair Color: Blonde, worn short (will find an example picture)
Eye Color: Dark blue
McKenzie (Kenzie or Kenz for short) was born in 1979 in a laboratory somewhere in Alaska, the third generation of an experimental and highly secretive project run by the NSA and US Military, in conjunction with a now-classified and defunct (in actually, taken over by the Government) genetics corporation. Project Butterfly was a long-term experiment started in the early 40s on the advice of various government think-tanks who had been studying the "Racial Purity" in Nazi Germany - in particular, the Nazi experiments that utilized chemical injections, enhanced proteins and the like to attempt "super-soldiers".
The US Militaries goal wasnt a "pure race", however, but to try and produced enhanced human beings for their future. However, the project was not particularly successful, with only very small numbers showing enhancement, and many children being produced sterile (a side effect of using potentially harmful chemicals on the human body - this was pre-DNA mapping afterall). Those that were enhanced but sterile were studied until adulthood, and then recruited into the military, where they performed admirably in Korea and Vietnam. Those that were not sterile, however, continued to be studied in isolation, which stunted their social growth. EVentually, a second generation was produced, using sperm and eggs from the second generation (carefully combined to minimize/avoid in-breeding results).
As with the first generation, the second generation had varied results, but *did* show further improvements. With advanced in technology, things were being refined. Less accidents occured, fewer children were produced sterile. The addition of psychologists and behaviorologists to the project led to better social growth among the 2nd generation, rsulting in fewer sociopathic subjects. Pleased with the results, the Project was authorized for a third generation, in the very late 70s.
A new element was included this time, however. Radiation, in the form of isotopes found in the wreckage of alien spacecraft that had crashed in New Mexico. These, along with enhanced chemicals that had been developed in the intervening decades, were part of the insemination process, along with pre- and post-natal procedures. The scientists had no idea what might happen, but knew from various experiments that the alien isotopes had a mutating effect on living material, with varied results. Not *all* of the third generation were treated thusly, only about one quarter as a further test.
The third generation once again had mixed, but improved, results, much greater than the previous generations, as was expected by the Project leaders. Those that were treated with the alien isotopes, however, showed very strange results. Many of them died, stillborn; those few that survived were... differant. They fit the profile of "enhanced human" very strongly, but some of them showed strange mutations. McKenzie was one of the few that did not; t hose that did were hidden away to be further studied, but those who did not were trained and educated, much like the second generation - their parents, before them.
Behavioural sciences had come further than previously, and as such their upbringing was much more humane (sp) than before. Indeed, as they grew older they were fostered among military families at the local base (their parents remaining in somewhat isolation), although carefully observed, their education managed from afar.
McKenzie doesn't remember much of her childhood; she was fostered at the age of three, having shown signs of enhancement at an early age. As far as she knows, she was an orphan, her parents killed in an accident. The family that raisd her were good to her, treating her as their own, raising her well. Being a 'military brat', McKenzie was brought up with a strong patriotic and military tradition (her foster-father was a fourth generation soldier for example, her foster-mother a 2nd generation soldier). Additionally, growing up she was very much a tomboy, eschewing a lot of the typical "girly" things in favor of sports, hanging out with 'the guys', and so forth.
After graduation from high school (in 1996) McKenzie immediately enlisted (with her parents permission and pride), serving for 7 years admirably, excelling in training, earning qualifications in several MOSs (Infantry, Aviation , Air-Defense Artillery). Although only seeing limited deployment during her first four years in the Army, towards the end McKenzie saw a tour in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom; it was here that she earned a purple heart and a promotion to (E-4) Corporal.
Upon her return Stateside, McKenzie applied/volunteered for Airborn training, and then went on to Ranger School and advanced MOS training, then a posting in the 75th Ranger Regiment (2Bat). Shortly there-after, her unti was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (in 2004). McKenzie served for three years in the 75th, two rotations in Iraq where she served admirably, earning a Silver Star for actions during a raid on an enemy compound in 2006, along with a promotion to Sergeant.
After her second tour in Iraq and returning State-side, McKenzie was recommended to Warrent Officer Candidate School at Ft Rucker (in Alabama) by her Battalion Commander, after showing a great deal of aptitude in CAS missions and taking into account her Aviation MOS with the regforces. Although remaining a Ranger at heart, McKenzie embraced WOFT (Warrent Officer Flight Training) then later SFWOTTC at Fort Bragg: the idea of flying, being an aviator, was a great passion of hers.
Although the trainint was ardous, McKenzie left a WO1 (Warrent Officer), qualified in most US Army rotor-wing and fixed-wing aircraft. However, rather than being assigned to an Army CAS unit, KcKenzie was assigned to the 160th Special Operation s Aviation Regiment (SOAR) in 2008. Deployment assignments include both Afghanistan and Iraq until the present, most often as pilot of an A/MH-6M Little Bird in support of various ground missions.
It was during one of these missions that McKenzie's latent power was reveled. Although her body had been inwardly mutated pre-natally, and a number of procedures had continued there-after in secret, it was assumed by the Project that her physical enhnacements were the end result. However, that was not to be the case. One of the 'routine' vaccination schedules she underwent before returning to Afghanistan included an experimental innoculation against Malaria; the vaccine interacted rather unexpected with the chemicals and radiation that remained within her all these years (carefully redacted from her medical files!) which in turn reacted with the titanium pins in her leg (inserted to help with a broken leg during her early military days). Although this mutation was n ot evident at first, it slowly permeated her body over the course of several years.
During a night mission where McKenzie and her squadron (note: she was not squadron leader, her meaning the squadron she was in) were providing overwatch for a ground mission when her Little Bird was hit by an RPG, just aft of the cockpit; the resulting explosion knocked the helo from the air, crashing into the side of a building before tumbling to the street. McKenzie had seen the incoming RPG a split second before it hit; and assumed she was going to die; instead, she found herself falling to the ground, barely injured.... her body seeming to have turned to metal! The shock of the explosion, the impact with the ground and the fact that she had.. changed... combined to knock her senseless.
When she came to, strapped to a body board being airlifted into a Black Hawk, she was 'back to normal'; although showing some signs of injury. The medic, and her comrades, were surprised to see her alive, when the co-pilot and gunner had both perished. After spending several days in a hospital ward, she was released for debriefing; the debrief however, was taken over by some alleged Intelligence officers. These officers were in reality ranking members of The Project, who had been quietly monitoring those subjects who had showed signs of enhancement.
McKenzie underwent a battery of tests, physical and psychological, to determine what had happened, the level of enhancement she was experiancing and so forth. It did not take long for the scientists and analysts of the Project to realize that McKenzie had been an unprecedented success, one of the few it seems. When it was revealed to McKenzie her origin and the nature of her upbringing, s he was at first appalled, feeling betrayed and used. In the end, she was visited by her biological father, still a part of the Project, who helped her to overcome these feelings, and to reassert her patriotism.
Once that was accomplished, Mckenzie underwent further training, this time focusing on her enhancements and apparent powers, all in secret. The now-ex Ranger was assured that she would be put to good use, to be a part of some secret unit.
Full Name: McKenzie Jackman
Current Age: 32 (apparent, 26)
DoB: Feb 18, 1979
Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska (officially)
Rank: Chief Warrent Officer, Two (WO2)
Serial Number: 19892004
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 225lbs (due to experiment side effect, 3% body fat, dense bone structure infused with metals)
Hair Color: Blonde, worn short (will find an example picture)
Eye Color: Dark blue
McKenzie (Kenzie or Kenz for short) was born in 1979 in a laboratory somewhere in Alaska, the third generation of an experimental and highly secretive project run by the NSA and US Military, in conjunction with a now-classified and defunct (in actually, taken over by the Government) genetics corporation. Project Butterfly was a long-term experiment started in the early 40s on the advice of various government think-tanks who had been studying the "Racial Purity" in Nazi Germany - in particular, the Nazi experiments that utilized chemical injections, enhanced proteins and the like to attempt "super-soldiers".
The US Militaries goal wasnt a "pure race", however, but to try and produced enhanced human beings for their future. However, the project was not particularly successful, with only very small numbers showing enhancement, and many children being produced sterile (a side effect of using potentially harmful chemicals on the human body - this was pre-DNA mapping afterall). Those that were enhanced but sterile were studied until adulthood, and then recruited into the military, where they performed admirably in Korea and Vietnam. Those that were not sterile, however, continued to be studied in isolation, which stunted their social growth. EVentually, a second generation was produced, using sperm and eggs from the second generation (carefully combined to minimize/avoid in-breeding results).
As with the first generation, the second generation had varied results, but *did* show further improvements. With advanced in technology, things were being refined. Less accidents occured, fewer children were produced sterile. The addition of psychologists and behaviorologists to the project led to better social growth among the 2nd generation, rsulting in fewer sociopathic subjects. Pleased with the results, the Project was authorized for a third generation, in the very late 70s.
A new element was included this time, however. Radiation, in the form of isotopes found in the wreckage of alien spacecraft that had crashed in New Mexico. These, along with enhanced chemicals that had been developed in the intervening decades, were part of the insemination process, along with pre- and post-natal procedures. The scientists had no idea what might happen, but knew from various experiments that the alien isotopes had a mutating effect on living material, with varied results. Not *all* of the third generation were treated thusly, only about one quarter as a further test.
The third generation once again had mixed, but improved, results, much greater than the previous generations, as was expected by the Project leaders. Those that were treated with the alien isotopes, however, showed very strange results. Many of them died, stillborn; those few that survived were... differant. They fit the profile of "enhanced human" very strongly, but some of them showed strange mutations. McKenzie was one of the few that did not; t hose that did were hidden away to be further studied, but those who did not were trained and educated, much like the second generation - their parents, before them.
Behavioural sciences had come further than previously, and as such their upbringing was much more humane (sp) than before. Indeed, as they grew older they were fostered among military families at the local base (their parents remaining in somewhat isolation), although carefully observed, their education managed from afar.
McKenzie doesn't remember much of her childhood; she was fostered at the age of three, having shown signs of enhancement at an early age. As far as she knows, she was an orphan, her parents killed in an accident. The family that raisd her were good to her, treating her as their own, raising her well. Being a 'military brat', McKenzie was brought up with a strong patriotic and military tradition (her foster-father was a fourth generation soldier for example, her foster-mother a 2nd generation soldier). Additionally, growing up she was very much a tomboy, eschewing a lot of the typical "girly" things in favor of sports, hanging out with 'the guys', and so forth.
After graduation from high school (in 1996) McKenzie immediately enlisted (with her parents permission and pride), serving for 7 years admirably, excelling in training, earning qualifications in several MOSs (Infantry, Aviation , Air-Defense Artillery). Although only seeing limited deployment during her first four years in the Army, towards the end McKenzie saw a tour in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom; it was here that she earned a purple heart and a promotion to (E-4) Corporal.
Upon her return Stateside, McKenzie applied/volunteered for Airborn training, and then went on to Ranger School and advanced MOS training, then a posting in the 75th Ranger Regiment (2Bat). Shortly there-after, her unti was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (in 2004). McKenzie served for three years in the 75th, two rotations in Iraq where she served admirably, earning a Silver Star for actions during a raid on an enemy compound in 2006, along with a promotion to Sergeant.
After her second tour in Iraq and returning State-side, McKenzie was recommended to Warrent Officer Candidate School at Ft Rucker (in Alabama) by her Battalion Commander, after showing a great deal of aptitude in CAS missions and taking into account her Aviation MOS with the regforces. Although remaining a Ranger at heart, McKenzie embraced WOFT (Warrent Officer Flight Training) then later SFWOTTC at Fort Bragg: the idea of flying, being an aviator, was a great passion of hers.
Although the trainint was ardous, McKenzie left a WO1 (Warrent Officer), qualified in most US Army rotor-wing and fixed-wing aircraft. However, rather than being assigned to an Army CAS unit, KcKenzie was assigned to the 160th Special Operation s Aviation Regiment (SOAR) in 2008. Deployment assignments include both Afghanistan and Iraq until the present, most often as pilot of an A/MH-6M Little Bird in support of various ground missions.
It was during one of these missions that McKenzie's latent power was reveled. Although her body had been inwardly mutated pre-natally, and a number of procedures had continued there-after in secret, it was assumed by the Project that her physical enhnacements were the end result. However, that was not to be the case. One of the 'routine' vaccination schedules she underwent before returning to Afghanistan included an experimental innoculation against Malaria; the vaccine interacted rather unexpected with the chemicals and radiation that remained within her all these years (carefully redacted from her medical files!) which in turn reacted with the titanium pins in her leg (inserted to help with a broken leg during her early military days). Although this mutation was n ot evident at first, it slowly permeated her body over the course of several years.
During a night mission where McKenzie and her squadron (note: she was not squadron leader, her meaning the squadron she was in) were providing overwatch for a ground mission when her Little Bird was hit by an RPG, just aft of the cockpit; the resulting explosion knocked the helo from the air, crashing into the side of a building before tumbling to the street. McKenzie had seen the incoming RPG a split second before it hit; and assumed she was going to die; instead, she found herself falling to the ground, barely injured.... her body seeming to have turned to metal! The shock of the explosion, the impact with the ground and the fact that she had.. changed... combined to knock her senseless.
When she came to, strapped to a body board being airlifted into a Black Hawk, she was 'back to normal'; although showing some signs of injury. The medic, and her comrades, were surprised to see her alive, when the co-pilot and gunner had both perished. After spending several days in a hospital ward, she was released for debriefing; the debrief however, was taken over by some alleged Intelligence officers. These officers were in reality ranking members of The Project, who had been quietly monitoring those subjects who had showed signs of enhancement.
McKenzie underwent a battery of tests, physical and psychological, to determine what had happened, the level of enhancement she was experiancing and so forth. It did not take long for the scientists and analysts of the Project to realize that McKenzie had been an unprecedented success, one of the few it seems. When it was revealed to McKenzie her origin and the nature of her upbringing, s he was at first appalled, feeling betrayed and used. In the end, she was visited by her biological father, still a part of the Project, who helped her to overcome these feelings, and to reassert her patriotism.
Once that was accomplished, Mckenzie underwent further training, this time focusing on her enhancements and apparent powers, all in secret. The now-ex Ranger was assured that she would be put to good use, to be a part of some secret unit.
