(Obsidian Six: Mercenaries/Traps Mastermind)
OBSIDIAN SIX
Nothing is known of Obsidian Sixs history prior to his service as a high level operative in a top secret paramilitary organization known as SPARTA (it is presumed that SPARTA actively erased as much of his past as possible as a security measure). Acting as the merciless sword arm of Crey Industries, SPARTA agents have been responsible for numerous acts over past years including kidnappings, raids, espionage and even assassinations.
Proving himself to the shadowy council controlling SPARTA, Obsidian Six rose rapidly through the organizations ranks. Before long, he had given command of one of SPARTAs black-level strike teams and was charged to lead some of the most clandestine and often unseemly operations that Crey Industries had to offer.
However, as happens often in the shadowy underworld of corporate warfare, betrayal found operative Obsidian Six taking the fall for a high level scandal. Determined not to meet his end as a scapegoat for Crey Industries, he drew on all his training and experience to break out of SPARTAs maximum security holding cells and make his way to the Rogue Isles.
Thanks to Creys propaganda machine, Obsidian Six is a now pariah in Paragon City. Determined to exact revenge against those who wronged him, he fights his way up the ladder of power in the Rogue Isles, gathering and training an army around him. Obsidian Six is a highly disciplined soldier with intense training in weapons, stealth, infiltration, high tech traps and squad based leadership and tactics. He is a cold, hard individual with little regard for honor, and is perfectly capable of doing anything and everything he feels is necessary to achieve his ends with no remorse.
During his time in the Rogue Isles, Obsidian Six has managed to sway a number of other former soldiers and special forces operatives to his cause. His first three recruits were deserters from the Paragon City Army. As only surviving members of Black Squad, Jester, Hotdog and Bones share an often exuberant camaraderie that Obsidian Six does his best to tolerate. The next two operatives of Obsidian Sixs inner circle are former members of Ghost Team the SPARTA unit once commanded by Obsidian. Like their leader, Wraith and Spectre are disciplined, professional and often annoyed by Black Squads antics. The final member of Obsidian Sixs private army is a veteran of the Rikti war. After the war, Col. Aeon Jordan found himself bitter and disillusioned with the social standing of veterans from a conflict the general population would rather forget. Aeon is a heavy weapons expert with an appetite for destruction that some (although certainly not Obsidian Six) would call unnerving.
Black One: Private Carl 'Hotdog' Larson
Hey Jester, do you ever wonder why were here?
Private Hotdog is a cheerful soul. Despite the squalid, dangerous, kill-or-be-killed surroundings of the Rogue Isles, he always has a joke to tell or a movie line to quote (usually in a bad impersonation). He closest friend is Jester, although the two argue near constantly.
Black Two: Private Randal 'Jester' Avery
Damn it Hotdog!
Jaded would an excellent description of Private Jester. His experience in the army has taught him that military service is not nearly as glamorous as he thought, although being a mercenary is a bit more rewarding. His is constantly annoyed by Hotdogs antics and threatens him bodily harm with alarming frequency. If push came to shove, however, Jester would charge an army to protect his dumb friend, if only so he could yell at Hotdog later for being so reckless.
Black Three: Sergeant Connor 'Bones' Muphy
Get back here you snakey [censored], so I can blast yer bloody head off!
Sergeant Bones is the leader and de facto doctor of Black Squad and a self-proclaimed expert on guerilla warfare from his years of hunting snipes in the backwoods. An Irishman and something of a redneck, Bones has a penchant for drinking, trash talking and shooting. In that order. When the bullets start flying, however, he demonstrates the same unswerving loyalty (if not unswerving aim) as the rest of the team.
Ghost One: Operative Richard 'Spectre' Everett
Ghost One in position. Tangos in sights
Cool, calm, and collected, Operative Spectre is the epitome of The Professional. He has little patience for Black Squads lack of seriousness and finds Col. Aeon to be a bit of a psychopath. Of all the team members, Spectre is the one who best relates to Obsidian Six as he seems to share his leaders cold detachment from their often violent work.
Ghost Two: Operative Alex 'Wraith' Sheppard
I am the Hand of Death. My sights will find your heart and send you to your end.
Operative Wraith, is serious and disciplined and more than a little melodramatic. While Spectre may occasionally wonder at Wraiths sanity when he waxes philosophical and pontificates on his status as The Hand of Death, his partner never doubts his skill or determination to finish the job.
Colonel Steven 'Aeon' Jordan
Suck hot, flaming death alien scum!
Col. Aeon is a heavy weapons expert and a veteran of the Rikti war. A gruff man of few words, Aeon only seems truly happy when mowing down waves of enemies with a level of firepower that borders on overkill. As the de facto second-in-command of Obsidian Sixs personal army, Aeon has learned to appreciate the strengths and skills of the other members, although he still considers Black Squad to be amateurs and Ghost Team too deadly serious for their own good.
