[M] The Nairobi Virus

[Lox]

This RP is rated mature for literal depictions of violence, gore, death and other nastinesses.

Spoiler: Africa Today News Broadcast 

Good day. This is Ann Hennesy of Africa Today reporting live from Khatau, Central Africa. Once, Khatau was a vacational paradise for wealthy Europeans, with its beautiful golden coasts and azure water, and relatively peaceful history. But now it seems Africa has finally caught up with this lovely nation, as it has been badly hit by the Nairobi Virus' advances. Estimates are that at least twenty thousand people have already died by the virus in the country, and WHO personnel on site are struggling to contain the plague, a gargantuan task at the best of times.

As with other countries struck particularly badly by the Nairobi Virus, Khatau has experienced riots recently due to the lack of medication being issued. The so-called Amalthea Vaccine, which, contrary to popular belief and its name, does not immunize against or cure the virus, merely slows its advances, is expensive to produce, and is in extremely short supplies. Because of this, riots have now turned violent, and the Khatabi Police, together with UN peacekeeping forces, are struggling to prevent the riots from turning into a full-scale civil war.

However, the threat of this already seems to have arrived, with former Chief of the Khatau Army, General Sandre Mboto declaring himself a warlord in the south of the country, where he leads what were once soldiers of the Khatau Army, but are now little more than bandits and mercenaries. Things have not yet come to a head with the Khatau Army, but from what we journalists hear on the ground, the situation seems only steps away from such an escalation. UN security advisors have asked all journalists to leave the country, or at the very least stay within so-called UN Virus Zones, where we are safe.

These Virus Zones are secured areas used to set up installations to contain and treat the plague, and are marked by heavy UN military and WHO presence. They are about the only places that are still safe in this country, and with the virus victims contained within them, even this is something in question. As a side-note, General Mboto has now been placed in the UN's Deck of 52 as Number 6 of Hearts, putting a bounty of twenty thousand euro on his head, and making him a tempting target for bounty hunters, mercenaries and private military companies involved in the African Virus Crisis.

This is Ann Hennesy, Africa Today, reporting live from Khatau.

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[Lox]

Name: Derrick Cole

Age: 38

Appearance: Short-cut black hair and beard stubble, swarthy appearance, amber eyes, a scar on the outer corner of his right eye.

Spoiler: Photo 

Nationality: South African

Employer: OMC Systems Security

Role/Specialization: Squad leader

Rank: Major

History: Cole was once a soldier with the South African Navy, where he did his military service as a member of the Maritime Reaction Squadron. When he became an officer, he was transferred as an instructor to the Army's 9th South African Infantry Battalion (Seaborne), where he later also trained and served as a squad leader. During this time he received parachute training with the 6th Infantry Battalion (Air Assault). At age 24, he returned to the Navy in the role of squad leader of a unit of the Navy's Operational Boat Squadron, to serve as a river-born peacekeeper in the African nation of Burundi.

After his tour of duty to Burundi as a peacekeeper, Cole applied for the South African Special Forces Brigade, specifically the 4th Special Forces Regiment (Seaborne) based in Langebaan. He underwent SF selection and training at Murrayhill, passed the tests and was accepted and transferred to Langebaan. Going on to serve the next five years of his life with the 4th SF Regiment, and seeing action all over Africa, both as a peacekeeper and in clandestine operations for South African Intelligence, he held the positions of squad medic, sniper, and eventually, squad leader.

When he turned 30, Cole was hit with grenade shrapnel in the face during an operation in Congo after the team ran over an old landmine. As a result, he received partial blindness on his right eye, forcing him either to take up a desk job and instructor's job, or retirement from the Army. He chose the former, returning to Murrayhill as an SF instructor in naval insertions and combat diving. However, only a year later, he had grown bored of the job, and, knowing he'd never again see action if staying in the Army, he retired to become a mercenary.

It didn't take long for him to be recruited to the rather anonymous South African PMC known as OMC Systems Security. While serving as a private security contractor, a freelancer with his own team, in Iraq, he was approached by a representative of the organization, who offered him a job as a supervisor (squad leader). He accepted the job, and after fulfilling his contract in Iraq, he returned to South Africa to take up employment with OMC at age 32.

He spent his first two years in OMC serving as squad leader and training instructor for a light infantry unit of the Armored Cavalry divisions of OMC. After this he moved through the ranks of OMC often, changing units and jobs frequently. In time he held the rank of major, and became a squad leader with SRU, the elite unit within the Armored Cavalry of OMC, which carried out typical special forces operations, but did so in a corporate/PMC aspect rather than that of national militaries.

In this role, he carried out special operations, mainly VIP protection and extractions of civilian personnel from warzones, for OMC, until the Nairobi Virus hit Africa. When that happened, Cole was handpicked as one of the officers to head up the elite Jackal Teams of Task Force Jackal, the special operations unit put together specifically for the task of bagging the Deck of 52, and aid WHO in finding a cure for the virus.

Equipment: Olive drab fatigues, combat harness, 10 mm Glock 20C side-arm in leg holster, three extra Glock 20 magazines, canteen and an extra PET bottle containing water, ten Vektor R-series magazines containing thirty-five 5,56 mm rounds each, Vektor R5, 5,56 mm assault rifle. Also carries with him in a vehicle at all times his 'battle pack', a backpack containing things like spare clothes, field rations, extra ammunition and water, night vision goggles, and other things that might come in handy in case he get cut off from OMC support in an Area of Operations.

He never wears a bullet proof or ballistic protection vest, as he finds them more cumbersome than it's worth when weighing it against the level of protection they offer, and the same goes for helmets.

[Lox]

The IC thread is now up.

http://role-player.net/forum/showthr...788#post803788

[Kris]

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