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Sgt. David Stanley, went by Dave. a.k.a. Joe, "Hatch", Hatchet.

You guys know him by his alias, though he is honest enough to tell you it is an alias.

C.S. Special Forces OCC (Deserter)

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After years in the service of the Coalition and her military, he became disillusioned with the service he was providing and fled. While fleeing he was picked up by some Sky Cycle and chased. Only the interfention of Claus and Alice saved him.

Full Background:

David Stanley was born in the old town burbs of New Chillicothe, which is the capital or regional center of government for the Coalition States in Missouri. He was born a quasi-refugee and lived the bulk of his early years as a quasi-refugee. Most of the time was spent lazing around or working odd jobs for sustenance.

At 16 (forging papers if necessary or paying a bribe) he joined the Coalition Army as cannon fodder (unbeknowst to him) infantry for campaigns in the Magic Zone. He received minimal training, but due largly to luck or God (take your pick) he lived long enough to return from the field. Once back he joined Cadre duty and trained new recruits. Seeing the bleakness of their situation and how it resembled his own always left him with an "outsider looking in" sort of feeling, and that he never really belonged in the Coalition. But this distance fostered a great ability to lie in him and fool psychologists. So when he applied for Special Forces training, he was able to lie past the entrance exams. Not being important or luck got hims past psychics. He really wanted to serve, he just knew he couldn't do it in the infantry.

A half year of training and then it was out into the tall grass of clandestine field ops as a special forces trooper, all before he was 20. Work in the field with D-bees, magicians, and mercenaries fostered an even better skill at lying. But by age 23 he'd seen enough. The Coalition is fundamentally a great dream, a safe humanity, but it is also an awful lie, and he's been the awful end of it.

So he got out, one day on patrol in his Samas, he just didn't come back. He didn't know enough to shut off his IFF, so when three Sky Cycles spotted him a couple hundred miles away on their patrol, he was flagged as a deserter and the chase was on.

This is where Phinn and Keiko come in. Dodging low under the trees to stay ahead of the faster but less maneuverable Sky Cycles, they saw he was in peril and joined the fight, taking one out. He popped up and used most of his missiles to take out another. Then they ganged up and downed the third. He was able to scramble their communicaitons (he hopes) and things have been quiet for a year but he just never knows.

He's ditched most of his old CS equipment and gone with either NG lasers or semi-old Juicer rifles (he really likes the canister). He's also taken the name Joe Hatch, or "Hatchet", though he uses no such weapon. He's a little fuzzy on how he got the name.

He did take the CS Striker SAMAS, but as said above all but the wing missiles (or all the missiles) are used up and have not been replaced. The head is a little damaged (and repaired with some NG Samson parts), repainted to not black, and the body work was changed on it to look a little different in flight.