Joseph Hendrial (Heavy Metal Magellan)
About Joseph.
Overview
| Name: | Joseph Hendrial |
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| Rank: | Civilian |
| Role: | Mercenary Mecha-Combat Technician, Working for NAAJM |
| Nickname(s): | — |
| Call sign: | — |
| Age: | 30 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Sexuality: | Straight |
Appearance
| Height: | 6' (182.88cm) |
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| Weight: | 210lbs (95.25kg) |
| Eyes: | Green |
| Hair: | Auburn, cut short, often mussed |
| Skin: | Lightly tanned |
| Physique: | Healthy and solid |
| Distinguishing marks: | Severe scarring on either sides of his spine, with stainless steel plates and myomers visible along its length. |
American; Mixed German and Dutch Heritage. Strong and athletic. Often wears coveralls with a gun-style toolbelt. He carries a special set of Jeweler's screwdrivers in his left breast pocket, and a 12" adjustable wrench on his right leg, both for technical and sentimental reasons.
Biography
Was a promising cadet during mech basic training, but was dishonorably discharged after severely beating his Recruit Division Commander. The details of that event are sealed and he doesn't talk much about it... Not one of his favorite subjects.
Hendrial found work after washing out of training as a security guard for the moon colony. During the Ankharran Blitz he manned an older sniper rifle, and with four others, held off an attacking force of 300 by using the terrain to their advantage. Joseph and his ad-hoc squad bought enough time for the main forces to arrive, and force back the imperial invasion attempt. Their bravery saved thousands, but Joseph sustained major injuries to his spine. Injuries that were serious enough to warrant a cybernetic replacement. While being armored and well protected against bare hand / knife attacks, the spinal replacement affords him no special abilities. While he has full mobility, he is left with a dull ache along his lower back and legs, an unfortunate side-effect of the synthetic nerve replacements. He takes regular doses of morphine to counteract the pain.
Being immobile for nearly seven months during the recovery process, he poured himself into researching mecha electronics, focusing on radar and communications. He also (from his bed) played a popular online mech simulator game, familiarizing himself with standardized mech operation. He is currently ranked 9th out of 12,000,000 subscribers.
Over the next several years he became an authority on mecha systems, and is often sought out as an "Independent Consultant". He currently works for the North Atlantic Alliance Joint Military In this capacity. Joseph's role and reason for being present on the transport are to help evaluate the new MCC-65 Mecha Chassis.
During the incident, he is in one of the containers looking over one of the new mechs technical readouts, and constructing a formalized evaluation of the design to send back to the manufacturer. He is not able to exit the container during the incident due to damage sustained in the meteor strike, and is forced to make do with what he has available in an effort to escape. He has the armor, The anti-material rifle (But only one magazine/5 shots), and basic gear pictured (List will be updated). His mecha has no armament however to start, aside from the medium range mecha assault rifle.
