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By Kaleon
02/06/2012 - 01:04:29

Type: Captain
Rating: 0.1 (Not rated)
Tags: alimantre, drew980, kaleon, kamorra, kamorran, sniper

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(Made for Drew980s's adventure serial.)

Alimantre originally wanted to be an architect, but his family was poor and he lacked access to higher education despite his quick-witted intellect. Frustrated by unreachable dreams, he decided to join the Kamorran Expeditionary Corps and bury his regrets under the rigid discipline of a military lifestyle. KEC enlistees are guided through the system based on their aptitudes, so they usually wind up in positions they are good at. Alimantre turned out to be a skilled marksman, the attention to detail and ability to consider all angles of a situation that made him pine to be an architect serving him just as well with a rifle. His shots are precise and well-planned, and he never wastes a bullet. His weapon of choice is an 88-Series VK-6212 "Firenze" miniature railgun, known for its ability to ignore crosswinds, ensuring pinpoint accuracy at much longer distances than normal for a weapon of its size.

With a dossier like that, Alimantre's KEC career was set to be long and successful. But fate has a way of defying trends. At the end of his fourth and final year of probationary duty, just before he was eligible for vertical movement within the KEC hierarchy, his patrol was pinned down on top of a sand dune in the middle of the Grand Tarcian desert on Kamorra. They had been on the trail of an illegal arms dealer known as Gidge the Beautiful, and they found her. And her entire posse. Her "beauty" was trumped only by her ferocity, and Alimantre's unit was slowly overwhelmed despite their superior equipment. To make matters worse, a raging sandstorm made air support impossible. That kind of pressure is not good for sniping, but as he watched his comrades fall one by one around him Alimantre realized the gravity of his situation. He had no backup and no cover. Half mad with grief and desperation, he found it impossible to surrender. He kept firing, and his targets kept dying. He was shot twice in the left shoulder and once in the neck, but he barely noticed. Whenever he ran out of ammo he freed the nearest gun from its owner's dead grip and continued on. By the time his battle frenzy faded he was alone on the dune. No ally or enemy had survived. He passed out from blood loss and was picked up two hours later when the sandstorm subsided enough to get a dropship in.

His official recorded kill count for that one battle was listed at 71 in just under an hour, enough to instantly qualify him for promotion to official Sniper rank. It was not until he regained consciousness in a military hospital that he learned that Gidge was supposed to be captured alive. This one flaw in the operation was enough to get him marked "unreliable" in his file despite his impressive victory. He knew that from that point on he was doomed to be pigeonholed in the KEC, so the instant his contract expired he grabbed his stuff and left. He has since made a living as a freelance sharpshooter.