Khombu Knox

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Appearance
He's 5'6" stout, 206 pounds/91 kilograms, dark skinned, and sports a black crew cut. Clean shaven and showered at 1900 hours everyday. His eyes are a stern, squinted dark brown that give off a sly and intelligent vibe. Despite a growing gut he keeps up to standard with the physical requirements of the Emancipation Forces.

10 Sets of Sleep dress- He uses National standard wear:  Dark Green knee length shorts, a Dark-green T-Shirt, and soft rubber or leather slip-on shoes. A mix of wool, cotton, silk, polyester, and hemp fibers is used for the clothing and for clothing repairs. Can be worn with or replace with a set of gray long thermal underwear depending on environment and weather conditions. Most sets are used for inner wear underneath other clothing 2 sets are designated for PT use.

Meant for regular pt, sleep, and some day to day activities.

3 Sets of  Work dress- He uses Support standard wear:  A standard dull brown set of ACU-style coveralls made in 2 different sizes with elastic adjustment straps to fit various body types. The coveralls are made with at total of 10 wood or plastic buttons, 2 enlarged brass zippers, and 5 simple adjustment straps. With 13 different pockets the coveralls are also worn with a standard white load-bearing vest (built in soft kevlar), simple bandoleer, or full plate carrier (ceramic plates) for carrying personnel protection equipment, writing materials, identification passes, encryption keys, decryption keys, personal equipment, cleaning materials, tools, radio equipment, and personal gear. Made fire, rip, and water resistant the intention is that all UARESB personnel working with the standard "Work dress" would be ready for combat or deployment within minutes.

Meant for regular day to day activities, work, and formal events.

2 Sets of Combat dress- He uses the Support standard: A set of designated UARESB Work dress with the load bearing gear often replaced with a white Kevlar plate carrier. The plates are smaller 7.5x15x1.8 cm (3x6x0.7 inch) plates mounted in a cloth coat worn on top of the "Work Dress" with the load-bearing vest meant to be worn on top of the armor. While vests and armor are issued white without coloring it is the job of the owner to paint, dye or use local colors (ie mud or clay) to combat paint each vest. Exoskeletons used a mixed fabric external enhanced muscle system and hard plastic hydraulic weight bearing system. Worn underneath the plate armor on top of the Work dress.

Meant for combat activities.

Personality
He's a frustrating, cheating, scheming, stern, and yet eccentric man. He's a extreme liberal with a belief in liberating people from what he, his colleagues, and his organization believes is a fascist hold by ruling monarchist oligarchy. He believes in the use of military and industrial power to overwhelm and outclass everyone using the individual ingenuity, initiative, and the personal reform to progress technology. He believes that anything can be done efficiently and should be done in such a manner that is efficient. It's been a point of contention to also balance the simplicity and instinctive understanding of what should be done. Often this is a common point of miscommunication as changes to Standard Operating Procedures appear to be on a bi-monthly basis. Often he is seen as a obsessive, preachy, and stringent with his interactions with others. Often in most group events and activities he is quietly recording ideas, projecting basic numbers for different strategies, and picking up small tasks he can finish by himself. The lone supporting fox among wolves and sheep picking birds and scraps that others cannot ignore but are vital to any operation.

Skills and Abilities
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He loves Math, writing reports, basics of mechanical engineering, and some political science. Excelling in math and writing reports but has the support of a RnD team and a public speaking team for everything else.

Weapon and Fighting Style
Due to his contempt of being restrict to a single weapon system and the lack of modular capabilities a single weapon system would provide he has chosen overturned the convention of 1 or 2 trans-formative weapons adopting 3 or 5 modular systems. On the field Knox acts as both communications officer, leading field officer, and in the few times he must enter the field as a combat unit he is often equips himself as a grenadier, mortar man, or offensive communication officer. Often earning the respect of basic enlisted personnel and NCOs for his actions in the field.

He focuses on using maximum fire power on the enemy and the mobilization of organic and mechanized troops.

Infantry Mortar Type 13- A metal tube cut around 3 feet weighing around 9 kg./20 lbs. With elevation and wind adjustable monopod, adjustable sighting system, and polymer and steel framed base plate. With it's simplified striker-fire system it can be operated by a single person.

Various munitions for the mortar include: Mortar: Averaging around 600 fps/183 m/s and up to 2400 meters in range. Danger close of 400 meters and blast radius of 25 meters. Types: High Explosive (0.5 kg), Fragmentation (0.7 kg), Chemical White Phosphorus (0.8 kg.), Chemical Smoke (0.5 kg.), Chemical Tear Gas (0.8 kg.), and Parachute Illumination (0.6 kg.)

Grenades with modified mortar fuses: Averaging around meters 213 fps/65 m/s and up to 700 meters in range. Danger close of 100 meters and a blast radius of 10 meters. Types: Concussion (0.4 kg.), Fragmentation (0.45), and Smoke (0.35 kg.).

Personal Defense Pistol Model 6- A semiautomatic only 6.5x25mm chambered pistol. Made to penetrate most non-plutonium armor with a 3mm tungsten needle with a velocity of 3000 feet per second. Capable of penetrating a Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs).

Model 11 Knife-  A simple 20 cm. khukuri for utility and combat knife. Blackened with a weather resistant coat with a sharpened saw-back edge.

Aura and Semblance
Knox has a low Aura reserve to tap into and relies more on external weaponry and armor in order to stand on equal footing with most hunters/huntresses. While still very much capable of using standard weapons seen in Remnant he prefers saving aura for defensive purposes.

Preservation- Can slow down bodily functions, lower blood pressure, and lower conscious and unconscious aura usage equal to that if the targeted person was in a resting or in a sleeping state while being awake. Side effects include: impaired hand eye coordination, headaches, changes in blood pressure, dizziness, fainting, and organ failure.

Backstory
Born to a blue collar family of mechanics a young Knox Khombu enjoyed tinkering with leftover and broken mechanical pieces. At the age of 8 he first met Roman Robins while on a trip to a nearby junk yard. The two struck gold with one another for Robin's lofty dreams and constant attempts at developing his personal ultralight from VTOL engines and left over aircraft aluminum. They would eventually both aspired to become military engineers and apply at a local military school. However the lack of individual discretion among most NCO's, CO's, and even lower General Officers made any work for independent projects or submitted developments. This and many other issues led to both of them to resigning their military goals and moving toward Beacon Academy under joint scholarship. Entering Beacon was like a breathe of undisciplined air as uniforms were sloppy and with the floors being in a state of disgust. The initiation stage was to be first encounter with "Oorah" Pullman and later Nelly Horizon. The three man group would end up blazing a large section of the designated grounds into ash and ruble. Responding to the familiar sound of Knox's mortar Robins would eventually meet up with the group. It was decided that they had already shown team cooperation and ample skill together that it seemed right to place them together as team HOKR to be led by Nelly as she was the most reasonable of the group. Their time in Beacon would be a time of much grumbling and contempt. For the lack of training in anything beyond live combat and the seemly corporate attitude when dealing with missions. It was during a particular security detail that Nelly and Knox had come across a flyers for a pro-democratic union rally. Being able to express the team's militaristic and meritocratic ideals in an environment Knox would recruit the rest of team HOKR. The impressive work ethic and implementation of uniform standards allowed the team rise in the ranks in the DAENE. Eventually with the rising tensions in a renewed opposition against faunas political groups; DAENE political actions were often under pressure by extremists and various opposition parties. The founding of a security force to was headed by Horizon Nelly only to see extreme growth into a true hierarchical military system with multiple branches. The original purpose of the DAENE Citizen Security was to observe and report suspicious behavior, quell violence within DAENE supporters, and in a limited scope protect DAENE supporters from outside aggression. White Fang's militarization led many other political groups to use terror tactics and even more radical views to gain supporters. As a moderate extremist party the DAENE felt an encroachment on the lives and freedoms of regular citizens. A justification of mobilizing a larger security force to work alongside local law enforcement. Newly appointed Brigadier General of the Emancipation Forces (EF) a stanch supporter of self national recognition would head the Support Corps: a group designated to defend economic, logistical, and tactical resources of DAENE members; economic and logistics often meaning the defense of caravans, communication centers, and check points. With nearly every forward platoon having at least on form of infantry guns, mortars, howitzers, or similar self-propelled versions. Many skirmishes with radical groups from all sides of the spectrum almost always forcing a Pyrrhic victory on the opposing side before pulling out before any sizable damage is received. This reoccurring phenomenon would continue in the first real battle faced by Knox and the mixed force Battle Line named "Carry Mortals Outta Hell" with support from Air Company "Our Eyes Upon You" in the region named Low Desert 1 with the major defining feature of the area being a major highway with multiple trade rates. The creatively named Battle of Low Desert 1 would start as a massive retreat, but end with a false surrender and the rapid bombing of the enemy solidifying DAENE influence in Vacuo. A controversial act by Knox was to rename the various villages near the defended check point Route 243 to EF Initiation Camp "Mortal's First Crucible" without the consent of the DAENE to secure and settle the area. The end result was to build more a larger defensive structure, pirate radio systems, and try to open it as a infantry training academy bringing much controversial international attention. In the end the DAENE vote decided to hold the territory as more of a center of international refuge for those wishing to be freed from prosecution. At the Battle of Beacon the only high ranking member of the EF present in the Kingdom of Vale was Sea Admiral Nelly who was over six hours away from the battlefield. With all support personnel acting as communication support, encryption of coms., tracking enemy movement, and coordination of the crude artillery fire for EF-Security Forces and DAENE-EF aligned civilian militias in the area. The fast regroup and unexpected armament allowed a surprise counter offensive to open up until a fulling retreat was called to evacuate civilians. The superior communications abilities of the DAENE present allowed for a the EF to use creeping barrage of artillery to move back and forth forcing Grimm, White Fang, and Atlas personnel to bunch of together for precision artillery gun fire. All the while EF forces stayed safe using their controversy tactic of hiding in buildings and using cover to strike the enemy from behind.

TLDR; Working class boy became a military man but found the military to be stupid so he got a hunter's license. With hard work and determination he and his comrades began to create their own military system for a democratic party.