Detective Solomon Gargamel (Ravager)

Weight: 165

Apparent Age: 60

Archetype: Street Samurai

Preferred Weapon: Ruger Thunderbolt

Runner Song:

 Bio: This runner from yesteryear has returned to the Emerald City to through his hat in the ring and return to the scene of the crime. The Ravager originally worked here in Seattle back during the cold, dark and bloody days of the founders and when the tides shifted and the times began changing he gracefully bowed out of the game to allow the next generation their time in the game. After he left the scene of the crime and vanished into the shadows the Ravager, would re-emerge within the California Free State as a police officer for the troubled Los Angeles Police Department. Seeing that the CFS (California Free State) doesn’t recognize the authority of the UCAS this was the perfect place for a hardened killer like the Ravager to hide in plain sight. The law enforcement agencies where more then willing to gobble this samurai up and give him the legal authority to do what he does best.          Though for the Ravager he might have physically left the game, but his heart never fully left the shadows and he would quickly throw himself into a whole new environment where the rules had changed and he wouldn’t have to worry about the Winds of Change and he could operate legally as a runner within the Los Angeles shadows. So this cop by day and runner by night would be a breath of fresh air for California that was stagnating and longing for some fresh blood to bring back the respect and fear of the shadow operators that it had long since lost. The Ravager was more then willing to show Los Angeles jut how brutal a Seattle runner can be and just why they are considered to be the best in the world.

         So from the spring of 2053 till present time the Ravager pulled double duty and would ravage Los Angeles and force the struggling government to create new laws and restrictions just to deal with the anarchy this man was causing on a near nightly basis. He would use his shadow operations to assist him with his police career and vice an versa this man would take any job that would allow him to target the criminally aligned, corrupt and connected to Asia in anyway. This was not do to any sort of racism or bigotry, he just felt the Asian Governments didn’t belong controlling any part of the continental United States and he absolutely hates the organised crime syndicates so this killed two birds for him with one stone. The Ravager worked inside the Organised Crimes Task Force in the LAPD and this would allow him to hard focus his disdain for these Asian gangs and cut them down to size either through legal means or in true street samurai fashion.

        During his tenure plus with the LAPD the Ravager made a name for himself as a no nonsense cop and he couldn’t be intimidated by any Triad, or Yakuza thug, assassin or boss. He was also immune to the pressures that would come from government officials or corporate executives that needed these criminal agencies in place to make sure there plans stayed in place. Well the Ravager could care less and he would answer any threat the same way and that;s with extreme violence and mass destruction. He would also be unrelenting when on duty and this would allow him to determine who was connected and who was a patsy. So the more the Ravager applied the pressure on both sides of the law, the more the panic induced executives and officials would try to shut him down through legal channels and this would create a trail that the Ravager could follow straight back to the source and they could only pray he came knocking wearing his badge. Otherwise he would be investigating his own crime scene the next day after he unloaded hundreds of bullets into his victims killing everyone connected to the Asian criminals.

         Though the Ravager does have a soft spot for children and if they remained free of hostile intent he would bring them to safety otherwise the gloves where off and the Ravager would bury adult and child alike. This man managed to slide through the cracks and the people of Los Angeles loved they way he was helping to clean up the streets and free them of their applied debt and protection fees as he would bury gangs and families alike. This would keep the Ravager from being brought down by the corrupt officials inside the Police Department and keep him from becoming a target from the vigilantes of the CFS (California Free State). Though this would also cause a rift within the department as even those that didn’t support the organised crime syndicates would have trouble accepting his nightly moonlighting. Though being a known Seattle runner and founding father nobody dared to speak out against the Ravager if they where on the level. The ones that where not so on the level would risk everything to take on the Ravager, though this always ended with a quick trip to the morgue.

        The Ravager was able to make quite a name for himself during his time in Los Angeles and throughout California as a true beast. This would cause the the corrupt and troubled government to create new laws and additional restrictions in an attempt to wrangle the Ravager. Though all these laws wound up doing was chocking out the life of the law abiding citizen and create a vacuum within the police department that would create a need for them to hire a private law enforcement agency to fill the gaps. The new cyber laws that where put in place only hurt those that needed legal cyber and left a gaping hole that could be exploited by the current police officers and military personnel and allow many other runners to capitalize and make life very complicated for those that tried desperately to remain in command and in control.

        The CFS (California Free State) was as well suffering under the constant assaults from the cyber pirates that made their coastline and waters unsafe to travel let alone the damage they caused to the states commerce by chocking the trade routes. As well the Free State was dealing with the likes of Fusion and Artillery that were creating a serious problem with their well placed explosions and heavy weapon fire. Then you have cops like Talon and Mastodon that would never yield and allow themselves to be corrupted or become part of the problem. You add the Confederates and the Patriots as well as Aztlan invading from the south and the leadership of this troubled state would eventually crack and focus their frustration onto the few men they could. Eventually even the Ravager had to determine that it was time to bail from that sinking ship and avoid being killed by the torrent of fire coming for him. His antics would also force Mastodon and Talon to have to flee California and come to Seattle, so never wanting to leave the party till he has overstayed his welcome the Ravager fled from the CFS (California Free State) and returned to Seattle to fill a vacant seat inside the Organised Crimes Division of the Seattle Police Department. He once again has lucked out seeing that the UCAS has been overthrown inside Seattle his criminal past won’t come back to haunt him and he has been officially pardoned for his prior bad acts.

      The Ravager has only just relocated once again he has not rested and slowed down with his antics in anyway. This man took his war against the vile an corrupt to the CFS (California Free State) and he has now brought it back to Seattle after almost 20 years of being away. So needless to say those in power that have something to hide, the Asian criminal syndicates and the other Mafia’s are now forced to deal with the triumphant return of the Ravager. This man will not sit ideally by and he will continue his assaults until he is either brought down or the last of their kind has taken their final breath. With the Ravager back in Seattle, it is not a good time to be connected to any organised crime syndicate. The Ravager will shed no tears over any of his victims and he will never think twice about creating a wholesale slaughter in order to emphasize his point that rime doesn’t pay and all gangsters end up being laid to rest in an early grave.

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