Colonel Jeffrey Olson, Retired UCAS Marine Corps (Skippy)

Weight: 160

Apparent Age: 75

Archetype: Journalist

Preferred Weapon: ??

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Bio: This man is probably the greatest threat to the United Canadian American States and he doesn’t fully understand or now why, Skippy as his wife used to call him prior to her death last year has served within the UCAS Marine Corps for his entire professional life and holds many degrees in journalism and broadcasting. Skippy served within the press division of the military and even worked directly with the White House as a chief editor for the press secretary and spin division. This man has lead a long and honourable career as both a soldier and a journalist, so when he was told that the freedom of press was no more and that he would have to silence his independent reporting on the state of affairs within Seattle and the United Canadian American States. Skippy answered the only way he knew how and that was with total disregard for his own safety and freedom and continue to report the truth in an unbiased and truthful manner. This man doesn’t fear the repercussions that will be coming his way and understands that one day he too will be standing above the trap door with his neck in a noose awaiting his execution for nothing more than staying true to his journalistic oath and keeping his integrity pure.

          While most of the journalists are running to hills and many others just falling in line with the wishes of the New Order to keep themselves employed and free of incarceration, Skippy has taken to old school reporting tactics and removed the gag that was applied to him and his colleagues. Skippy has continued to report the facts about the war and even though he has his own personal opinions on the rebels, the runners and the New Order or False Flag he tries his best to keep them out of his columns and stories and only report what facts he can verify as true. This has angered the UCAS seeing that he is not representing them in the best way possible, and do to his creditability being unscathed Skippy’s stories are well received by the public and so this once Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has become just another enemy of the state and hunted like a criminal that he isn’t.

           While most people that get reported about on this page are serious threats to each and every citizen and even some governments fear the men and women on this page do to there violent, inhumane nature, their combat prowess and decades of working with the shadows or within the mercenary world as a soldier for hire. Skippy is not one of these remorseless killers and he actually has never taken another human life in his entire career as a Marine. He might have received the basic training that all soldiers receive while in boot camp, but he spent his life in a non combat unit and only held a riffle while he was deployed into a combat zone as a war correspondent. Though he never actually fired his weapon and would do like most reporters and keep his head low and allow the infantrymen to keep his ass alive, now this is not to say that Skippy is a pacifist and won’t defend himself. We know that he has multiple weapons permits and a concealed carry permit, but having a pistol on you and being skilled enough to fend off trained combat troops is a completely different animal all together. Skippy is just a reporter, this man is your typical suburban grandfather and not a highly trained killer thus he will be in for a serious change of lifestyle as he has been forced to abandon his home, his remaining family and his comfortable life within the suburbs to stay one step ahead of the government storm troopers and keep the truth flowing as the thought police hunt to silence this man bringing an end to the last true journalist and a end of an era.

            Freedom of the Press is what this country was founded on and keeping the people informed of the events in the most unbiased way possible is what allowed for America to remain strong and not descend fully into a third world nation. The free press and the freedom of speech and expression has allowed for this nation to excel and even when that speech is harmful or bigoted it was still protected under the principles of the Old America. We have long been deceived that the New Order as well held true to those same principles and that they too cared about a free press and the right of the people to assemble. Well it has never been their intention for this to be, the Ratification signed into law on June 15th 2020 would actually never mention the freedom of speech, the press, and the right of the people to assemble, in actuality hidden within the legalese it actually forbade this. The people where deceived and it would take highly observant and educated reporters like Skippy to uncover this and bring it to the attention of the people. Skippy was lucky enough to actually read the original copy of the Ratification while he served in the military and was going to school for law to advance both his knowledge and as well his career. His analytical mind and his knowledge of the written word as well as being able to decipher legalise allowed for this reporter to notice the discrepancy and bring it directly to the people in his articles “A Sudden Dystopia” under the pen name of Paul Revere. Needless to say he couldn’t sign his own name seeing that he was still an active member of the military and he had to fear not only for his life, but the sanctity and safety of his wife and children.

           Skippy had heard and gotten wind of some of the horrible things the UCAS was doing to it’s people that served within it’s ranks and wouldn’t play ball. This intelligence would leave a pit in his stomach and haunt him for decades as he continued to serve the New Order, he knew that he couldn’t leave without causing alarm and putting himself or his family in harms way. So trapped in a occupation that once seemed noble, Skippy would have to live a double life and use a pen name to report what he knew was the truth, while he continued to be a military sanitizer and keep the UCAS appearing golden all the while hiding the truth of the beast that lurked within. You can find his articles throughout the Matrix under the pen name Paul Revere; though not to be confused with the decker that calls himself the Midnight Rider. Skippy’s education and his law degree that he would receive from Yale would allow this man to further advance his career and become a needed editor for the White House. So with him being a officer in the Marine Corps it wasn’t hard for the Joint Chiefs to pass the order down to Skippy and transfer him from his Hawaiian location back to the mainland to serve out of the Pentagon and work for the current administration as a censor and sanitizer. This would allow the White House to keep the public informed but as well allow for them to control the flow of information and it was the job of Skippy to make sure the news reports where well sanitized and any chance of a loose end or loophole was neatly snipped and secured. Needless to say he would do his job and do it well, though he would go home sick to his stomach each night knowing that he was becoming part of the problem and not the solution. He had become a journalist to report the truth and he received a degree in law to help advance his cause and help him with his reporting and understanding of intercessors of the legal and political system. Not to use his training and education to further the reporting of falsified information and help keep the threat concealed.

          Needless to say that during his time within the White House, the articles of the shadow writer known as Paul Revere would begin to fully come to light and soon the words he was writing out of frustration and the truth he was spewing forth would bubble to surface and gain the attention of the government that wasn’t at all to thrilled to read the well written an well thought out articles from an obviously professional journalist with direct insider information. This initially would almost cause the end of Skippy as he would become their number one suspect and his life would be torn upside down for a few years, as the UCAS would focus their investigation directly onto the editor of the White House. If anything Skippy wasn’t stupid and he made sure that his writings where secured and untraceable, so he wasn’t concerned that the government was pouring through his life, home and work. The more they focused on him, the more Paul Revere would publish the stories and articles about the horrors that lurked deep within the system created to offer protection. The more he would disclose the truth behind the dystopian society the UCAS was creating and the need for the full control and enslavement of the people. This would eventually lead to many uprisings that would be quickly squelched by the government, though the one thing even the UCAS couldn’t silence was the workings of the major anchors of Seattle World News that would quickly become interested in the writings of this shadow writer and begin to broadcast some of his reporting’s live on the air. This was mostly done by now outed Freedom Patriot Reverdy Davis and Deaths Hand Elite Alfred O’Bannon these two men would bring the warnings and tales of Paul Revere to a public that was unaware of his shadow writing. Thus further angering those inside the New Order and creating a very explosive situation that we would eventually feel the affects of a few years down the road.

            Now when it comes to Skippy, he would eventually be cleared of any wrongdoing and the frustrated government goons would refocus their investigation onto other subjects while they searched for the infamous Paul Revere. Though for Skippy he knew that eventually he would once again come under attack from the military and federal goon squad for his journalistic integrity so after working for four separate administrations including President Johnson’s first term he would put in his paperwork to retire his commission and walk away from the military with his career and pension intact, he would retire to an undisclosed location and begin his life as a civilian reporter where he would be allowed to report the truth and advance his career and spread the word no longer under the pressures of the military and government censors. He was able to freely report and soon the shadow writings of Paul Revere would slow down and eventually cease, for Skippy this was one of his worst decisions seeing that it wouldn’t be long before the government would connect the dots and figure out that Jeffrey Olson was Paul Revere. Though this would also come at the same time that the government would quash the media and bring to light the truth behind the warnings he was writing about almost three decades earlier.

           Skippy would start off working for the Washington Post and eventually become an on the air reporter and eventually an anchor for the Seattle World News offices out of the Federal District. He would win multiple Pulitzer Prizes on the stories he would report about the corruption within the Capital Building, the dangerous corporate connections and the sterilization of the news coming from the White House and Pentagon. Needless to say Olson wasn’t the most loved of the news desk by the UCAS and his skills as an interviewer would make him even further hated. This man might never have practised law in a courtroom, but his skills in questioning a subject would make most defence attorney’s tremble as he truly is a master of the English language and can trip anyone up with his masterful use of the language. Though all this aside, Skippy would still be sitting on the governments radar and with every damaging story or botched interview he would bring the cross hairs ever so closer to bear on him. So when the war with rebels would become the only focus for the government, it was his duty to begin reporting on this situation and follow the story as closely as he could. Skippy wanted to make sure that even if it was damaging to either side, that the truth was reported and neither sides spin doctors would over propagandise the war and draw undeserved favour from the people. This would again not make Skippy a well liked reporter as each side of the revolution would need the propaganda to survive and to have the truth steadily reviled could be damaging to either side of the conflict. Though luckily for the rebels, the words of Olson and Paul Revere would become their anthem and war cry; it would be enough for these battered and tired soldiers to keep the fight going knowing that someone actually knew the truth and was not afraid to report it to the masses.

            Well this will bring us to today, the year is 2074 and the fears that Paul Revere reported on over thirty years ago have come to volition, and the media has been officially and pertinently censored. The peoples right to free speech and expression has been quashed thus bringing about a time that he has warned would come, a time of silence and deceit and a time when the once great nation of America officially dies and crumbles into nothing but a dystopian land of corruption and enslavement. Where the people are controlled and properly educated on only what the government decrees is the truth and they are spoon feed propaganda and censored reading material. Creating a nation of false patriots to defend against the true patriots that once again wish to defeat tyranny as are forefathers did so many years prior. The once senior anchor, and now widower has been forced out of his home and employment to run the shadows, not for wealth and not for fame but to stay alive and continue to report the truth about the dystopia that has befallen us all. He has sacrificed everything multiple times to keep us informed and even now being hunted by the government for being the notorious Paul Revere he continues to report the truth, even in the face of a most certain execution Skippy keeps his head held high and his integrity pure as he stays true to his oath and code. This man is a shining example of what it is to be an American and man of honour, he fights the enemy not with sword and gun, but with the pen and paper and once again he proves that the pen is truly mightier then the sword; Semper Fi old friend, OOH RAH!

Page Written By: Alvin Graves (Cyclops)