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Tiberius "Tiber" Mantell
A young sergeant with the Alderaan military, Tiber Mantell earned his stripes by skill, discipline and focus, and internal and external strength of character and body. He's seen some combat, but is still very inexperienced compared to many other veterans of the Alderaan military. However, he has impressed his superiors with his professionalism and his skill, and is pegged for a long and glorious career in the Alderaan Infantry Corps.
The son of an Alderaanian noble family, the Mantells, the fact that he joined the Army was a bit of a disappointment to his mother who wished him to become a politician rather than a simple soldier. His father, in turn, a military man, approved, but later became enraged when Tiber one day made it known and clear that he was planning to veer into the field of Special Operations; a relatively new, and very skeptically looked upon by traditional officers of the Alderaan military, field of operations.
After basic training and about a year of serving as an infantryman, Tiber began this path towards Special Operations by applying for and being accepted as part of his battalion's Reconnaissance Platoon, a unit tasked with providing hard intelligence from beyond the front lines to serve as basis for Battalion leadership's operational decisions on future battlefields.
In the Reconnaissance Platoon, or Rec/Platoon as it was known, he first served in the role of designated marksman, but after nine months, his squad leader retired from the Army. Mantell was chosen to replace him, despite his inexperience, because of his skill as a soldier, and his ability to lead in combat situations.
Five years after beginning his career in the Army, he was approached for recruitment by Rancor Company, a ragtag band of rangers and contract hunters who were to serve on the frontier to protect settlers and colonists, and further the interests of the Alderaanian government. Because of the lack of funding and official support from the regular military (whose leadership, again, looked with suspicion on these so-called "commandos" and their strange new ways of waging war) skilled soldiers were needed to help temper them into a ferocious fighting force capable of wreaking havoc when necessary.
Mantell was of interest to Rancor Company because not only had he in the Infantry undergone MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) training, but also training to conduct ship boarding operations, useful in the Company's first assignment, which was counter piracy operations. Mantell himself, sensing a chance to grow as a soldier and expand his catalogue of skillsets, accepted the assignment, and took a role as a sergeant within the infant Rancor Company.
A young sergeant with the Alderaan military, Tiber Mantell earned his stripes by skill, discipline and focus, and internal and external strength of character and body. He's seen some combat, but is still very inexperienced compared to many other veterans of the Alderaan military. However, he has impressed his superiors with his professionalism and his skill, and is pegged for a long and glorious career in the Alderaan Infantry Corps.
The son of an Alderaanian noble family, the Mantells, the fact that he joined the Army was a bit of a disappointment to his mother who wished him to become a politician rather than a simple soldier. His father, in turn, a military man, approved, but later became enraged when Tiber one day made it known and clear that he was planning to veer into the field of Special Operations; a relatively new, and very skeptically looked upon by traditional officers of the Alderaan military, field of operations.
After basic training and about a year of serving as an infantryman, Tiber began this path towards Special Operations by applying for and being accepted as part of his battalion's Reconnaissance Platoon, a unit tasked with providing hard intelligence from beyond the front lines to serve as basis for Battalion leadership's operational decisions on future battlefields.
In the Reconnaissance Platoon, or Rec/Platoon as it was known, he first served in the role of designated marksman, but after nine months, his squad leader retired from the Army. Mantell was chosen to replace him, despite his inexperience, because of his skill as a soldier, and his ability to lead in combat situations.
Five years after beginning his career in the Army, he was approached for recruitment by Rancor Company, a ragtag band of rangers and contract hunters who were to serve on the frontier to protect settlers and colonists, and further the interests of the Alderaanian government. Because of the lack of funding and official support from the regular military (whose leadership, again, looked with suspicion on these so-called "commandos" and their strange new ways of waging war) skilled soldiers were needed to help temper them into a ferocious fighting force capable of wreaking havoc when necessary.
Mantell was of interest to Rancor Company because not only had he in the Infantry undergone MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) training, but also training to conduct ship boarding operations, useful in the Company's first assignment, which was counter piracy operations. Mantell himself, sensing a chance to grow as a soldier and expand his catalogue of skillsets, accepted the assignment, and took a role as a sergeant within the infant Rancor Company.