Name: Sterling Silver
Gender: Male
Appearance:
>>140888 kept and uses his gear from his MDF service [
>>988980 ^(
the left-side pegasus)^ ]
Age: 28
Race: Earth Pony
Primary weapon: DKS-501 mounted infantry rifle capable of using .408 rifle rounds.
Secondary: Flim & Flam NBW machine pistol retrofitted to use cased cartridges.
Personality: Prefers keeping to himself, keeping stock, and
appraising salvaged war materiel. Avoids using lethal grenades after witnessing an incident in which a thrower had one slip out of their hoof while reeling back to lob.
Skills: Has the patience, curiosity, and logic to diagnose, repair, and operate most forms of machinery or vehicles, given enough time to study them, the correct tools and the replacement parts, a few manuals, and a dictionary. Owns and hides a lathe tool machine and a homemade smelter somewhere in Equestria’s demilitarized region that he uses to create his trademark solid copper or brass spitzer-point bullets. To keep his gear in working condition, some parts have been repaired throughout time using off-the-shelf electronics. Accepts some forms of dud explosives to recycle into usable ordinance materiel.
Sometimes even uses leftover cakes of semtex as fuel for cooking. Says that the key to safety is to never smash it while it’s burning.
Faction exiled from and why: Before his family’s immigration to Maretonia, Sterling spent his foalhood moving back and forth between Equestria and the Crystal Kingdom. During the first year of his mandatory MDF(Maretonia Defense Forces) service, Silver was an unrelenting jobnik
(Maretonian slang for a non-combatant soldier who serves by doing secretarial work, clerking, counting inventory, or some other “job”-like function), dismissing the volunteer infantry as “marks”. He requested a transfer to an armored unit and played the system until he was sent into the Maretonian/Equestrian border security zone.
Unofficially, Silver went AWOL in the aftermath of an extended firefight against Princess Luna’s nightkin militants, less than four weeks before he was scheduled to muster out. He was officially listed as MIA. Under various aliases and numerous passports, he relocated to Saddle Arabia, spending his time incognito for several years before jump-starting an underground pipeline for stolen vehicles through the country and across the sea to Griffonia.
The Saddle Arabian government eventually ordered Silver out after he was picked up in a security aimed at GWP(Griffonia Workers’ Party) finances. Concerned he might face extradition back to Maretonia; he used false credentials to broker an engine parts shipment to Equestria and boarded a freighter headed to Baltimare. His time in Equestria now drowning in civil war eventually relocated him to work as a mercenary trainer and arms dealer.
Personal reasons leading to recently have him now working as a vehicle operator, explosive ordinance disposal worker, salvage-scout, and quartermaster for the Guardian Angels.
(now for a power nap…
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