Micajah

First Impression

Lt. Cage is a cyber-skeleton in prison orange

Double-Take

Formerly a heavily augmented soldier, Cage has been stripped down to the bare minimum of cybernetics to allow him a humane level of activity and movement. His cybernetic limbs have been reduced to the weakest models available, and the prison techs couldn't remove his Cromwell chassis cyber-torso, but they could strip and disable most of it. The remaining chassis is the flexible ribs and substructure that protect the tank of organs and flesh that is what remains of Cage. The plasteel tank is visible through the endosteel ribs. The power systems are exposed, and if Cage isn't mindful of his movement, he can cause his minimal power cell to arc and discharge. 

Occupying the augment and cyborg wing of Chillingsworth prison in the Commonwealth of New England, Cage is carefully watched for being the quietest inmate. Other augments and cyborgs tend to be ... unhinged. Kilpatrick has taken on the manner and demeanor of a monk. 

Getting to Know You

Lt. Kilpatrick experienced a life-changing event during his time with the Cereberus Team. It would take years and being incarcerated unjustly for this experience to bear fruit. Born to a troubled home, with a tumultuous upbringing, and a long and decorated career of violence, for him to discover religion. The guards and warden of Chillingsworth are deeply unsettled by a trained killer stripped down to almost synthskin and endosteel bones who spends his time in meditation, prayer, or reading old books. 

Getting to Know All About You

Micajah was born into a Gassner complex on the edge of the Memphis Megalopolis. Prospects were poor, so after a childhood and adolescence marked by misdemeanors, hospital visits, and substance abuse, Micajah joined the military. Even getting slotted into the Poor Bloody Infantry would be better than following his trajectory into gang violence. Instead, he was accepted into the Federation Marines. After a year in the Marines, Cage moved to the Assault Wing. The next decade was spent slowly losing body parts, gaining cybernetics, and earning medals. 

He was promoted to the Federation Reflex Corps, joining Team 17, Cereberus. His work in the Reflex Force remains classified, but he gained multiple citations for valor. He also suffered more injuries and eventually gained the Full Metal status due to the amount of cybernetics he had. Service in the Reflex Corps tends to be short, so Cage retired from the Force and tried to go civilian. This was only partially successful. He found a part-time job working for Vector Security, where he constantly grated against the politicking and graft with the various local police and security forces.

The files are sealed.

And Micajah was fired, sentenced to life in prison, and assigned to Chillingsworth. Prior to arriving, he was denuded of his high-grade augmentations, and he is weak, slow, and frail now. His cybernetic components are low-grade Expy equipment, purposely kept to keep this highly competent and dangerous man manageable. Micajah has become a well established convict in the system, which unsettles the guards. They would prefer him to be a slightly disruptive inmate, squabbling with them, with the other inmates, and the like.

Cage has become a man of the cloth.

Getting to know ALL About them.

Childhood - Micajah was a troubled youth who did drugs, committed crimes, and did things that started him towards a life of crime. He was very much a bad apple.

Military Service - Cage took well to the discipline of the service, did well, and relished the heavy weapons, the missions, and as he was injured, augmenting his body. 

In the Reflex Corps he was truly a monster, unstoppable and unrestrained. There was no reason to hold back when facing a dimensional fatigue event, taking down terrorists, or rogue technology. He took more damage, got exotic augmentations, and was regularly under review for collateral damage and borderline failed psyche evaluations. He was considered for nerve stapling or being implanted with behavior controlling cybernetics.

The Arael Event was the end of Cage's time in the Corps. He survived the encounter, but not before being exposed to biological contamination, completely failing the debrief psyche evaluation, and more augmentations required to remain functional. After a reconditioning period, Cage was discharged with honors from the Corps, and returned to civilian life. He returned to Memphis, got a job with Vector Security (subsidiary of SEMDRC) which was marked with many problems.

During the Arael Event, Cage found religion and a conscience he had never had before. This clashed with the one hand washes the other business as usual corruption in the Memphis megalopolis. Cage became a vigilante in the security service, finding others who had the same mindset. This Wolf Brigade lasted for sixteen months where they crippled crooked cops, executed underworld leaders, and generally made Memphis's geofront a livable place and left the upper level's leadership in cold sweats.

The Internal Intelligence Service at SEMDRC was able to ferret out the Wolf Brigade and shut them down. This was difficult and expensive as a third of the brigade decided to not be taken alive. Another third was successfully neutralized by IIS countermeasures. Cage took a knee and allowed himself to be taken into custody. He has since become a convict monk who spends his endless hours in reading, writing, prayer, and meditation.

The guards are increasingly and irrationally afraid of him.

The Skeletons in the Closet

Cage was touched by the Divine during the Arael Event. Not alien divinity or eldritch horror divinity, but by ancient Christianity. Cage is practicing Catholic Monachism and is a sect-less monk. This is why he accepted incarceration and being stripped like a car left in the ghetto. This forced semi-isolation suited his vision for the pursuit of monastic service. He was content to spend the rest of his life in prayer and contemplation as an act of atonement for the evil of his life. This wasn't an automagical transformation, but a revelation of the presence of the divine through his entire life, and how that there was a greater purpose at work.

Why Does Any of This Matter?

Because Cage is going to become the main character and protagonist of a story. Kurt Vonnegut's discourses on the Shape of Story has as its first option The Man in a Hole where the MC starts high, faces trials and tribulations, dropping low, and then ending the story on a high equal to or higher than the start. Cage with be a Man on Parole, starting very low, being pulled out to perform a mission he cannot refuse, and then at the end, to be returned to the hole they found him in, ala The Suicide Squad, but you know, not sucking.