George Taylor

aka "Bright Eyes"

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"

Fighting: 30 Remarkable
Agility: 20 Excellent
Strength: 10 Good
Endurance: 20 Excellent
Reason: 10 Good
Intuition: 4 Poor
Psyche: 10 Good

Health: 80
Karma: 24

Resources: 0 Shift-0
Pop: -10 with Apes, +10 with Humans, 0 with Human Mutants


Known Powers:
None. George Taylor is a very physically fit human being from 20th Century Earth who engaged in constant intensive physical training and astronaut simulations as well as being a veteran astronaut.


Equipment:
+Furs: Feeble protection vs. Physical and Energy;
+Ape Carbine: Price: 10r, Range 9 areas, Damage: Good (10 or 7+1d8), Rate of Fire: 1 per round, Shots (Magazine): 10, can be fired one handed by anyone with appropriate Talent or at -2CS by anyone else otherwise it requires two hands to fire;
+Riding Animal - Horse;
+ANSA / US military dog tags.


Talents :
Marksmanship, Martial Arts A, Pilot, Survivalist, Horse Riding, Astronaut Operations, Space Pilot (double benefit with Pilot in atmosphere when flying any space capable vehicle), Astronavigation, Philosophy (especially humanism and American exceptionalism).


Contacts:
ANSA Space Agency, Doctor Hasslein, Cornelius, Zira, Nova


Limitations:
Low Intuition / Poor Situational Awareness. Although a fierce and dedicated fighter, George Taylor misses both nonverbal cues and details in his current situation at a much higher rate than would be normal. This is due to being almost blinded at times by his misanthropic attitude and his cynicism, focused on his inner pain rather than the outside world. When he first arrived on 40th Century Earth he missed many clues as to where he really was, and his native arrogance and cynicism continue to affect his ability to judge his surroundings accurately especially in terms of interpersonal relationships and anything beneath surface appearances. He attempts to preserve his internal narrative in preference to the reality around him.


Biography:
George Taylor was an astronaut from twentieth century Earth who eventually crash landed on the Earth of the 40th Century. A cynical misanthropist misfit who was happy to leave his life behind forever in the belief that he could find something more humane and civilized in another place or another time, even he seemed shocked to discover what mankind had done to itself. He was captured and treated as an animal, first by talking apes, and then by mutated humans. He was ultimately shot by ape soldiers, and with his final breath set off the Alpha-Omega Bomb, destroying the world.

In another timeline, he did not have his final fatal encounter and lived to be an old man with his mate Nova, creating a race of non-mute humans.

Taylor is bonded with Nova, a mute human female native to the 40th Century. He is protective of her, although also very patronising towards her.

Taylor is cynical, and fatalistic. However if provoked, he is also a dedicated, ferocious and relentless fighter.

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