John Devers was born on January 25, 2049 to William and Jessica Devers. His Ares Corporate Citizenship was certified and he was raised in Detroit. On March 23, 2059, William Devers was killed in a “car accident”. John was crushed, but managed to eventually go on with his life. He graduated from high school and immediately signed up for Knight Errant training. Due to being second generation, he was fast tracked on their black ops team, working with SWAT for a time before moving up to a special project team.
He was transferred to Seattle following KE’s negotiations for the city police contract. His cyberware was upgraded and he was given bioware training to increase his natural aptitude for unarmed combat. He was assigned many different jobs, most of which are classified with very few records outside offline ultrared servers. He and his team became the in-house go-to group for intelligence and counter-intelligence work on the Pacific Coast.
His team was sent on a job three weeks ago in NeoNET’s HQ downtown. They got in under cover as execs for a potential processor leasing deal in order to wipe several files in NeoNET’s system for Ares projects and previous missions as well as steal intel on what dirt NeoNET currently has on Ares. One of the items found was a file from a runner team in Denver who were attacked by insect spirits. One of the spirits went rogue and killed several Ares works and Knight Errant security, one of which was William Devers. John saw this and didn’t believe it, but his mind wasn’t on the run and he blew the mission.
He was able to get out of NeoNET’s offices, but all he had was the gear on his back. He couldn’t believe he’d been left out in the open like that, so he withdrew as much money as he could and bought a night at a hotel. He tried calling several of his contacts in Seattle, but most of them had dried up. He bribed a money launderer contact to get the name of a hacker who he hired for more information about his father’s death. He also called a reporter he’d been using for intel and leaking stories to. He found out that his SIN was wiped, his accounts gone, and completely cut off.
And he found out that the report was right about his father.
He called his mother to try to tell her, but she wouldn’t hear any of it. She’s third generation Ares and is a loyal corporate citizen. She’s disowned John, burned all his pictures and childhood toys, and erased him from her life to protect herself and her daughter (John’s half sister, 9 years old). And worst of all, he betrayed Ares, the corporation that raised him and took care of him.
John then called his old partners. His hacker support tried to trace the line and sent a KE team after him, he was barely able to escape. The face of the group (and his back-up fire support) hung up immediately. The team’s shaman is sympathetic, being stationed in Chicago herself in the 60s. The two worked together since John was green on the SWAT and she believes the story. She’s offered to help him anyway she can without jeopardizing her own life, position, or family (her husband is a VP for Ares Arms and she has three children).
He paid up his crappy motel room for six months (including a bribe to the local gang), bought an off-the-rack commlink from the neighborhood Stuffer Shack, and decided to get started trying to make some money.
He’s got three sources for the incident from his father’s death. The report the team’s hacker found on the run (which he scammed a copy of), the non-blacked out official report full of holes, and a memo from Skylar Culpepper, his father’s former boss ordering a cover-up. His first goal is to hire someone to dig up more information so he can start piecing it together. His second is to stay under Ares’s radar. His third is to get his new life started in the shadows. His fourth and most important...is to first ruin then kill Skylar Culpepper, current VP of Intelligence.