Anakin Douglas Rowley
At 65, Damon Caesar has already lived a full life. Never in his wildest imagination as a young child would he have known what destiny had in store for him. 1 January 1940 in the rural Trinity Island village of Portlin, Damon Matthew Wrathborne was born. By the age of 10 Damon already knew what he wanted to grow up to be… a newspaper journalist like his father. He loved to write and was always curious and inquisitive. As a teenager, Damon spent summers abroad, absorbing foreign cultures. In Alcatraz, he would find the love of his life. By 21, Damon would marry Mariah Jenkins and father a son, Jeremiah.
With the responsibilities of a having a new family, Damon enlisted in the Alcatraz militia while juggling home with college. Two years would pass before a collapse in the rule of Alcatraz exploded into a full-blown revolution. An insurgent leader claimed power and enacted Marshal Law. All militia members were rounded up, forced to watch their families murdered, before being exiled from the region.
The ragtag army was scatted across the globe, many establishing refugee camps in allied regions. Damon volunteered to open the lines of communication between the militias and before long, plans were made for the liberation of Alcatraz. Within a month, the hostile regime crumbled as citizens of Alcatraz united to take back their home.
Vazquez, the United Nations delegate for Alcatraz, was reinstated immediately. Marshal Law remained in effect until the region stabilized. Vazquez would later approach Mr. Caesar about a promotion, as the delegate was interested in creating a grand alliance of regions. He did not wish to see others suffer the same fate as his people did and this alliance would become a giant line of communication… a neighborhood watch program if you will. The world would later recognize this alliance as the mighty Alliance Defense Network.
Damon would become the A.D.N.’s first Director, and Vazquez it’s President. Both men labored to establish a respectable organization in those early days, yet the hard work would pay off in six months when the Alliance became a true global presence.
Never comfortable in the spotlight, Damon “Caesar” would volunteer for the Network’s first intelligence mission: an insert and monitor activities in a revitalized Atlantic Central Command. Mr. Caesar and Vazquez were leery of an impending clash as the two organizations were campaigning for more territory. Damon took a leave of absence from the Director position and disappeared into obscurity.
Damon Caesar would land in Atlantic and be instantly awed and by the grandeur and glory of this bustling empire. Damon would admit later that. “it wasn’t hard to get sucked into their way of life. I never compromised my mission to the A.D.N., but I wasn’t leaking sensitive information anymore.” In time, Phoenix would arrive, serving two growing ideals. He would later resign his commission as Director of the Alliance Defense Network.
Unbeknownst to either organization, Mr. Caesar had created a covert operations department called the Network Syndicate and was doing independent training missions with a team of eager young recruits for months before fading from both the A.D.N. and the Atlantic Alliance, under a military dictatorship at the time. This team would later build a small alliance of regions and became the Oceanic Security Agency.
The first true OSA mobilization, Operation: Phoenix Rising, was established in the barren wasteland region of Oceania. Upon meeting and setting up a series of meetings with the last three surviving nations, a treaty was adopted and this allowed for the OSA to come in and begin rebuilding the shattered region. Damon’s team of agents was trained to be ambassadors, SEABEES, and fighting Marines. They all performed their duties above and beyond the call. Before long, activity was brewing in Oceania and it was stable enough to leave behind a small garrison of troops and naval warships to keep the region secure.
Monte Carlo, Operation: Gamble, would become the second mission. Since the region was almost abandoned and most of the remaining nations were now small tribes, the OSA appointed a delegate and small cabinet to help the region revive. Monte Carlo was a former A.D.N. member, one of the originals. On the Moonlit Island homefront, the local government was beginning to shun their duties. As the envisioned collision course of the A.D.N. and Atlantic came closer to reality, the OSA became caught in the crossfire.
The AA’s Director of Intelligence followed the trail of the A.D.N. spy back to Damon Caesar. Instead of flushing Caesar out and executing him, the AA struck while his mind was stretched as thin as his resources. When the Moonlit Islands region fell into it’s own revolution, the Atlantic troops moved into Oceania and quickly overthrew its government. Mr. Caesar was forced to retreat back to the allied region of the Trinity Sea. He knew his days were numbered, and his goal had failed to be achieved, Damon deactivated the OSA and disappeared.
Before Caesar retired though, his remaining OSA units liberated the Moonlit Islands without firing a shot.
Later in life, Damon Caesar would represent the Moonlit Islands as a Senator of the Meritocracy. His knowledge of covert military operations and strategic planning led to what could have been a series of quick promotions, hampered by deaths in the family. Over the course of a year however, Mr. Caesar would reach command status as Deputy Director of Intelligence for the Meritocracy.
Once again Caesar found himself in multiple roles. The OSA was activated and its mission evolved into a university of sorts. Students would be able to pour through strategies and scenarios written by some of the world’s top professionals in their fields.
Home on leave from Meritocratic duties, Damon met a girl in the small seaside village of Cleo’s Bay. The two would keep in touch and eventually marry. Feeling that his priorities had shifted again, Damon decided to retire from the Meritocracy, and from public life in general, to spend time at home with his wife. He vowed not to return.
The OSA was deactivated once more and Phoenix faded away.
