The Life and Times of David Rooder

[davidofmk771]

RECORD LOADED 'DAVID K. ROODER'...

NAME: DAVID KENDO ROODER
AGE: 25
SEX: MALE
RACE: CAUCASIAN
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HAIR COLOR: OTHER
NATIONALITY: UNITED AMERICAN MEDICAL RECORDS:
Born in 2077, and has spent over a century in cryosleep transit. Side Effects of cryosleep may be more pronounced.
Rehabilitated methamphetamine addict.
Hair has a permanent blue hue due to chemical exposure during space-bound drug manufacturing.
Suffered a serious left leg injury at age 12, considered successfully healed but could possibly complicate further leg injuries.
Contracted pertussis, measles, space pox, and shigellosis between the ages of 5-11.
Like most children raised on Plutonian ice farms during the late-21st century, suffers from moderate-severe stiffness of muscles in extremely cold environments (<-55°C/-67°F). SECURITY RECORDS:
2090: Vandalism
2091: Vandalism, Trespassing
2093: Theft of Property Valued Under $1000
2093: Assault, Domestic Violence
2094: Loitering, Vagrancy
2095: Misdemeanor Drug Possession (Cannabis, MDMA)
2095: Affray, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Underage Consumption of Alcohol
2095: Violating Probation (Failure to Report)
2096: Wanted for Smuggling, Drug Trafficking (Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Ketamine), Grevious Bodily Harm, and Aggravated Assault.
2096: Added to Plutonian Marshall Service's Top 200 Most Wanted List at #71.
2096: Apprehended during a major raid on an illegal space station orbiting Neptune and convicted on Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Aggravated Assault charges.
2098: Due to the circumstances of his criminal record and the extreme overcrowding of outer-world prisons at this time, he was given the opportunity to attend a 4-year rehabilitation and training program held by the USMC and sponsored by W-Y. EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:
2077: Born under Plutonian jurisdiction, which at this time was a Weyland Corporation incorporated community. Due to underdeveloped corporate social security laws of this time, he is technically property of the Weyland-Yutani corporation.
2090-2093: Legally employed laborer for Rooder's Frostcutters, his fathers ice farm.
2094-2096: Spent this time illegally employed by a series of drug dealers, smugglers, and mercenaries. Acquired his drug addiction and most of his criminal record during this period.
2096-2098: Spent about 2 years serving hard time in an industrial penal colony, Themis XX-14, located on the Neptunian moon Triton. Spent most of this time working in a heavy-duty smelting plant.
2098-2102: Received rehabilitative services and specialized training at a W-Y sponsored USMC clinic to avoid further prison time for his various criminal convictions.
2102-2186: Officially employed, it took over a century of cryosleep transit for him to arrive in Tychon's Rift and begin his duty due to several serious complications.

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CHAPTER ONE
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

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David Rooder was born on April 17, 2077 to a poor family of 5, his parents and three siblings, living in the Open Living Capsule Hub, or O.L.C.H, a Weyland Corporation habitation station orbiting Pluto. The O.L.C.H had been designed to temporarily house prospective colonists travelling to the outer-rim of Sol. Like many other poor and desperate families living in the American South-East during the height of global floods resulting from widespread pollution, the Rooders jumped at the opportunity of new riches in relatively far-flung worlds, choosing to participate in a brand new Weyland Corporation terraforming project targeting Pluto, Ceres, and other icy planetoids in the outer reaches of the solar system. In 2079, everything changed for the poor Rooder family, living in a cramped 2-room living capsule aboard the overpopulated O.L.C.H with a cheap 2000 acre stake on the then undeveloped Pluto.

An independent research station orbiting Pluto found that the ice of Pluto has very different properties than previously thought which promised large profits to anyone who cared to harvest it. On the outer layers, about five-hundred meters deep and above, the nitrogen ice contained a plethora of minerals essential to human nutrition. Below that, however, the ice contained very large deposits of rare metals used in cutting-edge materials science and information technologies. This revelation led to a serious boom in deep-rock mining and the collection of ice, colloquially referred to as "ice farming" due to the resemblance of the deep-ice cutting vehicles to 20th century heavy-farming equipment.

During this time, Charles Rooder, David's father, moved with his family to the surface of Pluto, intending to find work on an ice farm. After only 2 days in the Weyland Corporation Planetary Landing Hub and Information Center, Charles Rooder found work as an ice-cutter operator. Working long hours in freezing conditions, Charles sacrificed everything he could in order to support his family and make something of himself. After 6 years, in 2085, the "ice-boom" as it had come to be be known, was enriching families left and right, dragging impoverished persons from the proverbial gutter en masse. Charles Rooder had been promoted to Head of Cutting Operations, and had gathered quite a pile form himself and his family. Deciding that he could make millions on his own, he took out a small loan, resigned from his position, and bought a nearly-dilapidated ice-cutter, work tools, and a large mobile habitat dome to be placed on his yet untapped land. He departed with his family in his rolling dome-home with nothing but his old ice-cutter and a hat full of hope.

For the next 6 years, the Rooders enjoyed great success and garnered serious wealth as the ice-boom grew to extraordinary heights. More and more off-world colonies and space stations relied on heavy-duty water distillation to keep the antibiotic resistant bacteria that plagued the backwaters of Sol at bay. Many enterprising companies aggressively marketed Plutonian Ice as a supplement to the loss of minerals during the distillation process, to great success. Millions could be made simply by cutting the top layer of ice, and Charles Rooder made a habit of it due to his abundance of land. At the end of 2091, the Rooders were one of many families who found riches beyond their wildest dreams in the ice of Pluto, and like many of those families, things would soon change for the Rooders.

[Heckenshutze]

This has to be one of the most original dossier I've ever seen so far, congratulations.

[Gabe]

This is extremely well done and original. Colour me impressed, hope to meet you proper in game some time.

[TheDonkified]

Awesome dossier. I like the picture that you made especially.

[davidofmk771]

I updated this with a new picture and the first chapter of a little story i'm writing for Rooder. I hope you all enjoy reading it as I have had making it!

[Thanteus]

I updated this with a new picture and the first chapter of a little story i'm writing for Rooder. I hope you all enjoy reading it as I have had making it!

Well done, not everyone has the dedication to their dossier to majorly update it with a few more paragraphs. You ever planning on a relations section?

[davidofmk771]

Well done, not everyone has the dedication to their dossier to majorly update it with a few more paragraphs. You ever planning on a relations section?

Meh, I don't go in for that kinda stuff to much. Rooder is meant to be a relatively new addition to the Almayer crew when the rounds start, plus I like to let the character and my own IC actions speak for themselves, ya know?

[Blade2000Br]

"Oh, Rooder... Yeah, I remember this little marine, always walking around and annoying the shit out of me. I will put him on the brig...again."

That's my impression of Rooder. Heh.

[davidofmk771]

He may be reformed and under the spell of questionable W-Y rehabilitation methods, but David will always have a healthy disrespect towards authority which isn't his own (which is why you will never see 'Commander David Rooder').

[Blade2000Br]

That's what I like on him. Marine that challenges the oppressing system! Oh yeah!

[VitorThauma]

I really like the dossier, pretty original and nice looking.