E-6 Actual

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"Go! Just go if you're wounded, I'll man this gun myself!"

― E-6 Actual, defending Base Station Zero.

Provisional Officer "E-6 Actual" is the callsign of the CO of Federation Ground Reserve Division E-6. He was some kind of adjutant to the main officer corps leading the coastal appointment at Point Refuge until the Ground Reserve CO was vaporized by Cascadian Coast Guard shelling. Since then, he took up temporary command of remaining Ground Reservists.

Biography

"[laugh] They've done it again, those sly dogs!"

― E-6 Actual on K-9.

At an indeterminate point, E-6 Actual was a corporate salaryman whose work took him close to Magadan's harsh storms, which he learned from by asserting that it is a hustle of futility to battle such weather.

E-6 Actual, during the Cascadian Conflict's Magadan Invasion, ordered a steadfast defense against the Cascadian Independence Force Marine complement and counted for spirited air support from Air Reserve Division K-9.

Orders came down to commence fallbacks from every captured position, against the protests of the depleted troops. When the CO and other officers were killed, E-6 Actual assumed and reaffirmed the hierarchy. When the Coast Guard vanguard fleet was sunk, E-6 Actual gave gratitude to AWACS Vita for K-9's air support.

E-6 was deployed to Tseliadan to stave off Marine invasion of the city while evacuating all local Magadane citizens into Highway 1, as well as any Federation refugees. When K-9 successfully led an aerial assault on the Marine FOB, E-6 Actual ordered a final push while K-9's accompanying elements continued their onslaught. Once the counterstrike was done, the officer thanked "those sly dogs" and ordered the Marine firebase be secured.

E-6 Actual blended in with Federation Ground Forces elements in driving off the last of the Marine forces back to their mainland. Two days later, he led his unit in manning air defenses at Base Station Zero, Magadan's last geothermal facility. Only able to draw mercenary airstrikes away for K-9's pickings, the officer yelled orders to reload as the Cascadian White Fleet made its approach into the station, and cleared free engagement. Many soldiers were hit by the bombardment, E-6 having them sent into the Calamity-rated emergency shelters and even volunteering for a vacant gun. He reported the flagship CDV Roosevelt sustaining fatal damage and told all forces to avoid its path.

Personality and traits

"Not so easy now, is it?! ... You servile scum!"

― E-6 Actual to disoriented Cascadian Marines at Tseliadan.

E-6 Actual has complete trust in K-9 and superiors, and is a seasoned Magadane in both sense of nature and battlefield maneuvers. Caring for his men and women, he puts them in the backfoot or safety even on pain of his life.

He is a strategist in directing both ground and air strikes and taking advantage of openings created by close air support. He has strong feelings on any who invade his home or likewise destroy it.