Characters
2[sup]nd[/sup] Lieutenant Alice Lei - The half-Tirolian, (her mother was a UEEF Marine) second in command and field leader of the Rind Cutters. An inexperienced soldier from an upper class Tirolian family, who graduated in the academy just before the end of the war (the Battle of Reflex Point was announced literally in the middle of the graduation ceremony for the class of officers she was in at military academy); Alice's hot-tempered and reckless demeanor tends to sometimes put her and her subordinates in danger. She has a strong sense of duty and justice and tries to live up to her mother's military traditions, contrary to her father and sisters' belief that she must assume a more feminine behavior.
Contrary to her subordinates who always engage in combat with firearms, Alice's weapon of choice is a M-2 bayonet with her mother’s name carved in the handle, but in some occasions she shows her true skills in battle when brandishing her special weapon, a long double-bladed Praxian blade staff. Alice is engaged to a young up and comer in the Plenipotentiary Council, Lawrence Vassar, who apparently supports her ideals.
Corporal Olan - A retired soldier who joined the Rind Cutters to aid in their war relief effort. He was part of trio of Invid Fighters cloned to fight the Invid but thrown into battle against the Micronians. This unit, known to the ASC as the "
Gespenster Jäger" (German for "
Ghost Hunter") was part of the The Robotech Masters last stand on Earth. They are specially trained to ignore pain and fear in order to engage Invid as long as possible. He was the soul survivor of his unit and went on to fight the Invid as a lone warrior.
Despite his impressive stature (probably over seven feet), and a body riddled with scars, Olan's nature most of the time is kindhearted and ingenuous. But when he is in trouble he becomes a fearless and vicious combatant. He lost his Invid Fighter Bioroid defending a town against Wolfe’s squad. That’s were the Rind Cutters found him. Now he uses a Tr-HIB Mk. IV Heavy Ion Blaster, and a belt-fed Armour Piercing Cannon. Alternately, he favours the Nanotube-Blade Ultra-High-Speed Chainsaw to cut his way into mecha cockpits.
Captain William Hollander - The commanding officer and administrator of the Rind Cutters. He issues mission orders and provides a calm, steadying presence, which balances Lieutenant Lei's impetuous nature. While he seems lazy and laid-back, he’s actually quite busy behind the scenes, using his connections to keep the unit operating. His personality is relaxed and informal.
Warrant Officer Gerald Martin - Graduated as one of the top students of the academy, the slight, bespectacled Martin provides the voice of reason and caution when out in the field. He knows Capoeira. He’s an expert with computers and filing systems of all sorts. If there is a record of something, in an archive, anywhere, he’ll find it.
Warrant Officer Eric Alten - Alten is a handsome young soldier who fancies himself a ladies' man, yet seems to be something of a player. He is very clever, resourceful and an expert at picking locks. His background has yet to be fully explained, but he seemed to have had a colourful life before joining the resistance, finally ending up in Section III
Sergeant Major Magda Stecchin - She is the longest serving member of the "
Rind Cutters" unit. Little is known about her past except that she was a part an EBSIS military band in her before the Invid invasion. She serves as Captain Hollander's aide and is also responsible for taking care of Blink. She is elated to no end that with the recruitment of Olan into their unit, she finally outranks someone (other than the pollinator, Blink) and has "
an underling!"
Blink - The unit's mascot, who has a bad habit of biting people. He was demoted from Corporal to Courier Private First Class for biting an officer. He is very fast, reliable and sensitive to the emotions of his team. Their reaction to a particularly unpleasant officer (Major Conway) lead to the previously mentioned incident. He's a pollinator.
While Blink is normally seen as very friendly with the members of Section III, when events warrant it, he shows himself to be what the people refer to as a "
military hound," and can even disarm opponents.
First Lieutenant Anna Webber - The officer in charge of the technology development unit of UEG Intelligence. A former GMP officer, basically she’s in charge of the ROBOTECH equivalent of the Foreign Technology Division.
Lawrence Vassar - The fiancé of Alice. A tall and smooth talking gentleman who is well aware of the corruption and madness that is running through the world, as well as Alice's love for the military. He has been known to give Section III tips on matters, though he seems to have more sinister purposes up his sleeve. Secretly, he’s part of a group seeking to insure the UEG doesn’t assume governance of Earth from the UEEF Plenipotentiary Council.
Major Fredric Conway - The commanding officer for the local branch of the GMP. Compared to Captain Hollander, his personality is cold-hearted. However, along with Captain Hollander, he also seems to know about the secrets kept within the UEG. He often complains to Captain Hollander about Section III interfering with his operations, but usually backs down eventually. Conway seems outwardly adversarial toward Hollander, but privately, they’re old friends.
Darren Waldon - He was a leader of a Chemical weapons squad. Olan scattered his band with his bioroid. As a bandit, he called himself Grauwolfe or Wolfe after his unit's codename, 903-CTT, part of Project 9, a secret and illegal unit formed on Glorie colony by the GMP to fight the Invid on Earth, specialized in chemical warfare. The main reason he turned rogue was because, after his captain was killed, he found out that their unit (at the end of the Battle of Reflex Point, thus no longer needed), was considered composed of war criminals by the UEEF, since there had been international war treaties against the use of chemical weapons since the end of the Global Civil War. The UEG and the leaders of Glorie intended to sacrifice them to cover their involvement.
