THE AGENTS
Jack Dixon
John Dixon grew up in Springfield, Illinois, the son of a City Councilman, and attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, majoring in Sociology with a minor in History. Upon graduation, and after the murder of his father (which remains unsolved), he moved to Chicago and became a policeman. He quickly rose through the ranks, attaining his detective's badge at the age of twenty-five and joining Homicide shortly thereafter. While working in the Windy City, acheiving a solve rate of over eighty percent on the cases he worked on, he came to the attention of the National Security Agency and was recruited into their ranks in the mid-Nineties.
Initially a codebreaker, Dixon fortuitously became involved in the interrogation of a suspected terrorist and managed to extract several key details that had escaped his superiors from the captured subject, averting an imminent bombing of a US embassy in Cairo. Josh Plenary, one of the NSA's mandarins and the agency's liaison with the CIA, took an interest in young Dixon and promoted him to field agent, and over the next few years Dixon was posted in offices all over the United States, including Seattle, St. Louis and New Orleans.
It was also at this time that the NSA, under secret directives from the Executive, expanded its charter to cover security in foreign nations. Though this activity has always been under the blackest of black operational guidelines, rumors have occasionally leaked out. Part of Dixon's job was to put out brushfires springing up in America's media, and he performed his duties with exemplary skill. Eventually, Plenary entrusted his favorite lieutenant with a black ops mission to London to liaise with an MI6 agent about some strange goings-on in Siberia...and Jack Dixon's world changed.
Though Dixon is only slightly above-average in intelligence, though his physical characteristics are nothing out of the ordinary, and though he has an unfortunate proclivity towards insubordination and sarcasm, he has become one of the most important men in the world because he has gone up against the insane forces threatening our planet not once, not twice, but multiple times, and has managed not only to retain his sanity but to prevail, at astronomical odds, against those forces. NSA psychologists have determined that Dixon's mental state is so stable and flexible that it acts not only as an armor against impossibilities, but even as a weapon - and now Plenary has resigned himself to the fact that, if he wants Dixon to remain effective as an agent against the horrors that face the world on a daily basis, he has to put up with the wisecracks and impulsive shifting of mission parameters that his pet agent is so prone to.
And the fact that Dixon has formed a strong, brotherly alliance with an Australian ex-Army man gives Plenary heartburn; allies are all well and good, but the NSA worries that if push ever comes down to shove, Dixon will act to protect and help Harrison Peel even at the expense of national security. In fact, there is a strong suspicion that Dixon broke security in the Sydney affair, but no proof has ever surfaced.
Dixon sees several women on a social basis, but currently seems to be focusing his attentions exclusively on a young scientist at the Smithsonian, Jessica Garvey - in fact, they share a small house in Maryland and have a cat. He enjoys watching the Orioles, the Nationals and the Redskins when he has a chance to get to the stadium, and he reads trash fiction whenever he gets the chance, especially enjoying the works of Poe, Chandler, Dickens and Henderson. His drink is single-malt scotch, though he also enjoys beer, and he occasionally smokes Cuban cigars smuggled in on his occasional trip to Aruba to gamble.
Harrison Peel
Harrison Peel was born to a working class family in Sydney Australia, the eldest of two children. In 1989 is enlisted in the Australian Army at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in
He was assigned to 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), a light infantry battalion based in
During his stay in
In Townsville, Peel returns to his Regiment undertaking training in the basics of SCUBA diving, parachuting and mountaineering, while participating in defense exercises in
1995 saw Peel complete a graduate diploma in political studies specializing in terrorism. From this point in his career onwards, Peel is sent on various anti-terrorism assignments in
In 2000 Peels relationship with Samantha Young finally came to an end, when she resigned from the RAAF and took a commercial pilots role in the
During
In 2003 Peel was sent to
Returning to Australia, Peels experience now labeled him as an expert on alien and other dimensional intrusions. These skills awarded him a promotion as head of security at the Impossible Object project in outback
In 2006 Peel was involved in an incident involving
Harrison Peel often finds himself distrusting authority and is often disappointed by the power plays of his superiors. This belief has led him to run his operations close to the chest. Burnt too many times in the past, he chooses his friends carefully, but when he makes a close and trusted friend, such as Jack Dixon or Nicola Mulvany, he will do all in his power to help and support their needs. As a soldier, Peel still finds him putting the needs of his country before his own, a sentiment he now applies to all people of the world.
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