Editing SHELTER:Simon Jordan (section)

=Background=

Name: Simon Jordan

Codename: TIMES

Player: Phantom Stranger


Origin: Shrewd Journalist

Class: Sleuth 6

Reputation: 45

XP: 14379  XP


Age: 35

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: 143 lbs

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Black


Backstory:

Born 1973, Simon's education took place in the state sector and was solid if unremarkable. He enrolled in the Royal Army scholarship program to fund his way through university, majoring in psychology and sociology at Keele with an eye to fast-tracking through to officer qualifications and a role in the strategic branch, fighting wars from behind a desk. This plan derailed on graduation as Army Intelligence exchanged his scholarship obligations with MI6 as part of some deal, the details of which Simon was never informed of.

He joined MI6 as an analyst, but became the nearest agent to a 1996 crisis in Paris while on honeymoon, where he succeeded admirably and acquired a taste for fieldwork - a taste he was not often able to indulge, remaining an analyst for much of the next five years with occasional forays when his growing list of specialist subjects became key to one operation or another.

In 2002 his combination of analysis and field work made him an obvious candidate to be relocated to Washington as an aide and friendly observer to the NSA. Over the next two years he found a wider latitude with regard to freedom to act as a field operative, while also finding that the methodology and goals of the NSA section to which he was assigned were more in line with his personal philosophies and political beliefs than those of MI6.

In mid-2005 Simon resigned his commission with MI6 in a move that caused not a small degree of friction between US and UK intelligence communities which would take most of the following year to resolve and applied for US citizenship, gaining it on an accelerated timetable due to his new contacts.

Simon's particular specialty in field operations is the application of talents typically considered part of the analysis branch; he takes in information and processes it at a remarkable rate, reaching conclusions based on new data and information picked up over years behind a desk studying dossiers - essentially detective work. He's at his best when an operation involves a significant degree of fact finding and deduction.

Subplots:

Nemesis (Personal Mission (Root out Jonathan Roberts' replacement in the Cartel hierarchy and bring him down) Preferred objective types: (Identification, Incrimination, Neutralisation)