Gibson Vaughn is a computer hacker.
He is a convicted felon for breaking into highly protected cyber-systems and pulling large amounts of incriminating data out of them. It was all for what he truly considered a very good cause but that did not mitigate his actions in the eyes of the law. As sentence was about to be handed down, he was given an in camera interview with the judge who understood both the crime and the mitigation and offered to Vaughn a simple choice: ten years in prison or at least five years in the Marines. For a hacker like Vaughn, the binary element to the offer was appropriate. Yes for Marines. No for prison. He chose Yes.
In the Marines Vaughn had found a new pasttime; fitness. He had already been in fairly decent shape but after the years in the Corps, which he had stretched to 8, he was in fantastic shape. Back in the civilian world, he maintained it. As one person hired to monitor him as the first recorded adventure begins would note: "Say what you would about Gibson Vaughn, the man gave predictable a bad name. On the upside, it made surveillance on him simple; on the downside, it got tedious quickly. The daily logs were virtually interchangeable. Vaughn's morning began at five thirty with a five-mile run. Two hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, followed by a shower. Afterward, he ate the same breakfast at the same diner at the same counter stool. Every damn morning, like it was his church."
The trouble for Vaughn, and the reason he is in this compendium, is his father had run afoul of then Senator Benjamin Lombard and paid dearly for it. Young Vaughn wanted very much to get vengeance and ended up paying for that. Now 28-year-old Vaughn, ou
Gibson Vaughn is a computer hacker.
He is a convicted felon for breaking into highly protected cyber-systems and pulling large amounts of incriminating data out of them. It was all for what he truly considered a very good cause but that did not mitigate his actions in the eyes of the law. As sentence was about to be handed down, he was given an in camera interview with the judge who understood both the crime and the mitigation and offered to Vaughn a simple choice: ten years in prison or at least five years in the Marines. For a hacker like Vaughn, the binary element to the offer was appropriate. Yes for Marines. No for prison. He chose Yes.
In the Marines Vaughn had found a new pasttime; fitness. He had already been in fairly decent shape but after the years in the Corps, which he had stretched to 8, he was in fantastic shape. Back in the civilian world, he maintained it. As one person hired to monitor him as the first recorded adventure begins would note: "Say what you would about Gibson Vaughn, the man gave predictable a bad name. On the upside, it made surveillance on him simple; on the downside, it got tedious quickly. The daily logs were virtually interchangeable. Vaughn's morning began at five thirty with a five-mile run. Two hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, followed by a shower. Afterward, he ate the same breakfast at the same diner at the same counter stool. Every damn morning, like it was his church."
The trouble for Vaughn, and the reason he is in this compendium, is his father got too close to then Senator Benjamin Lombard and paid dearly for it. Young Vaughn wanted very much to get vengeance and ended up paying for that. Now 28-year-old Vaughn, out of work and struggling to support a daughter and an ex-wife, is about to be thrown back into action.t of work and struggling to support a daughter and an ex-wife, is about to be thrown back into action.