Thomas Brant

== Thomas Brant ==
Thomas Jones Brant was an American security specialist, former soldier, and following the Great Collapse, a Security Analyst for Seaboard. Brant was lesser known for his more important role as a Liberator leader, proving invaluable to a sect of militant rebels based out of Connecticut.
== Early Career and Work with Seaboard ==
From San Diego, California, Brant joined the US Army when he was eighteen. After four years of service, he was able to attend university from a military education relief program. Brant gained an interest in corporate security, and was hired by a company in the Northeastern United States where he worked until the Great Collapse. Following Seaboard's rise to power, officials from the new territory found and recruited Thomas Brant after determining he was aligned with their core ideologies.
Though definitively effective in his role as a Security Analyst, Brant began to see what he considered serious administrative issues in Seaboard's hierarchy. Though he clung to his position and the benefits it gave, he began to stay blind to specific security threats, even taking measures to eliminate chances of their discovery. Notably, he followed up and built a case on Haley Porter and a group she led. The team subscribed to the Liberator's ideology, one that Brant, at the time, was only vaguely familiar with.
== Involvement with the Liberators ==
In late 2021, Brant confronted Porter. The two came to an agreement that as long as Porter worked using Brant's guidance and inside information, he would do what he could to assure she would remain undetected. Unknown to Brant at the time, Jonathan Sisk, the Vice Chairman, had already begun influencing the routing resources and supplies into vulnerable areas prone to attack from fringe rebel groups. Brant built a personal case file on the Chairman's son, but never released the information or confronted Sisk about it. He believed that whether or not Sisk was actively aiding the liberators, staying oblivious to it was key to the Liberator's compartmentalization and thus their success.
Brant became more involved with the Liberator movement, and served as a de facto leader for the growing militant rebels based out of Connecticut. He began to oversee risks within the unit itself, and used his position within Seaboard to benefit their cause.