Ted Jackson

*"I’m gonna find out what happened to them, one way or another. I will* *find answers.”*

Ted Jackson is an A.I. specialist born in the Alpha timeline almost three decades before the Ragon invasion. He is currently onboard the *Icarus*, helping the crew to apprehend a serial time criminal named Davin Blackmore.

## Personality

Ted seems friendly and easygoing on the surface, but struggles to show any sort of emotion he perceives as negative.

## Background

If there’s one thing Ted wasn’t, it would be unprepared. He was prepared for school every day, not even missing his back up favorite tablet. He was prepared for his first day at his I.T job, virtual assistant built and personalized. He was even ready for the alien holocaust that followed a short four years afterwards, in 2128.

He’d been packing supplies in his aged Tesla Apollo and monitoring the spiking tension between a newly theocratic Pakistan and an India just hit by yet another devastating monsoon season and massive tsunamis hitting the east coast, Before the apocalypse came however, another took its place: the Ragon invasion. Expecting a fusion bomb attack, Ted was far out of range of the nearest city, but seeing the Hancock Building snapping in half under the heavy Ragon assault forced him to drive even faster, a tear shedding for a life he knew would end someday, but that he still wanted to last.

His time in New Lowell, located in an underground storage facility in the foothills of the Appalachians, was an enlightening one, and he got to put his minor in Botany to use to save the town from many a winter without food. With his help, New Lowell lasted up until 2140, through twelve toil-filled but prosperous years. It had grown into a veritable city, with five hundred people within its reinforced concrete walls. However, Ted found that preparedness can do nothing in the face of giant lizards, especially if one is in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. New Lowell was a priority, if a very low one, for a certain Ragon hunting party, and unluckily for Ted, they decided to blow off steam by “visiting” the town one night. Ted went to sleep for the last time, and the Ragon assault triggered a cave-in onto him, killing him instantly.

However, he was then transported to the *Icarus*, and his life continues.

## Abilities

**A.I. Specialist** - Ted is proficient in handling artificial intelligences up through 2128-level technologies, and can easily adapt to more advanced models.

**Botanist** - Ted also studied botany, and put it to good use feeding New Lowell for 12 years. Under his watch, there isn't a plant that can't grow or a tree that can't bear fruit.

**Athleticism** - Ted is a good mid to long distance runner, helped by his scavenging excursions after the Ragon invasion. He can go for quite a while without running out of breath.

**Stealth** - Partially supplemented by his knowledge in botany, but mostly out of necessity of avoiding the Ragon hunting parties. He's not a ghost, but he can get pretty close.

## Weaknesses

**Robotic** - Almost similar to his work, Ted doesn't show many negative emotions, unless in dire circumstances. Don't expect him to start sobbing when someone dies, he's seen enough death to be desensitized completely.

**Gun? What's that?** - Even though he's been in the apocalypse for 12 years, Ted doesn't know how to use any sort of firearm. He's just never needed to, mostly leaving it to other, more trigger-happy individuals.

**Oh, That's What It Is.** - After his first kill while shooting an intruder on the Icarus, Ted is extremely hesitant to touch any sort of gun again unless absolutely necessary, and his hands will shake rather violently when holding one.

**Overconfident** - Though not to the point of narcissism, he is quite confident in the abilities he has, and even some he doesn't. It won't matter if he has zero proficiency at the task, or if someone could get hurt because of his ineptitude, Ted will volunteer for most if not all jobs.