Khalid Tefibi

## Background

### 1982 - 2009: Khalid Tefibi

Khalif Tefibi was born in Cairo, Egypt to his loving parents. When he was five, he travelled with his parents to the states to attend the funeral of maternal grandfather. The day before they were to return, a bomb went off in Cairo & dozens of other cities across the globe. With their hometown now gone, Khalid's parents were able to move themselves to the states to start anew.

At a young age, Khalid had a fascination for computers & would spend most of his time on them, leading to him not developing the best social skills. All throughout middle & high school, Khalid was involved in various computer clubs & learned how to code at a young age. His skills could have easily got him into Ivy University but he instead opted to go to the US Naval Academy so that he could put his skills to better use. There, he studied Computer Engineering for the next four years before he was commissioned as an Ensign.

Just two years after leaving the academy & reaching only the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, he was recruited by International Operations for his exceptional work in electronic warfare & critical systems assault.

### 2009 - Present: Khalid Tefibi

During his third year with International Operations, Tefibi was asked by a superior to run a check on computer security at the Department of Extranormal Operations. Inflitrating their systems, he destroyed the files of various clandestine projects & a vast amount of data. He did his job so well that it caused chaos in their operations. Believing himself to be doing a task cleared by his superiors, he didn't cover his tracks particularly well & was arrested as he was writing his report on security holes at the DEO.

When Tefibi tried to explain the situation, the DEO looked into his accounting of events & could not find an I.O. operative with that name of the superior. With nothing to corroborate his story, he was sentenced to prison. Tefibi doesn't talk about his time in prison, referring to it as the worst time of his life.

In 2013, when International Operations was shut down for their shady business, I.O. former agents John Lynch (now with DEO) & Ben Santini (now with Stormwatch) were able to find evidence to back Tefibi's story. The two had been searching for years but could never find anything to directly vindicate him. Now a free & changed man, Lynch offered him a job at the DEO as his skillset would go to waste anywhere else. Tefibi then joined research division as a cyber operations officer.

Tefibi stayed with the DEO for nearly half a decade before his old friend Santini convinced him to join Stormwatch in 2018. Since then, Tefibi has been the team's go to person for anything dealing with information systems though he does still get his fair share in the field.

## Powers & Abilities

* **High Level Intellect:** Tefibi is a genius in a large number of fields, mostly having to do with computers & guns. He can handle pretty much any technical matter but his real loves are being a computer geek & a weapon systems nerd.
	+ ***Computer Operation*:** Khalid is an expert with computer systems, having been obsessed with computers since he was an adolescent. Some would say that is probably one of the best hackers alive. With the DEO, he gathered intelligence from adversary systems & networks using advanced computer tools & techniques. Prior to that, he was able to inflitrate the DEO's systems to destroy files of various clandestine projects & a vast amount of data. However, he thought he was doing this to test their security measures.
	+ ***Mechanical Aptitude*:** Tefibi has built numerous advanced weapon systems which allow Stormwatch to successfully engage with metahumans.
	+ ***Military Protocol*:** Though he was only active duty in the Navy for about two years before joining International Operations, he is still military trained & attended th Naval Academy.
* **Hand to Hand Combat**
* **Stormwatch Gear:** Field agents of Stromwatch are issued a Glock 19M Handgun, Military Issued Bulletproof Vest & Colt M4 Carbine as their primary gear.

### Weaknesses

* **Social Skills:** Due to spending most of his childhood teaching himself about computers, Khalid does not have the bets social skills or many people that he considers a friend. Two people that he does trust are John Lynch & Ben Santini.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* His mother is originally from the United States so Khalid has dual citizenship.
* He was in Lynch's unit with Santini.
* Ivana Baiul asked Tefibi to run a check on computer security at the DEO under a false name which is why he could never prove that a superior asked him to do it. This event caused John Lynch & Ben Santini to leave I.O. & join the DEO.