Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a character portrayed by SylvanSpider355. Who has served as a State Trooper since October of 2020.

## Early Life

Matt Smith began his early life in Georgia, where out of high school he found work in several different fields, a few of which being agriculture, machining, and truck driving. Eventually, his third career as a truck driver brought him to the West Coast where Matt gave up trucking and decided to try something completely different from any job he'd had before, eventually deciding on law enforcement. Matt found the San Andreas State Trooper's and applied, to his surprise he was accepted, and he began his journey in this new field.

## San Andreas State Troopers

Matt Smith's beginning in SAST began well, he completed most of his training with then Sergeant Alex Ghost. Smith's first days out of the academy were nothing but eventful, during this time robberies and other major crimes were frequent, and often violent, resulting in a chaotic first few weeks in SAST. All of this action meant that Matt Smith was able to put in a huge amount of work into law enforcement, resulting in him eventually climbing through ranks, most notably reaching Sergeant himself on the day of the Christmas Uprising, and Lieutenant and then Captain in the following months.

### Christmas Uprising:

What became to be known as the Christmas Uprising started off as a normal day for Matt Smith. Corporal Smith spent most of the day patrolling the county, making three traffic stops and one arrest. At around 1PM that day he was called into the office by Alex Ghost, in that office it was announced to Matt that he was being moved to Sergeant, Matt was grateful and after a brief conversation over non-alcoholic beverages, Matt went to update his uniforms and vehicles, then went back to work. Later that day Matt Smith was sitting in a parking lot watching Rt. 68 along with another Trooper discussing their days. Over the last few days tensions had been brewing over some actions of Governor James Baker of San Andreas which resulted in him taking sole power in the state, turning it into a dictatorship. Tensions came to a head at MRPD, where over RTO Matt heard that molotovs had been thrown at the department, and that an all call was being requested. All LEO units from city to federal descended on MRPD where a large volume of protestors and the LSPD were holding lines, the SAST and FIB joined the lines and were able to push the protestors back to the opposite side of the street. A fire truck was brought in by one FIB Agent, and later this turned bad. As the crowd surrounded a State Trooper and began assaulting him, the fire truck sprayed into the crowd, this started a night of pure violence, which was settled by a 72hr cease fire which never ended.

Recently, Matt Smith was moved to replace Alex Ghost as Assistant Commissioner. Around this time was the terrorist attack on the Life Invader building by Arthur Morgan and several accomplices. The attack ended after SWAT breached the building along with Grapeseed Police Commander John Winchester, who was carrying a projectile launcher with rubber projectiles which proved to be a great help in stopping the continued rampage of the terrorist. The terrorists were taken to trial, which did not go in the State's favor, all of the terrorist were given long sentences which ended with a lifetime probation, instead of the life sentence/death penalty that the state was hoping for. This allowed the terrorist, specifically, Arthur Morgan to continue his attacks. Matt Smith, Nick Merks, SAST in general along with the FIB, and with assistance from LSPD, set out to capture Arthur Morgan, and after three days and more attacks with marginal success he was successfully captured... By one LSPD officer who pulled him over for speeding.

Arthur Morgan's crime spree was followed by the Sixth election for the State of San Andreas. Following the election results, some of Arthur Morgan's 'partners' made continued threats against the Governor's life, leading to a large security presence being planned, along with a large convoy escorting the governor to and from the Congress building. The threats have since been dry, and security for future Congress meetings has been standard instead of armored.

As of July 30th, the San Andreas State Troopers along with the other branches of law enforcement have taken a defensive position to policing rather than an aggressive. This has resulted in a somewhat more peaceful San Andreas, however it does allow the criminal population to get away with more. Time will tell what happens with this change in police business.

## San Andreas National Guard

While serving as a State Trooper, Matt Smith also participates in the SANG. Matt initially joined when the group was first formed as a volunteer unit, however after conflicts with Russia began the unit became a paid position. During the first event that started the Russian Conflict, Matt Smith was piloting the Blackhawk helicopter along with the air-division in gunner seats, and arguably helped start the conflict as he is the one who passed on the order from General Morgan to his gunners to open fire on a Russian helicopter, the civilian jet they were attempting to steal, and ultimately the Russian individuals on the ground.

As the conflict continued, Matt Smith and the entire SANG took actions against the Russian, and after the last battle, Matt Smith was present along with Cpt. Falk and General Morgan at the final peace talk which ended the conflict and facilitated the Russian's leaving of San Andreas.

After the conflict, the San Andreas National Guard is going through a rebuilding process to improve functions of the guard, including the acquisition of new and functional equipment, more/better training, and more.

Before the big tsunami which destroyed the old San Andreas, mysterious Aliens showed up above the skyline of San Andreas. Matt Smith along with Zachary Thomas suited up first and began scouting the new threat in a Humvee, after a few short engagements it was clear that the threat was hostile and that war was imminent, as such the rest of the National Guard was called in and in less that one hour the state has descended into war and chaos. Initially the war did not go well, the aliens had superior handheld weapons which experienced no time-delay and were practically 100% accurate, in addition to that the weapons were also able to disable any of the National Guards armored units in one shot, and blow them up after a few more. After initial failure, a mysterious group of people who appeared to be from the future showed up and surprisingly began defending the human population of San Andreas, along with this, new prototype equipment arrived to be used by the National Guard. With this new advantage the National Guard, the new group later identified as the Federation, and the civilian population as well was able to push the aliens out of the state, and they have not returned since.

After this conflict, the US Federal Government announced that the San Andreas National Guard was being dissolved and transformed into apart of the US Army, and that Fort Zancudo would be federally funded and operations shared by other US Military branches.

Jay Morgan was promoted to a Major General to be in charge of the Army side of operations at Fort Zancudo, and Matt Smith was promoted to Lt. Colonel to manage the Infantry on base.

## Trivia

* Matt Smith once had to undergo major surgery to have a bullet removed after a training accident involving a Cadet with a misplaced trigger finger.
* During the Christmas Uprising, Matt Smith along with Alex Ghost found a disabled 'Technical' truck with a mounted .50 Caliber machine gun, they were able to restore the functionality of the vehicle, and used it to help the fight.
* Matt Smith's left arm appears in a picture of the Christmas Uprising, this picture also happens to be the one that is most used in documentation of the event.

* Matt Smith was awarded a Silver Star after the Russian Conflict for entering fire areas to carry four downed Guard members from to medical treatment.