Navigator

### Folder Link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pc1i48aP4pzEbIYAGBG9BmSf0xe2FzdD?usp=sharing

# Character Information

### Summary

Mafia sniper with a mission and an AI (note: not DI).

### Goals

* Earn money for healthcare

* Stay alive

## Background

Charlie never joined the military looking to kill people. Seldom few do. Many young, impressionable kids join up to pay for college or for steady work to keep their family fed and clothed. Romero was hoping to do just that, secure his future by protecting his country, and that he did, just not in the way that he expected. He was a model American kid, young, naive, decent grades, ROTC, high score on the ASVAB, he wasn't in bad shape, and he even had a pretty young sweetheart waiting back home for him.

So, he went through the application process and got a call only a few days later. The recruitment officer on the other end of the line gave him an offer: UCASMC scout-sniper, best he was gonna get unless he wanted to get down and dirty with an infantry MOS, that and he'd have to get comfortable with the idea that he was gonna kill people, cause there was no escaping it now. Romero figured it'd be a decent opportunity to stay out of the line of fire and make sure he made it back home, hell, maybe he'd even save a few lives before anything went wrong.

That was where he met Jimmy and the trouble all began. See, Jimmy was in with The Family something fierce and people like mafia dons have reach, even across the ocean. One thing led to another, and, before he knew it, the two brothers in arms were running ops for The Company, securing arms and drugs, making sure the right trucks went the right places, and even taking out the competition, when it was necessary. In exchange, a few fat envelopes ended up in his mailbox at home and Romero was offered a position in the family, when he was done working out here among the sand and trees of course.

The marksman shook his head and declined respectfully, grateful for the opportunity, but still looking to do a little good out here with his eyes and his rifle before heading home. That all changed when he got a call from home, Lillian was pregnant with what would become their daughter Eve. He'd heard of the horror stories, absent parents with a neglected kid, so he went back to Jimmy, told him to let his family know that he was done shooting at third world insurgents and would like a job a little closer to home. Thus, The Navigator was born.

After his deployment ended, closer to home he went. After he was brought up to speed on how the family operates and what exactly he'd be doing to make sure everything goes smoothly, he went to work. He was lauded as an artist in the field, a true professional, a man who could get a piece of lead in the right skull like no other. His career was as long and profitable as they come, for him, for the Ciarniello, and Capo Costa, his boss, but all good things must come to an end, and the body is no exception.

Navigator began to slow down and the more active (and often more lucrative) jobs were given to more lively blood. It wasn't a problem, he'd invested and saved enough to live a comfortable life with his wife and daughter, put her through college and them through retirement in the suburbs. Rather, it wouldn't have been a problem if Lillian's balance hadn't given out that fateful morning. She was rushed to the hospital, only for Charlie to find out that his wife, his sunshine, was suffering from ALS, a neurodegenerative disorder causing her body to eat itself from the inside out, starting with her brain and spinal cord. Docs could fix her with some cloned brain matter and The Family made sure that she received only the finest care the Univesity of Washington could offer, but, even then, it wasn't a permanent fix and it sure as hell wasn't cheap, so The Navigator got back to work.

Thankfully for him, he wasn't alone this time. He walked into Costa's office with a dream and an AI, Beowulf. Beo was the product of years of backroom tinkering blended with the young genius of Eve's education as a computer engineer. The resulting intelligence was surgical, overwhelming, and would make the sharpshooter's resurgence quite efficient, despite the shortcomings of his aging body.

It wouldn't be long before some of his old military buddies caught wind that Romero was back in a big way, and he was presented with the opportunity to work with an up-and-comer in the navy with a lot of thoughts and a few jobs outside of the law.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Battle Hardened/Common Sense- Nav's lived and seen a lot of what the world has to offer, from theaters of war to backstreet syndicates.
* Made Man- Employed as a soldato of the Famiglia Ciarniello.
* Aged- He's old and slowing down.
* Code of Honor(Omerta)- What are you, a cop?
* Dependent(Demanding)- Daughter's in the workforce now, but he's still got a wife in dire need of expensive medical treatment.

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 Watchdog
 Famiglia Ciarniello

# In Character Information

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

R4 Jamie Smith, UCAS

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 R4 PI's License
 R4 Driver's License
 R4 Drone License
 R4 Weapon License

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