Georges Sanderson

**Georges Sanderson** is an Operative in the Council Recovery Corps.

## Biography

Georges was born in Vancouver in 2151. Both his parents served on Alliance Space exploration vessels and spent almost all their time in outer space. His grandfather, Adam Sanderson, a retired infantry soldier, took care of him. At the age of six, both his parents died in an accident. Despite being an orphan, Georges never really missed his parents. His grandfather became his legal guardian, and they both moved outside the city, to the countryside. The same year, humanity discovered the existence of alien life through the First Contact War. Georges was too young then to understand what was at stake and that his world just became far bigger.

At the age of eight, his grandfather started to train him like a soldier since it was the only way Adam knew how to raise someone. The two of them were never close, Adam behaving like a drill sergeant on a daily basis. However, Georges was too young to reflect on this abusively strict environment. At the age of eleven, he started to learn hand-to-hand combat. During his high-school years, the young boy reached his final height. His grandfather was amazed, the Sandersons were usually big, but not that big. Despite his unusual size, Georges never took advantage of it at the expense of someone else. At this period, he started to get curious about those alien species and joined both asari and turian languages classes. He didn’t learn much, for he was a bad student. But those classes allowed him to meet Julia Trexler, a girl who would later become his wife.

Right after graduating High School, Georges joined the Alliance Marines, at the age of eighteen. There, he quickly stood out of the masses, with his unusual size, physical abilities, his good mood and his tendency to follow any given order. He received the standard military formation and was trained in the use of heavy weaponry. At the end of his formation, he was assigned to a platoon with the rank of Private First Class. At the same time, Julia moved on to the recently founded Elysium colony to pursue her study in exobiology. Georges’ platoon quickly became like a new family and he befriended most of his brothers and sisters in arms. The only thing that he missed was actual combat. His grandfather told him a lot about war stories that were passed down from generation to generation in the family, coming all the way up to the first American Civil War. Georges wanted to makes his own stories, in which he would be the hero.

In 2174, his platoon got transferred on Elysium and he spent all his free time with Julia. They moved in together in a flat in the capital city and got married one year later, in 2175. In 2176, the Skyllian Blitz occurred. Georges was deployed with his platoon on the field and got wounded in his left leg while trying to save the life of a fallen gunship pilot. More than half of his platoon got killed that day. He was evacuated from the front lines to the nearest medical center. That was the end of his trial of fire, far from being as glorious as he hoped for.

He spent the next hours bedridden because of his leg injury that had worsened from continuing to run despite it and used that time to try to reach his wife but didn’t have any luck. He first thought that civilian comms were completely overrun by calls, explaining why he couldn't reach her. He then remembered that Julia was out in the field with some of her classmates to collect plant samples for her studies. The site was in the batarian territory. He found a walking stick and started to ask news to any newcomers able to talk about the fight but no one could give him any precise intel. When the Blitz was over, the Alliance started to identify the casualties. Two days later, a soldier came to his hospital room to announce the bad news: Julia was found dead, killed by a slaver gun wound to her chest.

As soon as he got out of his hospital chamber, the Alliance allowed him to go back to Earth for the funeral of his wife. His grandfather didn’t bother to come. He and Julia had many friends, and the funeral was crowded. For the first time in his life, Georges wanted to be alone. He stayed three days straight after the end of the funeral guarding her grave, barely eating anything and sleeping. He then got a black band tattooed on his face so he will carry his grief for as long as he would live. The lack of strong reaction from the Alliance against the instigator of the Skyllian Blitz, the Hegemony, led Georges to distrust the Alliance, and eventually lost all respect for it and left the army as soon as he could, in 2176. He moved on the Citadel and cut his ties with his old friends for they reminded him too much of his wife.

He started to work as a bouncer in some shabby bars and dens, and his physical strength gave him a growing reputation. This allowed him to move up to classier bars and he ended up in a respectable establishment, he needed to be more welcoming and had to learn to wear a smiling mask. One day, a turian customer noticed him and hired him as his bodyguard. The pay was much higher and would allow him to buy some military gear in order to join a mercenary crew so he would fight against pirates and slavers again. He found a new purpose, avenging the death of his wife by hitting the Hegemony as hard as he can. And if he had to die from it, it wouldn't be an issue for him. In his bodyguard days, he took back his old habits to befriend everyone around him. He faced some danger occasionally and started to always carry a handgun at his belt, and constantly be aware of his surroundings.

In 2178, Georges had enough money to buy an old Hahne-Kedar armor, an M-55 Argus assault rifle and an M-27 Scimitar. He then proceeded to search for an SMP doing legal business mostly against pirates and slavers. He eventually found a small one based on Bekenstein which was looking for new members. The job suited him perfectly and he signed up. Georges ended up in a small squad composed of his asari squad leader, Alaïs, two turian brothers and a salarian. The doctrine of the SMP was to make “high-risk high-rewards” legal missions, mostly against pirates and slavers.

In 2179, after almost a year of working together, the whole squad decided to share a house in colocation on Bekenstein. It was Georges' idea, a way for him to create a crowded home where he would feel just fine. He learned to cook for dextro-based species, such as turians and quarians. He was always a good cook but didn't know much about dextro cuisine. He thought that those kind of little skills could always be put to good use. He eventually ended up in a relationship with his squad leader Alaïs and finally found some comfort.

In 2183, he managed to pay for a Kassa Fabrication’s Colossus Armor which he painted it in the color of the Citadel's Council and proceed to engraved the initials of all of his fallen squadmates on his left chest plate, a small tribute that means a great deal to him. He also got his hand on an M-6 Carnifex. His relation with Alaïs was growing stronger day by day, and Georges started to feel true happiness again.

By the end of 2184, the squad had to track down and capture a krogan bounty hunter and deliver him to the C-Sec. They managed to track him down in an abandoned structure on a remote planet. The krogan was waiting for them and Alaïs got wounded at the very beginning of the fight. The team kept putting pressure on him while the salarian attended to Alaïs' wounds until one of the turian brothers got shot in the end. Georges understood that they couldn’t defeat him this way. He challenged the bounty-hunter to a hand-to-hand duel. He was confident, he already won over some krogans during his bouncer years, and plus this time, he had an extra motivation. The krogan wasn’t one of those drunken “young weaklings” Georges faced in the past, he was an old warrior with a tremendous amount of experience, but he was curious to see how a human so big would manage against him.

The fight was a one-way massacre and Georges ended up five minutes later lying on his back with six ribs, his jaw and his left clavicle broken, his right leg dislocated and much internal damage.  The old warrior was amused and gave his opponent a chance to do better. They’ll have to face each other again in ten years so Georges would have the time to be better. The krogan gave Georges another good reason to seek revenge. He broke all his remaining intact limbs and took away one tooth, jokingly saying that he will give him back next time they’ll meet.

Georges woke up in a hospital chamber back on the Citadel, covered with medical plaster. The doctor told him that without their intervention, he would have died. However, Alaïs wasn’t that lucky, She was alive but in comatose states that could be permanent. Georges spent the next three months recovering from his wounds then left his room to see his girlfriend. He was devastated to see her so dead-like and it reopened some old wounds. He had to go through a long rehabilitation and discovered the GUARDIAN during this time and their heroic deeds against the Blight Dominion. He wanted to be a part of it, to be a better version of himself. And mostly to struggle for a bigger cause than just his personal revenge and his bank account, to be a soldier once again.

After finally leaving the hospital, Georges still had to recover his physical shape from before his stay at the hospital and started to train himself extremely hard. He achieved his goal in 2186, shortly after the creation of the Terminus Confederacy. That gave him the chance to finally face the batarian Hegemony in a direct war. He immediately sent his application to GUARDIAN.

During his time within the organization, Georges relived his horrific experience from the First Skyllian Blitz during the Second Blitz. This took a huge toll on his mind, reopening old wounds he was trying to maintain closed. In a way, this had a saving grace, making him have to confront his demons from the past. When the organization established a permanent base on Haven, the giant took the opportunity to get his comatose girlfriend to be treated at the local hospital, allowing him to visit her. This proximity was what allowed him to carry on until the destruction of the city.

During the attack, Georges managed, thanks to his friends from the Libra, to rescue his girlfriend before the hospital was destroyed. Although, while doing their best to reach Morgan's parents, the team only managed to witness their building collapsing on them. The team landed, trying to go through the rubbles to find survivors, which they didn't. Afterward, they all went in hiding on Winston's home planet. There, Georges worked the land with the locals, seeing it as some vacations from the usual combat duties. This allowed him to completely vent out his shock.

After being called back into active duty, Georges proudly served back under GUARDIAN's banner, fighting his way through the Reaper War. While never achieving outstanding acts during the conflict, the giant managed to do his part without any shame. Outstanding performances and service records were never his objective, being meant for soldiers way more heroic and capable than him. He was more comfortable being among the countless anonymous who fought. For one hero to exist, thousands upon thousands of anonymous soldiers had to fight and fall beside them. This was his place in the Universe. A nameless bear of a man.

At the end of the Reaper War, GUARDIAN was disbanded in 2188. Georges took the opportunity to spend some time away from a military organisation, going back to his home on Bekenstein that was seized when GUARDIAN cut itself free from the Council. Back to his former life, the giant enjoyed civilian life, working as a cook in a local restaurant beach side to get a living. Later that same year, a life changing news came to him. Alaïs was showing signs of a wake up in the near future.

The Asari finally woke up in September that year. Georges simply failed to realise at first if it was a dream, like the many ones he did during her comatose state. He fully embraced the blissful truth and spent a lot of time with her. Little did he knew, but Alaïs' father was killed on Haven, leaving behind him a large inheritage to his wife and all of his daughters. Thanks to that, Georges and Alaïs could spend as much time together as they wanted, without having to work, leading them to not follow any of the news from the Galaxy and not giving a life sign to their friends.

However, Georges was found by Donokan and was approached by both him and Siva, the two of them being former GUARDIAN operatives and colleagues, who told him about the CRC quickly after its formation. Supported by Alaïs, he signed up to get back into doing his part to make the Galaxy a better place for all.

## Personality

Despite being weighted by years of combat and the loss of many loved ones, from friends to a wife, Georges keeps a sensitive side that he doesn’t try to hide behind a mask. However, being rather considerate, he tries his best to not burden his friends with his problems. That doesn't mean he wouldn't talk about it if asked. His way of being open about his feelings instead of bottling up is the best way to shelter himself from his outbursts of anger he used to have. On top of that, the fact that his girlfriend got out of her comatose state after many years allows him to fully embrace a generally radiant good mood, shown for everyone to see with a near permanent bright and sincere smile.

Because of his extraversion, Georges is always seeking new friendships. He tends to father his friends and might get intrusive sometimes. He went through a lot, both in his personal and professional life and likes to share what he learned from it, aiming for such catastrophes to not happen ever again. All of this, combined with his former experience as a bodyguard, makes him a natural protector, not hesitating to get into harm's way to defend his team.

Georges is unusually strong for a human, but he doesn’t take any pride in it and never abuses it in his personal life. He views his physical abilities as useful tools on a battlefield or in a bar fight, although he is conscious of his limits, like his inability to be sneaky or light on his feet. Despite being comfortable in most social situations, Georges always keeps his eyes open, a habit he kept from his bodyguard experience, making him usually ready for a quick draw and a fast response to a threat. When under stress, he can be seen nervously tapping the grip of his Carnifex with the tips of his fingers. If he doesn’t have his pistol on him, he will simply tap his thigh where the weapon usually is.

With his tendency to be energetic, Georges likes to occupy himself as much as possible, whether it'd be physical training, cooking, spending time with friends. Lately, he has even started picking up reading instead of letting himself fall into a melancholic nostalgia, something that can still happen to him despite all the recent positive changes in his life.

In the field, Georges is a front line soldier who will follow almost any given order. The only orders he won't follow are to abandon an ally on the field, to harm an innocent civilian or to mistreat prisoners. His reliance on orders often leads him to lack of imagination and initiative in a combat scenario. Despite his obedience and reliance on hierarchy, Georges isn’t a fan of protocol and discipline and has a very casual approach to the chain of command and professional relations.

On the political side, the giant hates the Batarian Hegemony since the death of his wife and half of his platoon during the Skyllian Blitz and has dedicated most of his mercenary days fighting off pirates and slavers working for or with it. Yet, he came around and understood the political pressure that the Batarian people went through, being exterior or interior of the Hegemony, putting an end to his natural distrust toward Batarians. After being disappointed by the Alliance because the battle of Torfan, the political system regain some of his respect for supporting GUARDIAN after the split up from the Council grasp. However, his new path among the CRC is a delight to him, since he has always supported the Council and the political systems associated to it. After spending a large portion of his life among aliens, he enjoys the company of any species as much as his own. During his mercenary days, his squadmates were also his roomates, allowing him to learn many things about asari, turians and salarians, their cultures, their social codes and their body language.

### Exceptional Skills

* Terrific cook with both dextro and levo food

## Physical Description

Standing at 7 feet tall and weighing 365 lbs, Georges is a human of unusual size who keeps his physical shape as sharp as possible through daily intensive training. His unusual size allows him to build a level of strength usually only seen among the strongest alien species. This, combined with his years of hand-to-hand practice, makes him a match in a fist fight against an average krogan.

He doesn’t care much about his physical appearance and always has his hair uncombed with an untrimmed beard. He only keeps his hair and beard short enough so that he won’t be bothered while wearing a helmet.  When not in the field or deployed, he avoids wearing formal clothing as much as he can, like uniforms and suits. His day to day clothes are typically a white tank top, a pair of shorts and a pair of hideous flip-flops, but will wear a uniform for particular occasions if required.

One of the most notable aspects about Georges, apart from his size, is his friendly smile that he keeps in almost any circumstances. Because of his years of combat, he accumulated a fair amount of scars, being from bullets or blades. He hasn't tried to get them removed, seeing them as reminders to not fuck up in the field. For years, Georges had a tattoo that he recently got removed, a token from a painful past that is now gone.

When in the field, he always wears his Kassa Fabrication Colossus Heavy armor. His armor sports a customized paint job, using a color pattern reminiscent of the Citadel Council's symbol, and with the initials of every fallen squadmate written on the left part of his torso plate.

### Armament

* M-195 Trebuchet
* At-12 Raider
* M-6 Carnifex

### Abilities

* Stimulant Pack
* Barricade
* Tech Armor
* Fortification
* Omnishield