Jäger

Jäger in his TDO Fleet Admiral Uniform

Elizabeth Jäger (Daughter)

Human Resistance

Terran Republic

Novaterran Union

Solar Union

United Republic of Orion

Terran Defence Organization

> "*I have to keep going, otherwise no one will step up to take the responsibility of ending this hell. That's why I have to keep fighting... to finish this war for good.*"
> ― Jäger, 36 P.T.
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**Jäger Von Adelhard** was a Metahuman and Military Officer of German origin. He was a legendary military commander of the Terran Republic, Novaterran Union and the TDO in Phoenix, Fallout, Interstellar and Legacy.

## **Appearance**

Jäger is a tall, well built and attractive man. He has short black hair with white strands on the sides, dark brown eyes and a sharp nose.

He usually sports his Fleet Admiral Uniform, but he wears specialized combat armor during combat. He also wears a dark grey hat with two red lightning bolts and the blue TDO upside down triangle in the center.

## **Personality**

Jäger is introverted and has a serious demeanor. Being resilient and quick thinking in dangerous situations. While he is almost always acting in a professional manner, he opens up and becomes a caring person to the people he knows closely, capable of being a good listener and able to calm people in dire emotional situations.

However for some time, Jäger was an anxious and fearful man due to his survivor's guilt and extreme PTSD, which went largely untreated. Later becoming embittered against the Solar Government due to orders to demote him because of his fragile mental state.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

#### **Childhood**

Jäger von Adelhard was born on the 14th of September 1892 in Hamburg, Germany (territory held by the Prussian Empire). His father was a recruitment officer for the Imperial Army while his mother, Countess Karla von Adelhard of Hamburg was of the germanic nobility.

His father died a few months before he was born due to an incident with rebels. Jäger's childhood was spent for most of the time confined in the castle in which his family resided. Being homeschooled and teached of his aristocratic duties for the future.

### **Iron Nations**

#### **Early** **Military Service**

Jäger joined the imperial military in 1913, after the Blümelreich was established. During this time he became a military officer like his father and met his first wife, a nurse who later perished in the Battle of Helsinki once the Second Northumbrian War broke out.

After the great war came to a close, Jäger retired from the armed forces and spent time depressed and isolated in his castle after his mother passed away. On the year 1922, he was drafted into the Terran Defence Organization by a long time family acquaintance, Doctor Hermann Müller of the Blackwatch Division. He took part in an experiment with other outstanding military officers that infused them with alien spores.

Out of the project, only two test subjects made it out, Jäger and his colleague Midnight. Due to this experiment, Jäger acquired enhanced strength as his ability and was classified as a Metahuman by the Organization. This change motivated him to serve as Squad Commander for the TDO's Metahuman Division and thus left his noble duties to participate in classified operations.

He was granted a team of Metahumans, which included the likes of Aura, whom he quickly befriended and made his right hand officer to command the unit. Years later, during a mission in an offensive against Chimaera in the Arctic Sea, Orion Jäger lost his team and only was able to send Aura on an escape gyrocopter before falling into the icy waters after the battleship he was on exploded. He consequently drifted into cryostasis before he could die, being kept alive by the spores in his blood.

In 1926, Phoenix Jäger was separated from his unit and was stationed within the TDO Headquarters Unionis Invicta around the time of the First Battle for Earth. Shortly prior to Operation Terminus Terrae being issued by Director Hayes, Jäger boarded one of the Blümelreich pyramids of the TDO to escape. He would then travel to Novaterra with the rest of the Human Remnants.

### **Iron Nations: Phoenix**

#### **Service with Blackwatch Science**

In the year 1927, Commander Jäger was assigned to lead the forces of the TDO's Blackwatch Science Division and participated actively on the tests carried out with the Oblivion Device and the superelement Necronium. It would be during this time that Jäger acquired his undead military unit and a device that allowed him to create small portals.

#### **War against The Traveller**

On the winter of that same year, Jäger became involved in the war with the mysterious paramilitary officer known as the Traveller and participated in the battles of Drachen Base (in which he would meet the Cosmos Man and Marco Wolf) and Eastern Base to finally drive out the Orange Army from Novaterra.

During his time serving with Blackwatch, Commander Jäger became close allies with Doctor Müller who headed the division and state, being briefed on their situation regarding the Raxian Authority's help with reconstructing the damaged Unionis Invicta battleship.

#### **Fall of the Phoenix Dimension**

In 1928, Jäger captured the Traveller's 'henchman' Hashim Al-Zeydan after a skirmish in Humanity's hearing on the Galactic Parliament. He became the lead military officer in charge of the evacuation of Blackwatch forces from the Phoenix Dimension when it began to collapse. As the dimension crumbled and the very few Blackwatch forces escaped inside Unionis, the Cosmos Man made a portal through which Jäger, Müller and the crew of Unionis; and the Captains Eclipse and Blackout crossed through to another dimension.

On the other side in the Orion Dimension, only Jäger, Müller and Unionis' crew appeared together on a jungle moon along the ruins of Unionis Invicta, which they rebuilt in four years. Being separated from Eclipse and Blackout who appeared on the frozen Earth.

### **Iron Nations: Fallout**

#### **Captured by Chimaera**

After the First Strike and the Long Winter took place, The Vortex's Chimaera Intelligence Division discovered Jäger frozen in the Arctic Sea near Canada. After being kept inside an ice block for some time, he was reawakened by Orion Doctor Müller (who was forced to join Chimaera after being detained in the sunken Unionis).

The german met Colonel Schmidt and Captain Pegasus, agreeing to hunt down Metahumans for their benefit. He reluctantly served as an honorary agent of Chimaera for the duration of 1 B.T. and early 1 P.T.. He secretly conspired with Müller to eventually desert and contact the remnants of the TDO hidden across the frozen world.

#### **Joining The Human Resistance**

In 1 P.T., Jäger and Müller were sent on a diplomatic mission to Aura's Community of Metahumans. After trying to track down a rogue meta called Frost, Jäger revealed himself to be alive to his former squadmate Aura, who then proceeded to inform them about the true nature of Chimaera and the Vortex.

Having learned the precarious situation mankind was in, Jäger and Doctor Müller took their chance and deserted Chimaera, taking refuge in the Community. After the creation of the Human Resistance during the Vortex Occupation of Earth, Marco Wolf kidnapped the two Germans from the Community. As they were taken to Hispania Base on the Interregnum, they both learned about Fox's plan and joined the Human Resistance to fight the Vortex.

#### **Second Battle for Earth**

Prior to the battle, Jäger, Fox and Wolf went on a mission to recruit Governor Aura so she could join the Resistance. However the three found the Community under Vortex siege. During the frenzy Aura was wounded and died on a hillside while the Community was destroyed.

Fueled by rage and revenge, Jäger became a participant in the Battle of Grand City. He faced off the many troops of the multiversal tyrants with the aid of fellow rebel Blackout (from the Phoenix Dimension). Before the Decimation of Earth happened, Jäger and Blackout escaped with Fox to the Interregnum.

### **Iron Nations: Interstellar**

#### **Hunt for the Invincible**

In late 1 P.T., Jäger was promoted to Commander of the TDO. He temporarily joined Admiral Stroner's staff aboard the starship TSS Trafalgar and embarked on a mission to capture Colonel Schmidt and his ship the Invincible, who had seceded from the Vortex after chain of command broke down during the decimation.

After a short pursuit, a battle in space outside the solar system broke out. It was during this confrontation that Jäger killed the Overseer aboard his ship and sabotaged the vessel to be deactivated. After the mission, he was stationed in Terra Base by Director Hayes, acquiring an elite squad which included the exceptional soldiers Frost, Blackout and Eclipse.

The team served as a direct contact between Governor General Haig and the Director in Eden Base. The Invincible, meanwhile, was repurposed by the Raxian Authority and given to the fledling Terran Starfleet as one of its most modern vessels, the ship was mobilized as part of the Gate's defense fleet and was to be commanded by Jäger in case of his presence aboard it.

#### **The Centauri Threat**

During the Centauri Threat crisis, Commander Jäger discovered key documents detailing the Ghost Dimension and the creatures inhabiting it. His findings aided the TDO to uncover the true nature behind the Centauri Threat. Commander Jäger and his squad members led an incursion into the Ghost Dimension, there, Jäger fought the ghosts inhabiting the place and aided the Cosmos Man seal the rift between the Orion and the Ghost Dimension.

A year after these events, Jäger squad was disbanded and its members scattered across the armed forces of the Terran Defence Organization, Jäger himself joined the newly created Terran Defence Force of the Terran Republic. He was ascended by the High Command to General in charge of the 2nd Army (which included regiments stationed in Madrid, Valencia and Navarre).

#### **Hades Crusade**

In 3 P.T., the outset of the Hades Crusade led General Jäger to go on a mission with TDF Operative Aerik and Marshal Luigi Fox to another dimension with the objective to find a man called Dr. Muñoz. In this alternate dimension, Jäger met and detained MUQ Lantern Sam Lohart who infomed him about the MUQ and it's neverending war with the Vortex Empire. After finding and capturing Dr. Muñoz, Jäger fought Hades alongside Fox and Sam while Aerik and their taget evacuated to Hispania Base through a portal.

Some time later, the First Battle of the Gate started and he fought alongside Chancellor George and his commandos aboard many Vortex and Cultist ships, he then joined his former squadmates Eclipse and Blackout's boarding party to Commander Warlock's ship. During the battle with Warlock, Jäger was locked out of the bridge while the combat happened. After the confrontation was over, he and Sam witnessed the execution of Hades in Terra City.

#### **Terran Civil War**

Later that year, Sam, Jäger and Fox investigated into the assasination of Deputy Pablo Hernández with the aid of the Terran Security Bureau (and Director Mustafa). Their mission led them to the Province of Marseille where Jäger participated on a raid to a Cultist countryside base.

After Fox uncovered the fake news fiasco about the alleged shooter, the provincial General Falkenhayn attempted to arrest both Jäger and Fox. The two stole a gunship and escaped to Terra City. During the opening stages of the civil war, Jäger served in the Battle of Marseille against the Terran Provisional Government and captured Falkenhayn himself during Operation Anaconda.

General Jäger was present during the Second Battle of the Gate commanding the TSS Invincible and making use of the metahuman X to damage the Kara fleet. During this same battle, the original Unionis Invicta emerged from warpspace, finishing off Hive's forces. This would mark the return of Phoenix Jäger and Müller, with both people later joining the TDO as Commander and Head Scientist respectively.

After Admiral Cunningham's escape, Orion Jäger joined the Galactic Parliament Task Force to hunt down the former HRA leader and Warlord Hive. He was present during the battle on Hive's base and also participated in the following battle when Cunningham and Hive tried to take the Gate once more. During this military encounter, Jäger boarded Hive's ship but found him dead before he could capture the Kara Warlord.

#### **Organization of the German Secret Council**

During the civil war and the months after, Jäger met the german military officer General Karson and was introduced to the German Secret Council. The council was made solely of former Blümelreich nobles and military officers.

The group secretly planned on rebuilding a new Drachensburg in the alps of the Interregnum as a province independent of the Terran Republic, a haven for the germans. During this time, Jäger aided important German figures fake their deaths to join the construction of the new city. Both Phoenix Jäger and Müller also joined into the council as honorary members.

#### **Void Invasion**

In 5 P.T., as the apocalyptic invasion broke out in the galaxy, Phoenix Jäger helped the Terran High Command organize a stand against The Reaper and his Void forces. The other Jäger meanwhile contacted the Cosmos Man and fought in the skirmish of Terra City and the massive Third Battle of the Gate that came right after. When the cycle reset after the apocalyptic war, a distance grew on his friendship with Sam even reaching a point in which they stopped talking.

After this conflict, General Jäger resigned from the TDF to join the TDO as a Starfleet Captain.

#### **Great Anarchy**

##### **Desertion from the Sol Imperium**

After 5 years of relative peace in the galaxy, Captain Jäger stopped seeing Lohart and actively worked with the German Secret Council. When Fox began to concentrate political power from the Terran Republic to himself and formed the Sol Imperium with Marshal Otto Laake, Jäger lost faith in the Republic and planned the evacuation of Drachensburg with General Karson.

Right before the germans could peacefully escape with Drachensburg, Fox discovered the city and personally led a force there himself. Jäger distracted the Marshal for long enough so the city could warp to the Estela System. After the escape, Jäger helped Karson establish the Novaterran Union in Novaterra by seeking aid and temporary protection from the Raxian Authority.

Back in Sol, Phoenix Jäger deserted the Imperial Military and joined the Union with Unionis Invicta, using Senator Mora's uprising in the eastern provinces as a cover for his and Müller's escape. Orion Jäger gained the title of Fleet Admiral of the Novaterran Starfleet while Phoenix Jäger was assigned the rank of Field Marshal of the Novaterran Army.

##### **First League War**

Prior to the beginning of the war, Admiral Jäger assisted the everchosen Aerik with merging his conciousness with Dr. Muñoz's, witnessing his old friend become an ethereal entity. During the war, Jäger encountered Sam again and their friendship rekindled. He participated in the Battle for Sol commanding his new Aura-Class Battleship RSS Ravager in the Ceres front while having an uneasy truce with the Imperium.

##### **The Cosmos Man's Wolfpack**

At some point in the waning days of the war, Admiral Jäger left his forces to the Field Marshal, embarking on a mission with the Cosmos Man to investigate murky events regarding a Chimaera expedition in the Far North. During the mission, Jäger recovered the Phoenix Aura who was still alive inside the Eternal Darkness capsule.

Soon after this, Jäger and the crew saved former Grand Protector Marco Wolf from the Apollo Confederation. They then returned to the crashed Icarus Station and retrieved some plans for the secret Phoenix Project. After forming the Wolfpack unit, they spent months fighting Chimaera and going around the Far North gathering as many allies as possible for the impending first battle

After being chased by Enforcer Manticore, and eventually defeating him during the Mission to Kotollon, the crew returned to the Sol System. Admiral Jäger and Aura would seek protection from the TDO and eventually rejoined the Novaterrans.

##### **Siege of Ultheron-Prime**

Not a few weeks after the Wolfpack's mission had ended, Jäger's worst fears came true, a siege of large magnitude began on the galactic capital of Ultheron. Both Jägers served as military advisors to the Illyrian High General's coalition forces. During the final desperate attempt of liberating the planet, both Jägers led the Wolfpack with Aura and Wolf to try and take down the Chimaera base on the planet's capital city.

Marshal Jäger encountered the revived Commander Blut Wolf and fought him fiercely, the metahuman would lose the battle however and died at the hands of his old enemy. Admiral Jäger found them and brutally killed Blut Wolf in a short scuffle. Jäger's mental state plummeted and almost reached an unstable point after seeing the traumatic image of his own corpse. He escaped the base before it was blown up by the Wolfpack and was evacuated off the planet. He remained under medical care for a few days while the funeral of his other self was held.

When the Solar Union was consolidated not long after the siege was ended and Dictator Laake was deposed, he rejoined the TDO and was assigned the rank of Fleet Admiral of the Exploration Force, having Commanders Eclipse and Blackout under his command. He captained the USS Ravager over Eden Base, the TDO's Headquarters. Once more, he fell out with Sam and strengthened his relationship with Aura.

#### **The Shadows of a Fallen Hero**

Fifteen years after he acquired his PTSD, survivor's guilt and trauma; Jäger was now alone and distanced from everybody but Blackout and Aura, the only friends he had left. He was often victim of haunting visions and panic attacks, being generally unstable.

After the Solar Union's senate decided to grant Grand Protector Enzo Fox power over all terran military agencies, Jäger was stripped of his power. The man went beyond his breaking point becoming enraged and vengeful against the Terran Government. He subsequently disappeared for a few days and activated the 853rd Battalion who then stole an anomaly from George's Foundation, using it to then attack the Union Senate.

This attack prompted First Executive Sparre to accuse the TDO of the incident, the Organization became split in between Hayes' side and Haig's side which remained loyal to the Union while Hayes and the majority of the TDO sided in becoming independent, citing their agreement with Interim Consul Quisling. Jäger, after finally regaining his composure, deeply regretted the mistake he had made and desperately tried to deactivate the 853rd, but to no avail.

#### **A Hero Redeemed**

In 32 P.T., Jäger witnessed the Union be toppled by Marshal Laake and his conspirator forces, even having to evacuate Eden Base due to a surprise attack of Vortex starships led by the former Dictator. Jäger remained stationed at Outpost Atlas in the Far North after this. When Enzo and Liniers liberated Mars, Jäger was finally able to return to the TDO Headquarters, but when he learned that Novaterra became threatened by a now powerful Admiral Specter he and a handful of TDO forces went to the aid of the germanic planet. Jäger himself led his personal squad boarding Specters' flagship.

During the battle with the powerful metahuman, Sam intervened and was killed in the crossfire, Jäger became devastated and when Specter attempted to brainwash him he saw the goddess Aura who told him none of the tragedies he lived through were his fault, and that he needed to keep going forward, thus making him her everchosen. Jäger then used his newly acquired god-afflicted powers to obliterate Specter during the fight with a single punch. He took Sam's body and even destroyed Specter's dreadnought with the other TDO squads deployed aboard the light dreadnought.

After the blockade over Novaterra was finally broken, Admiral Jäger assisted to Sam's funeral. When the URO was established he was given the honorary title of Protector of Novaterra by Regent Enzo Fox and was reinstated as a Fleet Admiral of the Exploration Force.

#### **Return of the HRA**

In 35 P.T., a small galactic faction known as the Avan Coalition began a process to join the Western Tributary States, Former Senator Hawke and Commander Blackout (Jäger's subordinate) were sent on a diplomatic mission to survey the faction in order to finally sign the contract for their acquisition into the URO. During their stay, the two diplomats were assasinated by mysterious mercenaries in Avan.

Jäger, after learning of the assasination, joined Lieutenant General Artem Vasilovich in the government ordered military takeover of the Coalition in order to hunt down the culprits and investigate the conspiracy taking place. When the HRA revealed themselves and took over the moons of Jupiter, Jäger spearheaded the campaign to liberate Europa and killed Brooke, the Fleet Admiral in charge of the blockade of the Jupiterian Moons.

After they were driven out of the Sol System, Jäger and Vasilovich chased the remainders of the HRA to their base of command in the Far North. During this battle, Jäger killed Reed and then fought General Aurora but was unable to capture him when the latter escaped.

#### **Commonwealth of Man Incursion**

A few weeks after the defeat of the Fourth HRA, Jäger and Fleet Admiral Stroner were dispatched by Field Marshal Liniers in order to investigate and contain an anomaly that appeared in the center of the Moon's debris field. As they approached, Jäger and some of his subordinates as well as Stroner, Aura and a small TDO Corvette commanded by Colonel Kaya Ozgur were sucked into the wormhole.

After awakening, Jäger and the others found themselves stuck in an alternate dimension where they were forced join forces with Captain Erikson of the Northumbrian Patriotic Front to overthrow the Commonwealth of Man that ruled over Earth with an iron fist. During his time working with Erikson, Jäger participated in the rebel's campaign and later the Battle of Washington in order to use the dimension' Singularity Tower to return to the Orion Dimension.

### **Iron Nations: Legacy**

#### **Warlock's Contingency**

A few months after the Commonwealth Incursion, Jäger joined General Jayla Roux and the rest of the TDO's Exploration Force in their fight against the Vortex invasion of the Far North. During one of his missions, Commander Wyvern of the White Wolves informed Director Hayes he had sighted the long dead Grand Enforcer Warlock kill the Vortex's General Darhon. Jäger was informed of this by Hayes and the MUQ became involved in the investigation alongside his crew in the Ravager.

The Quoss sent Corporal Jade Corvus and her team of commandos to aid Jäger in his search for Warlock, while Clone Commander Dyre and Colonel Brooks of the TDO became his new commanders on the expedition. The crew chased Warlock's steps around the Far North, fighting nine Enforcers of the Imperial Sins Unit during the expedition.

Eventually coming to fight him in Conqueror Base, Jäger was unexpectedly aided by Leader Pegasus, however the Admiral was stuck fighting with Enforcer Tyberius while Pegasus dealt with Warlock. After using his god afflicted abilty once more to end the enemy enforcer, him and his crew escaped the base before they could be captured. A few months after these events, Jäger married Corporal Corvus.

#### **Base Tranquility Incident**

Around the year 50 P.T., Jäger attended Otto Laake's funeral alongside Aura after the catastrophic battle at the TDO's Base Tranquility, where the Darkwater director had lost his life fighting the Fifth Pioneer.

#### **Retirement and Legacy**

A few months later, Jäger retired from the TDO and lived in the Province of Bordeaux with his wife and daughter (Elizabeth Jäger, born in 37 P.T.), he was placed in the Hall of Orian Heroes by the Republic Senate and became widely regarded as one of the most important military commanders to ever serve the races of sol.

In 58 P.T., Jäger came out of retirement to participate in the Liberation of Avan in order to save his daughter, Captain Angelo Blanca and Agent Theocydes Lohart from the clutches of the Vortex. He remained retired after said events. A year later during the Atlantean Galactic Crisis, Jäger used his influence within the German Council of Novaterra to send a squad of Protection Guard soldiers to aid her daughter during the Battle of Atlann.

Finally, in the year 88 P.T., Jäger and his wife took a collective decision to die via euthanasia. Seeing their plans completed and their lives fulfilled, the german died peacefully in his sleep on his rural house. The two were taken into the Garden by the goddess Aura where they would rest until the end of the multiverse.

## **Abilities**

### **Enhanced Strength**

Jäger's basic Metahuman ability allows him to have the strength double than that of the strongest human, making him capable of breaking, punching and even moving around more effectively due to his condition. In it's most heightened state, this ability allows Jäger to completely shatter body armor as well as any bones in a person's body, most notably when his veins begin to flow with a neon liquid.

### **Everchosen State**

After making contact with Orion Aura in her goddess of life form, Jäger was bestowed the power of the everchosens. Initially, very small changes affected the man, such as inadvertedly creating plants by touching objects, and being able to detect lifeforms by touching a surface. During his most intense fights however, the everchosen state allows Jäger to unleash his complete metahuman power (or veil) by entering a state of trance that make his punches capable of completely pulverizing an enemy as well as making him temporarily immortal. This powerful ability comes with a toll however, because it requires its user to be in a state of deep distress (such as a close friend's death) or to be extremely enraged, creating a series of wounds over his body if the mental toll is not met.