John Rambo

***John Rambo*** is A former Marine Veteran and Highly Skilled Cardassian War veteran, Rambo returned from the war as a decorated, but disturbed hero.

## Personal Info

### Parents:

Reevis Rambo (father, deceased)Helga Rambo (mother, deceased)

## History

### Early Life

John Rambo was born on December 4, 2320 to Helga and Reevis Rambo on the planet Juhraya. on a Horse Ranch just out side of a town called Bowie, John calls it a "small place", saying that he mainly worked horses at his father's ranch during his time in Bowie. He is of Navajo American Indian, Italian and German descent. His family was poor, often unable to buy food, and his mother died when he was young. As a young man, his childhood life was rough and violent. His father was an abusive alcoholic and John spent his childhood learning from the Navajo tribal elders on the reservation about how to efficiently use the traditional Navajo weapon: the bow and arrow. He also learned how to fight. However, one night when John was 18, his father tried to kill him with a knife. Rambo ran away that night, but not before shooting his father with a bow and arrow, nearly killing him. Rambo decided that the best way to get away from his problems was home, he travelled until he found somewhere he could stay.

### Military Service

Rambo graduated from Rangeford High School in 2337, and enlisted in Starfleet Marine Corps a year later. Within just 3 weeks into training he was promoted to Private First Class. Rambo earned several accommodations for his Survival skills, most he learned from his time on Juhraya His service at first was fairly uneventful until he Met Major Sam Trautman whom was a Commander of a Special Forces Company within the Marine Corps. Trautman began training Rambo with 8 others in special Combat to counter many Enemies. he was trained with a plethora of skills, including learning how to speak multiple languages , to operate advanced static and firearm weaponry including Terrain tanks, shuttles and even Enemy Starships, guerrilla warfare, demolitions, paratrooping, Orbital Diving, marksmanship and survival skills. Rambo would go on to receive extensive survival and combat training. The Combat Unit, consisted of eight men; himself, Delmar Barry, Joseph Danforth, Ortega, Messner, Krackhauer, Colletta, and Jorgenson. After a long term of classified deep cover service in Several Enemy territories, John returned to the Federation for more training in Then the War between the Federation and the Cardassian's began and Rambo along with his unit were deployed into the Combat zone.

### Federation-Cardassian War

During the 5 years of war , Rambo had 159 confirmed kills, going on to be decorated with two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, four Purple Hearts, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Federation Medal of Honor. Rambo became a Sergeant On November 4, 2348, Rambo joined a guerrilla mission behind enemy lines, where his unit was ambushed and Rambo was shot in the leg and captured by the Cardassian's, later being taken to a POW camp. At the prison camp, Rambo was tortured with a knife and kept in a ten-foot hole where excrement was often thrown on him, but he never revealed any information to his captors, even as he watched his remaining friends from Baker Team be slowly tortured to death. As a prisoner, Rambo was required to do heavy labor and was deprived of sleep and food. On May 14, 2349, Rambo intentionally gave himself dysentery, and his guard left him alone to go get help when Rambo took the opportunity to run. Rambo fled the camp and hid aboard a leaving Cargo ship and eventually made his return to Federation space Despite his many honors, Rambo ended his service with a nervous breakdown, having witnessed most of his only friends die excruciating, horrific deaths. Rambo was honorably discharged from Starfleet on September 17, 2349.

After returning from the war, Rambo found that many Citizen of the Federation were intolerant of soldiers. Rambo hid his emotions because he felt nobody wanted to help him. This led to an extreme case of Post traumatic stress disorder. Rambo was shunned from many communities he would die to protect, and Rambo became a homeless drifter that often slept in the woods or went hungry.

### First Blood(2350)

takes place in December 2350, with John Rambo (now homeless and out-of-work drifter) searching for Delmar Barry on Kessik IV where his old friend with whom he served in War with lived. He goes to Barry's home but is told by his mother that he died from exposure to Chemicals the Cardassian's used during the war. This means that Rambo has now become the last surviving member of his Special Forces unit. He then travels to the small town of Hope where he is quickly spotted by the town's paranoid sheriff, Will Teasle, due to his long hair, military-style coat and all-around scruffy appearance. Teasle soon picks him up and drives him to the edge of town, while stressing his dislike of drifters and "trouble makers." Rambo begins heading back into town immediately after being dropped off, and Teasle then arrests him when Rambo did not comply and takes him to the local police station.

When searching Rambo, Teasle discovers a large survival knife on Rambo's belt. At the station, the Deputy Sheriff, Art Galt, harasses and beats Rambo, who begins having flashbacks to the war, where he was a POW. When officers attempt to dry shave him, Rambo finally snaps and fights his way out of the station, retrieving his knife. Outside, he hijacks a hovercycle from a man driving past and flees into the nearby mountains while being pursued by Teasle in his police Crusier. Teasle crashes his Crusier, and Rambo escapes. Teasle calls more officers and a Shuttle in for assistance, while Rambo abandons his cycle and makes his way into the deep terrain on foot. While climbing down a steep cliff face, he is spotted by the search shuttle with Galt in the passenger's seat. The helicopter gets caught in a thermal draft, and has trouble maintaining control to give Galt a clear shot. Galt fires at him a number of times with his rifle, forcing Rambo to jump off the cliff-side, or be shot.

Rambo breaks his fall by landing in a tree, but his arm is wounded in the process. Galt continues to fire upon the injured Rambo on the ground. Before Galt can shoot again, Rambo throws and hits the shuttle windshield with a rock he grabbed. The pilot loses control, swerving wildly, and Galt is thrown to his death. Rambo grabs Galt's gun, and runs behind some cover. Rambo opens up the butt of his knife, taking out a needle and thread. He then stitches up the wound on his arm, without anesthetic. Rambo comes out from cover, and confronts the men on the cliff. Rambo tells them, "There's one man dead! It wasn't my fault!". Teasle tells Rambo not to move or they will shoot. Rambo says he wants no more trouble, and begins to back away. But the men then open fire, and their shots appear to graze Rambo in the face. Rambo then runs into the woods, Teasle and his deputies in pursuit

The men catch up to Rambo, and they release the tracking dogs. Rambo shoots two with his last bullets, and kills the other with his knife. The men begin to flank out and pursue Rambo, but Rambo easily disables them using guerrilla tactics. Rambo severely wounds each man, but does not kill any of them. Rambo jumps out of the brush and grabs Teasle, putting his knife to his throat. He tells him, "In town you're the law. Out here it's me." He tells Teasle to "Let it go" and give up his pursuit. Teasle refuses, and Starfleet Security are called in to assist in the hunt. Colonel Samuel Trautman soon arrives, taking credit for training Rambo. He is surprised to find any of the deputies still alive, and warns that it would be safer to let Rambo go and find him after the situation has calmed down. Teasle refuses to give in. Teasle asks Trautman to try and contact Rambo on the radio he took to get his position. Trautman gets Rambo to respond on the radio, calling out his Spec Forces company.

Rambo says that he cannot turn himself in and tells Trautman, "They drew first blood, not me." Rambo is eventually cornered by the Starfleet Security forces in a mine entrance. Teasle gets word they have cornered him, and gives an order not to fire. The inexperienced Officers ignore this order, and fire a Tetryon pulse launcher at him. The blast collapsed the mine entrance, trapping him inside. The men assume Rambo is dead, but unknown to his pursuers, Rambo has instead escaped into the tunnels of the mine.

Rambo eventually finds an old exit vent, near a main road from out of which the troops are clearing. Rambo hijacks a passing Starfleet Hopper (throwing its driver out onto the road in the process) and returns to town, crashing it into a Power Station. He blocks the highway to anyone in pursuit, Now heavily armed with Phaser Rifle, Rambo destroys transformers knocking out the power to the town. Rambo spots Teasle on the station roof, destroys a few other businesses making his way to the police station. Rambo destroys the police station before making his way inside. Teasle spots Rambo and fires at him, but misses. Rambo shoots back at Teasle, injuring him. Teasle falls through the roof onto the floor. Rambo steps over him, prepared to kill him.

Before Rambo can shoot Teasle, Colonel Trautman appears and tells him that there is no hope of escaping alive. Rambo, now surrounded by the police, rages about the horrors of war, and the difficulties he has faced adapting to civilian life. Breaking down, he then weeps as he recounts a particularly gruesome story about witnessing his friend dying. He tells Trautman how they were in a bar, talking about his friend's classic Chevy Car and driving to Las Vegas in it, when a boy came in with a booby-trapped shoeshine box. Rambo had gone into the bar to buy two beers when the box suddenly exploded, tearing his friend's lower body off. Rambo then turns himself in to Trautman, and is arrested. He is taken away. On the way out, he and Trautman look with scorn to Teasle, who is taken into an ambulance before continuing.

After the incident on Kessik IV, John Rambo was found guilty after a jury trial and sent to a labor camp prison.

### Saving Others like himself(2352)

In 2352 after 2 years of imprisonment, he was visited by Colonel Samuel Trautman who offered him the chance to be released from prison if he went into Cardassian Space to search for Federation POWs. Promised a Presidential pardon if the mission succeeds, he accepts and is officially reinstated in Starfleet temporarily. He later meets with Marshall Murdock, an bureaucrat who is in charge of the operation. He tells Rambo that he is only to photograph the POWs and not to rescue them, nor is he to engage any enemy soldiers. Rambo reluctantly agrees. He is then told that an agent of Starfleet Intelligence will be there to receive him once he arrives.

He is then Orbital parachuted into the jungles of Dopa II. However, while parachuting, he loses some of his equipment and is left with only his knives, his bow, and arrows. On the ground, he met with Co Bao, a woman working with the Federation. She takes him on a boat upriver, despite Rambo's reservations. Co leads Rambo to the supposedly empty POW camp, where he is able to rescue a captive. However, escaping requires him to kill a number of enemy soldiers with his bow and knives. The trio then proceed back to the boat, while the Cardassians soldiers raise an alert. The group makes it back to the boat, but are sold out to the Cardassians by the boat Captain. Rambo kills almost all of the Boat crew as the ship is attacked by a gunboat. Rambo finds an RPG under one of the boat's seats and disables the approaching gunboat. As Rambo tries to make his escape, he is garotted by the last pirate, but Rambo successfully stabs the pirate in the gut with his knife and barely escapes as the gunboat collides with the pirate sampan and explodes.

Rambo proceeds to the extraction point as Glinn Tay and his soldiers attack Rambo and the POW with mortars. Ericsson arrives with Trautman to extract Rambo, but after Murdock hears that Rambo has rescued a POW, the extraction is aborted, as Murdock fears what will happen to him and his party if the Federation public come to know about it. Rambo and the captive are both captured, and back at the camp Interrogators soon arrive to interrogate Rambo. Meanwhile, Co enters the camp under the disguise of a prostitute and comes to the hut in which Rambo is held captive. There she witnesses Rambo being tortured by  Gul ovsky, who is demanding that the Starfleet contact his base and confess to war crimes. After being electrocuted on a bedspring and then burned with his own knife, Rambo pretends to agree to ovsky's condition, but instead threatens Murdock on the radio that *he* is coming to get ***him--*** after which he promptly escapes with Co's help. They hide in the jungle and Co aids Rambo's wounds.

She then asks him if he will take her with him to Federation Space., he agrees and he kisses her. But they are attacked by some Cardassian soldiers, Including Glinn Tay who happily shoots Co. Enraged and distraught by Co's death, he kills them all except for Tay, who escapes. Rambo then buries Co's body in the jungle so her body is not scavenged upon by animals.

After the violence at the camp and on the river, troops were scrambled to search and kill Rambo. While hunting for Rambo in a forest, Rambo kills a number of soldiers using guerrilla tactics. soldiers continue to chase Rambo into and through a village. In the village, there grows a patch of tall grass where Rambo sets a booby-trap explosion that ignites a fire, burning many of the soldiers. Rambo then uses his bow and explosive-tipped arrows to destroy some huts and military vehicles on a bridge. Rambo then confronts Glinn Tay and kills him with another explosive arrow.

While still running away from the soldiers, a Cardassian Shuttle finds Rambo and drops a bomb on him. Rambo dives off a cliff into a river as the bomb explodes. The Shuttle pursues him, shooting into the water. As the shuttle gets closer to the water while shooting , Rambo jumps up from under the water grabbing onto the shuttle and entering the shuttle killing the pilot and taking control where flies it back to the POW camp to rescue the remaining POWs. He kills the remaining guards and picks up the captives in the shuttle. While escaping the planet, Shuttle piloted by Gul ovsky tails Rambo's. After ovsky loses Rambo's shuttle in a haze of smoke from firing at it, it finds Rambo's vehicle smoking in a river. As the Russian chopper flies in low to investigate and finish off the bird once and for all, Rambo—who appears to be knocked unconscious—suddenly sits up, shoulder-firing rocket in hand, fires through the windshield and finishes off his would-be assailant once and for all.

Rambo then returns to Federation space and to Murdock's command center. He then unsheathes his knife and threatens Murdock to find and rescue the remaining POWs , snarling almost under his breath, *"You know there's more men out there...you know where they are. Find 'em...or **I'll** find **you."*** Trautman then comforts Rambo and tries to pacify him and to convince him to rejoin, also telling him he would get another Medal of Honor for his actions. Rambo, however, visibly angry and fighting back tears, says that the soldiers he rescued deserve the Medal of Honor more than he does, and he only wants the same thing as the soldiers he rescued; for Federation to love its ***soldiers*** as much as its ***soldiers*** love ***it.*** Rambo then moves towards an unknown destination. Trautman asks him, *"How're you gonna live, John?"* To this, Rambo replies, *"Day by day."*  Rambo is granted the Presidential pardon he had been promised and decides to live on Tracken II

#### Seeds of resistance(2354)

Colonel Sam Trautman arrives on Tracken III to once again enlist the help of veteran John J. Rambo . After he was seen stick fighting for extra money in a warehouse, Rambo was followed back to a Bajoran temple. Trautman asked Rambo to come with him to supply weapons to rebel forces to fight against Cardassians, led by the brutal Gul Madred. Rambo told him that he "put in his time" and declined the offer, apologizing, stating that "it's got to end for me some time." Trautman understands, but is kidnapped by undercover soldiers working for Madred. Rambo learns of the incident from a Starfleet Intelligence field officer Robert Griggs and convinces Griggs to take him through an unofficial operation, despite Grigg's warning that the Federation will deny any knowledge of his actions if killed or caught. Rambo immediately takes his small private shuttle too Monac IV where he meets up with Mousa, a Rebel who agrees to take him to a village deep in the desert, close to the base where Trautman is kept.

Rambo discovers the Village is home to Bajoran Slaves and Federation POWs they are already hesitant to help Rambo in the first place due to the likely hood of his success, but are definitely convinced not to help him when their village is attacked by Cardassians after one of Mousa's Cell members has informed the Cardassian's of Rambo's presence. Aided only by Mousa and a young boy named Hamid, Rambo makes his way to the base and starts his attempts to free Trautman. The first attempt is unsuccessful and results not only in Hamid getting shot in the leg, but also in Rambo himself getting splinters in the side. After escaping from the base, Rambo tends to Hamid's wounds and sends him and Mousa away to safety. The next day, Rambo returns to the base once again, just in time to rescue Trautman from being tortured with. After rescuing several other prisoners, Rambo steals a Hopper and escapes from the base. However, the hopper soon crashes and Rambo and Trautman are forced to continue on foot. After a confrontation in a cave, where Rambo and Trautman eliminate several Cardassian commandos including Kour they are confronted by an entire army of Cardassian Hover tanks, headed by Gul Madrid. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed by the might of the Army, the Villagers, together with Mousa and Hamid, ride onto the battlefield by the hundreds in a cavalry charge, overwhelming the Cardassians.

In the ensuing battle, in which both Trautman and John are wounded, Rambo manages to kill Kour but Madrid escaped, After the battle, which the Rebels won, Rambo is asked if he wants to use his skills to help them fight the Cardassians. Rambo strongly wants to help his friends, but knows that he has to move on from his days of killing. He returns to his home in Tracken III for peaceful life.

### The Maquis(2370)

Nearly 20 years later, John Rambo is still living in Tracken III and resides in a village . He makes a meagre hermit-like living hunting animals and butchering, skinning to selling them in a nearby village. He also transports roamers in his Private transport freighter. A missionary, Michael Burnett, asks Rambo to take him and his associates to Soltok IV on a humanitarian mission to give aid to federation people. Rambo refuses, but he is convinced by Sarah Miller to take them, and she becomes his friend.

The Ship is stopped by a Cardassian ship who demand Sarah in exchange for passage. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all on his ship and then evades the Enemy ship. Although his actions save the missionaries, it greatly disturbs them. Upon arrival at their planet, Michael says that they will find other travel and will not need Rambo's help for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Cardassian Army, led by Gul Dolak attack. They kill the entire of the villagers including two missionaries and kidnap the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, a Starfleet Officer Cal Hudson comes to ask Rambo's help explaining that the Missionaries had gone missing and he wanted Rambo to guided Maquis members to the village where the missionaries were last seen.

Rambo agrees to transport the soldiers. At their destination, Rambo tries to accompany the mercenaries with a black-wrapped package in hand, but their leader, described as a former "old school" and Starfleet Marine, refuses. After arriving at the destroyed village with their guide, Karen, they are forced to hide when some Cardassians arrive by transport and force their villager prisoners to run a gauntlet of hidden land mines thrown into the village rice paddies. The Maquis leader will not order a rescue, as he is concerned that the missing Cardassians will put the rest on alert. However, Rambo shows up with what is revealed to be his bow and shoots down the Cardassians. Rambo confronts the leader when the man threatens him, and with his arrow pointed at his eye socket, Rambo tells him and the others that soldiering is what they are and do, and says to them, "You can either live for nothing...or die for something." When Rambo stands down and tells the others to come, they follow without question with the leader in tow. They plan to save the hostages at a P.O.W. camp. Rambo helps Sarah and the others to escape. The Cardassian unit finds the hostages missing and organizes a massive manhunt.

Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and one of the Maquis soldiers are captured. But just as the group is to be executed, Rambo seizes a truck-mounted Phaser Cannon and minces the Cardassian army, giving an opening for the Maquis Sniper to shoot down the Cardassian near the others and provide them also with weapons. Gul Dolak attempts to get away, but is personally disemboweled by Rambo.

Encouraged by Sarah's words, Rambo returns to live on his home planet of Juhraya.

Soon after Cardassian were given the Colony and the entire planet quickly became unsafe for Federation Citizens, Cal Hudson arrived and offered Rambo a high ranking position within the Maquis which Rambo turned quickly down, instead he decided to lead his own Maquis cell right on the planet it's sole perpose was to protect the planet and it's federation citizens.

Rambo and his Cell did the best they could over the next 3 years protecting their planet and while they suffered losses for the most part they accomplished their goal. Once the Maquis were all but destroyed by the Dominion Juhraya was mostly unaffected.

## **Personal Life**

 Personality

John Rambo suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life, Rambo has difficulty talking about his problems and he is too scarred from trauma to open up to most people. The only person he really trusts in the world is Trautman, and he still has only told him about one of the brutal deaths he witnessed. This makes Rambo look like a quiet thug or super soldier to people who don't understand the character, but in reality he is so overwhelmed with self-hatred and nightmarish memories that he can't talk to anybody. As a result, conversations with Rambo are fairly one sided, as he chooses not to engage with most people and only speaks directly to a few people. As he grows older, as he becomes bitter and angry at the world, even leading to him casually swearing and making snide comments under his breath at people, and downright insulting people. This is especially elaborated where he refuses to be even remotely social with anybody, even Sarah Miller, who is displayed as a kind soul who wants to learn about Rambo's life and why he is the way he is. He often replies with one-word answers and is terse with people so they will leave him alone.

It is evident that Rambo did care deeply for all the men in his unit, forming a brotherly bond with them. This is shown, when Rambo arrives as the home of Delmar Barry, he walks with a bit of a spring to his step, he is very polite and talkative to Barry's mother, making small talk and even cracking a joke. It's one of the few times he's seen to smile, being visibly excited at the prospect of seeing his old friend again. However, upon learning of Barry's death, Rambo is disheartened, offering the photo of his unit that he carries around to Barry's mother before giving his condolences and leaving, his walk having slowed to a trudge as he departs. It has been argued that Rambo became more antisocial and angry at the world after Trautman died in 2360

he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do literally anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger. Due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. However, Colonel Samuel Trautman, who was his commanding officer and most likely his only friend, understands him and the pain and torture he had endured in the war and is the only one able to understand the problems he has. Rambo is a survival expert in almost any terrain, especially in jungles and dense forests. Rambo is also an expert in guerrilla warfare, and he is easily able to camouflage himself, create improvised weaponry, and nurse his own wounds. He is also an expert in operating various types of war machines like shuttles and tanks, firing artillery and Heavy weapons and hand-to-hand combat.

## Skills and Abilities

*You don't seem to want to accept the fact that you're dealing an expert in guerilla warfare... with a man who's the best with guns, with knives, with his bare hands... a man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that'll make a billy goat puke. In the war his job was to dispose of enemy personnel... to kill, period... win by attrition. Now, Rambo was the best.*"
―Sam Trautman to Will Teasle
* **Master Marksman**: Rambo is incredibly skilled with many types of weapons. Being able to use any weapons he finds in the field, . Rambo is also a very talented Archer, preferring to use a bow, in times where he needs to be stealthy, but also uses explosive tips when he needs to cause destruction, even using one to take down a shuttle Rambo is either left handed or ambidextrous, since he uses his left hand as his arrow hand while using his bow, and uses his right hand for firearms.

* **Master Combatant**: Rambo is also adept in unarmed combat, he has a muscular physique due to his time as a soldier in the army and his intense training regimen. He has a high amount of strength and stamina, as well as a great resistance to pain, he is able to hold his own against larger or multiple foes single handed. His strength allows him to pull off a man's throat with his bare hand.
	+ **Knife Mastery**: Rambo has an affinity for knives, both as a weapon and a tool for survival. He has used his knife to create a spear, to make a make-shift torch, to pass a minefield, and to kill numerous foes.
* **Stealth**: Rambo is a master of stealth techniques, and blending into his surroundings, making a makeshift ghillie suit, and covering himself with mud, to hide from enemy forces, sometimes in plane sight, using bushes or camouflage of some sort, climbing trees to stay out of enemies line of sight, setting diversions to draw enemy attention, such as scarecrows, light sources, and even captive enemies (also used as a scare tactic.) His combat prowess stems from his knowledge of guerrilla warfare, he is known to make improvised traps, to kill and disable enemies, using minimal resources, such as a glowstick, a hand grenade, a tripwire stake trap, and even lured enemies into a field using the blood of a chicken, before igniting it with gasoline. He is able to use his terrain and darkness to turn things to his advantage.
* **Gifted Intelligence**: Rambo is also very intelligent. He can speak several languages, is a capable pilot and a skilled hunter. He is also trained as a medic. He is shown to perform medical procedures on himself, such as stitching and cauterising his own wounds. Rambo is also very capable at orienteering, rock climbing (without safety equipment) and traversal of the wilderness, with minimal resources. He is also skilled at horse riding due his time at father's farm.