Angus Peppers

Sgt. Peppers, standing in the ruins of Lille

**Sgt. Angus Peppers** was a jazz musician and an officer of the Aeldrum Trade Company.

## Personality

Angus was a passive man. His lack of both experience in the military and general knowledge of the world made him a bit gullible when taking orders during the events of the Bushwhacker Campaign. His only passion (and solace during battle) was music, where his trusty French horn never left his side, and he would practice any chance he could get. Since he was relatively young at the time of the campaign, he was excessively naive and attempted to be as altruistic as possible, which, given the setting, didn't always work out for him.

## History

### Early Life

Peppers was born **Agustin Andrew Serrano** in Texas. His parents, Michael and Lucia, ran a moderately successful accounting firm. He did not share a passion for numbers, but developed a strong one for music. His talent with the brass family of instruments could be described as prodigious. He started playing the French Horn at the age of 5, touring with orchestras at 11, and became a soloist at 15. Things were prosperous until, at the age of 17, he was mixed up in a botched drug smuggling operation when he grabbed the wrong instrument case while on tour. As punishment, he was shipped to Aeldrum and conscripted into the ATC, using his middle and last names to create a new identity to distance himself from his home world. Clearly not a hand at combat, he was assigned to the ASO, and his contributions to their orchestra earned him a promotion to Sergeant. Despite the favorable situation he still dreaded his work and constantly hoped to leave Aeldrum as soon as possible. He got more than he bargained for, however, as he was later assigned to Planet Singe.

### Insurgency on Singe

*Main article: The Bushwhacker Campaign*
Arriving on Singe, Peppers was horrified at the treatment of the soldiers by his commanding officer, Gedreth Shilcar. However, this did not deter Shilcar from taking a liking to Peppers, dubbing him "Songbird". Shilcar would later recruit Peppers on the search for the artifact as a morale-booster, having him play some music for the soldiers and officers to march to.

The party split when Shilcar sent Lara Lundy off with some soldiers to spread false information of their whereabouts. Shilcar's group discovered a rebel village and sent in Grimes to scout. After Grimes did not return, Two-Eyes was sent in to locate him. He also did not return, so Shilcar, Peppers, and Beans Trigonometry went searching for them. Grimes returned at this time and discovered the rest of the group was missing. Fearing the worst, he called in a firebombing on the village. Peppers and company were trapped in a basement with a strung out Halfling and Two-Eyes' new girlfriend during the bombing. After fending off some rebel villagers, Peppers befriended one of the rebel leaders, Pancho Villa, and the group was able to escape the village and continue the search.

After the party was split and Shilcar sent Peppers and Beans to search for more information, Beans was kidnapped by a family of farmers for attempting to steal panties off of their clothesline. Peppers went in after him posing as a sheriff's deputy on the hunt for a thief, and was able to retrieve Beans when some of the rebels returned to the farmhouse, one of them being Pancho Villa.

### After Singe

After leaving Singe, Angus used the money gained from selling imperial secrets to change his identity and resume his career as a jazz and concert soloist. He occasionally visited his old friend the AI, whom he had briefly shared a mind with. He eventually formed “Sgt. Peppers Band,” though no one suspected the name was a reference to his old life.

## Trivia

* Sgt. Pepper and Billy Shears are both characters mentioned on the Beatles' 1967 album *Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band.*