Robert "Archius" Callaine

## History

### Appearance

First Crossing (mentioned), Dimensional Warfare, Equestrian Great War (mentioned), Fallout 2 (mentioned), Fallout: Lonesome Road (mentioned)

### Era

United Rebellions, Reclamation, WW3, WW4, WW5

### Cause of Death

Unclear - possible Red Death exposure, incineration, crushing by debris

### Notable Actions

Founded the Midnight Empire, revived Fifth Evangelism, sacrificed own life as part of Legacy Division

Robert Callaine was an English Human male born in 1975, who quickly became the famed leader of the Midnight Empire after having lead a revolution in the United Kingdom. His legacy refers to him as "Archius".

## Background

Robert was born in Sussex, England on the 17th of February, 1975, to a couple of financially struggling individuals in a trailer park. From a young age, Robert was forced to combat rats and other people for suitable food, and was oftentimes ignored by police officers for his rough reputation. He also served several stints in jail in his time. In 1993, he signed up for the British Army and never looked back, serving in the Iraq War in it's entirety. However, Robert was held back from promotion due to his tendency to always want to finish a fight, even if it's already over.

After the war ended, Robert met a woman known as Agnes Carpenter back in England. The two settled down and had an accidental child, but they were overjoyed and named the child Grace, with the parents marrying shortly after Grace was born. However, Robert was called back to service to fight the War in Afghanistan in 2001. While he was away, his wife and daughter were taken prisoner by Islamic terrorists and murdered on live television, but Robert was away on mission at the time and was unaware of the murders. When he returned to base and was informed not by his superiors, but by a recruit, of what had happened, he immediately dispatched himself on an intelligence raid against an Afghan stronghold alone. He succeeded without a shot fired, and was soon shortlisted for the Special Air Service due to his skills, which he accepted and passed. He served with distinction for four years.

In 2005, Robert met with two promising SAS operatives known as Meghan Lluptonod and Alex Maro, offering them both a position on his own private subdivision of the SAS known as "Sanctus". The two accepted, and a year later partook in another intelligence raid that also saw the assassination of a Middle Eastern commander. The intel they recovered revealed a new faction was rising in the Middle East, and an attack on British soil was imminent. However, MI5 refused to allow Sanctus to raid a warehouse on the Thames River with "faulty intelligence", and the Islamic attack was carried out on the streets of London. Many civilians were killed, but Sanctus deployed operatives to secure the situation before the SAS or British Army even mobilised, saving countless lives. Shortly afterwards, Sanctus performed an unsanctioned raid on the aforementioned warehouse, only for Robert to find the killer of his family with the group. He brutally murdered all of the surrendering terrorists on live television, and was incarcerated for war crimes as Sanctus was dissolved and it's units reassigned.

Sent to a high-security prison, Robert simply waited for fate to make a move. In 2010, he was freed from the prison by a jailbrake from his former comrades, later forming a rebellion group within the UK known as "The United"; with the goal to restore strong leadership and independence to the United Kingdom, as European courts had been behind his imprisonment as well as the ineptitude of the current British leaders. In prison, he began having visions of a four-winged being beckoning him to search particular locations such as Stonehenge, beginning his faith in Fifth Evangelism.

In 2012, Robert was targeted by an official SAS assassination order. While giving a speech to his followers in London, his left arm was blown off by a .50cal sniper rifle round, sending him sprawling onto the floor as his people scattered. His death was shown on the media within the hour, and the United's members were either outraged or heartbroken by the loss of "the only hope for the British people". Unbeknown to the greater world, Robert had survived his attack but had lost his left arm entirely from the attack. His mindset also changed.

In 2015, when the United were still holding strong under the leadership of Maro and Lluptonod, Robert revealed his survival and announced a great reformation of himself and his faction. He took a new name; Archius. His return was met with thunderous applause, and he soon began a campaign of aggression to take his home back by force. In 2017, he got his wish and soon all of the British leadership had been killed by his forces, giving him an unstable power over the country. As such he declared the "115 Days of Darkness" would begin, signalling the start of the Reclamation as told in the Nightfall Codex. At the same time, he started undergoing gene therapy to perfect himself, eventually becoming the first of the *Homo britannica* and even the initial *Devout*.