Miles Jungroth

## Knight Errant Commander

* **Name:** Miles LeVander Jungroth
* **Position:** Commander of Red River Combined Precincts of Knight Errant Security
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:** 8/25/2017, Duluth, MN, USA (now UCAS)
* **Education:** Willmar High School (Class of '35), UCAMC Basic Training, Ares Corporate Army Officer Training School
* **Family:** Major (ret) Walter Lind Jungroth (father, *deceased*), Kaitlyn Marie Jungoth (mother, Alexandria MN), Renee (Meisner) Jungroth (wife, *deceased*)

A soldier from a long line of soldiers, Miles was still a small child when his father was killed alongside the rest of the 148th Fighter Group (USAF) during the Ghost Dance War, knocked out of the sky. When his time to serve came, it was no longer the United States of America, but the United Canadian American States that he was signing up to defend as a Marine. He served a tour of duty as part of the UCAS expeditionary force sent to intervene in the Second EuroWar. His service there was enough to gain the attention of an Ares military recruiter, who talked him into joining the Ares Corporate Military as an officer rather than re-upping with the UCAS.

Miles Jungroth served with distinction for five tours of duty from 2037 to 2047 in the Ares Corporate Defense Corps (ACDC), fighting for corporate interests in theaters across the world, even earning a Soldier-of-the-Week award in Desert Wars for the week of June 4-10, 2045. However, by 2047, he had married and was looking to settle down, transferring to security work, starting as a shift leader in Chicago at the rank of Sergeant, which was a step down from his rank of Major in the Ares Army, but gave his life the stability he was looking for. In '52, he took a promotion to Lieutenant with a transfer to the MSPlex, where he served with distinction until 2056 accepted an offer from a young, up-and-coming Drew McNally to head up the Knight Errant detachment in Moorhead MN as a Captain, which fell under the administration of McNally's Fargo ND office. Immediately, he started to gather his own hand-picked staff, good soldiers and cops he'd met throughout his career were gathered to him to help him do the job he'd taken on.

It didn't take long for Jungroth to get the measure of his new boss and find him wanting. But Miles Jungroth was a good soldier and kept his mouth shut, even as his KE troops were increasingly used to mop up situations caused by McNally's absence of leadership. When his wife passed away in 2061, things began to change between him and McNally. With nothing of value left to lose, he began to privately challenge McNally's calls more often and butted heads with McNally's cronies, who really ran the show over in Fargo, like Bobbie Walker and Rudy Steiner. The breaking point came in the late '60's when Steiner's illegal dealings brought the local McLovin's franchise under the control of the Heathens go-gang. As always, Drew covered for Steiner and then ordered Jungroth in to clear it out, at cost to his own troops. Jungroth out-and-out refused, claiming his contract area was on the east side of the Red. He wouldn't, he told McNally risk his people if one of McNally's boot-lickers was just going to sell it out from under them again and demanded the removal of the worst offenders. Naturally, McNally refused and the two entered into a political stalemate, with McNally going so far as to have Bobbie Walker form a second, smaller KE Precinct under the eminently corruptible Luko Vucetic for Fargo work.

Which was fine with Miles, who continued to tend his own garden, gathering young talent such as the Ainu combat shaman Harukor as his CASO (Chief Astral Security Officer) and reformed-hacker Constance Wright for Matrix security to help him keep the peace in Moorhead.

Needless to say, Miles was nothing but happy to see Drew forced out and welcomed the new, proactive approach of new Sr VP Sonja Oxnard. With the removal of the rotten apples, which he has been more than happy to help with (even lending troops to the retaking of the McLovin's that Drew had lost), a new era of cooperation between Ares on both sides of the river has dawned. And Miles has profited from it, being promoted to head of both Moorhead and Fargo Knight Errant (quietly removing Lieutenant Vucetic). And with his right hand mage, Harukor, back at his side, things are looking pretty good for Miles Jungroth.

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