Gill Forscythe

Gill Forscythe is an Operator and video tracking specialist in the employ of the Primacy, currently stationed in Surveillance Tower 5. A former Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst with the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Corps, Gill accepted the Declaration in what he believed to be the largest step toward global peace in human history. His skills transferred quickly to the Primacy's new initiatives of surveillance and crime control, and Gill has since dedicated himself to the defeat of the Current, who he perceives to be a violent extremist coalition and the last obstacle standing in the way of peace.

Gill was born in Anchorage, Alaska, to a single-parent home. He and his older brother Raiker spent much of their childhood exploring the neon-lit streets of inner Anchorage, and their constant restlessness often brought them to cross paths with Asa Colt, one of the other misguided youths in the area. Natural aggression and mistrust, qualities often encouraged by life in the cities, drove the Forscythe brothers and Asa to clash physically several times during their teenage years, often battling over trivial prizes such as extra food or access to certain streets. But as all three boys neared adulthood, what started as petty backstreet scrapes soon began to morph into bloody brawls and a bitter rivalry.

Loyalty was one of the only positive qualities praised on the streets of the city, and the Forscythe brothers prided themselves on always watching each other's backs. This allowed them to gang up on Asa in many of their brawls, giving them a natural upper hand. But Asa soon learned to watch and wait until either Gill or Raiker was alone before ambushing them, convincing Gill that his rival was a crafty, malicious antagonizer who would never leave them alone unless he was beaten into compliance. He and Raiker often tried to accomplish that goal themselves, but Asa refused to stay down, putting both brothers in the hospital multiple times, while they returned the favor many times over.

The rivalry continued to escalate until Raiker reached adulthood. After Gill was once again assaulted by Asa, his brother attempted to deter any future fights by throwing a brick through the rival's window, which struck Asa's mother in the head. Incensed at what he perceived as an attempt on his mother's life, Asa chased Raiker down and beat him mercilessly. Raiker died from injuries sustained in the fight, finally drawing the attention of the overworked police force to arrest Asa. Gill eagerly testified against his rival during Asa's trial, and while Asa was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sent to prison, the pain of losing his brother remained. Gill grew distant from his mother as he reached adulthood, unable to quench the anger and resentment he still felt for Asa, and enlisted in the United States Army as soon as he was old enough.

Serving only a few years before the Transfer, Gill's deployments allowed him to see the worst of humanity. Working as a Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst, Gill assisted with hunting down some of the U.S.'s most vicious enemies, often in the form of terrorists, anarchists, and Islamic extremists. With the Primacy's voice growing louder every year, their cautions against organized religion as a source of violence began to resonate with Gill, and his longing for global peace grew with each new assignment. He saw civilians blown apart in territorial feuds, watched innocent people beheaded for refusing to convert to a certain belief system, and saw his own fellow soldiers carried home in bags time and time again. While on deployment, he learned of the death of his mother, after neglecting to contact her for months due to absorption in his duties. The loss of his last remaining family burned Gill deeply, forcing him to bury himself further in his military duties to cope with the pain. When the U.S. military was absorbed by the Primacy in the Transfer, Gill welcomed the change with open arms, coming to view the Primacy as humanity's last hope.

Assigned domestically to help surveil the cities in a northwest sector, Gill eagerly embraced the Primacy's new peacekeeping efforts, assisting the Pedestrian and Heron drones in identifying and hunting down dangerous local criminals. Crime rates seemed to plummet across the sector, even in his hometown of Anchorage, something Gill never thought he would live to see. His faith in the Primacy continued to build steadily as he worked side by side with Eraman, an interface persona designed by the Primacy to relay orders to their human staff in a more familiar and acceptable manner. Personally bringing several thugs and robbers to justice on the domestic front, Gill began to feel a true sense of purpose for the first time in his life. As such, he quickly accepted the Primacy's Declaration, taking every word they spoke about the violence of organized religion as irrefutable fact.

Reassigned to focus on the growing Current, an insurgency formed by the recently designated expats who rejected the Declaration, Gill poured his efforts into ending the last threat to the Primacy's authority. With plenty of prior experience facing insurgents and religious movements, Gill was no stranger to what he defined as the counterterrorist scene. He assisted Eraman with identifying flight paths often taken by the Current's shuttles to extract expats, viewing his work as necessary to put an end to the insurgents' recruiting operations. He learned how to manually pilot Herons simply to gain a better understanding of their strengths and limitations, dedicating every waking hour to ending the new threat. With every shuttle he and his Herons brought down, every expat his Hounds dragged in, Gill saw it as taking one step closer to peace each day. But when he learned that his old rival had not only joined the Current, but also survived his shuttle being shot down in the Environs, Gill set out to end their feud once and for all, before the violent Asa Colt could hurt anyone else.