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Offical Jihad Personnel File: Malaclypse the Seeker

JAO(s): Verthandic Rangers (VRDET)

VRDET position: High Councillor, director of Research and Development

Aliases: (see file Personnel.Seeker.Aliases.App1 for complete list)

Race: Unknown. Subject makes continual "Vorlon" jokes, but for all intents and purposes appears human, and shows up as such on medical tests.

Age: Unknown, medical exams indicate physical age of 32 years

General appearance: Five feet nine inches tall, ~175 pounds, shoulder-length light brown hair with matching close-cropped beard. Dresses in black clothing, usually t-shirt and jeans, with bright green labcoat and black bush hat. Wears eyeglasses with oval wire frames. Occasionally seen wearing a silver ankh pendant or a large fire opal coatpin.

Personal history: CLASSIFIED by order of Triumvr Praetor Malaclypse, Omega-Omega security clearance needed to view file.

Weapon/combat proficiencies: Carries several small weapons about his person, but generally does not use them, preferring instead to rely on disguises and other skills to accomplish missions. However, range and training area tests indicate lethal proficency with most small-caliber handguns and bladed weapons; easily the equal of most Jihaddi, human or otherwise, at small-arms and blade combat.

Hand-to-hand ability: High, but with limited scope. Knows mainly judo and other non-aggressive forms of martial arts, but can execute forms with amazing speed and accuracy.

Large and small arms: Highly skilled with use of handguns, with decreasing accuracy ratings in the use of rifles or other longarms. Skilled in use of demolitions material.

Other misc. technology: Is capable of piloting any form of vehicle extant on Earth with only a few minutes of study. Has in-depth knowledge of numerous computer and security systems, also only Jihaddi currently in service who knows anything about higher transdimensional physics and the manipulation thereof.

Psi ability: Only known psi skill measured on probes indicates a gift for telepathically learning languages through osmosis (see "Pentacostal Trick" in Archives). There appears to be a limited danger sense, but only in intermittent bursts.

Magical ability: Has been shown, in the past, to be able to channel and manipulate large amounts of magical energy (see VRDET files, after-action reports on Marraketh incursion, August 1997). This energy flow does not come from any known mana source, and cannot be channeled, contained, etc. by Jihaddi researchers.

Skills, misc.: From the earliest records available (ref. VRDET Archives, Blood Jihad records, Personnel, "Malaclypse the Seeker") "Can play six-string guitar competently, but much prefers keyboards."

Analysis: Malaclypse the Seeker is a total enigma. At times, he is highly standoffish and distant, while at other times acts like "just another one of the boys." It is this almost bipolar attitude that makes probing into Malaclypse's personality very difficult.
     Conversation with Malaclypse suggests that his personality has much greater depth than he wishes to let on. Small hints or phrases dropped during a casual talk indicate that he knows much more about the nature of our conflict than anybody else. These sorts of hints are enough to drive any investigator crazy when trying to follow them up, and it is our opinion that he takes a form of sadistic amusement from any attempts to link two statements he makes together.
     Malaclypse's behavior, at times, has been somewhat eccentric. He has a habit of vanishing from his normal haunts for several days at a time, and upon his return, is extremely close-mouthed about his whereabouts. Occasionally, he will return with some small object that defies all explanation. When asked about such an object, a typical reply will be "Oh, just something I happened to find along the road somewhere." His air of secrecy has created a slight air of paranoia among his co-workers, which he seems to revel in.
     An important thing that should be addressed is Malaclypse's intense dislike of the Maenads of the Holy Albino. While sociable with them when not in a combat situation, he will not hesitate to remove any Maenad from combat at any point. When asked about this, he said "Those damn Ferals cause more damage than they prevent, and I will not sacrifice innocents to their bloodlust and their vendetta."
     Malaclypse's reasons for joining the Jihad are a mystery, in the very literal sense; the original Blood Jihad admittance records have been lost, and all other files (including his Statement of Ethos) are currently classified beyond our security clearances. Still, he has been a loyal member of the Jihad, and shows no signs of any disloyalty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Investigation seems to indicate that this is, in fact, the subject's birth name. However, we cannot be totally certain about this, as the subject has set up a number of extremely well-built false identities.