Quote:Name: Ian Johnson

Age: 25
Birthplace: Unknown, found on Manhattan
Gender: Male

Height: 6, 05
Weight: 185 lbs
Hair Color: Brown

Relatives: Justin Johnson, Maria Denton

Previous fields of work: Mechanic in the spacedock, Marine

Experience: Advanced ground combat; space strikecraft: basics; space combat and tactical coordination; knowledge about ship systems, engines and hull due to the prior job as mechanic

Timezone: GMT + 2

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Ian Johnson is one of the people, who are living rather isolated from the rest of the society, prefering to live alone, without real relationships to almost anyone. When he was a child, his parents gave him away. For unknown reasons he landed on the streets of Manhattan with the age of five. In the insitution his parents brought him to, he didn't learn anything from the people there or was too busy with finding out who his parents really were. At that time he couldn't recall anything from the day, they decided to drop him somewhere. Some time in one night, Johnson then ran away from the institution, he barely could have called home. He went on the streets, still willing to find out why his parents weren't there.

He grew up in the slums of the main city. He learnt quite fast, that there was a lot of hatred around him. He saw people who died to other people directly infront of his eyes for not really, for him, apparent reason. When he was hungry, he was lucky if he got a piece of bread from the trash, that was laying around. However, most of the cases other people who were hungry as well, adults but even teenager, took it from him again. In the next five years of his life, he learnt how to live on the hard way, forgetting about his parents, believing he wouldn't find them anyway. In that time he had survive, he also learnt to read. He knew he would have to understand what was told. If it would have been a sign, that warned him from something or simply other information. All that mattered for him was to stay alive somehow. Though, he never was aware of how dangerous the slums can be.

However, he survived and became ten years old. It was the time to go somewhere else, doing something different than stealing a few credits from more wealthy people to drink and to eat. In all that time he didn't really have many friendly encounters with anyone. Nobody wanted to speak a word with him. He was just a dirty boy, lost on the streets, a bastard nobody wanted. When he tried to reach for the stars by taking a job, delivering newspapers and magazines, he got robbed over and over again. When he then didn't have anything left in his life than just physical pain by the beating and his clothes on his body, no hope, no believe, a man, someone who seemed to care about him for some reason, helped him on the feet. Johnson learnt the stranger's name was Robert Garden.

The already a bit older man told him there is always a chance to get up again. Ian didn't really believe him but he had no other chance though. Taking the chance right now or rotting in the slums for the rest of his life. The choice wasn't hard for Johnson.

Robert Garden decided to adopt him. For the officials, he was a missing boy, believed he would have been dead. As the opposite have been proved, Garden got the go-ahead to educate the boy. The whole life of Johnson changed all of sudden by that single happening. Learning how to behave and not to steal from others, he soon got a job, Garden offered him. He told Ian it would be a hard job though, but that there aren't much choices in the real life as well. Not really hesitating, Johnson accepted, helping out with the rather unimportant things in the store of a scrap dealer. But it didn't last very long when he heard about space for the first time, the first time he was understanding what it would mean. In addition to that, Johnson heard about the Liberty Navy. It didn't take much time until he longed for that.

By convincing Garden, he then visited the academy with the help of his 'quasi-dad'. It was an odd experience he made but he got used to it quite fast. He met other people he could talk to. But though, joining a school with the age of 11 was quite late. Ian often had problems to follow the topics but tried his best to understand it anyway.

When he got older and older, his interest for the Liberty Navy grew with his age. By taking part-time jobs as mechanic, he made it possible for himself to visit museums and similar buildings, where the story and the task of the Navy was written. He was like addicted to it and sadly lost his interest for the society again. He got better in school and learnt stuff quite fast. Others began to dislike him for his egoistic thinking and his will to learn everything. The friends he was able to gain when he joined school finally left him as well as he became arrogant and rude. Not even Garden was able to have a word with Johnson without ending up in a combat of screaming and loud words.

Later in time then, Johnson somehow managed to get along with Garden. But though, Ian didn't really show any interest in becoming well with him again. That lead to the will of getting away from 'home'. Johnson absolved the basics of space flight with the hardly gained credits from his part-time job. He found his will to join the Liberty Navy in a new way when he went to space for the first time. It wasn't a dream anylonger. The Navy was just some footsteps awaym he thought. When he then got his flight licence, he took a public transport to West Point, willing to do the first step as soon as possible. When he was there, he headed for the recruitment center of the secondary fleet. Because Johnson sent all his papers to the officer before, they already knew he would appear soon or later, asking for when he could begin already.

Not much time later, he was accepted. He learnt a lot about ground combat as well as space combat. In the time he was there, the, for the recruitment responsible persons taught him some manners, showing him, that if he would keep his egoistic view, he wouldn't be able to save lives in Liberty. After years of learning, fighting and making a lot of new, but not so pleasant, experiences, including the views of seeing other people die. But he got over it and was the proud owner of the title as a soldier.

Until now, Ian Johnson kept doing his job for the Secondary Fleet of the Liberty Navy. Until he found new possibilities, that should inspire him again...