Tal Ravis

Tal Ravis
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"You think you're hot, huh? You're friggin' hot dog water, buddy."
Profile
Origin	Liberty
Occupation	Freelancer
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Freelancer
Liberty Marine Corps (Former)	4 years
Rank	Lance Corporal
Status	Active
Born	August 6, 798 AS, Planet Manhattan.
Died	N/A

Tal "Underscore" Ravis is a Marine-turned-Freelancer who is the main protagonist of Discovery Freelancer.

Early Life

Tal was born on August 6th, 798 A.S. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Planet Manhattan. The first of three children born to a disadvantaged family of blue-collar workers, he was also the least successful in comparison to his brothers Hudson, who became a Primary Fleet Liberty Navy Officer, and Xavier, who dealt in the lucrative platinum trade before joining the ALG. Indeed, he showed little potential in academics and labor skills, and upon graduating from high school at the age of 18, he found himself enlisting in the Libertonian Marine Corps for lack of anywhere else to go.

Service History

Tal turned out to be a rather unspectacular Marine despite his newfound ability with a rifle, and was only able to obtain the rank of Lance Corporal in four whole years of service. Trained to be a "Reconnaissance Man, Parachute Qualified, Combatant Diver and EVA Certified", he was subsequently assigned to the elite 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, based out of Planet Los Angeles.

As there was not yet a large-scale ground offensive that required the deployment of such specialized deep reconnaissance units, his unit was relegated to their secondary mission of conducting boarding raids on transports stopped by Navy or Police vessels. Considered to be part of the "striking arm" of Liberty's latest method to crack down on the Cardamine trade, he took part in many raids on unmarked, Freelance, Junker, and Pirate transports, taking enemy fire on at least three separate occasions. Despite this, however, he never once had the opportunity to fire a shot in anger during his entire four-year enlistment.

Later in his enlistment, mostly in order to comply with battalion regulations that required at least one scout sniper in each platoon, he was selected to attend the prestigious Scout Sniper School, where he was able to successfully graduate after a long period of intense training and testing. Once graduated, he returned to Los Angeles, where he conducted several more raids on contraband transports before his enlistment ended.

Promised action by his recruiter, he was severely disenfranchised and demotivated at the end of his four-year enlistment, and as such he separated from the military at the age of 22.

Later Career

Once out of the Corps, he quickly realized that he'd need a method of providing for himself, but found out over the course of six months that he lacked the patience to fly freight, the temper and personality to be a cop, and the mechanical skills required to be a mechanic. After a slew of several more jobs that left him out of work in a matter of weeks, he decided upon Freelancing as a viable career path, and sought out jobs that involved the one thing he was good at: killing people.

Of course, with his luck, he never actually got a chance to shoot anybody despite his qualifications, instead landing a security job with the Core in Planet Nauru, where he resided in a small, insulated metal box for six months before returning home. Deciding to take a break from sand, bad smells, and general boredom, he signed on part-time to haul freight for the Gas Miners Guild. As GMG manpower was whittled away by increasing Outcast and Corsair activity in the Sigmas, he was reassigned to interceptor duty, and for a brief time flew a Karasu out of Ogashawa.

He temporarily left the GMG to take part in a large scale ground offensive on Planet Tomioka, working with Dragon and Order forces under an alias as they sought to recover a downed Togo.

Once he returned from the action and took up work with the GMG again, he was assigned to Niigata Star City, and sources say that he is still stationed there to this day.