Walk the Verse - Smith

The life and Loss of John “Hannibal” Smith

John Smith was not always who he was today, he had led a long life brought up in the heart of the alliance, child to a political couple who taught him and instilled in him all the values and principals the alliance stood for. That was until they were killed in a tragic accident and he was taken into care, there he was recruited by the military as his belief and passion made him stand out form the crowd and with no-one to miss him an ideal candidate for “Special Operations”

In this part of his life he rose though the ranks quickly, leaving everything he was behind and ruthlessly defending what the alliance stood for whatever the cost. But as he rose higher he noticed what the alliance should be and had become were 2 different things, this was something he chose to overlook as long as he could convince himself he was doing it for the good of the alliance but that all came to a end soon enough. At the rank of colonel he was asked to take his team and work directly under a member of the governing counsel, the first thing he was asked to arrange a accident for a member of the local planetary government. For the first time in his life John had to ask why. He was told it was for the good off the alliance and they would cause more trouble later if they were not dealt with now. Against his better judgment John and his team did as they were ordered and the hit took place. It was only after this that John saw though everything he had become

The Counsel member installed his son in the place of the deceased, and when confronted he was told how else was he to help the lower political process and guide it. And as a joke he said how do you think I got my first break into this game, nodding at a info print clipping on the wall that mentioned John’s parents car crash. John simply walked up to him and Punched the man clean out with one blow. John was arrested promptly and then confined to a cell. The rest of his squad, when they asked why he could not lie to the only people he how trusted. When the counselor came to the prison to ask why and demand the apology john looked him in the eye and asked "whose parents died for your “big break”? Looking into Johns eyes he knew the answer and fled the cell without looking back, John just let him go knowing it was not the time or place.

A few hours later evidence was found of the “Assassination” by John of a government official and he was sentenced to death. This was when John truly saw how rotten the alliance had become and he knew he was not going to go out this way, With a little help from his Squad he promptly escaped the maximum security prison tracked down the counsel member and decided the punishment must fit the crime handed out by the alliance. Leaving the councilor behind he broke back into the prison as if he had never left and during the transport to the execution which his squad “volunteered” to drive him to he swapped with the counselor and attended the execution where justice by the alliance was carried out. As he was leaving a strange looking girl, young and innocent looking escorted by 2 men with blue gloves looked him in the eye, a look that melted his soul and though his eyes he confessed everything to her. And she forgave him and then everything went white.

When he awoke he had no memory and didn’t know who he was and only had his instincts, he was on a border planet walking out with discharged troops from the war, though he was not clad like them. In the sun he saw a girl flanked by 2 men in nice suits wearing blue gloves. He saw her and then she was gone and he was all alone.

To this day John still has no memory though a lot of instincts born of years of training have been surfacing. Shooting, Combat, Demolitions and more recently the tactics that come with more covert way of operating but the one thing he has not lost is the will to defend the alliance from any threat within or without that would seek to tarnish and damage what it stands for.