Noah Osberger
Mr. Noah Guenther Osberger
Written by: Null Kit
I am certainly no stranger to corporate men and women obfuscating the finer details of their past in lieu of more favorable or 'marketable' biographies, but I have rarely been proven wrong in my observation that the more thorough and meticulous a cover-up, the more likely it is that they are taking such actions out of fear rather than mere vanity. The more they hide, the more they fear, in short.That'd be a lot more poignant if we weren't all terrorists with bodycounts higher than our cholestrol level.I begin with this maxim because Noah Osberger, founder and namesake of his LEO-centric manufacturing/design corporation, has gone far, far out of his way to bury his history beneath layer after layer of deceit, making up for a lack of grace or subtlety with a degree of brutality and commitment that clashes greatly with his outward persona of a jolly, portly Austrian who insists on his subordinates referring to him by his first name. The remarkable knowledge of contemporary military engineering and small-unit tactics does nothing to alleviate these suspicions, either. For this matter, I have contacted several other peers so that we might cooperatively discover the truth behind this man. Mark my words: Either we will eventually discover something horrific, or one or more of us will suffer greatly in the attempt.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Osberger appears at first glance to be a typical, albeit noticeably overweight man roughly in his fourties. However, more careful analysis of contemporary footage and accounts of the man suggests a great deal of cybernetic enhancement beneath his stout exterior, and the muscles to go with them. The only cyberware we can directly confirm however are a pair of cybereyes (make/model unknown) and a single datajack on the back of the neck (Polymun model AR-266).
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The 'official' biography on Osberger LES's matrix-host states that he is an Austrian migrant, having been born to wealthy parents Erich and Ljudmila Osberger in the city of Vienna, where he received an unremarkable upbringing followed by ten years of duty in an unspecified branch of law-enforcement. After that, he migrated to 'the land of opportunity' and took out a bunch of loans from his parents to start his own corporation, one that would directly cater to the needs of law-enforcement instead of having them make do with hastily modded civilian gear and military hand-me-downs.
Of the claims made in that hastily written biography, we can only verify with any degree of certainty that Osberger is indeed an Austrian migrant. Everything after that however, is far more difficult to ascertain. No records of either Erich or Ljudmila Osberger exist, let-alone of any assets they might have owned that would allow Norman to make the business-starting purchases he did. Said purchases of property and licences were also greatly suspicious - the original facility in Raleigh's industrial sector was sold for pennies over the proverbial dollar, and while a paper-trail of business and licensing fees exists, they bare only a token amount of the red-tape that should have swamped an unknown migrant trying to start a company.
Most of what could be gleamed from Osberger's true past came not from studying the man himself, but in following the trails left by the ones who did the work of rewriting his books for him - the most fruitful of these being one 'Erzengel'; allegedly an former Saeder-Krupp Employee with enough ties to the Global SIN registry to craft new SIN-backed identities nigh-indistinguishable from the real thing, albeit at astronomical costs, and has supposedly offered supplemental services to assist customers in 'scrubbing' remnants of their old identity. Further details on Erzengel were behind walls of paydata too thick for even my tastes and means, and required the cooperation of contacts I have a marked interest in avoiding under most circumstances to proceed further.
For the record: Such information could never be purchased with money, as the only ones who truly know such a well-connected person are the ones that are too rich to care about bribes in the first place. If you want to come close to understanding Archangel, let-alone contact him, expect such a privilege to only be purchasable through favors.
Of course JC knows this guy, and of course he's got access to the data-cache...Regardless, the resoluteness of myself and my associates bore some degree of success, however small and burdened with great consequence: A contact in the Austrian Bundesheer was attained, a man who assisted in destruction of specific information (and their carriers) on behalf of a supposed proxy of Erzengel, in exchange for having certain unsavory elements of his own military history expunged. Information was on a need-to-know basis, and so the contact wasn't informed of the overall goal of his actions, let-alone the nature of the employer and beneficiary. Still, barring the possibility of another of Erzengel's clients being from Vienna, the evidence did point convincingly towards Osberger's previous life having involved military service, and potentially something greatly scandalous, considering the lengths taken to ensure the deaths of at least one high-ranking officer and several medical personell. Unfortunately, as of this write-up that is as far as the trail goes. Aproximately one week after corresponding the Bundesheer contact, a catastrophic malfunction of munitions at Brumowski Air Base led to the deaths of four personell, including the contact. The member of our provisional group that directly communicated with said contact has gone off the grid for the time being as a measure of precaution, and has given their word that no other member of the group is at risk of being compromised. More will follow as soon as we are able to safely pick up on the trail.
Employment
Osberger's official employment history is dominated by his ten-year service as a federal officer in Austria's law-enforcement agency, along with a myriad of shorter employments ranging from 'unskilled' labour to internships involving engineering knowledge as a prerequisite.
Year of Birth
2037
43 Years old
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Children
Pronouns
He/Him
Eyes
Brown, Prosthetic
Hair
Brown
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
White
Height
5'5''
Weight
298 lb.
Aligned Organization
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