Murdoc McCommon

The son of a member of the First Citizens Council, Murdoc was well educated throughout his youth. His mother held a position managing energy for the Crawler, something she had spent her entire career pursuing. She taught Murdoc techniques in memorization and how to pay attention to details. His father was no push over either, a foreman in the Engineering Corps, he passed on his knowledge on how to handle people and mechanical issues.

Murdoc grew up dreaming of joining the Brotherhood of Steel. He couldn't help but become fascinated with their wonderous flying machines, and when he came of age, he formally applied to become a Thunderbird. Impressed by his physical and mental testing results, he was given a probationary rank of Initiate while he was further assessed and trained in basic protocols. This looked to be the promising start to a career in command, however things promptly fell apart when his background was looked into further.

To his great disappointment, the Thunderbirds have a stigma against recruiting children of prominent figures of Crawler society. It has led to unwanted oversight by the First Citizens Council in the past as well as weakened relations due to casualties. Despite his high performance rating and exemplary behavior, Murdoc was excommunicated from the Thunderbirds to protect their larger interests.

Determined to find a way to fly anyway, Murdoc set his sights instead on the Red Devils. and although his enthusiasm was certainly diminished during his first few weeks, he soon came to feel a deep connection to the organization. Once he took to the skies the first handful of times, he couldn't help by find a new sense of beauty in the savage land he had grown up in. He soon found himself climbing through the ranks towards a position of leadership again, but during a flight instruction he met First Citizen Martin and his priorities would be altered yet again.

To Murdoc she was absolutely enthralling, one of the few people he had ever met that he had trouble figuring out. Taking a more dangerous duty station aboard her Dreadnought with less pilots under his command than he would have had serving the Crawler directly, he let her get comfortable with his presence before he ever approached her. Murdoc found the enigmatic leader to be as curious about him as he was her. Unfortunately for him, a relationship was impossible.

Martin strives to live for an ideal, an identity she has painstakingly built to inspire loyalty in the men and women under her command. This fiction version of herself dissipates if anyone was to see her be an actual human, which includes in her mind relying on anything outside of herself for happiness. She wants to present at all times as a focuses and dedicated leader that never hesitates or wavers in her decisions. Even after explaining all this, she did also make it clear that a more physical friendship without a label or expectations was certainly possible under the right conditions.

Although this isn't ideal for Murdoc, he knew that getting Martin to change her mind about anything was a lost cause. This secret affair is what has kept him tied to his duties aboard the airship, though his passion for soaring the skies has never diminished. He is usually the first out the hangar and always leads his subordinates from the field. On the occasions that a pilot is shot down or crashes, it is usually Murdoc that goes down and lands to recover them.

• Official Title- Captain McCommon


• Callsign- Raptor One


• Age- 41


• Birthplace- The Vault Crawler, Kansas