User:Sgt. Splinter

Klaus Splinter
Klaus Splinter, a big grizzly bear of 25 years, likes his gun. He sports his custom .52-caliber anti-armor rifle anywhere he goes, including in his aircraft. (He rigs a swivel mount to every new plane he buys so that he can aim and fire his rifle from the cockpit at enemy planes.) Because he often engages pirate aircraft while standing on solid ground without an armored plane around him, he has many scars from stray shrapnel, most notably the loss of his left eye to a close shave with incoming flak fire while defending the airfield on Midgard from atop the control tower.

Life Before the Armada

Though his family tried to live a peaceful life on Echo, his father's transport company was constantly under attack by looters, causing immense grief to the family business. One day he became so angered by a certain pirate that had constantly been strafing his father's Leviathan that he stole his father's big-game hunting rifle and hid in the engine room of the zeppelin. The moment he heard the engines of the pirate's Phantom approaching, he dashed out onto the deck, dropped to one knee, and fired a round straight into the forehead of the approaching pirate, who's plane was still a good 900 meters away. Shocked and amazed, his father forgave his son for stealing his rifle, pushing it back to him when he tried to return it.

"There's magic between you and that rifle, my boy," he said proudly. "You keep it close."

The Crimson Armada

(Joined Thursday, April 23rd, 2009.)

With very little convincing, Klaus joined the Crimson Armada so that he could put his sharpshooting and piloting skills up against the flying scourge that had harassed his home on Echo for so long. He enjoys nothing more than tailing an enemy plane, pretending to struggle to line up a target by firing intentionally erratic shots around the enemy, then just as his foe turns to do a strafing run on his plane, he fires off an expertly calculated shot from his .52 anti-armor rifle, sending a bullet ripping through the fuel tank or main engine of his enemy, who promptly erupts into a billowing streak of fire across the sky.