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"BPGD: ROGERS, Steve"

LAST EDITED ON 08-08-03 AT 03:34 PM (EDT)

[Kris Overstreet contributed to the development of this file; the illustration is by the Forum's own Dave Menard! --G.]

Babylon Project Galactic Database
Text Data Extraction Search: International Police Personnel Files
Personnel Data: ROGERS, Steven A.
SEARCH COMPLETE: JUNE 15, 2409

Full name: Steven Anthony Rogers
Also known as: Captain America
Date of birth: February 17, 1923
Place of birth: New York, New York, Earth
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
Adjusted Wolfe-DeKok Intelligence Index: 120

Date of IPO Induction: October 5, 2397
Division of service: Criminal Investigations Division
Grade: Deputy Chief for CID Operations
Test of Light administered: October 5, 2397
Other special qualifications/certifications:

- Starship master's certificate, Republic of Zeta Cygni
- Master of self-developed form of hand-to-hand combat incorporating elements from a number of different styles
- Special operations fieldcraft, commando operations, small unit tactics, and demolitions training
- Military training most recently updated at Royal Salusian Armed Forces training complex on Gienda Prime under the supervision of Colonel Niklaas Furij of Her Majesty's Howling Brigade, 2397-98
- RSAF jump and special infantry training
- RSAF Fixed Configuration Starfighter rating
- RSAF Elite Autonomous Battleforce Certification

Description: Steve Rogers is a tall, athletic human male who appears to be, by modern standards, a youthful hundred twenty or so - past his prime, but not far past and very well-maintained. His face is somewhat lined, and his blond hair, which he wears in a rather severe crew cut, is starting to gray at the temples, but he is still tall, still broad-shouldered and still a perfect specimen of human physical conditioning. When at work, he wears a black suit with a white shirt and black necktie, and a small enamel pin in the shape of Captain America's shield in his left lapel.

Notes: In 1941, Steve Rogers was a sickly, scrawny, but intensely patriotic young man who was horrified at the spectre of war and oppression that was sweeping across Europe in the wake of the conquering Nazi forces. He tried to volunteer for the armed forces, but was rejected as 4-F. A recruiting officer with clearance to special projects overheard Rogers's impassioned pleas to be allowed to serve his country and recruited him for the top-secret Operation Rebirth.

The Super-Soldier treatment turned Rogers into a perfect human physical specimen, the absolute pinnacle of conditioning. Unfortunately, the scientist who developed it was murdered by a Fifth Columnist, and he took the secret of the treatment to his grave - so the United States would have to make do with a simgle super-soldier. Rigorously trained in hand-to-hand and armed combat, stealth, subterfuge, demolitions, and anything else the Army could think of, Steve Rogers became Captain America, a one-man OSS battalion wrapped up in a costume derived from the American flag.

Armed with his soon-to-be-famous shield (made of an irreproducible alloy created accidentally by Canadian metallurgist Myron MacLain), Captain America quickly became the scourge of Nazi saboteurs at home and, later, Nazi troops abroad. He never managed to get final authorization to complete his ultimate mission - the capture of Adolf Hitler - but his contribution to the war effort was immense nonetheless.

In the closing days of the war, Rogers was assigned to infiltrate and destroy a rocket facility deep in the heart of Germany, from which desperate Nazi scientists were preparing to launch an experimental rocket, the A-10, as part of an operation codenamed Projekt Amerika. Designed to reach North America and fitted with Germany's first and only atomic warhead, the A-10 would, if successful, destroy Washington, D.C. and, its builders hoped, throw the US war effort into chaos.

The A-10's final stage, planned as a manned spacecraft before being pressed into use for Projekt Amerika, had a control cabin, which the Germans had converted into a warhead by hastily cramming their prototype bomb into it. Rogers was unable to prevent the missile's launch, but he did manage to get aboard the spacecraft; once there, knowing that he was probably doomed, he tampered with the guidance system in hopes of making the rocket crash into the ocean.

Instead, his tampering caused the missile to burn wildly out of control, escaping Earth's gravity altogether and hurtling irretrievably out into the Solar system. Worse, while Rogers was trying to gain control of the rocket, the hasty modifications to the crew compartment to accommodate the atom bomb showed their shortcomings. The hatch, accidentally bent during the modification, failed, releasing the compartment's atmosphere to space.

The saddest irony was that Captain America's greatest achievement was not known of for centuries. With his disappearance and the deaths of most of the Germans involved with Projekt Amerika, Nazi Germany passed into history as having never developed an intercontinental ballistic missile or an atomic bomb, despite well-documented attempts at both.

The Projekt Amerika spacecraft was discovered four hundred years later by a United Earth starship on a routine patrol. The crew of the UES Saskatoon were somewhat taken aback to discover an ancient atomic weapon in the old spacecraft (fortunately, its sustained deep-freeze had entirely disabled it), and more surprised still to find a living man frozen solid, his enhanced physique sustaining just enough activity to permit his revival using then-modern medical technology.

At that time Earth was at its most vulnerable: its space defense forces all but destroyed, its nations at cold or hot war with one another, and the galaxy politically falling apart around it. In the hours after his revival, Captain Rogers demonstrated his incredible fighting skills and resourcefulness in foiling an assassination attempt, thwarting an invasion fleet, and fighting off a small pirate fleet with only two starfighters. When the Aegis world government at Olympus (not to be confused with the modern AEGIS psionic defense agency) formally recruited Rogers, he jumped at the chance to defend his homeworld.

For many years Captain Rogers acted as a special agent for Earth, unraveling plots against Earth from outer space. He also worked as an agent within Olympus, foiling spies and assassins among the diplomatic corps and helping to establish the ESWAT police unit. Finally, he began the reconstruction of the small, elite starfighter force which represented the core of Earth's defenses during this critical period.

The ascendancy of the United Federation of Planets finally brought an end to Rogers's adventures, and in 2375 he was given a desk job as intelligence analyst and administrator for Aegis's special operations division. Before long he resigned his commission and retired, entering the civilian workforce as an artist. Original Rogers paintings generally feature three themes: the beauty of space, the horror of war, and the homely, mundane qualities of American culture during peacetime, all rendered in a fine, loving hand.

Rogers survived the orbital bombardment that destroyed the Olympus arcologies, becoming one of the leaders of the resistance to the GENOM occupation of Earth. With the rise of the Earth Alliance, Rogers returned once more to the private sector, but remained there for only a few years before becoming one of the earliest recruits for the International Police Organization, whose founder, Benjamin "Gryphon" Hutchins, had known him in passing back in the 2350s.

Steve Rogers is a man of great courage and unbending integrity, and a strong streak of patriotism is inherent to his character. The country he gave his loyalty so unstintingly to, the United States of America, no longer exists thanks to the Earth Alliance's abolishment of nations within its borders, but Rogers remains devoted to the ideals he believes the USA represented at its best moments. More than that, though, he is a libertarian in a broader sense, believing in the essential right of freedom and security for all sentient beings.

Thanks to the Super-Soldier treatment he underwent in 1941, Steve Rogers is a perfect human specimen, flawlessly balanced in muscle development, reflex and reaction speeds, agility and balance. He does not need to work to maintain this conditioning, though he does work out regularly anyway, simply because he enjoys the exercise (and it keeps his skills sharp). He does age, but slowly, and without much of the degeneration expected with advancing age. At a total biological age of 86 (equivalent, for a twentieth-century human, to the modern age of about 150) he is still fitter, stronger, and faster than almost any other non-powered human being.

Rogers has extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, weapons, marksmanship, demolitions, small-unit and commando tactics, stealth and infiltration techniques, disguise, electronic intelligence, and many other areas of military and espionage expertise. He was designed to be a one-man Special Forces squad and that's exactly what he still is. He is also an able administrator and a natural leader, with an innate talent for gaining trust, motivating, and inspiring people by his example.

Though he is humanly perfect, Rogers is not a superman. He has physical limitations and he can exceed them. Fortunately, he is an excellent athlete and well aware of his limitations; he knows exactly what he can demand of his body and exactly what he will have to pay if he requires more than that.

Captain America's shield, an aerodynamic disc made of a unique alloy, is all but indestructible and has certain unique physical properties. It reflects or absorbs impacts against its face with great effectiveness, passing very little energy through, and if struck edge-on, it reflects almost all the energy inflicted. The former property makes it even more effective as a shield than its indestructibility implies, and the latter, coupled with its aerodynamic shape, means that it can be used as a thrown weapon of great sophistication. In the hands of a master like Rogers, the shield can make beautifully elaborate caroms and finish its flight in exactly the place he wants it. His standing record is fifteen knockouts in a single throw.

Since Rogers is no longer an active field agent, he does not routinely carry the shield any longer. Recently, he has made an indefinite loan of it to Expert of Justice Paige (Spitfire) Guthrie, and is training her in its use.

Current assignment: As Deputy Chief for Criminal Investigations, Steve Rogers heads up the IPO's major-crimes investigative unit, the CID. He also participates in the training of CID and Tactical Division operatives seeking to reach the higher echelons of the IPO, and in the guidance of the agents of Special Assignment 7 (Chief's Discretion), who seek to become Experts of Justice. He still enters the field, but only rarely.

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