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this is a character that's been raddling between my ears for a while and is related to my avatar. Haven't got a name yet so I'll just call him the 'Miner' for now.

Story synapis: 2049, the Petro War ('30-'36) has been over for 13 years and the nuclear winter caused by the EF's (Earth First extremists) nuclear strikes on the world's major oil producing area's, fallout and radiation made it impossilble to extinguish the oil field fires adding to the darkness. Over 2 billion died in the initial fires, another 2 the first year. On the brink, the US, Japan, and what is left of the EU industrailize and pool remaining resource to make it through the terror of the dark and cold. In Extreme times Extreme acts need to be taken, the major construction/mining/industrial equipment manufactures combine under the management of Cat and begin building the extreme machines need for the survival of the human race and it's a good thing too, becuase in the upcoming battle mankind needs all the help they can get.

The Miner:

36 6'1" 205 lbs. Former United States Marine ('19-'36)

A GunnerySergeant with a good career as a Heavy Equipment mechanic/operator. Severely injured by an RPG strike on his D11 dozer while building a fire break, he fights back with the dozer, demolishing several buildings and taking out extremists. The injuries were severe, his left forearm could not be saved with massive shrapnel injuries to the rest of his body. After rehab/rebuild returned to the frontlines, not as a HE operator but as what a Marine is a Grunt, but with a big grudge. The big bang hits and he goes back to base, 18 months later he's shipped out to the Arizona proving grounds, to be an instructor in HE operation, but when he is introduced to the new CAT Mega Biped Excavator, he knew he had found a new home. Discharged from the Marines and going into the private sector with a prototype chassis to instruct the new miners in equipment use. A decade passes and the human race has clawed it's way from the brink, but the cost has been great, coal and any obtainable oil fuel sources are running out. After being 'Space blind' for a decade, the clearing winter allows more sky/space watching and a rogue comet skirts the system, it's 2X the size of earth and the needed resources seem limitless.

This becomes the new century gold rush, but the comet is not what it seems, the initial prospecting finds it to be alive and inhabited, back tracking the prospecting probes the earth is in for another battle, and the ol'skool machinery is at the front!

okay, this may be abit sketchy, still workin' on it

My blue pencils are nubs an have gone back to plain ol' graphite for initial layout, but this one looked good so I stayed with the style, an I like it.

I still need to work on the story outline, that wil come later

Description
this is a character that's been raddling between my ears for a while and is related to my avatar. Haven't got a name yet so I'll just call him the 'Miner' for now.

Story synapis: 2049, the Petro War ('30-'36) has been over for 13 years and the nuclear winter caused by the EF's (Earth First extremists) nuclear strikes on the world's major oil producing area's, fallout and radiation made it impossilble to extinguish the oil field fires adding to the darkness. Over 2 billion died in the initial fires, another 2 the first year. On the brink, the US, Japan, and what is left of the EU industrailize and pool remaining resource to make it through the terror of the dark and cold. In Extreme times Extreme acts need to be taken, the major construction/mining/industrial equipment manufactures combine under the management of Cat and begin building the extreme machines need for the survival of the human race and it's a good thing too, becuase in the upcoming battle mankind needs all the help they can get.

The Miner:

36 6'1" 205 lbs. Former United States Marine ('19-'36)

A GunnerySergeant with a good career as a Heavy Equipment mechanic/operator. Severely injured by an RPG strike on his D11 dozer while building a fire break, he fights back with the dozer, demolishing several buildings and taking out extremists. The injuries were severe, his left forearm could not be saved with massive shrapnel injuries to the rest of his body. After rehab/rebuild returned to the frontlines, not as a HE operator but as what a Marine is a Grunt, but with a big grudge. The big bang hits and he goes back to base, 18 months later he's shipped out to the Arizona proving grounds, to be an instructor in HE operation, but when he is introduced to the new CAT Mega Biped Excavator, he knew he had found a new home. Discharged from the Marines and going into the private sector with a prototype chassis to instruct the new miners in equipment use. A decade passes and the human race has clawed it's way from the brink, but the cost has been great, coal and any obtainable oil fuel sources are running out. After being 'Space blind' for a decade, the clearing winter allows more sky/space watching and a rogue comet skirts the system, it's 2X the size of earth and the needed resources seem limitless.

This becomes the new century gold rush, but the comet is not what it seems, the initial prospecting finds it to be alive and inhabited, back tracking the prospecting probes the earth is in for another battle, and the ol'skool machinery is at the front!

okay, this may be abit sketchy, still workin' on it

My blue pencils are nubs an have gone back to plain ol' graphite for initial layout, but this one looked good so I stayed with the style, an I like it.

I still need to work on the story outline, that wil come later