User:Voldemore/sandbox
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
|
|
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 5'9" |
| Weight: | 150 lbs. |
| Eyes: | Green |
| Hair: | Brown |
| Place of birth: | Syracuse, New York |
| Known relatives: | Thomas Hunt (father), Mary Lee Hunt (mother), Lee Anne Hunt (sister), Marian Hunt (sister), Cass Hunt (sister) |
| Legal status: | U.S. citizen with no criminal record |
| Occupation: | Senior Field Operations Agent, Impossible Missions Force |
| Base of operations: | Washington, DC |
| Status: | Active |
Ethan Hunt is a senior field operations agent for an elite, top-secret CIA-affiliated espionage and covert operations agency that handles dangerous and highly sensitive international missions that have been deemed "impossible."
Ethan Matthew Hunt was born in Syracuse, New York, the third child as well as the only son of Tom and Mary Lee Hunt. Raised on a dairy farm in Middlefield, New York, Ethan went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania on a full academic scholarship. He graduated from Penn summa cum laude with degrees in both Finance and Engineering. Upon graduating, Ethan immediately enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He later applied for and was accepted in the Enlisted Commissioning Program, eventually gaining a commission as a Second Lieutenant via Officer Candidates School.
As a Marine officer, Ethan decided to enter the intelligence field as an interrogator/translator. He was assigned to Hawaii as an intelligence analyst for Southeast Asia. Ethan excelled as an intelligence officer. He was eventually assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., where during his first year he worked under the supervision of Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel David Briggs. In this post, he worked on situational models to alert intelligence planners to developing threats all over the world and a training course for threat analysts in different intelligence agencies.
Upon retiring from the Marine Corps after eight years, Ethan then returned to MIT, where after two years he earned a Master of Business Administration. Several months before receiving the MBA, a recruiter for the Central Intelligence Agency offered Ethan the chance to be CIA officer. The recruiter was following a recommendation from Dan Briggs, who had since joined the Agency. Ethan immediately decided to pursue the CIA position.
Before Ethan could join the CIA, he had to go through background checks, take the entrance exam, and go through a series of interviews and psychological tests.
After passing the entrance and psychological examinations, Ethan was accepted as a "Career Trainee." He was sent to the CIA facility - "The Farm," Camp Peary near Williamsburg, Virginia for training. Once there, Ethan was taught the art of surveillance, and how to deceive, conceal, disguise and detect. He learned how to role-play, psychologically asses, sell, exploit. The 18-week course was to train him in "operational intelligence" or tradecraft. He was to be given the know-how to kill with a variety of weapons or none at all. He was trained for night parachuting, clandestine photography, tactical high speed emergency driving, rappelling from choppers, and dry and wet demolition. While at The Farm, Ethan received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and psychological ops exercises.
Upon graduating from Camp Peary, Ethan was given non-official cover status; that is he became a case officer without any official connection to the CIA and therefore without diplomatic immunity if ever caught in an act of espionage. His cover was that of a budget analyst for a private military company named Displace International. While his primary work was recruiting foreign agents and interrogating captured enemy agents; he also took part in paramilitary interdiction efforts against drug smuggling between Malaysia and the United States (resulting in a letter of recommendation from his superior) and four days of black ops reconnaissance into North Korea, penetrating military compounds. During that reconnaissance mission, a CIA operative named Norman Stephens was captured by the North Koreans. Due to the devastating political consequences knowledge of the CIA's involvement could cause, the Agency was forced to disavow him as a rogue.
Ethan's exemplary work and his psychological profile caught the attention of a few high level intelligence officials, such as Dan Briggs. After three years in the CIA, Briggs recruited Ethan into an ultra-covert agency called the Impossible Missions Force.
IMF is tasked with handling covert missions either too sensitive or too risky for traditional entities such as the CIA or special forces. It fronts as Cruise Associates, a privately held company that does a quietly profitable business investing and wheeling and dealing in stocks, bonds and currencies. It is in fact not a front at all, but simply the "white" part of the organization. One of the fringe benefits of the intelligence windfall is that IMF can use it to make real money in the real financial world. They do some of their business anonymously through foreign banks, all of which like having large cash accounts, and none of which are overly fastidious about where the money comes from, so long as it is not overtly dirty. It is just another way of keeping outside the system. This funds operations and makes the Impossible Missions Force a true self-funding operation. This means IMF is not on the federal budget at all. Although loosely affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency, it is an independent organization. So, nobody can trace U.S. government money to it.
IMF is in essence a privately funded intelligence service. Its employees get a paycheck that's direct-deposited into whatever bank account they set up. It is through high-tech communications interception, that IMF is able to gain insider information on currency and bond movements to aid in making a profit.
Operating out of a nondescript office building in Washington, DC, the Impossible Missions Force uses classical methods of espionage, enhanced with leading-edge surveillance and combat technology for the aggressive collection of stored data in hostile territories. Its agents physically infiltrate dangerous and sensitive enemy locations to gather the required intelligence vital to U.S. security by whatever means necessary. Their prime directive is to do their jobs while remaining invisible to the public eye. In other words, they go back to the nitty-gritty world of human spies out there in the field, risking their lives for the sake of taking a photograph or recording a conversation or copying a computer hard drive.
Since IMF has no provable ties to the U.S. government, it's authorized to work outside the boundaries of international treaties. The missions in which IMF is typically engaged are of an extremely sensitive nature. Therefore, success will almost never come from the barrel of a gun. Subtlety is IMF's watchword. If the mission could be solved as easily as pulling a trigger, it would have been one of the ordinary government agencies which would have performed it.
Although he was initially only told that he would be tasked with "unconventional black ops", Ethan exuberantly accepted the position; after which he was informed of IMF's mandate and given the "cover legend" of financial adviser for Cruise Associates.
As a field operative of IMF, Ethan was told that he would be a member of team (called an "IM Force"). The team's job would be to infiltrate secure installations, seize critical intelligence, destroy dangerous data or equipment, and neutralize the enemy as needed, without leaving a trace. The Impossible Missions Force is different than most intelligence organizations in that, once their orders have been given, there are no required procedures for the fulfillment of the mission. They can use whatever means they deem necessary. Success is all that matters. This unconventional status would allow Ethan and his team to disregard any law, agreement, or framework of ethical behavior in order to accomplish a mission. For example, they may kill in combat or by assassination, may torture or kidnap people, may deploy on American soil, and may even spy on U.S. government agencies. The downside is, of course, obvious. If a team member is captured or killed, the Secretary of State will disavow any knowledge of his or her actions and claim that person has gone rogue.
Ethan was placed on a five person team led by Senior Agent Jim Phelps. For Ethan's first assignment, the team was dispatched to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. IMF had lost contact with Alison Madison, an IMF agent who was monitoring widespread communication shortages plaguing Georgia. Another agent, William Robert Blaustein, was inserted into the Georgian capital T'bilisi to locate Madison, only to drop from contact four days later.
Fearing for the lives of two IMF agents compromised at the hands of a suspected terrorist effort, IMF assigned the team to locate the two and evaluate the situation. During their investigation Ethan discovered that Blaustein and Madison were killed for getting too close to information Georgian president Kombayn Nikoladze needed to protect. Nikoladze had been waging a campaign of systematic ethnic cleansing and mass murder against the neighboring Muslim population of Azerbaijan in an attempt to seize that country's vast oil resources.
After the U.S. government made this information public, NATO intervened in the situation and pushed most of the Georgian commandos from Azerbaijan, with only a few well-hidden cells remaining. One of those cells, entrenched in an oil rig on the Caspian Sea, was exchanging data with the presidential palace in Georgia via a secure network. Hours after a successful U.S. attack on the oil rig, Nikoladze went underground and retaliated by initiating an information crisis in the U.S., using advanced computer algorithms developed by Canadian computer hacker Phillip Masse to wreak havoc upon America's electronic infrastructure. Ethan's team was dispatched to hunt down Nikoladze and stop the crisis.
Analysts at IMF were eventually able to trace communications between Nikoladze and the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar. Ethan'S team discovered that Nikoladze was working with rogue Chinese general Kong Fei-Rong to develop nuclear weapons.
In a desperate act of defiance against the U.S., Nikoladze arranged the immediate, live webcast executions of the captured U.S. soldiers. Ethan, however, was able to rescue the captives in time. Following the rescue, Nikoladze returned to the Georgian Presidential Palace in order to retrieve a nuclear suitcase bomb codenamed the "ARK", which was later placed on American soil. Infiltrating the Georgian Presidential Palace, Ethan assassinated Nikoladze, ending the information crisis and stopping Georgia from detonating the ARK.
Shortly after those events, the U.S. established a military presence in the nation of East Timor to train that country's military forces in their fight against anti-separatist Indonesian guerilla militias. Foremost among those Indonesian militias was the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), led by Suhadi Sadono.
Charismatic militia leader Sadono, once trained by the CIA to help fight Communist influences in the region, had grown resentful of the U.S. support of East Timor. Sadono initiated a suicide bombing and follow up attack on the U.S. Embassy to Dili, capturing a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel including Douglas Belanger, CEO of Displace International.
Ethan's team was sent to infiltrate the embassy and gather intelligence on the Darah Dan Doa. They succeeded in his mission, and the U.S. Embassy was retaken by Delta Force. However, Sadono escaped and the U.S. launched a small secret military campaign on Indonesian soil in an attempt to hunt him down, much to the protests of the Indonesian government.
IMF ultimately learned that Sadono had masterminded a scheme known as "Pandora Tomorrow," by placing a series of biological bombs (ND133s) equipped with weaponized hantavirus on American soil. Every 24 hours, Sadono made encrypted phone calls to each of the bomb carriers to delay the release of the virus. If he was killed or detained, the virus would be released and millions of Americans would die. Because Sadono was fighting on the front lines in the conflict, the U.S. couldn't risk killing him, and was forced to withdraw its forces.
Ethan and Jim Phelps were sent to infiltrate Darah Dan Doa strongholds in order to learn the location of the hantavirus bombs. They were assisted in this endeavor by Belanger and Displace International. Ethan and Jim ultimately learned the location of the bombs, and rest of their team was sent in to neutralize them, bringing an end to Sadono's threat against the United States.
IMF decided to capture Sadono alive instead of merely assassinating him, due to the problems created when Ethan assassinated President Nikoladze.
Although IMF managed to capture Sadono, they learned that former CIA officer Norman Stephens had escaped from North Korean captivity and had acquired the last of the hantavirus-armed ND133s, and intended to detonate it at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Stephens cared nothing for Sadono's cause, but intended to get revenge on the U.S. federal government for leaving him in a North Korean prison years earlier. Ethan infiltrated LAX, killed Stephens and his group of terrorists (disguised as airport workers and security guards), and prevented the detonation of the last hantavirus-armed ND133.
After that adventure, Ethan's team was dispatched to locate Bruce Morgenholt, a missing computer programmer who worked on deciphering Phillip Masse's algorithms. Masse was a genius far ahead of his time, and the algorithms he used to launch his attacks on the United States had been extensively studied by the United Nations. The resulting Masse "Kernels" were being touted as the superweapon of the 21st century. Ethan's team's was tasked with making sure they did not fall into the wrong hands.
During this time, tensions were running high between China, North Korea, and Japan, following Japan's formation of an Information Self Defense Force (I-SDF). Considering this to be a violation of the Post-World War Two Constitution, Chinese and North Korean forces established a blockade in the Yellow Sea against Japanese shipping. Because Japan and the I-SDF are allies of the United States, the U.S. dispatched its Navy cruiser, the USS Clarence E. Walsh, to the Sea of Japan. The U.S. hoped this show of strength would get China and North Korea to back down.
Meanwhile, the IM Force arrived too late to prevent Morgenholt's death. He was also unsuccessful in stopping the release of the Masse Kernels. Ethan was tasked to go on board the Maria Narcissa to kill Hugo Lacerda and track the weapon deliveries so IMF could find out who they were dealing with. After completing the mission, unknown parties used the algorithms to black out Japan and the Eastern Seaboard, including New York City. Japan had previously suffered similar attacks that crashed its economy, and Admiral Otomo of the I-SDF contacted the U.S. government and warned them that North Korea and China were probably responsible. Meanwhile, following a lead discovered in a bank in Panama, Ethan's team traveled to New York to investigate Abrahim Zherkezi, a man who worked with Morgenholt. They found out that Displace International was protecting him. Ethan and another team member broke into the Displace International offices and learned of one Milan Nedich, later identified as "Milos Nowak", a Bosnian war criminal. The team found that Nowak secretly relocated Zherkezi to Hokkaido.
The team then traveled to Hokkaido and met with Belanger, who claimed that Nedich was clean. Regardless, Jim Phelps ordered Ethan to infiltrate the hideout that Zherkezi was being held in. There, Ethan killed Nedich after a tense fight, and witnessed Belanger murdering Zherkezi. Belanger escaped and went underground.
Meanwhile, the U.S. show of force backfired when the Clarence E. Walsh was sunk by a North Korean anti-ship missile, initiating a war between North Korea and South Korea/United States. Since North Korea claimed the missile was launched unintentionally, the team was sent to the Korean peninsula (including the South Korean capital city of Seoul), to determine if North Korea was truly responsible for sinking the Clarence E. Walsh, or if the Masse Kernels were involved.
The team eventually learned that the entire war had been orchestrated by Displace International. They used the Masse Kernels gained from Zherkezi to hijack North Korea's missile systems, and sink the Clarence E. Walsh, in order to draw the U.S. into a war from which Displace International could profit through its status as a leading American defense contractor. Ethan also realized the mastermind behind the entire plot was none other than Douglas Belanger. Ultimately, Phelps sent him to spy on a meeting between Belanger and Belanger's unknown accomplices, who shockingly turn out to be Admiral Otomo of the I-SDF. At the meeting, Belanger betrayed the I-SDF, and a firefight subsequently broke out between Belanger's soldiers and I-SDF assault troops. Amidst the chaos, Ethan pursued Belanger to the roof, where, after a tense standoff, Ethan killed Belanger.
Even after Belanger's death, one loose end remained. Admiral Otomo had acquired a copy of the Masse Kernels from Belanger, and attempted to return Japan to Imperial rule by blackmailing the Japanese government high official. He threatened to use the algorithms to launch a North Korean missile against a Japanese city. Because North Korea would be supported by China, and Japan would be backed by the U.S, the incident would spark World War III. Although Otomo's I-SDF black ops forces managed to fight off the Japanese Army troops sent to stop him, Ethan and two other team mambers infiltrated the I-SDF's secret underwater base and managed to put an end to Otomo's plans. Otomo attempted to commit seppuku (suicide), but Ethan saved his life and captured him. Otomo stood trial at the UN and took full responsibility for the entire Korean crisis, returning stability to the Far East.
A couple of days after the end of that crisis, Jim Phelps became the Director of IMF and Ethan was promoted to the position of team leader. As a "senior field operations agent", Ethan Hunt has become the Impossible Missions Force's premier operative.
