Michael Tyre

Officer Michael 'Shiva' Tyre, Civil Protection Metrocop, underground Resistance operative.


Pre-Invasion Files:

Michael Tyre was born in the dead of winter in Moscow, 1991. He was young when the Union invaded, but still remembers watching the Kremlin burn while he watched from other side of the Moskva River. His entire family had been killed in the attack, and Michael was left to fend for himself in the streets. He was tough, and lucky, and managed to stay alive when most children died. By the time he was 15, he was ready to try and do something to escape City 21.

Post-Invasion Files:

Michael got in contact with the Russian Resistance, where they devised a plan. Michael would join Civil Protection, where he would be transferred out of Moscow. From there, he could either try to disappear, or better yet they said, be an underground operative for them.

Tyre, wanting to do something, agreed to work underground for the Resistance by becoming a Metrocop. The process, however, was rough, and all the time Civil Protection bombarded him with Pro-Union propaganda. However, he was able to make it through and joined the City 21 Metropolitan Police Force.

Tyre quickly learned that playing both sides was a dangerous, tricky game. He could not always help his rebel friends without getting caught himself. He had to make a lot of tough calls on who to save and who they could afford to loose.

As Union Protocol dictates, Michael was soon uprooted and transferred to the northwestward City 17. His Resistance allies managed to get word to the local Resistance that Michael was a friendly. The situation was less desperate in City 17, and Tyre was able to settle in and make contact without trouble. He is mostly in contact with Deupree and Kleiner's safe house. He works in the Train station depot, where he can scan all new arrivals to the city, and if possible, save Resistance members from being captured by the Overwatch.

Personality and Traits

(will be expanded on as character develops)

Michael Tyre exemplifies the traditional Russian values of honor and service, not only by being a metrocop but by staying loyal to his Resistance allies despite the great risk to himself. While proud of his role in the resistance, but it always bothered him because he had to be disloyal to his fellow officers.

All CP officers occasionally have to undergo 'optional' memory replacement, to advance in their career and avoid suspicion of disloyalty or worse from the Union. Michael has had to do the process multiple times, earning him the rank of Sergeant and his own posting, and four cops under him.

However, it came at a price. His replacement memories mixed and overwrote some of his real memories, leaving him confused and doubtful of his own intentions.

Tyre proved to be extremely determined, and in a tenacious struggle he was able to organize the two mindset - one of a devoted cop and one of loyal spy - and drift between them with ease. The result is better than recovery -it's weaponization. Tyre can slip from one state to another and could fool any advanced lie detector test, because on some level he believes it.

The obvious flip side is that keeping these two mindsets separate is extremely difficult, and in an instant where Tyre let his thoughts wander to much, he can slip and temporarily loose control and be taken by one of the two conflicting views in head.

This dual persona has earned him the nickname Shiva - the Hindu two faced destroyer of worlds. The rebellion uses this as a codename for him.

Combat Assets

Tyre is a good marksman and well trained in urban combat, especially riot control and raid tactics, and Prisoner capture and capture. He has access to numeral weapon caches, gate codes, etc. Has access to and training in driving a Union APC.

Tyre has standard issue CP armor as well as the classic riot control and raid ready armament of a metrocop; a USP Match 9mm, a 4.6x30mm MP7ue, and an electric stun batton.