Tom Lorry
R-04 // RENEGADE
PROCORP APPLIED SCIENCES — PERSONNEL FILE
Age: 29
Role: Assaulter / Breacher
Background: U.S. Army / 75th Ranger Regiment
Specialties: Direct Action · Close-Quarters Combat · Breaching · Heavy Weapons · Small-Unit Tactics
Status: Active
PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT
Tom Lorry is aggressive, dependable, and considerably more intelligent than his personality sometimes suggests. The youngest member of Renegade, Lorry possesses an uncomplicated approach to most problems: understand the objective, identify what stands between him and it, and get to work.
He enlisted in the Army immediately after high school with a Ranger contract and successfully completed RASP before being assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment. Over the next six years, Lorry participated in repeated combat deployments throughout the Global War on Terror, developing extensive experience in direct-action raids and close-quarters fighting. The years hardened him quickly and stripped away whatever romantic ideas about warfare he may have possessed when he enlisted.
By the end of his enlistment, Lorry had become increasingly frustrated with Army life and intended to leave the military entirely. His Sergeant Major, a former Delta Force operator, saw considerably more potential in the young Ranger than Lorry saw in himself. Rather than convince him to stay, he suggested there were other ways to continue making a difference—and quietly put him in contact with an old friend working outside the conventional military structure.
That man was Val Grayson.
Lorry entered ProCorp as an experienced combat veteran but remained the least seasoned member of Renegade. He compensates with aggression, adaptability, and an almost complete absence of hesitation once a decision has been made. Despite his imposing build and preference for direct solutions, he is not simply the team's muscle. Lorry is an instinctive tactical thinker who frequently approaches problems from angles the more experienced members of the team initially overlook.
He is also deeply attached to the men around him. Years in the Ranger Regiment left Lorry with a simple understanding of loyalty: the mission matters, but the person beside you matters more. He rarely speaks about that belief and would probably ridicule anyone who tried to make him do so.
His teammates don't need him to.
They've seen it.
Personality: Aggressive · Dependable · Adaptable · Fearless · Unpretentious · Quick-witted
SERVICE HISTORY // PRE-PROCORP
Tom Lorry was eighteen years old when he left home for the United States Army.
He didn't have a degree, a carefully mapped-out career, or much interest in finding himself first. What he did have was a Ranger contract and the absolute certainty that if he was going to join the Army, he wanted to serve alongside the best men he could find.
After completing initial training, Lorry successfully passed the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP) and earned assignment to the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Then the Army sent him to war.
Over the next six years, Tom deployed repeatedly in support of the Global War on Terror. He participated in direct-action raids, nighttime assaults, sensitive-site exploitation, and countless operations whose objectives were often reduced to a photograph, a grid coordinate, and a few minutes of violence in the middle of the night.
The experience transformed him.
The young man who had joined looking for adventure learned quickly that combat offered very little of it. War was exhausting, confusing, occasionally terrifying, and frequently decided by men doing simple things exceptionally well while everything around them went wrong.
Tom became very good at those simple things.
He developed a reputation as an aggressive and dependable Ranger—physically powerful, comfortable in close quarters, and unusually calm once an operation began. More importantly, he learned to think for himself. Years spent working alongside experienced NCOs taught him that the best solution wasn't always the most complicated one and that hesitation could be considerably more dangerous than an imperfect decision.
But six years of deployments took their toll.
By the end of his enlistment, Tom was finished with the Army. He still loved the Regiment and the men beside him, but he had grown tired of everything surrounding the job. When his contract ended, he intended to leave the military behind and figure out what came next.
His Sergeant Major had other ideas.
A former Delta Force operator himself, the Sergeant Major believed Tom possessed something that couldn't easily be taught. He wasn't the most polished Ranger he'd ever known, nor the most experienced, but Tom had instincts, aggression, and an ability to function when situations deteriorated that made walking away from the profession seem like a waste.
He explained that leaving the Army didn't necessarily mean leaving the fight.
There were organizations operating outside the conventional military structure—private companies employing experienced veterans for missions the United States couldn't always undertake openly. Most weren't worth Tom's time.
One, however, was different.
The Sergeant Major had an old friend there. Another former Delta operator named Val Grayson.
He made a phone call.
Not long afterward, Tom Lorry received one.
ProCorp Applied Sciences was looking for men like him.
