General Gideon Vasher

In Character

Past

Having served his country as a military operative throughout the Cold War, Gideon Vasher has repeatedly been decorated for his valor and dedication and just as often come under suspicion for skirting the ragged edge of the regulations. In an attempt to contain the maverick officer, his superiors assigned him the directorship of Vanguard, a fringe project under the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.

Officially, his function is to speculate on future terrorist tactics and provide recommendations for effective countermeasures. However, through a combination of personal networking, bureaucratic manipulation, and corporate arm-twisting, he has turned Vanguard into an independent clandestine research and development organization with a focus on what he deems to be the greatest threat ever in American history: the mutant strain.

Vanguard has developed a variety of anti-mutant countermeasures, some of which are already finding use in military security and law enforcement agencies - restraining collars, blood tests for the X-gene, adaptive tranquilizing agents, advanced tactical weaponry and body armor. However, it is Vasher's goal to develop a new breed of soldier that can match mutants force for force, even if it means tapping into the power of the X-gene itself.

Out Of Character

See Kale.