Jake Thompson, "Duke of Silverhills", Borland Liberation Army CaptainJake wasn't your typical Borlander on the surface, he lived in a luxury house on the edge of Silverhills one of East Moreland's wealthiest postcodes. He drove around town in one of a fleet of sportscars and he attended the very best parties. It was all a front though and his cover as a internet marketing guru was a disguise for his hacking and cyber warfare attempts against the East Moreland government, something he was actually rather good at. He donated money very publically to "Legionnaire Legacy", a charity that supported East Moreland's brave wounded veterans and he threw a lavish party on the King's birthday, all giving him a reputation in the local community as a patriot. The truth was though his father had been a Borlander, and his grand-father, both had been friends with the Barrens and from birth Jake had been groomed by his father to adopt a role inside East Moreland society to help support their noble cause.
It had always been his father's intention that Jake would be a soldier, a fighting man, and when he'd shown less flare with a rifle and more with a keyboard he'd felt disappointed in his son. Then one day he witnessed his son hack into an EMAC database and that had opened his eyes, the Borlanders had been fighting a 20th Century Guerilla War, and yet here was his 14 year old son already fighting a 21st one against the enemy. From that moment on Jake's father had been proud of his son and they'd used every chance they could to get him access to more knowledge with computers. The more he'd learnt the more he had proved valuable to the mission of reclaiming their homeland.
His first real operation had been at the age of 17, he'd hacked the systems of a bank in Silverhills and managed to control them while his father and four Borlanders robbed the place blind for funds to keep themselves in rifles and bullets. Next he'd shown how to clone credit cards and even manipulate transfers all from the comfort of an arm chair. That had brought him to Kyle Barren's attention and they'd agreed Jake would become a deep cover agent for them, first going to the Royal Northfort University to study more computer related subjects, and then setting him up with a business. Since then he'd probed and monitored as much of the Morelanders systems as he could, finding back doors to sensitive areas every now and again.
His true skill though was organising things such as imports of equipment, transfers of funds through tens of banks simultaneously to make it hard to track funding and his favourite of finding the hidden secrets people kept on computer and promising never to reveal them, for a hefty fee. The IT company gave him the perfect cover for travelling and so he'd risen in the Borlander ranks and was trusted to represent his true King at meetings like this, the Morelander authorities confident he was just a young business man heading overseas to make a quick buck.
He'd hired himself a Porsche once he'd arrived and now enjoyed a quick blast down the coast until he reached Albanus' house. Taking his sunglasses off and putting them into his pale blue shirt pocket he approached the gate and once security was confident he was who he said he was he was permitted inside. "Albanus, Cairan" Jake nodded at each as he approached and put his briefcase down, "Mrs. Ares" he added noticing the young wife as he opened the brown leather case. "I thought you'd enjoy this" he handed Albanus a case of cigars and a CD on top, "Something to enjoy while you watch the footage" he gave a slight wink having tracked down some incriminating footage of the local Mountjoy police chief and a woman who certainly wasn't his wife.
