Origins: Willam Brighton

The last protester's head hit the ground. The force of the blow knocking him unconscious and thus no longer a threat.

The uniformed FORS officer that put him there stood over the unconscious kid, before dropping his riot shield from ready position and sighing.

Willam already disliked this job. He had taken it for the money, but bashing the heads of teenagers protesting the Jump Drive didn't really leave him with a sense of justice. These kids were just speaking up for what they believed in.

Willam had originally gone into law enforcement in the hopes of joining Her Majesty's Secret Service. To Willam, there was no position more honorable than put his life on the line for his country. However, things don't always go according to plan, and when FORS approached him after his Academy training and had offered more than enough money to take care of himself AND his git of a brother, Willam just couldn't refuse.

FORS stood for Field Operations Resistance Specialist, basically a highly-trained Corporation-paid riot cop. The Corporations said jump and you jumped. Willam was good at jumping.

This assignment was the last step in his FORS training. There were always a few people opposed to Sampson's break-through invention and the companies would routinely throw a few FORS officers at the front gates to break them up.

Tomorrow, Willam would board the Empress of the Skies, the only single-jump ship in the galaxy and head for Clarke Memorial Station as part of a 12-man unit dispatched to keep the peace up there for a 12 month contract. It was supposed to be a pretty cushy job with not much more than some petty crime and drunken miners to contend with, and the pay-scale was AMAZING.

Willam had already received a sizable signing bonus to "put his affairs in order" before leaving, and he planned to give most of it to Liam and hope that the bloody piss ant didn't blow it on booze, dice and loose women.

Willam loved his brother Liam, but he continued to make bad decisions that reminded Willam too much of their father, who had run to the store one day, when Will was only 16, and never bothered to come back. Liam was always quick to jump into bad plans and worse life choices. Willam felt overly guilty about the way his brother had been raised in his teenage years, but he had done the best he could, being only 3 years older himself. He had dropped out of school at 16 and gotten a job to support them and keep a roof over their head, while making sure that Liam went to school and got an education. Liam always saw it as an unfair burden that his older brother was thrusting upon him.

Liam. Willam decided to go see him in person before he left, instead of just wiring the money and sending a message. And if he was passed out in his own vomit again, the oldest Brighton boy vowed that he wouldn't be the only one seeing stars tomorrow.