Gary Blackburn

Gary Blackburn is a former Eclipse Army Trooper who enlisted at the age of 20. He served for a number of years until his eventual recruitment by Eclipse Research Laboratories, becoming a TITAN in 2047 and served within the 3rd TITAN Task Force.

He eventually formed an army of his own in secret and had gone rogue during the Attack on the Scarlet Research Facility on Tinixia II.

He is the nephew of High General Thomas Blackburn, though they do not interact or socialize with each other as much, due to Gary's childhood and his subsequent placement in a foster home as an infant.

Biography
Blackburn was born on the human colony Sirona. As an infant, he was taken away from his family by Sironian Child Protection Services due to his parents' constant drinking and neglecting his needs. He grew up with a foster family, having grown close to his foster brother and sister, both he enjoyed interacting with. After finding out about his parents' drinking problems when he was an infant, he refused to accept them as family and eventually forgot about them.

Two years after moving out of his foster home, he enlisted in the Eclipse Army and was transferred to Thalia where he was trained as an Army Trooper, specializing as a bomb squad specialist and in demolitions. He served during the First Korman Conflict, having fought during the Battle of Earth, coming into direct contact with the Korman War Armies; losing a few of his close friends in the battles. After finding out the reason as to how the Korma Empire able to get to Earth, he specifically disliked Christina Foley for her poor actions, as he blamed her for the death of his friends.

In 2046, he was among the few selected by Eclipse Research Laboratories for the TITAN-X Program, which was a very rare case as most candidates were selected from current TITAN Project fireteams. Because of this, he was the subject of a newly developed serum from the Ravenclaw Blacksite which would further enhance his physical strength to beyond what was developed for regular TITANs. His initial augmentation of this serum was successful that he was considered a new generation of super-soldier; the next step. The serum also rendered him to be defiant, unpredictable and highly independent, often protesting against battle plans, missions that he saw as incompetent and arguing with his superiors from time to time. Because of this, he is the only candidate given the serum to avoid widespread defiance in other TITANs.