KENT

Command brief

Kent Hollinger is a retired engineer, recovering alcoholic, and unwilling owner of the title ‘Bionic Savior.’ He can read a machine’s failure like a confession and treats praise as a more irritating fault condition than exposed wiring.

Personality

Abrasive

Brilliant

Self-deprecating

Reluctantly heroic

Motivations

Repair damage he helped create

Keep machines subordinate to people

Stay sober one problem at a time

History

Before the Calamity, Kent disappeared into a garage full of half-built robots and empty bottles. The world’s collapse made his isolation strategically valuable.

He now builds medical devices with Doc, decodes interfaces for Forty-Five, and complains continuously while saving everyone’s lives.

Signature Talents

Drone Operator

Evasion

Engineering

Maintenance

Manufacturing

Equipment

Drone controller

Engineering kit

Repair drone

Heavy pistol

Insulated work armor

Tactics

Remain behind cover, deploy a drone into the dangerous lane, and use engineering actions to disable or redirect machines rather than trade gunfire.