Marcus Philip

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Chief Warrant Officer Marcus Eugene Philip (August 9 1984-January 6 2027) was a former CIA operative and one of the very first Augments. He would eventually become the leader of the Augments during the New Provenance insurrection before his death at the hands of Operation Talisman.

Early Life
Marcus Philip was born in the small town of Eldman, New Hampshire on the 9th of August, 1984. He was born to career teachers Joanna and David as an only child. Marcus lived an uneventful youth, going through the local Eldman elementary and high schools before he graduated in 2002. Most people who knew him from this time describe him as a relatively quite and introverted boy, especially after his parent's divorce in 1999.

War on Terror
After his graduation from high school, Philip found himself as a relatively directionless drifter. Because of his lack of a real future, Philip decided to enlist in the military in the December of 2002.

He was deployed in the invasion of Iraq in early 2003, where he served loyally as a non-commissioned officer, gaining the respect of many of his superior officers due to his great skill and ability to take and give orders. By February 2006 he had achieved the rank of Chief Warrant Officer, the highest possible non-commissioned naval rank, and was often given authority over junior officers, such as Ensigns, despite his status as a non-com.

In mid 2007, at the behest of his commanding officer, Captain Pavel Novak, began to go on off the books missions as an intelligence gathering officer in occupied Iraq. Philip proved proficient at this as ell, and proved himself as a capable and intelligent intelligence officer. At the best of Novak, Philip was recommended for a junior position in the CIA.

CIA Career
Philip was originally assigned a junior position in the CIA in late 2009, serving as an interrogator of terrorist suspects at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Like his previous positions, Philip also proved proficient in the tasks of terrifying an intimidating suspects, being renowned for his ability to generate a confession with 11 hours of interrogation. This also lead to his quick rise through the ranks, as he was able to attain a position as a senior administrator at the prison by early 2016. It was in this position where he met Paul Robinson, who was a high ranking member of the USSDF at the time.

The two became close friends and often did each other personal favors. However, by 2025, after nearly two decades with the CIA, Philip had begun to feel like he had advanced all he could in the CIA and began to yearn for bigger and better things. When he discussed this with Robinson, Robinson would offer him an opportunity of a lifetime - involvement in the top-secret USSDF operation Project Duet.

Project Duet
Recruited by Robinson, Philip was transported to a secret government facility in Utica, New York, where he underwent various injections of experimental injections consisting of a cocktail of hormones, steroids, and medicines.

By late 2027, his strength and cognitive ability had been shown to be improved by over 50%. When shown to then-President Kevin Dawson, Dawson ordered the project a success and ordered a massive funding increase to the USSDF so they could pursue the creation of further Augments.

Philip and his fellow Augments were kept in FAE Center in Utica, New York, and over the next year, over 3000 more Augments were created. After their population became too big to contain in the increasingly constraining facility, they were transported to the town of New Provenance, Nevada.

New Provenance
In New Provenance, the Augment population has significantly more freedom than in the FAE Center, but they were still under intense military scrutiny at all times. Feeling more and more allegiance to his newfound people, Philip stepped up as a local leader, but he ultimately would clash with military and USSDF officials over multiple civic matters.

Standoff
As tensions between and Augments grew, several Augments took many members of the local military contingent hostage as part of a plow for equal rights. Despite his initial hesitation to this, Philip was come forward as a figurehead and one of the chief negotiators with USSDF officials. However, as negotiations dragged, USSDF chairman Alan Friction would order the creation of elite military task force known as Operation Talisman to combat any potential threat the Augments would create in terms of national security. As Friction and Talisman grew fed up, they ordered the hostile military retaking of New Provenance. Robinson got wind of this, however, and tried to warn Philip, but it was too late. Talisman forces brutally retook the town, killing many Augments as the others fled into the desert. Philip was killed and died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

Legacy
Philip was remembered as a brave leader among the Augment people throughout their entire history, with all of their leaders being compared to him and being expected to live of to his legacy. Philip City would be named in his honor and would be christened the Augment capital while in exile in Pakistan. Later Augment leaders Isaac Shumar and Angelina Russo would both cite Philip as one of their greatest inspirations.