Adam Gibson is an experienced combat flyer, having served with distinction in the US Army Special Operations Forces during the Rain Forest War. Gibson also developed extensive ground combat and infiltration skills during that time. Now retired from the military, Adam is well known as a tourist guide for Double X Charter.

History

Adam Gibson’s career started in the US Army, where he earned a slot in the Special Operations Forces as a combat flyer and infantryman including a tour of duty in the Rain Forest War.  He retired afterward, got married, and started a highly successful outdoor adventure service called Double X Charter.

This relatively idyllic life was interrupted when Double X was chartered by Michael Drucker, head of Replacement Technologies. Drucker was controversial for his pursuit of cloning technologies and was assassinated during his ski trip, along with Hank Morgan. Unknown to the public however, Drucker’s company had succeeded in making human cloning viable, even being able to make recordings of human minds. This in effect allowed Drucker serial immortality.

As was standard procedure after an assassination, Drucker was cloned and the murders covered up. The other people killed by the assassins were also cloned so no one would know anything was amiss — the other clones would simply have an odd blank spot in their memory accounted for by leaving the clones to wake up in a bar or someplace similar.

This time, a mistake was made. Gibson was mistakenly cloned as Drucker’s people believed he had also been on the plane; he had in fact snuck off early to buy his daughter a birthday gift. Drucker’s people stalked Gibson and his clone, planning to kill one or the other to maintain their secret. Drucker eventually went to the length of kidnapping Gibson’s family to force the two Adam Gibsons to surrender. Instead, they teamed-up to free their family and bring down Drucker.

After this, the Gibson family’s life returned to normal. Only Adam knew about his clone, who had survived the conflict.  The cloned Adam was given one of the Double X planes and started a second distant branch of Double X in Argentina.

Description

Gibson is a muscular, square-jawed and broad-shouldered Caucasian male with short hair, a big smile, and the beginning of a rich set of age wrinkles. He is often found wearing his old leather flight jacket, embroidered with his old unit badges and nametag. He has a scar on his lower abdomen from an old war wound

Personality

Gibson is friendly and jocular, often engaging in jovial debates with friends and family. His associates recognize his distaste for the growing use of organic technologies such as cloning as a harmless quirk. Indeed, when confronted with his clone, Adam accepted the man as if he were a newfound brother and argued that the clone’s willingness to fight and die for Gibson’s family made him as human as anyone could be. 

When threatened, Gibson is decisive and ruthless and won’t hesitate to use force to protect himself and his family. He is also quite inventive and has a knack for making good use of sudden opportunities.

DC Universe History

Gibson could easily be imported as the transportation provider for a superteam, especially with his futuristic aeroplane. He’d fall quite well into the traditional role of support personnel with considerable fighting skills, such as the Green Hornet’s Kato or John Jameson (Captain America’s personal pilot for a time). The clone could be introduced by the PCs’ enemies as a campaign Subplot. The clone Adam could also have been created before play began — perhaps those events motivated Gibson to take up a more direct role in crime-fighting again by offering his services to the PC’s group.