Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Explorer

"Adventure time!"

-Explorer

The Explorer is the main infiltrator of the Tyrian Confederation. Planned to be voiced by Jenny Yokobori.

Tactical analysis

 * Halt, Vile, Knave!: Whether daring archaeology professors, professional tomb raiders, or any number of other miscellaneous jobs, Explorers are the men and women who once took up the cry of Adventure. Driven by strict physical, mental, and psychological training, they can stun and push away enemy infantry with their bare fists, and in emergencies use the power of sheer grit and will to move faster and shrug off damage.
 * 2:
 * 3:
 * 4:

History
"..."

-...

Short story
"Adventure is out there...and half the fun of the adventure is in the chase!"
 * - Famous Explorer Robert Braidwood

Interview with Jack Global, 1959 V.C.

Reporter Walter Richards: Here in the news offices of World Today, we believe that having a good understanding of this huge and mysterous globe is key to being able to dictate its future. And just this last, week, we were blessed to be able to conduct an interview with perhaps one of the most famous people in these great Federation of Aquila today, academic and adventurer Jack Global! Able and willing to answer a few of our questions on his thoughts about Gaiaterra, we present our readers with a small excerpt of the interview below.

Walter Richards: Jack Global, we understand that your job takes you to many areas of the world where the light of civilization has not been shown. Can you tell us anything about some of the areas you've traveled to?

Explorer Jack Global: Why, of course my good man! I've been to some of the darkest jungles and terrifying mountains to seek out the new, the mysterious, and the unknown, and always I find there is more to discover than ever thought possible! I have dined with the headhunting apes of Cantha, who will only let a man live if he takes one of their females as a wife (but enough on that subject). I have dueled with the sky pirates of the Lumeris, and sent their bi-planes crashing to the ground. I've even had a run in once or twice with the Hawk Men of Arkesia, and several of their religious scrolls and gears are on their way to the Smithsonian as we speak!

Walter Richards: Truly amazing stuff you've seen then, Jack! And yet you do all this while simeultaneously taking a job as a...let's see what your folder says...'modern history professor'?

Jack Global: Oh yes! You see, I believe that one day, by studiously going out into the uncharted wilds of the world and exploring them, we can better gain an understanding of how our globe runs and eliminate the fog of mystery that still surrounds so much of us. I mean, do you know how much of Gaiaterra is, and likely will never be completely be taken over by modern society? By jove, there's the oceans, the Eorzean hinterlands, all those rainforests and deserts in the tropics, all those islands in the Aionysus...why, I daresay we couldn't possibly find out everything there is to know about our planet even if we had a hundred years to go at it!

Walter Richards: But surely, Jack, the fact that you say we could never hope to possibly discover everything there is out there...doesn't that discourage you at all? I mean, one day you'll be retired, and unable to make any new discoveries...doesn't that bother you at all?

Jack Global: I can't possibly see what you mean by that, Walt! I will live and die happily knowing that there is so much more out there for my descendants and students to discover, because when you get that feeling in your lungs...the air of a foreign land, the thrill of adventure and of excitement, the rush from knowing you're delving somewhere that civilized man has never tread...oh, I can't imagine a planet where our children and future citizens don't have that option open to them. It must be one of the most wonderful experiences in the world, to live as I do now.

Walter Richards: Ha ha...well, thank you Jack, for elaborating. Is there anything else you would have our readers know about?

Jack Global: Yes. To all the youth out there who feel negatively about the state of the world...lift your heads, smile, and buck up! The world is a vast place, but there is so much out there to look forward to, and to see! And if we can all work together, and have adventurers, and bring the light of knowledge to those dark places, we can make the world a better place!

Walter Richards: Readers of World Today can pick up a full transcript of the interview of Jack Global, Teacher and Adventurer, by asking via post to the World Today newsoffices.

Interview with Jack Global, 1999 V.C.

Newscaster Nancy Daryll: This is Nancy Daryll of Modern Gaiaterran Television, your source for the latest and greatest of the world around us. Today, we have the privilege of interviewing retired instructor Mister Jack Global with us today. Jack Global was a former adventuerer and academic who has only recently retired earlier last year, and who has since accepted our request for an interview.

Nancy Daryll: So, tell us Mister Global, we understand you're retired as of today. How do you feel, knowing you've lived a long and healthy life doing what you've loved?

Jack Global: To tell...well, to tell you the truth, Nancy, I'm feeling a little downcast about it. It's been a long run, and I know at my age I'd probably not last much longer compared to young bucks that took up the craft, but...there just aren't that many newcomers taking up my trade anymore.

Nancy Daryll: Well, Jack, the world is a smaller place now. We can get a message from Fereldan to Ulthuan in less than a minute, SPAM has made expeditions now smaller and faster than ever...and really, it's all thanks to you and your helpers. Wouldn't you be happy, knowing what you've done?

Jack Global: Oh, it's not that Nancy. I'm proud of what I did, make no mistake. But...it's the fact that the world is smaller now. There's just starting to be no place for old men like me. Who wants a man who can get past ancient jungle traps in hidden Arkesian temples when some academic who's never even seen the thing declares it a 'historical artefact and cultural relic'? There's no frontier anymore, and that saddens me.

Nancy Daryll: Well, there's always space - it is the 'final frontier', as the Voshkods refer to it.

Jack Global: Ha, space...from what I understand, it's 95% sitting in a spaceship, making repairs and smalltalk while you wait for contact to get back from your nearest starbase. No tentacle-armed monstrosities, no golden women who need the touch of a rough Gaiaterran man, no fighting for ancient treasures on the dusty surface of Monarch...there's no future for men like me in space.

Nancy Daryll: Ah, I see Jack. Well, that is too bad, I do feel for your sadness...but is that the source of your regretfulness, the closing of the wild and unknown?

Jack Global: Ah, Nancy...you're a pretty young thing, your generation just wouldn't understand. It was more than the wild...life back then was just, more...richer! I mean, everything has changed!

Nancy Daryll: What do you mean by that?

Jack Global: Everything is just more...complicated. Back in my day, you could tell who the good guys were, who the bad guys were, and with a little engine grease and two good fists you could make good triumph over evil. Now, you can't tell who anybody is! I hear stories of the Voshkods, who we've been fighting against for six wars now, helping rescue citizens trapped beneath rubble and getting them medical age! When I was young, the Voshkods were monsters...but how can you fight against somebody who honestly cares for their people? And my old foe, Luigi da Pipa, I heard he was conducting one of his old plots just a few months ago. I go to stop him, and...

Nancy Daryll: And?

Jack Global: (chokes) He was corporately sponsored! I...I just don't know. Maybe I'm politically incorrect, but I want a world where you know what's wrong, and know that you can fix it with the right tools. It seems these days there's no right answer...

Nancy Daryll: Well now, Jack...is there anything you think you'd do now that you're retired and the world is too different now?

Jack Global: Well...I did hear something.

Nancy Daryll: Oh?

Jack Global: Yeah. Some guys over in Tyria, saying they need some help recovering some information. Technocrats, they called themselves. They knew of me...they admired me. Said they had read of my words, that they had taken them to heart.

Nancy Daryll: So you'll spend retirement...working?

Jack Global: (grins slightly) I'm an old man, Nancy. If I have to spend my 'golden years' as they say it doing anything, I'd rather be doing something I loved rather than waiting to fade into dust. And...well...I figure there's a few bucks in that group that'd be up for learning how this old man used to do things. I WAS a teacher, after all.

Nancy Daryll: Well, thank you Jack. That's all the time we have for today, I'm afraid, but we're glad you finally have something to occupy you that makes you happy. Up next, the situation in Aquila...

Magazine Titles (Featuring Notable Explorers)
Tales from the Gaiaterra
 * Eagle of the Great Aquila
 * (Alliance)
 * (ADI)
 * (Protectorate)
 * (Andora)
 * (Empire)
 * (Community)
 * (Bastion)
 * (ASA)
 * Go! Go! Tacitus Rangers!
 * Sadistic Voshkod Overseers of Gulag 113
 * Peace Through Power!
 * (MLA)
 * (Horde)
 * Invaders from Space!
 * (Collective)
 * (Encantadia)
 * (Ascalia)
 * (Pirates)
 * (Elona)
 * (Coalition)
 * War... War Never Changes
 * (Legion)
 * (Syndicate)
 * (Conglomerate)
 * (Heralds)
 * (Order)
 * (Dominion)
 * (Security)
 * (Ascendancy)

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Intelligence Agent (Aquila)
 * Spy (Alliance)
 * Informant (ADI)
 * Shinobi (Protectorate)
 * Kunoichi (Erune Command)
 * Courtesan (Andora)
 * Monk (Empire)
 * Bandit (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Breacher (Voshkod)
 * Infiltrator (Vieran Reserves)
 * Saboteur (Brotherhood)
 * Sneaky Boy (Horde)
 * Thief (MLA)
 * Manipulator (Collective)
 * Empath (PsiCorps)
 * Artisan (Encantadia)
 * Shapeshifter (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Mole (Coalition)
 * Preacher (Heralds)
 * Succubus (Path Of Slaanesh)
 * Rogue (Order)
 * Delta Ranger (Survivors)
 * Voshkod Ranger (Voshkod Exile)
 * Satyr (Syndicate)
 * Infiltrator Drone (Conglomerate)
 * Death Cult Assassin (Legion)

Bonus Factions

 * Intel Spec-Ops (ASA)
 * Void Rogue (Bastion)
 * Infiltration Creep (Rangers)
 * Forgotten Lurker (Pirates)
 * Kelran Infiltrator (Ascalia)
 * Dalit (Elona)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * Lalafell Informant (Security)
 * ... (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * Clairvoyant (Federation)
 * Crown Courtesan (Corona)
 * Spreyer Stealer (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * Fontaine Photographer (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * Skink Informer (League)
 * Genestealer (Swarm)
 * Explorer (Confederation)
 * Harlequin (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Nilfgaard Saboteur (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * Gnoblar Saboteur (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * Sleuth (Raiders)
 * Bretonnian Courtesan (Theocracy)
 * Dome Runner (Insurgents)
 * Shadow Dispeller (Guardians)
 * Nourkias Hacker (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Chaac Agent (Ecumene)
 * Wakfu Thief (Concordat)
 * Counter Agent (Contingent)
 * Whisper of Elysea (Eden)
 * Gaiaterra's First (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * Elf Courtesan (Commune)
 * Fortune Teller (Clique)
 * Spiran Thief (Guild)
 * Control Bug (Threat)
 * ... (Traders)
 * Elf Thief (Entente)
 * Wraith (Oblivion)
 * Ja'vo Infiltrator (Corporation)
 * ... (Covenant)
 * 3rd Gen Synth (Institute)
 * Ind Informant (Commonwealth)