Captain Midnight

Aliases: SS-1, The Sky Sovereign, Space Sentinel, Red
Place of Birth: Nevada, USA
Age: Late 40's
Known family: None
Player Name: Daryl


Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'4
Weight: 165
Legal Status: Adult
Affiliation: Hero
Occupation: Aeronautical Engineer, Pilot, CEO of Albright Industries
Abilities:
Inventor- Like Da Vinci, Midnight is light years ahead of his time. During the war he was instrumental in developing new weapon technologies for his own use and those of the allies including miniaturisation of complex technologies and even the breakthroughs that led to jet aircraft. Ideally he wishes for the world to benefit from his work to create progress through world peace.

Pilot- When behind the controls of any method of air travel Midnight is without compare, from prop driven planes to jets and even prototype vehicles.

Contacts- The Secret Squadron enlists many talented pilots, mechanics and soldiers that Midnight can recruit for backup. Also Squadron HQ has a secure line to the US President under the codename Mr Jones.

Squad leader- Midnight has led many missions behind enemy lines, sabotage, commando raids, hostage rescues, evacuation, anti terror operations among others. He is skilled in air and ground combat with various firearms, weapons and other equipment.

Weapons:
Flight suit- Designed with tech donated from Black Sky (a government group formed after the Roswell crash) and Albright breakthroughs, the suit contains several special features including:

• Wings attached to the arms for flight
• Goggles with special lenses that provide different methods of enhanced vision and a flashlight function
• Retractable wrist knife
• Grapple line launcher for restraint or climbing
• Belt mounted radio with controls to remotely call Squadron planes

Doom beam- Granted an unfortunate name by his enemies, this flashlight sized gadget can project a ray of directed heat or form a cutting torch flame. Useful as a weapon, ignition source or tool.

Blackout bombs- Small grenades that spray black smoke for concealment and distraction purposes.

Custom planes- Various planes used (and modified by) the Captain and other members of the Squadron including but not limited to
Jet
Douglas dive bomber
P40 Warhawk
Boeing flying fortress
The Albright Silver Dart

What's hidden behind the mask:

Personality:
Many have said that Captain Midnight is obsessed with being right, this is because he sees all the bad things that could happen if he's wrong. Despite the outer appearance of a square jawed all American flyboy hero Jim is always thinking and planning, the sheer amount of information and possibilities going through his head at any time would most people without the surname Luthor or Stark. Even on his downtime he is constantly thinking about how he can improve things.

With the war over Albright wants to turn his attention to aiding humanity to rise to the next level, hopefully a safe level after seeing first hand the horrors of the atomic bomb. While others would consider it the stuff of comics and serials Jim is looking forward to the world of tomorrow with flying cars, clean air and an end to the need for armed conflict.

However he is not deluded into thinking utopia will come easily. Albright is also a soldier and knows that some enemies need to be taken down with as much violence as they use while the innocent need protection. After a fight he is always ready to buy the first round for his allies.

History: 
Captain Jim "Red" Albright, was a World War I U.S. Army pilot, gifted both in the air behind the controls of his plane or on the ground maintaining and even improving them. His Captain Midnight code name was given by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission from which he returned at the stroke of 12. After the war he continued his love of invention by forming a small engineering firm that soon grew into Albright Industries. At the beginning of the Second World War Albright was recruited to head the Secret Squadron, an aviation-oriented paramilitary organization fighting Fifth Columnists and spies prior to the United States' entry into the War. Answering to 'Mr Jones' the Captain was joined by Joyce Ryan, Chuck Ramsey, Ichabod Mudd, Agent Kelly and Major Barry Steele


When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, Midnight traced weaponry used by the Japanese to designs developed by the Nazi allied criminal inventor Ivan Shark. The Secret Squadron wartime activities were expanded to outside the continental United States, with adventures in Europe, South America, the Pacific, and continental Asia. Other rogues faced by the Captain included Shark's cunning daughter Fury, the blade wielding assassin Phang
and the airship commander Baron Karp. Eventually Midnight battled Ivan hand to hand on the battlements of his Arctic fortress, only to see Shark thrown over the side and eaten by bears.


Back home Midnight became a morale symbol like Captain America, with fictionalised versions of his adventures made into radio shows and comics. Now with the war over the Squadron has toned down operations and Alrbight Industries is focusing on next generation technology to change the world, but all warmongers and criminals should still fear what could happen at the stroke of Midnight.

Other: It would be cool to pair Midnight up with other war heroes, even form an expanded Squadron with other aircraft users.