Deckert was off duty... but off duty was not a concept for him. In his military service Deckert was a private. The drive or the late colonel Rayen Deckert. The strategic ingenuity of the man has lead to fast promotions, and the way seemed open. The name Deckert was given to Roger as an insult when he started. Some of his ex-military buddies with higher ranks kept reminding him that ‘You are not colonel Deckert, and we are not taking your orders.” However, as they kept referring to him with scorn as Deckert, saying yes Deckert... what ever you say Deckert. Newcomers just assumed Deckert was his name, and the street name sort of stuck. So did the expectation of tactical ingenuity. In truth, Deckert never commanded people, but he saw what being unprepared could do. A convoy of five SUV’s under a rain of fire. Most were wounded or killed in the initial fire strike. The combat was finished before it started.
He only survived that because he managed to grab the colonels commlink that had marks on all the vehicles. Ordering them to shoot suppressive fire, some of them to charge the enemy without reason. The logical thing was to retreat, they were in no fighting shape. But he acted as if everybody were still alive. That one maneuver he sort of invented - but he had no real background in military strategy - and most of his team just assumed him to be a colonel Deckert. Apparently, Deckert dying did not stop the myth... They believed that the Colonel, did not really die, instead he retreated to the shadows. An unbelievable conspiracy theory but people believed it.
Thouse that performed an extensive background check on the runner named 'Deckert', understand that he was nothing more than the driver of colonel Deckert. (That was human and not a dwarf). Still, surprisingly, just a few people in his team knew that. To the others he was the mythological genius Colonel Deckert - the one that came back from death to the shadows, and that was already running the shadows before they were born.
Deckert, was not young anymore, and his hair was already grey, his face wrinkled. He started to feel that his physicals are beginning to fade. The way he acts had to change, less work on the field more legwork - he is not as young as he once was.
He watched the feeds from the suv, while trying to get some sleep. No, not sleep yet he though after he made sure again that their equipment is in top shape. Eventually he crushed on his bunk in the safe house. That mission did not seem to go anywhere - but he could not show any doubt to his peers.
