CAUGHIN
Civilian name: Marcus Caughin. MAO / RUS · 6'8" · 342 lb · NAD. NII-integrated. Distilled Emergency Recruit — NII Integrated / Experimental eX-Convict Class / Pay Grade 3.
Former prison shot caller; post-release criminal empire interrupted by the Echo war and redirected into the NII program through vengeance.
Motive is canonically central: the Echo exterminated his grandmother during the San Francisco Event. Not a patriot. Not a reformed criminal in any clean moral sense.
Physically enormous — presence changes the geometry of a room. Doorways, chairs, vehicles, corridors and conversations all appear slightly undersized around him. A human structural problem.
Not the failure of the distilled pipeline — its most dangerous success. A scalability warning: armor fitting, containment, nutrition, metabolic load, combat-space design and physical overmatch all become problems around him.
▌ Caughin tests whether NII will eventually decide command has no right to exist.
- ▌Lock: P1/37 taxonomy — separated from the general DER-X intake class. DER-NII.XXCC.3, never plain DER-X.
- ▌NII does not erase his prior traits. It amplifies the question of whether such a man can be aimed at something worse than himself.
- ▌His ideological danger ranks equal to his physical danger. Never write him as a simple wrecking ball.