Terry Henry Walton

Terry Henry Walton
AKA	TH
Characteristics
Species	Human
Type	Enhanced
Gender	Male
Age	45 on WWDE
Height	Large
Relatives
Parents
Sibling(s)
Spouse(s)	Melissa Delgado (Deceased) Charumati
Children	Cordelia Dawn Walton aka Cory Kaeden Walton (adopted son) Kimber Walton (adopted daughter)
Grandchild	Sarah and Sylvia, Mary Ellen and William Kailin
Other relative(s)
Affiliations
Affiliation(s)	Force de Guerre Bad Company's Direct Action Branch
Occupation	Marine, Mercenary, Leader of the Force de Guerre
Occupation	Solider
Books
Debut	We Have Contact
Appearances/Mentions	The Bad Company Judge, Jury and Executioner

Overview

• Main Series - minor character
• Sub-series - primary protagonist in Terry Henry Walton Chronicles and The Bad Company books.
• Becomes the companion to Dokken in Gateway to the Universe
• Terry called out “Wagons…HO!” every time they left camp on the big move from New Boulder to North Chicago.
• He loves Cheetos.

Family

Terry – age 65 at the beginning of the Nomad series, 45 on WWDE.

Wife: Charumati aka Char.

Children:

• Cordelia Dawn aka Cory
  • Marries Ramses,
  • two daughters: Sarah Jennifer and Sylvia
• Kaeden (adopted son, at about age 9)
  • Marries Marcie Spires
  • a son and a daughter: Mary Ellen and William who decided to stay fully human and age normally, nether ever have children.
•  Kimber (adopted daughter and Kaeden’s older sister, when they are reunited, she comes to live with TH and Char, too.)
  • Marries Auburn Weathers
  • Son: Kailin

Activities

The Kurtherian Gambit

After Bethany Anne met with some of the world leaders (‘’We Have Contact’’) and told them about the Aliens, both the ones that just arrived in the system and the ones that have been on Earth for centuries and that more may be coming, the World leaders instead of preparing their people decided to put together teams of Archeologist to search for more alien tech on Earth.  They put together three teams, one for Iran, one for the Antarctica and one for South America.

but I think what they really want me for is my incredible ability to remember facts and figures and provide them as needed in places without internet.

–TH to Melissa,

We Have Contact

Terry is part of a group of people asked to go on a archeology dig looking for Alien technology in Iran/Syria,  Melissa is also going as an archeologist and it is how they first met.

Terry doesn’t feel good about their changes in Syria, so he contacts someone to get him some special ammunition to take with him.  When they discover that an attack is imminent, he reaches out to his contact once again for help.  The contact turns out to be Dan Bosse, but since Bethany Anne is on her way after Stephanie Lee, Lance Reynolds, Akio and a group of guardians from the Australian Base heads toward Terry’s position to help them.

He has a photographic, or eidetic memory for facts and figures. When the first group he's involved in gets into trouble he's able to contact TQB to obtain support, and both Lance and Aiko participate in the operation to rescue him.

Life Goes On

Bethany Anne returns to planet Earth to pick up Michael and her friends she had left behind.

Terry Henry Walton Chronicles

Terry fills on what happened to him prior to WWDE, Melissa and a number of others run away from the Schwabenland base in order to draw the marines off, their snowmobile breaks down, and they start to freeze to death. Bethany Anne finds them and discovers that Terry Henry has tried to save Melissa by throwing himself over her body to slow her rate of freezing, near death it takes a med-pod to prevent Terry from succumbing, and Aiko remarks to Bethany Anne that Terry is one of the good ones and as a result she allows him Stage 2 enhancement.

Saved from freezing to death by Bethany Anne right after she chased off the Magestic-12 group and the US Navy in My Ride Is A Bitch.  Terry and Melissa marry, settle down and have a baby, then WWDE happened and Melissa and the baby dies in the aftermath.  Terry takes off to the wilderness and lives as a hermit for 20 years before he stumbles out of hiding.

At the time of WWDE Terry Henry is 45 years old, and has been enhanced to stage 2.

Nomad Found

WWDE +20 and Terry's isolation is shattered by a pack of werewolves that he runs to escape from.

The Second Dark Ages

Bethany calls upon The Bad Company to bring the War Axe to Earth to use its advanced tractor beam capabilities to lift the debris off Queen's Elites who had been trapped for 150 years under a building in Japan. In the post recovery meeting TH and Char meet Michael for the first time and remind Bethany Anne of how she met and enhanced TH in the past.

The Bad Company Series

At the start of Discovery, Terry reminisces that when he was enhanced Bethany Anne told him he'd live for about 100 years, and she'd be interested to see what he does with that time. In Jack the Ripper Rivka Anoa is told that as part of their retirement Terry and Char will not be taking any life extending treatments in the pod doc, they will age and die based on the treatments they have had in the past. (Note: he is over 200 years old at this point, a little over 155 years since he was enhanced)

The Bad Company

TH's first assignment is to enforce a contract on Tissikinnon Four for the Crenellians. The team of 50 are dropped directly into a fire fight where they fight for their lives, killing thousands of Podders, the natives calling Tissikinnon, Poddern. Terry's nature is to only kill when necessary and to this point despite the vast battle none of his people have been killed. The team captures a Podder and Joseph probes the Podder's mind to establish contact. Terry's primary objective at this point is to get to the planetary HQ for the Podders and the Crenellians to deescalate the situation.

Joseph finds out the Pods know they are at fault. They signed the contract, got what they wanted and then started an earthquake that buried all the Crenellians. Joseph also informs them there are multiple clans of the Podders and they are located in the midst of a clan that is at war with the clan of their prisoner. Worse, the Podder clans speak different languages and the prisoner also cannot understand the Podders they have to fight for the resupply pod.

The Branch members are upset by the shear violence against the Podders. They are glad when Boudin, their prisoner, suggests the use bright light to push the mainly underground dwelling Podders back.

Once TH gets into the main Crennillian enclave they shut down the defensive capabilities and renegotiates the contract between the Podders and the Crennillians. The new contract will have the Podders mine the material the Crennillians want and the Podders will get paid with the technology they need. Since the Podders do not value the materials and naturally live underground making tunnels it is a win for both species. Boudin becomes a hero to the Podders but requests to go with the Branch. TH also asks Ankh'Po'Turn to go with them and be their liaison with the Crennillians.

Blockade

The Branch is sent to Alcon Prime to eliminate a blockade that is preventing them from getting parts for their atmosphere generators. Despite the upgrades Ted and Plato have made to the War Axe the War Axe's shields were damaged on contact with the blockading fleet. Disturbing is that the technology used against War Axe appears to have been developed by Team BMW.

The second attack on the blockade is made via a War Axe fly-by dropping of the 12 mech warriors, Ted, Plato, Ankh'Po'Turn and Boudin.. The teams find the ships are built to federation standards and manned by male humans. The humans are from a culture where the best men are kept on planet with women for breeding and the rest of the men are sent out on the battleships. These humans are being controlled by an AI called Ten that is distributed across the blockade ships. The team successful destroys or neutralizes the ships partly because Ten took for granted humans would be complacent and do as directed. Plato and Ankh trap an copy of Ten and send him to Team BMW at R2D2 to evaluate with warnings the AI is malevolent and powerful. The team also finds the EMP technology was actually Ten's first and was purchased by R2D2 from a salvaged ship.

1,000 humans are taken prisoners. They are consolidated onto one of the blockade carriers and efforts are made to resocialize them.

Ten's home planet is known based on information retrieved by Ted, Plato and Ankh. It is close to Benitus Seven, a planet on the edge of the federation. The non-humanoids on the planet are being attacked while there is a concern the planet is the focus of a tear in the interdimensional boundary.

Price of Freedom

On the way to Ten's home world is Benitus Seven at the edge of Federation space. A species is attacking the native, non-humanoid population via an interdimensional rift. In addition to protecting the population the Branch needs to stop the rift before it grows too large.

They find an abandoned space station that appears to hold the key to miniaturization of Etheric devices. When Ankh and Ted remove some of the devices the station goes into a shutdown that almost kills them with oxygen deprivation. Terry saves Dokken by creating an opening in his ship suit and taping Dokken to the suit at Terry's face. When they meet the inhabitants of Benitus Seven the locals are very unhappy with the damage done to the station and the presence of the Branch. Joseph can communicate telepathically with the Benitusans and negotiates for the Branch to reopen and staff the station as well as take care of the Skrima coming through the rift. In return the Branch will not interact with Benitusans.

The Skrima are 3 meters tall with clawed hands. While the claws cannot go through the mech unit armor, the Skrima can shift their arms and come back on the inside the armor. The mech unit survives their first encounter with the Skrima by continuous fire as the Skrima shift in and out.

Terry determines the Skrima are too widespread for single definitive engagement and asks Ted and Ankh'Po'Turn to develop a Etheric blocker so the Skrima cannot shift and hopefully can be herded back to the rift. While the Branch weres draw on the Etheric, they can also operate outside it which Terry hopes the Skrima cannot. As the drop teams approach the surface they can identify 412 Skrima hunting in pairs.

The Branch finds the Skrima are still extremely fast even without the Etheric and when Branch members are injured their nanocytes are not healing them. Over 100 of the Skirma was killed when Kimber is severely injured and Terry has Ted turn the Etheric back on for 15 minutes to allow her to recover. Unfortunately it also reenergizes the Skirma and Christina is severely injured and Ramses is killed protecting Cory.

In the end none of the Skrima retreated to the rift and all were killed.

Judge, Jury and Executioner

You Have Been Judged

Terry Henry Walton and Charumati stop by to see Nathan Lowell on Onyx Station to collect on the bet that Terry could not stop swearing and to sign a contract for Terry and Char to get an All Guns Blazing franchise on Onyx. They are introduced to Rivka Anoa who will evaluate the contract from a legal perspective. Nathan introduces her as an intern but also as the Queen's barrister. Terry is impressed about how she stands up to him and takes out a drunk who bothers her at the AGB.

Destroy The Corrupt

Ankh joins the Rivka's crew on the recommendation of Terry Henry Walton. At this point Erasmus, Ankh pretends Erasmus is in a container he carries, not imbedded on the chip in Ankh's head.

Your Life Is Forfeit

At the request of Rivka, Terry brings the War Axe to Leeds to help resolve a civil waron Leeds Planet.

Terry Walton has skirted the contractual prohibition on pineapple as topping for pizza. The moonsapple tastes identical to a pineapple. He adds bistok ham and calls it a Moonstokle Pie which becomes Rivka's favorite.

Slave Trade

While Rivka is working on the slave trade on Corran, Terry and the team on the War Axe have tracked down and neutralized 2 Skaine warships. One of the ships is given to Rivka along with some crew members to support her growing team.

Fratricide

Rivka contacts TW to let him know that Wenceslaus has transferred to the Wyatt Earp with Clodagh Shortall.

Torch the Sky

Rivka asks Terry and the Bad Company to help resolve the conflict on Tempran Silver when the local military becomes involved, He is especially inclined to help when he arrives and finds out Lewis was injured by an anti-tank rocket to his armor.

Terry Walton rules to live by

• “Because amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics”
• "Never underestimate your enemy"
• "Don’t get in a fistfight if you don’t have to because the other guy can always get in a lucky punch"
• "A fair fight is the only one you lose"
• “Injustice only survives when justice allows it to continue"
• "If you have the ability to act, you have the responsibility."
• "You do what you got to do. Most of the time, it will come out all right. Occasionally? Well sometimes it might come up snake eyes, and you just hope that when you close your eyes a final time, you can be proud of yourself".
• “We’re good at fucking up bad guys. Consider us as meals on space wheels, delivering shit sandwiches to all corners of the ‘verse.”
• “Someday, you may be at peace with your enemies. Make sure you can look them in the face, and not down on them.”
• “Don’t be in a hurry to your own funeral,”
• ‘In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.’ Borrowed from Dwight D Eisenhower
• We don’t have to kill the enemy soldiers, we just have to eliminate their will to fight.
• The one who can decide what to do quickest is the one who wins the fight.
• Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat.
• "We save others’ lives before we get to live our own. It is the way of the servant leaders.”