AGE: 36
HEIGHT:183 cm
WEIGHT:82 kg
BROWN HAIR
BROWN EYES
Shepherd served 15 years as a Security Cartel officer, holding several site chief and subchief assignments across the globe. He was assigned to Luna in 93.4 as Deputy Security Chief (Mines), in charge of supervising the physical security of the mining operation itself. His disenchantment with the WEC and SecCart began with misgivings over the treatment of WEC convicts in the mines. In screening interviews he has stated that, in addition to reservations over the general inhumanity of the mining operations, he was particularly aware of the fact that nonviolent political dissidents were often more harshly treated by their captors than violent criminals and social deviants.
He first made contact with the Resistance in 93.11, desiring to leak information on human rights abuses and obtain covert humanitarian relief for members of the mine gangs. Over the course of the next 16 months he steadily increased his Resistance involvement to encompass general intelligence gathering, smuggling (material and personnel) and occasional sabotage. He became the Resistance�s highest-level operative in the LMC hierarchy. In 95.6 Shepherd and central command came to a joint decision that further double-agent operations might jeopardize Shepherd�s safety and Resistance security. Shepherd returned to Earth for a seven-week furlough, during which time he received further Resistance training and indoctrination. After his return to Luna, on 95.7.25, Shepherd�s �death� in a prospecting hovershuttle crash was successfully staged.
After the �accident,� Shepherd was smuggled back to Darkside station, where he became the Resistance�s first full-time underground guerrilla officer on Luna, with a Resistance rank of Major (promoted 96.4). He now serves as commander for all lunar military operations. Shepherd is an experienced and competent commander and administrator. In his months in charge of Lunar operations he has been responsible for major improvements in recruitment and training, and has materially assisted intelligence in enhancing the efficiency of their operations.
Note: Although Shepherd is still officially regarded as deceased on public records, it is by now a virtual certainty that WEC counterintelligence on Luna knows or strongly suspects that he is alive and operating on behalf of the Resistance. As long as his location remains secret and operational security remains intact, this is considered an acceptable level of risk.