"...a native of [city], enlisted in [year], and participated in or carried out dozens of military operations, including the Nagaril Counterattack, the Peng Joe Landing War, and the Peng Joe Central Breakthrough War."
"For his outstanding achievements, he was promoted to Army Major after the war."
A personal profile far more detailed than the officer's own televised introduction appeared on the desk in the Presidential Office at the Presidential Palace, as well as in the ears of the ladies and gentlemen present.
It was an exceptionally clean and impressive résumé.
He came from a native Federation family, a typical lower-class Federation family.
His parents ran a small farm. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he was the youngest child in the family.
His mother died of an illness, while his father, after turning to alcohol following his mother's death, passed out drunk on the farm. In the middle of the night, coyotes gnawed him down to half a skeleton.
After their parents died, his older brother inherited the farm, but later went bankrupt due to poor management. He had since become a cowboy, working for other ranchers on the farm that had once belonged to his family.
His sister had married. According to the information, she had not been in contact with him for more than a decade.
Put simply, he was an ordinary yet lonely man.
His wife had died of an illness, and his son had died in the war. He blamed the Federation government's failure to lend a hand for his wife's death...
At that moment, two Federal Bureau of Investigation analysts were studying the criminal's psychology and motives. Using various documents and pieces of information, they began outlining the officer's possible demands and true objective.
A few years earlier, criminal profiling had