Melanie Sanchez (Cyberpunk I)
LeftsideLock
Big Jedi Mullet
- Location
- East Bay, CA
Mostly for worldbuilding an absurd (and parochially self-indulgent) cyberpunk universe, but maybe featuring other things here and there.
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With special thanks to @Gryphon for graphical support.
Melanie Sanchez is an American politician and activist who represents District 4 on the Oakland City Council, a position she has held since January of 2079. She is a member of the Green Party, and was elected with 61.2% of the vote in her district, unseating Jane Ramirez, the Democratic incumbent.
Melanie Sanchez is a veteran of World War III. She enlisted in the California Army National Guard in August of 2071 at age 19, several weeks before she was due to start her sophomore year of college. She underwent and completed basic training at Fort Ord (one of the last training companies to complete the full pre-War basic training before it was shortened for manpower reasons), where she also underwent an abbreviated version of Military Police School. She was assigned to the 49th Military Police Brigade, which conducted several months of training before being declared combat ready.
Sanchez’s battalion was attached to the 223rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which shipped to Okinawa several weeks after the successful completion of the Relief of the island. The 223rd spent several months on the island during the buildup for the assault of Hong Kong. The Battle of Hong Kong ground on for several years and bled into the immediately following Battle of Shenzen. Sanchez’ four-year enlistment was extended “for the duration” in August of 2075.
In November of 2075, still in Shenzen, Sanchez was wounded in action when her vehicle was hit with an anti-vehicle rocket. In addition to shrapnel wounds, Sanchez’ right arm was traumatically amputated. She spent several months recovering, first in a combat support hospital in Hong Kong, briefly on Okinawa, and then chiefly at Fort Ord’s hospital. She was medically discharged in March of 2076, three months before the June ceasefire that ended major combat operations in China.
Following her discharge, Sanchez returned to Oakland, and became involved in politics as an activist with the Green Party, championing the party’s environmental causes and policy initiatives for an economically depressed and environmentally degraded Bay Area. Sanchez also became involved with veterans’ issues and causes, particularly with the hundreds of thousands of veterans returning home to the Bay and many thousands more who gravitated to the area in the aftermath of demobilization. Sanchez, as a wounded veteran herself, became particularly involved with wounded veterans, a very high percentage of which were “rebuilds,” so-called due to the prevalence of cybernetic prosthetics. Rebuilds, particularly those with visible cybernetics, faced varying degrees of discrimination and marginalization from certain segments of society. Sanchez was also a noted anti-radicalization activist in the veteran community, as many returning veterans gravitated to extreme far-right and far-left politics in the aftermath of the War, in particular paramilitary street groups.
Sanchez was chosen as the Green Party’s candidate for District 4 in the 2078 Oakland City Council elections, launching her campaign with an event atop the city’s sea-wall, nicknamed the Great Overreaction, pledging to revitalize and expand the wall’s green spaces. In addition to advocating for the party’s platform with a focus on urban regreening, conservation and protection of local wildlife and wetland habitats, and combatting pollution of the Bay’s waters, Sanchez campaigned on veterans’ issues, anti-radicalization, and pledged to fight police corruption with a particular emphasis on far-right paramilitary sympathy and infiltration of local police organizations.
This made her a target for the same groups, and her Oakland Police Department protection detail was pulled and replaced with an Alameda County Sheriff’s Department detail when the former agency was accused of being “either unwilling or unable” to combat the militant influence in its ranks. The Sheriff’s detail was pulled and replaced (in the wake of similar accusations) when a large detachment of the National Police Force was dispatched to the Bay Area by the federal government to help stabilize the turbulent region.
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With special thanks to @Gryphon for graphical support.
Melanie Sanchez is an American politician and activist who represents District 4 on the Oakland City Council, a position she has held since January of 2079. She is a member of the Green Party, and was elected with 61.2% of the vote in her district, unseating Jane Ramirez, the Democratic incumbent.
Melanie Sanchez is a veteran of World War III. She enlisted in the California Army National Guard in August of 2071 at age 19, several weeks before she was due to start her sophomore year of college. She underwent and completed basic training at Fort Ord (one of the last training companies to complete the full pre-War basic training before it was shortened for manpower reasons), where she also underwent an abbreviated version of Military Police School. She was assigned to the 49th Military Police Brigade, which conducted several months of training before being declared combat ready.
Sanchez’s battalion was attached to the 223rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which shipped to Okinawa several weeks after the successful completion of the Relief of the island. The 223rd spent several months on the island during the buildup for the assault of Hong Kong. The Battle of Hong Kong ground on for several years and bled into the immediately following Battle of Shenzen. Sanchez’ four-year enlistment was extended “for the duration” in August of 2075.
In November of 2075, still in Shenzen, Sanchez was wounded in action when her vehicle was hit with an anti-vehicle rocket. In addition to shrapnel wounds, Sanchez’ right arm was traumatically amputated. She spent several months recovering, first in a combat support hospital in Hong Kong, briefly on Okinawa, and then chiefly at Fort Ord’s hospital. She was medically discharged in March of 2076, three months before the June ceasefire that ended major combat operations in China.
Following her discharge, Sanchez returned to Oakland, and became involved in politics as an activist with the Green Party, championing the party’s environmental causes and policy initiatives for an economically depressed and environmentally degraded Bay Area. Sanchez also became involved with veterans’ issues and causes, particularly with the hundreds of thousands of veterans returning home to the Bay and many thousands more who gravitated to the area in the aftermath of demobilization. Sanchez, as a wounded veteran herself, became particularly involved with wounded veterans, a very high percentage of which were “rebuilds,” so-called due to the prevalence of cybernetic prosthetics. Rebuilds, particularly those with visible cybernetics, faced varying degrees of discrimination and marginalization from certain segments of society. Sanchez was also a noted anti-radicalization activist in the veteran community, as many returning veterans gravitated to extreme far-right and far-left politics in the aftermath of the War, in particular paramilitary street groups.
Sanchez was chosen as the Green Party’s candidate for District 4 in the 2078 Oakland City Council elections, launching her campaign with an event atop the city’s sea-wall, nicknamed the Great Overreaction, pledging to revitalize and expand the wall’s green spaces. In addition to advocating for the party’s platform with a focus on urban regreening, conservation and protection of local wildlife and wetland habitats, and combatting pollution of the Bay’s waters, Sanchez campaigned on veterans’ issues, anti-radicalization, and pledged to fight police corruption with a particular emphasis on far-right paramilitary sympathy and infiltration of local police organizations.
This made her a target for the same groups, and her Oakland Police Department protection detail was pulled and replaced with an Alameda County Sheriff’s Department detail when the former agency was accused of being “either unwilling or unable” to combat the militant influence in its ranks. The Sheriff’s detail was pulled and replaced (in the wake of similar accusations) when a large detachment of the National Police Force was dispatched to the Bay Area by the federal government to help stabilize the turbulent region.
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