Godzilla: King Of The Monsters Monarch Operatives Files

Below are the Monarch Operatives files direct from the Monarch Sciences website, there are some interesting tidbits within the file like Sam Coleman is "running" the Monarch Sciences Twitter, and some classic easter eggs in Serizawa's profile (names). Check them all out below including Charles Dance's character's "official" reveal, not James Conrad(?). 

DR. ILENE CHEN
MONARCH ACTIVATION 05.10.2008
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
SENIOR MYTHOGRAPHER, TITAN RESEARCH & CONTAINMENT

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, GENEALOGY, GEOMYTHOLOGY

EDUCATION_
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY - M.S. MYTH AND FABLE, PEKING UNIVERSITY - PH.D. COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY

NEXT OF KIN_
SEE MONARCH FILE 1691.03.7 [SCARLET SECURITY CLEARANCE ONLY]

STATUS_ ACTIVE
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BACKGROUND
Dr. Ilene Chen is Monarch’s leading mythologist—using ancient mythology as a guiding light for Titan research and reconnaissance. By studying primeval belief systems, local superstitions and forgotten folklore, she builds a profile of lifeforms long forgotten by history. For Chen, myth is far more than just a book in a library or a tapestry in a museum. As her grandmother Mei taught her, “myth is our compass.”

That compass most recently drew her to a group of loggers in China’s Yunnan province unsettled by what they reported as mysterious “singing” in the surrounding rain forest. Correlating audio recordings of the haunting sounds with local myths of powerful singing forest spirits, Dr. Chen and her sister, Dr. Ling, led Dr. Emma Russell and her recon team through the surrounding mountains where they discovered an ancient temple believed to be over twelve thousand years old: the Temple of the Moth. Inside, one of our world’s most wondrous myths came to life with the discovery of a living chrysalis: Titanus Mosura, known to the ancients as Mothra.

As third generation Monarch, Dr. Chen continues a grand family legacy of brilliant Monarch operatives making some of the greatest evolutionary discoveries in the history of mankind. But Chen is not motivated solely by science or ambition. For her, this mission is deeply personal, even spiritual. As the mother of two daughters, she hopes the discovery of the Titans will lead to a better and more enlightened world. Because where others see monsters, Chen sees the entire natural history of our planet—all the way back to a time when mankind and gods walked the earth together, and when humans lived in harmony with nature instead of trying to control it.

DR. SAM COLEMAN
​MONARCH ACTIVATION 05.11.2015
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
COMPUTER SCIENCE, STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL OS MANAGEMENT, CROWD-SOURCING AND NEURAL NETWORKING

EDUCATION_
MCGILL UNIVERSITY - M.S. APPLIED MATHMATICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY - PH.D. COMPUTER SCIENCE

NEXT OF KIN_
MICHAEL COLEMAN [FATHER], CARLY COLEMAN [MOTHER]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
While his father loudly hoped he would grow up to become a professional hockey player, it became clear that was never going to happen by the time Sam received his bachelor’s degree at age 14. Precociously gifted and technologically obsessed, Sam grew up in the suburbs of British Columbia, and while his friends were playing pee wee pond hockey out on the ice, he was refurbishing vintage arcade cabinets and reselling them to collectors as self-taught lessons in electronics and finance. He took up speedcubing as a way to slow his mind, which inspired a permutation-based algorithm for the first self-learning computer program he developed at age 15.

Joining Monarch after turning down several lucrative job offers in the private sector, he went on to lead the development and launch of Monarch Sciences—a multinational global communications network that provides public access to Monarch’s now declassified files, ushering in a new era of transparency and connectivity in a post-Godzilla world. His first assignment was digitally cataloging Monarch’s expansive data archives, and after pouring through years of sightings and evidence dating back to the dawn of myth, he thrilled at the awe-inspiring nature of these remarkable creatures, instilling him with the child-like wonder an academia-driven youth had denied him.

He was quickly promoted to Director of Technology, and now oversees all aspects of Monarch’s proto-tech—from networking and communications, to advanced weapon and early warning systems—often called to speak at government hearings on behalf of Monarch’s ever-escalating budgets. Despite his incredibly busy schedule, he still takes pride in personally tweeting updates on @MonarchSciences—occasionally from the office computer he keeps next to his retro arcade cabinet.

DR. VIVIENNE GRAHAM
MONARCH ACTIVATION 01.10.1999
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
SENIOR PALEOZOOLOGIST

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, BIOLOGY, FOSSIL ANALYSIS

EDUCATION_
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON - MSCI (HONS) GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD - DPHIL EARTH SCIENCES

NEXT OF KIN_
SUSAN GRAHAM [MOTHER]

STATUS_ ACTIVE
​
BACKGROUND
Dr. Graham was raised by her mother in a single-parent household, but did inherit her early passion for dinosaurs from a father who died before she was born. Like him, she was always attracted to the wonders of nature at its most monstrous.

During a middle school field trip to the Natural History Museum in London, she snuck away from the group to explore on her own, staying overnight among the fossils and artifacts that had become her childhood obsession. Her panicked mother was relieved to find her peacefully asleep at the foot of a brontosaurus skeleton late that evening.

Growing up to become a naturally gifted Paleobiologist, Dr. Graham was personally recruited to Monarch by Dr. Serizawa, who quickly became her mentor and in some ways the father figure she never had. Vivienne valued Serizawa’s leadership and expertise; he valued her constantly challenging him with scientific focus and what began as mentorship soon evolved into partnership.

Dr. Graham has an expert eye for fossil analysis and paleo-forensics, often joking that she can read striations in bone fragments like her grandmother could read tea leaves. An expert eye in this field is exactly what Serizawa needed, leading to her first field assignment examining an unidentified Titan skeleton found in the Philippines in 1999. A shared fascination with Titanus Gojira bonded the pair through many missions leading to the events of San Francisco in 2014, during which her courage and commitment would mark her out as a key member of Monarch’s leadership team in a post-Godzilla world.

Dr. Graham joined Monarch with the promise of studying live specimens during a time when others would scoff at such a notion, but it was an offer she could not refuse. To live a life of adventure beyond anything that little girl asleep in the Natural History Museum could ever possibly dream of.

DR. EMMA RUSSELL
MONARCH ACTIVATION 05.04.2007
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
CHIEF PALEOBIOLOGIST AND DIRECTOR OF BIOACOUSTIC STUDIES

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, BIOACOUSTICS, ECHOLOCATION, GEOBIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

EDUCATION_
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER - M.S. BIOLOGY, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - PH.D. PALEOBIOLOGY

NEXT OF KIN_
JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS [MOTHER], GENE WILLIAMS [FATHER], MADISON RUSSELL [DAUGHTER], ANDREW RUSSELL [SON], MARK RUSSELL [SPOUSE*]

STATUS_ ACTIVE [CURRENTLY STATIONED AT OUTPOST 61]
​
BACKGROUND
Emma Russell brought herself to the attention of Monarch without even knowing Monarch existed. In 2005, the crypto-zoological agency detected an abnormal sonic pulse wave signal emanating from the greater Boston area that matched previously recorded Titansong in both frequency and strength. Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham were immediately dispatched to the region with a Monarch field unit to investigate, suspecting the emergence of a new superspecies, only to discover two doctoral candidates at MIT working on the prototype of a revolutionary communication device that had the potential to alter the course of human and Titan co-existence forever: the ORCA.

Building a reputation as a maverick at a young age, and described by early lecturers as “brilliant but rebellious”, Emma has a history of involvement in environmental activism with the occasional arrest stemming from protest participation. Emma and her husband Mark Russell revolutionized inter-species communication with their groundbreaking research in the field of bioacoustics.

The staggering potential for what the Orca was capable of became evident once Emma and Mark were activated at Monarch. They disagreed on the world-changing implications of the technology and Mark resigned from Monarch shortly after the 2014 San Francisco incident citing personal reasons.

A dedicated mother, Emma is currently on assignment at Monarch Outpost 61 with her daughter Madison while leading the on-going specimen research into the embryonic Titanus Mosura. Driven by a sense of duty to both her child and the planet, Emma is determined to do whatever it takes to prepare Maddie for a brave new world.

DR. MARK RUSSELL
MONARCH ACTIVATION 05.04.2007
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
SENIOR ANTHROZOOLOGIST

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
WILDLIFE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, ZOOMUSICOLOGY, BIOCOMMUNICATION, APEX PREDATION

EDUCATION_
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY - M.S. ETHOLOGY AND PH.D. BIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - PH.D. BIOACOUSTICS

NEXT OF KIN_
GEORGE RUSSELL [FATHER], MADISON RUSSELL [DAUGHTER], ANDREW RUSSELL [SON], EMMA RUSSELL [SPOUSE*]

STATUS_ INACTIVE

BACKGROUND
Mark Russell was always better at listening than talking. His lifelong fascination with the sounds made by the animal kingdom began as a small boy in Warren Valley Ohio, holding endless conversations with his family’s beloved German Shepherd, convinced he could understand every noise she made. Growing into a highly-respected, multi-discipline expert in the fields of animal behavior and communication, he is happiest in the company of the wild.

He first came to Monarch’s attention as co-lead on Project ORCA along with his wife, Dr. Emma Russell. Falling in love to the music of nature, the hotshot MIT post-grad duo had together become one of the leading authorities in the field of bioacoustics, jokingly nicknaming their sonic lab the “Planet of Sound” in honor of their shared passion for the Massachusetts band Pixies. The ORCA represented an evolutionary leap in inter-species communication. Initially developed to keep whales and dolphins away from shorelines, the crowning achievement of the device is an ultrasonic wave map that can detect, transmit and translate audio at any frequency with remarkable speed and accuracy. When they first activated the prototype, Monarch immediately detected the signal and converged on the lab to investigate, ultimately giving Mark and Emma the opportunity to answer their true calling.

As an avid outdoorsman, Mark always preferred pure field work over the political machinations of Monarch and its remit to find a way for humanity to coexist with monsters. Nevertheless, he followed his wife’s dream to communicate with nature at its most extraordinary, even if he feared that some aspects of the natural world should always remain beyond our understanding.

DR. ISHIRŌ SERIZAWA
MONARCH ACTIVATION 06.12.1981
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
SEE PERSONNEL NOTES

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
BIODIVERSITY, ZOOLOGY, SYMBIOSIS PATTERNING, CLIMATOLOGY, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, SUPERSPECIES: TITANUS GOJIRA

EDUCATION_
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO - PH.D. ECOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD - PH.D. ELEMENTAL BIOLOGY

NEXT OF KIN_
SEE MONARCH FILE 51.391 [SCARLET SECURITY CLEARANCE ONLY]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
If Godzilla is King of the Monsters, Ishirō Serizawa is Monarch royalty. Son of founding father Eiji Serizawa, his family legacy has been woven into the very fabric of Monarch’s DNA from its inception.

Born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, Serizawa grew up in the aftermath of the unimaginable tragedy that first awoke Titanus Gojira, forging a powerful bond between man and monster that has become the driving force in his life. His father taught him to respect the harmony between man and nature from an early age, core values of co-existence that he would embody as Monarch’s guiding principal. He still carries his father’s pocket watch with him, a broken timepiece that reminds him of the ultimate price of mankind’s destructive nature.

Serizawa is a man of quiet reserve, fond of the classical works of Wagner and the poetry of Matsuo Bashō. He dedicated his life to Titan study and preservation at a time when the mere idea of their existence was nothing more than a punchline at the end of a cryptozoological funding proposal. When Godzilla revealed himself to the world in 2014 the laughter stopped, and desperate governments turned to him as humanity’s leading authority on creatures thought to be myth. Now when Serizawa speaks, the world listens.

A revered figure in the scientific community, it was during a speaking engagement at Oxford University in 1997 that he first discovered a brilliant doctoral candidate in paleobiology—Dr. Vivienne Graham. Impressed with her remarkable talent and passion, what began as a mentorship grew into a partnership of two extraordinary intellects that would become the guiding force for Monarch into the 21st century.

Although Dr. Serizawa is the tip of the spear at Monarch, he refuses to carry an official title stating: “In order for Monarch to maintain a balance between mankind and Titans, we must first maintain an equal balance of self.” To Serizawa, there is no higher order.

A fiercely private man, much of Serizawa’s life remains a mystery even to his closest colleagues at Monarch. Fitting for a man with an almost spiritual connection to nature and its most powerful guardian.

DR. RICK STANTON
MONARCH ACTIVATION 05.24.1989
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
CRYPTO-SONOGRAPHER

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
AUDIO FORENSICS, SUB-FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING, SOUND WAVE CALCULATION, COGNITIVE AND TEMPORAL AUDIO PROCESSING, BIORHYTHMIC THREAT ASSESSMENT

EDUCATION_
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - M.S. MATHEMATICS, CARNEGIE MELON UNIVERSITY - PH.D. AUDIO AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

NEXT OF KIN_
DENNIS STANTON [SON], KELLY STANTON [DAUGHTER-IN-LAW]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
Overseeing a sophisticated global network of sensor arrays that he commands like a rackmount of vintage synthesizers, Dr. Rick Stanton can tune into the heartbeat of the world. As Monarch’s leading early warning specialist, it is his job to turn sound into strategy, by analyzing the sonics of superspecies to predict the behaviors they will enact upon the world. Recording everything, Stanton catalogs Monarch’s expansive Titan audio forensics database known as “the Ark.”

As brilliant as he is high-strung, Rick would much prefer to be alone in a lab than in a room full of people that don’t have the necessary perspective to understand his brilliance. He began his career as a communications engineer for SETI before joining Landsat as a satellite mapping technician in the 1980’s, an experience he credits with giving him a “god’s eye view of the world.”

Becoming increasingly intrigued by company whispers of a covered-up mission to Skull Island in 1973, he reached out to one of the rumored Skull Island project leads, Dr. Houston Brooks, and the two like minds soon became close friends. Brooks introduced him to Dr. Serizawa who knew a true believer when he saw one, and shortly after Stanton was offered a position at Monarch. To most, the idea of Titans sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory. To Stanton, it sounded like a dream job opportunity.

Dr. Stanton oversaw the Monarch Sciences satellite tracking system until he was offered a field assignment on Monarch’s underwater surveillance team at Castle Bravo and jumped at the opportunity. As a longtime proponent of Dr. Brooks’ Hollow Earth theory, being stationed underwater puts his ear to the wall of what he believes is a vast and unexplored ecosystem deep within the Earth.

His dedication to his work has put strain on his personal life, and he’s been divorced three times as a result. Said Stanton: “I can measure the distance between sub-aquatic splinter pulses ten miles apart without using a harmonic density amplifier, but I apparently can’t detect a woman’s heartbeat.” He remains married to the insanity of his job, and it’s truly the happiest he’s ever been in a relationship.

MADISON RUSSELL
​FAMILY DEPENDENT CLEARANCE FILE
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
******************N/A

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
******************N/A

EDUCATION_
******************N/A

NEXT OF KIN_
EMMA RUSSELL [MOTHER], MARK RUSSELL [FATHER], ANDREW RUSSELL [BROTHER]

STATUS_ NON-OPERATIVE

BACKGROUND
NON-OPERATIVE PERSONNEL FILE KEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH MONARCH SECURITY REGULATIONS.

Growing up in a time of monsters, 12-year-old Madison Russell has spent much of her young life traveling the world on field assignments with her mother, Dr. Emma Russell, who is currently stationed at Monarch Outpost 61 deep in the mountain jungles of China. Her Monarch Field Tutor reports that she is remarkably academically gifted (as expected, given her parentage) although perhaps impatient with structured study programs. In short, she yearns to be out of a classroom and learning hands-on, but her requests for containment access have been denied by her mother. Until then, she spends her free time studying the unique ecosystem of insects that breathe life into the jungle. Fertile ground for her interest in Titans to grow

She maintains a somewhat distant relationship with her father, Dr. Mark Russell, who resigned from Monarch in 2014 citing personal reasons. Recently, records show she has been communicating with him several times a week, though isolation in the dense jungle can make stable comm-links problematic.

Despite several security violations and residential infractions at Outpost 61, above all else Madison has shown she just wants to live a normal life as she heads into her teenage years, trying to fill her evenings with the normalcy of video games, YouTube, and music playlists. But the haunting Titansong echoing from the Temple of the Moth continues to call to her innate sense of scientific curiosity.

JACKSON BARNES
MONARCH ACTIVATION 02.03.2015
PERSONNEL FILE
RANK_
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER

TACTICAL EXPERTISE_
A-12 BIO-MAG RIFLE, PROTO-ARTILLERY, ADVANCED WARFIGHTING, MUNITIONS SPECIALISM, FIELD ARTILLERY TARGETING TECHNICIAN

EDUCATION_
GEORGIA MILITARY SCHOOL

NEXT OF KIN_
STEPHANIE BARNES [SISTER]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
As a kid, Jackson Barnes grew up loving monster movies. He never figured he’d end up in one. Wanting to serve and protect for as long as he can remember, Barnes aced military training to become an expert in munitions and heavy explosives for the armed forces and jumped at the chance to try out for Monarch’s G-Team military attaché.

Spending much of his military career on board seagoing vessels gave Barnes a fascination with what lies beneath the waves, and as sightings of Godzilla became more and more scarce, he would request night patrols of the upper decks in the hope of seeing a distinctive blue glow lighting up the ocean. Barnes would have given anything to witness “the Big Guy” up close. It wouldn’t be long before he got his chance.

His interest and expertise in field testing proto-ordinance ultimately led Barnes to his first assignment for Monarch under Col. Foster, as a weapons consultant during ballistic trials of specially-formulated tracer munitions. Acknowledging that such ballistics were designed to serve more as a distraction than a deterrent, Barnes said: “As a soldier, you go into Titan engagements just hoping to slow it down. Failing that, my job is to make the Titan my problem, not someone else’s.”

DIANE FOSTER
MONARCH ACTIVATION 01.01.2015
PERSONNEL FILE
RANK_
COLONEL

TACTICAL EXPERTISE_
AERIAL COMBAT SPECIALIST, MULTIPLE AIRBORNE COM-SEC LICENSES, EXTREME WEATHER WARFARE, ALL-TERRAIN AND AIRBORNE COMBAT, MASER ORDINANCE

EDUCATION_
CALIBER MILITARY INSTITUTE - M.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE

NEXT OF KIN_
JAY FOSTER [SPOUSE], CHASE FOSTER [SON]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
Colonel Diane Foster is the battle-hardened leader of G-Team—the highly-specialized defense arm of Monarch, comprised of member state soldiers from the world’s military forces, all focused on maintaining security and safety around the global emergence of Titanus Gojira.

Training soldiers in Titan tactical warfare and engagement is no easy feat, but as a former instructor of the 75th U.S. Army Ranger Regiment, Colonel Foster knows how to elevate a soldier’s expertise to prepare them for the most extreme challenges they’ll ever face in combat.

With a highly decorated career that took her from supersonic air force raids to tactical leadership on the world’s most dangerous frontlines, she has built a reputation as a force of human nature to be reckoned with.

Inspiring courage among her troops by testing her own, Foster keeps a watchful eye over a world forever changed by the emergence of Godzilla from the bridge of Monarch’s airborne command-ship Argo. When the Colonel was first recruited by Monarch with unlimited resources to train and build G-Team, she only requested one thing: the best soldiers. Said Foster: “I don’t train soldiers to use weapons. I train soldiers to become weapons.”

LAUREN GRIFFIN
MONARCH ACTIVATION 02.03.2015
PERSONNEL FILE
RANK_
FIRST LIEUTENANT

TACTICAL EXPERTISE_
F-35 FIGHTER JET, MONARCH OSPREY, U.S.S. ARGO COMMAND SHIP

EDUCATION_
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY - B.S. MILITARY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

NEXT OF KIN_
NONE

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
When the sky comes alive with a storm of fire you need a skilled pilot that radiates an aura of confidence even brighter. First Lieutenant Lauren Griffin is that pilot.

Unpredictability is everything when flying combat missions against Titans. These living natural disasters can change wind speeds, alter gravitational fluctuations, and shatter the laws of physics. Griffin’s skill and courage under fire earned her a roster spot on the elite G-Team to pilot Monarch’s massive sky fortress, the supersonic stealth-wing Argo.

As a witness to the destruction wreaked upon San Francisco in the Godzilla/ MUTO clash, Griffin doesn’t always agree with Monarch’s stated goal of working with the Titans for the good of mankind. She says: “I can applaud those who are chasing the dream of co-existence with the Titans. But we have to be ready to try the other thing.

ANTHONY MARTINEZ
MONARCH ACTIVATION 02.03.2015
PERSONNEL FILE
RANK_
STAFF SARGEANT

TACTICAL EXPERTISE_
A-12 BIO-MAG RIFLE, EXTREME WEATHER WARFARE, MX-9 SENTRY CANNONS, COMBAT SEARCH AND RESCUE SPECIALIST

EDUCATION_
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY - B.A. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

NEXT OF KIN_
AL MARTINEZ [FATHER], ANGELA MARTINEZ [MOTHER]

STATUS_ ACTIVE

BACKGROUND
A reservist at FEMA before joining the military, rescuing people from natural disasters was more than just a job for Martinez. Raised by parents who instilled in him the value of community and looking out for one another, he grew into the kind of guy who would run into a burning building while everyone else ran the other way.

Some soldiers want to fight, some soldiers want to protect, and the Titan specialists at G-Team would give him the chance to find out how far he could test the courage demanded by those instincts. Recruited by Colonel Foster for his expertise in combat search and rescue, Martinez wants to do his part in a world that feels more endangered than ever before.

COL. ALAN JONAH
**** NON-MONARCH OPERATIVE ****
PERSONNEL FILE
TITLE_
UNKNOWN

AREAS OF EXPERTISE_
COMPUTER SCIENCE, STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL WEAPON OPERATING SYSTEMS, FIELD ARTILLERY, INTERROGATION

MILITARY HISTORY_
MI6 SPECIAL AGENT 1990–2004, TOURS OF DUTY IN KOSOVO, BOSNIA - DEFECTED, BRITISH ARMY COLONEL - DEFECTED

NEXT OF KIN_
UNKNOWN

CURRENT WHEREABOUTS_ 
UNKNOWN

BACKGROUND
In a world destabilized by the Titan revelation, Jonah is a master of chaos. A defected British Army Colonel and MI6 agent gone rogue, he has been connected to a highly-skilled team of armed mercenary cells operating behind a smokescreen of socio-political subterfuge. A profile formed by psyche evaluations and revolutionary propaganda reveals a man disillusioned by governments and obsessed with leveling the global playing field through stolen weapon technology.

Monarch first became aware of Jonah after he was apprehended on suspicion of attempting to infiltrate a MUTO dig site in 2005.

Little else is known about Jonah’s current whereabouts, but he has been tagged as a Class-1 eco-terror threat. With his interest in Titans still unclear, one thing is sure: having lived through some of the most brutal theaters of conflict as a troubled military agent, Jonah believes he has seen firsthand the monster that humanity can become.