- Name: Dalton Edwards
- Rank: Corporal
- Call Sign: Snoop
- Date of Birth: 2007
- Place of Birth: North America
- Status: Unknown (deserted)
Personality
Dalton's fellow soldiers generally regard him as very creepy. He is very secretive and suspicious of everyone and everything, bordering on paranoid at times. Unknown to others, Dalton is a believer in many fringe conspiracy theories and seeks evidence to support his delusions. Angsty and obsessive, Dalton's only friends are the fellow conspiracy theorists he occasionally deals with.
Biography
Dalton had an initially normal childhood in an average middle class family that had managed to maintain their way of life during the Reconstruction. That all changed when a man broke into the family home and murdered everyone except Dalton, who had hidden himself during the massacre. The murderer was never caught, though police believed it to be the work of a psychopathic serial killer. Dalton, seeking a meaning behind his family's brutal death, instead came to believe that the tragedy had been the result of a conspiracy, at that at some point the shadowy figures behind it would come after him.
Dalton's obsession continued to increase as he grew older. He sought out all kinds of fringe theories and conspiracies in an effort to identify the shadowy organization he knew must have been responsible for his family's death. He eventually realized that in order to gain access to the secret gvoernment documents he needed he would need to get at them from the inside.
With his new goal in mind, Dalton set about doctoring his history enough that he could get past the screening process and into the public service. He decided that the easiest route would be through the military so he enlisted. Though he had some trouble with the physical tests, his aptitude with computers and cryptography was enough to get Dalton in. He was pegged for military intelligence service but, not wanting to arouse too much suspicion Dalton opted for mechanized infantry instead. He joined the Armored Corps and specialized in cryptography and languages.
Though not well liked by his peers, Dalton's skills were very valuable during the NWO conflict and his efforts earned him access to some of the secret files he had been looking for. Dalton's research also led him to discover the Network, a group of loosely affiliated conspiracy theorists located all around the world whose goal was to uncover "The Truth". Dalton secretly contacted the group, most of whom only knew each other by code names, and after a trial period was accepted in.
When the Second Robotech War started, Dalton eventually arranged to be transferred to Australia and the 21st ATAC. His curiosity had been piqued by some of what he had learned about the members of the 21st and he wanted to learn more. Once in Australia, Dalton learned that a fellow member of the Network lived nearby and he started exchanging intelligence with him.
Update: When the 21st was placed under arrest and was being investigated the authorities discovered some of Dalton's illegal access of confidential and secret data. Dalton panicked and went AWOL, escaping confinement and fleeing the base after setting fire to all the possessions he could not take with him. Brains managed to rescue some computer hard disks from the fire and the data he was able to retrieve finally revealed Snoop's conspiracy-laden paranoia to the rest of the group.
Call Sign: Both Edwards' sensor operations skill and his creepy habit of watching his fellow soldiers to the point of almost spying on them contributed to his call sign of Snoop.