Alex and Farah?

Not much is known about Alex Keller's early life and history. Also known by the callsign "Echo 3-1", Alex served in Delta Force before surrendering his former rank and history of special ops military service to the Special Activities Division of the CIA in 2013.[2]

During the next six years in the SAD, Alex lived a series of assumed identities to achieve "sensitive" objectives wherever he is needed, often operating autonomously, training, advising and arming allies to act as interpreters, pathfinders and soldiers. Alex valued direct contact with local militias where he can track both allied and enemy intentions to help advise appropriate action.[2]

His mission profiles included counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, information warfare and anti-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The tools of his trade were laptops, light machine guns, sat-phones, and rocket-equipped combat drones. Alex also led small teams, trained to infiltrate enemy lines and survive inhospitable conditions in hostile locations.

Through 2017, Alex's and his teams played key roles in ensuring definitive victories against emerging terrorist networks. As the SAD is permitted to execute missions against enemies of the state, without consulting the Pentagon or White House, Echo 3-1 has been involved in multiple actions to assassinate enemy leadership.Several months after securing the warhead, Alex and Farah met with Commander Phillip Graves and Interim Commander Osmond "Oz" Ryan of Shadow Company - the former of which was thought to be killed - to discuss the recent presence of Ultranationalist PMC Konni Group in Urzikstan. Unaware of Shadow Company's previous scuffle with Task Force 141, the two of them agreed to partner with Graves' forces to prevent Konni forces from establishing a foothold in Al Mazrah and Urzikstan.

Farah Ahmed Karim was born on January 25th, 1992[1] in the town of Riyzabbi, Urzikstan, to Walid Karim and Fatima Karim. Her childhood is largely unknown, but it can be assumed that she and her brother Hadir studied at an unknown school.

In 1999, when Farah was 7-years-old, Russian forces were present in Urzikstan. Farah and her mother were buried by rubble from a Russian artillery strike, killing the latter. Farah managed to survive and was rescued until the Russians began advancing upon the people of Urzikstan. Being carried by her father to their home to prepare for an escape, Farah and her brother, Hadir, were soon on their own when Russian soldier J-12 broke into their home, murdered their father, and began hunting the children. Farah fought back with sneak attacks using makeshift weapons, eventually killing J-12 with Hadir's aid and taking his gas mask. Farah and Hadir snuck out of their home, evading Russian troopers and attempting to escape via truck. They were then immediately captured by Roman Barkov, the Russian General responsible for invading their homeland, and were taken into his custody to be imprisoned.[3]

Farah is a founding member and the commander of the Urzikstan Liberation Force, battling foreign occupation since 2010. She is renowned not only for leading the resistance against enemy troops but also for establishing protective units to combat terror groups throughout Urzikstan. Under Farah's leadership, civilian militias play a critical role in the fight to return their subjugated population to sovereignty. Her forces comprise male and female volunteer fighters with a maximum age limit. Farah does not allow those under the age of 15 to take part in frontline fighting, but anyone and everyone is invited to undergo military training and join her reserves.[2]

To protect her people from owing a debt to the world, Farah accepts only select funding and equipment from the international community, preferring to keep her forces reliant on their own for material support. Raising her army with little more than commandeered weapons and unofficial support from the SAS's legendary Bravo Squadron, Farah says, “Will is the most powerful weapon.” As a girl, in the opening salvos of the invasion, she and her brother Hadir were captured, spending their teens held as P.O.W. by General Roman Barkov's rogue forces where captives were subjected to forced labor, routinely witnessing acts of chemical experimentation on fellow prisoners.[2]

In 2009, Farah led an escape, fighting alongside a western aide unit. She vowed then to give her life to free her country from subjugation and chaos. When asked if women can be as effective as men in combat, Farah describes the question as sexist and objectifying. Farah wants to give women their rightful place, not only in combat but in a society free from war. For Farah, war is more than the liberation of land. "We are also fighting to free our people from old-fashioned ways."[2] Impressed by seeing females in combat and leadership roles, wives, mothers, and daughters fight without pay, food or medicine to follow Farah into battle.

In their military times, they would be oftentimes would be called "Echo 3-1" for Alex, and for Farah would also be called "Kilo Actual" within that.