Ishaq Khan is a police detective and a prominent member of the Second Inquisition, presiding over Operation Antigen, the destruction of London's Kindred. Since then, he has maintained his position as one of the most prominent members of the British wing of the Coalition.
Appearance[]
Detective Inspector Ishaq Khan is a British gentleman for a post-colonial age. He is an imposing, powerfully built and perfectly mannered middle-aged man of Punjabi descent. Khan is always dressed in modern dark Savile Row suits while sporting the traditional turban and beard proscribed by his faith. His very image projects who he is – the perfect British civil servant, with unshakable loyalty to the Crown. He married young and is fiercely protective of his wife, now the only surviving member of his family. He has endured a lifetime of casual prejudice for his origins and faith, and while he receives racist remarks with trademark stoicism, he has zero tolerance for bigots and almost always finds ways to make them regret ever opening their mouths.
Biography[]
In the wake of the London Bombings in 2005, the Met’s Anti-Terrorism Unit SO13 under Detective Inspector Ishaq Khan responded to a series of violent incidents in central London. Suspects behaved like rabid animals and demonstrated incredible strength and resilience. Drug use was given as the official explanation. This theory was given additional credibility by the almost supernatural capabilities of the Mumbai bombers in 2008, widely known to be under the influence of psychedelics and stimulants.
Internally this theory was questioned, as leaked forensic reports highlighted several anomalies, particularly that some of the suspects had already been reported dead for some time. Similar cases were witnessed by personnel attached to an initiative aimed at exposing illegal human trafficking in London called Operation Maxim. Khan made sure to approach and recruit personnel from this and a handful of similar operations. The anomalous suspects became known as “Blanks” when through concerted surveillance it was established that key suspects did not register correctly on thermal imaging cameras.
The suppression of information from above indicated a conspiracy within the Metropolitan Police to conceal the truth from the public and get rid of the officers asking uncomfortable questions. These Kindred efforts would likely have been met with success had they not targeted Ishaq Khan’s family. The plan was to break the incorruptible DI by first threatening, then killing and Embracing his teenage daughter Javeria and his older son Lashkar. The plot had the opposite effect, galvanizing Khan to the point where his Sikh faith and loyalty to the Crown became an unquenchable fire of True Faith.
Believing he had nothing left to lose, Detective Inspector Ishaq Khan formed a loyal cell of officers who pledged to investigate the truth behind the conspiracy. When the Met’s SO13 was reorganized in 2006 to form the new Counter Terrorism Command unit SO15, Khan was approached covertly by senior officers in the Met who were aware of his work, and who similarly shared his concerns. Together they formed their own dark operational unit internally dubbed the Extraordinary Counter-Terrorism Unit (ECTU).
Character Sheet[]
- Standard dice pools: Physical 5, Social 4, Mental 5
- Secondary Attributes: Health 7, Willpower 7
- Exceptional dice pools: Awareness 7, Firearms 6, Intimidation 6, Investigation 7, Melee 7
- Notable traits: True Faith 3.