Lt. Nash Miller
Summary
Canadian Armed Forces officer whose arrogance and incompetence caused a catastrophic mission failure in Kandahar. Guy LeFleur tried to warn him, but Miller “wasn’t taking any back talk from a lousy frozen frog.” The mission went sideways — Miller cut the wrong wire on an IED, costing Guy an eye and a finger. Several men died. What was supposed to be an easy in-and-out became a grade-one fuck-up.
Miller’s uncle the Colonel and his father in the government ensured he escaped consequences. Guy took the fall instead — demoted and exiled to a punishment posting while Miller was likely transferred laterally or even promoted.
Enemy Mechanics
As Guy’s Enemy disadvantage:
- Power: Less powerful than the PC (50% starting points)
- Intent: Hunter — actively working against Guy
- Frequency: Appears fairly often (9 or less)
- Cost: [-5]
Miller doesn’t have the raw skill Guy does, but he has institutional power, family connections, and a grudge. He may appear through:
- Official channels (blocking promotions, filing reports)
- Social sabotage (spreading the “official” story)
- Proxy harassment through allies in the Forces
- Direct confrontation if their paths cross
Needs
- Physical description
- Current posting and rank (Major?)
- Uncle the Colonel — who is he? Still protecting Miller?
- Father in government — which department? Still active?
- Does Miller know Guy is with the defense contractor?
- What’s Miller’s version of the Kandahar story?
Personality
- Arrogant — born into privilege, never questioned
- Thin-skinned — cannot tolerate being challenged by “inferiors”
- Vindictive — holds grudges against anyone who made him look bad
- Cowardly — relies on connections rather than personal competence
- Dangerous — has institutional power and no accountability
Session 04 — Russia
Nash Miller was assigned to Major Jenkins’ Team 2 for the Russia phase of the Second Meteor Event recovery. Jenkins’ team was inserted ahead of the PCs and encountered the Fragment Bear — a roughly 35-foot-tall fragment-mutated bear immune to conventional weapons. The encounter was catastrophic: Andrews was killed, and Thompson’s combat suit was corroded to a rusted husk by the creature’s acidic properties. Miller survived, but was visibly shaken when the PC team parachuted in to assist.
Miller was present throughout the subsequent engagement — the invisible C4/Claymore ambush by Sammy Castaneda, the bear’s rapid regeneration, and Ronnie Vint’s neck-riding beheading, followed by Guy LeFleur’s thermite incineration of the remains. He witnessed every tactic, every capability, and every irregular behaviour the team displayed.
This is a significant development. Miller — Guy’s Enemy — now has firsthand knowledge of the PC team’s capabilities and conduct acquired in the field under combat conditions. He has seen Jens use a spatial portal (under the bear’s foot), watched command lock down Ronnie’s suit on parachute insertion, and observed the team operate outside normal special operations parameters. What he reports to command, or chooses to sit on, is an open question. The fact that Guy’s Enemy survived the same engagement as the PCs — and was visibly rattled while they were not — introduces direct personal friction on top of their existing history.
Session 05 — Direct Confrontation and Public Humiliation
Miller confronted Guy LeFleur directly in the corridor on the way to the briefing room, promising to “expose” him before storming ahead. This is a significant escalation — Miller has moved from passive antagonism to overt threats.
Separately, Ronnie Vint publicly mocked Miller for cutting the wrong wire on the IED in Kandahar — the specific failure that cost Guy his eye and finger. Miller went red. This is the first time the Kandahar incident has been thrown in Miller’s face openly, and by someone outside the original chain of events.
Miller was present at the Session 05 briefing as part of Jenkins’ team, assigned to the shallow Atlantic fragment retrieval.
Session 06 — Sabotage (Escalation)
Miller escalated from threats to direct action. He sabotaged Guy’s suit — a hidden remote-disable command planted in the helmet firmware, executed through R&D scientist Jimmy Johns. Ronnie discovered the planted command and deleted it using Guy’s admin password. Guy openly vowed revenge.
Session 07 — Blackmail, Disappearance, and Cliffhanger
The sabotage’s mechanism was revealed: Miller had blackmailed Jimmy Johns (R&D Level 2) into planting the disable command. Once Johns’s usefulness ended, Miller visited him and made him disappear — Johns fled, his apartment ransacked, with burned blackmail photographs of a woman left in the trash.
Ronnie’s deduction: the suit sabotage was only a decoy. Miller used Johns for a larger objective that is already complete — the burned photos may depict a Chinese agent, possibly tying Miller to the broader Chinese/portal conspiracy. This reframes Miller as a potential foreign-intelligence asset, not merely Guy’s petty rival, and dramatically escalates the Enemy relationship.
CLIFFHANGER: Cornered in his apartment by Ronnie and Sammy — Ronnie kicked the door in and sent Miller sprawling — Miller injected himself with a mysterious syringe, presumed to be a power-granting serum. The outcome is undecided.
Session 08 — Captured, Interrogated, and Exposed (Major Status Change)
The Session 07 cliffhanger resolved decisively against Miller. The syringe he injected himself with contained stolen juice (see Mysterious Syringe) — but Ronnie and Sammy, who had breached his quarters, knocked him out before the juice could take effect and zip-tied him. The juice was later drawn back out of him via the Extraction Chair at the RD3 Facility, where Miller is now held in the brig.
Under brutal interrogation — a broken leg and fingernails peeled — Miller confessed to the full scope of his treachery:
- He had replaced EVERY real juice syringe in the facility with fakes, hiding the genuine syringes under his bed. The swap went undetected because no accurate inventory was kept.
- He blackmailed scientist Jimmy Johns with compromising photographs to enable the theft (recontextualizing the burned photos and Johns’s disappearance from Session 07).
- His ultimate plan was to inject ALL the juice himself and personally fight The Hungry God, convinced he would succeed where the champion of Terra had failed.
Voss oversaw the interrogation and offered only performative objections to Ronnie’s torture. The Regenerator healed Miller mid-interrogation (keeping him alive to keep talking). Reports on Miller’s conduct were demanded to be sent to NATO and Canadian authorities.
Miller’s arc has flipped: from privileged, untouchable antagonist to a broken captive in a black-site brig, his entire scheme laid bare and his protective connections about to face official scrutiny.
Appearances
- [Session 03 - What Happens in Vegas](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-03-what-happens-in-vegas.html) (mentioned in briefing, assigned to Jenkins’ team)
- [Session 04 - Fallen Stars](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-04-fallen-stars.html) — Present in Russia; survived Fragment Bear encounter; witnessed PC team’s capabilities
- [Session 05 - Deep Sea Fragments and Desert Swarms](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-05-deep-sea-fragments-and-desert-swarms.html) — Confronted Guy directly, threatening to “expose” him; publicly mocked by Ronnie over Kandahar IED failure; part of Jenkins’ team for shallow fragment retrieval
- [Session 06 - Vegas Vacation, Zombie Vexation](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-06-vegas-vacation-zombie-vexation.html) — Sabotaged Guy’s suit via a firmware remote-disable command planted through Jimmy Johns; Ronnie discovered and deleted it; Guy vowed revenge
- [Session 07 - The Vegas Hive - Napalm and New Powers](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-07-the-vegas-hive-napalm-and-new-powers.html) — Revealed to have blackmailed Jimmy Johns; made Johns disappear (burned photos of a woman left behind); cornered by Ronnie and Sammy, injected himself with a mysterious syringe (outcome undecided)
- [Session 08 - Earth’s Last Stand](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/Sessions/session-08-earths-last-stand.html) — Knocked out before the stolen juice took effect, zip-tied, and held in the RD3 Facility brig; juice extracted via the Extraction Chair; under brutal interrogation confessed to swapping all facility juice syringes for fakes (real ones hidden under his bed), blackmailing Jimmy Johns, and planning to inject all the juice to fight The Hungry God himself; healed by The Regenerator; reports demanded for NATO and Canadian authorities
Relationships
- Antagonizes Guy LeFleur — Scapegoated Guy for his own failure in Kandahar — Guy lost his eye, his career, and his reputation while Miller walked free
- Member of Canadian Armed Forces — Protected by family connections — promoted despite the Kandahar disaster
- Former member of JTF 2 — Transferred out of JTF 2 after the incident — laterally, not down
- Operates with Major Jenkins — Assigned to Jenkins' Team 2 for the Second Meteor Event Russia recovery phase