America coming out ahead on the Rikti invasion was good for all, but not without lingering hardships of its own. Turret: Army Navy was a Mom & Pop shop four generations deep in both family ownership and support for the troops. Never a soldier himself, Bartley Kronk held the reigns of the business, having seen the heart of his father before him broken wide open. When the war walls went up, the highways and sidewalks were redirected and Turret found itself sidled into a cramped corner of Brickstown. Bartley watched his father re-mortgage their home trying to keep Turret's doors open, only to have Icon absorb what was left of the Kronk family legacy. He slept every night in the back storeroom, the blue-green energy of Paragon's barriers seeping in through the window slats and what felt as if into his bones. Eight years on the wall, day and night, basking in the eerie, inescapable light of his family's very demise. Nevermore will the government wonder what it would take for a man to steer bullets with his mind.
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