Colonel Highets (character)

"...Colonel Highets, recognized by his high, sharp-as-a-knife cheekbones, which only aided in the icy gaze of his blue eyes. The crystal irises scanned the massacre scene, watching intently as soldiers rounded up the stragglers and dispatched them with a shot to the neck. Thousands died in the first day, and the second was no better. After six days of seemingly unending bloodshed, the killing fields became a mutinous deck of starving, wild-eyed soldiers who turned on their leader. One by one they fell to his gleaming pistol, and the last man down took the Colonel with him. They ripped and tore at his prostrate corpse, pulling the grey uniform off with the madness of evil. Their blood-stained mouths and empty eye sockets were the grim greeting to the next patrol, who shoved the bodies into a ditch, without so much as a spadeful of dirt upon them."

---description of Colonel Highets in Chapter Two

Colonel Highets (character)
Colonel Highets was a main character in the webseries who first appeared in the first chapter. He is "recognized by his high, sharp-as-a-knife cheekbones...the icy gaze of his blue eyes." His age and hair colour remains a misnomer, but an age guess estimates him to be in his mid to late 50's. His brief mentioning in Crimson Earth: The Axes tells that he was the spearhead in Operation Carnival. His operational status and subsequent death are told in the same chapter.

A paragraph from Chapter Two:

"It didn't even last a week. Six days of annihilation and the last of these brave civilians were mowed down. The man in charge of carrying out Operation Carnival was the pale Colonel Highets, recognized by his high, sharp-as-a-knife cheekbones, which only aided in the icy gaze of his blue eyes. The crystal irises scanned the massacre scene, watching intently as soldiers rounded up the stragglers and dispatched them with a shot to the neck. Thousands died in the first day, and the second was no better. After six days of seemingly unending bloodshed, the killing fields became a mutinous deck of starving, wild-eyed soldiers who turned on their leader. One by one they fell to his gleaming pistol, and the last man down took the Colonel with him. They ripped and tore at his prostrate corpse, pulling the grey uniform off with the madness of evil. Their blood-stained mouths and empty eye sockets were the grim greeting to the next patrol, who shoved the bodies into a ditch, without so much as a spadeful of dirt upon them."