Sasaki

Sasaki was an SMC Tech Marine, a member of Kodiak Squad, and one of the thousands of marines sent to fight on Stroggos as part of the second wave of Operation Alien Overlord.

History
In July 2243, Sasaki was captured by the Strogg and sent to the Recomposition Center, where he was held prisoner inside a lasercage, where he took to ingesting the fluids from medkit. By the time he was discovered by Matthew Kane, he had drank 23 medkits by his own count.

Sasaki initially reacted with shock upon seeing Kane, initially mistaking him for another Strogg drone due to his partial Stroggification. Kane released Sasaki just as the effects of the fluid started to kick in and over the course of the next few minutes he became increasingly intoxicated, refusing taking any of Kane's guns on the grounds that he had "mind powers", not understanding the concept of a radio and ridiculing Kane's predicaments as implausible. He monitors the storage systems while Kane puts them online and assists with "hacking", dividing his time between guessing the access code and playing Solitaire while pretending to work.

After the meds wear off he begins to regain lucidity and assists Kane with accessing the Strogg mainframe. When Kane bemoans his irresponsible use of medical facilities, he defends himself by declaring "I'm an engineer, not a medic!". However, he hears Strogg approaching and, unarmed, begs Kane to hurry back; Kane arrives just in time to see "one of the gorilla thingies" drag him through a door by the ankle. His fate after this is unknown, though it can be inferred that he was either killed or Stroggified.

Personality
Sasaki, when sober, was a competent if somewhat slow-witted technician, upgrading Kane's nailgun to include sights and increased accuracy. He displayed frustration at Kane for not releasing him quicker, though backed down when Kane reminded him of the danger of being diced by the laser array, and later at himself for wasting so much time trying to crack a hexadecimal code when Kane found an easier solution. He showed questionable judgment at times, mistaking the intravenous needle on medkits as a hi-tech straw and attempting to drink medkit fluid.

While under the influence of the medkit fluid, Sasaki was boorish and irascible, deriding Kane for his perceived lack of progress and mocking his supposed schizophrenia (in actuality a Strogg mind probe attempting to re-assert control over Kane). He was also somewhat incompetent, initially wasting time trying to "guess" the access code by entering in possible combinations one at a time, and then later pretending to work while playing Solitaire. He was, however, still lucid enough to help Kane disable a weapons test on a captured marine (albeit unsuccessfully).

Appearances

 * Kane's Mind
 * Episode 24
 * Episode 25

Behind the scenes
Sasaki was voiced by Jared O'Brien, the creator of Freeman's (-ish) Mind 2.