Background

Jack was born as a first generation German-British. His father, Heinreick Muller was a soldier in the German Army during the second world war and was held in a PoW camp in England during the early days of the war. After receiving such good treatment from his supposed enemies, he decided to stay in England and make a living, changing his family name to ‘Klyka’. Years later, he met Jack’s mother. A German woman who emigrated to England to leave the troubled land of post-war Germany, and fell in love and had Jack in 1954. Being born so close after the war to German parents, Jack grew up to immense discrimination from both children and adults alike. He was able to attend public schooling to learn English as well as other basic life skills. When he wasn’t at school, Jack would be with his parents in their ransacked housing, in a neighborhood full of other German immigrants and would act as a translator for the whole community as he was the only child, and person, in the community that could speak English. In his spare time, when he wasn’t translating, would work on the community farm, as rationing was still in effect from the War, and he found a passion in growing various different crops. Carrots, potatoes, lettuce, parsnips. Anything he could grow, he would. As he grew older, Jack’s skills in agriculture improved and he was getting more and more experienced, learning different farming techniques from textbooks he read at the public library. Whilst working the farm when he was 15, Jack’s friend, Klaus, gave him some seeds that he had never seen before and began to plant and tend to them, watching them grow more and more within the weeks. Once they were fully grown, Jack was approached by a man who introduced themselves as Wolfgang, the Founder of the, German speaking, Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club, and brought a proposition to Jack. He’d buy the fully grown plant he had just cultivated and any in the future for a premium price, and help move him and his family out of the ranshack house to a more modern accommodation in a better neighborhood. In the 60s when Jack had just turned 20, the club continued to expand outwards and charters started to form across the country as well as internationally to the Eastern US. Wolfgang put Jack in charge of the pot grow operations after passing a full vote, which consisted of the ranking members; President, Vice president, Sgt At Arms, Treasurer, Enforcers etc. With the majority winning the vote. Day to day operations would consist of finding and securing suitable growing locations in remote areas of the countryside, setting the plots for the plants, and clearing any pests. And allocating guard duties to the prospects. This continued throughout the 60s and the profits kept rolling in, which allowed Jack to set up even more grow operations across the country. However, tragedy struck in the 70s, at the age of 26. One of the more profitable and larger pot farms Jack was in charge with, was targeted and attacked by the IRA who burned the whole operation to the ground - the club’s profits plummeted due to the lost revenue of Jack’s premium product. The ranked members of the club gathered to place a vote on what to do in response to the attack. The decision to retaliate against the IRA was passed and all members and prospects were to take up arms and fight back. The club spent weeks to locate various IRA cells across the country and strike back. Jack was part of one such raid, breaking down a warehouse door and beating up all the IRA members with the rest of the club. It was at this point where the club slowly started to become a 1%er club, as they found various weapon stockpiles full of firearms, bladed weapons, explosives at the IRA cells. Beginning a new era of the club as Gunrunners as well as pot growers. They began by reconciling with the IRA and sold the firearms back to them for a slightly raised market price. And worked out a deal to supply them with firearms acquired by the club’s sister charters in the US who supplied and smuggled them Korean/Vietnam war Surplus gear into the UK. Jumping to the late 90s at the age of 45, Jack was once again sent to the US by the president to work out a distribution deal and treaties between various different MCs on the East coast, as they saw the difference in product created by their own MCs and the Iron Horsemen. With being the Head Pot grower for the entire MC, Jack was tasked with this job, even though he was only a Patched member, and was in North Carolina when the shit went down and the world started to become overrun with the Daisy Freaks. Jack fled North Carolina during the big meet when he saw the Police and military rapidly pulling back in a panic as they started to lose control of the situation. The Ranking members of the Iron Horsemen charter died in the ensuing chaos at the meeting. The patched members whom Jack had gotten to know over the last two decades with his frequent ‘business trips’ got on their motorcycles and followed him out of the county, all the way until Boston. Along the way some members had died, some split off to find loved ones, and some just straight up vanished along the way, and Jack was left on his own as he entered the Boston QZ. Over the decade, He would work on the QZ farms. Using his experience as a farmer to his advantage to help grow food for the QZ, as well as growing his signature weed for medicinal/recreation use, helping the medical centres becoming filled with his pot. When routes between other QZs opened up, Jack would travel between them, offering his services as a pot and produce farmer. Help set up efficient farms, irrigation systems, explaining different techniques such as crop rotation. It was during one of these trips between the Qzs where his story picks up, the year is 2009. Now 54 years old, his bones start to ache and his back locks up from time to time. He's waiting outside the KQZ after travelling from BQZ so he can start farming again