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Captain Ash
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Captain Ash is a recurring character, having appeared in all three Timesplitters games. He is playable in the first two and appears as a main character in one level of Future Perfect, alongside the Jungle Queen.
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Background
Little is truly known about Captain Ash's background, though it is suspected that he served in the infantry during the Boer War towards the end of the 19th Century as a teenager, before becoming an officer and a Captain in the trenches of World War One. After the war, he retired from the military to set out on adventures of his own, travelling the world. One of his first stops would be the Amazon Jungle
Aztec 1920
In TimeSplitters 2, Captain Ash appeared in the Aztec Level alongside lover Jungle Queen. He set out to retrieve the time crystal scattered at that location with the aid of a group of mysterious yet helpful monkeys, encountering Aztec Warriors and Stone Golems. However, his military training came in handy and he managed to enter the Aztec Temple before finding the time crystal.
Scotland 1924
In the third game he was shown again in the story during 1924 in an apparently hushed up incident involving what appears to be Russian soliders taking a Scottish isle for an unknown reason at that point in the game. He was still madly in love with the Jungle Queen, and once more was on a mission to rescue her from the island before the British Navy attacked the Russian soldiers at the island. While rowing out to the island, he encountered Sergeant Cortez, who had time travelled to that location and timeframe. The two partnered up, stormed the castle on the island, and rescued the Jungle Queen. However, Cortez went on when Ash travelled off the island, apparently rowing into the sunset with the Jungle Queen.
Egypt 1935
The first recorded appearance of Captain Ash is, ironically, his last one chronologically. He is introduced in the first TimeSplitters game, but is not a character of great importance, only appearing in the Egypt level, which reveals his search for an Ankh which he can use to stop a ritual. He appeared alongside Lady Jane in this level. At the end of his adventures in Egypt, it is uncertain just what happened to either of them, but it is likely that Ash's adventures were far from over.
Lady Jane/Jungle Queen?
Where exactly the Jungle Queen was in the Egypt level from TS1 is not known, but it is theorised that she took on a proper name and became a dignified lady, and that lady is Lady Jane. This idea is backed up by the Jungle Queen's own quote to Ash "You Tarzan, me Jane, let me show you how we do it in the jungle".
However, Lady Jane worked with Jake Fenton, PI in Chicago in 1932, where she owned a prominent detective agency, so she would have to have been made into a lady, as well as taken time to build her agency up, some time in between 1932 and 1924. It could be that she caught the "flapper" craze of America in the 1920s, and could afford it due to Ash's private wealth.
