Private Padrick "Pad" Salton was a Southern Islander Gear soldier in the Coalition of Ordered Governments army who was known for being one of the greatest snipers in the Pendulum Wars, fighting at Anvil Gate and along the Sarfuth-Maranday border. During the Locust War, he fought in several battles one year after Emergence Day, until he fell into a depression and became a long range scout who only returned to base every few years. He eventually left for Pesang in 13 A.E., joining the remaining Pesanga living there. Fourteen years later, Pad learned Col.Victor Hoffman had moved back to Anvil Gate with thousands of civilians and several dozen Gears, and traveled there with the Pesanga to join him. Red-headed and freckled, Pad had the typical "Islander" attitude to go along with his tribal tat