Generally dressed in military-style khakis and boots. If Chuck has one sartorial flaw , it's that he believes an ammo belt is an accessory. He's very muscular and has a chiselled physique and square jaw.
Hair: blond, buzz-cut
Eyes: blue
Height: 6" 4' (193 cm)
Weight: 220 lbs (100 kg)

Chuck War is a field agent for Galactic Customs, an intergalactic organisation concerned with enforcing trade law. As such, he has access to all kinds of alien high tech otherwise unavailable on Earth. (Okay, the stuff he gets is usually pretty old, I mean, it's not like GC's going to spend a lot of money on a back-water like Earth, but still, around here it's pretty hot stuff.)

His GC-issued Argon Blast Cannon - a "plasma cannon" that fires short bursts of argon gas heated to just under stellar temperatures. Why argon? Since argon occurs naturally in small amounts in our atmosphere, its shots are untraceable, and inert gas plasmas are safer to work with than oxygen or nitrogen. (And you thought it was just because it made a cute acronym...)

Chuck is best known, though, for driving the War Rig - an absurdly well-armed semi with more computing power than MIT and more firepower than a nuclear battleship. His wheels cause raised eyebrows both among local Earth authorities and his GC bosses, but the latter indulge him.

With the Diatomic Duo, he'll take black coffee or an espresso, but for the most part he's an ale man, Newcastle Brown being his favourite.

Galactic Customs is a galaxy-wide organisation, established by a long-term treaty and outside the control of any particular interstellar government, which is responsible for the mind-boggling huge task of enforcing trade regulations in literally millions of jurisdictions. They police trade routes, enforce quarantines, stamp out pirates and smugglers, and in the more civilised parts of the galaxy, ask travellers if they have anything to declare.

One of their subsidiary responsibilities is to enforce the total ban on trade (and by extension, any contact what-so-ever) with so-called "developing worlds", that is, planets like Earth that have yet to attempt interstellar travel. This is the reason GC has a field agent stationed on Earth. The post-nuclear-but-pre-FTL stage is a dodgy one, and its planets like this where trouble is likely to happen.

Chuck War grew up around Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan. The young Chuck was athletic but suprisingly bookish, fond of hard science fiction like Heinlein, Asimov and Niven. Much of it gave him a scepticism about the military that was at odds with his family, which has a history of military service.

He got out of Windsor by becoming a long-haul trucker. One night when he was driving across the monotonous flatness of Saskatchewan, he saw lights in the sky that he couldn't identify as any kind of plane. He pulled over to get a better look; suddenly something came out of the sky on top of him, and both he and his truck were transported into the belly of an alien space-ship.

Chuck soon found he wasn't alone as the ship's prisoner. As the slave-ship pulled out of the Solar system, he formed a plan with some of his fellow captives, and by the time the ship was stopped by Galactic Customs, Chuck had wreaked considerable havoc on board and was firmly in control of the situation. The GC field agent who'd "rescued" him was Lucas Gardner - the GC's first human agent. Gardner was so impressed by War's actions, he asked him to join GC. Chuck initially declined, but did agree to act as Gardner's sidekick in an unofficial capacity. When, several years later, Gardner was promoted to the post of GC prefect on Betelgeuse station, Chuck finally relented and became his official replacement.

Following Gardner's lead, Chuck worked closely with Earth's superheroes, particularly in Canada. When time permitted, he took on many non-GC missions as a kind of "action hero". By the time he first met Hydrogen Guy and Deuterium Boy, he was a prominent superhero in his own right, and until they met the Diatomic Duo were somewhat in awe of him. After helping them out in The Fiendish Fermion Fandangle, Chuck became one of the Atomic Amigo's chief allies and closest friend. Today he's a frequent visitor to the Hydrogen Cave, particularly when DB hosts a LAN party.

Chuck continues to aide the Diatomic Duo, particularly in digging up information or supplying firepower. From time to time, he calls on them to return the favour, such as when Hydrogen Guy, Deuterium Boy, and Reaper helped him make away with some sensitive information lifted from the FBI. Chuck likes and respects HG and DB quite a lot, although he sometimes shakes his head at their antics. Despite his action hero-image, Chuck is no meat-head. He is an accomplished detective and military strategist.

Chuck's GC partner is a green-skinned, antennaed alien named Radar. Radar spends most of his time at Area 51, the joint GC-US Army facility in the Nevada desert. Area 51 and the other GC installation on Earth (Tunguska in the former Soviet Union) are launching points, perimeter monitoring stations and ground-to-space weapons installations.

As Earth's technology and broadcast output improves, it becomes steadily more attractive to aliens with various moral outlooks and objectives. Chuck's GC workload is quite a bit heavier than it was in Gardner's time, and he's found the need to delegate. He employs a group of "irregulars" to cover some of the less serious stuff.

In August 2001, the city of Melbourne, Australia was attacked by pirates of a species called the Zxanxi. As it was initially unclear whether the attack was a raid by pirates or a legitimate act of war by an interstellar government, GC was unable to interfere. Chuck's superiors ordered him to stay out of it; he responded by resigning his commission and using what GC resources he still had to organise a counter-attack. Chuck War was instrumental in organising Earth's superheroes to repel the invasion, and it thrust him (unwillingly) onto the world stage. He is now regarded as a hero by those who know what went on. He was reinstated in the GC, although he was busted down to Lieutenant (j.g.) from full Lieutenant.