The Impenetrable Wall, once built in the years of the infamous Donald of America, stands over the border between Mexico and what used to be the United States of America. Originally designed as a way to keep out Mexicans from entering America, it has been since then a way for Mexico to keep out Americans from entering their country, ever since the descent of the United States into chaos. An entire branch of the Mexican Army was founded in the 22nd century to protect the Mexican border, now known as the Watch of the Impenetrable Wall.
One of the greatest commanders of the Watch was
Juan David Cabal, an eerie young man who just happened to be a military prodigy.
Born in a small Egyptian-style house in Paso del Norte at a very stormy night, Juan David Cabal was raised from an early age by his uncle, Ignacio Cabal. He was described by his classmates as an "lonely, geeky and even creepy, as well as incredibly vengeful, but ferociously dedicated to the well-being of his class". It was said that nobody dared to punch him after an incident with a bully. After receiving exceptionally good grades at the end of school, at the age of 16, he enrolled at the Tijuana Defense Academy. At the age of 20, he began to serve as a watchman on the Paso del Norte part of the Impenetrable Wall. With good sight and swift reflexes, he rose through the ranks and soon became the leader of the Juarez 7 unit in 2253. In 2256, during yet another raid from the Texan Empire, he replaced the gravelly injured Bernabe Gbegbe (an Ivorian-born emigre) as the Commander of the Watch.
As the Commander of the Watch, he defended the Mexican border against raiders from the north; and very, very often led wars very deep into the north. Declared a war criminal by Theodore V, Emperor of Texas, he was, however, a national hero for the Mexicans, highly respected as the veteran of several dozen wars with various invaders, all of them won by Mexico. He was also a family man and a maecenate. His career did not come without a price: he lost his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Paulina Andrade, to an electric bomb set up by the Texans, lost countless of people close to him in various American raids, and by the 2270s had more than half of his body replaced with cybernetic augments. His second wife, Abigail Wolf (born Abigail Volkova) noted that he survived twenty-five poisonings, thirteen explosions, eleven immolations and a bullet shot into his right eye.
A legend says that his death was brought by was a group of Texan soldiers using a catapult to destroy a Watchtower. The iron pike which was used as a projectile landed directly onto Juan David, killing him instantly. However, according to most historians and the children of Juan David himself, Juan David Cabal was killed by... rain. At the time, his cybernetic augments were damaged by numerous blasts from Cherokee heat guns. Despite the advice of his subordinates, Juan David chose to continue fighting. Suddenly, rain began, and the unprotected cybernetic prostheses instantly exploded, bursting Juan David Cabal's body apart.
His children, Maximo and Irene Cabal, would go on to follow their father's footsteps, and Irene would even become the President of Mexico in 2328.