About Trent
Trent Hawkins
Occupation: Freelance terraformation scouting pilot Affiliation: Gencore Tech Alliance Family: Deceased Homeworld: Savara
Bio: Born on Savara to a loving family, Trent grew up alongisde his best friend Buce Quesillac, a Hazudra wunderkind (and eventual fellow pilot) whose brilliance would eventually get him killed. As a young man, Trent enters the galactic military and serves for several years earning medals, ranks, and prestige. It is, therefore, a surprise when he decides to retire and take up the joystick as a terraformation pilot. He is freelance, selling his not inconsiderable talents to the highest bidder.
His latest client, Microsol, is the largest terraformation company in the sector, rivaled only by the Gencore Tech Alliance (headquartered on Deliani and headed up by a man called Transon Lohk, who also happens to be the chancellor of the planet). While scouting Tyrian, Trent receives word that his parents have been killed in a freak explosion in their Midway home. He races back to the smoking wreckage and, with a broken heart, contacts Buce, who was also close to the Hawkins parents. When he does not respond, Trent becomes suspicious and makes his way to Buce’s home. They’d both been working on the Tyrian project and had, in recent weeks, noted a strange, shiny ore on the planet’s surface. Trent had dismissed it as nothing…
“Gravitium,” Buce confesses to Trent as he bleeds out in his best friend’s arms. Mere minutes before Trent touched down near Buce’s home, a hovering drone had taken several lethal shots at the Hazudra and then made itself scarce. “Microsol is interested in that ore—I was doing some testing… on it… they captured me, tortured me… didn’t get the info—holo-memories. Don’t trust them, Trent; don’t trust Microsol.”
Trent is caught up in a whirlwind of corporate politics, more war, and missions that will put his class-1 fancy flying skills to the test, pushing him to his limits and traumatizing him to the point where he cannot even remember Buce’s name.
After finding himself under the well-meaning thumb of Transon Lohk, he comes into contact with the head of Gencore security, Javi Onukala, who is later revealed by Reid (the leader of the anti-Microsol League) to be a double agent for Microsol. Trent battles his way through fighter ships, dragons, volcanoes, a living planet, and magnetic minefields only to be confronted with Javi’s dreadnaught fleet. Fed information regarding the weak points of the fleet by a man named Dougan (an old war buddy), Trent emerges victorious, but tired. The Microsol threat has been averted and the sector can return to peace… no longer will people be gunned down by drones, blown up at the behest of greedy corporations, or thrown into not-so-civil wars.
Or if they will, he no longer cares. Putting himself into cryosleep and his ship on a course-corrected drift function, Trent decides to escape.
Appearance: Gangly, doe-eyed, with a soft voice, Trent doesn’t look like much at all, but he is the most decorated pilot in galactic naval history.
Personality: Soft-spoken and contemplative, he’s not a man of many idle words. Fairly kind and gentle, it would be difficult to place him as a fighter ace. The one thing that really gets him talking is his ship(s).
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