Their first death was shortly after resurrection, an Eliksni sniper and a lucky shot while exploring the Cosmodrome wall. They had just found their first weapon, a battered old Khovostov rifle, when from across the gap, a wire rifle shot scattered circuitry and Alkahest across the rusted walkway as it blew a hole in the new light Exo’s head.
Years later, following the collapse of the great houses, the sniper would find work out in the Tangled Shore. He would make a name for himself as one of the Spider’s most skilled marksman serving aboard his private ketch. During the campaign against the Old Crews, he would meet this light bearer again, now captain of his crew.
Halsiks would never learn that he was the first to kill the famed Young Wolf. Nor would he learn that he had spent a disproportionately long period of time at the top of the Young Wolf’s grudge list as a result of that death. For as it turns out, from the moment that their ghost told told them of their ability to continuously return from the dead, they had wanted their first death to be something dramatic, like a Phoenix rising from ashes amidst a horde of enemies.
That their first death was instead something mundane and boring was a source of petty frustration matched only by that meeting with a taken phalanx in the ruins of an old colony ship.
