Willard Thaddeus Venture

[tazuras]

Age: 25
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 160
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Red

Will was born and raised on Cambridge. His father was a manager for Cryer Pharmaceuticals and his mother an agricultural scientist. He is the youngest of five and as such was mostly raised by his older siblings. He never fit in with the typical Cambridge academic crowd and was often known to play practical jokes on the rest of his family and more often at Cambridge University. As soon as he completed his primary education he got his pilots license and convinced his parents to support him in getting a loan for a ship. Will initially performed escort and patrol duties for Cryer and Cardiff, but this quickly bored him. He knew he wanted to see some real action so at the age of 20 he joined the BAF academy.

Will quickly found a group of other recruits he fit in with. They were also quite found of playing practical jokes. During their time at the academy will and his friends were suspected of altering the food dispensers to spray food paste on the upperclassman who ate first, as well as placing an exploding die pack in a missile prototype the commandant had been working on. Needless to say he was not happy but could never prove a thing. This tom-foolery earned him the scorn of one particular upperclassman named Travis Williamson.

Travis was the leader of Delta Squad, a very self important flight performance squadron that had skill but not an incredible amount. None the less the commandant was rather found of them for their help in boosting the reputation of the academy. During Will's Junior year Travis forced a new member of Delta squad and friend of Will to implicate him in one of his more recent pranks. Finally having some evidence of Will's hand in these pranks the commandant made Will perform patrol duty for the rest of the year, giving him practically no time to spend with his friends.

That year Travis graduated top of his class and as such was to give a speech at graduation. The graduation ceremony always took place on the viewing deck which had a large view port into space that the stage was placed in front of.

Sitting on the stage at graduation Travis looked down at everyone else thinking how superior he was to all of them. At the appropriate time he got up and started to deliver his speech. He spoke of the strength the academy had given them and the need for pilots with convictions in these times of heightening tension with Kusari. As he began to talk of his plans to join the elite pilot training program the crowd began to stir. Undeterred Travis continued but the whisper got louder until it became a dull rumble. Offended that they would dare treat him like this Travis shouted, "What's wrong with you people!!"

"Behind you"

And there floating slowing towards the view port was Travis's beloved ship, the Red Baron. Travis practically jumped out of shoes and ran to the view port.

"What is this!! Whats going on!?!"

Just at that moment there was a brilliant flash of light and the Red Baron exploded. Moments later Will's patrol ship flew through the debris cloud.

Will was expelled from the academy and blackballed across all of Bretonian space. Having had some rebellious times in his own past Will's father got him a job with Cryer on Atka Research Station performing escort duties. One day when escorting an Alien Organism convoy from Kurile a group of Nomad fighters attacked. Will had heard a great deal about these Nomad ships but had never seen one. Two of Will's wingman died in the attack but Will and the Cryer freighter escaped, but just barely. It was the most exhilarating thing that had ever happened to Will. It was at this moment that will knew he was doing the wrong thing and decided to join The Order.

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