New Hope Recruitment Office, Coronado System

[Zephyranthes]

Name: Alyosha Garza

Age: 28 (Born September 4th, 790 A.S.)

Birthplace: Freeport 7 (Destroyed), Sigma-17

Biography: My parents, Julio Garza and Esmeralda Martinez, were Corsairs by birth who took part in the trademark piracy and raids that they're known for. At some point, they met each other, and both vowed to desert, becoming Zoners. After wandering the sector for some time, they both settled in Freeport 7, where they eventually conceived me in 790 A.S.

My father and mother both taught me how to pilot a starship from a very young age, with my father taking me and my mother on many of his freighter runs to Freeport 6 in Tau-29. I grew up hearing about the battles and daring adventures they both partook in as Corsairs. At the age of ten, whilst we were away on a run to Freeport 6, news came that Freeport 7 had been destroyed by unknown assailants. Young as I was, I understood what that this event meant we had to find a new place to stay. We heard news of a place called Planet Gran Canaria in the Omegas, a seemingly idyllic world free from House control. There is where we traveled, making a home in the fertile countryside.

As I aged and matured into a man, so heightened my desire to break free from the planet and explore the stars from which I was birthed. At the age of nineteen, I told my parents my plans of leaving on a freighter bound for Liberty. They gave me enough financial aid to make sure I was secure, and gave me their blessings. A couple weeks later, I boarded the Firefly-class transport Don Quijote, and became friends with the transport pilot, Benjamin Anders. After a long voyage, we finally arrived on Planet Erie, in the Pennsylvania system.

For a good five years, I spent my days mining the Ralston Ice Field for helium, little by little earning enough money to purchase my own fighter. When the time came, I took a trip to Planet Manhattan, and purchased my first ship, a CTE-HF Kingfisher. I wandered from system to system, taking up different jobs along the way, meeting new people. I met a man named Logan Morris at some point on Planet Leeds, and we entered into a partnership, taking on missions and bounties together for a 50:50 split of the profit. A good portion of my cut was sent to my family back on Gran Canaria, and still is.

The day that perhaps changed everything was when a rogue Liberty carrier began to wreak havoc and destruction throughout the Republic's space, and me and Morris were hired to assist in taking out. By this point I had traded in my old Kingfisher for a Havoc Mk II, and participated in the many skirmishes against the carrier. It felt good to fight for a cause, to defend innocent people, instead of for my next paycheck.

I wandered the sector yet again, this time with the intent of searching for a cause to join, eventually running the Gallic Royal Navy's blockade of the Orkney-Languedoc jump holes. There, I made way through Gallia, dodging the attempts by the GRN to destroy my little ship. I arrived at the Council's homeworld of Planet Marne in the Burgundy system. To my horror, the people there were forced to live in squalor and depravity, conditions made so by the Gallic government. Yet to my amazement, these people still had the burning hope and desire of freedom in their hearts. It was this same cause that carried me to the Colonial Republic's capital of New Hope, where I had come to empathize with their struggle of being chased out of their home. The people of Marne taught me of the values of freedom and never giving up hope, a sentiment that I hope to fight for as a member of the Colonial Military.

Relevant Experience: Basic flight training, combat flight training, flew a fighter for two years, and flew a bomber for two years.

Your reasons for applying to the Military: Knowing what it's like to lose a home myself, I cannot help but empathize not only with the loss of the Colonial people, but with the hope of a brighter future over the horizon. After seeing the horrible atrocities committed by Gallia's government in both the Taus and their own systems, I know that they must be prevented from making any more transgressions against humanity.

OORP Section
1) How long have you been on Discovery?
Janurary, 2013
2) What characters and ships have you had thus far?
Three, one deleted, two active.
3) How often do you normally play/come online for?
Almost always on during the weekends, infrequently during the week. My timezone is Eastern Standard (GMT -5).
4) What is your Skype username?
shadowvenetia