New Hope Recruitment Office, Coronado System

[InfinityCircuit]

Name: Ragnar Lodbrokk

Age: 28

Birthplace: Freeport 9, Omicron Theta

Biography: Ragnar, a Rheinish Zoner, born 779 AE, dreamed of riding the jump holes and finding new unexplored worlds as a child. He had a head for engineering, and frequently snuck off to the bays and bugged the mechanics until they let him help.
As a teen, he dropped out of secondary school to apprentice to an engineer working on freighters. After two years, he achieved journeyman, and at the young age of 14 became the engineer on a Zoner Whale bound for Omegas.
Three round trips later, Ragnar became the proud owner of a used FR-2302-K freighter. At age 17 he was the youngest pilot in memory. He stuck to short runs to and from the alien artifact or helium fields, hauling for various Zoner mining concerns. This was dangerous work, and in the first year he had already racked up several pirate kills and outrun no few ambushes.
Then the Nomad War began. Ragnar helped with the evacuation, and with his aging freighter loaded with families and supplies, managed to traverse all the way to Tau-29. The distance from known Nomad jump holes meant safety, and it was, for a time.
817 A.S. brought much change. By this time Ragnar was piloting a Spatial bomber, escorting Zoner freighters to the adjacent Tau systems, and exploring the ice clouds for wrecks and unknown jump holes. On a gunboat escort to Tau-23 in support of IMG mining in the area, a large squadron of unknown snub ships (emblazoned with red fleur-de-lis) swooped down upon them. The fighting was quick but bloody; all but the gunboat and Ragnar's bomber were wrecks. The unknown ships were destroyed, but one managed to get away in the dogfight. Ragnar and his escort managed to limp back to the jump hole.
Two days later, more of the same unknown ships, two destroyers with five fighter escorts, came out of the ice field bearing down upon Freeport 6. Ragnar, his wingman Jonas, and a few ragtag freighters scrambled to defend the base until the other civilians could evacuate. During the fighting, a Colonial patrol engaged, preventing a massacre. Ragnar's bomber broke up around him, however, and he could not remember anything after his pod activated.
Waking up in the medbay of a Thanatos-class, Ragnar found himself on the way to New Hope East, with newly-grafted synthskin and a prosthetic cybereye replacing what had been lost in the brief exposure to first burning H-Fuel, then freezing hard vacuum prior to his pod activation. Jonas was dead. Most of those he flew with against the Gallians, as he found they called themselves, were dead. There was only one thing left to do.
What he did find, upon landing and accessing Neural Net, was that his ship and several other Zoner ships were insured, and with no known next of kin for the deceased, he was eligible for the insurance payouts. Taking stock of his newfound wealth, a need to kill Gallians, and proximity to his saviors, the choice was made. Ragnar would join the Colonial Navy, and purchase his own ship if needs be. He would have his vengeance, and the Border Worlds would be cleansed of Gallic influence.

Relevant Experience: Extensive on-the-job experience as mechanic. Started as engineer on a Zoner Whale transport bound for the Omegas from FP5. Copiloted a Serenity class in the Taus for three years. Piloted a Zoner Heavy Bomber for 2 years as part of an expeditionary wing just before the accident.

Your reasons for applying to the Military: Vengeance, desire to free Tau systems on behalf of both Colonial and Zoners, need to kill Gallians that murdered Zoners in and around Freeport 6. Wealth and riches hold only the allure that they buy ships and weapons with which to exact said vengeance. This man cannot be bought.

//ooRP Section
1) How long have you been on Discovery?
Since November 2014 (been playing FL vanilla since 2003)

2) What characters and ships have you had thus far?
InfinityCircuit - Rheinland Train (DHC)
DHC-Calumet&Hecla - Hegemon (DHC)
Manuel.Noriega - Spatial (Corsair)
Jak_O_The_Shadows - Roc (Zoner)

3) How often do you normally play/come online for?
1-2 hrs a day on weekends, 1 hr occasionally weekdays

4) What is your Skype username?
infinity-circuit