La Nouvelle Avant-Garde: Personnel and Ships

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Biography

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Name: Sir Frank Beauregard de Villiers d'Orléans, Libérateur de Quillan et le Capitaine de Sa Majesté le Roi.
Place of Birth: Troyes, Plateau de Blois, Planet Orleans, Orleanais System
Date of Birth: July 17th, 703 A.G.S.

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Born, raised and trained on the temperate home of his family, Frank de Villiers began his life as the son of any prominent noble. Living with his two sisters, Annebelle and Rachelle, his noble father and mother, and his loyal servant and friend Jacque Allard, Frank quickly learned at a young age that his father's role in the Royal Navy would be his own in due time. Because of this, he was pampered, conditioned into a full descendant of his father, put through Naval school and trained to be a tactical workhorse.

By the time of his eventual enlistment, Frank had become a near mental duplicate of his father, surpassing the elder by nearly three years of conceptual tacticianship. Because of this, it didn't take Frank long to rise through the ranks, ascending like a winged angel to the command of his father's old ship, a 'Valor'-class battleship christened the 'Revelation'. The ship didn't make the man, but vise versa proved otherwise, wherein the Revelation, helmed and operated by some of his father's finest men, stood off against the head of the enemy Council force in Languedoc, which was only a fraction of the main force that slipped away. Regardless, the Revelation stood fast, de Villiers putting the remaining forces to the sword in what would be the most single-sided engagement of the ship's career.

Named the 'Liberator of Quillan' by his fellow crewmates, for leading the attack in knowledgement of his possibility of brutal failure, Frank was bestowed the privileged name of 'Sir', a title only kept by those knighted under the King's trusted banner. Following that, the Revelation and her battlegroup continued to pursue the Council, de Villiers fueled by a desire to serve the crown in any way possible, which to him meant following and engaging the Council wherever possible. This lead him to the newly formed La Nouvelle Avant-Garde, where he and his ship were inducted fully, the title of General being bestowed to him.

Frank de Villiers is typically known by his peers, men and comrades as a two sided coin, often conversing lines of honorable talk with the enemy before pouncing like a leopard. More often than not, however, he will usually default to his noble heritage, and speak to the enemy as if they were equals. Casual, if unorthodox, requests to stand down, promises of well kept imprisonment, and even the request at one point to try and win an enemy pilot's heart, de Villiers is an unusual specimen indeed.

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