The 'Scarecrow' Saga - Overviews of the Original Stories

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002. “824 A.S.”, Pilot’s Logs –
Based on server RP events, and written as a post-by-post by [Scarecrow] on Freelancer Evolved (EvolvedOnes).

The story of the year Sirius year 824 A.S. This chain of posts followed Marcus “Scarecrow” Scarman after his wing was destroyed by seeded Nomad forces and he was exiled from the Liberty Navy. Marcus is helped by a shady character known only as ‘Cerun’, who guides him discreetly out of the New York system and into the hands of a band of unlikely allies. Scarecrow was forced to fly with the Liberty Rogues, the pirate group he had fought against for most of his active career. He managed to keep his identity as ‘Scarecrow’ a secret from the Rogues and felt a tremendous amount of guilt as many went out of their way to help him escape his pursuers. To their eyes, he was a defector and another victim of their perceived system of corruption within Liberty. Flying alongside them gave Marcus another perspective, one that would benefit him in the years to come. In a stolen Defender class heavy fighter, Marcus left Liberty space and travelled the galaxy on a mission to prove his innocence and absolve his name. Along the way, he encountered a few quirky characters, strange environments, and worked his way through several tense situations.

With the help of Cerun and the Rogues, Scarecrow crossed into Rheinland space where he met a man known as Pax Westfalia (the pseudonym of Rheinland politician Thorsten Stozenfels), and other members of the Rheinland special operations Rheinwehr. These secretive members of one of the Rheinland Military’s most deadly group of operatives were allies of Cerun, and agreed to help Marcus after the elusive man vouched for him. After flying with Cerun and the Rheinwehr on a successful mission to uncover a suspected Nomad threat to Rheinland security, Marcus found himself face to face with the same enemies who had driven him from his home. However, despite their best efforts, their game of cat and mouse with the mysterious alien threat yielded no results, and Cerun was left in need of further proof of a renewed threat of invasion. He ordered Scarecrow to run and hide whilst he gathered more intelligence. He promised Scarecrow that the time for redemption would come, before promptly disappearing off into the depths of space. Marcus did as he was bidden and fled once again, this time to Kusari space, where sought refuge with the anti-government Blood Dragons. Here he met firebrand Kusari aggravator Tomoko Yamaguchi for the first time.

A Nomad assassin was sent to kill Marcus during his time in hiding in the Chugoku system, but he was able to elude, entrap, and defeat the alien killer. However, he was once again forced to run. During a sudden surprise attack by Nomad controlled Rheinland ships, Tomoko Yamaguchi’s ship was destroyed. Scarecrow rescued her escape pod and continued to run, this time across the upper Tau systems and through to Omicron Alpha. Pursued all the while by the Nomad controlled Rheinlanders, Scarecrow ran into unchartered space, where his ship took extremely heavy damage. He barely clung to consciousness, believing all to be lost. He held onto the controls of his ship for hours and hours, jumping blindly from unknown system to unknown system, before he eventually passed out as his life support systems failed.

Then, in a stunning twist of fate, Scarecrow awoke to find that he has lost a week of his life and that somehow, he and his ruined ship had been transported halfway across the known galaxy…

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