On Borrowed Wings

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name: Roland Freud
status: alive
gender: male
age: 20 (born 19.12.814)

place of birth: Planet Pittsburgh, New York system, Liberty (⠇⠊⠑⠎)
education: none
current affiliation: Task Force Prometheus
current occupation: mechanic, pilot

height: 6’3”/191cm
weight: 180lb/82kg
eye color: grey
hair color: black

known family: younger sister Emilia Freud (alive, 18 years old, born 14.11.816)
home: Invergordon Salvage Yards, Inverness system
crime record: theft, sabotage, blackmail, smuggling, assault, terrorism
possessions: apartment at Invergordon Salvage Yards, BDR F-8 "Defender", apartment on Gran Canaria ⠁⠉⠉⠑⠎⠎⠀⠙⠑⠝⠊⠑⠙

voice recording: example
additional notes: qualified technician, ⠕⠥⠗⠀⠎⠥⠃⠉⠕⠝⠎⠉⠊⠕⠥⠎⠝⠑⠎⠎

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Detailed Biography

data updated on 24.05.834

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Ageira's Project

Roland was one of the orphans that Ageira took in for an experimenton introducing "AI" capabilities into humans using alien technology. The experiment was a partial failure: the "AI" ​​remained dormant, influencing Roland's mind only in a passive manner. While transporting the orphans, Ageira was attacked by Lane Hackers. Having rescued the children, they found them fake foster families, hoping to hide them from Ageira under their noses. All orphans received the surname "Freud".

Roland Freud and Emilia Freud were taken into a poor family of miners from Pittsburgh. Emilia, who, due to extremely poor health, required care and medication. To help her, Roland worked part-time from an early age, doing simple errands; in his free time, he tinkered with unusable equipment. Subsequently, by adolescence, he began to earn money by repairing various devices. Thanks to this, he made friends in a variety of circles, including unlawful ones. His dormant "AI" helped in this, making the boy a natural mechanic and technician.

Returning home one evening, Roland overheard his parents discussing killing their daughter in order to “save her the pain and family the burden”. The teenager, horrified, fled with his sister, hiding among those who could use his skills as a repairman. Of course, more often than not, these people were outside the law.

Ultimately, this lifestyle led Roland down a slippery slope: theft, sabotage and blackmail became commonplace. Unfortunately, despite Roland's best efforts, his sister's health grew increasingly worse until she was almost completely bedridden.

Junker

One day Roland got lucky. A lonely, old space drifter who arrived on the planet noticed his skills. The man was a Junker named Mason; he offered Roland to leave Pittsburgh to work for him. Roland jumped at the chance to get off the planet with his sister. For a couple of years, Roland repaired Junker ships, simultaneously caring for his sister and learning all he could from his benefactor. Until one day he received news that Mason had died. Since he had no children, he left Roland an inheritance of two small, battered ships. Of course, this served as another turn in Roland’s life. In the vastness of space, he could earn much more than vegetating at the station.

While flying on an errand, Roland encountered a patrol from Task Force Prometheus. During the conversation with them, he learned about their cause and many monstrous things that the Liberty Republic had commited under the guise of good intentions. What's even more surprising is that he encountered aliens about whom there were vague rumors among the Junkers. And even made one friend among them — or so he thought, anyway.

Having received an invitation to the task force, Roland returned to his little room at Invergordon Salvage Yards, wanting to get a good night's sleep... And he couldn't. Closing his eyes, he saw the same thing every time: flame blazing before his eyes. Unable to sleep, he set to work on the ships he had inherited, to prepare them for battle. The work went quickly: Roland paused only when exhaustion forced him to fall asleep. And even in his dreams he saw the flames.

He did not doubt for too long whether he should accept the offer to join Prometheus. For the first time in his life, he could have a hand in something bigger and make the world a better place for people like his sister. That alone meant the world to him.

Task Force Prometheus

After joining the task force, Roland took part in several missions. In one of them, aimed at confronting Liberty, whether it was by coincidence or malicious intent, civilians perished in the crossfire. Despite the fact that Roland had seen innocent people suffer many times in his life, this was the first time he was among those who caused them to suffer. This mental struggle aggravated his health, already undermined by lack of sleep.

Not having sufficient experience in piloting and not being in the best condition, during the missions he was unable to protect his ship from serious damage, often ending up injured.

After talking with Yoko Mori, whom Roland knew from the moment he joined the task force, he decided to go further and try to get rid of obsessive nightmares with the help of cybernetics. Having already managed to agree on the appropriate operation with the Technocrats, Roland was urgently called to the next mission.

Only by luck, bordering on a miracle, this mission was not his last. In a skirmish with the Xenos, his ship was destroyed, and he himself drifted, almost deprived of life, in a damaged escape pod. Once he was found and brought to the Technocrats, they managed to save him by replacing some of his internal body parts with cybernetics.

However, the real cause of his nightmares was the synthetic creature of Ageira's design ​​awakening from Nomad Vagrant's influence and adapting to its new reality.

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Important Entries

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Fate of Roland's foster parents
Source of Roland's capabilities
Emilia's recovery
New place to stay

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Projects

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Project: Custodian
Project: ICE
Project: Lachesis
Project: Ailuros

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