Breaking the Spirit

[Heresy]

Timothy grew up as almost a peasant living on Leeds. With his impoverished parents struggling to support himself, his sister and his two brothers, life was hard. As any good parents would, they worked hard to send all of their children to the best school they could afford. Even on their meagre wages, they somehow made ends meat with money to spare for education.

As the surname suggests, Timothy came from a line of settlers that moved from Rheinland into Bretonia. The Illushyn family were always miners, once for Kruger, now for BMM. Instead of joining the Hessians in the miners revolts in Rheinland, the family decided to try to live lawfully.

Since their exodus from Rheinland, the Illushyn family has been stuck at the bottom rung of society. From miners in the dangerous Omega regions to miners on the heavily polluted planet Leeds, the fortunes of the Illushyn family have stayed almost rock bottom.

This new generation was set, however, to finally change that. All the siblings of Gordon Illushyn and his wife Hannah Jackson Illushyn, were gifted with intelligence, filling the top spaces of achievement in their respective classes. The eldest sibling, Francesca Illushyn, had become an exceptional technician, repairing and operating complex machinery used in many tasks from ship construction to cargo offloading.

Timothy was the youngest of the four offspring, and as such looked up to his two brothers, Conner and Kevin Illushyn, as well as his sister. Conner looked set to move up from mining sergeant in his designated mine shaft to area manager of the entire mine. Kevin would’ve moved into the vacancy left by Conner’s ascension to his projected managerial position. Both would have moved higher than their parents, whom had stayed as bottom-feeders their entire lives in the same mine.

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