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[Lightblader]

Primary Information:

Name: Mara TK Kringer
Ship: TK_Kringer
Age: 31
Citizenship: Freelancer


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Biography:
I was born on TK Station. Never heard of it? That's no surprise at all. TK Station was a little station in Bering, run by the TK's. The Station was neither big nor special, but it was our Home. We were a little Community; actually we were more like family. 200 decent people, not rich but survivors. We survived as the Jack-of-all-Trades of the System. But that was all before my time. When I was two years old, the station was attacked by Liberty Rouges. At that time I was with my father on a work trip to Hamburg so I survived. The rest did not have that much luck, only 6 of 237 people survived the attack me and my father included.
After that we moved to Bethlem Station in Pennsylvania. My father decided to join the liberty navy to get his revenge on those who did that to his family. After a few years he cooled down a bit and realized that revenge won't bring his family back. By that time he started to work as an instructor for new recruits. As a result of that my brother and me came in contact with spaceships quite early. With only twelve years I flew my first fighter, with 14 my first freighter. Around that age I realized that the military was nothing for me. I always had a problem with people who try to tell me what I can or cannot do. It was the same for my brother, who is four years older than me. When he turned 21 he hired on a freighter and left us. After that I was quite lost, I did not know what to do with my life. I wanted to leave but a freighter seemed boring to me and the military was out of question. I am person who constantly needs to be fascinated by something otherwise I am not happy. My father always said: "Curiosity kills the cat" but that'€™s who I am. Life should be interesting!

One day '€œuncle TK'€ visited us. He was employed by CR and brought pictures and stuff from the border worlds with him. I was thrilled. From that moment on I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to see what was out there. I finished school and worked whenever I could. When I finally turned 21 I had enough money to get myself a little ship. It was an old Defender. The beginning was hard, I knew nothing about outer space, was nearly killed twice by ion storms and struggled to get money to pay for fuel. After a few months it was getting better, I knew what would bring me money and what would most likely kill me. Three years into business I was able to get myself a new ship. The following years were the best of my life.

But nothing lasts forever, right?
I made a mistake; or rather I made a few that led me here to apply today. I will just start from the beginning. It all started on Java Station where I met an old buddy of mine with whom I shared information a few times before. He sold me the information that he spotted a few meteors of pure niobium in Tau-44, a few hundred Tons each he said. I was really excited, these things are rare and normally you need a mining ship to process the ore to sell it. I expected easy money. After I entered Tau-44 my scanners picked up a few strange readings but I thought they were just scanner ghosts. My mistake. I found the meteors shortly after that. I was nearly done with the mining when suddenly Outcasts uncloaked themselves. I froze in terror, when I realized what uncloaked there. 7 heavy fighters, 3 Gunboats and a Cruiser, all of them only 15k away and my engines were cold. I realized I was going to die. Strangely after that thought everything was sudden cleared up. My thoughts were suddenly crystal clear, I remembered what happened to our family. I realized the only objective left: how can I kill as many of them before I die. But what could I do? I was flying a fighter with a few lasers and nothing more. Then it struck me, Niobium and these Screamer mines I found in the last wreck. Instantly I checked my cargo bay, yes! There were still some broken rockets nobody wanted to buy. Against my will I had to laugh. Those bastards were going to experience hell!

I realized I had to be fast, the Outcasts were already approaching. I ordered the AI the find the biggest niobium meteor around. After that started creating a hole in the Meteor. Luckily I upgraded to Purple Goddess Chain guns a few months ago. It would be close, only 12K left! Putting the guns to auto fire I stared to program the mines in a way that I could detonate them remotely, they would not have any homing or friend foe detection but that would not be important, I hoped. After that I dropped the Mines from the cargobay and started to work on the rockets. I ordered the AI to separate the explosives from the engines and tractor everything that can explode into the hole I made before. Hopefully the these would be strong enough. Now the only most dangerous part was left. I charged my engines and started to put some distance between me and the meteors. 3k left, 2k,1k on 500m I shot the explosives in the meteor and at the same time I detonated the screamer mines. Boooom! It worked! The explosion broke the Meteor into tiny pieces, which instantly cooled down due the temperatures. The niobium instantly became a superconductor. Now image a 3km³ cloud of superconductors in which you detonate 67 nuclear pumped emp mines. I will never forget this view, lightning kilometers long, spreading across the sky. Those mesmerizing colors! I saw a fighter getting hit, well hit is the wrong word, it was pierced, the flash went though, leaving a 20 meters hole in the ship. 5 of the fighters instantly vanished, the others emitting pods. The gunboats were hit even worse, 2 exploded, most likely due to failure of the magnetic bottle in there fusion reactors. The other one left a trail of pods. Only cruiser seemed to be unharmed. That was a problem because my ship was, by any means, not unharmed. 80% of my sensory equipment just melted, navigation was down due to electric interference. But I was still alive. I tractored in everything I saw charged the engines and ran. I did not know where I was going but I noticed a jump hole not far. Saved I though! It was close but I made it. On the other end of the jump hole I was instantly surrounded by ships. "Here speaks IMG Guard Captain Matos. You are under arrest for espionage and trespassing!'€œ Great I thought, now I am dead for sure. From one trap to the next. They shut down all my sensors and escorted me to a base. They put me in a cell and I expected to rot there. To my surprise the next day I was told to shower and dress.
They brought me to some important looking Person. I was expected to get my death sentence, he offered me tea. He was actually quite interested in how I was able to catch 2 gunboat captains with just a fighter and when I told him how he was really thrilled. How I found out later he was head of the research department at that station. We had a good talk that day, about what we saw out in space, and the interesting thing out there. He called me the next day again, and after that. We became something like friends I think. After a few weeks they told me that I was actually lucky, due to my broken equipment I did not see anything while arriving, so they were willing to let me go, but I had to leave my ship to them, because due to particles on the hull it could be determined what they were working on. I thought they were paranoid. The next day when I was about to leave in some piece of scrap, my friend came to me and made me an offer. If I were willing to deliver a box to a certain somebody he would give me a ship. I said yes because I could only be better that this piece of (s)crap they gave me. I was stunned when he showed me the ship. A spatial, it was run down and quite old, but still it was a spatial! He said that it would be scraped otherwise so I could have it. I took the ship and delivered the package. As I found out later the package was full of cookies for his daughter. After that I realized that he gave me the ship for free and I didn'€™t even thank him properly. Also it made me realize that I miss to share what I experienced with somebody who is just as fascinated by space as I am.

So here I am, applying for the Exploration/Research Division




Secondary Information:

Outline the Independent Miners Guild goals: To make profit for their employees.

What can you contribute while inside the Guild ? I am a decent fighter pilot, I have experience with the boarder worlds and i am a decent miner.

Which are your personal reasons for joining the Guild ? Also, which IMG Department would you like to be part of ? To explore new worlds and to protect from unlawfulls - Exploration/Research Division


OORP Information:

Please provide your Skype ID: Lightblader

For how long do you play on the server? Have you ever been part of other player factions? If yes, which ones? I played around a month - none


Have you ever been sanctioned? If yes, please provide links to all your sanctions: no