Vredes

Vredes Friedrich von Hoffmann
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Origin	Federal Republic of Rheinland
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Red Hessians
Status	Active
Born	795 A.S., Planet Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Age: 24)
Died	Still alive

"Ich für mein Vaterland zu kämpfen,

für das Volk und die Armee,

für freie Rheinland!"

Vredes is a Red Hessian idealist, fighting to overthrow the corrupted Rheinland Government. He currently works for the Rot Front.

Early Life

Vredes Friedrich von Hoffmann was born in the late 795 A.S. (exact date and place are unknown) . His ealiest childhood memories were from the Planet Stuttgart with the Hoffmann family, his adopters who were a poor provincial family with a boy of their own. He and his step brother worked whatever they could to feed their family. They have spent every minute of their free time at the space docks on the planet, dreaming to get a starship of their own and fly off from the misery that is the Stuttgart province. Although Vredes had some shocks caused by unknown reasons life went quietly for them.

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The Disaster

It was in the year 809 A.S. , just a mounth before Vredes's 14th birthday, when they finally got the chance to leave Stuttgart and Rheinland in general. The whole family sold all their property and possessions to buy a ticket for a low-paid transport ship heading to Bretonia. It was there the first time the two step brothers stepped aboard a starship. The ship left Planet Stuttgart’s orbit and headed to the Omega systems. The “Disaster” ,as it was described by the Rheinland authorities, happened in the Omega-7 system when a squad of unidentified Rheinland ships appeared out of the nebula and started shooting at the transport ship with an unknown weapons technology. The life support systems started failing, several decks got decompressed and most of the few escape pods launched. It was in the last pod that the adopters pushed the two boys and saved their life. They ejected from the ship and watched the transport being blow to thousands and thousands of pieces. Eventually the unknown raiding parties started hunting the eject pods but failed to track all of them. Several pods survived and were later picked up by a freelance freighter. Vredes was 14 years old then and his step brother only 13.

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New Life

The freelancer eventually shipped them to the Planet New Berlin . It was there that the two boys found out the meaning of the word ”Living Hell”. They worked from day to night with free time only to sleep 5 hours a day. The next 3 years were the worst of their life, but with the help of the credits they earned from doing additional dock jobs they finally saved enough money to purchase two ships, a Starblazer and a Griffin both class civilian fighters. So things went better from then on. They started doing some freelance escort missions, exploring ateroid fields and combat training when they had the time. Eventualy the saved enough credits for a one man journey to Bretonia. So Vredes send his… brother to the Queen’s Space telling him that in a year or less he will have enough money to make the journey himself. He kept contact with his brother for the next one year, who became a well paid crew member aboard an IMG transport.

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Alone

The year ahead of him wasn't easy for him, living mainly from escort missions for the big Rheinland cooperatives and and mining for miserable fee for the Daumann. But even though, he managed to save enought money to take the long flight to his bother in Bretonia.

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To Bretonia and the second contact

And it was in the year 813 A.S. when he launched from New Berlin’s docking grounds with Bretonia as a destination aboard a small freighter with some goods to trade in Bretonia. His flight went smoothly until he reached the ice nebula in Omega-5, when he was intercepted by a silent squad of Rheinland ships. He knew what will happen. The unknown party attacked him, he tried to fight back but it was useless against their advanced unidentified technology. Suddenly a patrol of 4 fighters that, identified themselves as the Red Hessians, started shooting at the unknown attackers. He used what he learned with his brother, in the asteroid fields and during his escort missions, but it wasnt enought to take the fight back at the advanced weapons they were using. Unfortunately Vredes’s freighter got seriously damaged and he had to eject. His escape pod was picked up by one of the Hessian fighters where he fell into another shock. When he woke up he was in a med center in an unfamiliar to him base.

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Freelance Days

After a short interrogation those who called themselves the Red Hessians told him about the attackers. About that they are alien infected Rheinlanders that called themselves The Wild and that even after the Nomad War, but not many of them stayed on their government and military posts. And that the Rheinland government is corrupted by their political believes. They also told him about that his shocks were caused by his Hispanic blood and inherited Cardamine addiction. So he started smuggling Blood Diamonds, freelancing and exploring for the next one year, living through his addicition with Pharmaceuticals. He lived mainly on Vogtland Base and with his brother back on Battleship Hood in the Dublin system, where he made some friends in the IMG.

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Family ties

In 815 A.S. he received an encrypted message from an old woman that presented herself as his grandmother which says that he is too go to Planet Kyushu an so he did... absolutely incognito. He had a long speak with his grandmother that told him she was a Hispanic freelancer. She told him that his mother was an outcast pilot that choose the freelancer life too, instead of the pirate one, and that she died to an Ion Storm. That his father was a Bundschuh pilot.

Back to Rheinland

After the meeting with his grandmother he wanted to learn more about his father and returned to Rheinland. His search wasn's long, it turned out that his father was a good ally and well known to the older Hessians and Rheinland revolutionaries. They told him that his father was one of the advisors of the Ex-Rheinland Chancellor Niemann that later became a Bundschuh pilot, shocked by the ex-Chancellor’s… changed behavior and actions. Eventually captured and executed by the order of Niemann. And that he met and lived with his mother for several years in his father’s residence on Planet Stuttgart before he turned to the revolution forces.

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Current Life

He became a member of the Red Hessian movement in 816 A.S. and after a few combat tests was allowed to fly an Odin VHF and later a Thor bomber. Since then Vredes still fights for the Hessians, their cause and ideals. He is a member of the Hessian movement known as Rot Front and spends his live mainly on his battleship the Volkenkopf or on Freital base. He is known to cooperate with members of the SCRA. Since his adopters' deaths he is searching and fighting the Wild and Nomad species in any way. He was accepted as an under-covered agent in The Order and operates mainly in Rheinland. Vredes often contacts his brother, that became a captain of a Zoner medical cruiser, and visits his grandmother back on Planet Kyushu. He often uses his father’s name Friedrich in his own name. Dispite his cardamine addiction he recieves smuggled Pharmaceuticals from Liberty lives though it.

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Personality

Vredes is a calm person and thinks over his actions. Although he drinks a lot after a victory or when he celebrates with his comrades he would never step drunk on a ship if it is not realy necessary. He is known to heat to communication channel during combat and to encourage his comrades when they needed.

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Property, Skills and Knowlage

He owns several ship including an IMG Colossus Train, a Red Hessian Jormungand, which he called Volkenkopf, an Odin VHF, a Thor Bomber and his Freelance ship Rote Saphir class Spatial SHF. He Speaks mainly English, Russian and German but has learned a little Spanish from his grandmother. Although he is not an ace in the fighter's cockpit but he is good in piloting bombercraft and in the command of the Volkenkopf.

Owned ships:

[RF]Vredes" Odin Very Heavy Fighter [RF]Vredes"' Thor Bomber [RF]Volkenkopf Jormungand Battleship Vredes[Rote.Saphir] Spatial Super Heavy Fighter Vredes[Rote.Wachsam] Colossus Rheinland Train