10-18-2019, 12:44 AM
As it is my first attempt at a RP story in the universe of Discovery Freelancer and in english, don't hesitate to PM me if i've made coherence mistakes with the lore of the mod or to point my grammar or vocabulary flawns. In definitive, feedbacks of all sorts are warmly welcomed !
Born on Planet Orléans in 719 AGS, Damien Gasteuil was raised in a poor farm of the rural gallic colony. With his older brother and younger sister he tries to help his parents with the hard work in the fields. Years passed and the minor exploitation was struggling with the harsh conditions imposed by the authorities on behalf of the war against the Houses of Sirius. When news of the capture of two new systems for the glory of the crown came to them they were desperate for money. Luckily for them, the crown needed new colonists to inhabit the newly acquired and renamed planet Bordeaux and was willing to provide a fresh start for anybody who volunteered. Jumping on this opportunity, the Gasteuil family was in the first group of colonist settling on the former Gaia.
During the journey to Bordeaux, Damien met a young man from New Paris. His name was Thibault and the two became quickly friends. They were like two faces of a coin. Thibault was braver, bolder and never knew when to shut his mouth. Beside him Damien looked even more insecure but the two were kind-hearted, full of hopes concerning the new life offered to them and were often seen sharing their dreams while watching the starry skies. They comitted all their strength and all their heart to this new colony and did more than their share of the work.
But not so long after their arrival, the tide of war turned and the monarchy was in ruin. Every day, more and more noble men and ladies landed on the planet and they were soon to be followed by their most devoted loyalists. Nobles being nobles the lower class workers and farmers were put at work and encouraged to show a blind zeal to serve their masters and make the royal domain great again. But were they still workers or mere slaves ?
Thibault overheard some pilots of the former royal navy speaking of a jump hole leading straight into enemy territory and the need of watching it carrefully if they were to barricade themselves in Aquitaine for a while. The young man, impetuous as he was, rushed to his friend and convinced him to take their chance and flee the planet while they still could. Reluctant to leaving here his family and scared about being caught Damien tried to dissuade his friend but failed. He was too stubborn to understand and as he didn't has any family left he thought he had nothing to loose. Unable to let his friend go, alone against the whole universe, Damien made his decison. Leaving without a word in the cover of the night, the two young men took advantage of the state of the in-building colony to make something nobody was expecting. They lured two drunken pilots and knocked them down silently then proceed to leave the planet. With simulation video games for only reference, piloting the spaceships was no easy task but they miraculously, and mostly because of autopilot routines, managed to exit the atmosphere. Following coordinate of a jump hole stored in the date base of Thibault ship they were soon out of Aquitaine. But it was not the same jump hole the man heard about and they weren't in the heart of the former Bretonnian territory but instead in the Dublin system. With no idea were they where, where to go or what to do they fly randomnly between the rocks and ended in front of an old Battleship : The Hood.
Having no better idea and nowhere to go to begin with, they docked in. But the bruisers of the IMG wern't known for their kindness. Many of them did lose friends or family members in the war against Gallia and some even lose their homes when Leeds was bombarded. The two young refugees soon ran for their lives to their stolen spacecrafts. If Damien was lucky enough to made out of the Hood alive, his friend did not.
Alone, without food or money and with a fighter he wasn't even able to fly correctly, Damien felt lost. For the first time in his life, nobody was here to tell him what to do or where to go. He left his family to lose his only friend and has no other choice now but to try to survive in an unknown part of space where he was the enemy, even if the war was over. Alone in his metal coffin, drifting in space without purpose, he cried.