"It's just a game, I can die."

Biography

Saerieve (Born Emmanuel Pradier, 710 A.G.S/794 A.S) third son of Adolphe Pradier, a well-known Gallic business man, was born on Planet New Paris. His childhood passed like most other youngest children of any family, trying to prove himself better than his two older brothers. At the age of 6, he started his studies in a private institute and at the age of 18, he joined Gallic Royal Police. After 3 years of training, finally at the age of 21 joined Royal Police forces in space.

In his opinion, best part of being a police officer was asking for 'Protection Fee' from traders and blowing up small pirate ships. Turning into one of the best officers in first part of his favorite activities, and not so good in second part, he was transfered to Gallic Border Worlds during early 816 A.S to counter the growing Council forces. During the next year, he would return to New Paris every two weeks to meet his family and take a short rest, but as soon as the route to Sirius was open, they were forbidden to leave their posts. He was enjoying his stay in border worlds for first few months and 'fooling around' with Sirian traders - As he called it - but after a while as his new hobby started getting old, he decided to do something foolish. Just a few months after Council forces taking over the jump holes to Sirius, he stole a Civilian ship and left Gallia Space with fake identity of 'Saerieve' - a name he just made up and thought would sound cool!
First few months went by pretty hard, because of his lack of knowledge about Sirius, and also inability to properly communicate in standard Sirian English made it hard for him to communicate or even get accepted in any organization or group. After a few months of flying around Sirius without any particular goal, and getting to know the houses and also, getting better at communicating in English, he decided to return to doing what he did best - 'Playing around with lonely Traders'.

From that point on, he started his new path as a Freelancer Pirate, making enough money for living in his ship cockpit, and visiting a base every once and again when he needed to resupply. After time, he managed to gain trust of Junkers, and through them, becoming neutral with Liberty Rogues, Mollys and Outcasts. For the next year, he partly settled down in Barrier Gate Station, mostly operating in Liberty, Bretonia or Tau Systems. Being Gallic, his everyday drink was Wine, which he always complained about its quality, and this resulted in him being drunk most of the time, and when drunk, he only looked for fun, and no serious amount of money.

"As long as I have drink and someone to laugh at, I have enough!" was the way he described his own life style during that time.

During that Year, Saerieve travelled around Sirius, and visited various systems in the sector, while pirating defenseless traders along the way, but as days passed, he knew he had to find a place to settle in as he couldn't live the life of a 'wanderer' for his whole life.

It was during one of his travels through Tau systems that he met someone who completely changed his lifestyle. During his time in Tau systems, he met a Golden Chrysanthemums girl, who was in fact an Aoi Iseijin even though he thought she was a Chrysanthemums elder. Unaware of the fact, he invited the girl to a drink - Just as he always did when he met a beautiful girl - and in their short meeting, the Iseijin showed him visions and illusions, both painful and enjoyable, but as it was over, she made him believe it was all a 'Dream' and probably because of the drinks. Despite partly believing the girl, Saerieve still knew at least parts of it were true, which made him want to get closer to the girl to find out more about her, to maybe find an answer to his questions. This resulted in him sending a transmission to the Chrysanthemums elders and offering them assistance in return for access to their bases. With his request being approved, Saerieve moved from Barrier Gate to Ainu depot and started looking for the girl he had met.

Most of his time passed with looking around the station for the girl, and flying with random Golden C. pilots in space, hoping to learn more about the girl he had met in space, but as months passed and the only time he met the girl after moving to Ainu was a brief one, he started to find a way 'to be noticed' as he called it. During one of his flights with one of the Golden C., he noticed he's been preregistered on the Chrysanthemums board months ago, without him noticing, and knowing it was his best chance to show himself, he decided to stop 'wasting time on useless transport' and start hunting targets from the Chrysanthemums board as a freelancer.

As the days passed, he realized his second-hand Eagle and the guns he bought from a Junker dealer were no match for the Naval Forces ships and gear, and he knew to be able to act effective in what he had decided to do, he needed a new gear. It was then, when he realized with the help of his new friends within the Chrysanthemums, and a Hessian he knew from his time back in the Omegas, he could set up a ship which would be more than a match for Kusari imperial forces. Talking to Rika Ito, the Chrysanthemums elder he met the most, he managed to get a good word in for himself among the Dragons, and after a meeting with their Shogunate, finally get his hands on a newly-crafted Katana, and later, contacting his old Hessian friend, he managed to get permission for a set of Natterturns from the Hessians Army.

After starting his new career on the Kusari unlawful boards, and taking out various targets, he finally decided to talk to one of the Chrysanthemums elders about the girl he had met, hoping she can help him get closer to the girl, but as he meets Rika Ito in space, he comes to realize according to Golden C. records, Rin Masaki, the girl he had met, has gone MIA months before they first met. Just to prove that the girl he had met was actually Rin Masaki, he sends a few of the scans he had from her ship to the elder, but as she notices a few strange records in the log, she forwards the scan files to the Blood Dragons to be processed further. Soon after, the Dragons come back to them with the results of the processed scans, which clearly showed Rin Masaki was infected by Nomads, as the scans from her ship showed a couple of equipment only seen on Nomad infected ships before.

Knowing the Wilde from his days in Omegas, he knew any attempt to find the girl again would cost him his life, and now that he knew the girl was no longer a human, he could understand the reason behind the visions he had seen and the feelings he had gotten when he met the girl, which resulted in him considering it a "Lost Hope", as the girl he thought he knew was no more, and decided to move on, although now that he had lost the only reason that had pushed him forward during the past months, he was no more than lost, with no particular goal.

After going through a breakdown after the incident, and speaking with one of the Dragon shogunate, he decided to dedicate himself to what he had done in past months, working on Kusari unlawful boards, and use his skill and experience along with his hard-earned ship and gear both to aid those who had helped him when in need, and to give his life a new direction and 'stop living a pointless life' as he called it.

Spending ten months on dedicatedly hunting targets from the Blood Dragons hit list, he managed to build up a reputation for him throughout the house and surrounding system, whether in form of respect from friendly points or deep fear from the hostiles, even some of the higher ranking members of the Naval Forces, but even though he was dedicated to the task, he was still suffering from the breakdown even after nearly one year, which resulted in him attempting to suicide even though he did not succeed in. He was found unconscious in his room and moved to Ryuku medical wing immediately, which resulted in him being saved from certain death.

Soon after his recovery, he was offered a task by the Dragons to move to Bretonia in order to gather intel and also test their defenses as a preparation for the 47 Ronin wing's relocation to Bretonia borders. After spending a few months in Bretonia and gathering all the needed data, and with the outbreak of the Tau invasion, Dragons shogunate who were interested to know more about the Gallic threat assigned him on a new task to move to Gallia and gather as much useful data as possible, knowing he would be the best option as he was native to that region of space.

During his assignment in Gallia, he managed to come in contact with the Council who had already heard about him and had decided to offer him a critical assignment which was recovering a Royal Navy blackbox to decode the exact route the Royal forces were using to move their troops through the mine fields in Languedoc and Orkney. Accepting and finishing the assignment offered by Council was the point where he was granted the use of their Bastard Culverin tachyon blasters, which he managed to get hardwired on his Katana with the help of one of his Junker friends, and after returning to Kusari, have a more effective gear to hunt for the Dragons hit list.

After the disbandment of the Rising Sons, Saerieve - finding himself with no real purpose anymore, and also feeling betrayed by the Dragon shogunate - moved away from Kusari, returning to Sirius on his own after two years, hoping to find another cause to fight for. Having gained a lot more experience with life since the last time he'd been out in Sirius, he starts to realize how most factions actually don't fight for what they claim to be fighting for. No longer attached to any particular faction or group, he decides to make it his goal to 'help' others realize the miserable life they're living and make them return to their original goals, even if it means killing those who can't be 'helped' and only leaving the ones who're not as hopeless.

To this day, Saerieve is taking residence in Barrier Gate station like he used to over two years ago, and he's often seen in bordering systems of Bretonia and Liberty, as well as Tau systems.

» See Also:

Relation with [TAZ]: Part I, Part II
Relation with [NLH]: Part I
Relation with [GC]: Part I, Part II
Permission for Katana: Part I, Part II
Permission for Natterturns: Part I
Moving to Ryuku Base: Part I, Part II
Assassination Mission: Part I
Gallia Recon Mission: Part I
Permission for Bastard IIs: Part I
Other stories: The Truth Unveiled, Thoughts that fade..., Back on Track, Imperfection
Bounty Boards: Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums
Character page on Wiki: Saerieve

- Last updated: Nov 07, 2012