Discovery Forum Name: Kreuzritter Name: Wilhelm Bartel Rank: - S.K.Y.P.E designation(//username): garvik891
Age: 25 Height: 6'1 Weight: 170 lbs Hair Color: black Eye Color: green
Planet/Station of Origin: New Berlin
Background Information:
Born to middle-class parents Hannelore Bartel (former Schneider) and Fritz Bartel, Wilhelm led a relatively sheltered childhood without much contact to other people his age due to being home schooled. His father always intended for him to take over the family business - a small subcontracting firm of Republican Shipping that focused on planet surface deliveries to and from the bigger spaceports scattered across New Berlin. Lending a hand in the family business honed his skills as a mechanic as he helped his father's employes with repairs of the four smaller transport vessels in their service and by the age of 20 he had accumulated quite some hours of atmospheric flight experience in said vessels. Having spent the first 20 years of his life entirely planetside, a trip to Hamburg shortly after his 21st birthday marked a turning point in his love for aviation - he was no longer content with atmospheric flight and wanted to take to the stars. Just a month after the Hamburg trip he used the entirety of his monthly wage working as a transport pilot for his father to buy a lengthy flight session in a Tigershark that was adverstised as an "1 hour combat flight experience as genuine as it gets" in high orbit around planet New Berlin. Even though this flight session was far from even remotely simulating a real combat environment - all he did was mostly fly around in circles, doing the occasional loop, roll or other aerobatic maneuver - it did manage to firmly implant the romanticised picture of life as a fighter pilot in his head. When four years later his father had to sell the company due to the financial pressure of losing a few key contracts Wilhelm had to look for work elsewhere, and with the glorified memories of his one hour spin in the Tigershark still in mind he found himself in a Rheinwehr recruitment office the very next day.
