Battlegroup Veracruz - Personnel database

[Battlegroup Veracruz]

Jim Alber - Information
Lieutenant, head of Juliet wing, INS-Capulet

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- "We kept firing until our gun barrels deformed under the heat. We fired until the last projectile had left our ammo holds. He... Didn't say anything. I think in this moment, he envied us."

© Alisa Zoey, Sierra wing

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General information

Jim Alber - founder of the Juliet wing and former officer of Liberty Navy Fleet beginning in the middle of the Liberty-Rheinland War. Unofficially, he is considered the main personage during the Juliet wing mutiny, which prompted it to leave for the Hellfire Legion. He is considered the right-hand man of Marcus Shain, and thus has high authority both among his subordinates and within the Verona squadron itself.

Jim was seen more than once as a promising commander-in-chief, but because of his way of thinking, which is based on being "just a labor force," he failed to move up the ranks in the Legion unlike Marcus.

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Biography

Jim Alber is a native of the planet Los Angeles, located in the California system. The family is a car mechanic father and a hairdresser mother. The city in which Jim was born was a high crime area, which prompted Alber's parents to move to quieter places, to larger cities. Using last resort, the family was able to find more or less suitable housing, while Jim had to work and study at the same time, torn between commitments and his own desires.

The first person he was able to develop a good relationship with was Marcus Shine, a friendship that would last to this day. With completely different life statuses, they both complemented each other, which influenced the young men's attitude: it wasn't far from a simple study to a mutual application to the Liberty Navy. So, when Marcus was inspired to join the ranks of the Navy - Jim followed his friend without long thinking: the boring spinning of nuts in his father's profession or fiddling with thread in his mother's profession created him a "stereotype" of all planetary work, and so he sought his place among the stars. Besides, service in the Navy could provide well for his family for many years to come.

Jim was successful in joining the Liberty Fleet, passing all the tests with flying colors and proving himself to be an executive and responsible person. Fleet Command considered him a candidate for the West Point Academy, and he and Marcus, not far behind his friend in skills, became cadets at the academy. Jim devoted himself to the study of fighter piloting, while Marcus was gaining credibility among his fellow comrades with each passing day, which increasingly attracted the attention of fleet officers: a man like that could be a promising commander.

After leaving the service, Jim became involved in the Liberty-Rhineland War, during which he was under the direct supervision of Captain Victor Sully. In the middle of this war he was able to become a real officer, allowed to fly wings or create his own. Without long deliberation, Jim formed the Juliet wing, while Marcus became his wing commander, serving as captain of the flagship cruiser "Escalus".

Further developments occur at high intensity, with Jim and Marcus losing a huge number of their comrades due to a multitude of incorrect orders from high command. The composition of the Escalus Wing and Squadron was replenished with new faces, who after a relatively short time of service on the battlefield became good brothers-in-arms, fully trusting their commanders.

After some time of "digging up the facts," Jim was able to discover that some of the wrong orders had been given deliberately: the officers of the high command had simply sold out to Rheinland. This could not fail to have natural consequences: a few months before the end of the Liberty-Rheinland war, the Juliet wing, led by Marcus and Jim, began a mutiny in the ranks of the Liberty fleet, the effect of which spread to the entire Escalus squadron. Jim was disillusioned with the Liberty fleet and the ideals for which he had fought, for which he lost a great number of loyal men who had become family to him.

The escape to Vespucci space was accompanied by multiple fights: Jim created an entire trail of corpses to get to those who shared his views on the situation. After a while, he and Marcus became full-fledged "traitors" in the eyes of their former comrades-in-arms, while the survivors under their command reformed the Juliet and Sierra wings. It was these two wings and the Escalus cruiser that went through the war with Gallia, at the end of which the entire group came under the command of Isaac Barrington in the then-existing Veracruz squadron, which would only become a full-fledged battlegroup after the siege of Bering system by Liberty Navy.

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Behavior, character

Jim is an outgoing man who never loses his ability to talk in any situation. Unlike his friend Marcus, he has a simpler attitude to many things, which allows him to find effective tactical solutions in spontaneous combat. At the same time, his ease of communication makes him a flashy person in conflict situations.

The only person who stands out among his friends is Marcus himself. Jim values his friend's life and does not consider options in which to leave him in harm's way. As befits any officer, Jim cherishes the lives of his subordinates, not letting them get slaughtered in dubious ventures.

Alber is respectful of Liberty uniformed officers, seeing as his main problem not them, but the system that allowed the "wrong" officers to come into existence. He sees his main task as eradicating this problem and creating a regime in Liberty in which the Republic would be devoid of crime and corruption would be punished to the death.

There are a number of events that occurred during Liberty's time in the Navy, each of which may have prompted Jim to leave. The reasons why he didn't do it earlier are not yet known. All that is known is that Marcus was aware of what was going on in the Navy, but his response was emphatic: "Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to. At the same time, one of these events involves Victor Sully, who died in the New Hampshire system while serving with Jim.

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