Discovery Forum Name: der.metzger Name: Jakob Metzger Rank: - Fleiger S.K.Y.P.E designation(//username): Jakob.der.metzger
Age:25 Height:5'11" Weight:190 lbs Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Blue
[b]Planet/Station of Origin: Stuttgart
Background Information: Jakob is the youngest of three children born to a lower middle class family, born 792. His parents were married young as a result of the birth of his oldest sister. Jakob was raised in a semi-arid steppe area of Stuttgart celebrated locally for the wines produced by the few people who could still afford a small hillside. Jakob's father, Geoffrey Metzger, worked as a parts distributor for farming machinery while his mother, Katrin Metzger, spent much of his younger life at home raising the children. His sisters are Laura, born 787, and Niko, 789.
EDUCATION
While publicly schooled, Jakob showed a high intellegence at a young age. In his third year of schooling, Jakob was evaluated and was admitted into the experimental educational program KOG. Little is known about this period of education, as much of this program has been kept classified, but we do know that Metzger was in this program for three years before opting to return to standard public education. Jakob has performed much as an average student throughout his educational career, but with consistent remarks from instructors regarding his potential being unreached. At sixteen, Jakob finished his basic schooling by taking the Adult Basic Standardized Educational Assesment which he completed in the top three percentile. Since receiving his diploma, Jakob has not continued any type of formal education but can be found spending his free time reading textlogues and researching details of archaic Terran jet-fighters, a long time passion of his.
CHILDHOOD
Jakob's childhood was neither ideal nor desperate. Much of his time was spent playing with neighborhood children and his sisters. It would seem that he was a normal boy with a liking to rock climbing and fishing in particular. He was raised in the church of Man-Jesus, along with the rest of his family.
ADOLESENCE
Jakob's parents divorced in the beginning of Jakob's adolesence after years of quarreling. Jakob's father's ever increasing use of Cardamine and loss of employement had fueled and already smoldering fire and Katrin moved the family to New London, Bretonia, and Jakob lost all contact with his father. Cardamine would return to plague relations of Jakob for the rest of his adolesence. On New London, Jakob's mother found employement working as a secretary in a construction firm and scraping together enough money to afford a mortgage and provide a healthy life for the children. This divorce of his parents didn't
affect Jakob in a negative way, instead it drove him to distractions to focus his energies into. This is how Jakob got into mechanics and racing. At 14 years old, Jakob met his first true friend, Marcus Diaz, a racer and son on a slavage yard owner who introduced Jakob to racing. Over the next two years Jakob would pour his freetime and credits into building his first Lane Racing ship, Der Herzog, and could almost always be found in the junkyard with Marcus fine tuning their rigs. With his speedy ship, Jakob began running deliveries throughout Bretonia space to earn extra credits. After one particularly long run, Jakob returned to the salvage yard to find Marcus is a foul temper. Marcus had found out that his lineage is from the Corsairs and his family had illegally immigrated into Bretonia to flee the lawlessness and war that plagues the area to raise their son in peace. Marcus told Jakob that he had to return to Omicron Gamma and aid the Corsairs in the war against the Outcasts. Jakob was torn between the brotherly love of a friend as well as a deep loathing of the Outcasts and their cardamine trade which ruined his family and the lifelong hatred of the pirates, a sworn enemy of the state. He told Marcus that if he returned to Corsair space they could no longer be friends, and Diaz would be an enemy untill he severed all ties with Corsairs and returned to lawful space. Marcus understood but said there was no option. He left that night, and Jakob has not seen him since, though occasionally he receives a random deposit of credits to his account from M.Diaz. No note is included. It was shortly after this that Jakob took the ABSE and decided to return to Rheinland space.
ADULTHOOD
Jakob has spent the past few years racing Der Herzog and taking adrenaline-junky clients for back breaking rides around Rheinland and Bretonian space. He still has not found his father, and Diaz is still alienated from him. He sends his extra credits to his mother and sisters back in New London, waiting for the day they too return to Rheinland. When the war between Liberty and Rheinland broke out in 817 Jakob began toying with the idea of joining the military, and now has finally decided to make the leap and leave behind the carefree days of speed for a more disciplined life of purpose. Serving his homeland in the struggle to free us from the yoke of Liberty!
Basic Personality Traits: Loyal to friends and family and state. Fun loving adrenaline junky. Excitable. Borderline reckless at times. Manic. Wise, yet immature at times. Traveller. Musician.
Ship Class:
Other: Wishes for M.Diaz to repair his rep and return to lawful space, but knows it is impossible. Favors light, quick ships over bulky armored ships.
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