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PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 07-21-2019, 05:55 PM by PhoenixClaw.)

The Claw of the Phoenix - Julia Smith

General Information:

Date of Birth: April 24th, 799 AS
Place of Birth: Freeport 9, Omicron Theta
Gender: Female

Biography:

Julia had a rather unspectacular childhood until she became eleven years old. Shortly after her eleventh birthday, her father started to teach her how to fly a Light Fighter Class Vessel. Her father was very proud of her because she was able to control a light Vessel at the age of 12 without the need of any instructions or help, so he decided to buy her a small ship once she becomes fourteen years old. A "Scimitar"-Class Light Fighter it should be, he was sure that she'd love it. A few months after her 14th Birthday, after she got her very own first ship, Julia, her Family and some friends of her parents got attacked by Nomads while heading to a visit in New York. Her Parents said they'd have a surprise for Julia. No one was prepared for the Attack, there were no Fighters flying with them. It was no wonder that they didn't stand a chance in that Liner they were flying in. Her Father, who was in control of the Ships defense protocols, got killed after an explosion in the Control Center of the ship. Julia got separated from her Mother as they were both heading to the Escape pods. Luckily some friends of her parents saw Julia and took her with them to the Escape Pods. Her Mom sadly wasn't able to get in those Pods fast enough. The ship exploded. Julia knew what happened. She knew that she just lost both of her parents. Shortly after the explosion, an emergency squadron, sent by Freeport 9, arrived and rescued the surviving people. Since that day Julia suffers from a severe fear of loss of people important to her. After staying two months in the hospital her 15th birthday was coming close. She decided to leave the Freeport and start an expedition through Sirius, once she becomes 15 years old. Which she did, exactly on the day she became 15.

The years passed by.

Julia flew through many Systems, explored Sirius, looked for a new home... But she never found a place where she wanted to stay for longer than a half year. After years of earning money, by providing escorts, trading Commodities from House System to House System and hunting down Criminals, she finally made enough money to buy a Large Ship. So she headed back... back to the Omicrons, back to where everything began. After two Months of flying from system to system, she finally reached her Destination, Livadia Shipyard in Omicron Kappa. Julia met an old friend of her parents there. He was the Captain of an "Aquilon"-Class Carrier called "Briareos". Sadly he was dying and the doctors said he would only have a few weeks left. Julia spent his last weeks together with him and she became the daughter he never had and he the father she once lost. After his passing, Julia was asked to meet the old man’s lawyer. He had something for her. Something precious that once belong to the old captain. What was it she wondered. Perhaps a small artifact from his past days as a captain? Perhaps that book he always wanted her to read when she was still a young girl? A shock she was in, when the lawyer read his last will and testament. The Briareos, his zoner carrier, it should be. Two weeks later, she met a Nephilim Captain named Lars Dross. They talked for a while and somehow Julia became his personal Escort wing. She bought herself an "Osprey MkII"-Class Zoner Long Range Escort in order to follow him wherever he is heading to. Together they flew through many systems and had a very rough time doing so. Many people were hunting Captain Dross.

After some time they met a girl named Iona in a severely damaged "Aquilon"-Class Carrier. At that point, Julia didn't know much about her, but they got along well together and Iona started roaming through the Omicrons with them. Two months later everything repeated itself again. It was a rather quiet day, Julia, Iona and Cpt. Dross were just flying their regular daily route through the omicrons as suddenly some Nomads appeared in front of them and started attacking them. They were too many. Her Carrier was severely damaged in this attack and Julia was severely injured. She was taken to the hospital on Livadia, where she spent several months in a coma. When she finally woke up from her coma, they were all gone. The Arcadia, Cpt. Dross's Nephilim had disappeared and Iona went her separate way.

Julia had to spend most of the money she had left and time in order to repair her damaged Briareos. After two Months the repairs were finally done and she was able to continue her journey. She flew through the Omicrons and as she arrived at Taba Starbase in Omicron Mu, she met an old friend again, Iona. They talked to each other for quite some time and Iona told Julia what she missed. Cpt. Dross is gone, he left Sirius. Iona didn't know why he did so, but at least she knew something. Iona herself joined an Order Faction called the "Omicron Research Group" and invited her to join them.

Julia, who developed a big hatred against the Nomads, gave it a try and joined the ORG'S, Military Wing. She gave away her Carrier and became the captain of an Order "Osiris"-Class Battleship as exchange. Her job was to protect the Research Wing and all its operations at all cost, which she did successfully for the next few months. After half a year, Julia and Iona had a big argument about a Mission she got assigned to. After disobeying the Order given to her, Julia wasn't able to stay in the ORG anymore, so she transferred all important data from her Osiris to her Bastet and flew away from Mu, leaving everything behind, her Friends, her Ship, everything, once more.

A few days later, somewhere in the omicrons.

Julia knows that she's running out of food and water slowly, she knows that she'll have to find a station soon or she'll die due to dehydration. While studying her Navmap, searching for the next station to dock at, she suddenly got attacked. This time they weren't Nomads, or at least Julia thought so, they weren't flying Nomad Ships but they were equipped with the same Cloaking technology as the Order is using. Before she even managed to charge her weapons, she fainted. That's the last thing she remembers from that day.

Julia doesn't know what happened, but as she awakes from her coma one year later on Planet Manhattan, a man that she's never seen before explains to her what happened:
He found her ship drifting through Omega-55 probably a few hours after the initial attack on Julia.
He rescued her from the ship and tried to save as many parts of the ship as possible.
On that day he saved Julias live, as well as her Codename Weaponry and her cloaking device from the ship.
He brought her to a hospital on Planet Manhattan, where she got taken care of.

Julia was wondering how he knew about her, so she asked him. They talked for a while and he explained to her, that he's her Brother Brian, that he's the reason why her parents wanted to come to Liberty 12 years ago. He also told her, that he met Iona in Liberty once and that she told him that Julia left the ORG. After that day Brian visited her daily and helped her with her rehabilitation. She was heavily injured at that day in Omega-55, multiple rips were broken, as well as her left shin and she lost the eyesight in her right eye. 6 Months had passed, 6 Painful months of rehabilitation. Now Julia is finally well again. Brian bought her a "Falchion"-Class Very Heavy Fighter and equipped it with the leftover weaponry as well as the cloaking device from her old ship and gave it to Julia.

Now Julia is finally able to continue her journey again.

People with inRP knowledge of stuff written in this Thread

PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 10-04-2018, 04:02 PM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 1
October 2nd, 825 AS
Planet Manhattan, New York

Hey there, Diary.

Uuhhmmm my Name is Julia Smith and I somehow came to the conclusion that it would be a good Idea to store some kind of daily logs in here.But why am I telling you this? You won't respond to me anyways. she laughs hysterically

Anyways, today was a rather unusual day. I flew my daily route through the Liberty Systems, which means New York, Texas, Colorado, California and Pennsylvania, looking for any traders which I could offer a convoy. So far so good, haven't found a single person that actually said more than "hello" until I reached Pennsylvania. At Planet Erie I met a Zoner and a Freelancer called "Maria_Fernanda_Col". She was pretty aggressiv towards me I'd say, Shortly after my arrival she asked me to leave and after I refused, she started attacking me. I didn't want to harm her, so I just tried to dodge all her shots but after a minute or two she started to annoy me. So I shot back. Three shots and her shield went down, another one and she lost 10% hull. After that she basically tried to escape by headdiving directly into Planet Erie. I don't know how she managed to do it, but she somehow survived that, even tho I saw some explosions coming from her ship but after some time she just undocked from the Planet again.

After that event we all just talked for a while, until Maria had to leave.

I flew back to New York to see if I can find a few traders again, but what did I find instead of traders? Right, I found the Hellfire Legion. It was actually my first encounter with them.. I mean, you don't meet them that often in the omicrons, right? Well anyways. I tried to talk to them, but it seems that they basically ignore "small fishes" like me. she shrugs He was flying away from me,so I engaged my cloaking device and followed him. After that everything went extreme. A Liberty Navy Ship appeared and started firing at them. Basically exactly what I expected, seemed that I wouldn't be able to talk to those Hellfire Pilots. After a few minutes f fight between them, a Hellfire Battlecruise aswell as another Liberty Navy Ship, a Battlecruiser too, appeared. It was easy to predict who was going to loose this fight, so shortly after the appearance of the second Liberty Navy Vessel, the Hellfire ship got destroyed. The Action was over, I wasn't able to talk to the Hellfire Legion and I wasn't able to do anything else than watching them. she said with a rather sad voice

The rest of the day was unexciting so I won't put anything of it in here. I think I will attach the Logs of both encounters below this Entry.

Julia Out.

Pennsylvania Log

Hellfire Legion Log

PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 10-04-2018, 04:06 PM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 2
October 3nd, 825 AS
Taba Starbase, Omicron Mu

Hello again, Diary.

It seems that I will talk to you more often now. Today I decided to fly back to the Omicrons, to the systems I used to call home, once more. So basically it was a rather unexited day, until I reched the Omegas. I prepared myself for the journey on Planet Manhattan, bought some food, water and plotted my route to Omicron Theta.

It was a boring flight through Rheinland, I haven't met any Pilots... so there isn't much to talk about. Finally! The Jumphole from Dresden to Omega-55. It's the first time that I left the House Systems since that incident one and a half years ago. The flight through Omega-55 was pretty boring, it was just a flight from A to B without anything special to talk about. There it is! The Jumphole to Omega-58, this is where the hard part started but I didn't know that back then. I jumped through.

On the other side everything was Black, "Warning, radiation damage detected!". Hearing that in the middle of nowhere is the last thing I wanted to hear. I opened my Nav-Map, just to see "No NAV-Map available". I panicked, I didn't know where to fly, so I set course to the center of the System. But then, "What's that?" I shouted as Lightnings showed up everywhere around me. I flew right into an Dark-Matter storm. I turned around to fly out of it immediately and tried to fly around it, which worked out pretty well. After I arrived at the Center of the System, there was nothing but a Neutron Star. I started to remember.. Back then, when I still was a member of the ORG, we had an expedition to this System, so I remembered where the Jumphole to Theta was. I just had to look for the old Osiris Wreck, that was close near the Jumphole. I finally found it. My ship had to endure a bit in those Dark-Matter storms, so I quickly used some Nanobots. Just before I flew through the Jumphole I heared a "Hey" from someone.

A pirate called "Ethel" just appeared behind me. "What is a pirate doing out here"-I wondered. He basically followed me and asked me out about myself. I didn't tell him much, just my name and maybe that I was a Member of the Order once. I hope that wasn't too much to tell arleady. Anyways.. I will attach the whole Conversation below the Entry again. Let's continue now.

After I docked at the Freeport, filled up my fuel and Nanobots, I continued with my journey. The rest of the flight was very boring and nothing really happened. Just a few Nomads here and there, but I shot them down pretty easy. I finally arrived at my destination, Taba Starbase in Omicron Mu.
I don't know what will happen next, nor do I know how long I will stay in the Omicrons this time but I know one thing for sure.. Now that I'm already here, I'm definitely going to hunt down some Nomads.

Julia Out.

Log

PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 10-18-2018, 08:28 AM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 3
October 6th, 825 AS
Trenton Outpost, New York

So, I'm back in New York. she said while still standing, she sits down and continues

Only three days have passed since I decided to head back to the Omicrons, to the systems I once called home, but yesterday I decided to head back today. Why? Pretty easy to explain. It was boring! I mean.. yea it was a good thing to head back, I visited some places that I haven't seen for a long time, met some old friends of my parents at Freeport 9 and finally killed some Nomads, but other than that.. literally nothing happened. I haven't met a single pilot in space. I really hoped I would see an old friend from the ORG again, but no.. I haven't even seen one of them. Not at Taba, nor at Thebes. It basically looks like they're gone. I hope they're okay.. she looks down and stops talking for a minute until she continues

Anyways.. this time I flew through Kusari, instead of the Omegas and Rheinland, it just seemed to be a safer way in my opinion. On my way back I docked on a few stations, as well as Freeport 12. I was rather impressed after I noticed that they sell Codename weaponry at that station and then even in such numbers.. Dark Blossoms, Diamondbacks, Excaliburs, and a few more. I couldn't resist, so I basically changed my old Taranis and Golden Blades with some new, good looking Ragnarocks and Excaliburs. After that quick change of weaponry, I continued my flight to Trenton Outpost in the New York system. I just arrived a few minutes ago and decided to do a quick Summary before I start my normal route through the Liberty Systems. she looks at the time Well that's it from me for now, Imma fly my route now. If something worth noticing happens, you'll hear from me again. If not, then in a few days.

Julia Out.

PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 10-20-2018, 01:33 PM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 4
October 19th, 825 AS
Freeport 9, Omicron Theta

Days have passed in Liberty.

I really had nothing to talk about, nothing worth mentioning in here happened to me in the past few days. Just the normal routine every day. Flying through Liberty, looking for potential escorts and fighting unlawfuls. So really nothing Special, Until today.
I decided to head to Kusari today, in hope that more interesting stuff is happening there. I was shocked when I arrived at Planet New Tokio and saw what waited there for me. Nomads, so many Nomads. Battleships, Cruisers and Gunboats. "What are Nomads doing here?" and "Why are there so many of them?" - I asked myself, but there wasn't much time to think about it. They started to come closer. "We need to fight them!" - I thought, knowing that we won't stand a chance against those numbers of Nomad vessels with our small snubcrafts. Just to mention it, we faced four battleships, five cruisers and two gunboats, while we only were a handful of snubcrafts and a Naval Gunboat.

At first, they sent their two Gunboats and one Cruiser to us. I think they wanted to test, what we're capable of. The two Gunboats were taken down unexpectedly fast, but the Cruiser took us much more time and it dealt heavy damage to the Naval Gunboat. After a few minutes of intense fighting, Success! We destroyed their first wave, but there was still no end in sight. We slowly flew towards where the Battleships were before, to see if they're still there. Yes, they were. There were Still four Battleships and four Cruisers were waiting for us. "Lure them towards the station!" - one of the guys said. It sounded like a good Idea, so I engaged my cruise engines and hoped that I could lure one or at most two of them to us.
I must admit, that it didn't work out as planned. After flying close to them, their Cruisers just turned towards us and all the remaining four of them started to slowly fly towards the planet. "Use the planetary Defences as Cover! Then we can win this battle!" - I shouted, completely underestimating the Nomad's firepower. Yes, I underestimated them... Even though I fought them for a long time. Only seconds passed by after they reached the planet until my ship got heavily damaged. Fire! It started burning and I knew I need to leave immediately, but docking at the planet was no option right now. I wouldn't even come close to the planetary docking rings, without getting shot.

"Senorita come with me" - a guy, whose name was Miguel Blancos, said. There wasn't much time to think about it, so I just trusted him, engaged my cruise engines and simply followed him. It was a good choice, as I later found out. He told me a bit about him and the Apostatas, that's the name of the group he belongs to. He told me that they're a group of Corsairs who got exiled by the Elders. They're trying to transform their home, prohibit Artifact trading in the Omicrons and even become Lawful. Lawful Corsairs... That somehow sounds strange, strange enough that I became interested in that group. He invited me to follow him to their current abode in Omicron Theta. I don't know why, but I somehow trust this guy, so I accepted and we headed to the Omicrons. I really didn't expect that I would see those systems again that soon. I mean, I just came back from Mu about two weeks ago.
Anyways... So we started flying to the Omicrons. On our way I told him who I am, that I am an ex Order Agent and that I had the rank Captain Colonel when I was still a member of the ORG, well actually I told him that I was Colonel Captain. I somehow always mess up the name of the rank.

The remaining flight was uneventful until we reached Sigma 17, where another Corsair showed up. "Senorita is time for you to leave this area" - Miguel said. I knew what was gonna happen now, they were going to fight each other. I really wanted to help Miguel, but I can't just start a fight with a Corsair, just to defend someone I barely know. That would be foolish. So I engaged my Cloaking Device and flew to the Jumphole to Omicron Theta. Luckily, Miguel told me that we're heading to the Freeport there before the other Corsair showed up. So I docked at the Freeport. I really hope that Miguel is okay, I will try to reach him via a secure channel and see if he managed to escape or destroy that other Corsair.

Anyways. As always, I will attach some of the yesterday's logs below.

Julia out.

Arrival at Planet New Tokio

After the Fight

PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 02-05-2019, 03:37 AM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 5
February 5th, 826AS
Classified, Omicron Theta

Sooo, it has been some time since my last entry in here.

To be honest, I actually forgot that this kind of diary existed. Anyways... As I just said, a lot has happened. I won't go that much into detail now, cause that would just take me like an hour to explain. I will try to keep it short, but still detailed enough.
So, first of all, I actually contacted mister Blancos a few months ago and we met again. He told me more about the Apostatas and I got even more interested in this group. So I applied to join them and got accepted shortly afterward. The following weeks a lot has happened. Many patrols, explorations, and even some scientific stuff was going on. I didn't think that the Apostatas are interested in Nomadic stuff, but I guess everyone in Sirius kind of is. After some time as a member of their ranks, I got selected to be one of their new cruiser pilots, and so I became the commander of one of their "Praefect"-Class cruisers and it's crew, the Galliminus. Funny tho that I'm still in the rank of Alférez, which is the second lowest rank of the Apostatas. Anyways, stuff went kind of stressful when the other corsairs found our well-hidden base. We had to prepare ourselves for some a heavy siege by them, which ultimately was going on for multiple days. Luckily they gave up, due to our greater firepower thanks to our allies.
But after that, the Apostatas went silent. I don't know what the high command is planning right now, but again, they went completely silent. I feel like something important is going on, which means I need to be on standby and available to jump into my ship, whenever they need me. Which is kind of complicated right now. In my most recent patrol, my ship got hit by an Ion Storm. Unluckily that seems to have damaged my ship's power core somehow and I can't fly it until the technicians fix it. I will contact mister Blancos, who by the way got promoted to the rank of General de Ejército, which is the second highest rank of the Apostatas, if he got a ship like a Titan on spare for me to use. I will contact him directly instead of the whole High Command because I don't wanna bother everyone else with that problem. Anyways, that's it from me for today. I will try to keep this thing more updated again from now on.

Julia Out!

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PhoenixClaw · (This post was last modified: 07-30-2020, 06:16 AM by PhoenixClaw.)

Diary Entry 6
July 30th, 827
Classified, Omiocron Theta

It's been some time. She said, standing in front of the chair she's usually sitting in. Apart from the chair and a desk in front of her, the room she's standing in is empty. Julia takes a deep breath before she sits down and continues in a silent, sad voice.

Over a year has passed since my last entry. A year that I've spent with combat simulations, watching everyone leave this base and waiting for everyone to come back. But that didn't happen. No one ever came back. As I already mentioned in my last entry, the Apostatas went silent. After our base got sieged by the corsairs, the high command became unreachable. No one knew what was going on. It took only a month until the first members started leaving the base to start a new life. After the first few left, many of the others followed. I'm currently the last person on board this station, the station we all used to call 'home' for so long. Well, apart from some robots and Girona, Apostata's AI, that are taking care of the station. I've been alone for at least half a year. I was waiting for everyone to come back. I decided that it's finally time to leave this station as well. I don't think anyone will ever come back. I will shut down most of the station's systems to save as much power as possible and leave a message for whoever might come back one day. In case someone will ever come back. With that said, it's time for me to prepare my departure and head to the hangar bay.

After Julia finished the last sentence, the video feed cuts out and turns static. After a couple of seconds, it turns back on with Julia sitting in the cockpit of her ship.

It is time, time to leave everything behind and start something new. It was a good time here, as long as it lasted. She said with a sad expression. Julia stays silent for a couple of minutes and stares at the consoles of her ship.

Girona. Please capture the following message and play it back to whoever docks on this station the next time. Julia said to the station's AI. She clears her throat before capturing the message

"Dear member of the Apostatas, my name is Julia Smith, Captain of the Apostatas. Today is July the 30th 827 AS. The base has been abandoned and Everyone left half a year ago. I'm currently the last person on the base. Or rather, was. I am going to leave too. Most of the systems were disabled by me and I put Girona into hibernation mode to save as much of the station's power as possible. This shutdown can only be reversed by a member of the high command or by someone with the needed access codes. Whoever you are, you can always contact me over the neutral net if you want to talk to a fellow member. With that said, stay safe out there. Julia out."

<Girona> Affirmative. Message saved and set to auto-playback if the docking bays get activated.
Thank you, Girona. Please deactivate all non-crucial systems for the base to stay intact, as well as the life support, and enter hibernation mode after I left the station.

<Girona> Understood. Systems will be shut down and hibernation mode will be entered, after your departure.
Thank you, Girona. Now it's time to say goodbye and start a new life, again.

The video feed turns static after Julia activates her ship's propulsion system.

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