Ezreal Matsumoto

Ezreal Matsumoto Codename: Pulsefire
Photo taken 819 A.S.
Profile
Origin	Kusari
Occupation	Fighter Pilot
Affiliation	Cryer Pharmaceuticals
Born	5 February 795 A.S., Planet New Tokyo

Ezreal Matsumoto is a Cryer Pharmaceuticals fighter pilot.

Early Life

Ezreal Matsumoto was born on Planet New Tokyo in the year 795 A.S.. His father was an Admiral in the Kusari Naval Forces and his mother owned a bakery. Ezreal's mother Akira left her husband when Ezreal was three. His father never spoke of her after that day and never told his son why she left. Two years later, Ezreal's father fought in the Nomad War. It is presumed that he died at the Battle of Heaven's Gate.

After his father died in the Nomad War, Ezreal was adopted by a close family friend, General Hanzo. General Hanzo was a historian of sorts, and he had a fascination with the Old Earth history of Japan. He studied the arts of the samurai and shinobi and had a large collection of media on these subjects. Ezreal was trained in the art of the shinobi, and his own fascination led him to spend his free time browsing General Hanzo's library.

On Ezreal's ninth birthday, General Hanzo's home was raided by the most powerful crime syndicate in the Yamanashi Prefecture, the Deadly Vipers. Fourteen men attacked the home, and after defeating twelve of the gangsters, General Hanzo was greeted by death in the form of a laser pistol. Although Ezreal's blade was responsible for taking three Deadly Viper lives, it could not save him from their leader Boss Tanaka.

Prison

The ensuing investigation found Ezreal guilty of three counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison and incarceration at Police Prison Station. There, Ezreal enlisted in a rehabilitation program known as "Top Gun" aimed at teaching inmates basic mechanics in flight training. A natural pilot, he excelled in the program. One of the guards was so fond of Ezreal's aviation skills, he gave him his personal Bull Dog heavy fighter.

Cybernetic Experimentation

Ezreal was one of two Top Gun students who volunteered to be used in tactical augmentation experiments. Ezreal's head was severed from his body and installed onto a cyborg exoskeleton. All human organs were removed, and the heart was replaced with a carbonate fuel cell. This fuel cell pumps biotic nano-repair paste throughout the exoskeleton, codenamed "white blood". While blood enhances reflexes, strength, and regeneration. Ezreal's optical nerves and retina were damaged in the process of dailyzing this blood and had to be replaced with prosthetics.

Escape

On a routine training exercise with his mentor around the outskirts of Bastille, Ezreal performed an inverted maneuver that caused him to accelerate intensely and lose contact with his instructor for a few minutes. During this time he noticed a piece of debris near his ship, an odd occurrence considering the system he was in. Ezreal beamed the debris to his cargo bay, and a scan determined that it was a non-functional jump drive. Ezreal used his neural net uplink to research jump drives and later developed a plan to collect the materials needed to repair his find.

Three years of junking and he managed to collect enough material to repair the jump drive he found so long ago. By this time, Ezreal was given free flight access four hours a day due to good behavior and a general fascination of his aviation abilities by the Police Prison Station staff. He got into his Bull Dog and installed the jump drive with the intent to exit Bastille permanently. The jump drive functioned and created a minor worm hole, but Ezreal forgot to input jump coordinates and entered a blind jump.

Nomad Incident

When he exited the worm hole, Ezreal found that his Bull Dog aviation scanner wasn't responding and the neural net was not accessible. Little did he know, he was in the Omicron-92 system. He flew towards what he presumed to be north for hours, trying to tell himself that the asteroids weren't the same ones he saw fifteen minutes ago. Beginning to grow hopeless, Ezreal then heard a voice that sounded rather close. He looked around and noticed an almost translucent ship only a few meters away from him. He immediately recognized it. The ship was a small Nomad. Ezreal's Bull Dog was not outfitted with weapons of any kind, so he began to pray. But the Nomad showed no signs of hostility, and after a few seconds it spoke to Ezreal in English. He was unaware if the communication was physical or a mental connection, but the Nomad offered to guide him out of the system. Ezreal followed the Nomad for a few hours and through a few systems until they reached Omicron Alpha. The Nomad then left without saying anything and Ezreal took shelter on the nearest planet, Planet Malta.

The Malta Experience

Ezreal was right at home in the presence of Outcasts. They were vile, arrogant people, and even quicker to fight than he was. They liked to insult his augmentations though, calling Ezreal things like "cyber boy" and "robo cop". He didn't take kindly to it, and many bar fights ensued during his time there. Ezreal quickly saved up enough cash to travel to Planet New Tokyo, his home planet. But he carried with him an unknown souvenir. Thanks to the Maltese atmosphere, and those cardamine cigarettes he had bummed in all the bars he visited, he'd become mentally dependent on the drug.

Ezreal took off in his Bull Dog, sights set on New Tokyo.