Mike Edwards

Mike Edwards
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Profile
Origin	Liberty
Occupation	Liberty Security Force Supervisory Agent
Affiliation	Liberty Security Force
Rank	Chief of Operations
Born	unknown

His first years

LIfe as a student

Graduated with average marks in school, and barely making it up to University, Mike Edwards opportunities for the future were considered limited by his teachers. With his lack of social skills, the few people who tried to get close to him was scared away by his apparent indifference towards anyone's else needs. This leaded to his isolation during his first two university years, studying economics. During the third year, he began changing, in the hope some of those classmates or teachers could prove valuable as future professional contacts.

The first jobs

After graduating with poor marks, his wishes to find some stable job vanished. It was here when his career took a turn, and Mike decided to enter the private security sector. Guarding civilian storage depots, warehouses, and shops was a very repetitive job, which granted him the chance of making up his mind about his future. During this time, he developed a certain degree of friendship with his supervisor. Edwards began getting more and more interested about "space-worms", as the rest of the security company employees talked about the people who made a living without landing on planet surfaces for months. While researching about careers which may prove suitable for him, he began getting more and more interested in government jobs. Couriers, Space Police Units, and Navy.

When his supervisor saw his growing interest on these organisations, he decided to push Edwards into another direction. The supervisor had been in touch with the Liberty Security Force because of terrorists threats in the past, and decided Edwards would fit there much better than in more routine based jobs. Plus it'd put an end to the tensions that had arose between his employees.

A career in the Liberty Security Forces

The Academy

Edwards left his job soon after making an interview with a Liberty Security Forces interviewer. With nothing really left behind he'd miss, he packed his few possessions and embarked the shuttle towards the Academy. Working harder than ever, he managed to pass every exam with slightly above average marks, but nothing impressive. This lead him to a slight depression, which came to an end as soon as the flying course began.

His evident lack of flying skills were concealed by his intense study, both in law theory in the academy as space ship piloting in the flying school. In this last year, his marks raised enough for his application to be considered in the Liberty Security Force main group.

Period as an Agent

After his acceptance in the Liberty Security Forces homeland security division, he took part in a few training missions, to learn the ropes of the real tasks. During his first real mission, a situation developed. The Liberty Security Forces director was there, as was Edwards' supervisor. After having isolated a criminal, and having ordered to keep his shields down, a radio interrogation began, by the then Director Copeland. Unfortunately, Edwards did not understand the order to cease the shield disruption of the target ship. This lead to the nervous criminal to fire a warning shot at him. The result of this first action was an unnecessary death, and a bad mark on Edward's first action report.

During an operation, the Order agent Mirage Bre'Delakorsa was put under custody by LSF pilots while she was scanning Norfolk Shipyard. Given the task to interrogate this agent, Edwards decided his bad marks should no longer be the most shining on his record. In the hope a full confession would improve the image of the LSF towards him, he put in practise unconventional tactics to get information from this agent. Despite the days of torture, including the murder of another order pilot in front of her, sleep privation, and physical damage, the results were disappointing.

This situation came to an abrupt end when an order attack on the prison station where Bre'Delakorsa was being held allowed her to escape, leaving the corridors filled with order, civilian, and LSF corpses.

Consequences

During the Order - Liberty truce, Edwards was tasked with Alaska patrols. Scouting for potential smugglers and intruders, and relaying that information to the navy vessel Gafwmn, many targets were shot down or disabled. Right when things began to turn to better, an incident shocked him.

Admiral Mirage Bre'Delakorsa detected his ship, doing usual patrols, in Alaska. Using her rank, she forced three Osiris class battleships to use their sensors and fighter wings to capture or destroy Edward's ship. With a lot of luck, and while unsuccessfully trying to request support, he managed to escape through Alaska Jumpgate, blockaded by two of the Osiris battleships. This incident was what lead the end of the Liberty - Order ceasefire.

Two months later, while patrolling in Texas, a strange radar signature attracted his attention, and he and his wingman closed in to investigate. The strange vessel fired a missile, which crippled both Edward's ship, and himself.