Personal Bio:
Patrick David Sole was born in Lorville in 2920 to Stephanie and Robert Sole. In Patrick's infancy, Robert would ultimately succumb to a heart attack in his sleep, leaving Stephanie to raise the infant by herself. Stricken with grief and lacking any real support system, Stephanie ultimately turned to drugs to alleviate her pain, neglecting her son in the process. Right before Pat's tenth birthday, Stephanie passed away from a WiDoW overdose. With no other immediate family on Hurston to take Patrick in, he found himself wandering the slums of Lorville.
Still just a child, Patrick adapted fairly quickly to the lifestyle among the other detritus in Lorville. Picking pockets, stealing from unaware food vendors and low-level datapad couriering was how he got by. Around the age of 13 Patrick befriended Silas and Chloe Terrian, fraternal twins his age, whose parents met a tragic end in a fateful Quantainium accident at Faithful Dream Station. The three immediately became inseparable, constantly involved in one another's plans and schemes. Over time, the trio would mature from petty theft and low-level jobs. Silas was more technically inclined, he would take on higher risk data courier gigs in the city and other jobs, mostly remotely shutting off comms arrays so that the other riff-raff could move more freely. Chloe was the more socially gifted one of the bunch, being able to have contacts for jobs and friends for favors would prove to be incredibly useful. Patrick was the tactician and would often be the first to face confrontation head-on if needed.
In their early adulthood, the three had saved up and put enough credits together to go in on a Drake Cutlass Black. The first mission the trio concocted with their "new" Cutty was to acquire four SCU of Maze and deliver it to the buyer just outside of Lorville's limits. The acquisition went fine, the following delivery, however, turned out differently.
Everything seemed to be going according to plan: the buyer was landed on a ridge with their engines off, the three in the Cutlass were making their final approach and the skies were clear. Out of nowhere, a missile hurtled towards the craft on the ridge. The Pisces momentarily had its engines turned back on before it erupted in a ball of fire. Rolling Port and nosing up, Pat disabled VTOL and directed full power to the engines on the Cutlass. "What the fuck was that?!" Chloe asked, stabilizing herself on a handbar. "That's us bailing and getting out of here," Pat answered, leveling the ship while slamming the boost. "Silas, guns up?" "We're green, but nothing on scopes," confirmed Silas from the turret. Engaging VTOL and pitching up, the Cutlass made an ascent. Suddenly, missile lock warnings started pulsing in front of Patrick's face on the HUD. "Fuck, hold on!" In a desperate attempt to evade, Pat rolled Starboard and nosed up, once again kicking off VTOL and pushing the thrusters to their max. The first missile missed and flew off errantly, but a second missile made contact on the Port Aft thruster and sent the craft hurtling to the surface of Hurston. A couple hundred meters above the ground, Patrick regained control of the ship and vectored for an escape. Disruptor fire splashed across the hull of the Cutlass, shorting fine electronics and wreaking havoc upon subsystems. Control was lost and the vessel finally cratered in to the planet's surface.
Sirens wailing and coolant fluid falling on his face woke Patrick up some time later. The pilot seat had sheared its mounting brackets, spun around and jammed the back of the seat in to the shattered glass and bent struts of the cockpit leaving Pat facing the rest of the ship. Restraints being jammed, shattered ribs, a broken arm and two broken legs prevented exiting of the pilot seat. With vision blurred and through a fractured jaw, Pat attempted to call out for his friends. Silas called back from the turret once again, but could barely be heard. Squinting, Patrick could make out that Silas was hanging from the mangled turret, upside down, but slightly moving. A scream from his left grabbed Patrick's attention. Chloe had just regained consciousness and found herself impaled upon the very same bar she used to stabilize herself earlier. It ran through her back above her right shoulder blade and exited below her right breast. Not immediately life-threatening, but not ideal in any way. With his only decent limb left in action, Pat attempted to free himself but only achieved in sending pain coursing through his body and passing out again.
The familiar wail of klaxons and gentle *pit-pit* of coolant fluid spattering on his face brought Patrick back to his senses again. He saw that Chloe wasn't moving much, but could still see her chest rising and falling slightly; her rasped breathing indicated a punctured lung. Silas was completely still now. Two explosions emanated from the Port side middle of the ship. Someone was coming in.
Through the strobing of the emergency lights, Pat could see the silhouettes of two figures clad in heavy armor moving through the ship towards him. Barely being able to free himself, Patrick decided it would be better to fight another day and feigned death. The two shadows stopped after crossing the threshold in to the main cabin, turning their heads to survey the carnage. One of them motioned in the direction of Silas' hanging body, then turned to face Chloe and made the motion again. The first figure clambered up to the mangled body in the pilot seat, revealing white stenciled lettering of "UEE BLASYSSEC" on their helmet that Patrick was able to spot through a very squinted and very bloodied eye. The armored soldier shook his head, jumped down and made the same motion as before followed by an index finger pointing up in to a corkscrew. The second figure nodded, sized up Silas and drew a sidearm. Patrick had both eyes open at this point, he was seeing everything unfold right in front of him. It just didn't immediately register why the strobing emergency lights had suddenly changed their rhythm. And why Silas' chest was glowing a deep orange. Things didn't click until Chloe's second scream was cut short by a *tsew-tsew-tsew* coming from the second figure's Arclight pistol. Patrick had only enough time to stitch together the nightmare unfolding in front of him to feel a boiling rage just begin to build before feeling a not unpleasant warmth radiate from the center of his chest and fading into darkness once again.
Aeons seemingly passed while abstract, vividly colored shapes stretched and morphed along an infinite plane. There was everything, but there was nothing. Scuffling on metal, warbled sirens and the whine and sizzle of a Greycat multitool's OxyTorch Cutter brought Patrick back to reality. He opened his eyes only to see "UEE BLASYSSEC" flash in red, then fade before the previous scene of carnage materialized back in to his vision. Silas and Chloe's bodies were gone and a different figure covered in rags was working on cutting away parts from the pilot's seat. The person in rags worked on getting Patrick out, but in a seemingly unhurried manner. "hhHhnNhthe fuck are you?", Patrick managed to slip through his mangled mouth. "F-whoa, shit! You're alive?" "hHnNhduhh..." was all he could respond with before his newest chest wound caught up with him, putting him in the black a fourth time.
The scrapper, who would later introduce herself as Sym, would finish cutting Patrick out of the seat and help him to recover. Sym would ultimately relinquish all the parts she had taken from the Cutlass, allowing Pat to mostly rebuild his ship. He would also retrieve his friends' bodies from the crash site and give them a proper burial in the Green Zone of Hurston. During his recovery, Sym would teach Pat how to salvage and how to repair with the multitool. It wasn't very lucrative on such a small scale, but it did allow Patrick to repair his Cutty enough and allowed him to stow money on the side until he finally fully recovered and began to prepare for a move to Orison. Pat would thank Sym for all of her help, wish her luck and let her know he'd be back to visit some time.
Orison would be an entirely new chapter in Pat's life. There, he would deal with processing his trauma through bouts of binging drugs, picking fights with low-level pirates and other, unhealthy coping mechanisms. During one of these fights in particular, Patrick had encountered an extraordinary pilot who left him completely disabled in space, but didn't do any extensive damage, before flying off without any attempt at communication. After a while, Pat was able to get systems online enough to limp the Cutlass back to Port Olisar. That battle had left Pat with a lot to contemplate and would, ultimately, lead him to getting off his hard drug use. He'd continue to occasionally indulge in Maze from time to time, though.
For a while, Pat languished over attempting to validate any reason the UEE would have to set him and his friends up. Sure, they were low-threat, petty criminals, but they never physically harmed anyone nor did either of them serve any time for the very few crimes they did get caught on. Either way, they would be in the crosshairs of Hurston Security, not the direct force of the UEE themselves let alone whatever black operations unit had targeted him and his friends that day. This would lead Patrick to take on a handful of private investigations in hopes it would lead him to any bit of information he could use to find out why that fateful day with his friends unfolded the way it did. On one such investigation, while looking for the corpse of a pilot on a wrecked Freelancer, Patrick came face-to-face with an individual that was layered in heavy black and white armor.
"If you're looking for the other body, it's over there around the other side," the unidentified man said through his helmet's external speakers while pointing to a corner of the wreckage. Patrick stood there for a few moments without saying anything before the man in black-and-white boarded his Anvil Hawk and took off. Thinking nothing of it, Pat continued on with his search. Later that day, at the Gundo Shipping hub around Daymar, he would stumble upon the very same man from before at the Freelancer wreckage. This time, Pat and the other individual would team up together for the same investigation. After this encounter, Patrick would learn that this man's name was Gerard Augustinus who was, along with another man by the name of Cosmo Remington, an Admiral in a fledgling paramilitary group called The Galactic Order. The Galactic Order was an organization of people who were also shunned by the UEE or had witnessed, first-hand, the UEE's incompetence in protecting its people and had made it a mission to reveal this nature of the UEE to all other citizens in the universe and offer them a better solution: to join the ranks and safety of The Galactic Order and spread its influence across the stars. With this ideal alone, Patrick aligned and joined with this group as its eleventh member. In The Galactic Order, Patrick would find himself a new family. Within one year of joining, Patrick would achieve becoming The Galactic Order's first Commander, first Executive Officer and first Captain along with helping to provide structure, protocol, training and discipline.
Patric David Sole "ThePaternalOne" retired from service of The Galactic Order military April 15th 2955, in search of a new path away from this galaxy and the many troubles it brings. He was Discharged with the highest of honors for his years of service and dedication to the order. The growing empire would not be what it is today if not for his many contributions. Pat was the first Commander, the first Captain and the first Praetorian of The Galactic Order military. He will be greatly missed and never forgotten. o7