Faction: Kip's Kadets
Alignment: Neutral
Trait: "Tactician"
Fleet: 1 Frigate (IMS Nimrod), 3 Fighter Squadrons (Lock, Stock, Barrel)
Background:
''Ah hear'd dat you has a problem.''
Alignment: Neutral
Trait: "Tactician"
Fleet: 1 Frigate (IMS Nimrod), 3 Fighter Squadrons (Lock, Stock, Barrel)
Background:
''Ah hear'd dat you has a problem.''
Name: Henry "Kip" LouKippington
Age: 31
Born: 01.05.2070
Place of Birth: Jun Slums, Harvard Station, Jalico System
Position: Leader and Founder of Kip's Kadet's, Captain of the IMS Nimrod
Background: Henry was born poor, very very poor. The Jun Slums were originally the Jun Housing Sector for the Harvard Station's raw industrial arm, pumping out cheap and fast consumer goods for the companies in the region with less qualms concerning the law. When the various companies either naturally moved on, were bought up or nationalised by one or another of the political movements in the Jalico System, the Jun Housing Sector fell on hard times. Work levels plummeted and the entire Sector was politically abandoned and stripped of representation for fear of influencing the richer elements of Harvard Station with their crazy ideas born of being poor.
Henry was born to one of the chief engineers of the old Fahnon Mechanotics Corporation, which collapsed after being sued for producing toxic babies clothing. Not wealthy enough to get away before the Slums we defacto abandoned, Henry's father made the decision to teach him everything he knew. This was a good choice, as Henry would never receive a normal (read any) education, and can read all standard codes, but cannot actually read. Even with father's influence, Henry fell under the influence of gangs. Before the age of 18 he was hustling juice and peddling whores on the street corner by the alias of "LK". However a gun fight between his and a rival gang left Henry wounded and nearly dead. He was saved by his father, but that would not save him. Henry came to with his father dead and his house burning. This broke Henry's heart (and perhaps a bit of his sanity), and he resolved to do two things. First was leave the Slums and the Station, never to return. The second was kill every member of the gang that killed his father. Taking everything he could, he ran and lost 6 months of his life. Blacked out by time and an effort to protect his psyche, all Henry remembers is screams and fire before immediately feeling ill.
By 2089, Henry was a wandering mechanic, pest exterminator and code tutor. It was only during a pirate raid of the small station of Ganges B that Henry came to the attention of the White Suns. Alongside (unknowingly) a White Sun recruiter, Henry utilised his homemade flamerthrower to chilling effect, clearing the pirates within minutes by cooking them within their own ship. It was here he was offered a place on the team, which he accepted instantly. Proving his worth time and again as a rather aggressive engineer (who prefer to eat with the assault squads then his own engineering comrades), he was given command of the 4th Engineer Battalion in 3000. There he participated in the botched operation on Moscow Station and was badly wounded in the fighting.
However, by 3000, Henry decided to part ways. Buying out the contract of himself and his men, he did some limited side work to earn enough to buy some second hand fighters which he used to great effect. Casually gaining renown and cash dollars, he managed to purchase his first "capital ship", the Independent Military Ship Nimrod. Though looking more like a heavily armed transport ship than an actual frigate, it was the pride of the Kadets and by 3001 Henry was ready to do what he did best, burn shit.
Dossier: Unhealthy obsession with fire, rash, blunt, uneducated, loyal, brilliant, aggressive, easy going. If it wasn't for the fact he would die immediately throwing his life away, he would be on assault over an engineer. If you earn his respect, you never have to worry about him again. Personal Edit: How the hell does an illiterate have such a sense of word play. It's both absurd and stupid.
Age: 31
Born: 01.05.2070
Place of Birth: Jun Slums, Harvard Station, Jalico System
Position: Leader and Founder of Kip's Kadet's, Captain of the IMS Nimrod
Background: Henry was born poor, very very poor. The Jun Slums were originally the Jun Housing Sector for the Harvard Station's raw industrial arm, pumping out cheap and fast consumer goods for the companies in the region with less qualms concerning the law. When the various companies either naturally moved on, were bought up or nationalised by one or another of the political movements in the Jalico System, the Jun Housing Sector fell on hard times. Work levels plummeted and the entire Sector was politically abandoned and stripped of representation for fear of influencing the richer elements of Harvard Station with their crazy ideas born of being poor.
Henry was born to one of the chief engineers of the old Fahnon Mechanotics Corporation, which collapsed after being sued for producing toxic babies clothing. Not wealthy enough to get away before the Slums we defacto abandoned, Henry's father made the decision to teach him everything he knew. This was a good choice, as Henry would never receive a normal (read any) education, and can read all standard codes, but cannot actually read. Even with father's influence, Henry fell under the influence of gangs. Before the age of 18 he was hustling juice and peddling whores on the street corner by the alias of "LK". However a gun fight between his and a rival gang left Henry wounded and nearly dead. He was saved by his father, but that would not save him. Henry came to with his father dead and his house burning. This broke Henry's heart (and perhaps a bit of his sanity), and he resolved to do two things. First was leave the Slums and the Station, never to return. The second was kill every member of the gang that killed his father. Taking everything he could, he ran and lost 6 months of his life. Blacked out by time and an effort to protect his psyche, all Henry remembers is screams and fire before immediately feeling ill.
By 2089, Henry was a wandering mechanic, pest exterminator and code tutor. It was only during a pirate raid of the small station of Ganges B that Henry came to the attention of the White Suns. Alongside (unknowingly) a White Sun recruiter, Henry utilised his homemade flamerthrower to chilling effect, clearing the pirates within minutes by cooking them within their own ship. It was here he was offered a place on the team, which he accepted instantly. Proving his worth time and again as a rather aggressive engineer (who prefer to eat with the assault squads then his own engineering comrades), he was given command of the 4th Engineer Battalion in 3000. There he participated in the botched operation on Moscow Station and was badly wounded in the fighting.
However, by 3000, Henry decided to part ways. Buying out the contract of himself and his men, he did some limited side work to earn enough to buy some second hand fighters which he used to great effect. Casually gaining renown and cash dollars, he managed to purchase his first "capital ship", the Independent Military Ship Nimrod. Though looking more like a heavily armed transport ship than an actual frigate, it was the pride of the Kadets and by 3001 Henry was ready to do what he did best, burn shit.
Dossier: Unhealthy obsession with fire, rash, blunt, uneducated, loyal, brilliant, aggressive, easy going. If it wasn't for the fact he would die immediately throwing his life away, he would be on assault over an engineer. If you earn his respect, you never have to worry about him again. Personal Edit: How the hell does an illiterate have such a sense of word play. It's both absurd and stupid.
