Name: SageThe13th
Age: 28
Personality: Brilliant, eccentric, creative, loyal, honest, awkward and cautious around new people.
Bio: SageThe13th has always been sort of an odd individual. In fact, SageThe13th isn\'t even his real name. But, that\'s skipping ahead quite a bit. Let\'s start at the beginning.
SageThe13th (referred to as just Sage from this point on) was born to a good family and had an fairly easy life growing up. Sage attended the Victus Royal Academy of Stellar Shipwrights. The rigid and traditional nature of the school was something Sage was never really comfortable with, but he had always had a liking for things that were old and despite the academy\'s somewhat outdated methods it was still one of the best places on Victus to learn about star ships. Sage worked hard and graduated a year early; and while he never had the best grades, he was often lauded for his unique designs.
Sage landed a well paying job designing ships. He was never the chief engineer on a project like he\'d always dreamed, but at least he\'d manged to make a comfortable living for himself. After a few years of that, a unique opportunity presented itself when Sage\'s good friend Austin sat down to talk with him one day. Austin was going to be going on an archeological expedition. This was more than a little perplexing to Sage at first, since Austin was an upper level software engineer, specializing in star ship systems. However, it all made sense when Austin told Sage that expedition was going to be investigating a derelict spacecraft. And, as luck would have it, the team still needed an expert in ship design and ship construction history of which Sage was both. Sage had helped make plenty of star ships, but he\'d never really traveled in one. Seeing the chance to expand his horizons and experience something new for a change, Sage accepted the offer.
The Dove-5 expedition, named after the mission commander Sophia Dove, took quite awhile to get to the site of abandoned ship as it was on the fringes of explored space. Eternia took little notice of the mission as they were more concerned with a growing rebel threat than the discovery of some old space junk. Although naturally shy, Sage became good friends with everyone on the expedition thanks to Austin\'s help as he is was far more outgoing.
The ship they were investigating was a marvel of engineering. It was far more advanced than other ships of the period when it was determined to be in operation. The ship\'s technology was still outdated compare to current standards, especially with regards to it\'s material composition, but it was clearly made using some advanced building techniques and had many innovative design features. Sage was instantly fascinated by the ship and complete enamored with the engineering that went into making it. There were also many question regarding just where it had come from and who made it. Could it be the product of alien technology? Or maybe it was built by some lost colony from Victus\' early days of space exploration? He had to know the answers and the rest of the Dove-5 team felt much the same way.
Still, the ship was nothing more than an academic curiosity, not really valuable in any practical sense. That was until Sage got the main power core working. Everyone was completely taken aback when Sage was able to activate the ship. Not only had the ship been there for a very long time, but it had no fuel on board. Of course, that\'s because the ship didn\'t need fuel; it\'s creators had succeeded in creating an infinite power generation system. This was big. And it would change everything once they got back. The team had a meeting to discuss what to do with the discovery. Sophia reasoned that Eternia would try to control the technology completely and abuse it for their own ends. She wanted the technology the be given to everybody. The team agreed and started thinking of ways to sneak the technology back to Victus under Eternia\'s noses.
It didn\'t take long for things to wrong however, as Austin soon discovered that their ships had been bugged, tipped of by some irregular transmissions. Apparently, the Eternian military officer who approved the mission had a virus implant in their ship\'s computers that would keep Eternia informed of any interesting developments. Austin stopped the transmissions as soon as he realized what was going on. And over the course of the next several days, he wrote a virus of his own and sent it to tamper with Eternia\'s databases in an attempt to keep them from learning what was going on. The virus succeeded in deleting the team\'s personal records, and just about everything else that was important, but Eternia already knew about the engine and they were coming.
The Dove-5 team tried to run with the technology, but they were eventually cornered after weeks of pursuit. With Eternia closing in the team had one last meeting and tried to work out a way to escape. They all decided on a course of action and agreed that if they did make it out of this, it would be too dangerous to meet up afterwards. Austin promised that if he ever got back to Victus he would finish the job he started and make sure everyone\'s records were cleared so that Eternia couldn\'t track them down. Sage would never see any of them again.
Most of the team was divide among two of their smaller ships, which they used to evade the Eternian fleet. Sophia escaped another small ship, with as much of derelict\'s power core as she could take. Sage continued to operate the main ship and draw Eternia\'s attention so that the others would get away. He planned to ditch the ship and take the last shuttle; at which point he would hide in a near by debris field and make a break for it while the Eternians were busy searching the main ship. His plan turned out to be for not though, as he discovered that the ship he wanted to use had been badly damaged, most likely during a close call he had with a frigate the previous day. Out of options, Sage resigned himself to the fact that he would definitely be caught and arrested. Still he did everything he could to screw with the Eternian fleet until then.
During his numerous interrogations he would only identify himself as SageThe13th. Sage was charged with working against the public interest, which was a laugh, and given the choice of spending the rest of his life on Hail or selling out his comrades and getting his sentence reduced to six months. Sage was uncharacteristically crass in his response, which rather colorfully amounted to a no. Unfortunately, Sophia was caught trying to give the technology to the rebels and was executed for treason. It seems she had met the officer, who okayed the Dove-5 expedition, in person while she was organizing the mission. Thus, there was no way to completely erase her identity. Meanwhile, Sage was condemned to spend the rest of his life on Hail.
Sitting in his cell Sage could hear the hum of the newly installed power cores, technology he helped uncover. Now Eternia\'s reach was as endless as their greed. Not that Sage could do anything about it given the circumstances, but it still made him feel like crap. He often wondered why they kept him alive. Maybe they were still hoping he\'d break down and make a deal? Whatever the reason, it didn\'t matter anymore. One day Sage heard something very different from the sounds he\'d grown accustomed to. Explosions. Hail was under attack. Sage was hurried out of his cell and guided to an escape pod by some of the freedom fighters who had boarded the ship and were freeing the prisoners. He didn\'t really try to join with the attacking rebels. At that point he wasn\'t really looking for a cause he just wanted out. Sage had spend a total of six months on Hail. Clearly the universe had a twisted sense of humor.
Sage soon discovered that the infinite power cores were used by universally everybody. He didn\'t know if Sophia had somehow succeeded in getting the technology out or if the new cores had just been too wide spread in application by Eternia to keep it out of rebel hands. He fought off the idea that Eternia may have actually just released the new technology to the public for everyone\'s benefit. Either way, he knew Sophia would have been pleased. Sage\'s thoughts then turned inward. Now what was he going to do? As a former member of Dove-5 does he now have the responsibility of stopping Eternia? What about the officer who approved the Dove-5 expedition and was instrumental in hunting Sophia down? Should he try and get revenge? Sage also remembered he hadn\'t finished looking into the technology his team had discovered. It became clear though that he wasn\'t going to get anywhere staying still and pondering his life. It was time to move forward.
Plans once you\'re in the server: Sage has a lot on his plate right now. He needs to make money, design and build his own ship, finish his research into the derelict’s technology, find allies and a safe place to stay, and maybe even squeeze in a little revenge if he\'s got the time. However, the most important thing is not getting killed or recaptured before he can do any of that.
Other: “What do I think of Eternia? Well, with a name like that they sure as heck seem to think rather highly of themselves. But, I think one day they\'ll find that nothing lasts forever.” – SageThe13th
