Talan Rhodes

[Talan Rhodes]

Name: Talan Rhodes
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Job: R-Type pilot
Height: 5'9"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown, cut short
Skin Tone: lightly tanned
Favorite Food: Anything that isn't a military rashion
Least Favorite Food: Spinich, liver and onions
Favorite Color: Dark blue
Hobbies: Searching for new worlds, day dreaming
Likes: His ship, his weapons and women
Dislikes: The Bydo, rude people

Weapons: R-9LeoII
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A new R-type fighter that Talan helped to devolpe after he returned to his own world. This fighter unlike the R-9A4, stresses bit based combat over the Force Cannon. While it carries the Force Cannon, it can only charge up to level two. A unique twist to this fighter is that it can store bit's inside itself thus allowing it to recall and deploy them at will.

Heat Katana: With the Bydo now gone, there is no nead for R pilots to carry Anti Bydo weapons. Talan carries instead a specialy made katana, the blade is made of a dense superconducting material. A micro generator in the hilt sends a special electric charge through the blade which causes it to heat up untill it glows an orange yellow color. The intense heat allow the blade to literaly melt through thick armor with ease. However the micro generator also vibrates at ultra-high speed which makes it somewhat uncomfortable to weild for long periods of time.

Powers: Physicaly speaking, Talan is still in top shape as is normal for an R-type pilot. In addition, Talan has nanomachines in his blood stream thus allowing him to heal at a rate higher than normal and even go for periods of time without food or sleep. This however is very dangerous.

Strengths: His abilities as a pilot allow him to outfly most people with ease. In terms of melee combat Talan can hold his own easily against most people but not against someone stronger than he is by a great margin. In short, he's above average.

Weaknesses: A common mistake that most people make is that they assume because he has nanomachines, Talan can perform great feats of strength and agility which would normal get a person killed. This is not true, the nanomachines only maintain his body they cannot boost his natural abilities. Couple this with his not being able to get this across to most people and you have a headache the size of Mars.

Physical Apperance: Talan is of average height for a pilot with short brown hair that has a tendency to try and get in his eyes when not constrained by his helmet. Dispite hours spent in the pilot seat his skin is lightly tanned by nature. (The interior of most R-Type fighters are dark) Usually when he isn't in his flight suit, he wears dark clothing, usually blues and blacks as they are among his favorite colors.



Personality: Talan is somewhat quiet and tends to keep his thoughts to himself, often keeping his own council before speaking in a conversation. Dispite this he is a nice person and is more than willing to open up to any who would have him. He is however very cold towards anyone who has betrayed him in the past.
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History: Due to the extensive damage done to Earth and it's forces during the last 400 years of war many records were lost. Among them being Talan's personal history. His military record is well known however.

D.O.B.: 06-22-2602
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 150 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Blood type: O-

Sorties: 309
Flight time: 1,000 plus hours
Longest mission: 36 hours 44 minutes
Kill record

Class D Bydo: 798 (small, fighter sized)
Class C Bydo: 520 (medium, large fighter to small cruiser sized)
Class B Bydo: 255 (large, large cruiser to battleship sized)
Class A Bydo: 26 (Monsterous, a.k.a. Godzilla and larger)


2618: Joined the R-Type pilot academy
2621: Graduated top of his class with honors.
2622: Joined the 259th fighter wing.
2622: August: First confirmed battle against the Bydo.
2622 October: First confirmed kill against a Class A Bydo.
2622 December: Took part in Operation Destiny, one of 57 surviving craft out of 1,522 craft.
2623: Began training for time jumping.
2624 Feburary: Finished time jump training.
2624 April: Time jumped to the year 2245 to assist human forces in Operation Last Dance.
2146, May 11th: Contact lost after Operation Last Dance ended.

With the restoration of Earth and all it's major colonies underway, additonal information has been added.

2147: Contact restored, Talan confirmed alive
2147 March: Due to the large number of time jumps, space itself became unstable. Those from 2624 are stranded in the current time.
2147 June: Time probes reveal that due to the pressence of the stranded R pilots, the time they came from has changed greatly. Sending them back would cause them to stop exhisting and vanish.
2147 July: Efforts to rebuild the colonies and cities lost in the first Bydo begin. Many of the stranded pilots volunteer.
2147 August: Talan volunteers to head up the 14th ETS (Exploratory Tactical Squadron) and begins long range missions beyond the solar system to find new planets for new colonies.
2147 December: Space station Rook 1 is completed at the edge of known space with the 14th ETS stationed as it's primary squadron.
2148 Feburary: Contact with three members of the 14th ETS lost on long range mission.
2148 March 27th: Contact with friendly alien species, the three squadron members are confirmed alive and well with the aliens.
2148 April: The aliens, Dia'cen begin trade negotations with Earth.
2148 June 20th: Unknown energy signature detected four light years from Rook 1, Talan is sent to investigate and does not return.

(Recording from the comm log between Talan and Rook 1)

Talan: "This is Guantlet Leader, I've entered sector 7-A2. Contact in four minutes."
Rook 1 comm center: "Roger that Gauntlet lead, we're still tracking the energy signature. You should be able to see something by now."
Talan: "Negative on that, I don't see anything yet and the signal is flooding my sensor screen. Contact in three minutes."
R1CC: "Are you sure about that? It's a big signal, whatever is putting it out has to be the size of a small moon."
Talan: "Negative, I don't see....wait.....my sensors are clearing up....still no visual contact."
R1CC: "Gauntlet Leader, we don't have you on OUR sensors anymore, report."
Talan: "What? How is that possible? The stations sensors are far more powerful than mine....hold on. I see something."

*pause*

R1CC: "Gauntlet Leader, report your status."
Talan: *short pause* "It looks like a small ship....maybe the size of a cruiser. But, this can't be what's putting out the signal, it's way too small."
R1CC: "What's it's postion?"
Talan: "Point...305 mark 886."
R1CC: "That's the exact center of the signal....that has to be it. Can you identify what type of ship it is?"
Talan: "Nothing is coming up from the databank....it isn't an Earth ship.....nor is it Dia'cen.....huh? It moved...."
R1CC: "Gauntlet Leader, get away from that ship! The signature just changed, it's Bydo!"
Talan: "Confirmed! It's alive and moving towards me! d**n!"
R1CC: "What is it?!"
Talan: "It just fired at me! I've never seen a weapon like that before, I don't know what it is, but I know that isn't Bydo. It's something else, something stronger!"
R1CC: "I've just dispatched the rest of the Gauntlet Squardon, ETA 10 minutes. Gauntlet Lead, disengage and RTB at once."
Talan: "I'm TRYING! It's using something like our bits....every time I try to break off they force me back!"
R1CC: "We're picking up a massive energy reading from the craft, what's going on out there?"
Talan: "Holy..... what the hell is THAT?"
R1CC: "Gauntlet leader, what's going on!?"
Talan: *sounding paniced* "I'm gonna try to jump to hyperspace....I don't think the bits can follow me there!"
R1CC: "Gauntlet leader, do NOT jump to hyperspace, the gravametric readings are not stable. Do you read me?!"
Talan: "AH! d**n bits.....rghh....I can't dodge them all.....I have to jump.....I......Oh my god...."
R1CC: "What's wrong?"
Talan: "Oh....god......Oh GO- *Static*
R1CC: "Gauntlet leader respond! Can you hear me? Gauntlet leader answer me!"

(End recording)

Current status unknown
Presumed dead

[Talan Rhodes]

History:


Although many records were lost during the Bydo war, new ones are being carefully recorded and stored for the ages. After the disappearance and then reappearance of Talan Rhodes, he presented a most unusual story which was recorded dispite it's inpossible nature.


(Record)

Talan Rhodes was a young man born on Earth Just before the start of the fourth Bydo war. His family was lost to the Bydo during a raid on Galager 7, a spacestation near Jupiter's moon, Callisto. Since then he has been in the care of the state and joined the Academy at the young age of sixteen. Although unusual, times were desparate for Earth and any who wished to stand against the Bydo were welcomed. After graduation he was assigned to the 259th Tactical Figher Wing and proved himself a very capabile pilot. The following year he was chosen to take part in Time Jump training to go back in time and crush the Bydo BEFORE the wars began. Upon finishing his training the year after, he was sent back to the year 2146 to take part in Operation Last Dance. Although contact was lost with Talan during the battle, it is believed that he struck the final blow against the Bydo core and he was thought to have died in the explosion when he did not return.

The story told by Talan upon his return nearly a year later was that he'd jumped to hyperspace to escape the explosion and somehow tore open a hole that lead into another demsion. His stories told of various Releams where many creatures that werent human co-exhisted in peace. Including angels and even gods. He often mentioned one particular person, a demi-goddess named Kri and her friend Neo who loved shiny things and had a perchant for tackle-hugging people. As was stated before, few believed his stories. Most thought it was a symptom of cryo-sleep. It seemed that his ship was found drifting near the edge of the solar system with Talan in cryo-sleep. Though he has yet to show any signs of paranoia that are common with those who stay in cryo-sleep for too long, our medical teams are keeping a sharp eye on him nonetheless. One thing does appear to confirm his story though....almost a full year passed since his dissappearance...yet he has only aged a few months.....

As with the audio recording, it is believed that Talan's ship was destroyed by the unknown vessel that attacked him. The rest of the Gauntlet Squadron did manage to destroy the attacking vessel, but no debris from Talan's fighter were ever found. Perhaps he did escape to hyperspace before he was destoyed, if so; then why hasn't he contacted Rook 1 yet? Perhaps his ship was destroyed in hyperspace and it's remains now drift, forever beyond our reach towards the edge of the universe.......

Or maybe....just maybe.....he escaped to that strange world he spoke of before.



(End record)

As per the instructions of the log writter, this history log will be kept open should Talan Rhodes appear once again. Untill then he will be presumed as dead.

[Kokitsu]

*applauds* Beautiful and awesome! Good job ^^ 'Tis accepted unless there are any further objections...

[Genji]

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