Narck

"Funny, I go from a small town gunsmith, to top secret weapon's researcher for the Empire, to a Dralkyria's chief weapon designer. I have a strange life." Narck musing to himself in late 1935.
Narck is a Low-Born caste member of the Dragoian species who at one point worked on the Dralkyritank's main weapon before going rogue.
==Profile==
*Name: Narck
*Birth Date: 1749
*Height: 9ft 11in
*Species: Dragoian
*Gender: Male
*Weight: 1897 Kg
==Overview==
Born to a Low-Born maternal father and a Mid-Tier paternal father, Narck was born without a surname, but took after his paternal father when he decided to become a gunsmith. After decades of training and the retirement of his paternal father in 1875, Narck took over the family gun shop in the small town of Klesse, often working on prototype weapon enhancements in his spare time as a hobby.
He was picked up in 1899 by the Agthe Special Projects Division to work on a special weapon's project to give the new prototype Heavy Tank an even more powerful weapon than it's already powerful 600mm radius Cannon, he believed that his hobby of making prototype weapon enhancements was what caught the ASPD's attention. During this time, he left the family gun shop in the care of his younger brother and rarely returned to Klesse.
In 1902 while still working on this project, he was contacted by an anonymous buyer who was willing to pay large sums of money for copied plans of the Dralkyritank's less-than-secret at this point special cannon, as well as provide an employment opportunity to Narck once his work on the Dralkyritank was done. Narck, not making much money and struggling to keep his family gun shop open even with the pay from the ASPD, decided to accept the anonymous buyer's offer and began secretly copying and hiding the Dralkyritank's plans so he could eventually give them to the anonymous buyer.
In 1903, shortly after the Dralkyritank completed it's final trials, Narck left the ASPD along with the copied plans for the Dralkyritank's main cannon to sell to the anonymous buyer. Having given the plans to the buyer for a large sum of money, Narck was prepared to continue his life as a gunsmith, but when the buyer told him that he could work on the future of personal weaponry as chief weapon designer with full access to a large workshop and workforce, as well as large amounts of pay, he decided to join the buyer's employer despite not even knowing who it was.
Within a few months, he had met his new employer Keane Leral, as well as his "daughter" Klaxvour Leral, and his new team before he was told exactly what Keane wanted him to create, although he already expected it to be a miniaturised version of the Dralkyritank's "lance". His role under Keane's employ was as expected, to help create a working Dralkyria Lance that could be used by Klaxvour. He also learned that the reason Keane had a "daughter" was because he was once a key member of Project Dralkyria who had abandoned the project, taking one of the subjects with him instead of letting her die and raising her as his daughter. Before his introduction to Keane, Narck had started to question why he had sold state secrets for money, but the combination of Klaxvour and Keane's reason for stealing her from Project Dralkyria helped soothed his mind, as it showed him a darker side to the Dragoian Empire.
During the years working for Keane, Narck and his team made good progress on downsizing the Dralkyritank's energy cannon into a functioning lance for Klaxvour, but progress was considerably slower than with the ASPD, which Narck appreciated as it gave him time to fine tune and improve the designs at his own pace. He did however miss seeing his family and working on conventional firearms, the latter of which was mitigated within the first year when Keane noticed this and offered Narck the chance to work on and improve his own personal collection of firearms as well as the machinegun component of Klaxvour's "Training Lance". During these years, Narck also developed a strange attraction towards Klaxvour, initially finding her domineering qualities to be rather unpleasant, but over a year later he found himself attracted to them but couldn't figure out why.
Since Keane's death from old age in 1913, Klaxvour took over the project and decided to push her workers harder for a working prototype to be put through field trials while also making transparent the fact that anyone who attempted to break their contract and leave would be killed to maintain the secrecy of both the Dralkyria Lance project, but also Klaxvour. This policy of leaving equalling death had always been present, but Keane had kept it quiet to keep his workforce happy. Klaxvour didn't care and when she made it obvious, the worry among the workforce had Narck waste several months spending as much time working on Klaxvour's Lance as keeping his team together.
Narck and his team eventually came to the realization, in 1915, that a self powered Dralkyria Lance was so far beyond current Dragnite refining capacity and generation methods for a small power unit to be able to power it successfully that it would be impossible to make a truly self-contained Dralkyria Lance and any portable generator/reactor would be too feeble to reach anywhere near the destructive power Klaxvour demanded. Narck made mention of the fact the Dralkyritank had been designed to support external wireless power sharing despite it's large reactor when informing Klaxvour about this. Klaxvour snarled while being told this and Narck braced for retaliation, but it never came, instead she ordered him to quickly find a way of creating a portable power transmission pylon that also contained a power cell strong enough to fire weak blasts from the lance.
==Civil War ==
A few months after the Dragoian Revolutionary Army declared war on the Dragoian Empire in 1935, Narck was informed by Klaxvour that the time had come to make moves against the Empire, and that as the member of her staff who could best maintain her lance, he was to join her squad. Narck knew better than to reject Klaxvour's orders, but insisted he wasn't suited for front-line combat having barely scraped a pass in his Scout class training in school, often considered the easiest class to pass. Klaxvour's response was condescending as Narck expected and had come to strangely enjoy, but she promised to stick him in a tank and demanded he go learn how to be a tank's crew from her combat squad with whom he had previously met while ensuring their collection of firearms were up to his own standards.
It took several weeks for what became known as "Squad 13" to get ready to engage in the Dragoian Civil War, mostly due to having to get enough House Dragonarl uniforms to disguise themselves as a Dragoian Revolutionary Army combat squad, during this time Narck was given rapid training on how to be a tank commander and was so nervous for his first few assignments that he was relegated to his Medium Tank's hull-mounted cannon while the cannon's usual crew member took over the tank commander and turret gunner role.
==Eye ==
Narck lost his right eye at the young age of 29 when an antique rifle he was test firing blew up and sent a large shard of shrapnel straight into his open eye and doing a large amount of damage to his face which managed to heal at the expense of his eye. Narck chose to wear an eyepatch over his eye, but the scar extends either side much to his annoyance. He has been asked as to why he doesn't just wear a wider eyepatch, but says that such an eyepatch would be even more unsightly than the wound.
As test firing weapons was part of Narck's career as a gunsmith, he had to get used to sighting the right-handed weapons with his remaining eye,
==Death ==
Narck died, along with the rest of Squad 13, shortly before the war's final battle and end in 1940, when the fortress they had just captured for Klaxvour to use as her seat of power violently exploded due to something detonating the powder magazine for one of the fortress' cannons. This detonation caused a massive chain reaction within the armouries and other powder magazines located in the fortress.
Narck wasn't lucky enough to be killed by the explosions, being located in one of the fortress' watch towers at the time of detonation, instead he died plummeting towards the ground under masses of rubble as the tower collapsed from the damage caused to it's base.
==Combat Style==
Despite working with firearms all his life, he was never adept enough, nor brave enough, to actually run into combat with one.
He would later undertake a rapid training regime to become a tank commander to ensure he was on the battlefield to fix Klaxvour's lance if it suffered problems. He was initially so poor at this role that he was relegated to being his tank's hull mounted cannon's gunner until he got used to being on a battlefield and actually understood the role.
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