Nero Drakonas

== [ASSUMED K.I.A.] ==
On May 28th, 2722 The Advocate suffered a devastating loss of all personnel on Gridiron, after a large IMC fleet conducted an ambush. It is presumed Lieutenant Drakonas is K.I.A. at this time after the orbital bombardments. Our hearts go out to the friends and family of Nero Drakonas.
= Who Is Ξ RABBIT-012 | DRAKONAS =
Nero "RABBIT-012" Drakonas, often still referred to by his old Callsign "Wyvern", was a Lieutenant and Pilot of the Advocate.
= Lore =
== The Beginning ==
Nero was born on a nomadic colony ship often travelling in unmapped space.
He grew up spending most of his times either reading in the ship archives, training all sorts of combat types with his father and friends, his favourite being the simpods used to train aircraft pilots, or tinkering with smaller machines. 
One time, Nero, with more or less permission from the higher colony members, outfitted several M.R.V.N units with cameras and signal hijacking transmitters activating with a custom failsafe protocol. 
When he was 14 years old, he managed to convince the colony pilots to let him fly with them from time to time.
One year later he flew at their side due to them being impressed by his dedication and having a shortage of new pilots anyways.
== The Baltic Security Division ==
When Nero turned 18 he and his friends, along with his father, a veteran, and a few more ex-military personnel, founded the Baltic Security Company, named after a place he and his friends had often heard stories about from their parents.
The BSD was a private military company that originally flew escort jobs for cargo ships and later, with a higher budget available, branched out to specialize in boarding, fast paced infiltrations like HALO jumps and inserting under fire as well as clearing smaller pirate hideouts.
The company was founded due to local governments neglecting security during interplanetary travel, causing the 12-strong group to take matters into their own hands.
1 year in, they came across several destroyed IMC and Militia Titans and scavenged the parts to build their own Titan with only the Data-Core missing.
This went well for the next 5 years with increasingly high pay, allowing them to own several ships. One of which, a highly modified fighter, being Nero's go-to aircraft for dogfights and training sorties. Flying under the callsign "Wyvern" he amounted numerous Air-to-Air kills.
However, things couldn't go well forever.
While returning from a Mission, in the October of 2718, the Group encountered an IMC Battleship which declared them to be terrorists and opened fire upon them. During the short battle, hostile forces took down the Baltic Security Divisions Flagship "Victoria". While attempting to retreat, Nero witnessed his friends being shot down one by one, before blacking out.
== Aftermath ==
As he woke up, Nero found himself in a sector entirely unfamiliar to him. His engines were shredded from taking to much fire and high strain.
The only things that were still working were the life-support and distress signal, this he only knew however, because at some point, a cargo ship came by to rescue him just as he had begun to give up hope.
After explaining what had happened, leaving out the terrorism claims and the IMC, the freighter set him and his broken ship out at a nearby city planet. Here he spend about a year, getting into dangerous hobbies and sketchy jobs to keep afloat.
== The Advocate ==
One day, Nero intercepted a familiar signal being repeated off a nearby Relay he installed a backdoor into for a prior job. Tracing it back to it's roots, he was surprised to find one of the M.R.V.N.s of his youth had somehow been reactivated and was now transmitting a video feed and it's location for him to see. The machine was located inside a ship he later found out to be the "Ancillary". Seeing them, he decided to make contact through the M.R.V.N Unit and enlist as a rifleman.
During his time as rifleman he often volunteered to do maintenance on the Ancillery, it's Goblins and Titans. He even got to name one of the Goblins he did regular maintenance on together with another rifleman. They decided to name Goblin 5-2 "Fire Eater", due to it's impressive amount of burn damage on the canopy.
Eventually, Rifleman Drakonas, along with a few others, was selected for the Pilot program. During this training, he earned himself the callsign Rabbit, due to his excellent shooting while mid-jump and chose the number 012 as an homage to his fallen friends from the Baltic Security Division. There, he also got linked to his Northstar-class Titan NX-1601.
Due to his previous experience and love for flying, Lt. Drakonas opted to join the 102nd Hell Divers. This, along with suddenly being in charge of a part of Sector 13a's funding, allowed him to heavily modify his Titan (much to the dismay of the maintenance crews).
On May 28th the Lieutenant had originally intended to conduct the first manned test of his Titans orbital flight modifications, however, just before launch, the IMC's ambush commenced. Despite being unsure if all systems would function properly, Nero decided to go ahead with the launch in order to assist in the battle. Contact with him and his Titan was lost soon after the Ancillary's destruction when the pair entered Gridirons atmosphere. Lt. Nero Drakonas status is currently unknown but it is assumed that he died either during reentry or the following bombardement by the IMC.
== Loadout ==
RABBIT-012 was equipped with a slightly tuned cloaking package, an X-55 Devotion light machine Gun, an old gifted B3 Wingman, and an experimental weapons system he refered to as "the light of Allah". He had also modified the rest of his gear, like his helmet, with a double layered visor and improved external night vision goggles, and by adding several more thrusters to the back of his plate carrier to improve thrust and maneuverability of his jumpkit.
== Titan ==
His Titan NX-1601 was a highly modified Northstar-Class Titan. The base and (most) computer-systems stem from the original Northstar Prime. The legs have been taken from a Tone to increase stability for it's new main armament, an XO-16 chaingun. A part of the arms have also been reinforced with Tone parts to support the increased recoil. For defensive measures, NX is equipped with electric smoke, a Vortex shield taken from an Ion, and flares. The titan had additionally been equipped with more external sensors taken from a Ronin and modified searchlights to serve it's reconnaisance purpose. Later, a Ronin Primes sword had been added along with a light artillery gun attached to the titan's back. To counteract this added weight and still allow the Titan to fly unhindered, 10 more thrusters had been added. 4 maneuvering thrusters, taken from a Ronin, each attached to NX's limbs and an arrangement of 6 additional main thruster-units attached to the back of the Titan. This not only counteracted the added weight, but also significantly improved flight capabilities beyond that.
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