Edward Francis

Edward Francis was a human . Born on , his family moved to the colony of Green Fields in , after the coup by and eventual retaliation . Hoping to escape the , the Francis family had no such luck, and in , he joined the Green Fields Colonial Army, looking for adventure and a chance to become a hero, rather than joining the , which he had an animosity against after he witnessed them kill several of his friends, who were fighters, while he lived on .
Eventually put under the tutelage of rebel ace Andrew Edan, Francis learned to fly the rebels' main aerial warrior, the Cessna-Beechcraft Skyhawk II, and later its military model, the A-99 Thunderchief II, from him. During his period of service up until , Francis was responsible for shooting down and counter insurgency aircraft, leading him to be awarded the Cross of Merit for his actions. 
In , after the death of Edan in the crash of an F-210 Saber II, despite the attempts of his superiors to place him to fly the aircraft type, Francis refused to do so, preferring to stay with his original aircraft, his mentor's death having disturbed him greatly.
In , when the returned to Green Fields, Francis, like so many other GFCA fighters, simply gave up the fight, his aircraft eventually being flown as late as , and being placed in the . Francis himself passed in 2577 of old age in a small settlement made up of former like himself, and was given a pseudo military burial by his former comrades.
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