Labrys and Lillies

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## Bio

A writer from Boston, Massachusetts who joined the Khans and Outlands after falling in love with the design of *Garry the Woe*, Labrys' specialties include diplomacy, making insane lore, and talking for too long.

## Lore

**Shipmaster Lillith Labrys**

Born on the Eleuthis Station Biodome in the Khan Belt in the year 2192, Labrys spent her life in the labor camps. Growing up with her grandmother, a storyteller and self described 'Lorescreamer' who had lived through the Banishment, Labrys developed an appreciation for hearing other people's stories and learning their perspectives. After her grandmother and one of her daughters were killed by the Khans Enclave, Labrys heard a broadcast from a ship captain claiming to be from the Earth Federal Navy named Captain Brock, which inspired her to take up arms against the Enclave. She rallied other farm workers on Eleuthis to join her, and in spite of sustaining multiple injuries the Enclave were forced off the station.

As a minor revolutionary leader, she was present for the signing of the Khanstitution and the formation of the Khans United, during which she started gathering stories anyone who would share them. She joined the Khans United Navy under the MCA clan, rising through the ranks as one of the new faces of the new Khans. Present for the Battle of Gate, where she was wounded aboard the Khan destroyer *Temujin*. Her sole surviving daughter took command of the vessel, and was presumed dead when the *Temujin* lost power and crashed during the EFN breakout action. She then flew a F-24 Vanquisher during the Khan mission to the *EFN Constellation's* crash site. She survived her fighter being shot down, joining the ground team in securing the site. After the Khans United took the 1st Fleet officer Nerd S'Jet prisoner, then Decanus Labrys handled the interrogation of the prisoner, ensuring his safety while also growing to find him completely insufferable.

Sent to the Rider Peace Conference alongside the Primus in order to handle the exchange of the prisoner to the EFN. She joined the conference as a delegate due to her presence on the moon and in the interrogation, but after the Khans were called on to prove that they were different from the Enclave, she gave an impassioned speech to Captain Brock. After this, she would go on to become part of the leadership of the Khans United, eventually becoming the first Shipmaster in the Khans United Navy to have not fought with the Enclave in the Belt War. Appointed to chief diplomat of the Khans, she made it her goal to prepare the KU and the Pioneer System for the inevitable conflict with the EDF by whatever means she could.

Following the events of the raid on Enfield Drydock and the cruiser *Warspite* appearing in PXC hands, then Vexillarius Labrys was involved in mediations to prevent tensions from boiling over into war. During these negotiations, she revealed the existence of the EDF threat in frustration with the fact that two factions were about to go to war over a single cruiser. While this did not stop the 1st Fleet's war with the PXC, it did further destabilize the EFN's place in the system. Having both failed to stop the war and personally endangered the ship and crew that had inspired her, Labrys was devastated, having broken her word and destabilized the system in the process.

However, Primus Boad recognized the young officers good intentions, and offered her a chance to right the wrong. Promoting her to the rank of Lesser Shipmaster on a probationary basis and giving her command of the Khan warship *Nible Nible*, she was given a chance to prove herself again. After the Primus stepped down to retire, she was promoted to full Shipmaster, and set about working to undo the damage she had wrought. When the *EFN Eternity's Advent* disappeared while ferrying civilians away from Malta, she covertly boarded the Khan stealth corvette *Daddy* with Penumbra squadron and set out to find what happened to the ship. Shipmaster Labrys also serves as the Director of Fields of the MCA, an old title given to those responsible for directing the harvest and distribution of the clan's crops, as well as holding the titles of Ambassador, Lorescreamer, and is a sitting member of Khangress representing the MCA. However, as is Khan custom, her military rank always takes priority over all other civilian titles.

After the *EFN Eternity's Advent* successfully forced the PFF off of Safina, KU Penumbra Sqaudron made contact with the ship. After an exchange between Captain Ace and Grand Shipmaster Cavalier Lightfoot, the corvette *Daddy* pulled alongside to deliver supplies to the battleship, as well as to embark Shipmaster Labrys. Meeting with Captain Brock for the first time, she was asked if she understood the awkward position that she'd put him in, to which she replied with genuine confusion. It was then explained to her that the 1st Fleet was also aware of the *Eternity*, and was sending someone to board the ship. Shipmaster Labrys then asked how long it would be, only to see a 1st Fleet Pelican enter from the other side of the hangar. A heated exchange developed between Shipmaster Labrys and Captain Roberts of the 1st Fleet, until Captain Brock intervened and explained that the *Eternity* could use both their help tracking down the PFF. Shipmaster Labrys agreed quickly, jumping at the chance to work alongside the *Eternity* even if it also meant working alongside the 1st Fleet she despised. As the *Eternity* travelled to CPR HQ Borealis, the Shipmaster detached the CS-Leto *"*Bean*"* alongside the 1st Fleet DDK "*58-Leaf Clover*" to deliver refugees from the *Eternity* to PXC and to track down the PFF.

Upon meeting back up with the *Eternity*, Labrys and the *Bean* assisted the *58 Leaf Clover* and EFN landing teams in assaulting a PFF base where shield parts stolen from CPR had been brought. The *Bean* was struck by a concealed 400mm gun hidden in the asteroids, and the hydrogen tank was damaged. Stricken and under fire, Shipmaster Labrys ordered the crew to evacuate to a nearby asteroid, where they were picked up by the EFN's Dragonfly transport. While the Dragonfly landed briefly in the base, an angry Labrys disembarked without permission and joined the ground team in taking a transport freighter in the base's dock, which Labrys took the helm of. Claiming it as a replacement for her ship, she named it the *Khanquest*. Sadly, Labrys' *Khanquest* was short lived, as while the ship was evacuating the ground team from the base it came under fire from PFF destroyers. The ship's limited ion thrust was damaged, causing the ship to once again drift further into danger until the *Khanquest* was saved by the timely arrival of the CPR heavy cruiser *Remington's Revenge.* Setting aside that her people were at war, she hailed them and told them the ship had wounded EFN troops aboard, and the *Revenge* assisted the stricken *Khanquest* in reaching safety. Afterwards, Labrys was forced to abandon her second ship in as many hours as the *Khanquest* was deemed unsalvageable and unsafe, though she stubbornly refused to leave the ship at first.

She and the Khan survivors took up residence aboard the *58 Leaf Clover*, much to Captain Roberts' annoyance. On a visit to the *Eternity*, she encountered Vera, Markus, and Mecra, the Khans serving in the EFN, and engaged in conversation with them about their respective reasons for joining the EFN. She then excused herself, only to run into Captain Brock. The pair had a conversation where she talked about her daughter Lamia and how excited both of them had been to fight by the Captain Brock's side over Earth. She then related to the Captain the story of how he'd inspired her to take up arms against the Enclave, and how she and her daughter hadn't joined to fight for Earth or even the *Eternity*, but for him. Expressing that she could tell he was conflicted but that another speech about how he needed to solve everything wouldn't help, she instead told him that whatever path he chose, she knew it would be the right one and that she would follow him down it. She then got lost on her way out of the CIC.

Labrys took her station on the \*58 Leaf Clover\* for the assault on the PFF's main stronghold, 'encouraging' Captain Roberts with advice from behind his chair as the *Clover* and the *Revenge* engaged a heavily armed PFF super-cruiser. Both ships were heavily damaged, and the last of the Khan survivors from the *Bean* were killed attempting to take a position on the base. Attempting to repair the ship, Labrys and Roberts nearly gave up hope, and took a break where their arguing slowly melted into camaraderie. Soon, receiving a call for help from the ground teams, Labrys resolved to buy enough time for the EFN to evacuate with a group of civilians by maneuvering the *Clover* on thrust override to the *Remington's Revenge*, where the two ships locked together, transferring working systems from one wreck to damaged ones on the other. The flaming amalgamation then engaged the PFF cruiser one last time, catching it by surprise and destroying it while the EFN escaped.

Upon being delivered back to the Khans, Labrys was inexplicably promoted to the rank of Grand Shipmaster, the second most powerful position in the KU. With much of her diplomatic work undone over the course of the now ended Supremacy War, she set about rebuilding the KU from it's losses and trying to keep the system out of war until the EDF arrived. She took command of the historic Hood-class destroyer leader *Sparta*, converting it for consular duties as she set out trying to mend the damage caused by the Khans in the last two wars.

**Commodore Jaimes Connolly**

"We've been here for *twenty years!* We have tried *everything!* This is the only thing these people understand anymore."

Born in Quincy, Massachusetts on the planet Earth in the year 2171, Connolly was once a bright, idealistic officer. Choosing the name Jaimes when she transitioned to idolize her historical hero, James Connolly, she would go on to graduate from Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts, having studied history and philosophy. However, even with her scholarships, the prestigious university's tuition had bankrupted her family, and so Jaimes Connolly enrolled in schooling for a second time, now at the EFN Officer's Academy. While she graduated that with high marks as well, her instructors noted that while she was a sharp and clever officer, she had a cold and calculating side that always concerned them. In spite of this, she received a posting to a ship soon after graduating.

She made the rank of Captain in her thirties, and was eventually assigned to the recon ship *Prospero* as a Commodore on a deployment to the 1st Fleet system. While initially upset to be receiving such a distant deployment, she saw it as a chance to further prove herself. Setting out through the Jump Gun under the command of Admiral Edward Raymond, Captain Connolly would not see Earth again. As soon as the recon squadron arrived in system, it was set upon by unknown assailants, leading to the destruction of several of their lightest vessels, namely the supply tenders. While the heavy ships in the squadron survived, without access to supplies the squadron was whittled down over the course of a year by a series of attacks and mechanical failures. In the end, all of the squadron's ships were either destroyed, captured, scuttled, or hidden, and the surviving EFN crew faded into the civilian population.

But Connolly refused to let the mission die. She stayed in contact with many of the crew over the next twenty years as she watched the system continue to spiral out of control. After the Outer Reach was set ablaze by the Rider-CDF War, the Belt War, and the appearance of the *EFN Eternity's Advent*, Connolly was done waiting. Watching the system fight war after war and the new EFN envoys simply being drawn into conflict after conflict, she began organizing the surviving EFN. Together with Admiral Raymond, she formed the PFF, in order to break the Factions' hold on the system and replace it with a force she could control.

However, in one of the first major actions of the PFF, the *Eternity* intervened. After a few attempts to take the ship down, and another attempt to bring the ship into the fold, Connolly's forces captured Captain Brock. After a discussion with her prisoner, she came to two conclusions: the first was that there was no way for her to convince the *Eternity* or her crew to join her, and the second was that she *hated* this new EFN Captain. He was idealistic, self-righteous, and dismissive of everything that she had gone through. And worst of all? He had succeeded where she hadn't, and for that she would have to break him...

## Characters & Voices

*Temujin* pilot (S3 Ep01)

*Daring* comms (S3 Ep01)

Lillith Labrys (S3 Ep03, Ep7.5, Ep12, Ep16-19)

Commodore Jaimes Connolly (S3 Ep11, Ep17)