Joshua Macer

This article is about **the former Silenian pirate**. You may be looking for **the House Piper member**.

## Professional Information

### Occupation

Mercenary (Formerly)

**Joshua Macer** was a male Silenian citizen of the Crash Coast settlement on the planet Cephor III. Macer was a former pirate and mercenary who once raided Crash Coast, before being detained by the town founders and granted a new chance at life by his captors.

## Biography

### Early Life: Rough Beginnings

While he could never remember his true homeworld, Joshua Macer was only a child when his spacefaring family had their ship destroyed. To his knowledge, he was the only survivor of the destruction of his family ship, managing to crash-land on the planet Cephor III via an escape pod.

With no family left to guide him, Macer was left alone and forced to survive in however ways he could. After a few weeks of surviving in the wilderness, he met a rather large group of pirates, who needed an extra hand. Macer was brought into this pirate group and grew up alongside its members, climbing through the ranks as he aged.

### Adult Life: Mercenary and Pirate Work

By the time Macer was an adult, he became an incredibly skilled gunfighter alongside his pirate comrades. Outside of his work as a pirate, he took on discreet jobs as a mercenary from citizens of both the Viridian Dominion and the Southeast Duchy.

### Joining Crash Coast

On one fateful day, Macer was part of a small raiding party that attempted to pillage a nowhere settlement called Crash Coast, located at the southwestern coast of Cephor III's supercontinent. The raid was a failure, and the few pirates that formed the rest of the raiding party were killed, although Macer had little to no sympathy for them as he looked out for himself most of all. While captured, Macer was convinced by the other town founders to change his ways and to use his skills to contribute to something more productive than pillaging other settlements. The founders of Crash Coast gave Macer a second chance, and so Macer eventually became a member of the community after a change of heart.

## Personality and Traits

Joshua Macer was a Silenian man with lightly-tanned skin and brown eyes. His bald head was completely hairless, save for his eyebrows and the little hair on his goat-like ears. Most of Macer's hair was found throughout his body and on his goat-like legs. As a Silenian, he had a set of head horns and a short, hairy tail. Joshua's body was a bit frailer than most, and so his body succumbed to pain more heavily and more quickly than others.

Because of his troubled upbringing, Joshua was known to have been rather volatile, pessimistic, and anxious. He was prone to bouts of tension and unpredictability. Out of his comrades, he was the one who fell into stress most often. While some saw his neuroticism as a difficult obstacle to work around, Joshua himself was propensed towards organization, efficiency, and duty. His ambition in trying to be logical and self-disciplined was often at odds with his capriciousness.

Outside of these fluctuations in mental state, Joshua was rather introverted. While he understood the benefits of cooperation, his energy drained when having to socialize for extended periods of time. Joshua was somewhat stingy, a trait that developed to ensure his own survival in a harsh world. When he felt well enough, he was an incredibly intuitive and intellectual thinker, which aided in the development plans for Crash Coast alongside his neighbors.

## Skills and Abilities

Joshua's best skills were as an expert marksman and general fighter. His time as a mercenary and pirate had taught him plenty of skills that required upmost efficiency in physical exertion. He was skilled at construction and especially crafting, and knew how to adequately patch up his comrades, even when they were severely injured.

## Trivia

* Joshua is based off of a randomly generated colonist character from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.