Aran Saraduk

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**Aran Saraduk** is an Aratacian soldier originating from Coron in the year 5004 BNE, abducted and artificially kept alive for five thousand years by facilities under the lost Aoshanti city world of Marcennes. In 23 NE, Saraduk and his platoon of Aratacian soldiers awoke from stasis and fought their way off the planet, reuniting with modern Aratacian forces led by Aratis Kilar.

## History

### Origins

Aran Saraduk was a career soldier in the Aratacian Army during the Plantary Era. He was an accomplished and aggressive infantryman hailing from Aratacia's working class and participated in many of planetary Aratacia's overseas wars during the period. By the the 1st Prandac Proxy War, he had made it to the rank of Sergeant and was placed at a head of a platoon of Aratacian conscripts.

### The Longest Patrol

#### Abduction

In the year 5004 BNE, Saraduk and his squad of riflemen from the 52nd Royal Rifle Regiment were out on patrol on Coron when they disappeared, never to be seen again. Unknown to those on Coron, who marked them down among the many casualties of the 1st Prandac Proxy War, Saraduk and five of his men found themselves transported to a ruined facility on an unknown arcology world.

#### Waking up on Marcennes

Saraduk and his men fought their way through the towers and subterannean networks of Marcennes, gradually uncovering more of the truth about what had happened to them and other Drodo who had been abducted. They were guided by an artificial intelligence through the mazelike city, clearing facility after facility with the ultimate objective of restoring power to the space elevator and preventing the planet's orbital defense network from destroying their only means of escape: a ship belonging to Task Force Koryos passing through the system.

Along the way, the squad rescued or captured a growing number of Drodo from various periods in Aratacian history, and they discovered that they were being used as test subjects for a superweapon which had devastated the planet and turned all of its inhabitants into the glowing men who roamed the halls and attacked them with incredible strength. They learned about the technology which had kept them in stasis, the surgical extraction of their memories, and the duration of time since they had last seen Coron: five thousand years.

#### Escape from Marcennes

Saraduk's forces rescued an Aratacian Army rifle company from being overrun by the glowing men and took prisoners from the custodians forces of the facilities they cleared. At its height, their multiracial group, integrating Drodo from multiple periods in history along with human and Aoshanti prisoners, had a strength of around 90 people, a small proportion of which were combatants. Saraduk acted as their leader, being the highest-ranking military officer among them.

Saraduk and his squad succeeded in reaching the power generator underneath the space elevator and turning it off, deactivating much of the planet's defensive network. However, in the process, they released a human in a stasis pod who claimed he caused the catastrophe outside. He then tried to escape, ignoring orders issued by Sorlik Resvik to freeze, resulting in his being shot in the head. Saraduk later searched his body and found a cube which had a white glow like the glowing men and a cubit drive containing 𝔛4 billion. Saraduk entrusted carrying the cube to his second-in-command, Lyran Tefaner, and would later take possession of the cube himself.

Once they succeeded in reactivating the space elevator without triggering the planet's defense network, the Drodo rode the space elevator to an orbital station where they were rescued by Aratis Kilar and taken aboard his fleet.

## Characteristics

### Description

Aran Saraduk is a broad-shouldered and physically powerful for a Drodo, with black hair, brown fur, a strong nose, and a clean-shaven face. He seems to scowl so often that the peering, sneering expression of vague disapproval seems permanently engraved into his features, even when they are at rest.

## Stats

* PROFILE
* RENOWN
* FINANCES

 Soldier

INCOME/EXPENSES

𝔛0 quintillion

## Memorable quotes

### Perfect timing

**Saraduk:** *"I don't like this."*
*distant clanging*
### Saraduk's command style in a nutshell

**Saraduk:** *"Can we use it?"*
**Tefaner:** *"No sir."*
**Saraduk:** *"Will it blow up?"*
**Tefaner:** *"No sir."*
**Saraduk:** *"Leave it, move on."*
### Do you get it now?

*Saraduk finds the Superintendent from before cowering in the back of the warehouse.*
**Saraduk:** *"Come over here. There you are. Fucking prick."*
*The Superintendent indignantly slaps Saraduk across the face. It stings.*
**Saraduk:** *"The fu-"*
**Superintendent:** *"Don't you dare talk to me like that! You're barely an animal."*
**Saraduk:** *"You wanna go, man!?"*
*Saraduk raises his handgun and clocks him across the forehead with it.*
**Saraduk:** *"YOU WANNA CHALLENGE A SERGEANT OF THE ROYAL ARATACIAN ARMY?"*
*The superintendent collapses on shaky legs to his knees, uncomprehending. Blood drips from his forehead.*
**Superintendent:** *"S-stop that..."*
*Saraduk towers over him, wearing a mask of rage, and aims his pistol between the man's eyes.*
**Saraduk:** *"Do you get it now?"*
### The Odds

**Superintendent:** *"There are still guards, and they have weapons. They'll regroup. We have a small army down here. Plenty of guns. Plenty of ammunition. Plenty to fight you with until—"*
**Saraduk:** *"What? The guys we beat, six of us against nine of them? Your guys had the first shot, too. Not a scratch on us, and they're all over the walls. I'm not exactly impressed."*
**Superintendent:** *"..."*
### Aliens

**Saraduk:** *"You know what just occurred to me?"*
**Cyoni:** *"What?"*
**Saraduk:** *"We've been fucking abducted by aliens."*
**- Entering the basement**
## Trivia

* Saraduk's final command in the Aratacian Army of the Solar Era was the 2nd squad of the 3rd platoon of B company of the 1st Battalion of the 52nd Royal Rifle Regiment.