Gedreth Shilcar

**Lt. Gedreth Shilcar** is currently a rogue entrepreneur in the smuggling business and was formerly a soldier for the Aeldrum Trade Company.

## Personality

Shilcar, in his time on Singe, developed a deep cynicism of the ATC and its role in "sucking the life out of the shithole that is Singe." He assumed command largely because of his opportunism, and his understanding of the corruption within Fort Gorlan. Despite his nonchalant attitude towards leadership and his embittered relationship with his duties, he sought to do his best in aiding those under him to get off Singe alive, and succeeded by mostly avoiding conflict. While he used force to maintain his drug smuggling empire, his attitudes had generally left Fort Gorlan safe from attacks from the locals.

As Fort Gorlan slowly collapsed upon him, Shilcar exhibited increasing signs of paranoia, and demanded those underneath him to engage with his cult of personality, where he viewed himself as a savior to those underneath him, promising to safely get them off-planet. He delivered in this regard during the attempted ATC massacre of Da Fang, as well as enacting his vengeance upon Corporal Grimes for the firebombing of innocent civilians during their recovery mission.

## History

### Early Life

Not much is especially known about the pre-military life of Gedreth Shilcar, although according to him it was "thoroughly unspectacular."

### Arrival on Fort Gorlan

Once a member of a fairly prosperous family, Shilcar's formal education was significantly more well-rounded than his fellow conscripts, although the misfortunes of his family eventually lead to a lot of internal conflict that ultimately lead to his excommunication. He was stationed on the planet Singe, which was one of many worlds colonized for the main purpose of raw resource extraction by the Aeldrum Trade Company.

Shortly after arriving, Gedreth managed to make some sense of his surroundings, particularly the nature of Fort Gorlan as a black market hub. After taking note of a number of drug deliviries done within the very post office within the base, he confronted General Onrahk with his findings, who dismissed him and informed him of the reason that Fort Gorlan was relatively peaceful when compared to other outposts. Onrahk was, for all practical concerns, as much a mafia boss as he was a General, and managed to wheel and deal his way into a tentative local peace.

### Rise

After having spent 4 years in Fort Gorlan, General Onrahk was surprisingly summoned off-planet, accommodated with an armed escort. Shilcar was abruptly faced with running Fort Gorlan as de-facto Commander-in-Chief. He was also given a cryptic map, formerly in the possession of Onrahk, with the location of a long-lost Mage Imperium relic.

As a new wave of recruits arrived, Shilcar showed a reasonably laissez-faire attitude. So long as the new recruits accepted his leadership and toed the line, they were practically allowed to spend their time however they desired. After some time, Shilcar commanded Two-Eyes, an orc in his charge, to forcibly clean some of the more visibly drug-addled recruits by dunking them in a barrel of water. In return, a band of the new recruits sparked a violent confrontation, which led to two casualties. Looking on while this sequence of events takes place were the Crows, who observe but take no action. Among the new recruits who had entered the command of Shilcar were Privates Angus Peppers, Beans, Dumas the Ape, and Corporal Grimes, all of which joined a corps of people including Lara Lundy, Denise the Postal Worker, and Private Billy Goats as some of Shilcar's henchmen in his illicit mercantilist schemes.

### Mission to Retrieve the Relic

While carving out a path through the Singe jungle on his mission to find the lost relic, Shilcar's party encountered a gunrunner camp, who demanded his cooperation in finding the relic. Shilcar's dubious moral compass prevailed, and as a result of his refusal the gunrunners confiscated his means of communication and destroyed them (although Beans Trigonometry managed to steal some of the radios back, along with a generous heaping of female undergarments belonging to various members of the aforementioned gunrunners).

Following that, Shilcar led the party to the Orc village of Da Fang, where he encountered an ATC raid taking place while he was staying there overnight. To prevent a potential massacre taking place, he took the matter into his own hands, shooting the commanding officer with his sidearm. This led to a celebration of sorts, and the cultural WWE Festival, in which both Two-Eyes and the cook participated.

Shilcar then decided to split up the party, for fear of being followed by one of the many different factions with a vested interest in the relic. He sent Lundy, the cook, and the rest of the hominid contingent south to run interference, while he sent Private Goats, Priscilla, and the apes east as a red herring, along with the radio.

After the party was split up, Shilcar, Grimes, Two-Eyes, Beans, and Angus Peppers moved further north to the Ape village of Lille, where he sent Grimes in on a 1-hour reconnaisance mission. After waiting two hours, Gedreth sent in Two-eyes on a mission to find Grimes. After waiting again, Gedreth decides to inebriate Beans, and cover him in his stolen panties to wander in to town in the hopes of being relatively unnoticed. While there, the three were apprehended by a number of singe rebels under the command of Piny.

Following a long standoff with the rebels, Shilcar realizes that the entire village was being firebombed as a direct result of Grimes panicking after he had covertly contacted a number of his dwarven associates. Shilcar's sympathies with the villagers, coupled with his distate for bloodshed lead to a deep mistrust and hatred of Grimes, which is only exacerbated by being forced to cooperate with him to complete his deal with Piny, to whom which he promised to deliver the relic in exchange for transport off the planet. He is also reunited with Lundy, who was a captive of the rebels.

Grimes is restrained, and eventually, a party with Shilcar, Peppers, Grimes, Lundy, Piny and some of his rebels venture out to find the relic. Shilcar delivers them to a ship, which they only gain access to thanks to Grimes's knowledge of the occult alphabet. As they get in, they are ambushed by what they assume is a large contingent of Crows, hammering away at the doors of the ship.

Within the ship, they manage to awaken an AI, and immediately, the Crows break in. Shilcar finds himself in a firefight, and fatally shoots Grimes. Following the fight, the survivors, Shilcar, Peppers, Lundy, Piny, and the AI, within Grimes' dying body, make their hasty and circuitous escape until they make it to Aeldrum, where the AI goes its separate way, Piny enrolls as a student, Peppers joins an orchestra, and Shilcar and Lundy take the ship and go off the grid. Rumours are that they are involved in a business venture with Auric Vintel and Cassander Crowley, smuggling drugs throughout the imperium.