Vuxten

Vuxten is a Telkan who distinguished himself among his people through his acts of bravery in the field against Precursor and Dwellerspawn threats.

## Description

Vuxten is barely four feet tall, with wide ears on the top of his head, big expressive eyes, sleek fur in a dappled pattern of brown, black, and gold, paws on his feet and hands, a wide mouth of plant chewing teeth.

Post Precursor War/First Telkan War, Vuxten has gray around his eyes, on his muzzle, and on the edges of his ears. His left eye is cybernetic (black warsteel with visible lenses) and his right ear missing and replaced with a visually indistinguishable cybernetic.

Post Second Telkan War Vuxten has extensive and thick scarring around his left ear and down the back of the left side of his head. His fur is silver in patches on his body, mainly in a rough circle on his chest.

Post Battle for Hesstla the cybernetic ear, which Brentili'ik found horrible, has been replaced with a vat-grown tissue replacement.

## History

Vuxten is the husband of Brentili’ik and broodcarriers Synthal'la and Ilmata'at. For most of his life he was a janitor for the Kistimet Corporation in Shur'rima'an city on Telkan. Upon the arrival of the precursors, his overseer dressed him in armor and handed him a gun, attempting to pass off him and his coworkers as Corporate Security Forces intended on defending the city from the precursor threat.

This went about as well as expected but a Terran Sergeant took Vuxten and his group under his proverbial wing and when the precursors landed, Vuxten was given a proper set of Terran armor and arms.

During the precursor attack he distinguished himself by keeping up with the Terrans and going above and beyond in search and rescue, most notably in the evacuation of a neo-sapient maternity and pediatric ward at the height of the crisis.

Vuxten went on to become a full fledged Telkan Marine and became a hero and celebrity during the fight with the Dwellerspawn for Telkan-1 itself.

In the service of the confederacy, he was inducted into the Telkan Marines as a Lance Corporal, after completing 16 weeks of Terran Marine Training he was promoted to Corporal and placed in charge of 2 squads of Telkan Marines. He led this squad at the start of the Dwellerspawn war in the Telkan system. During the landing of V Corps (Mixed Metal), Vuxten distinguished himself in the chaos. He caught the attention of Smokey No, General (4 Stars) Nodra'ak and was brevetted to the rank of Second Lieutenant (2LT) pending his attendance of Officer Candidate School (OCS). During a rest and refit period, Vuxten was summoned by Bellona to stand beside Daxin in defense of Shelter 371A4, forced to the surface by Dwellerspawn attacks, where Vuxten's Broodcarriers and adopted Podlings were sheltering. As the tide of this battle turned, he was sent by Daxin, following the visions of his seers and oracles, on a quest to save Telkan.

## Search and Rescue One Seven Delta

SAR 17D is the first unit that Vuxten served in, it was made up of the following beings:

* Sergeant First Class Maynerd Kikit Ulganga - Human male
* Corporal Laker - Human male
* Trooper Mixin - Human male
* Trooper Donovan - Human male
* Vuxten - Telkan male
* Dutra - Frestilek female
* Keekikee - Ikeekik female
* Sleesavash - Shavashan female
* Ustor - Telkan male
* Captain Veritor - Human male

The humans are all Terran Confederacy Army (Old Metal) with the exception of Captain Veritor (Doc) who is an SAR medic.

SAR 17D were responsible for the evacuation of the hospital after which Dutra, Keekikee, Sleesavash and Ustor remained at the evacuation station, unable to keep going.

Vuxten remained with the Sergeant and continued to take part in search and rescue operations throughout Shur'rima'an city, joined by Captain Veritor. The unit operated until the city center was nuked by the Precursors.

## First Telkan Marines (New Blood)

Following the end of the Precursor war and the emancipation of the Telkan system by the Terran Confederacy, recruitment posters went up for the Telkan Marines, "Service Brings Citizenship". Many Telkan signed up, Lance Corporal Vuxten was already legendary among the new recruits, a janitor who had become a Terran Marine, and they were all put through an intensive 16 weeks of training.

### Corporal Vuxten's Squad

Having completed his training and being promoted, Vuxten was put in charge of a squad of 10 Telkan marines, all males, under the command of Terran Lieutenant Archibald Tiktikik Jones. His squad consisted of 2 Lance Corporals and 8 Privates, two teams of 5:

* Lance Corporal Doxik
* Private Second Class Peklik
* Private Fotlan
* Private Fanit
* Private Impon
* Private Jolek
* Private Lukel
* Private Hukey
* Private Pletuk

The name of his second Lance Corporal is not recorded.

### Lieutenant Vuxten's Quest

The final battle of the Dwellerspawn war in the Telkan system against the Dweller Brain Coral *Mass-Tem-Ha* was lead by Vuxten. He lead a team of 8 Telkan Marines and 2 Warbound Telkan, named as such by Vuxten, Marines too critically injured to survive, sealed into Warsteel armor. Each Marine had a Green Mantid Engineer, the Warbound had 2 each. Vuxten divided them into two teams; Gamma and Sigma. They were joined by a team of 13 Elven Galahad-herim Warriors sent by the Great High Queen *Loo-Thee-In* to aid their quest.

Not all of the heroes names have been released, those who are known are as follows:

#### Telkan Marines

* Corporal Wikwin, Sigma Leader
* Corporal Fretik, Gamma Leader
* Private First Class Puklit
* Private First Class Zikux
* Private Second Class Yotlit
* Private Baltip
* Private Peklat, Gamma Element-3
* Warbound Gamma
* Warbound Sigma

#### Green Mantid Engineers

* 221 - Wikwin
* 471 - Vuxten
* 403 - Zikux
* 549 - Puklit
* 692 - Warbound Gamma
* 662 - Warbound Gamma
* 773 - Yotlit
* 783 - Peklat

#### Elven Warriors

* Hal-deer, servant of the Elven Queen *Gal-And-Del*
* Figgy-Whip
* Tran-Due-Ill

Only five survived the battle; Vuxten, 471, Tran-Due-Ill, Warbound Gamma and Warbound Sigma. They were retrieved from the battle zone by General Trucker, aided by General Ekret and Na'atrek.

## Related Characters

* Brentili’ik
* 471 - Hip-Hop Soldier
* Trucker
* Ekret
* Donovan
* Vuxten's old friends, showing at the start of book one and the end of book two (See SAR 17D).

## References

1. ↑ First contact - Part 434
2. ↑ First Contact - Part 56
3. ↑ First Contact - Part 58
4. ↑ First Contact - Part 80
5. ↑ First Contact - Part 93
6. ↑ First Contact - Part 156
7. ↑ First Contact - Part 195