Milo Gillespie

For other uses, see **Milo (disambiguation)**.

**Milo Gillespie** was a male Human privateer and machinist who lived in the Crash Coast settlement on the planet Cephor III. He came to live in Crash Coast after discovering his close friend Kelle Volpo was one of the town founders.

## Biography

### Early Life

As a child, Milo Gillespie embraced a natural talent for singing and instrument playing. His found family were spacers who visited many different worlds throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy, and so Milo was given an opportunity to show others his musical talents for many years. He grew a love for traveling thanks to his family, and eventually took up a hobby in working with machinery, after becoming invested into his spaceship's maintenance.

### Privateer Life

By the time he was an adult, Gillespie had become both a privateer and machinist. He worked on countless mechanical projects and even built a good few Automatons by himself. Gillespie grew fond of old forms of technology and machinery that he'd uncover and encounter on distant worlds, which continued his love for traveling. He adored collecting said machines and particularly enjoyed reverse engineering them.

During his travels, Gillespie befriended a fellow privateer named Kelle Volpo. The two took on several jobs and missions with each other and quickly bonded, growing as close friends.

### Time on Cephor III

#### Privateer for an Empire

One of the worlds that captivated Gillespie was the boreal planet of Cephor III at the inner northeastern edge of the Outer Expanse. He greatly appreciated the technology of a local Cephorian empire, the Viridian Dominion, and quickly found work and further status with them. As a privateer, Gillespie carried out various missions and patrols on behalf of the Malachite Monarchs.

#### Joining Crash Coast

One day, Gillespie was assigned to protect a trade caravan that was headed to a small settlement allied with the Viridian Dominion, called Crash Coast. To his complete and utter surprise, Gillespie discovered that his dear friend Kelle Volpo was one of the founders of Crash Coast and started a family there with his wife, Paulina Noble, who was also a town founder. Having reunited with his best friend, Gillespie decided to stay and help Crash Coast continue to develop as a colony. He received imperial sanction to do so.

## Personality and Traits

Milo Gillespie was a Human man with dark green eyes, dark-toned skin, and black hair shaved at his sides and braided into a bun. He had a five o'clock shadow and was known to have rather been broad-shouldered and muscular. He often kept his head covered with a signature white turban.

To most throughout his life, Milo was a charming, eccentric man with a love for machinery and adventure. He was an avid traveler and explorer of distant worlds, and familiarized himself with many different cultures, histories, and sources of knowledge. Many knew him to be an incredibly thoughtful and independent person, capable of making rational and logical decisions even in the face of stress. Milo was a well-read and intelligent man, to the point where many saw him as pleasantly bizarre because of his extensive knowledge on many things, especially on machines and technology. He was an organized man and, like his close friend Kelle Volpo, had a strong sense of morality as a privateer. Some considered Milo a virtuoso of sorts, pertaining to both his academic nature and his creativity and musicality.

Milo was a compassionate man who was very cooperative and had little to no qualms with working in group settings, as he often noticed that most things went by much quicker when an entire group was able to help. Because of how much he thought about throughout the long days and nights, Milo was an infamous insomniac. He found it difficult to rest given how much there was to think about at any given moment.

## Skills and Abilities

Milo was a skilled man in many different aspects, but was an especially artistic, crafty, and intelligent worker. He could play all sorts of instruments to a certain degree and knew a great deal of craftsmanship with both wood and stone. As a privateer, he knew how to defend himself in a fight, both with his fists and with a firearm in hand. Living in Crash Coast taught Milo how to tend to plants and animals, as well as giving him some familiarity with patching up wounds and tending to illnesses. He had more than enough physical strength and stamina to be able to do heavy lifting and to construct heavy buildings.

## Trivia

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