Darren Shepheard

## **General information:**

Darren Shepheard was born in Scotland, Earth on the 17 December 2369 to Hellen and Stephen Shepheard, in his early years Darren was involved in minor crime to help his Fathers fledgling criminal empire along with his sister Evelyn Shepheard. From an early age Darren showed high intelligence, always being the top of his classes in the Royal Academy. At the age of 20 Darren was growing tired of the life of crime that was chosen for him, a year later Darren's Godfather helped him escape from the Shepheard Crime family, being the first one to ever do so. After escaping Darren was in a bar on the Sirius colony when he met, **Jonathan Beach** who was a Captain in the UFI navy and who Convinced Darren to sign up.

## **Early Career:**

Darren Shepheard joined the UFI Royal Military Academy at the age of 21, he quickly showed himself to be the best in the class in the classroom and on the training field. He graduated early and was assigned to lead the Commando's Bravo Team and given the rank of Commander, during his time as Bravo 1 Darren Shepheard led the team on many successful missions, however on the 13/4/2392 Bravo Team was deployed to deal with the pirate leader Tom Wallace. Wallace would escape and Darren would suffer the first death under his command when Bravo 3 was shot and killed by Tom Wallace during his escape. Afterwards Darren resigned from the Commando's and joined the UFC navy being allowed to skip basic training and with some help from now Rear Admiral **Jonathan Beach** he was able to hide his surname. Darren was assigned to **Jonathan Beach's** ship the UFI Defiance keeping his rank of Commander he was assigned to the newly formed Red Squadron as Red 1, Darren would serve as Red 1 for 2 years before becoming the XO on the Defiance, he served beside **Jonathan Beach** as he rose to the rank of Admiral. At the age of 27 and after serving as XO for 2 years Darren was promoted to captain and given the UFI Griffon were he met **Stella Collins** who was assigned as his XO. Darren would go on to captain the Griffon until it's destruction on the 26/12/2398, being one of only 2 survivors from the Bridge Darren Shepperd resigned in shame and went back to a life of crime.

## **Meeting Sam:**

on the 13/11/2398 Darren Shepherd was in Old joe's bar on the Capra Colony doing a smuggling job, his employer Old joe partnered him up with a fairly new smuggler named **Sam**, Darren and **Sam** would go on to do several job's for Old Joe as their friendship grew, in early 2399 they decided to form their own crew purchasing their ship off Old Joe, Darren and **Sam** worked smuggling contracts for the next 5 years, until one fated day in 2404 when they accepted a job from the galactic Corporation to smuggle weapons to mars, it was there that they were shot down and forced to survive. in mid 2404 Darren and **Sam** encountered a UFI taskforce led by Rear Admiral Raferty, Darren put his past behind him as Darren and Sam worked with the Rear Admiral before risking their lives to get their critically damaged ship away from a bomb planted within the crust of Mars throwing them 1 year into the future.

## **G-Corp Civil War:**

In late 2405 Darren and Sam emerged from their jump in Time crash-landing onto the frozen world of Triton, where they encountered the thought destroyed G-Corp about to invade the quadrant, Darren and **Sam** managed to escape the planet with the help of now **Captain Stella Collins**, however in the Escape **Captain Stella Collins** was injured forcing Darren to take command of her ship the Redeemer, Darren managed to safely command the ship out of harms way and get it back to UFI space where he was officially re-made a captain, a few days later Darren was given his own ship, the UFI Athena and **Sam** was made his XO. Darren commanded the Athena until just before the Battle with "The Admiral" where he was promoted to Admiral and given command of the UFI Dawn Under Heaven, during the battle the Dawn Under Heaven would be critically damaged and forced to be repaired for months, needing a new flagship Admiral Darren Shepheard requested a Discovery Class and later that week was given the UFI Challenger. Admiral Darren would lead a 3 month long Scientific expedition but was re-called due to the Challenger having engine problems. In mid 2406 the UFI admiralty lost contact with rear Admiral Raferty and the Mars Defence fleet, Admiral Darren and **Captain Sam** were dispatched to check it out and found that Mars was reduced to ashes. Admiral Darren would lead several crucial missions throughout the remains of the G-Corp civil war and would lead the orbital assault on Azerfar before the arrival of Grand Admiral Beach. During the final moments of the war Admiral Darren was shot by the G-Corp Emperor before having a building come crashing down on his head, Darren would be rushed to the UFI Hiawatha before being transferred to the St Margret Hospital on Earth where he would stay until early 2407, afterwards Admiral Darren attended the launch of his new flagship the UFI Sanctuary a one-off special operations dreadnaught, during this time he cooperated with the UFI's secret R&D facility the "Blackbox" to develop and create an artificial intelligence which called herself D.O.T.

## **loyalist Uprising:**

On the 19/4/2407 Admiral john Davis led an uprising against the UFI and **Grand Admiral Beach.** Framed for the Grand Admiral's assassination Admiral Darren and **Captain Sam** started a resistance cell called the chimera cell in opposition to the new Loyalist regime, in that time Admiral Darren would make contact with the mysterious figure "Red Fox" and would lead several successful missions against the Loyalists. when **Grand Admiral Beach** re-emerged Admiral Darren led a fleet to rescue the Grand Admiral from Loyalist forces. with the Grand Admiral now discovered alive Admiral Darren was a key founding member of the United Federation of Colonies and was placed as the Second in Command during the battle for earth, after the defeat of the Loyalists Admiral Darren would go on to continue service in the UFC Navy and would lead the effort of hunting down the remnants of the Loyalists for the next year until December 2408.

## **Facing the Past:**

On the 23/12/2408 over a year after the Loyalist uprising Tom Wallace re-emerged after a failed assassination attempt on Admiral Darren. Admiral Darren was forced to confront his past as **Sam** and himself chased down Tom Wallace across the quadrant. in the end Admiral Darren defeated Tom Wallace taking him prisoner.