Jerionis Bridgeport

**Jerionis Bridgeport** is a blue Lylatian Fox from CB-37 (Colonial Base #37), a large asteroid colony in the outskirts of the Lylat system.

His early career focused on astronomy and astrogation. He was the discoverer of Meado and assisted in settling the planet's first colonists, and also discovered the Bocaros system and other star systems.

## History

### Early life

Born on September 2nd, 2970 on an exploration colony in Lylat's outskirts, Jerionis enjoyed a modest and quiet lifestyle during his early years. When he was 14, he moved to Corneria with his family after his father attained a lucrative position in a large corporation. After his little sister was nearly killed by a Venom operative, he joined the Cornerian military with staunch determination to end their activities.

### Cyberization

During a particularly gritty mission on Venom, he lost both his legs to landmine and almost bled to death. Once he had recovered, he continued fighting and did so with greater stamina due to his inorganic legs. Subsequent battles cost him his left arm (small artillery) and his right eye and right ear (shrapnel). Refusing to end his vendetta against Venom, he continued to serve Corneria as a cyborg, despite his family's pleas to stop. They joked, at least with partial seriousness, that he should resign before becoming entirely mechanical.

### First major tragedy

A particularly troubling event occurred during a mission to destroy a Venomian fleet. The fleet was almost completely destroyed before it was discovered to be a civilian fleet, having been portrayed as being otherwise by the Venomians in order to tarnish the reputation of Star Fox and others. Jerionis himself had destroyed two large frigates full of innocent lives, and it took a considerable amount of therapy for him to overcome the tragedy.

### Kidnapping, defection to Hydra, and Nanite Andross

His alliance with Corneria changed during a mission to protect an operative who had kidnapped the Hydra leader, Lylith Zerone. The operation was based on blatantly false info, and, coupled with further disillusionment of the Cornerian government, he left to become a mercenary and eventually allied himself with Hydra. It was then when he heard that the entirety of Corneria had been infected with Andross' nanobots. The subsequent two and a half months were spent trying to discover the cure and aiding Hydra with their projects. When it was discovered that the nanobots themselves were Andross, he aided in the final battle to destroy Andross's control facilities and Andross himself, whose massive robotic form he jokingly referred to as "Andross Ex Machina."

### Marriage and exploration

Five years after Andross' defeat, he undertook a quieter existence and married his girlfriend, Biela Arendi. He served as an exoplanet explorer to usher in the beginning of Corneria's Exploratory Era, and also served as an R&D assistant of Hydra.

### First encounter with Mrkos

Sometime during the Exploration Era, Jerionis met his future archrival Mrkos Brorsen. While Jerionis was on Titania, Mrkos feigned a crash-landing and was brought into the local infirmary by the Hydra second-in-command, Rebecca Trinn. Mrkos claimed to know Jerionis, so the latter was called to investigate. Once the opportunity presented itself, Mrkos stabbed Jerionis in the chest, shot Rebecca in the knee, and then escaped to his waiting ship that had just been put on defensive mode. Jerionis' heart stopped, but was revived by his extensive cybernetic systems and repaired to the extent of being able to survive long enough for surgery. He spent a few days in a Hydra hospital before returning to action, much to Mrkos' surprise.

### Meado(w)

Shortly before Lylat's devastation, he discovered a nearby planet able to host life, which he named Meadow. The planet was odd in that its only native life was grass and microbes. General Nanaki Thertin decided to rename the planet as "Meado" because he thought it sounded more "pro." Jerionis and his wife Biela settled there with an exploration team and primed it for others to colonize. After Lylat's devastation and subsequent evacuation, they raised a family on Meado.

### Children and Mrkos' first defeat

Roughly ten years after the evacuation, Biela had given birth to three children: Laskal, Marhay, and Tema. During the first half of that ten years, Mrkos Brorsen had tried to kill Jer 43 times at that point, and as he was still flustered by Jerionis' continued existence, he formulated a plot with his associate X to capture and torture Biela. The plan failed miserably, and an irate Jerionis tore off Mrkos' right forearm in a battle aboard an unnamed station before kicking him into his damaged ship. Mrkos was locked inside and sent careening into space, eventually freezing to death and remaining unheard of for the subsequent 5 years until the Ra-Shi War began. He was eventually rediscovered by X and revived, thus continuing his reign of terror.

### Hostage crisis and first death

In 3007, Mrkos got his wish for Jerionis' demise. Mrkos and his associate X raided the Cleesha when it was docked to the first Etoile Station. They holed-up in the bridge and held General Nanaki Thertin and Star Wolf leader Otty Hare hostage. Mrkos demanded that Jerionis Bridgeport be brought aboard, or there would be severe consequences. Jerionis reluctantly complied and was captured and beaten brutally as a result, though Otty, whose eyes had been cut out by X, was allowed to be released. As their plans began to collapse due to technical difficulties, Mrkos left the bleeding Jerionis covered in C4 before making his escape with X and the unconscious Nanaki. The resulting explosion killed Jerionis and tore a hole in the Cleesha's side.

### Full cyberization

Shortly after the blast, a doleful friend of Jerionis found his disembodied head frozen to the floor of the bridge. He silently retrieved it and took it to a specialist, who successfully transplanted the brain into a support system. When it was hooked to a speaker system, the bewildered Jerionis expressed his complete terror, but also his gratitude. He also failed to recognize his friend due to brain damage, and it took a substantial amount of cerebral repair for him to regain his memories.
Jerionis was again transplanted, this time into a large war droid. He desired to remain under disguise in order to prevent attention being drawn to himself. If Mrkos had discovered that he was still alive after all that, the madman might have made it even more of an obsession to destroy him.

### Triumphant return

Jerionis remained in obscurity for roughly three years, occupying most of his time attempting to find and stop Mrkos. During that three years, he revealed himself to his grieving wife and children, who were reluctant to accept the reality at first but quickly saw the proof they needed. Jerionis acted as a kindly Klak who protected the family, just in case anyone asked, which they did. He eventually mustered the courage to buy a very expensive partial organic mimic cyberstructure body and reintroduced himself to his friends.

### Cloned body

Yearning to return to a normal life, Jerionis discarded his cybernetic body in favor of a cloned body in 3032. It was tailored to resemble a simulation of himself in his early 60s.

## Physical

As a cyborg, his entire body was artificial except for his brain. The body was tailored to his latest (at the time) photo by Poljandi LLC, a cybernetics company on Pera Tomiu. With it, he could feel, smell, taste, hear, see, react, simulate breathing, and sleep just as any organic body. He could also metabolize organic food for sustenance, but the body was chiefly powered by a small reactor. The brain was protected by a removable braincase made of advanced materials, as well as an inertial dampener to severely reduce the effects of impact.

## Current status

Jerionis lives with his wife on Meado, enjoying various hobbies together and spending time with their 3 children and 11 grandchildren. As of September 2, 3039, he is 69 years old.