Tyler Jones

by Kira Night

**Tyler Jones** is the Alpha of Squad 312.

## Biography

### Early Life

Tyler and his twin sister Scarlett grew up without a mother. Their father was killed when they were only eleven years old. When Tyler decided to join the ranks of Aurora Legion at New Gettysburg station when they were thirteen. Scarlett originally didn't want to join, but did it anyway because she didn't want Tyler to go alone and lose him in the process.

One time, both Cat Brannock - whom he knew since they were five years old - and Tyler were on shore leave on Cohen IV after graduation day. First, they got drunk together and then they got matching tattoos with their respective division sigils. On top of that, they also spent the night together, with Tyler telling her the next morning that it was a mistake.

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### *Aurora Rising*

Only a few hours before his Draft at Aurora Academy, Tyler cannot fall asleep and instead takes a trip into the void with one of the Academy's Phantom spaceships. While on his way, Tyler’s ship picks up a distress call from a spaceship, which disappeared over two centuries ago. The distress call shows a single survivor, causing Tyler to follow and explore the ship. He found the passengers in cryopods, all of them dead besides one girl. He rescues her just time before a FoldStorm rips the spaceshift apart, but loses his consciousness due to oxygen starvation when they’re back in his Phantom.

Back at the Academy, Tyler learns that he missed the Draft. Though he is there when Aurora wakes from her sleep and learns her name, he then leaves and is informed by Scar and his best friend Cat about what happened at the Draft. Together they get to meet their new squad members Zila and Finian, talking about their first meeting on the next day. Shortly after, Tyler tries to break up a fight between five Tanks, only to get drawn into another fight with Kaliis Gilwraeth, who turns out to be his squad's tank.

Before he leaves for his first mission, Tyler visits Aurora, bringing her a uniglass as a gift, which she names Magellan. His squad's first mission turns out to be a supply run to Sagan Station. They are greeted with suspicion due to the hostility between the Syldrathi and Kal, as a member of the Warbreed cabal. After a short time, the Station is attacked by The Unbroken, the followers of the Starslayer. When a ship from the Terran Defense Force interferes, Tyler tries to convince Auri to go with the TDF while she pleads to them about not saying anything about her. She reveals that de Stoy told her to flee, but the squad is undecided whether to believe her or not. It is revealed that the TDF is accompanied by five members of the GIA, who tell Auri they are there to escort her home. None of the squad interferes, so they take Auri onto their ship. Still, the squad is ushered onto the ship as well. Only when Cat arrives do they learn that the whole Station was decimated.

In the holding cell, Tyler starts a fight with Kal after everything becomes too much for him. This is quickly broken up by Scar before Zila tells them via their uniglasses about her assumption that the GIA will kill them as well. The squad then decides to break out, with Tyler and Kal taking care of Aurora. They find her unconscious in a prison cell, her now-dead guards rendered unrecognizable. They meet with the rest of the squad and escape into the Fold.

Later the squad discusses what to do with an unconscious Aurora after she used her powers on Scarlett and changed their ship's course. They realize that Auri changed the course to Sempiternity when Auri herself wakes up again. They decide to return to the Academy when Auri again uses her power to stop the spaceship until Tyler agrees to follow her course.

The squad arrives at the World Ship and immediately splits up to gather clothes, information and find a place to lie low. Tyler takes Kal and Auri into a bar to get caught up on gossip and find the information they need. There is also a group of Unbroken present, who provoke an argument which then ends in a fight between the groups. Shortly after, both Scar and Zila arrive from their shopping spree - just in time to see a shipwide broadcast of a picture of Auri, showing her to be a fugitive. Together they flee to the den of Dariel, a distant cousin of Fin. There, the squad settles down and tries to come up with a plan for the following days before finally going to sleep. While asleep, Auri's powers overcome her again, letting her paint a strange figure over and over again on every surface in the room they share. With the help of Dariel they identify it as an artifact of the Eshvaren Empire that was a part of an exhibition of the Bianchi Museum. Auri then admits that she heard about the Eshvaren in her visions, causing the squad to discuss whether they should keep going or not.

Both Tyler and Scar leave for the museum later, trying to gather information about the statue, only to find that the statue is now a private exhibit in Casseldon Bianchi's collection. They also learn about a Masquerade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the World Ship. Later on, Scar convinces Cat to go on a date with Declan and Lachlan, two security guards, while the rest of the squads waits in a cheap hotel until they are unconscious after Scar sedated them. Kal and Ty steal their uniforms to get into the Security area of the ship, helping Fin to hack into the video system.

Back at Dariel's den, the squad collectively takes a look at Bianchi's office, trying to come up with a plan on how to break into it and steal the statue in the process without getting caught. Auri then mentions that she had a vision about a masquerade ball. They remember the Masquerade about to take place and make a plan on how to go through with their heist.

Scar provides her brother, Auri, Cat, and herself with outfits for the Masquerade, which they visit together, while Zila and Kal break into the security system. The original plan fails after Fin doesn't reply over comms anymore and when Scar branches off to go back to the den, Auri, Cat, and Ty detonate the bomb, destroying the gravity system of the World ship in the process. They proceed to break into the menagerie of Bianchi to get access to his office. They encounter the last living specimen of the Ultrasaurs, which attacks them. Auri falls unconscious and again uses her power to protect both Cat and Ty and kills the Ultrasaur while doing so. At the same time, she broke the glass that separated the menagerie from Bianchi's office, opening a way into it. Bianchi himself storms his office, followed by a GIA operative. it is revealed that Cat struck a deal with the GIA in which she sold Auri to grant the squad immunity. A fight ensues between Cat and Tyler, ending in the two of them and Auri being taken away by the GIA. The operatives turn out to be Scar and Zila, who got the uniforms from the true operatives who stormed Dariel's home. Right after striking the deal, Cat told Tyler all about it and together the squad made a plan involving outsmarting the GIA and Bianchi. Together they flee to the Longbow, where they meet with Kal, Fin, and Dariel. Auri reveals that she stole the statue while Cat and Ty were fighting. She also hands Dariel another relic as compensation before the squad finally leaves Sempiternity behind.

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### *Aurora Burning*

Tyler meets and becomes allies/friends with Kal's sister Saedii, who reveals to him he and his sister are half Waywalker or Syldrathi.

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## Personality

A natural-born Alpha, Tyler is strong-willed and an amazing leader. He graduated top of his class among trained Alphas and was expected to get the first pick of squadmates. He is tolerant, calm, quick-thinking, and an overachiever. We begin to see in Aurora Burning that he has a hidden temper, and during Aurora's End, he can be easily angered and quite full of rage when he gets triggered well enough. However, his heart is large and always in the right place, and he tends to direct his anger into whatever he is doing, making it easier for him to accomplish his goals.

## Physical Description

Tyler has tousled golden blond hair, blue eyes and usually wears his Aurora Legion uniform. He features a chiseled jaw, full lips, and strong brows and has a scar in his right eyebrow from where he was hit with a chair by his childhood friend, Cat.

Tyler is frequently described as attractive, which is hinted to come from his family genes, as his sister, Scarlett, is similarly good-looking. When Aurora first sees him, she nicknames him Captain Hotness. She also pokes his chest and feels solid muscle, which expresses that Tyler is muscular and fit. He wears a tattoo of the Academy's Alpha Division on his right biceps.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Tyler's right eyebrow is scarred because Cat hit him in the face with a chair when they were in kindergarten.
* Scarlett is three minutes and thirty-seven point four seconds older than her twin.
* Tyler and Cat got their respective division tattoos together.
* Tyler hasn't been able to lie to Scar since we were five years old.
* He wears his father's senate ring on a chain about his neck.
* Tyler struggled with easy words as a child while his twin was already speaking full sentences.
* Tyler had 98 percent on his marksmanship exam.
* Tyler's mind is bright, golden yellow.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *Aurora Rising*
2. ↑ *Aurora's End*