Collier

**Collier** is a lieutenant and soldier of Red Wood Industries (RWI). He served in the Green Drone War, then served alongside Admiral Jack Roberts on a number of missions in the months following.

## History

### Green Drone War

During the Green Drone War of 2733, RWI was attacked all over the galaxy by the Green Drone Armada. Collier served during the war and fought against the drones, though it is unknown where and when he fought. However, he survived the war and RWI stood victorious after a bloody conflict.

### Mission to Monus III

About three months after the war's end, Collier met Admiral Jack Roberts and was assigned to a strike team under his command. The crew journeyed to Monus III, an Earth-like planet where Roberts' former squad-mates, Finn and Castle, had founded a salvage company and were being harassed by GDA remnant forces. Collier landed on the planet in a Valkyrie-class Dropship piloted by Lieutenant Timedoctor, a scientific-minded man who Collier quickly became good friends with. Alongside Lieutenants Tigz and NeoKuro, Admiral Roberts, and Captain Jonathan Hunter, the RWI team assisted Dawnstar Salvage in repairing the former flagship of the Colonist Survivors, the CSS *Vengeance*, which had crashed on Monus III at the beginning of the war. Collier was an adept leader and fighter and occasionally took command whenever necessary, designing vehicles and defenses to fight off the GDA forces. Eventually, they were successful, and Collier boarded the *Vengeance* and departed the planet with the rest of the RWI and DSC crew.

### Operation: Chrysaor

In early 2734, RWI initiated Operation: Chrysaor, the mission to find a missing Daedalus-class Battleship, the black-ops vessel RWI *Pegasus*, that had gone missing some time ago. Collier once again joined Admiral Roberts, as well as Commander Craz, Captain Sam Reed, Time, Tigz, and Castle, who had rejoined RWI after the events on Monus III. The operation was a success and the crew was able to find the *Pegasus* on the planet Agaris and bring it back to Icarus, RWI's capital world.

### Joint Expedition Task Force Mission

Approximately one year after the end of the Green Drone War, RWI, along with its allies Crazy North Logistics (CNL) and the Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection (RCSP) formed the Joint Expedition Task Force (JETF) under Admiral Roberts' command. They were dispatched to investigate a strange signal in the Chrome System. Collier was assigned to Roberts' landing team along with Reed, Castle, and Time.

#### Battle over Chrome II

The JETF began their mission by traveling to the Chrome System aboard the RWI *Prometheus*, the command ship of the expedition. Almost immediately, the ship was ambushed by a faction called the Remnant, who caused catastrophic damage to the *Prometheus*. Admiral Roberts quickly scrambled the expedition forces while the *Prometheus* covered their descent to Chrome II. Collier boarded a Valkyrie-class Dropship assigned to the Admiral's landing group, but the ship was shot down while landing. Only Collier survived the crash, and was soon located by Roberts, Reed, and Castle, who also crashed a short distance away. Collier joined them as they fought off Remnant troops and gunships on their way to a strange tower, where they discovered a teleporter device that transported them to another tower.

From there, they made their way to an abandoned radar outpost where they met up with Commander Craz, his wingman, and Timedoctor. Collier helped defend the base against incoming Remnant forces while Time pinpointed the location of the signal the JETF had been sent to find, and escaped with the rest of the crew aboard a Valkyrie-class Dropship. Eventually, Collier and the team discovered the signal's origin point lied in a massive city structure built by a long-extinct civilization, which Collier helped explore. He assisted in setting up defenses and getting a base of operation set up within the city when reinforcements from another RWI landing team arrived at the city.

#### Battle of the Ancient City

A large Remnant attack force arrived at the city shortly after the RWI reinforcements. Collier manned a turret aboard a Vulture-class Attack Helicopter flown by Jack to fight off the Remnant fighters and gunships. Their Vulture soon took too much damage and roughly landed in the city's hangar bay, so Collier helped repel Remnant infantry in the hangar. Fortunately, the team was saved by RCSP reinforcements who damaged the Remnant carrier and forced the enemies to flee. Collier then helped salvage crashed fighters and repair damaged infrastructure around the city.

#### Secrets

However, it was soon revealed that the RWI *Prometheus* had crashed on Chrome II's surface. Collier went with the majority of the RWI and RCSP forces to locate the wreckage, where, much to his horror, they found the Remnant battling reprogrammed GDA Sentry Drones in RWI colors. Roberts revealed that the drones were part of the classified Project X-12 and secretly carried aboard the *Prometheus* for the mission. After retrieving as much information from the bridge's computers as they could, the team departed.

Collier then accompanied the CNL and RWI forces on a mission to the far north, where they hijacked a Remnant communication station and contacted RWI reinforcements at Icarus. Soon after returning, Collier went with Reed, Time, Craz, Castle, and a number of other soldiers to explore the lower levels of the city. There, they discovered an Artifact, very similar to the one used by the GDA during the war. Reed instructed Collier to run back to the surface and inform Roberts, who followed Collier back underground to inspect it personally. He ordered them all to keep the discovery a secret, and Collier also helped quietly lock up the underground portion and confine the CNL and RCSP troops to their quarters.

#### Striking Back

The next day, RWI reinforcements arrived and deployed a heli-carrier, the RWI *Olympus*, to assist in securing the city. Later, Admiral Kieron Hask ordered Roberts and the RWI forces to attack a Remnant staging ground. Collier piloted a V-203 Fighter along with the other team members as part of Red Squadron. They attacked Remnant carriers and fighters in multiple locations around the planet. However, upon their return to base, they were attacked by the Project X-12 drones, which were under the command of the rogue Commander Michael Lynch, the *Prometheus*' XO, who had joined the Remnant to destroy the JETF forces. Collier and the others bravely fought back against the drones, who caused heavy damage to the city before being defeated.

#### Mutiny of CNL

By that point, the CNL leader, Colonel Jorgen Larson, had had enough of RWI's secrecy. He orchestrated a mutiny of all CNL personnel on the planet, and sabotaged many areas of the city, killing RWI marines in the process. Collier helped secure the city along with the other RWI troops, fighting against the CNL troops who were scrambling to evacuate the city. After pushing them back to the hangar, Larson and several troops fled in a CNL dropship, leaving the JETF fractured, although Collier still remained loyal to RWI.

## Behind The Scenes

Collier is a friend of Captain Jack in real life. He first started appearing in videos during Captain Jack's 'Space Engineers: Survival' series in late 2020 and early 2021, as well as in a few Star Citizen videos, alongside Timedoctor. He also voiced The GDA Commander from 'Space Engineers: Colony Lost'.