Darwin Black

**Darwin Black** is one of the Big Five Rebel generals. He joined the Federation Space Forces. In the academy, he had a crush with Jane Tully. Unfortunately for him, Jane Tully was in love with Pavalo and Peter Tiedrich didn’t like him. He fought the manties during the Federation-Mantis war, after the war when he heard Tiedrich’s speech for human domination, he joined the rebellion.

### Betrayal

During the battle of the Summer Stretch, he was losing the battle to the Federation Fleet. During the fighting, Simon contacted Darwin by communications. He and his crew were gassed by Simon and all of them were knocked out, which Simon wanted martyrs. After the battle for the Summer Stretch, Darwin Black was reported to be killed. For his "legacy", Tiedrich made a speech that Darwin‘s death was not in vain.

### Escape

However in Reality, he didn’t die in the summer stretch. It was unknown to most of the Rebellion forces and the Federation that he was in stasis. Darwin Black broke out from his stasis cell where there's no doors or windows weeks ago, he pry out the panels.

### Hiding and Revenge

Betrayed by his benefactor, he stayed low profile during the Federation Civil War and works against the Rebellion. When Simon’s Elite Soldiers attacked the former Rebel General, Linda Sandoval, on an icy and lawless planet, Darwin intervened by hacking one of the elite Soldiers and explained Linda about Simon and the War.

### Infiltration and Failed Assassination

Darwin Black was on the concealed areas in the Novak the Second’s Cruiser unbeknownst to all rebel soldiers, Simon’s drones, and the Rebel Generals.

When he infiltrated the Rebel Flagship, he disables an Elite soldier and said to the lifeless body what Simon have done to them. To end its misery, Darwin used the Elite blaster rifle to kill it.

When he enters the source of the mind control, he founds Simon in his office. He confronted him Simon and after his taunt, Darwin pulls the trigger to wound him. His assassination was interrupted by his old friend, Novak II. The Rebel General asks the former how did he live and the former told him that Simon faked his death and used the technology to control the humanity. Distracted by the short conversation between the two, he's surprised that Simon is gone. Refusing to take his friend's words, he fired at the wall above him. Suddenly, the room began to change into a main core of the flagship. Realizing that the core is the source to the Rebellion, he fired a few rounds at the core and tries to finish it off until Novak shoots him at the back and his left lung. Novak told him that every Federation high ranking officers like Darwin Black and himself were poor and disrespected people and he uses Simon's modifications of the tactics to gain his soldier's respects.

In the desperate attempt to defeat Simon and the Novak's Battle Fleet, he activates a distress signal inside the Flagship. Giving the attention of the Federation Fleet and presumably the Kestrel Crew.

## Trivia

* Along with Tiedrich and Novak, he was part of the Federation until he decided to leave them and pursue a career with the Rebellion and was at Tiedrich's opening speech.
* When Darwin as the “Mysterious Hacker” says “Tell her, I am sorry for the Summer”, his relationship with Jane Tully never broke up.