Nathaniel Taylor Carter

"T*he Command gives me two choices, to die in a silver platter or to live with a collar on my neck, well I choose freedom, from both the Command and the Empire. I have a choice, my own, and you all have one too!”*

- Nathan T Carter to several Command Troopers led by Commissar Aethienn in the Zerataca's Hangar Bay

## Nathaniel Taylor Carter

### Aliases

Captain, Carter, Nate, Nathan, Lover Boy, The Non-Dhasath, Primitive, Slayer of Kralmon-Lokar, Greasy One, Target.

### Relatives

Patrick L. Carter (Father)Angela J. Murphy (Mother)

### Affiliation

United Nations Space Command.United States Space Force.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States Air Force. (Formerly)

The Defiance Crew.

The Gollar Confederacy. (Adherent)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Dark Blue

Born to a simple farmer family in the rural areas of Indiana, Nathan was the Captain of the crew of the *Destiny,* part of Humanity's first exploration to another planet he and his colleagues ventured into space and never returned. Unbeknownst to Earth however, Nathan and the rest of the Human crew found themselves suddenly teleported to a completely different galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy. The crew was quickly apprehended by soldiers of the militaristic alien civilization known as the Kiellar Command and their ship was destroyed. Nathan and his crew were supposed to be taken to a mining facility but the former found himself part of a riot that took control of the transport ship, *The Defiance,* and through a series of events found himself leading the rogue crew alongside Thanica Vari, a Dhasath female. After a series of misadventures and tragic events Carter and the *Defiance* have found themselves embroiled in a conflict larger than themselves, as the war between the Ragon Empire and the Kiellar Command rages the unlikely band will have to muster through adversity and the fabled Captain Carter will have to lead them through it alongside his Human Companion and his love, Thanica Vari.

## Appearance

**Height:** 6'1

**Hair Color:** DarkBrown

**Eye Color:** Dark Blue

## **Strengths and Weaknesses**

**Skills:** Nathan's years within the military as a combat pilot have hardened him to the harshest of situations, he is quick to adapt to stressful situations which has come practical given the circumstances since his capture. He is an adept fighter and a skilled pilot, though he has still much to learn about the Andromeda Galaxy he is a capable and determined leader.

**Weaknesses:** Though the military taught him many things it also cost him part of who he was as the experiences of war on Earth are still embedded deep within Nathan's brain a he suffers from PTSD attacks at times that make him erratic and unpredictable this added to his very tendency to be angered when the lives of people he cares about are on the line. Most especially though he tries to make the best decisions for the crew he can act arrogantly and without thought which may cost the lives of others and his own. Despite his prowess Nathan is still Human and as such is rather vulnerable to the many dangerous entities and beings that inhabit the galaxy and he is very aware of this.

## **Personality**

A man of humble origins and pragmatic in nature, Nathan is a person of action who seeks to do what he believes is right and nothing can stand on that belief. Though he is not the most book smart man by a long shot Nathan has a dedicated conviction to duty and is able to maintain calm during stressful times as well as being a capable leader who leads by example rather than orders. You will often see him in the heat of battle alongside the crew of the Defiance and way before that during his years of battle on Earth.

Despite a seemingly rough exterior Carter has a heart of gold that when opened up to someone he can truly show a much more friendly and outgoing disposition that some may not notice at first. As a Human and raised as Christian, Nathan has guided himself as his parents and the military taught him to do so, showing compassion to those that deserve it and be dutiful to those that need leadership as well as believe in a righteous cause if there truly is one

## Backstory

Born in Indiana, Nathan grew up in a christian household and though he had a largely conservative parentage he was able to mold himself into a relatively even minded person. Through his early childhood he showed a keen interest in aviation, as well as space in itself as he was enamored with the idea of traveling the cosmos and seeing just what layed out in the frontiers of space. This keen interest showed when he was taught by his father the use of a pesticide aeroplane which layed the foundations for Nathan's wish to become a pilot.

In his time on middle school and high school Nathan demonstrated his keen interests in space but more so in piloting as he planned to join the air force once he finished his studies. Joining the ROTC program, Nathan graduated from Indiana State University at age 24 with a degree in engineering and aerodynamics which led to him becoming an officer in the United States Air Force and a Combat pilot. Serving a long period of over 8 years, Nathan served in the hotbeds of world conflicts such as Iran, Africa, Syria, Venezuela as well as other special operation missions. Not only did he serve as a pilot but Nathan also found himself in ground combat in Iran and Venezuela, being shot down in Venezuela once he was able to regroup with opposition groups to Nicolas Maduro's regime and for over 6 months fought with them as an attack chopper pilot as well as taking the Miraflores palace through an intense firefight, his service granted him the medal of honor as well as the rank of Captain. His time in Venezuela affected him greatly as he lost his co-pilot when shot down and to this day his memory torments him.

After his time in the air force, Nathan got the attention of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration which recruited him within the United States Space Force and he trained for a special mission to space. Nathan felt exhilarated to be part of this mission, one that would be multinational and would go on to make a major milestone for Earth. After arduous training Nathan and his crew went onto the first exploration mission to Mars in 2026, the mission went smoothly at first until the *Destiny* vessel encountered a large and bright object which overtook the ship and fried most of the systems, Nathan was able to glimpse only the basic diagnostics as well as coordinates within an unspecified sector. The ship was quickly intercepted by unknown assailants and boarded, though putting up a fight the crew and the captain were taken into custody by the Kiellar Command and transported within a transport ship to an unspecified location. Nathan himself was gagged and cuffed up due to his especially uncooperative behavior as well as head butting the nose of a Command officer. It all seemed doomed for him and his crew as he remained isolated and alone in a cell, up until being approached by a human looking women who gave him a chance for freedom and Nathan took it.

## Voyage in the Defiance

Finding himself cuffed and unable to talk, Nathan was first approached by a human looking women called Thanica Vari who informed him that the shield doors keeping him and the other prisoners would open soon and after unlocking his cuffs she left. Confused and unsure, Nathan waited until the time came when the doors finally opened and he was able to fully remove the cuffs and the muffle on his face, going outside to find absolute carnage as the now freed prisoners ransacked through the ship killing every Kiel guard they came across. Nathan managed to make his way to the bridge of the ship alongside several other prisoners and with the help of the rogue Ragon Sshalah he aided Thanica in taking over the bridge and the armory. Soon the ship fell fully onto the hands of the prisoners and the remaining guards surrendered. The Human Krystyn Warrick would wake up from cryo sleep shortly after much to Carter's relief.

When the chaos had died down all the prisoners and conspirators gathered to decide what they would do next, after deliberating the vote was made to make Nathan captain and Thanica commander. The Human and the Dhasath would lead this renegade crew together as they made their way to a space station within an asteroid field named Pleasure Heaven. There after a battle with a Safuri crime lord they were able to get onto the good side of another crime lord of Jokari descent who granted them supplies and free passage, several prisoners decided to stay behind while others (including Command marines decided to become part of this crew). It would be in Pleasure Heaven that Carter would kill the infamous safuri technomancer Kralmon-Lokar and thanks to this the crew would earn the favor of Azar Konkara, Carter earning a reputation due to his actions which began to spread in parts of the Neutral Zone.

Carter and the crew would later find themselves chased after by Kiellar ships, and later by mercenaries who would shot them down on the planet of Gadawei IV which was a rather isolated planet that had yet to develop meaningful space faring technology like the rest of the galaxy. Through a battle with the locals, Thanica found herself captured as a Kiellar infiltrator sought to find the supposed Human who held the key to winning the future war between the Command the Ragons according to the mysterious Commodore Ouroboros. Carter would lead the Defiance crew in a rescue mission to extract the Dhasath despite disagreements with several members of the crew, and he would also gain a new ally in the form of Command psyker Aarla who he would free from the grasps of Command scientist Saessa. Nevertheless, the crew were able to rescue Vari and later the Human and the Dhasath would form a romantic relationship, anther human named Phoenix Williams would later awaken from her own sleep having become the previous captain's secret slave. Lee Rodgers would also awaken shortly after.

Time passed as the crew then found themselves in Alfewag station which had been taken by the Gollar Confederacy and the human Dana Chrichton would be revealed to have become part of its ranks as multiple other races joined in with the Confederacy's army to fight both the Ragons and the Command. With the guidance of Chrichton the Defiance crew would be contracted by the Confederacy to retrieve a ZPG crystal found in Gadawei IV's frozen moon to use in the Forge used by the Confederacy to make the weapons needed to defeat both the Command and Ragons. The crew took the job and would find themselves in the moon shortly after battling a group of ravenous Tz'aths and rescuing fellow crewmates Sho and Anja as well as their own fellow Tz'aths victim of these crime rodents, the battle almost seeing Carter dying from wounds by a Hurk. Carter would hope to be able to go back to Earth with doing this mission and being provided with help from the Confederacy as well as save Thanica from a poison set on her by the Gadaweian scientist. The mission in Gadawei's would later prove to be a trap as the ZPG was a fake and the Command Commodore Ouroboros would ask Carter to surrender himself quietly as several ships arrived and took Krystyn captive as well as several psykers and two commissars arriving to take the crew down.

Carter would fool the commissar in a fake surrender and the crew would attack, following a firefight the Command officer Emeach would fight with the Human Carter and utterly defeat him in hand to hand combat. Through wanting to save Carter, Lee would fire upon Emeach who would in turn kill him causing Carter to officially and genuinely surrender and be taken into custody alongside Chrichton and Warrick, a rogue marine from the crew would succumb to her wounds as well. Carter was taken to Ouroboros and the two would talk, the latter revealing himself as human and stating his wish for Carter to willingly let the Command extract the location of the wormhole that had gotten the Humans into Andromeda in the first place. Though hesitantly willing at first, and under threat of torture Carter refused on the basis of not wanting neither the Ragons or the Command to take control of the galaxy and of Earth by extension. Taken back to his cell Carter was later questioned by Emeach and Aethienn, the former curious on his importance and the latter threatening him with pain if he did not reveal the wormhole's location. Carter would later be contacted by an unknown person through Ouroboros's ring which he had kept, the female on the other end talking about a way to defeat the Ragons and some "Prefeton" project.

Though seemingly lost and with their deaths night, Carter and the other humans would be rescued by the Defiance crew in a rather risky plan of infiltration and causing a prison riot. Carter with the help of an Ark'venian and the Tz'ath Sho, would retrieve Krystyn and later be intercepted by Thanica dressed in a marine uniform. The group would finally reunite and go back to the ship they had infiltrated with, chaos soon overtook the Zerataca as Mihal would go to save the Psyker Aarlaa and several explosions would blow the crew's cover as well as reports of a jail break. Mihal and Aarlaa would manage to escape as Carter would face down dozens of Command troops under the command of Aethienn and with the aid of Sho, Kaleso, Yare and others the Human would be able to escape alongside the Defiance crew.

Finally free and with the prospects of being able to go back to Earth now, Carter would decide to stay in Andromeda, to fight against both the Kiellar and the Ragons as the war had finally broke out. Thanica would back this decision despite her own wishes and the two alongside the crew that remained would have to face a new struggle as the Andromeda galaxy once more found itself burning.

## Times of Burning

With the return to Gollar Confederacy lines there came the attack of  K901 system of which Carter and the crew were a part of in order to seize the means of opening of the Wormhole that had first transported Carter and his fellow Humans to Andromeda, finally giving them a chance to go back to Earth. Though going back to Earth to let the planet know of their survival as well as the reality of what laid beyond the Milky Way, Carter returned to Andromeda deciding to stay behind to fight against the Kiellar Command and the Ragon Empire, believing none of them should rule the Galaxy. Now the human's goal has become to find a way to defeat the Ragons and the Command once and for all, a goal that is near impossible.

Such goal became even more dire as the Gollar and the Kiellar entered an uneasy ceasefire over the Beachhead station and the wormhole, this turn of events causing grave frustration within Carter and his goal to defeat the Command. The forcing of taking a liaison officer who turned out to be the very own Aethienn has become a much larger thorn within his side as he is open in his distrust of her and of Ouroboros as well.

The time since has come with many more surprises and changes as UN representatives mediated in talks with both the Confederacy and the Command much against Carter's own opposition. Soon after there came the sudden appearance of the Federation of Civilised Worlds from within the Milky Way, compromising the Gorialax and the Berdikons which has raised more alarms within Carter than solace. No one knows what will happen now as his goal to bring an end to the Ragons and the Kiellar's power grips has become even more narrow. Six months since his rescue from the Zerataca has seen the Human take other small assignments as well as take the time to train in Jokari style combat taught by Karessan, becoming adept in the use of the Sturakasa given to him by the Corsair Lord Kaleso and ready to face any threat that may come, or at least be able to defend himself better against the threats of this galaxy.