Bashfulvideos

## Bashful

**Bashfulvideos**, usually referred to as **Bashful** or just **Bash**, was part of the Tenth Supply Convoy as a member of an independent mining and exploration company, before joining the Colonist Survivors (CSS) led by ex-RWI Captain Jack Roberts. Soon, the Green Drone War began and Bash and the other CSS members soon joined forces with Red Wood Industries (RWI) and undertook many special missions during the war. For unknown reasons, he was transferred off Roberts' crew after the Battle of Icarus and began acting as an ambassador for RWI to speak with the United Colonies of Agaris (UCA) about a long-missing RWI starship.

## History

### The Colony War

#### Supply Convoy Work

Shortly before the outbreak of the Green Drone War in 2733, Bashful and his friends Lyderian and Kevin were assigned to the Tenth Supply Convoy while working for some unnamed mining and exploration company. While doing a job on the desert planet P3-X2, their mobile base, the *Bison*, was attacked by an unknown force, and Kevin disappeared while searching for help. Fortunately, Bash and Lyderian were rescued by Captain Jack Roberts and Castle, two members of the Colonist Survivors (CSS), who they joined and helped fix the *Bison*.

#### Fighting The Drones

Bash joined the entirety of the CSS crew when they went to investigate an underground facility, which secretly housed the beginnings of the war forces of the Green Drone Armada (GDA), as well as its leader, the Controller. A large force of A-Bot drones attacked them, but Bash wielded a minigun and helped the crew fight their way out and escape safely back to Pioneer Base.

A short time later, Bash was at Pioneer Base when the Drone Reactionary Force (DRF) attacked with multiple tanks and hovercraft. The *Bison* was destroyed and the colony ship, the *Pioneer*, was severely damaged. Bash manned turret defenses during the battle and prepared a half-finished hover tank for a joint counterattack with the CSS space forces, although it was more or less futile. Soon after, the *Pioneer* was repaired enough to escape into space, but Bash and the others were soon besieged by a group of GDA drones. To Bash's dismay, Lyderian volunteered to sacrifice himself and manually launch the *Pioneer* into space, which caused the outpost to self-destruct.

#### Space Combat and Short Disappearance

Bash and the others aboard the *Pioneer* were soon recovered and towed back to the CSS's main base, Watchtower Station. After several minor engagements at Watchtower Station against both the GDA and the DRF, Bash began constructing a heavy frigate that went through several names before finally being christened as the *Farragut*. The ship was still somewhat incomplete when Bash disappeared for some reason. It is likely that he went into cryo-sleep aboard the Colonists' flagship, the CSS *Vengeance*, as just after the Battle of the Colonies between the CSS and the DRF, the *Vengeance* crash-landed on an unidentified Earth-like planet. Bash witnessed the Colonists' second-in-command, Craz, being kidnapped by GDA forces in the *Vengeance*'s engine room, where he hid until Captain Jack Roberts, Castle, and Finn, the head engineer, located him. They emerged into a battleground between RWI and GDA forces; the Green Drone war had begun.

### The Green Drone War

#### Evading the GDA

Bash accompanied Roberts and the others as they found fellow Colonist Survivors Horza, Ler, and Owen, RWI marine Morslupus, and former DRF members Papple and Finchy. They made their way away from the battlefield and narrowly escaped a GDA trap set by the Commander, leader of the GDA's military. After they stole a GDA Keep-class Mobile Base, Bash became the de-facto driver due to his experience in driving the *Bison*. He helped them establish their base at an abandoned outpost called Bastion Outpost and attempted to build several small support craft with little success. He continued to fight alongside the new CSS crew until they joined up with RWI forces led by Commander Sam Reed of the RWI *Intrepid* to rescue Craz and try to take an Artifact from the GDA's HQ. The plan went awry, but RWI reinforcements arrived to evacuate them and Bash boarded a Valkyrie-class Dropship to escape. Soon after, Bash and the rest of the Colonists were officially inducted into RWI's ranks and given a prototype Eclipse-class Science Corvette, the RWI *Eclipse*. Bash was given the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned as the helm officer of the *Eclipse*.

#### Fighting for RWI

##### The Battle of Ravcor

Bashful and the crew journeyed to the lava planet of Ravcor to launch a campaign to steal the Artifact from the GDA base. Bash helped repair an abandoned CNL base and helped build several small rovers. He became particularly fond of flying chairs designed by Papple. At the start of the official battle, Bash drove a rover to the GDA base to sabotage their sensors, and again later to infiltrate their base. After the team retrieved the Artifact, Bash helped defend their base by flying a stolen GDA Falcon-class Fighter and firing a minigun in the following corridor battle. He soon boarded the *Eclipse* and escaped with the team, only to fight against multiple GDA Destroyers in orbit along with an RWI fleet let by Captain Jonathan Hunter and the RWI *Valiant**.* They suffered heavy losses and escaped the system.

##### The Battle of Demus

While Captain Roberts and Commander Reed were aboard the damaged *Valiant* to fill in for Captain Hunter, who was injured, Bash was left as the sole pilot of the *Eclipse*, although the ship overall was under Finn's command. He joined Roberts in salvaging operations and in taking over a GDA transmitter station in an asteroid cluster in the Amre System. He flew the corvette during the subsequent battle against the GDA fleet, and after the Artifact was safely transferred aboard the reinforcing RWI *Discovery*, the *Valiant* crashed on the ice planet Demus with Roberts, Reed, Finn, and Castle aboard. Bash took temporary command over the *Eclipse* and flew it to the surface along with the *Valiant*'s V-203 Interceptors flown by Craz and the rest of the crew. They rendezvoused at the *Valiant*'s crash site and Bash helped set up their makeshift base by building a spotlight tower to illuminate the base during Demus's frequent snowstorms. He also helped defend the camp when the GDA sent multiple Scourge-class Carriers and Falcon-class Fighters to attack them, and also built a small scout rover. However, their base was overrun after the crew obtained coordinates for a GDA shipyard station in orbit, and Bash piloted the *Eclipse* and the crew to safety at a nearby derelict refueling base.

Bash also accompanied Roberts, Reed, and Castle to infiltrate the shipyards and steal a GDA Destroyer in order to reverse engineer its Atlas Superlaser cannon for RWI's needs. After they were discovered, Bash retrofitted a service vehicle with gatling guns to help fend off GDA infantry drones in the corridors of the base until the *Eclipse* arrived to help extract them and the destroyer. Bash was knocked unconscious when the stolen ship sustained damage from the station's defenses during the escape, but recovered soon afterward.

##### The Battle of Icarus

After the *Eclipse* crew and the destroyer were both escorted safely to Icarus, RWI's capital world, Bash helped the team prepare their temporary starship, a Defender-class Frigate called the RWI *Tigris*, while the *Eclipse* was in repair. He became the helm officer for the frigate in the Battle of the GDA Shipyards, and as well as the Battle of Icarus immediately after. He, Roberts, Castle, and Finn then ventured to Icarus's Capital City to defend in from GDA invasion forces, although their ship was shot down and their fought their way through the city to meet up with the other crew members led by Craz. Bash later accompanied the crew to the RWI Black Vault Research and Development Center, from which the GDA stole back the Artifact.

#### Transfer and Liaison Assignment

For unknown reasons, Bash was transferred off the *Eclipse* crew by RWI High Command following the Battle of Icarus. While Roberts and the rest of the crew carried on with various missions until the end of the Green Drone War, Bash was promoted to Lieutenant Commander either during the last weeks of the war or some time after the war's end and given a special assignment. RWI High Command had discovered that the United Colonies of Agaris (UCA) had knowledge of the whereabouts of the RWI black-ops vessel *Pegasus*, a Daedalus-class Battleship outfitted with experimental laser weaponry, and the mysterious Admiral Markus. Both Markus and the *Pegasus* went missing at the beginning of the war after encountering the GDA, and had somehow ended up on Agaris. Bashful was assigned as the liaison officer for UCA and journeyed to Agaris to negotiate with the UCA to hand over the intelligence regarding the *Pegasus* and its crew.

In early 2734, a few months after the war's end, RWI sent Jack Roberts (now an Admiral), Sam Reed (now a Captain), and a small crew aboard the RWI *Tigris*, which had been outfitted with experimental technology, to finally locate the *Pegasus* and return Markus to Icarus, if possible. Bash was soon reunited with Roberts and several other friends and joined them aboard the *Tigris* as they fought against rogue Reaver drones to locate the *Pegasus* using information Bash obtained from the UCA.