Star Wolf

**Star Wolf** is the name of a mercenary faction with origins in the Lylat system. Up until February 3040, it consisted of two separate factions: one run by the son of Wolf O'Donnell, Valcrist; and the other run by Pacahtuk pirate Difret Degwesk. Difret's half of the faction went missing in February 3040 under mysterious circumstances, but returned two months later in April to assist in the war against the Animas Empire and the Micaya, having rebranded as Dire Wolf.

## History

Originally founded, funded, and equipped by Andross, Star Wolf was created to defend the trade routes to Venom, protect Andross, and annihilate Star Fox. They used *Wolfen*-class starfighters, designed by Andross, which were superior (albeit marginally) to Star Fox's Arwings.

The team was led by Wolf O'Donnell, and the crew included Leon Powalski, Panther Caroso, Pigma Dengar, and Andrew Oikonny.

Later, Wolf disappeared and was replaced by Otty Hare, grandson of Peppy Hare. Otty took the team in a more agreeable direction, creating an allegiance with Star Fox.

Otty was succeeded by Odis. He continued to maintain good relations with Star Fox.

Odis was succeeded by Valcrist O'Donnell, son of Wolf. He continued to maintain good relations with Star Fox.

Star Wolf was then disbanded for a time before being restarted by Difret Degwesk in 3036.

Sometime in 3038, Valcrist returned to the galactic scene and reformed his variant of Star Wolf, much to the annoyance of Difret.

## Star Wolf under Difret

*See main: Dire Wolf*

With Difret at the helm, Star Wolf was taken back to its antagonistic roots, albeit not completely villainous. The group operated under a Lawful Neutral morality, within the context of following their own code and nobody else's. This sometimes led them into working within the local laws, and sometimes without. As long as their group stood to benefit from something, the law beyond their own came second. They vied for power and money as their primary motives, and they considered everything in their sights to be "theirs." They did, however, zealously (and melodramatically) defend what they considered to be theirs. If they weren't actively picking on mafiosos, gangs, or other destructive groups, they were doing their best to gather information about those groups. They considered Star Fox to be a rival faction and spared no expense when it came to throwing insults and the occasional prank.

Upon hearing of Valcrist's reestablishment of the previous Star Wolf, Difret marked them as heretics and declared a rivalry. She considered their friendly attitude toward Star Fox to be blatantly heretical to the original ideology of Wolf O'Donnell's Star Wolf. The two leaders bickered enthusiastically anytime they were within earshot of one another.

As interest in nexite grew stronger, Difret's Star Wolf expanded their operations to the relevant star systems. Chief among them was the Glade system, with emphasis on Glade 3. However, with the collapse of the nexite market and the UPA, as well as the increase in piracy, she shifted her focus back to Lylat.

Star Wolf's mothership, the *Space and Wolf*, was thought to be moored in the Lylat system's outer fringes, such as its Kuiper belt or Oort cloud.

### Disappearance

In early February 3040, sightings of Difret and her crew ceased abruptly, and no trace could be found of her ship. A few people who were in semi-regular contact with her speculated that she had made the wrong people angry. In a Planetside Express News Network interview, a self-styled businessmage & superscientist named Tejus Ksimar, who claimed to have been in slightly-more-than-semi-regular contact with Difret, asserted that "Her resting level of anger for Star Fox member Bartholomew Phoenix had recently reached a point of metaphysical criticality. My quantum calculations & stock-broker acuity have led me to the educated assumption that this teleported them to a parallel universe that was better equipped to handle Difret's nearly-eldritch capacity for homicidal rage." Investigations into this claim are pending.

Tewoon Degwesk, famous restaurant entrepreneur & Difret's twin sister, remarked, "I believe my sister will return one day! She doesn't give up so easily! Unless she's, you know, dead. But that's really unlikely! She'll be back to throw her classic insults at Bart & Valcrisp in no time! Val-... Valcrisp... Wait, did I get the name wrong?"

### Reappearance and rebranding

During a particularly violent battle between Lylat forces and the Animas Empire on April 23, 3040, Difret abruptly entered the fray in a new mothership, the *Wolf or Consequences*, and had an automated frigate from the Obsidian Blade Syndicate in tow. She loudly proclaimed her return, as well as her faction's rebranding as Dire Wolf.

## Star Wolf under Valcrist

Valcrist's reestablished Star Wolf is much akin to its pre-Difret status of being a friendly rival with Star Fox. It is based out of the assault carrier *Ceruna*, which can often be found docked wherever Valcrist is (since he lives on it). His version of the Star Wolf emblem is the original Wolf head encircled with wings.