Samuel Colt

## Also Known As: Sam

Ranger Commander **Samuel Colt** was an human male from the planet Earth. At age of sixteen, he graduated and became one to the Galaxy Ranger Corps and became an Galaxy Ranger, the "elite of the elite" in the Galaxy Garrison. He's one of the four individuals sent on the Kerberos mission where he was taken by the Galra Empire, and forced into the gladiatorial arena in his *Wolfram*-class ranger armour, proving a fordable combatant and forced from Shiro and Matthew into a different location to be tortured for information, onto a space station with other Galran prisoners. After a unknown amount of time, Samuel was able to escape from captivity as he lead an prison revolt against their Galran warden, eventually leading the prisoners to an starship, finally free from Galran imprisonment. Seeing the atrocities the Galra Empire has committed, he decided to stay in space, becoming an resistance cell leader as he traversed the universe to liberate those under Galran rule, or undermine the Empire. As time progressed, Samuel's name and his iconic armour soon became high-value target for bounty hunters as his reputation grew throughout the galaxies. Eventually his reputation lead to Team Voltron as Pidge acquired video evidence of him breaking into a Galran facility and sabotaging it. This would lead to Team Voltron locating him as he'll provide an advantage in stopping Emperor Zarkon, joining them as an permanent member.

## Biography

### Early Life

Samuel enlisted with at some point in as an elite fighter pilot who scored one of the highest in his class. While being the only friend Pidge prior. At some point he was hand picked to join the Galaxy Ranger Corps and to receive extensive training in all fields of combat and support, including be one of the 40 to undergo bodily modifications of experimental cybernetic enhancements, resulting in 25 of the 40 passing away due to the resulting procedures, and total 5 permanently crippled, however he was one of the ten only successful candidates to survive the procedure. Due to the risk of the procedures, the cybernetic experiments were halted by allowed the ten survivors to continue in their Ranger training.

As the only friend of Pidge, Samuel informed her along with Math on his Ranger class status, showcasing the wrist implant he got for identification purposes, fascinating Pidge has it was one of humanity's most advanced cybernetics at the time. He chuckled on Pidge's excitement before informing Mathew that he'll be with them for the Kerberos mission as a armed escort along with Shiro. Samuel departed in full armour with Shiro, Samuel and Mathew Holt to the Kerberos where they encountered the Galra Empire and subsequently taken prisoner.

After Pidge was notified on Mathew's status by Shiro after the short time arriving to the Castle of Lions, she also asked on the status of Samuel Colt, to which Shiro replied due to his combat prowess shown in the gladiatorial ring and the fact they weren't able to pry his commando armour, he was sent elsewhere but he is not aware exactly where.

### Galran Prisoner

After being captured and unable to pry the power armour from his body as well his effectiveness in the gladiatorial ring, Samuel was taken away from Shiro to an interrogation facility where they tortured him for information concerning his race as well his power for five days. Not giving in, he was able to break free from his restraints after he had his armour built power in the servos in his wrists and legs, instantly tackling an Galran interrogator and knocking him out before taking out the second interrogator. As he made his escape, he decided to break the other prisoners free as he combated against Galran Sentinels to do so.

After breaking into the detention cell blocks, Samuel was able to hack into the remote access panel to the cells and unlocking them, freeing the prisoners as he equipped them all with weapons. He'd then lead the group to hijack an small Galran freighter which he used to escape from the interrogation facility with the prison inmates and into unknown space.

At some point in time, Pidge has obtained information concerning Samuel Colt, to which she showcased the footage to the rest of the Castle showcasing Samuel in full body armour combating against Galran Sentinels as he escorted other prison inmates. This pleased Pidge knowing he's still alive and fighting against the Galra Empire as a freedom fighter.

## Appearance

Samuel is a young human male of the Galaxy Garrison in the Galaxy Ranger Corps with dark hair with a pink pupil thanks to his Altean heritage putting him as an distant relative of Allura. He stands a foot taller then Keith with an defined muscular body due to his intensive training.

As an elite member of the Galaxy Rangers, Samuel is often seen in his *Wolfram*-class commando armour to which the Gen-I was an grey-white full body powered armour with its distinctive green visor. However with the Gen-II, it became more buffed and larger with new equipment including an backpack with two antenna of an powerful receiver and sender, which later on the backpack was reconfigured into an fabricator.

## Stats

#### Combat

Unlike everyone among the Paladins who hold a specific set of skills (e.g. Pidge being close-quarters, Lance being long-ranged), Samuel as an Galaxy Ranger holds training in almost every sets of skills to accommodate being an commando. He is able to enter close to long range combat when the need arises, and engage hostile targets to varies of specialized techniques. According to Pidge, his combat training was higher then most of the Garrison for this reason, being much more brutal then most. While his doesn't make him as agile as Pidge, his makes up for his training and experiences he has endured to accommodate natural weaknesses he has. He holds firm understanding in small weaponry such as daggers and quick take-down techniques on hostile targets, to which his overall skill is believed to be equal to Keith's or higher.

Samuel has received multitude of trainings to utilize over several forms of combat from adapting to otherwise alien objects and using multiple forms of martial arts to represent and situation, effectively becoming an expert unarmed combatant. As an Ranger, he can utilize these martial arts in multiple ways depending on his opponent, often going for a strength-cantered style on robotic targets and more agile cantered style on more living targets. Even facing two of four Lotor's generals, he shown to utilize his training and agility to gain an advantage, impressing both Ezor and Zethrid as he fought the two simultaneously.

Among the Paladins, Samuel is seen as the "jack-of-all trades" of the group, often representing them all in various of situations. However his physical strength falls short behind Shiro but superior to any other paladins. As an trained commando, his physical abilities are naturally elevated in comparison to most other then Shiro, along with his intelligent mind which Pidge has often admired under stressful conditions to quickly judge and set an plan of action on the fly.

However Samuel showcased evidence of natural weaknesses in his combat defenses and technology, often more reliant on his equipment then anything to which he was seen as the weakest ranger due to his young age, to which he may get cocky when it turns to his favour and losing that in the heat of battle. Despite his power armour, Zethrid was able to overwhelm him in physical strength and restrained him before being knocked out officially. Resources to maintain his equipment as he traversed the universe is something that is extremely scarce to use the appropriate materials and tools to repair them, slowly degrading overtime until he finally returned to Earth to do the much needed repairs.

#### Piloting

Samuel became the successor as the pilot of the Castle of Lions after Allura became the paladin piloting the Blue Lion. While Allura herself stated she had piloted the castle for half of her life, she trusts in him to look after it. He was chosen as he's the only other who can use the teleduv, an unique ability believed Allura only had, where it's believed he's a distant relative to Allura in some shape or form. After some struggling and learning, he is able to pilot the Castle almost seamlessly, and became a excellent pilot soon after.