Admiral Alrdin (mirror)

Born on a Starbase and raised on 100 different ships, nothing was given to William Aldrin. He has never stood on land. A lot of what is known about him isn't as much as a fact as it is a guess. His  recollections are his own and held close to the vest, the records are mostly empty and deleted, mostly by Aldrin himself later on.

He has no real family, instead insisting on the Empire to be his family. At a very young age he survived one starship crash, then another, then a catastrophic navigation failure leaving him deep in enemy territory. Nothing was handed to him. Several years later, long after his lost vessel, his crew and himself had long been thought dead, a patchwork quilt of a starship came crawling back into Terran Space. He had also eluded detection, bringing back schematics on enemy ships and technology. He was given the youngest commission as Empire captain ever, at 17 (if his age is to be believed).

Decades of domination and shrewd battle tactics had led to Aldrin being something of a boogeyman to opposing forces leading to one of the defining moments of his career: The unconditional surrender of the entire Antilles IV system without firing a single shot. It was only much later that it was declassified that Capt. Aldrin hadn't even been there, it had been a bluff put on by a different Terran Captain. That Captain's name is now lost to time, not necessarily by accident.

Aldrin at this point had his choice of crew and he only took the best. When Ensign Nylund first joined his crew he noticed a spark of friendship and he spent the remaining time as captain pouring all his thought and philosophies into Nylund's head. They were never lovers, more father and daughter, but they loved each other very much in their own way. Begrudgingly, Aldrin became an Admiral and was slowly removed from the front lines.

After years of drudgery, Aldrin leaps at an un-important commission. There is a new project, one to send a scout ship to a local Galaxy, a brand new start for the Terran Empire. Taking the prototype vessel and assembling his crew, we find him now as official advisor to Capt. Nylund on the first ever Intergalactic Terran ship.