The Helfather's customised Aesir armour and unique Xerxes cannon allow the Helfather to operate effectively in the field without a pesky entourage, just the way he likes.
Biography
Unusually for a Forge Father of his high standing, the Helfather operates alone. He enters the field with only his modified Aesir armour and signature Xerxes heat cannon to protect himself.
The business enterprises of the Forge Fathers require vast armies to operate across the Star Realm’s frontiers. The resources and manpower at the disposal of their rulers allow vast private armies in addition – and so when the members of the upper echelons of Forge Father society commit to the battlefield they are protected by an elite soldiery. Despite the buying power afforded by Shadrek Mal-Drez’s majority stake in the Furnace Valley, he is currently operating alone. His wealth is obvious from his uniquely-customised Aesir armour and his signature Xerxes Cannon – but he operates on Nexus Psi without an entourage.
The Mal-Drez dynasty had established itself through several centuries of stripping back the orebodies of the gombiky – extra-solar planets passing near their space. These rogue planets come from an earlier galactic age, and so are fantastically rich in the heavier elements and are almost-always lifeless. Regarded as giant, spherical treasures the word gombiky has also passed into Forge Father language as the name of the priceless spherical beads worn as jewellery. Some of the wealthiest Forge Father dynasties have become so by searching deep in the galaxy for these planets. Outside of solar systems their accurate detection is still beyond the bounds of the Corporation scientists.
Shadrek was dispatched to Nexus Psi to oversee the construction of a gravitational micolensing station in the rapidly developing area of Corporation space. Ostensibly a navigation station funded by the dummy corporation FurnVal, the facility was secretly intended to widen the Forge Father search for wealth, with the secondary objective of putting them one-step ahead of the Corporation. To avoid the suspicion of a Dwarf minor noble visiting a humble relay, Shadrek and his Clanhold bodyguard prepared to travel disguised as a FurnVal tech team.
Approaching their final jump, Gorsch drop-rigs communicated to the FurnVal party an unusual level of intelligence chatter on the planet. Rumours of Corporation agents active troubled Mal-Drez, and he replaced his warriors with a genuine, (and more importantly multi-racial) tech team from the FurnVal space station. Though useless in a fight, they were able to flawlessly lie that his Aesir armour was a reactor protection suit when questioned at the Corporation-controlled landing points.
Paranoia got Shadrek to Nexus Psi. But now there’s a Plague outbreak, will it prove his undoing?
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Helfather Model
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