Devereaux, Valen

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Created by: Halo

Maintained by: Halo

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Name: Valen Devereaux
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Nickname: Halo
Role/Assignment/Position: VF Pilot, ELINT Officer Tophats
Current Status: Active

Created By: Halo
Date Created:
Date Retired: N/A
Current Player: Halo
Previous Players: N/A
Current Game: Tophats
Previous Games: Beginhill: Jade Ospreys, Beginhill: Fireflies, Hollywood Knights

Affiliation: UNSpacy
Relationships of Note: Krystal Devereaux, Mother
History: Valen was born to unknown parents and discovered as a newly-born infant abandoned in the wake of Anti-UN warring. Genetically-speaking, Valen is half Zentran and half-human, and was matched with adoptive parents of similar, if not exact, cultural diversity. These new parents were Koren and Krystal Devereaux on the independent colony world Vensari Prime (city of New Beijing). Koren worked steadily as a research annalist, while his mother, a Meltradi survivor of much senseless xenophobic bigotry thanks to the Anti-UN Terrorist break-outs of the time, served as a commercial shuttle pilot for the colony. Note: whether or not Krystal was an innocent victim of the time or a terrorist herself is not known by Val (although he'd certainly tell you she is no terrorist).

Early life was fairly “normal” and uneventful for young Valen. He was raised in a loving family and schooled as best a family of few means could afford in the Vensari System. He did not have access to the universities and higher education granted to the privileged, but was swift to learn what he could and adapt quickly to what he couldn’t.

For the first fifteen years of his life, Valen never left the orbit of his world, despite his mother’s occupation – not that it bothered him . . . with such a beautiful world to live upon, why would anyone wish to leave?

In his teens, Val extended his love of nature to the skies themselves, and began training for a civilian pilot’s license. About this time, his mother left civic flying to become the personal pilot for Arturo Vensari, chairman of Vensari Industries as well as the single greatest private contributor of the New Beijing Colony (officially or not, he was widely regarded as the “owner” of the colony).

At eighteen, Val began flying civil defense and rescue for the colony. On one such outing, he saved two stranded hikers from a mountaintop, who later nicknamed him “Halo” – a callsign that has since stuck.

Four months prior to the events of "Beginhill: Jade Ospreys", Valen arrives home to discover his father asleep on the family couch. Much to the young man's horror, Koren was not sleeping, but dead following a sudden and severe heart attack resulting from a slight congenital defect. As great an emotional impact, the family suffered an equally great financial impact. With his father's heart excluded from Life Insurance policies, his mother, Krystal, was forced to take extra jobs, and Valen became determined to seek a higher education, such as his father had, so he could better provide for himself and his mother.

Valen left home to gain a government-funded education using the only tangible training he has – flying. He was accepted into the Beginhill Training Program, after which he will grant UNSpacy a minimum five years of service in exchange for graduate-level schooling (see SEP: Spacy Education Program).
Valen was Assigned to the Jade Ospreys for training and three years later graduated. As a newly commissioned second lieutenant, Valen was assigned as a VF Pilot with the Hollywood Knights. As a Knight, Valen flew during the Opal Incident, the Patagonia Liberation and earned a Purple Heart while fighting off an intruder aboard the UNS Valhalla.

Personnel File: http://home.triad.rr.com/dbadger/knights/devereaux.htm