Firefly: The Artful Dodger OOC

Name: Leon Jackson

Alias: None

Gender: Male

Age: 38

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Bio: Leon was a colonist on the planet Miranda, in orbit around the protostar Burnham, the eighth and final planet in the Blue Sun system. Miranda was as far from the Core as one could get. There were 30 million colonists ready to settle in on Miranda, including Leon and his wife and son.

Leon had dedicated his life to serving the Alliance, the most stable option in his opinion. He ran trading runs from the Alliance planets in the Core to the Alliance-controlled planets in the Rim, avoiding pirates whenever possible or bringing an Alliance escort whenever necessary. When he was offered the opportunity to settle on a new planet, he immediately took the opportunity. He saw this as his reward for having served the Alliance so faithfully through the years.

In the middle of his last run, a supply train from Ariel to Miranda, the Alliance reported that they had lost contact with Miranda. Leon, still on Ariel, demanded to know what had happened. They told him that the terraforming had failed, and that none had survived. They told him he was lucky.

Leon spent the next 14 years avoiding the Alliance. Rejecting their offers to continue his previous job, Leon moves to Lilac, a moon of New Canaan, the second planet of the Blue Sun system. The planet is close enough as he dares go to Miranda, though he can’t bear leaving the system permanently. When the Reavers show up in the area, Leon offered his services to those who tried to repel them, be it pirates or local militia.

It didn’t take long for the local populace to realize that the Reavers were too strong. And the Alliance refused to recognize their existence, meaning they would receive to help. After a few years of futile fighting and lucky escapes, Leon settles down again on Ariel.
Fourteen years after the death of his family on Miranda, a broadcast is sent through the ‘Verse, proving the Alliance’s involvement with the deaths of the 30 million colonists. Leon immediately goes in search of those who had sent out the broadcast, determined to extract revenge for his family, and for being betrayed by those he had spent his entire life serving.