[b][center]Character name[/b][/center]
[center]James Christian Garret[/center]
[b][center]Age[/b][/center]
[center]44[/center]
[b][center]Planet of birth[/b][/center]
[center][url=http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/098/b/3/eterra_universalis___the_industrial_planet_by_echofour-d4vi356.png]Vergere[/url][/center]

[center]Vergere was a vastly populated industrial planet in the Grand Coalition that was settled in the 23rd century. After the period of initial growth, Vergere oriented itself on aviation industry due to abundances of ore materials in the nearby asteroids. After a century of growth, the surface of Vergere was one planet wide city filled with shipyards, industrial plants and enormous power plants. The advent of more energy efficient facilities, higher efficiency power generating methods helped to spread the aviation industry even to the orbit of Vergere in the form of Orbital Shipyard Zero, the largest of its kind in the Vergere System. The planet always enjoyed a high degree of independence from Earth, a fact that later led to the Vergerian Uprising that ended with a famous act from then Rear Admiral Garret - using a pin-point accuracy shot from a ship mounted Gauss Cannon, he wiped out the leaders of the insurgents in one stroke, thus allowing the ground armies of the Coalition to exploit the chaos caused by his attack to take back Vergere and make it stand back into line.

[b]Location of Vergere[/b]
47 light years from Vestiva,
165 light years from Earth [/center]
[b][center]Affiliation[/b][/center]
[center]Grand Coalition
Grand Coalition Fleet [/center]

[b][center]Appearance[/b][/center]
[center][url=http://postimg.org/image/q6yofk579/]James Christian Garret[/url][/center]

[center]Grand Admiral Garret stands at 1,91m of height with an imposing build. His yellow colored hair is kept in a short cut he takes great care about. Most of the time, he wears his official attire, but he sometimes changes it for a less [url=http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/108/f/3/Formal_Shepard_by_BlackSheep64.png]formal[/url] one. His eyes were enhanced by cybernetics to help him with dealing the strain of processing data from large scale combat situations.[/center] 

[b][center]Rank[/b][/center]
[center]Grand Admiral of the Grand Coalition 
Flagship GCS Christian Huygens[/center]

[center]Grand Coalition Ship Christian Huygens[/center]
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[hider=Grand Coalition Ship Christian Huygens]The Grand Coalition Ship Christian Huygens was commissioned in 2503, after three years of intense research and development between Grand Admiral Garret and the best R&D teams remaining in the Vergere System. The length of the ship is 3,800 meters at its longest. Developed with Admiral Garret, the ship is digitized only at the parts that are necessary. This means that things like target acquiring for the main batteries, hyperspace jump calculations, shield and power management are done manually by the crew. The point defense systems of the ship are still managed by targeting computers due to their superior speed over the mind of even the best officers. 

The ship is armed with 152 quad point defense, rapid fire cannons placed in the top superstructure. These quad cannons were designed against fighter and bomber sized crafts - they have some ability in shooting down incoming missiles as well. For ship to ship engagements, the Christian Huygens carries twelve Gauss Cannons - electromagnetic weapons firing metal slugs at extreme speeds that infect brutal kinetic damage upon impact. There are 78 large laser batteries spread around the hull of the ship, aimed for delivering power and accuracy in ship-to-ship combat at larger ranges. Among the weaponry of the Huygens is a missile system - capable of launching guided missiles, kinetic missiles and very small yield nuclear weaponry. There is a total amount of 36 launchers spread around the hull of the ship. The docks on the ship are house to 112 fighters assigned to the ship, creating an effective fighter escort.

The most deadly part of the weapon systems of the ship is hidden in the ring superstructure behind the command bridge. It contains a particle accelerator for creating enormous amounts of energy for the deadliest weapon of the Huygens - the High Energy Pulsation Device that is fired from the fin like extension of the superstructure. The weapon fires a blue beam that does no damage on impact, however it starts to create pulses in the matter it touches. Within a matter of minutes, the pulses intensify to levels that most space ship hulls are ripped apart from the inside. The firing time of the HEP depends on the power setting - it can vary from hours to days.[/hider]

[b][center]History[/b][/center]
[center]James was born on Vergere, a planet far away from Earth in the year of 2468. Both of his parents were workers in the industries that spread around at the planet Vergere. James spent the first years of his life with his parents, as they were allowed to work in turns so they can take care of their only child. From a very young age he showed great interest in aviation and space ships, and since Vergere was the location of heavy traffic of both civilian and military crafts, he was inspired by them at a very young age. He dreamed of flying ships to the furthest reaches of space and back, and like much of his friends, played with models of spaceships, or often accompanied his parents at various exhibitions, museums and other events related to space aviation. It only strengthened his fixation on space aviation.

When the time to pick education, he expressed a strong interest and desire to study the technical side and theory behind space aviation. His parents agreed and so he was enlisted to join the best schools Vergere could offer, aged twelve. There, he belonged to a particular group of students that showed under average results at the beginning of most courses, and so his hopes were very low. As the courses went on, the young boy caught up to the basics and progressed them at rapid paces. He was never the top of his class, but he was far from being the dead last he used to be. He dedicated a lot of his time to his studies and the results showed up when the students turned sixteen had to pick their specialization. The decisions of most students were discussed by the boards, but James´s application to military aviation was accepted almost immediately.

After having his goodbye with his parents, he was moved to The Academy of Military Aviation to one of the moons of the planet Huygens, in the Vergere system. There, he learned the rules behind military aviation tactics and unlike most of his peers, instead of using old ones, he tried to adapt them to other situations than they were intended to, and used a lot of simulated battles to create his own strategies. As with the school back on Vergere, he was not the best in the class but neither the last - the only thing that made him stand out was his dedication to the studies at hand. After eight hard years, James graduated and unlike most of his peers, he was immediately assigned to a star ship - the 1100 meter long destroyer GCS Vergere, where he served the role of the executive officer.

The next couple of years saw James getting into sporadic contact with his family who fully supported him in his now established military career. He spent the years serving on various positions in various parts of the Galaxy, either escorting civilian crafts with a small military detachment - still as an executive officer. His first tests came when he was placed in the role of a Commanding officer of larger fleets with the task of quelling surges of rebellion and chaos at the outer borders of the Grand Coalition. There, the now promoted Real Admiral Garret saved countless worlds from the flames of orbital bombardment by not issuing the orders, but he was forced to turn several of them into wastelands after his options ran out. 

His greatest test came in year 2498, when his home planet of Vergere rebelled. Using its huge shipyards, the Vergerian Insurgents raised an impressive amount of ships and other technique to take the fight to the Grand Coalition. Rear Admiral Garret was sent to deal with the situation, as the Coalition believed that he will be able to negotiate a peaceful end to hostilities. Garret and his now sizable fleet arrived, immediately blockading the planet with the ships at his disposal. Despite his best attempts at trying for a diplomatic end to the hostilities, the Vergerian Insurgents tried to break the blockade by dozens of ships. Garret issued a hold fire until one of the ships rammed a part of the blockade in kamikaze like fashion. This forced the Admiral to change his approach and he gave the " Fire at will " order to most of the ships in the fleet.

This led to the state of total uprising from the Vergerian side, with Garret´s fleet being the nearest target. Soon after the first blows were exchanged, Garret found his fleet engaged in a full scale battle with the Vergerian forces, a costly victory for his fleet. Immediately after ending the climatic battle above Vergere, he performed the most accurate shot from a Gauss in the history of the Grand Coalition Fleet. Obliterating the Vergerian hedquarders with minimal collateral damage. Basd on his experience from this battle, he perfected his idea of a perfect warship for his needs - thus, the GCS Christian Huygens was born. The fact that he ended the hostilites with minimal colateral damage and civilian casualties earned him recognition back on Earth - he was promoted to the rank of a Grand Admiral of the Grand Coalition, one from the total amount of seven Grand Admirals that responded to the Global Coalition Fleet Headquarters back at Earth.

As soon as he was promoted, he was told of the news of the Contact. Being the Grand Admiral in the sector where the first contact was about to happen, Garret was tasked with preparing his now huge fleets for the first encounter - whether it will be a peaceful meeting or the beginning of a galactic war. Garret dedicates all of his time to this task - be it debating with researchers about new weapons,undergoing extensive simulations with other Grand Admirals or going through the formations and statistics of the Grand Coalition. As the day of the contact approaches, so is the work Garret is putting into the effort multiplying. He wants to do his best at the meeting, let it end one way or another. [/center]

[b][center]Personality[/b][/center]
[center]Grand Admiral Garret is a dedicated officer who spent the larger portion of his life on either space ships or space stations. He is a shrewd, cunning mind that came up with several strategies adopted by the Grand Coalition Navy. His creativity and the understanding of the rules and theories of military space aviation helped him to develop several classes of ships. When in command, his first attempt on solving the situation at hand is by negotiations and diplomacy. If this fails or is not an option, Garret will always think of the best approach before issuing an order. And if this also fails, Garret goes all in, relentlessly overpowering his foes with a brutal, aggressive onslaught from his ships. 

Despite his harsh appearance, Grand Admiral Garret is a kind, emphatic person. He is ready to give advice, discuss strategy or everyday matters when somebody approaches him with a polite request. His long carreer and accomplishments are giving him a justified sense of pride, and he expects other to show a certain level of respect when dealing with him - in return, he will show the same respect for the ones around him. In his rare free time, he is a talkative, friendly person who tends to have moments when all he needs is the solitude of four closed walls.[/center]