Florentius Sweetwater

Race	Human
Dynasty	Rexuz
Player	Paul Cordukes

Name: Florentius Sweetwater

Status: Deceased

Dynasty: Rexuz Dynasty

Notable Traits: A worn and faded blue coat complimented by a rusty plated Ushanka hat. Sweetwater was all man and flesh, his joking smile hid a hundred years of terror.

Skills: Marksman, Informant, Subterfuge and impromptu surgeon.

Information available after thorough investigation

It started, as always, with the draft. Florentious “Ren” Sweetwater was a farmer upon The Fold, a great planet of ice. His farm was small and isolate, and thermal heating kept the enclosure warm enough to grow thin and weak produce.

He lived there with his Aunt and her daughter, growing a meagre earning.

The next day he was a Guardsman. He was assigned training at one of the secure facilities on an a planet of barren ice, weather so bad it was a classified death world. After a few months, the recruitment office in charge of the operation, Commissar Mudaski simply left.

Fifty rookie guardsmen were left alone. No supervision, and no training. Not long after, the supplies stopped.

What followed was six years of survival living off the frozen land, huddled to stay warm in the metail housing facility. Power was eventually lost at year two. By year three, the remaining twenty had split into two factions. By year six, there were only four left. Meranda went missing trying to fix the communication beacon. Roy went looking for her, and never returned. Viktor made a deal that when he died, Sweetwater was to eat him.

Eventually, he was the last one. With no reason to stay he took it upon his own initiative to leave. He scrapped the remaining power cells and stripped the shelter of insulation. He levered out an old shuttle and got enough power into it to take him airborne.

He broke orbit in a wreck and got picked up by passing salvagers. Then he contacted Command

He learned he was only supposed to be there for a six week training probation before the project was closed down the project. Impressed with his resolution, he was promoted on the spot to Captain, given the wrong uniform, and was put in charge of any remaining guardsman of Installations 1 - 17.

After that, he was drafted into the Crusade by Commisar Rexus, and then legally died during duty, thus ending his duty to the guard.

He spent the next fifty years in relative solitude. He went home and churned the fields, and then went back out to the fringes of space. He had talents worth paying for. He amassed wealth by taking an assortment of private jobs. Spec-ops, Merc work, spying, assassination. He found himself far from home and on one job he found himself a wife. A Kroot woman, Kraw’wa, who tricked him into marriage. Alas, Sweetwater could never break a vow, and kept her close and safe during his journey.

He was introduced to a cousin of hers, a Mercenary of the Black Talons, who has a habit of hiring non-Kroot talent. It was there he met Gue’Vesa Leo’Lan who became quickly trusted to get the job done. Tensions in the Black Talons grew as mutiny became close to reality. It was then that Sweetwater received a message from his old Commissar-come-Captain to join the crew.

So Sweetwater lit the match and burned his bridges with the Black Talon as the company-wide Coup destroyed all evidence of his existence, and brought the rest of the Kroot Mercs, Kraw’wa and Leo onto the Valhalla’s Regards, ready to face the Maw.

Quotes

• "He is the most normal man that I know. A fact that he is, and should be, very proud of!" - Tempus
• "That guy's been through the kind of things that make lesser men lesser, but they don't seem to have had that effect on him." - Mac
• "He seems lovely and ever so calm and reasonable. But he has that reaction to things that make me wonder...well. He reacts to some questions like I do. And I know why I react like that. So I wonder if the same is for him. If it is....he needs more help than he lets on." - Artemisia Minerva Tabbris Blair
• "Generous. With his finances, his time, and his emotions. He gives much, and does not seem to expect anything in return." - Thunder
• "There is only one other I have been closer to, if he asks I aid him." - Maximillion
• "Ahhh, Sweetwater, so different and yet so unchanged since I first clapped eyes on him" - Cartwright
• "Solid enough quartermaster and logistic officer material. Suitably by the book. Always seems a little drained however, perhapse I should order him some leave on medical grounds" - Surgeon General Schwarzekappel
• "When I met him, I took him for a starched-shirt Company Clerk. I'm not ashamed to admit I misjudged him. Sweetwater is steel to the core, and anyone who's coming for him is going to have to come through me first." - Sgt. Iago Lennon
• "Sweetwater gives me hope. He has had a life of boring service but has managed to break through his conditioning to become his own Man." - Maximillion
• "Solid, dependable, these are words that are oft spoken about this man. But I can feel the truth of him coming off of him in waves. A man who has been through madness and come out the other side. We are, sadly, kindred spirits of a sort." - Ambrose Cordell Tollman
• "Haven't spoken to him much but seems like a half decent chap. That's an odd rifle he carries though." - Decius Crane
• " He does his Lord Captain proud with his diligence to his finances. " - Sterling
• "A competent quarter master and dedicated to furthering his dynasties purses... a shame he has more concern for marks than optimal equipment distribution" - Azrael Schwarzekappel
• "So it was torture. You've been tortured before. I know it don't seem like it now, but you'll feel better than this, I promise you." - Spider
• "I haven't always been fair to him, I think. In my defence, I don't know that he's always fair to himself. I owe him one." - Mac
• "He was actively relaxing this landing as far as I could tell. Odd, I did not think he capable of being other than the eternal quartermaster" - Azrael Schwarzekappel
• "Hands off my lizard! Good God-Emperor man, you don't want to annoy Lady Artemisia also" - Cartwright
• "Sons are born to die in war. Doesn't make it easier for the rest of us." - Mac
• "The job was worth doing. Your name will live forever, to be hand-carved in a place of supreme honour within the Arkangel Cathedral. Your deeds will live forever, as your soul is gathered to His side beyond The Eternity Gate on Holy Terra." - Stenberg
• "Stand at ease, stand easy" - Cartwright
• "We were once one person, I will miss you greatly." - Maximillion
• "I have lost many friends over the decades of my life, but this loss will bite far deeper. He did not accept it, but he was a son to me. I will miss him dearly" - Tomas J Rexuz
• "Go stand by his side. Your rest is well earned." - Azrael Schwarzekappel
• "He was the first to greet me on Arkangel, and I was one of the last to speak to him. And by the time, he had already held my trust. Rest in the Emperors embrace Sweetwater. And enjoy the dream of which you spoke." Sgt. Viktor Jovanovski
• "I'm sorry. I should have looked back, and I should have pushed him to let go. Rest, you've earned it" - Evangeline

OOC Information

Player: Paul Cordukes

Inspirations:

• Pvt. Terrance Sweetwater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7wVdpIG2s