Combat Search & Rescue (CSAR) and Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC)
- 636 Combat Search & Rescue Missions as of May 30th, 3305
- #4 ranked on EDSM Search and Rescue leaderboard.
- Began by rescuing escape pods and extracting passengers at Oracle Starport (Pleiades Sector IR-W 1D-44) and Titan's Daughter (Taygeta system).
- Built a reputation for himself continuing to save thousands of refugees and escape pods from burning starports as the Thargoid conflict continued to unfold.
- One year later, returned to the Oracle and joined forces with AEGIS Research and the Hutton Orbital Truckers to deliver vital supplies for the reconstruction effort. As AEGIS mobilized the Vanguard and the Acropolis, Wingnut was instrumental in establishing a trade route between the systems of Tote and Mentor. These efforts eventually lead to the incorporation of AEGIS Defense, the AEGIS Umbrella Foundation under Senior Executive Iris Callhan, and the refitting of 32 new Megaships to combat the Thargoids.
Community Goals (CG) Activity:
- Bronze Bounty Merit :: Sim-Archive Security Initiative - Bobko City, Narri
- Gold Bounty Rank :: Vadimo Security Initiative - Sikorsky Station, Vadimo
- Gold Salvage Merit :: Carnoeck CSAR Initiatuve - Bacon City, Carnoeck
- Hutton Orbital Radio Merit :: Pleiades Restoration Initiative - The Oracle, Pleiades
- Gold Trading Rank :: Lave Radio Conference - Lave Station, Lave
Anti-Xeno Activity:
- 4,068 total Thargoid kills as of May 5th, 3305
- #3 Ranked on the Hutton Orbital Truckers leaderboards.
- 4,065 Scout Variants (confirmed)
- 1 Solo Cyclops-class Interceptor (unconfirmed)
- 2 Team Cyclops-class Interceptor (confirmed)
- 1 Team Basilisk-class Interceptor (confirmed)
- Part-time second-in-command of the Hutton Anti-Xeno Squadron (HAXWING)
- Reports directly to CMDR Folco Took (HAXCOM)
- Commander of AX ships "Spoiler Warning" (HAXBOX) and "Coffey's Mug" (HAXCUP)
- Once mugged a Basilisk-class Interceptor following a wreckage site stare-down. By disengaging Flight Assist (which momentarily disables the artificial gravity and dampeners aboard a ship), Wingnut literally threw a 1-tonne Hutton coffee cup through his own canopy and into the alien's face, stunning it. He then stole the remainder of the loot it was collecting and ran away.
Independent Pilot Career:
- Worked briefly for the Sirius Corporation as an independent contractor. During this time, they resorted to extreme measures to align him to Federation values.
- So extreme were their methods that the Sirius Corporation 'acquired' the Galactic Institute of Political Correctness (GALCORRECT) and consolidated all existing files (and their claims) against Wingnut's record - placing him into an astronomically deep state of debt.
- GALCORRECT also continued monitor him - and him exclusively - for "unacceptable language," charging additional fines upon recording them.
It is estimated that these inflated penalties against Wingnut exceed 3.5 trillion credits.
Neither GALCORRECT nor the Sirius Corporation has attempted to collect.
- Tormented the Overseer of Scortia Enterprise (and known pornography producer), "Squeezy Stan" for ten days following a dispute over science fiction movies.
- According to Henley English of the Krumine Blue Mafia, Squeezy Stan had commented:
{The Blade Runner trilogy} is a vapid and weak cautionary tale on the dangers of overpopulation and inter-planetary commerce, nothing more. Phillip K. Dick couldn't provoke an existential crisis if he had personal coaching from Schroedinger AND Nietzche.
- To which Wingnut replied by putting the cockpit of his ship through the wall of Scortia Enterprise.
I HEARD U WERE TALKING SHIT
A stack of hits on the settlement's power generator escalated to the point where Wingnut would announce his arrival with the Advanced Discovery Scanner. ADS honking, in even a very thin atmosphere, makes the word "deafening" sound rather mute. But the sound of laser fire, explosions, and alarms as Stan's private stash was stolen by the terabyte and his power grid tampered with, was constant.
So Squeezy Stan hired the Chacobog Movement for Equality to deal with this problem. An Anaconda responded.
The competent, yet woefully unlucky Commander, Britney Coffey, pursued Wingnut relentlessly...
... until he managed to dump her, ship and all, into the crowded rings of Chacobog 5.
The Commander herself confronted Wingnut, and demanded satisfaction.
He responded by persuading her to join his crew.
Once she found out her client dealt with porn on the side, the rest happened as you might guess.
Over a period of nine days, Squeezy Stan was not allowed to sleep for any longer than ten minutes.
Over a period of nine days, Squeezy Stan had aged twenty-five years.
Over a period of nine days, Squeezy Stan went completely mad.
- Acquired his Asp Explorer, "The Busted Flush" from mechanic Frank Gaunt in exchange for passage for two to Colonia. Though the ship was actually named after a poker hand, it proved accurate when the third passenger, Simran Yiddleyiyodul, was violently ejected into space by a malfunctioning toilet.
To this date, Wingnut still gets sick whenever the food-printer extrudes hot dogs.
- On the same trip, damage incurred along the "Neutron Highway" caused the "Busted Flush's" FSD to malfunction.
The resulting "Frame Shift Divergence" event produced 260 temporal anomalies collectively known as "Stringnut," with a half-life of twelve days.
At our last record, the remaining four "Stringnuts" are still engaging in a bid to take over the high-security station known as "Eagle Secure."
- Somehow came into the possession of a device intended to analyze and translate Thargoid metavocalization. However, the 'Thargolator' device is undeveloped, unrefined - and as such it would be hard to classify it as "particularly consistent" or even "adequate."
Federation Career:
- Active in the Ceos-Sothic Trade War as a subcontractor for the Federal Navy Reserves, and promoted meteorically to the rank of Rear Admiral.
This is despite the fact that Wingnut is not in fact a Federation Citizen, a fact of which there is both great concern and great apathy in many political parties.
- Spearheaded the HELLFIRE initiative against the BRIMSTONE agitators preying on salvage truckers in the region, and made a fair number of enemies in the process.
- Along with Cmdr Steven Hope and Cmdr Richard Hillside, Wingnut formed the elite multi-role echelon "HOT WING" and excised a vital root in the pirate problem.
- At the rank of Post Captain, Wingnut was assigned a Federal Navy Provisional Commander, or NPC, as the first addition to his ship's crew.
- NPC Otto Pyle-Lott is a remote agent comfortably situated in a VR suite aboard the Terran starport "Abraham Lincoln."
- An NPC does not actually hold any rank with the Federal Navy - nor the Pilots' Federation - and is more considered a "rental" rather than a true Commander.
- In some cases, long-term contracts are available to military clients, and this particular NPC's services have apparently been paid for in perpetuity.
- The identity of this anonymous benefactor has not been discovered yet.
- Mister "Vega," as NPC Otto Pyle-Lott, is less awkwardly known, is voiced by Brent Spiner.
- And despite his frosty demeanour and formal diction, Vega constantly must reassure Wingnut that he is in fact not an android at all.
Imperial Career:
- Assigned to a deep-cover infiltration effort in the "Kingdom of Three" (HIP 5700, HIP 8758, HIP 8444), populated almost entirely by outdated Imperial slave-clones ("Steves." ) In only four days, his cover identity Robert Archer had ascended in office from Outsider to King, becoming the new reigning monarch of three systems.
In the process, Wingnut/Archer revitalized both the slave and clone economies, opened new trade routes, and greatly streamlined the ponderous processes of Imperial bureaucracy. And in it all, Wingnut managed to maintain enough plausible deniability of any Federation involvement whatsoever.
When pressed on how he managed to accomplish all of this, Wingnut's only comment was, "a complete accident."
- Wingnut abdicated the throne to the real Bob Archer, but not before his own genetic material was released to the Imperial slave-clone bank. His clones are named "Allens."
THE LAST WORD (Fast Facts)
- During his time impersonating an Imperial citizen, Wingnut discovered that he suffers from a crippling allergy to the opulence of Gutamaya's ships. Doctors have named this condition "affluenza," and have not yet discovered its connection to a disease known as Mug Ownership Deficiency Syndrome, or MODS.
- There are presently over 63,000 Wingnut-type Imperial slave-clones (called "Allens" ) populating the Kingdom of Three, and this number is increasing by the day. Especially troubling is that unlike the previous-generation slave-clone ("Steves" ), the Allens are fully aware of who their progenitor is, and are constantly attempting to track the man they call the "Allfather."
- In a tense stand-off with the "Allen" cults, Wingnut lost a leg to a stray beam-laser. He made every effort to save it, but eventually hopped back aboard his ship and with some difficulty returned to Hutton space, where a replacement leg was grown for him. Unfortunately, the station mascot Alvin mistook the new leg as a chew toy, and destroyed it in the process.
- Instead of a vat-grown replacement, Wingnut begrudgingly agreed to the installation of a bionic prosthetic, the AI of which has an annoying habit of narrating his "story" while he's still experiencing it, through a small speaker in the calf. The name he has given to this prosthetic leg is "Other Foot."
- For several months, Wingnut was appointed as the Custodian for the system LP 525-39. He based Hutton operations in this area from Clark Installation, which orbits a Gas Giant with ammonia-based life, which he named Badgas. He is convinced that something very dangerous lives within the atmosphere of that world, but lacks the enthusiasm to go and investigate it directly.
- Commander Wingnut's first name is actually Commander. Yes, his parents named him such. Yes, this confuses a lot of people.