We have just about two weeks out from our pre-order deadline,  and I’m not going to lie. Things are looking grim for our goal. I’m not saying that I think it is unattainable, but I am saying that unless something changes it looks highly unlikely. Either way I am going to keep send updates out to everyone as often as I can find my way to the keyboard and type them up.

Today I’ve got one of the three remaining crew write-ups from the Void Hawk, the relentless Captain Marterra Felist. I hope you enjoy it, despite the lack of artwork for the entry, and continue to spread the word.

Being a freelancer is all that Captain Marterra Felist of the Void Hawk has ever known. The Malkian spent most of her childhood crawling through the innards of whichever ship her mother had signed to, and has always felt more comfortable under the pull of a ship’s magical gravity than the planetary variety. . Each new ship brought new things for her to learn, from engineering, to navigation, to swordplay. There was nothing she wouldn’t try at least once.

She didn’t jump directly from childhood to the captain’s chair. Before she dared to take that step Marterra made a name for herself as a duelist and a first mate aboard the Crimson Wolf. By the time her career aboard the heavy cruiser was done, most captains  in the system had learned it was better to surrender than face a boarding party lead by Marterra. As a reward for her loyalty, Captain Danaga gifted Materra a prize ship: the Void Hawk.

Aboard the Void Hawk, Captain Felist has carved out her own place in the stars. Content to leave the more high profile and noisier jobs to much larger crews, she focused on building a more elite team of specialists and leveraging the network of contacts from her years aboard the Wolf. With the battle hardened Corrs, intuitive Brachen, and raw power of Cassisus, Materra has little trouble keeping the Hawk’s coffer’s full - at least until the repair and fuel bills arrive.  

As promised here is the first of the remaining four crew write ups. Allow me to introduce you to the resident mage, Cassius. I apologize if the formatting came out oddly, trying to do this from my phone. 

Powerfull, respected, and sought after. These are the traits most often associated with a Ship Worthy Mage of the Corporate Council Academy. Despite his desires these are not how people think of Cassius, the human Worthy of the freelancer ship the Void Hawk. Instead the see a brash and frivolous youth that seems to be unaware of the power he wields. This is especially true for those with a well trained eye, since they can see that his tattoos aren’t quite complete. For someone to make it that far into the Academy’s worthy program and be expelled is a disturbing sign to these more disciplined Magi. 

Cassius is a tempest of power despite his abriged stay at the Academy, able to outlast other Ignis Magi with much more experience even though he lacks in fine control of his art. This dynamic is also prevalent in his social graces, or lack thereof. Being young, brash, and cocky means that there is always a quip at the tip of his tongue even at the most inappropriate times. The only time this changes is when one of his fellow crew members, usually Corrs, sends him into a brooding fit. 

Despite not being a true Worthy, Cassius has managed to find friends and a home as part of Captain Felist’s crew. Even though they don’t always get along, Corrs, Brachen, and Felist cannot deny that Cassius has more than pulled his weight as a freelancer. The camaraderie, however, has still not stopped Cassius’s desire to truly be declared a Worthy by the Academy.