Captain Vance

Captain Vance is a cyborg. He does not recognise the authority of the Galactic Union, and he was one of the founding members of the terrorist organisation known as Fractus.

Backstory
During the First Galactic War, he fought for the Rebellion alongside Jeffrey Cole, who he says was one of the bravest men he ever knew. He was there at The Battle of Heaven's Reach and saw Jeffrey die while trying to rescue a hopeless squad of rookies.

He became a close friend of Marion Dale, and he was there at the birth of her daughter Margaret - who was also the child of Jeffrey Cole through artificial insemination. He didn't have much contact with the child after that, though.

In 2208, Vance visited Union Station and recruited Kathy Brown as an agent of Fractus by paying off all of her debts. He cunningly exploited her hatred of the Space Wardens, which had been fueled by losing both of her parents in the war.

The Bank describes Vance's appearance at this time as rich and well-dressed, but makes no mention of his neural implant - so that must have been installed at a later date. He does mention that he had the word "Fractus" tattooed on his forearm.

In 2213 or 2214, he visited Marion Dale at Latona Station in order to inform her that conclaves had been established in both of the Sun Systems. By 2216, an assassin and bounty hunter named Jojo had been tracking Vance for some time. He came close to killing him on Planet Herschel.

The Elivagar Incident
After the mining fleet Elivagar went rogue and declared independence in the Upsilon Andromedae system, Vance and a team of mercenaries were hired for security purposes. This is where he first encountered Gail Pilgrim, who had arrived along with Sergey Antov in order to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the situation.

Shortly afterwards, Jojo managed to get onboard the ship and he exposed Vance as being a terrorist operative. Captain Vance was then forced to take control of the fleet, abandoning the flagship and leaving those onboard to perish. (Unbeknownst to him, Gail Pilgrim was able to rescue them all.)

The Elivagar fleet was ultimately hunted down and defeated by the Space Wardens, but Vance either managed to escape or he had already left the fleet by then. He had already achieved his goals in terms of sowing the seeds of rebellion and weakening the union.

Shiryō Island
With his previous mission completed, Vance reunited with Marion Dale on Shiryō Island along with his mercenaries. Here, he met Margaret Dale for the first time since she was a baby.

(More to come!)

Personality
Captain Vance is an extremely cold and calculating individual, who seems to believe in the ideal of freedom above all else. There is little that he wouldn't do in order to accomplish his political goals.

Appears In

 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 3
 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Reunion