ExoFleet Personnel


Matthew Marcus
Exofleet Captain
Command: ExoFleet carrier Resolute.

Marcus was a proud man, and a foolish one. As captain of the ExoFleet flagship carrier Resolute for the first three years of the second Neosapien-Terran war, he was also, sadly, one of the most significant figures of the conflict. Marcus' great misunderstanding of military strategy makes the fact that he -had- command of a major ExoFleet ship something of a mystery-- Perhaps the most understandable explanation to date is that he earned this command during peacetime, as the Homeworlds Senate was debating whether the ExoFleet was actually needed at all. With the Resolute's mission so apparently non-essential the appointment of a captain with little understanding of practical battle tactics could be considered a reasonable action.

Marcus became infamous among his subordinates for his foolish charges to Earth. In the mis-conceived attempt by the Senate and the ExoFleet to eliminate the 'pirate scourge', Admiral Winfield, one of Marcus' few superiors assigned to the ships of the fleet, was wounded. By this time the Neosapien forces had taken over the homeworlds, and clearly the only hope for the Terran race was for the ExoFleet to liberate the homeworlds. Marcus ordered the entire ExoFleet to Earth at full speed, and the relatively fast carriers left the support craft behind. Marcus was unable to recognize that an uncoordinated strike would risk the destruction of the entire fleet, and when a subordinate began trying to belay his orders to -explain- to him why this was a foolish action, Marcus imprisoned him, and led the ExoFleet to a devastating battle which nearly decimated the bulk of the ExoFleet and left half the exoframe squadrons stranded on Earth.

Marcus didn't learn from his first tragic charge, however. Three years later, he and other high-ranking captains of the ExoFleet committed a mutiny, sending his most dangerous adversaries in the exofleet to die on suicide missions on Mars, imprisoning Admiral Winfield and any ExoFleet personnel who refused to cooperate in the mutiny, and again commanding the fleet to go to Earth. This time, however, the Neosapien forces had had three years of Earth's, Mars's, and Venus's resources and Terran manpower to build more ships: The ExoFleet was again defeated, and the mighty carrier Resolute was destroyed. Marcus's last act before being disintegrated was to power up the crippled ship's damaged engines, making it explode close enough to several large and important Neosapien ships to destroy them.

This biography was submitted by George Caswell (timbuktu@wpi.edu)

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