The Past Opening the Future

The Story So Far

You are Captain Kayto Shields, the former captain of the assault carrier Sunrider. You hail from the Neutral Rim World of Cera, which was brutally conquered by PACT nearly seven years ago. Since then, you have fought a one ship war against PACT, and gathered allies across the galaxy to liberate your home world. Your heroic deeds appeared to have paid off, and with the aid of the Solar Alliance, you liberated Cera from the PACT fleet. Unfortunately, your girlfriend, Chigara Ashada, turned out to be a Prototype sleeper agent, who betrayed you at the celebration ceremony to assassinate Admiral Grey of the Solar Alliance. This event, called the Liberation Day Massacre, only escalated the war between the Solar Alliance and PACT, and led to the destruction of the Sunrider. Now assumed dead, you live in exile in the dusty mining world of Tydaria, a shell of your former self...

The Battle of Far Port

The first battle of the Neutral Rim War, fought between the Emerald Fleet, guest commanded by Ceran Captain Kayto Shields, and the Crimson Fleet, commanded by Veniczar Cullen.

The Crimson Fleet steamrolled through the Neutral Rim and sought to militarize the uninhabited world of Far Port as a staging ground for a full-scale invasion of the Alliance worlds. Due to political divisions in the Solar Alliance, only the Alliance First Fleet could be mustered to meet the PACT Fleet at Far Port, and Captain Shields found himself outnumbered one to five against the PACT.

However, numerical advantaged was not decisive. PACT's now aging cruisers warped out too far from the battle to engage the Alliance First Fleet, whilst Cullen split his frigates into two groups for an aggressive pincer attack, leaving his core command ships completely undefended against a frontal assault. Captain Shields ordered a courageous charge on Cullen's command ships, causing Cullen's frigates to overshoot the Alliance ships, while the PACT cruisers struggled to get into range. "Veniczar Arcadius," who was in reality merely a Prototype agent, observed the battle from the Super Dreadnought Legion, too far away to help.

Shields quickly destroyed PACT's carriers, which ruled out an invasion of Alliance space. In an act of desperation, the Legion opened fire into the fray, which destroyed Alliance and PACT ships alike. PACT's fate was sealed with the early arrival of the rest of the Emerald Fleet, under the command of Admiral Grey. With PACT's carriers destroyed and all hope of an invasion of Alliance space lost, the Prototypes ordered a retreat, reserving the bulk of the Crimson Fleet for a bitter and bloody war of attrition fought in the Neutral Rim Territories.

The Liberation Day Massacre

What was supposed to be a celebration of the Solar Alliance's victory in the Battle of Cera instead became a tragedy which sparked six additional years of war between the Alliance and PACT. As Chigara Ashada, the chief engineer of the Sunrider, was awarded the Fereldan Cross for her instrumental role in saving the Alliance Fleet, her sleeper agent protocol activated and she shot Admiral Grey dead. You managed to release her from the Prototypes' control, but Fontana, believing Chigara to be a Prototype agent, killed her. As Chigara died in your arms, you swore vengeance upon Fontana and PACT for killing your love.

High Admiral Emil Kuushana at the Battle of Tethra (Part I)

With all prospect of peace between PACT and the Solar Alliance shattered in the bloody Liberation Day Massacre, both the Emerald and Crimson Fleets rearmed for the second stage of the Neutral Rim War. For a moment, it seemed like PACT's fate was already sealed: After a string of defeats in the past year, it had nearly been pushed out of the Neutral Rim. Had it not been for the lucky destruction of the Alliance flagship in the Ceran Assault Carrier Sunrider's suicide attack, PACT would certainly have lost Cera to Solaris as well, and with it, the entire Neutral Rim. In a twist of fate, Captain Kayto Shields' last stand inadvertently allowed the Crimson Fleet to retain Cera and set in motion the path to its miraculous victory in the decisive battle of the Neutral Rim War: The Battle of Tethra. With the newly declared Veniczar Fontana's leadership still under question, he called back the exiled legend of the PACT Revolution, Emil Kuushana, and promoted her to the role of High Admiral. An unusual move, given his predecessor's revulsion at sharing power with anyone else, but one which would prove to cement Fontana's legitimacy.