Sigmur Ragtarson
Sigmur Ragtarson (a.k.a. Sigi)
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Youth
Sigmur Ragtarson grew up living in the lower part of Bergen tower with his mother, who worked as a minor floor official. Thanks to this they were able to afford a fairly reasonable apartment in the outer parts of the tower, that while cheap, offered them both enough space as well as more-or-less safe neighborhood and easy access to open air and ocean outside.
The boy had no problems passing through primary and secondary education and decided to continue to university where he chose to study spaceship engineering. His results were average, but he excelled in the test flights. Because of this, he decided to change school and transferred to Terran Naval academy where he specialized in gunships. This is where he met Andromeda Finelli and the two became good friends.
Education and Home Fleet
After graduating from the academy, Sigmur was, just like most of the new graduates, assigned to TRN Home Fleet, where he served as David-class gunship second pilot. Here he met Andromeda Finelli. Although the general trend was to stay in the Home Fleet and transfers to the Saturn Fleet were often ordered, Sigmur decided to volunteer for transfer and was therefore transfered and Andromeda decided to go with him.
Saturn Fleet
In the Saturn Fleet, Sigmur served as the first pilot on the David-class gunship and performed mostly patrol duty and convoy escort missions. However he also got his combat experience during skirmishes with pirates and sometimes even MSRN and RVN.
During one of the missions, his and one other gunship were escorting pair of dropships to secure a base of pirate group called Burning hand in asteroid cluster around Uranus's L4 lagrange point. Recoinasance of the cluster failed miserably and the four ships encountered a heavier resistance than they would be able to manage. One of the dropships was hit just before landing and nobody survived. The other one managed to withdraw, covered by the suppression fire, provided by the two gunships which then covered her retreat. The operations deck of Sigmur's ship was hit by the railgun round, killing the ship's Ex.O. and the second pilot and wounding Sigmur heavily. Fortunately, he managed to get the ship to safety and nobody else was hurt.
During the convalescence, he was awarded the Purple Star and soon after honorably discharged. He wasn't accepted back into the navy even after his full recovery. Probably the fault of military byrocracy, possibly effort to cover up fucked-up operation.
Fall
After couple months of heavy drinking and wandering around the outer planets, during which he managed to survive some fairly improbable accidents, he was hired by the Beyond inc. thanks to an old friend, Andromeda Finelli. He was flying with their ship Marry Newman under the command of Captian Pandu Badakar and Ex.O. Karel Shvec for some time, sometimes getting to utilize his military experience in fighting off pirates. All was well until the fateful voyage Callisto - Clades.
Education
- latest: Naval academy - Gunship specialization, graduated with honors
- Spaceship engineer/mechanic - good results on test flights, average results elsewhere
Employment
- latest: Beyond inc. long-haul personal transport pilot
- TRN Saturn Fleet - David-class gunship first pilot, Purple Star, honorably discharged
- TRN Home fleet - David-class gunship second pilot, asked for transfer to TRN Saturn Fleet
Social
Contacts & Relations
Family Ties
- Ruhte Lahtinen - mother
- Ragtar - father
- Lars Olafson - brother?