General Javier Rodriguez

About

General Javier Rodriguez taps his fingers on the table, counting the seconds until the next tactical briefing. His eyes, one blue and one green, reflect the holographic maps of distant stars, each a battlefield he's yet to conquer.

Backstory

Three generations of Rodriguez men had died as forgotten foot soldiers until Javier shattered tradition by refusing his commission and instead enlisting as a combat medic, using battlefield triage to study enemy tactics from the ground up. The brutal irony struck during the Orion's Edge massacre—while saving the life of a wounded enemy pilot, shrapnel from her exploding fighter tore through his left eye, leading to the cybernetic implant that would revolutionize his strategic capabilities. His father, the military engineer who had designed weapons to kill efficiently, now found himself crafting encrypted communication devices so his son could maintain contact with Lyra, their shared guilt over Javier's transformation binding them in unexpected ways. That same fierce protectiveness that drove him to heal rather than harm eventually evolved into an unorthodox command style, turning the Battle of the Nebula's Heart into a masterclass of defensive warfare disguised as conquest.

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