Max

"Max", or as the crew members calls her, "Maxie", is a recent constant presence at the Geko. Although a familiar face, no one really knows much about the dragon tamer. Despite her enigmatic ways, she remains kind and compassionate and would go at great lengths for the crew. There's no guessing what's on her mind and just when you think you had her all figured out, you actually don't. One thing's for sure though... she loves her new found family.

The Kid of Unknown Origin
Genesis Home for Orphaned Girls is one of the biggest and most refined intergalactic orphanage and school across different galaxies. Usually, some special forces dedicated to rescue missions for dead planets, or communities going through wars would bring some of the girls to Genesis. Why they only accept girls probably has to do with their matriarchal rulings.. Rarely do babies survive without a parent during these rescue missions. And so you can just imagine their surprise to find a 2 year old aboard - staring at them with bright pink doe eyes. Only thing is - nobody could tell where they picked her up, who even boarded her in, and who this baby is. She had nothing but the clothes she was wearing. It was a moss green baby dress, with an intricate "M" embroidered on it. This caught Head Mistress' attention and personally evaluated the child.

"Head Mistress, need I remind you that children like that thing is a liability to the entire Institution!"

"I'll hear nothing of it! This child is not simple. Whether she be a liability or not depends on how Genesis raises her! Register her name - "M" was it? She'll be M from Vesper planet and that's that."

Who knew the unsuspecting child would go through a lot under the care of Genesis... But that was only because her records have been tampered. She was registered to be already adopted - taking her automatically off the list of orphans that could ever leave the planet.

Vesper Planet - Genesis Home
Just outside of Andromeda Galaxy lies Vesper Planet, where Genesis operates. But it is a dwarf planet -it's so tiny that only Genesis Home operates on it - the entire planet is also the entire institution. Every second a new fleet comes in with new orphan hauls and a lot more ships fly out the adopted girls. For the ones who doesn't get adopted, they stay until they graduate and then they start to fly solo.

For a large institution like Genesis, they are inevitably the target for rumors. Word around the rift is that some girls eventually gets sold off. Hey, some factions need some front liners, some planets needs to procreate, and some civilizations, well ... sometimes they need to feed... Unfortunately, rumors around the rift are never wrong.

M's journey starts off at Genesis. As a young kid, she already displayed quite a satisfying performance. A quick learner and not much for complaints, M quickly became a subject of interest by the teachers - not to mention the Head Mistress. She understood rules, kept quiet, and rarely gets in trouble. But the girl has always longed for something more - growing up at GH made her feel empty.

It was only after turning into a full grown adult did the head mistress notice something strange - the girl ages longer than the rest of her peers. They immediately put her on the list of girls to be sold off. M was trained for almost everything. A jack of all trades, if you will. Mastering a few skills she really liked. They prepared her until she was ripe for the picking. After all, they wanted to satisfy any of their their client's need.

Before she knew it she has been training as a 20-something year old for decades. Most of her friends are now dead, and a few are too tired and old. She outlived a lot of the people in the planet, except the Head Mistress - who everyone assumes to be off an ancient bloodline, and thus having a longer lifespan than most. She would eventually sell M to become a valuable asset to Zolaria's Military Forces.

"Anywhere is fine... I just want to finally see the galaxies. Actually explore the universe... something out there is waiting for me."

Empire of Zolaria (Galactic Government)
Zolaria actually is a thriving capitalistic empire, known for its monopoly on Asteroid Quarries. They have been supplying a good chunk of the galaxy with Yttrium - a superconductor capable of withstanding the coldest and hottest temperature, making it an important variable to any construction of fighter ships, space stations and the likes. And because it takes a lot to actually mine Yttrium, they have resorted to raiding and conquering other planets' asteroid quarry.

This never sat well with M. She hated the fact that she's now working for such horrendous empire. After training for decades at Genesis, M doesn't know if Zolaria has much to offer. But she does look forward to the new lessons she'll gain. 118 years at Genesis and she hasn't gone out to explore. ''So much for being good at things, but Vesper didn't prepare me enough for how to deal with these operations... ambushing such small planets and their resources. It's really unfair...''

At the military she was a quiet soldier, always did her job and she did really well on each job. M wished to just be assigned to defend their existing quarries,, but she was exceptionally good at tracking hidden asteroid Mines. She was good at raiding and ambush too, but it was also these missions that hurt her most. She rose in ranks after a few years, becoming a Staff Sergeant.

On her first mission handling a small group of 8, they were tasked to take over an enemy's Asteroid Mining by Sirius's Rift. The usual. Except this time round they were mining on a weird asteroid planet that started growing vegetation - it's on its way to become a dwarf planet. This was the strangest mission because they failed - but only her troop survived. She doesn't know where or how, but something told her to hold back because there was a trap waiting for them.

Something was trying to communicate to her - and for each mission ever since then, she kept listening to this - making all her missions successful with 0 fatalities in her troop.

Space Dragons and Max's Ancestry
On her last mission - she continued to trust this being trying to communicate with her. It led her to a hidden cave in the asteroid mine. There was apparently an elder residing in the cave. Althea, the humanoid rock elder, spoke, "Child, ye 're of no co'mon origin. Yer blood is from th' Old Age - ancient." It caught Max off guard as this was the first time she was hearing about this.

In a far-flung planet, far from Vesper or even Zolaria, there was Mairan Dominion. They were one of the oldest civilizations in the galaxy. Humans and Ryujin-Humanoids lived in harmony with space dragons on the planet. To them, the dragons were like Gods. Without the dragons, the civilization and planet will never survive on its own. Over centuries, the planet eventually started to develop into advancements. Eventually the Ancient Imperial Ryujin Clan stepped down as the rulers and have decided to spend most of their efforts into taking care of the dragons. A 3rd Generation First Born named Ma 'Kai was born from Sei Ryu and Dra'Kai - the chief of the Clan.

Ma means "potential in nothingness" or the "pause or gap in notes that eventually creates music" while Kai meant "restoration/recovery" - they had hoped for Ma' Kai and her generation to restore and strengthen the weakening state of the dragons. So much expectations to put on a child...

Eventually, the Mairan Government decided to cut off ties with the clan and destroy them. They no longer believed in the purpose that dragons served in their planet - after all they found an artificial energy source that wont need much maintenance and taming. With the Ryujin Clan left with no survivors, the dragons fled one by one. Until no dragons inhabited the planet. The ecosystem was completely destroyed and thus, the planet died along with the Mairan Dominion.

Max was brought in the Rescue Haul by her mother before her death in the hopes that she gets to escape the slaughter.

"Here, child. I knew yer mother - she sent 'hese th'night they found about th' plans that th'Dominon had fer yer clan." Althea, pulls out a helmet and a special gauntlet.

"With 'hese, not only will ye hear 'em, but 'hey will trust ye better. They will 'ventually show 'emselves to ye. F'nd a home for 'em, child, ye 're th'last beacon..."

By the time she gets back to the ship, the mission has already ended and they didn't even use much ammo or anything. It was a smooth mission. But she could not shake off what she just heard. "Space Dragons? I've been listening to a space dragon all this time!?" Max decided to go rouge right after being presented a promotion. She was supposed to be 2nd Lieutenant... but she had enough of the rankings that don't mean anything. She was good at what she does but it neither made her happy or sad. If anything, she grew to be unfeeling. She only ever cared about keeping her team the safe and delivering missions.

She decided to start looking for more space dragons while destroying dragon poacher camps on the side.

The Ark
The Ark served as her own station, even though it was only a ship. She took all kinds of dragons to heal at her station, then released to a safer planet. This 124 year old has been living alone and has been in hiding for a few years. After all, she breached her contract with EZ. Just how they are going to punish her,, she doesn't know...and frankly she doesn't care... More about the Ark soon.

She did most things by herself. But she always had the dragons as family, and this motivated her to just continue searching. In her last mission, she failed to save a great space dragon that was being poached. She ended up crashing at a docking planet, fortunately. There were a lot of ships, maybe she could work as a crewmember to hitch a ride... let's just hope no one snitches on her.

Max ended up raiding a lot of Dragon Poacher hideouts. Although using old technology, she was able to destroy a couple of headquarters thanks to the dragons who helped her at the time.

GEKO
Recruitment story coming soon. Just how did GEKO recruit Max?

At the GEKO, Max finds her playful, easygoing side - but it was probably because she felt the most free at the GEKO. No one is literally telling her what to do. She is a part of something without completely losing herself and who she is. If anything - she's learning more about herself with each passing day.

the crew has been incredibly hospitable and even went as far as creating gears and armors for her constant dragon companion.

She went on a bunch of Fuel Crew missions along with the rest of the crew.

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