#i got ✨ rescued ✨ yesterday after all lmao

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Might I request a rant on Captain Mordicondor and/or anything else you wanna share about your story and ocs? :3

(No pressure!!!)

Dude I just saw this yesterday lmao my bad. Had to whip up a few references for this but YEAH LETS GO

Mordicondor Agapé is the fearless captain of the starship Arora. He’s your classic space pirate cowboy guy—quick with a quip and quicker with a laser revolver—and like all space cowboys, he’s got a tragic backstory!! ✨✨✨

Buckle up for this.

(It’s long. I’ve put away too much thought into him and he’s not even the MC.)

In younger years Mordicondor served as an admiral in the Galactic Federation of Intelligent Worlds (“The Federation”, for brevity), along with his wife Donnatoria, and his best friend Drocithar.

(This is Drocithar. He’s a Fire Giranicon. He’s cool.)

Mordi and his fleet were stationed by a contested colony planet embroiled in a war between the Federation and an Enemy Faction. However, the planet’s surface was scattered with small civilian settlements caught in the crossfire, and Donnatoria and her squad were often sent into these settlements to provide relief.

The Federation gets word that the Enemy is planning an attack on the colony’s capital city, where most of the planet’s resources and key leadership are located. At the same time, intel comes in that a remote civilian settlement is under siege by enemy forces— the one Donnatoria is stationed at. She sends a desperate message for help: they won’t hold out much longer without reinforcements.

Mordicondor asks his commander to redirect their unit to rescue the settlement, but they prioritize the capital instead, and basically leave the little village to its doom.

Obviously this doesn’t sit too well with Mordicondor, but he’s ordered to stand down and threatened with court-martial if he disobeys. He messages Donnatoria and begs her to pull out before it’s too late, but she refuses to leave innocent people even if they’re doomed, she wants to go down fighting.

So obviously Mordi’s like “Then I’m coming with you” and grabs Droc and they hatch an epic plan to rescue the settlement with a few other teammates. They steal a dropship and launch the mission, but they arrive too late. The settlement has been destroyed.

Mordicondor finds Donnatoria among the casualties and barely even has time to mourn before they’re swarmed by enemies. Chaos ensues, they’re getting massacred, then a stray laser bullet hits an oil reserve while Mordicondor is standing literally right next to it oh crap—KRABOOM EXPLOSION💥💥💥

Drocithar, being a Fire Giranicon, isn’t burned by the blast, but the sound deafens him. Despite his own injuries, he drags Mordi out of the burning wreck to safety. He cauterizes his friend’s wounds himself and keeps Mordi alive until help arrives. (Ouch) Mordicondor ends up losing a pretty significant chunk of his lungs, and Drocithar loses his hearing.

The duo are soon rescued and treated, but they get court-martialed for stealing military property and disobeying direct orders.

Word of the destroyed settlement and Mordicondor’s rogue mission begins to spread, threatening the Federation’s reputation. Publicly, the Federation spins some bull, framing Mordicondor’s actions as an example of reckless behavior that jeopardized the war effort. Privately, they want to silence him before he can expose their abandonment of civilian lives.

And at this point Mordicondor has been thrown back into civilian life after being a soldier since he was like 14, he’s stuck full of tubes sounding like a thirty-year-old hotel air conditioner, and he’s reasonably pissed at them so he does the only thing a rational Pyrek can do— buy an old freighter ship and go join the small rebellion faction gathering at the outer rim. Yeehaw.

So for the past like 20 years these two idiots have been causing problems and leaking classified information to anyone with cash. They gain a reputation as vigilantes, fighting for the people the Federation abandoned, and wreaking absolute havoc for those who ally themselves with oppressors.

They never did it on purpose, but they pick up quite a few members for their crew over the years—anyone in need of a home can find one on the Starship Arora because Captain Mordicondor is a sappy old man and can’t turn anybody away.

The first addition to their crew was a small, dirty, oddly-colored Simiak boy named Roaco. He’d stowed away on the freighter while they were loading up supplies, and Drocithar found him hiding in the vents two rotations later. The Captain soon discovers the child has been cursed with a Withering Touch that destroys any living thing he touches with his hands. The curse is slowly killing him as well, creeping up his arms and melting away his flesh. Despite the danger, Mordicondor takes him in and tries to find a cure. Roaco becomes like a son to Mordi, who officially adopted him two years later.

After that it was Beelos Barthanos, a mentally disturbed Belphie who somehow clipped out of warpspace and crashed his ship into the Arora. He woke up without a single memory of his past and started raving about hearing voices. Something about the “Child of Chaos,” and how “The Red-Blood will be our doom.” Weirdo. He was pretty handy with the engine though, so The Captain let him stay.

Then came Nyranu Buluro, a Naga girl who trained as a medic under the Federation until her family ran out of money. She originally joined the rebellion as an undercover agent so she could get close to Mordicondor and turn him in for the bounty, but she switched sides after the Arora saved her life.

Most recently, a young Goldra named Griffinart Eltidar joined their ranks after Mordi saw poachers shoot him out of the sky for his pretty wings. The Captain soon found Griffinart to be a skilled fighter, and convinced him to join the rebellion. But while Griffinart’s quiet nature allows him to sneak up on opponents, it also hides a mountain of secrets.

Now, when a Human explorer finds her way onto his ship, Mordicondor must keep her safe from the Federation’s forces that hunt her. 

ANNND THATS BASICALLY THE WHOLE THING sorry for the long ass post I just have a lot on my mind about this. I’ve had these OCs for years and have had a lot of time to make up lore.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading my ramble! Love you sm 💕