Jerrai

Jerrai was a crew member aboard the RWI Gauntlet, a Defender-class Frigate of the faction Red Wood Industries. Prior to the Green Drone War, the Gauntlet and its counterpart, the RWI Stalwart, were engaged first by a pair of INIC Corvettes and then a pair of GDA Destroyers. After the Stalwart was crippled by a Destroyer’s Atlas Superlaser, the Gauntlet engaged. The two INIC ships were destroyed and when the Gauntlet took heavy damage, Jerrai and his friend Chris took refuge in cryo pods.

Soon after the GDA left, the Gauntlet’s wrecked superstructure was located by ex-RWI Captain Jack Roberts and his crew of Colonists. They managed to extract the two RWI crewmen from their pods and, though they had taken some suit damage and were slightly dazed, Chris and Jerrai recounted the incident. They then agreed to join the Colonists, as they figured RWI rescue would take too long to arrive, and with the Colonists’ planetary lander ship, the Pioneer, the team managed to pull the Gauntlet’s corpse back to a drydock on the Watchtower Station, the Colonists’ base.

Jerrai typically was put on construction duty around the Station, working on the Colonists’s small flotilla of starships, including the Dawnbreaker, the Vengeance, and eventually the Gauntlet, which was rebranded just as the Defender.

After the Green Drones forced the crew to abandon Watchtower Station and regroup elsewhere in preparation for their ultimate final battle with the DRF (Drone Reactionary Force), Jack put the Defender under Jerrai’s command. He solo piloted the frigate during the battle, but took heavy damage due to a DRF long-range siege platform.

At the final moments of the battle, the Defender was drawn too close to the gravity well of the planet below, P3-X2, and was presumed to have fallen to the surface and crashed. Dr. Craz later reported to Jack that the Defender could not be raised on the comms, meaning Jerrai most likely perished along with the ship.