The Controller

The Controller was the mastermind behind the Green Drone Armada’s conquest of the galaxy. While he rarely put himself in harm’s way, he was nevertheless a ruthless ruler and a brilliant strategist, often being able to predict the tactics of his opponents before they made them.

Origins
Much of the Controller’s early origins are completely unknown - how or when or by whom he was created, how long he waited to build and unleash the GDA on the galaxy, or why he was created to lead the Green Drones. It is also unclear whether or not the Controller is completely drone, completely alive, or a cyborg-like being. However, it is known that at some point the Controller learned the history of the Artifact and how it connected the GDA to their future. He then sought to find it and use it.

The Controller was first discovered by outside presences on the desert planet P3-X2 in an underground maintenance facility that housed his chambers and factory lines for producing the GDA’s weapons of war. Two opposing factions simultaneously stumbled upon the base. One was a group of Colonists led by ex-RWI Captain Jack Roberts; the other being a unit of soldiers from the Drone Reactionary Force led by Arron. Up until this point, Green Drone scouts had been making preliminary strikes on various life-forms on P3-X2, including INIC personnel and the Tenth Supply Convoy members Bashful, Lyderian, and Kevin. The Controller himself had stayed hidden, until he revealed his evil plans to the two sides and drove them from the facility with a battalion of A-Bot drones.

The Controller ordered several more strikes against the Colonists, DRF, and even small RWI battle group consisting of two Defender-class Frigates, the Gauntlet and the Stalwart. However, until sometime around the fateful Battle of the Colonies, the Controller kept the GDA’s true might hidden.

The War Begins
At the outbreak of the Green Drone War, the Controller summoned the military leader, the Commander, to his chambers and reprimanded him for failing to stop Captain Jack and his Colonist Survivors from escaping the GDA’s trap at an unnamed planet. He told the Commander to focus on the CSS while he dealt with RWI and the other “irritants” in the way of his plans.

Several weeks later, the Artifact was found on the unnamed planet. The Controller frequently requested updates on the research team’s progress, but never left his fortress on P3-X2 to personally see the Artifact. The Commander and Doctor Zimmrich continued to experiment on the Artifact per the Controller’s orders until it was stolen from the GDA base on Ravcor by Captain Jack and his team, who had been reinstated into RWI’s ranks.

The Quest for the Artifact
The Artifact was pursued by the Commander in his Dreadnought to Demus, where Jack’s crew transferred it from their ship, the RWI Eclipse, to the reinforcing RWI Discovery, which in turn escaped back to RWI territory with the device. The Controller was very displeased with the Commander’s failure, as he knew the Artifact held the key to their future. He gave the Commander one more chance to recover the Artifact before RWI could find a way to use it against the Green Drones.

The Commander later took a large fleet or GDA destroyers and attacked Icarus, the capital world of RWI. They caused damage to many vessels and structures and managed to infiltrate the Black Vault Research and Development Center and take back the Artifact, as well as information gathered by Doctor Colt, the chief researcher of the Artifact at the Black Vault. The Artifact was then delivered to the headquarters on P3-X2, where the Controller finally came face-to-face with the key to victory. He congratulated the Commander on his success and ordered the Artifact to be researched even further.

Final Stages
As the coalition fleets of RWI and Crazy North Logistics (CNL) invaded P3-X2 and infiltrated the GDA headquarters, the Controller and Commander discreetly transferred the Artifact to the Controller’s personal starship, the massive, nearly-invincible Super-Dreadnought. The Controller, in the middle of the evacuation, was approached by Captain Jack and his crew, who had once again come across his personal chamber. The Controller announced that they were too late and that even the entire galaxy united could not stop the Green Drones from unleashing the Artifact’s powers. He left a squad of drone sentries to stall the captain’s team, set the base’s self-destruct sequence, and evacuated with the Commander to the Super-Dreadnought, which lifted off and escaped the system shortly after.

As the Super-Dreadnought, Dreadnought, and a handful of escort destroyers arrived at rally point near the event horizon of a black hole, the Controller finally began charging the Artifact. Though the Commander warned him that RWI and its allies cold and would still try to stop them, the Controller was confident no one could stop them now.

Soon, however, a joint RWI, CNL, and RCSP (Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection) fleet arrived and shredded the Dreadnought and its support fleet. As the Eclipse crew prepared to launch a strike team, the Controller was informed that the Artifact was forty percent charged. He was anxious to see the Artifact be activated and ordered the Commander to report to him immediately, as he finally needed to be punished for his failures.

The Artifact was nearly eighty percent charged when Captain Jack’s strike team showed up. They defeated the Commander and many drones and also sabotaged the Super-Dreadnought’s stabilizers, leaving the Controller in a desperate last stand. He defiantly told Jack that he could not stop the future of the Drones from arriving to reshape the galaxy. However, as his drone guards pinned down the Captain’s team, one member, Finn, placed explosives on a set of consoles, which stopped the Artifact’s charge initiative. The Controller sat in devastation as his plan fell apart, and was quickly put down by Jack as the Super-Dreadnought began to fall into the black hole, ending the Artifact and the GDA’s reign of terror once and for all.