Sarah Hawk

Sarah Hawk was the captain of the Venture-class Science Cruiser, the RWI Discovery, of the Red Wood Industries Navy. She was a good friend of RWI’s commander-in-chief, Grand Admiral Adam Williams, and an experienced and responsible leader. She led the Discovery and her crew on several important missions throughout the Green Drone War, including transporting and locating the Artifact, the symbol of power for the Green Drone Armada.

The Green Drone War
At the outbreak of the Green Drone War and the appearance of the Green Drone Armada in the galaxy, RWI and its allies were taken by complete surprise. Sarah Hawk, being the captain of a non-combat-focused vessel, did not take part in many of the early battles. It is not totally clear when Hawk was given command of the RWI Discovery or what role in the war she played until her first appearance to Captain Jack Roberts during the Battle of Demus.

Securing the Artifact
After Captain Jack Roberts of the RWI Eclipse and his crew took over a GDA transmitter outpost above the ice planet of Demus to send a distress call to RWI, Grand Admiral Williams sent the Discovery under Hawk’s command to aid them. The Eclipse and the RWI Valiant had stolen the Artifact from the GDA’s base on Ravcor and had been in need of backup for several days. Hawk took the Discovery and jumped to Demus just in time to save the two ships from being overwhelmed.

Hawk met with Roberts and his first officer, Commander Craz, who informed her that the Valiant’s FTL core was damaged beyond repair and could not jump back to Icarus, the capital planet of RWI. Hawk suggested that the Discovery and the Eclipse could pull the Valiant there, but Roberts disagreed, saying that the Artifact and the ships would be too exposed. He then offered to transfer the Valiant’s crew and the Artifact aboard the Discovery. Hawk agreed, stating that the Discovery had enough space to take on the extra personnel and cargo.

As the battle picked up again, Hawk ordered the Discovery to stay clear from the direct battle, only using its Vulcans and laser PDCs to defend itself. As the Valiant took more and more damage, Roberts, who was acting as captain of the battleship with a skeleton crew, ordered the Discovery to get clear and jump away. Though an officer aboard the science cruiser wanted to stay and help defend the Valiant, Hawk refused and obeyed Jack’s orders. She ordered the jump to FTL and escaped to Icarus was the Artifact.

Some time later, at the Black Vault facility, RWI’s main research and development center for classified or experimental projects, Captain Hawk spoke with Grand Admiral Williams and Doctor Colt. Colt talked about his findings and left to run more tests, and Williams updated her on the war effort.

Securing the Artifact Again
After the brutal Battle of Icarus, in which the Artifact was stolen back by the Green Drones, Williams sent Hawk and her crew to locate the Artifact. She had the Discovery scan for the tracking device that was placed on the Artifact by Williams, and once it was found, she ordered the ship to jump.

The Discovery exited hyperspace in orbit of the desert planet P3-X2 a few days later. Hawk ordered her tactical officer to scan for the Artifact’s signature and asked crew member Hoshi to update her on the planet. He told Hawk that it was the former base of Captain Roberts' Colonists and the location of their final battle with the DRF (Drone Reactionary Force) and the first place the Green Drones had been seen in the galaxy. They presumed it was an important stronghold for the GDA, as the Artifact was quickly scanned on the surface.

Hawk began sending a message to Icarus confirming her success, but only part of it was sent as the GDA had started jamming their communications and had sent several Destroyers to destroy the Discovery. Atlas Laser blasts pummeled the science ship, and Hawk was at a loss for strategies. Their FTL drives and engines were inoperable, their internal comms were down, and their shields couldn’t hold out. Accepting the inevitable, she ordered the crew to abandon ship, while she and a small group of crewmen stayed aboard to guide the ship down as best as they could.

The Invasion of P3-X2
Hawk and the survivors remained trapped on P3-X2 until the RWI and CNL (Crazy North Logistics) invasion fleet arrived seventy-two hours later. Admiral Isaac Sheppard and his Daedalus-class Battleship, the RWI Osiris, were deployed to recover the Discovery’s survivors, but they were engaged by two GDA Scourge-class Carriers and many fighters, making them unable to send evacuation ships.

Fortunately, Captain Roberts and his team had been sent the Discovery’s coordinates by Sheppard and made their way there in a stolen GDA Keep-class Mobile Base. By the time they arrived, the Osiris had been able to send a number of Vulture-class Attack Gunships down to ferry the survivors aboard. Roberts made his way to the bridge as Hawk and a few crew members were preparing to load up the last supplies and download the last data from the computers. She asked Roberts to hold off the impending GDA fighters long enough for them to finish. Roberts agreed, and soon, Hawk and her crew boarded the transports and made their way aboard the Osiris, which left the system soon after and jumped back to Icarus.

Captain Hawk presumably stayed on Icarus during the Battle of the Black Hole, as she did not have a ship to command. The Invasion of P3-X2 is the last time she is seen in the Green Drone War, as well as 'Space Engineers: Colony Lost'.