Isaac Sheppard

Isaac Sheppard is an Admiral in the Red Wood Industries Navy. He was notably in command of the RWI Osiris.

The Green Drone War
At the outbreak of the Green Drone War, Isaac Sheppard held the rank of Admiral and held command over the RWI Osiris, the third Daedalus-class Battleship to be built by RWI. Sheppard was placed in command of the RWI Home Fleet, which was entrusted with the protection of the RWI capital world of Icarus and other key core systems. As such, Sheppard and his fleet saw little action throughout most of the war.

Battle of Icarus
As Grand Admiral Adam Williams and Captain Jack Roberts took a task force to attack the GDA’s shipyard facility above the ice planet Demus in the Amre System, Icarus was left without the RWI flagship, the Apollo. This was a key time for the Green Drone Armada (GDA) to strike and attempt to steal the Artifact from the RWI Black Vault Research and Development Center, and that’s exactly what they did. Admiral Sheppard and the home fleet were caught completely by surprise by the massive GDA fleet led by the Commander and his Dreadnaught. Several ships and orbital stations had been destroyed or damaged by the time Sheppard managed to get a distress call out. Fortunately, though the Osiris and its fleet took heavy damage, Grand Admiral Williams and Captain Roberts returned with reinforcements.

Sheppard pulled the heavily damaged home fleet ships back to begin repairs while Williams’ fleet took over and cleared the space above Icarus. By this time, though, the GDA fleet had spread across the planet and began attacking multiple points including the capital city. Sheppard gathered a handful of Phoenix-class Assault Frigates and rallied them in a nearby safe sector as Roberts’s crew moved to take back the city and Williams’ fleet began cleanup and formed a blockade.

Black Vault Crisis
Some time after the battle for the city began, Sheppard dispatched the RWI Charon to destroy the GDA destroyer bombarding the city. However, he and Williams got a transmission from Commander Sam Reed, who was put in charge of guarding the Black Vault and the Artifact, that the facility was under intense attack by the Commander and the Dreadnaught. Fifty minutes later, Jack Roberts and his team rendezvoused with the Osiris and prepared to move out to the Vault. Sheppard gave Roberts a set of access codes to give him clearance to the Vault’s secure areas. He also gave the team one of the Osiris’s Valkyrie-class Dropships, a squadron of V-203 Interceptors called Phoenix Squadron, and the Phoenix-class Frigate RWI Liberty. Unfortunately, the Osiris was still in no shape to fight, and as such, Sheppard could not aid the crew, nor could he assist in stopping the Dreadnaught as it escaped the system with the Artifact.

Preparing to Strike Back
After the Battle of Icarus ended in a disastrous situation for RWI, Sheppard and Williams ordered Captain Sarah Hawk of the RWI Discovery, a Venture-class Science Cruiser, to locate where the Artifact was taken by using a tracking device planet on the obelisk by Williams. Meanwhile, the two senior officers sent Captain Roberts to investigate a strange Drone Reactionary Force (DRF) signal and rescue an important officer, Admiral Sven Ellis, of Crazy North Logistics (CNL). Then, they began planning an invasion of P3-X2, the capital planet of the GDA and the location of both the Artifact and their leadership, the Controller and the Commander, as discovered by the RWI Discovery.

Invasion of P3-X2
After several days, the invasion force was prepared. Sheppard and a few other officers, Captain Gideon of the RWI Zheng-He and Captain Jonathan Hunter of the RWI Tigris, were briefed by Williams before moving out. Sheppard commanded the Osiris throughout the battle and readied the RWI ground forces for their landing attack at Point Rain. Sheppard was also tasked with locating the crash site of the Discovery and, with the help of Roberts and his team, helped recover Captain Hawk and the survivors and get them to safety. As the battle took a turn for the worse with the Controller and the Commander escaping the planet with the Artifact aboard the GDA Super-Dreadnaught, Sheppard and the Osiris retreated from the system back to Icarus. The rest of the invasion force withdrew shortly afterwards as well.

Battle of the Black Hole
Sheppard also commanded the Osiris for the final battle of the war, in which the joint fleet of RWI, CNL, and the remnants of RCSP (Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection) attacked the GDA fleet guarding the Super-Dreadnaught. Sheppard and the other senior officers were briefed again by Williams before setting out. As the Allied fleet arrived near the black hole and began the battle, the Osiris’s shields overloaded due to Atlas Superlaser fire from the GDA destroyers. Though many ships were lost in the battle, RWI prevailed in destroying the GDA, the Artifact, and the Controller and Commander, thereby ending the Green Drone War.

Post-War
Sheppard survived the Battle of the Black Hole and most likely remained in command of the Osiris after the war’s end. It’s unknown where he was when the Joint Expedition Task Force was launched about a year after the end of the war.