Adam Williams

Adam Williams was the Grand Admiral of Red Wood Industries’ Navy and the leader of the organization. He commanded the RWI Apollo, the Daedalus-class Battleship that served as the flagship of RWI. He led the faction during and after the events of the Green Drone War and was close friends with Captain Jack Roberts.

The Green Drone War
Sometime during or prior to the Green Drone Armada emerged from their secret origin point and invaded the galaxy, Adam Williams was promoted to Grand Admiral and made leader of RWI, taking control of the flagship Apollo.

The Artifact
As the war dragged on and RWI continued to lose ground, Williams met with Captain Sarah Hawk of the RWI Discovery and Doctor Colt, head researcher for the Artifact. The Artifact had been obtained by the crew of the RWI Eclipse led by Captain Jack Roberts, once he returned to RWI’s ranks, during the Battle of Ravcor. Williams and the rest of RWI Command had received a distress call from Jack and dispatch the Venture-class Science Cruiser led by Hawk to assist the RWI Valiant and Eclipse in maintaining possession of the ancient object. The Discovery delivered both the Artifact and the Valiant’s crew to Icarus and the Artifact was taken to the Black Vault, the core Research and Development Facility of RWI. Williams talked with Colt and Hawk about the doctor’s findings about the Artifact and became hopeful that they could find a way to use the Artifact against the Green Drones in some way.

Reunion with Jack
Upon Jack’s return to Icarus some time later, along with the Eclipse and a stolen GDA Destroyer, Williams met with his old friend and his second officer, Commander Sam Reed. They discussed the potential for the Drones’ Atlas Superlaser technology to somehow be replicated onto their starships, or perhaps develop a defense against them. Williams also assigned Jack, Reed, and their crew to the Defender-class Frigate RWI Tigris while the Eclipse underwent repairs aboard Cyrus Station, the main station in orbit of Icarus.

After the Tigris was sent on its way to scout out the GDA shipyard facility over the ice planet Demus, Williams boarded the Apollo and set off with a few CNL Frigates, the Defender Frigate RWI Fortune, and the Phoenix-class Assault Frigate RWI Saragossa. Williams have Jack temporary command of the Apollo while he coordinated the battle from the CIC.

After the battle was over, the Saragossa and both CNL ships were destroyed, but the shipyards and defending fleet were secured. Williams, Jack, and Reed suddenly received an priority distress call from Icarus. Admiral Isaac Sheppard, captain of the RWI Osiris, and the RWI Home Fleet were desperately defending Icarus from a massive GDA fleet led by the malicious Commander and his Dreadnought. Williams ordered the Fortune to remain behind, marshaled the Tigris and two additional Phoenixes, the Aegis Fate and the Pursuit, and ordered the Apollo to jump back to Icarus at best speed.

The Battle of Icarus
Williams and his fleet arrived to see the shipyards in ruins, with the Dreadnought and several other destroyers waiting in orbit. Again, Williams coordinated the battle from the war room while Jack commanded the bridge crew. The Dreadnought managed to slip away but all the destroyers in orbit were destroyed at the cost of the Aegis Fate and Pursuit, which gave RWI orbital superiority again.

Williams soon got word that the Capital City was under attack. He deployed two teams to the planet’s surface: Jack and his crew were sent to the city to secure important data files from RWI’s headquarters building, while Commander Reed led a team of marines to secure the Black Vault and the Artifact. Williams also set up a makeshift blockade as more RWI reinforcements arrived to prevent any GDA ships from escaping. When the RWI Charon arrived, Williams sent it to destroy the GDA Destroyer bombarding the Capital City.

After Jack reported that the city was secure, Williams soon got word that all contact with the Black Vault had been lost. He immediately diverted Jack’s team to the Osiris to load up and prepare to retake the facility. Williams ordered his second-in-command, Commander Edwards, to keep him up to date with the Black Vault situation while he took a transmission from another admiral.

About fifty minutes later, Jack sent word that he and his team had breached the Vault and recovered Reed, though their escort frigate, the Liberty, was destroyed by the Dreadnought. Williams tentatively dispatched the Tigris and a few other ships to buy time for the Captain. However, Jack later reported that the Artifact had been taken by the Commander to the Dreadnought, which soon tried to escape. Williams ordered the RWI Bishop and RWI Goddard to intercept, but both ships were quickly crippled. At the advice of Edwards, however, Williams pulled the Apollo back, launching missiles from a distance instead. This effort was meaningless, as the Dreadnought engaged its FTL drive and fled with the Artifact.

Preparing to Strike Back
Twenty-four hours later, Williams had dispatched the RWI Discovery to track the Artifact to its base. He also sent Jack and his team aboard the Eclipse to investigate a mysterious DRF signal in their space, and later to help CNL extract one of their missing admirals, Sven Ellis. Meanwhile, he and Admiral Sheppard began amassing a large fleet to take back the Artifact once it was found. Williams put Captain Gideon in charge of the newest Daedalus-class Battleship, the RWI Zheng-He, once it had been fully constructed and retrofitted with Atlas Laser technology.

Williams also took it upon himself to check in on RWI’s allies. CNL were willing and able to send a number of ships to aid in the invasion, but RCSP (Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection) high command had not been heard from in months. Unbeknownst to both allied and enemies, RCSP had been forced to abandon their capital world and go underground, forming a small “ghost fleet” led by Commander Venom of the Harbinger.

The Invasion of P3-X2
After the Discovery located the Artifact at the presumed GDA origin point, the desert planet P3-X2, but was shot down shortly after, Williams sent the Eclipse in to scout and prepared all ships for the invasion. The massive Allied fleet emerged from hyperspace near Watchtower Station, Captain Jack’s Colonists’ former base, and smashed through the GDA blockade.

Williams and Sheppard led the ground assault while Gideon and a small fleet remained in orbit to cover their backs. Jack and his crew left the Eclipse in orbit and used the Apollo’s V-203 Fighter wing, Red Squadron, at Williams’ request. Williams sent Captain Jonathan Hunter, former captain of the Valiant and now the captain of the Tigris, to attack the main entrance to the GDA base while Jack’s team infiltrated the back entrance with ground vehicles.

Some time into the invasion, an officer on the Apollo informed Edwards, who in turn informed Williams, that something big was moving and a large power signature had activated somewhere below the surface near the GDA Base. Williams soon saw a massive Super-Dreadnought rise from a canyon and start leaving the planet. Edwards advised against engaging directly, as the ship was nearly double the Apollo’s size, and Williams agreed, ordering all RWI ships to converge on the Super-Dreadnought and prevent it from escaping with the Artifact at all costs.

The Allied fleet rallied in orbit, but could not get close the the Super-Dreadnought due to the reinforcing GDA destroyers and Dreadnought. Even with the arrival, to Williams’ surprise, of a small RCSP battle group led by the Harbinger, the Super-Dreadnought and a small group of ships escaped the planet. After stopping at a nearby moon to repair, Williams ordered all Allied ships to also evacuate back to Icarus.

The Battle of the Black Hole
This is Grand Admiral Williams to all ships. We all know what’s at stake here. But never before have so many come together to fight such a brutal enemy. Prepare yourselves, for this battle will test you all. The GDA will show us no mercy. They’ll push us, but we won’t fall back. We will prevail. Stand strong. Stand together. All ships, report in.” - Grand Admiral Williams before the Allied Fleet begins the Battle of the Black Hole. Williams led the RWI, CNL, and RCSP joint fleet in the final battle of the war, in which they made a desperate last attempt to destroy the Green Drone Armada and the Artifact once and for all. After a short briefing with the factions’ leaders, the fleet set out and jumped to the black hole, where the leader of the drones, the Controller, had begun charging the Artifact aboard the Super-Dreadnought.

The Apollo, Osiris, Zheng-He, Eclipse, Harbinger, and CNL Battleship Kallax pounded the five destroyers around the colossal Super-Dreadnought before the Dreadnought engaged. It obliterated the bridge of the Zheng-He with its four Atlas Lasers and killing the bridge crew, including Gideon. Williams ordered all ships to focus fire on the Dreadnought, and it was soon destroyed, opening a path to the Super-Dreadnought, which Captain Jack’s team soon boarded.

Meanwhile, the Allied fleet lost ships as more GDA ships appeared to reinforce. Commander Reed had barely even able to save the Zheng-He, and Williams knew they couldn’t hold out forever, as the Eclipse was soon destroyed as well. Nevertheless, he ordered all ships to keep buying time for Jack’s team, who soon put an end to the Controller and Commander and sabotaged the Super-Dreadnought’s stabilizers, causing it to drift into the black hole. Williams sent a Valkyrie-class Dropship to extract the strike team, and once they were safely aboard, he ordered the Apollo and its fleet to jump back to Icarus.

Aftermath
Williams remained as Grand Admiral of Red Wood after the war’s end. He promoted Jack to Admiral and Reed to Captain sometime over the next month, and put them both in charge of a new project for the RWI fleet called “Odyssey”.