Jack Roberts

Jack Roberts is an Admiral in the Red Wood Industries Navy, having previously been a Captain leading his own team of Colonists through the galaxy. He is one of the main characters in the story of the Colony Universe, and is typically seen leading tactical missions and commanding starships in many battles and engagements.

Background Information
In the Colony Universe, Jack was in a high-position in Red Wood Industries, having likely obtained the rank of Captain. However at some point before the events of Space Engineers: Colony Survival, he left RWI.

Colony Survival
Jack initially started a small colony with nine other people on an unnamed, earth-like planet. Over time, they established a large base with an impressive underground hangar and storage facility, as well as a small fleet of vehicles, including their modified RCSP (Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection) Wyvern-class Gunship.

Several weeks into their survival, strange occurrences involving mysterious objects and machinery popping up in and around the base started happening with increasing frequency. Colony members came and went as the months carried on. New arrivals replaced disappearing previous members, and Jack could not figure out what was happening to them until a similar instance occurred some time later.

One day, a strange pod containing warheads dropped from the sky onto the base, damaging the solar panel grid. Before Jack could do anything, enemy signals appeared on the horizon and surrounded the base. Several drone squads attacked the base from multiple sides, causing damage to Dr. Craz’s CNL (Crazy North Logistics) gunship and Jack’s Wyvern. Shortly after the attack was repelled, team member iValz’s custom LAAT Gunship by a drone infiltrator. Jack led the team to discover more about the planet and any drones on it.

Colony Wars
Jack awoke with the remaining crewmen aboard the crashed wreckage of the Dawn, where they found iValz and several people inside a cage. Jack ordered them to be rescued and had the team begin setting up a space using materials scavenged from the Dawn. They soon built a few vehicles and Jack discovered a mysterious signal. Jack authorized a mission to locate the signal, which turned out to be the Old Colony Base, which was no longer controlled by the DRF after the Dawn destroyed the facilities. They battled with the DRF outside the base, and inside, Jack found his and Venom’s old Wyvern-class Gunship, which he flew the team back to New Dawn Base in. Jack and Venom soon started construction on a new destroyer, which they soon named the Dawnbreaker in memory of the Dawn.

Colony Lost
Following the crash of the Vengeance, Captain Jack led the surviving crew, Finn, Castle, Horza, and Bash, to safety through a graveyard of starships destroyed by the GDA. Along the way, they rescued three RWI marines, Owen, Ler, and Morslupus, and discovered Finchy and his comrade Papple, in part of the wreckage of the Exturtle that crashed on the planet. The five stranded troops put their allegiances aside and followed Jack to safety, eventually stealing a GDA Keep-class Mobile Base and setting up their permanent base in an abandoned outpost called the Bastion. Jack planned to locate where Craz was being held and rescue him, but the Colonists didn’t have the firepower to stage a rescue at that moment.

Colony Alliances
One year after The Green Drone War, Jack was put in command of the newly-formed Joint Expedition Task Force which was comprised of RWI, CNL, and RCSP. Their mission was to uncover the secrets of a mysterious signal in deep space. The new flagship of the expedition, the RWI Prometheus, journeyed to the Chrome System where they were ambushed by a secretive faction called the Remnant. Jack left Captain Steven Dawson in command of the Prometheus while he landed on the planet with Captain Reed, Lieutenant Commander Castle, Commander Craz, and the rest of the RWI forces, where they soon discovered an ancient city.

Trivia

 * Jack is the creator, writer, director, and main point of view for the Colony Universe, with the majority of gameplay scenes and cinematic story elements seen from his perspective.