Asteroid Blues - Profile: Juan Silagast

All by faith

Juan Silagast is just a name. An unusual name, of French origin, but well known within the PanOceanian Christian church. On the battle front few recognize him among the troops of hyperpower. But if the XIII century is mentioned ... then that changes.

Silagast was a young boy with a French father and a Spanish mother when the neo-colonial wars had barely begun. His proximity to the city of Santiago and his mother's devotion led him to enlist among the ranks of the soldiers of Christ. First as a sergeant of order, years later as a volunteer among the magister knights, he soon won the appreciation and admiration of his comrades. A little habitual reflexive temperament, and rarely given to exacerbated fanaticism that the rest showed with pride, as well as a clear altruistic vocation made him win various distinctions. After several periods of service he ended up with a shot in the back during an evacuation operation in enemy territory in which he saved the lives of 4 team members before falling.

Many soldiers fall in war, but that casualty weighed heavily for his immediate superior and he was put forward for the church supervised resurrection program.

Silagast was brought back to life with a mature-looking lhost. In fact, at the time of his death he was 60 years old and had an aged appearance, with lush white beard although in a body with a portentous physique.

His reinstatement was done by assigning him directly to the order of Calatrava and was a recognition of his extensive merits in high-risk operations in which Juan always put the welfare of civilians and their comrades ahead of their own health. In his new position, already a father knight, Silagast earned his XIII century nickname as he showed good judgment in every situation and always offered insightful and ingenious advice in conflict situations. His appearance of affable old man also had much to do. It was during these years when he had several missions in various diplomatic destinations in living conflicts, such as the first disputes in the colonization of Paradiso and in some skirmishes with organizations, such as the Druze, in the same Earth.

Reassigned to Paradiso months after the 1st offensive he dedicated himself to training and acclimatizing the newly assigned knights in the front of Norstralia to temper their momentum and teach them that the combined army was not an enemy that could be overcome with brute force and a frontal assault.

During the same 1st offensive XIII century had the opportunity to liaise with a Merovingian detachment in the north of the Norstralia continent. There he would have a good friendship with a young Zuavo officer, extremely bright in lightning operations and of an affable and dialogic nature. The personality of both caused a certain complicity to be forged and the coordinated operations between the Merovingian and Teutonic forces on the northern front were really successful. It is worth mentioning the episode in which Officer François Foxep led an offensive under the command of mechanized forces of Zuavos with the aim of rescuing a company of knights, among which was Silagast, who had been pocketed by Morat troops. That just sealed a relationship of respect and appreciation that would last for many years.

After a few months and after hundreds of hours of sharing experience and advice among military order officers, during a shasvastii raid Silagast met his destiny again. A specular command threatened to end the life of Father Commander Ibarra, at the moment in command of the 46th Sepulchre Guards Regiment, an elite force with base near Runenberg to reinforce any point in the front. Silagast detected the infiltration thanks to his knowledge of human behavior and observation skills and got in the way of the sword that would end Ibarra's life, costing his own life in return.

Ibarra was not to forget the gesture and urgently requested the reinstatement of Silagast in a last model lhost and his assignment to the 46th Sepulchre Guards. As soon as he woke up and saw himself in a mirror, Silagast demanded to recover his previous appearance and this would only reinforce the myth of the XIII century name. The father knight Juan knew well the temperament of men and soldiers and his appearance as an elder was as much an advantage to instill confidence and respect in his diplomatic tasks as well as a trick in the front line, where more than one rival had taken his old appearance as a weakness only to be crushed by his colossal brute force.

Already in its third cycle in the PanOceanian forces, Silagast was sent to different fronts such as Flamia's during the crisis that took place there, at the Wotan jump gate and ultimately at Kurage, as a link between the panoceanic military forces and the JSA and where it carried out some clash actions defending the Panoc-23 base from yu jing incursions as well as CA.

In the present, after a brief period in Paradiso where he coincided again with the already promoted to diplomatic delegate François Foxep, he was entrusted with the mission of coordinating the hospitalier and sepulchre knight forces with the troops of the Ariadna expeditionary force to maintain free the pulasky communications route to Strelsau. It was during this operation that the hexahedron intelligence corps informed him of the shasvastii  incursion and Silagast was assigned to deal with it in the Human Edge system.

It was time for Father Knight Juan Silagast to embark again and give his best in a new destination. His tactical brilliance and good hand in diplomatic relations were to be required in Novyy Bangkok. Silagast would put his experience at the service of hyperpower as a diplomatic delegate of the Panoceanian high command ... and if we talk about experience, few human beings are treasured as much as XIII century, who has (after all) earned his nickname for good reason.