Auto Assault: Driver Profiles: Veers — 03/15/06

Transmissions from the Central Wastelands: Driver Profiles
Transmissions is back for the month of March! Every Wednesday we'll be profiling one of your own: a war-scarred, battle-hardended driver in the Central Wastelands.

March 15, 2006
Name: Vears
Race: Human
Class: Lieutenant

I was born inside the Ark, the second son of an Engineer and an Ark maintenance worker. I spent much of my youth watching holovids of the surface with my older brother, longing to go "upside" and see the beautiful world that Hestia had promised for me and many like myself.

Then it happened: Emergence. Hestia decided to open the locks of the Ark, and allow freelancers to go and "cleanse" the world of the Mutant infestation.

Some of us, meant to finish what Righteous Fire started gained the nickname "torch bearers" - the ones who would carry the fury of the fire to the areas that needed the most cleansing. At the time, I was too young to enlist, but my brother, Jack, was quickly persuaded to go topside, and before long got his hands on an Atlas and left. A year later, news of his death reached my family.

I swore to go upside and avenge him, to get the Mutant scum who had killed him, and mounted his skull on their car. So here I am now, a Lieutenant, roaming the wastes, and searching, always searching, for my vengeance...