Gurald Eichner

Gurald Eichner
Personal
Died	24 October 3067
Affiliation	Lyran Alliance (until defection) Free Worlds League
Career
Rank	General

Gurald Eichner was a General in the Free Worlds League Military until his death in 3067.

History

Eichner was born on Gienah, in the Lyran Alliance. He eventually defected to the Free Worlds League[.

In October 3067, Eichner brought a group of eight Nellus Academy cadets along on what was intended to be a straightforward voyage to Concord, in theory as a public relations event in honor of Nestor's new refueling station. Less openly, the cadets were meant to help detect a Lyran spy operating at the Nestor spaceport. After setting off on the Requirement on 21 October, Eichner and the cadets ran into trouble: hijackers, the Lyran-hired Bloody Stoats, who came to capture the general. Clashes between the cadets and the Stoats followed, clashes that led to the DropShip crashing on the planetoid Phobos in the Gienah system. Eichner was injured by his attempted captors and the crash, kept alive by cadet Lily Orit's treatment.

During the ongoing clashes on Phobos, Eichner was captured by the Stoats and taken to their base. The Nellus cadets raided the base in search of Eichner, and successfully found him. However, with Stoats soldiers incoming, the only escape route available was a ceiling panel too small to fit the general. He sacrificed his life to allow the cadets to escape, finding time to send one last message to the incoming League forces: a recommendation for special honours for the cadets.

Description

By 3067, Eichner was at least sixty years old, but fit enough to be on par with those at thirty. He had snow-white hair, a full head cut short, and he kept his uniform perfect. Under his uniform, his body hair had gone gray.

Bibliography

• The Nellus Academy Incident