User blog:Unnamed Field Marshall/The Fate of Departed Characters

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've written a blog. I'll be short and sweet this time.

What will we do with departed characters? We can't leave them hanging, or that wouldn't do them justice. Here's my proposal for how to tie up the loose ends of characters whose users have long since left.

These will also make great RP threads.

The Retirement of Tyler Alshwind:
Probably one of the most important people in the universe. A war hero, a strategist, a leader, and a friend. Leaving his fate ambiguous would be cheap, but so would killing him off in any manner. Martyrdom isn't an effective plot device if it means killing someone off merely to advance the story and "strengthen the conviction" of the surviving heroes, so here is my proposal: DMR contacts the team after having been off the radar for two years. He's the most wanted man in the galaxy because he's pissed in the pants of every major mercenary organization allied with the Chat.

Story behind that:
After the Empire was disgraced and most of its forces defeated, they've been lurking among the outer systems, recruiting mercenary bands to help them in a coup against the NGR.

Anyways...
DMR wants the team's help one last time to rescue Jess from Hado and simply wants to retire to a small frontier world and start an agriculture-based company. To accomplish such a feat, he has already recruited his old mentor, Jango Al Ghul. Unfortunately, former admin Hatsune Miku also awaits him, to finish him off after five years of playing cat-and-mouse. This will also tie up the Lone Delta Seal's and the crew of the Edward's story arcs.

Ultimately, this is how I imagine the fates of the featured characters:
Tyler Alshwind: Alive, married to Jess, and retired with a new identity.

Jess McKathy: Alive, permanently crippled and maimed, and retired with a new identity.

Jango Al Ghul: Ambiguous fate. Presumably deceased.

Hado Shinjitsu: Deceased, presumably killed by DMR/Tyler.

Hatsune Miku: Deceased, but could be revived.

The Lone Delta Seal: Received closure from meeting DMR and gives up trying to reform the Delta Seals, as well as blaming DMR for their fall.

The Edward: All crew deceased; ship given to DMR and Jess.

The Departure of Drullkus Industries (And Yozoz)
A unique and extremely retro sci-fi atmosphere around the entire Drullkus character. It was a shame he had to go, but there's a small chance he may be back. I had to leave it ambiguous.

Drullkus Industries has, at some point in the past, agreed to find a way to return each of the characters to their original universes. However, they betray their promise, stealing several vital energy nodes from Yoth. As the Scouting Fleet, the Great Fox , and the Back With a Vengeance move to confront Drullkus for his company's actions, they start activating the stargate that they've been working on. Despite the team's best efforts to stop him and get answers, Drullkus, and the majority of his forces, escape through the portal and leave it damaged after the rupture closes. And to their displeasure, Yozoz, and a few other fleet forces fall into the portal.

What that will result in:
It will force the team to find another way out, and some members to question whether or not they actually want to leave anymore. As for the remainder of the industries' forces, they scatter throughout the galaxy, becoming rare sights in the skies of distant frontier worlds.

And this is how I imagine the fates of the featured characters:
Drullkus: Presumably alive. Proceeds through slipspace portal to an unknown destination.

Yozoz: Presumably alive. His phantom falls into the slipspace portal leading to an unknown destination.

The Elite Remnant Legion's Fate (And Mandalorians Too!)
Controversial name and topic. I know. But they still deserve to have their long story wrapped up.

General BH and his two most loyal followers, Conor and Atilla, have discovered the last of the Mandalorian strongholds; a system alarmingly close to the capital of the NGR. The problem is that the Elite Remnant Legion has only three members left.

With the help of Holland, Bandon, Jorge-052, and Karl-591, they move in for a killing blow on Lord Mandalore himself. The NGR Senate agrees that a full-scale invasion is too costly against such skilled opponents, so the team of seven are deployed to assassinate the leader as quietly as possible. Based on how the people here role-play, this could either remain a black op or escalate into a war. Either way works.

The fates of the featured characters:
General BH: Alive, and goes his own way to start a private security organization.

Atilla: Deceased. Killed during the operation.

Conor: Deceased. Killed during the operation.

Holland: Alive. Receives a promotion to Sentinel Commander.

Bandon: Deceased. Killed during the operation.

Jorge-052: Alive and remains in service. Officially allies with the NGR and joins the Sentinel Corps.

Karl-591: Alive but crippled. Remains in the Senate.

Mandalore the Undisputed: Alive, but left crippled and powerless.

In the End...
What do you think? These are sketches of how a RP will go, and are sure to deviate from what's written. In my honest opinion, it's way better to either kill them off or end their usefullness/contribution to the war than to simply diminish their role more and more until they're a minor detail.