Shalun

Ardock-Adron Shalun, the great Prophet, liberator of the Star Traders. Much about his life is shrouded in myth and legend. He founded the Templar Order, freed the Star Traders, and shattered the Guild. He wrote Shalun Law to govern and guide the Star Traders and the politics of the Factions to ensure the survival of humanity and to avoid the worst damages of war.

Biography
Ardock-Adron Shalun was born to a gas giant miner and a Guild prison-laborer. His father, the miner, was proficient in the use of the Leviathan mech, though at the time they were simply heavy mining platforms. It can be assumed that the young Shalun picked up some knowledge of the Leviathan mech at this point in his life. His story however, truly begins when the ship he and his parents were on was attacked by pirates. The heavily shuttle crash landed on the planet below, an icy hell known as Mal Direx Prime. This ice world had been set aside by the Guild and their Narvidian masters for the stranding of the Hadross Monks, who had developed the Gift of Lineage over the generations as the bioforming world had shaped them.

Some say that the moment Shalun set foot upon the world, he was granted a Lineage powerful enough to see all the way back through human history, and all the way forward. Whatever the truth of the matter was, he was certainly granted a powerful Lineage. He rallied the Hadross Monks that were willing to fight for freedom, taught them to use the Leviathan mechs as tools of war, and with that first step, had founded the Templar Militant.

From that founding the Guild War began. Over time, the Prophet Shalun gathered many allies in the precursors to the Factions. They fought many battles, with legends saying that Shalun's flagship destroyed 1117 enemy ships during the War. The fighting was savage, especially with the Guild having access to Narvidian weapons, including gravity weapons that could launch the mass of a brown dwarf at enemies and planets.

The war devastated the Galactic Core, but the Star Traders were victorious under their mighty Prophet and the Templar Knights. At the close of the war, Shalun began the Founding, setting down the Faction Accords and Shalun Law, setting up the legal-political framework that is used over two centuries later. He created the nine Factions that we see today, and set down the order for the construction of the Worldships and Colony Hives that would take the surviving multitudes to their new homes in the Farfallen Rim.

After the disastrous attack before the Gravity Jump, Shalun led the Templar Fleet and the main Exodus fleet to the Farfallen Rim through the two centuries of travel. From there, the Templars, led by the Prophet, spread out in a defensive action, eventually leaving to join his bodyguard in the Alzean Core. It is during that campaign that the Prophet Shalun finally died, his ship ramming the Xeno flagship to turn the tide of the war, may the flag watch over his spirit.