Sorventus Kepler

"The forge cannot create steel without the fire."

Before the capsule, Kepler was a decorated baseline officer in the Caldari Navy. He survived the meat-grinder of the Black Rise campaigns and commanded frontline railgun cruisers through countless fleet engagements.

Years of unrelenting war culminated in the Siege of Otommon. Serving as the Executive Officer aboard a Caracal-class cruiser, Kepler's vessel took a catastrophic, direct kinetic strike from an Amarr-designed Citadel torpedo deployed by pirate mercenaries. The bridge decompressed instantly. Kepler survived the vacuum of space, but the structural collapse crushed his spine, severed his lower limbs, and flooded his lungs with toxic coolant vapor.

The baseline Navy declared his combat career finished. The State, however, saw a hardened tactical mind too valuable to discard. They offered him the ultimate compartmentalization: the Capsule.

Now liberated from a broken physical body, Kepler has turned his tactical precision toward mining and industrial production. He trades in raw minerals and heavy industry, seeking the quiet order of the asteroid belts over the chaos of war.

Do not mistake industrialism for pacifism. The military training remains. When pushed, or when the sovereign territory of the Caldari State is threatened, Kepler will aggressively refit for war. He regularly hunts Guristas pirates, gankers, and enemies of the State who disrupt the flow of industry.