BigTuna (storyline)
Isla Grier’s (that’s BigTuna to you) arrival on Delta V, or “The Dive” as she so affectionately refers to it, was met with a blistering torrent of camera flashes and some bold headlines in the tabloid rags that seem to have their place in any human society since the dawn of journalism. An aquatic daredevil, her roots grow deep in the sands of some of the most exotic and dangerous oceanic planets ever explored. A professional Wavecarver driver and accomplished surfer, BigTuna made a name for herself across space as a fearless seeker of the biggest and most dangerous oceans in the universe. When she heard about Delta V’s Marlena Trench, a deep rent down the center of the South Sea where two abutting tectonic plates created some of the most impressive waves known to mankind, she hopped the first jumpship insystem, surfboard waxed and Wavecarver’s power cells topped off.
Her search for the Mother of All Waves would be cut violently short by Baelius’ Shadow Guard. For hundreds of artists and athletes on Delta V, once The Uprising began its coup it was made clear that neutrality was as much rebellion as taking up arms and murdering Guards in the mines. Isla was threatened with imprisonment in the gulags if she didn’t join Baelius’ army and help stay the hand of The Uprising.
She refused allegiance, and the day the Shadow Guard came to apprehend her, she took to the South Sea on her Wavecarver with a thrall of black-clad soldiers in her wake. They chased her for hours as she crested each wave in a spray of sea-foam, their open cockpit VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) cruisers struggling to keep pace with the skilled racer. As she reached the Marlena Trench, a one-hundred-and-thirty foot swell rose and swallowed her pursuers, but Isla nosed into it and rode down the face of the tube like an osprey diving after its prey.
It took her nearly twenty-four hours but she returned to shore and to a home that had been completely burned to the ground by the Shadow Guardsmen who had stayed behind during the chase. She knew she would never be safe on Delta V if she stayed, so she tried in vain to book passage off the planet. Baelius had already stationed a blockade in orbit around Delta V, and no shuttles were allowed in or out of the planet’s atmosphere. Trapped on a world bent for war, Isla made a decision that would change her life forever. She sought out Oz, the leader of The Uprising, and offered whatever assistance she could provide. He simply said “I just need you to be awesome.”
BigTuna responded, “I’m breathing, aren’t I?”
© EpicDuel, 2010 (Made by BigTuna)
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