User:Deyo-fduser

Description
Giraffes are not the longest-lived of Skytopia's species, and at 39, Deyo is well into middle-age. Tall even for a Giraffe, he flew a custom Mantis named "Singular Purpose" before the Great Storm. Following the storm, he retained both the name and the purpose of the craft: to accumulate sufficient wealth to purchase the Thunderbolt he felt is necessary to turn his efforts to the good of all Skytopia. Although the Mantis is unsuited to fly the now-turbulent skies, he briefly owned another for sentimental reasons.

Since the second storm, Deyo has joined the board of the Darven Redd Memorial Trust. Little is known about this trust, or about the man whose estate funds its activities, but Deyo has used some of the funds of this trust to hire the Halos Manufacturing Company. The contract involves a fleet of unarmed, unarmored craft with low speed but extreme range. By implementing new propulsion methods and leveraging some resarch into the nature and effects of the Violet Court's glimmerclay technology, Halos could have created a prototype which met the Trust's requirements. After the X-1 prototype was built, Deyo discovered that Technocrat was actually working with the Hidden Fleet, and had planned to co-opt the program for an unknown nefarious purpose. Working with Senator Markus Jarnhann of the Crimson Armada and Prince Harris of the Azure League, Deyo forced Technocrat to reveal his true allegiance, and captured the spy. During this operation, Deyo trained under some of the Armada's special forces instructors, and chose to join the Armada as a serving officer.

Biography
Deyo was raised by his father, Llwyd Penri, and his father's business partner, after his mother vanished amid the "Silent Strife" that eventually led to the Guild War. Llwyd was a mechanic, and hardworking if not ingenious. Deyo was shocked when his father was imprisoned during the Skytopian Civil War, on suspicion of treason and collusion with the separatist factions. Deyo learned his father's trade during the war, openly servicing Commonwealth aircraft, and secretly providing material and expertise to the Azure League.

He continued to provide competent, if unremarkable service to aircraft stopping in Getty, until the Tortugan Upheaval. Deyo signed on as a mechanic to Jacob Telluride, pilot of the Swift Beacon and one of the many League pilots who supported the evacuation of Tortuga. The risks Deyo faced there were vastly overshadowed by the heroism of the League's pilots, who brought refugees to their planes under heavy fire from the conquering forces of Admiral Fuseli. Because of the extensive fire damage suffered by Telluride's plane during the evacuation, it was jokingly renamed the Swift Bacon. Like many similar sarcastic remarks, the name stuck, and Telluride eventually made the change official.

The evacuation was by no means a financial windfall, but Deyo and the rest of Telluride's crew stayed by him until Telluride retired a year later. Deyo hadn't exactly made himself wealthy aboard the Bacon, but he had earned enough to purchase his own plane, and the skies have been his home since.

Personality
Deyo is ultimately a pragmatist. As a mechanic and as a pilot, he shows a quiet ambition to succeed. Soon after taking to the skies, he joined the Azure League formally. He worked for quite some time to expand its power throughout Skytopia, while also improving his own skill and accumulating wealth enough to give his offspring a better start -- assuming he ever settles down long enough to have any.

Following the Legacy Operation and the Great Storm, Deyo fell into a cycle of addiction, depression, and self-doubt. He found in the Earthen Order a way to break out of the downward spiral, and served as a cardinal and as the Secretary of State of the Order for the duration of its provisional government. When the Order was well established politically, he moved into a position in Lucius Hall in the Earthen Sanctuary. Although he did his best to rally support within the Order, the threat of the Tyrian Perfectibilis was more than his fellows cared to face, and he moved on to pursue other goals. Today, he is seeking to advance his academic career in Flight School's burgeoning Geography and Navigation department. He has also been seen arranging some business of questionable legitimacy in the Rotor and Prop.