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* BaldOfAuthority: Is a clean shaven man who leads the Order form the shadows.

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* BigGood: [[Despite his reputation, Orilion is the biggest champion humanity has against The Dom'Kavash]]

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* BigGood: [[Despite [[spoiler:Despite his reputation, Orilion is the biggest champion humanity has against The Dom'Kavash]]the Nomads plot.]]
*HeroWithBadPublicity: Orillion is presented as a terrorist by Liberty news outlets, [[spoiler:but that is is all propaganda fabricated by the Nomads who have infiltrated their government.]]



*BaldOfEvil: Is bald headed and moustached, [[spoiler:and is possessed by the leader of Nomads.]]



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[[folder:[[spoiler:The Nomads]]]]
A mysterious race of aliens created by the Sirius Sector's original inhabitants, the Dom'Kavash, to protect the region from trespassers and eliminate them with extreme prejudice.

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[[folder:[[spoiler:The Nomads]]]]
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!!Herr Von Claussen
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A mysterious race military officer of aliens created by Rheinland, [[spoiler:who began working as an agent of the Sirius Sector's original inhabitants, the Dom'Kavash, to protect the region from trespassers and eliminate them with extreme prejudice.Order, when Rheinlan turned oppressive.]]



* BigBad: The main antagonists of the game.
* DemonicPossession: They can possess humans by shoving themselves inside of them.
* OrganicTechnology: All their ships seem to be alive in some way.
* StarfishAliens: They look like blue manta rays with a long snake-like neck.

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* BigBad: The main antagonists *NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:He's reported as missing at the end of the game.
* DemonicPossession: They can possess humans by shoving themselves inside of them.
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[[folder:[[spoiler:The Dom'Kavash]]]]
The original inhabitants of the Sirius Sector, an ancient race that left the region millions of years before humanity arrived, leaving behind some artifacts, ruins, and the Nomads.

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[[folder:[[spoiler:The Dom'Kavash]]]]
The original inhabitants
Nomads]]]]
A mysterious race
of aliens created by the Sirius Sector, an ancient race that left Sector's original inhabitants, the Dom'Kavash, to protect the region millions of years before humanity arrived, leaving behind some artifacts, ruins, from trespassers and the Nomads.eliminate them with extreme prejudice.


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* BigBad: The main antagonists of the game.
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[[folder:[[spoiler:The Dom'Kavash]]]]
The original inhabitants of the Sirius Sector, an ancient race that left the region millions of years before humanity arrived, leaving behind some artifacts, ruins, and the Nomads.
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*ActionPolitician: Jacobi doesn't hesitate to grab a gun [[spoiler: to blast away the alien that was possessing the Rheinland chancellor as its about to attack Trent, during ''her'' own rescue.]]



[[folder:Orillion]]
!!Casper Orillion
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The leader of the Order, a former special agent for the Liberty goverment, [[spoiler: who discovered the Alien threat infiltrating the sector, and formed the Order to fight it.]]
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*BaldOfAuthority: Is a clean shaven man who leads the Order form the shadows.
*BigGood: [[Despite his reputation, Orilion is the biggest champion humanity has against The Dom'Kavash]]
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* PaternalSubstititute: Practically raised Trent since a young age.

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!! Edison Trent ("Freelancer Alpha 1-1")



!! Edison Trent ("Freelancer Alpha 1-1")






!! Commander Jun'ko Zane



!! Commander Jun'ko Zane




!! Michael King

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!!Marcus Walker



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!! Sam Lonnigan



!! Sam Lonnigan

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!! Syd



!! Syd



!! Professor Hermann Van Pelt



!! Professor Hermann Van Pelt



!!Richard Winston Tobias



!!Richard Winston Tobias



!!Roland Quintaine



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!! Ozu



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Professor Roland Quintaine is a professor working on Planet Cambridge and one of the Sirius sector's leading experts in the field of xenoarchaeology. Dr Sinclair's discovery of the Dom'Kavash artifact on Planet Pygar led to him being hunted [[spoiler:by both the nomads and The Order, but for different reasons]]. After his laboratory on Cambridge was ransacked by unknown parties and he was approached by Colonel Kress [[spoiler:of The Order]] on the very same night, Quintaine TookAThirdOption and fled to the Dublin system, isolating himself in Gas Mining Station Glorious until Trent liberated the station from a Rheinland assault wing. Thereafter, Quintaine chose to work with Sinclair [[spoiler:and The Order]] on deciphering the Dom'Kavash artifact.
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* ActionSurvivor: Quintaine is a professor, not a combat pilot. However, he was able to elude the [[spoiler:Nomad-controlled]] Rheinland forces looking for him far better than any of the ''Freeport 7'' survivors. In addition, throughout the single-player campaign, he's seen his own share of firefights and survived every encounter.
* BadassArmFold: Pulls this pose while proclaiming to Tobias that he is the foremost authority on xenoarchaeology. To his credit, [[InsufferableGenius it is not an empty claim]].
* BadassBookworm: By the time Trent found him, Quintaine is on good enough terms with the pirates running Station Glorious that they would outright refuse to sell him out to the Rheinlanders, and he even has a small faction whose only purpose is to protect him from anyone trying to reach him. In a CrapsackWorld where AttackHello and MuggingTheMonster are norms, this is quite remarkable for someone who is only an academic professor.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: After seeing for himself just how persistent the Rheinlanders were in pursuing anyone who made contact with the Dom'Kavash artifact, Quintaine realised that isolating himself from society was no longer an option and accepted an offer from Colonel Kress to hide in his base. [[spoiler:This would eventually result in him and Sinclair continuing their research on the Dom'Kavash under the banner of The Order.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: He and Trent had a very rough first encounter, with him attempting to space Trent until Trent told him that Sinclair was working on the Dom'Kavash artifact. In almost all the neural net logs Trent recorded while he was with Quintaine, Trent also complains about Quintaine's abrasive manner of speech.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: As stuck-up as Quintaine is, his [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies rationale]] for isolating himself is an indication that he keeps a lookout for people he knows and trusts, and he is very well aware that there are people who are talented in other fields. This is why Sinclair is on a FirstNameBasis with him and Tobias received an IOweYouMyLife one-liner from him during the escape to the border worlds.
* InsufferableGenius: Quintaine is described by Van Pelt as merely "a respected xenoarchaeologist", but upon his first encounter with Tobias, Quintaine quite haughtily describes himself as "the foremost authority on xenoarchaeology". That said, he can definitely live up to the description--his knowledge in the field was critical in discovering what the purpose of the Dom'Kavash artifact is.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: While Quintaine never said this word-for-word, his explanation to Sinclair on why he disappeared, as well as his general trust issues with everyone, points very squarely at this trope. Various groups were after him and, from his rational point of view, ''none'' of them could be trusted, so he shut himself off from the wider society in an attempt to prevent anyone associated with him from becoming a target.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Attempted to space Trent even though the latter prevented Station Glorious from being destroyed by the Rheinlanders.
* NonActionGuy: Quintaine never holds a gun in a situation that may warrant it. In space, he flies an Armored Transport which, in spite of it being [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard up-gunned like every other computer-controlled ship]], is more or less a sitting duck in firefights due to its poor mobility.
* {{Squee}}: The Dom'Kavash artifact, and anything related to the Dom'Kavash in general. The prospect of finally being able to see the artifact is the only thing that stopped him from spacing Trent and elicits audible excitement from him as he was approaching Planet Leeds. He also [[ChewingTheScenery chews some scenery]] with extremely articulated words while describing how the Dom'Kavash travelled around their galactic empire, before proceeding to explain the purpose of the Dom'Kavash artifact.
* StiffUpperLip: While he goes full OhCrap upon seeing a Rheinland fleet during the escape to the border worlds, by the time of [[spoiler:the Nomads attacking]] Planet Toledo, he's apparently seen enough battles to very calmly pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere across the bow of a [[spoiler:Nomad]] battleship.
* TheProudElite: A professor who works on Planet Cambridge, extremely proud of being one of the greatest xenoarcheologists in Sirius, and considers Planet Leeds, which is essentially an industrial workhorse, to be a blight on Bretonian culture. To his credit, the sheer industrial output of Planet Leeds alone created [[BeyondTheImpossible the numerous nebulae of smog]] in the system.
* UnseenNoMore: Was first mentioned during Mission 4, but only appears in the flesh during the second half of Mission 6. The entire Bretonia arc of the singleplayer campaign revolves around finding him and transitions into the Kusari arc immediately after that.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact:After seeing and analyzing thr Artifact, he sets Trent and Juni on the trail to meet Professor Quintaine.

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* FamousLastWords: "Goodbye, Jun'ko, win this one for me!"
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* SoleSurvivor: By the mid-point of the game, he is [[spoiler:the only remaining survivor of the destruction of Freeport 7; Lonnigan, Syd, and Brandon Rowlett are all knocked off one-by-one in front of him, and others are noted on the news to have [[MadeItLookLikeAnAccident died]] in LSF custody]].

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* SoleSurvivor: By the mid-point of the game, he is [[spoiler:the only remaining survivor of the destruction of Freeport 7; Lonnigan, Syd, and Brandon Rowlett are all knocked off one-by-one in front of him, and others are noted on the news to have [[MadeItLookLikeAnAccident [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident died]] in LSF custody]].
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* CharacterDevelopment: Subtle and mostly (though not only) found in [[AllThereInTheManual Trent's Logs]]. At the start of the game, Trent had a purely mercenary attitude and expressed scepticism about "being part of something bigger" when Juni brings it up. Over the course of the game, the numerous [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] he witnesses, especially those of Ozu and Walker, softens his scepticism. By the end of the game, he is willing to use the Artefact on the Nomad City even after Juni warns that it could kill him to do so.
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* FrameUp: He's victim of one after Mission 4: [[spoiler: He's accused of murder, artifact smuggling, treason and the destruction of Freeport 7 due to the false manifest and Lonnigan being framed post-mortem as the Order's leader, Orillion.]]

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* BigDamnHeroes: Gives Trent and Juni their crucial opening when they are blockaded in Planet Manhattan orbit after a FrameUp.

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A Zoner thief that stole the Dom'Kavash artifact from a digsite in Pygar, and one of the few survivors of Freeport 7's destruction.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:He's killed that way.]]



* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Killed by an LSF officer after he showed Trent the Dom'Kavash artifact.]]

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An old friend of Juni who lives in Benford Station, a mostly automated facility in the Badlands.
* WeHardlyKnewYe:[[spoiler: Dies in the same mission he's met, at the hands of three Liberty Cruisers that destroy Benford Station.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: He kills Tekagi by blowing his Arch's room to pieces.]]


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* AristocratsAreEvil: The Blood Dragons considered him a vile man, [[spoiler: And that was before his meeting with Niemann and his Nomad possession.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: His stealing of the artifact led to it falling in Trent's hands and driving the rest of the plot.



* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Less than a minute after meeting Trent, he and his ship get blown away in a CurbStompBattle by a trio of Nomad-controlled Liberty Navy fighters.]]

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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Less than a minute after meeting Trent, he and his ship get blown away in a CurbStompBattle by a trio of Nomad-controlled Liberty Navy fighters.]] Those Navy fighters are unusual in that they aren't actually part of the Liberty Navy faction, and because of this, they can be killed without repercussions. Doing so drops a unique turret called "Rowlett's Revenge"]]
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* DeadFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler: After his death, the Nomad-subverted Liberty Navy scapegoated him as Orillion, the leader of the Order. The Nomads were unaware that "Orillion" wasn't a codename.]]

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* DeadFallGuyGambit: DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler: After his death, the Nomad-subverted Liberty Navy scapegoated him as Orillion, the leader of the Order. The Nomads were unaware that "Orillion" wasn't a codename.]]

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