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Name: Recker, Kronos
Joseph (Born as David Recker II)
Alias: “Cold”
Harding Cash
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Species: Human
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 243 lbs.
Occupation: Owner
of the Meteor Shower Casino
Preferred Weapon:
DY357-LX Pistol
David Recker II
was born to David I and Rebecca Recker on the small asteroid colony of Terra
Prime, in the Meteo field of the Lylat System.
To avoid an obvious confusion with his father, young David took the
nickname of Kronos. Until he was 19, he
lived a quiet life on Terra Prime, passing through several odd jobs before the
colony got involved with the growing conflict between the Androssian Empire and
the Lylat System. No human had left the
Meteo Field, save for Minister James Tyrell, the leader of Terra Prime. Despite the fact that Kronos’ father was a
man on the Terran Council and had enough money to buy himself a small ship,
Kronos had never left, save to race some of his friends through some of the
asteroid’s natural obstacle courses.
On one of the
last days that Kronos dwelt on Terra Prime, an ambassador from Venom arrived at
the human colony, meeting with Minister Tyrell.
Many humans had opposed to the colony’s involvement with the Lylatian
War. Days before, the rebel group known
as Echelon V, of which Kronos has joined to protest the government’s
involvement in the war, intercepted a transmission from Emperor Andross to
Minister Tyrell, informing him of the arrival.
The group hatched a plot to kill the ambassador and stop the involvement
of humans in the affairs of the Lylat System.
The members of the group included Keith Richards, Kronos’ close friend and ally, Cassandra Tyrell, Kronos’
girlfriend and James Tyrell’s daughter, Tim McCabe, a professor, Walter Meister, a Lieutenant in the Terra Prime colonial militia, Mario Torres, a local drug
dealer, Kevin Everett, a
religious leader-turned-munitions dealer, and Kronos.
As the ambassador
returned to his ship, which was landed at the small Terra Prime starport,
Torres and Everett ran forward, shooting wildly into the air, in what seemed to
be a suicide mission. The ambassador’s
guards quickly attempted to control the threat but Meister and McCabe arrived
and attacked the guards. When the melee
was over, the ambassador’s two guards were dead, as were four of the five
rebels involved in the attack. As the
ambassador ran for the safety of his shuttle, Kronos, stationed in the control
tower of the spaceport, shot him, using the scope on his DY357-LX pistol to
turn it into a sniping weapon. Though
the delegate did not survive the ordeal, the shuttle escaped, and its pilot
informed Emperor Andross of what had transpired. Enraged, Andross ordered one of his fleets on
an expedition to Terra Prime and destroy it.
At that point,
Kronos was also in trouble. Upon his
capture by Terra Prime authorities, he was put on trial and sentenced to
exile. His father put in an appeal to
try and lessen the penalty. However, he
was charged as a traitor and thrown off the Terran Council. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife, Rebecca,
died in an auto wreck which was labeled an accident. The two remaining Echelon V members were of
no help as they remained silent throughout the whole ordeal, which was the
Echelon V way. Without any idea as to
what lay beyond the Meteo field and without any family to say goodbye to,
Kronos Recker left Terra Prime on his father’s ship, called the
Having used the
ship to race his friends before, Kronos maneuvered the
At first, Kronos
had believed that the Lylat Alliance flagship, the Alpha Centauri, was a
Venomian cruiser and had attacked it.
Only through a communication with President Ace McLeod did he realize
that they were on the same side. Soon
after, Kronos joined the Lylat Alliance.
However, his impulsive, aggressive nature was not looked favorably upon
by much of the Lylat Alliance staff.
After several arguments with President McLeod over his rash, impetuous
actions, he left the
His search never
went that well. He had joined several
mercenary squadrons, including the Righteous Fists of Lylat, the Star Crushers,
and the Fighting Union, led by another Lylat Alliance member named Fox Collins,
but he never found the allies he was looking for to help him beat back the
Empire. In time, he let the grudge
between him and the Empire pass, leaving the Lylat System, and seemingly never
to return.
Within five
years, however, a trendy new casino had opened up in the Lylatian Meteo
Field. Kronos, in his vacation of sorts
away from the Lylat System, had become “Cold” Harding Cash who was, despite his
nickname, a good-natured, carefree, fun-loving multi-millionaire. What Kronos did within that five-year period
is unknown as is the method he used to acquire the money. The Casino was welcome to all who would want
to stop in. Cornerians, Venomians,
mercenaries, pirates… anyone who would be willing to stop in, drink themselves
silly, and gamble their credits away to the Casino’s bank account. And, anyone that had caused any trouble would
be stopped by the Casino’s guards, who were heavily armed with automatic
weapons.
The first problem
(and recurring problem) that Kronos had came in the form of Hidalgo Montigo Juarez, a
Lylatian crime lord that dealt in money, weapons, and drugs. Many times, Juarez tried to buy out the
casino, but Kronos wouldn’t sell. He
figured that he had enough money to keep him nice and healthy for a long while
and he didn’t want to sell out to a crime lord.
After several attempts to buy the casino from him, Juarez launched an
attack on the casino, in an effort to intimidate him into selling. However, Kronos kept firm on his ground,
having orbital defenses placed around the Casino in order to protect it. The problems with the crime
boss have continued on to this very day…