Captain Joel Pierce

Joel Pierce was born on Earth in 2427, joined S.F. Military Academy at age 15, He quickly went up in the ranks, he is battle hardened and often only speaks when he needs to, and he cares greatly for his men but also knows that casualties are acceptable to achieve objectives.

Joel is always clean shaven, a true soldier and officer, believes in command by example. He is also well known to be rouge, and has disobeyed orders on numerous occasions to achieve a victory and/or to save lives.

He is close to much younger counter part Jackson Deniz, treats him almost as a son, it is unknown even to Jackson if Joel has a family.

During the war of unification he was a Colonel, in command of the 10th Battalion Marine commandos. He and his men were the reason Epsilon Alliance surrendered. He led the 10th Battalion in a all out assault against Epsilon's Main military base on Epsi10 (a moon in the Epsilon system). This assault was against S.F. commands orders.

Joel took 3 warships (Including his own U.S.F. Raven) and nearly 100 men into the assault, against odd's that would make any military tactician cringe. His assault was successful and Epsilon surrendered, at loss of 2 ships, and 80 men. He was praised and disciplined for his actions.

After the war he and 3 other of his officers were assigned to patrols, 4 years later he and those same officers were reassigned to Captain the U.S.F. Odyssey for a mission to explore unknown space, he reluctantly accepted.