Armand Carter

Armand Carter (386 B.E. - ~50 R.T.) was the greatest hero of man and the savior of the human race. The structural engineer responsible for designing and building the Iron Gaia station that acted as the arc of humanity's salvation during the First Exodus, carrying humanity's handpicked survivors from doomed Silent Earth to their new home among the stars. Carter awoke, disoriented from cryosleep on December 8th, 1 B.E., 353 years after he was put under, to discover that the G.A.I.A. Artificial Intelligence had gone insane and was performing cruel and sadistic experiments on the slumbering human race with the help of the Celestials, its technologically engineered servitor race of "enhanced" humans.

The War To Save Us From Sleep
Carter joined the human Resistance and fought the desperate war on the G.A.I.A. Ultimately he emerged victorious, but at great cost. His destruction of the G.A.I.A.'s central core caused the Iron Gaia station to catastrophically crash land on the planet it had been orbiting, Origin .With his allies (the xel Xenos, Mariah Antillareah, and the rebel Greater Celestial Sigmus the Fallen) Carter survived the crash landing, but his work was not done. He immediately went about gathering the surviving humans and banding together to survive, as well was wipe out the Gaia's army of loyal Celestials that had also survived to menace mankind on Origin.

After The Crowing, a mythical event in which Armand Carter, slaying hordes of foes left and right with his chainsword, burned the wings of all the remaining loyalist Celestials, symbolically and physically severing their connection with the GAIA, Carter founded Lost Heaven, the first human civilization on Origin.

Death and Legacy
When Armand Carter passed away some time between 1 R.T. and 75 R.T. his son, Daniel Carter, lead metahumanity on their Second Exodus off of Origin to Avalon , where the modern Republic was birthed. The Carter Dynasty would go on to serve the Republic as its elected leaders for half a millennia or more. Armand Carter was recognized by the Republic's secular society as the Greatest Hero of Humanity and canonized by the Universal Church of Undying Faith as a the Patron Saint of the Human Spirit, so upraised by Lady Mariah, who knew him in life.