David Caen

David Caen was the scond in command of the Midnight Raiders until his death seven years after Katrylle joined.

History
David Caen had been a mech jock most of his life, flitting from one war to the next. It wasn't that he enjoyed war, he was just very good at it. Eventually, it all began to blur into one giant battle and he began to wonder if there was something else out there he could be good at.

He found it in the Raiders. David joined only a couple of weeks after Jack Morghan and they became good friends. It was only natural that when Jack took over as commander of the Raiders, David would be his second.

David was the driving force behind teaching Katrylle how to rebuild, repair and pilot any and all mechs. He had seen her potential just as Jack had and he was constantly amazed by her inherant mechanical ability. On what was assumibly her twentieth birthday, David had put himself in charge of picking out a Stinger LAM for her.

He would never get the chance to see her full potential, however. It had been a freak accident that had taken his life, but a freak accident that Kat would never forgive herself for. Two years after being presented with the Stinger, the Raiders had been on a raiding run at the Altars Opal Mines. She had been told to stay behind and guard a possible escape route, but her overhead display glitched and an enemy fighter broke through. The strafing run he aimed at the little Stinger was diverted as Caen swooped in and took the hits for her. Both man and LAM were shot out of the air, never to recover.

It was at this point that Kat became obsessed with no one touching her equipment but herself. She never again relied on anyone to maintain her own personal transports.