角色故事•三（解鎖條件：角色等級60）
小時候，父親總告訴格妮薇兒，人應當體面地活著。可誰又能在「洪堡特-σ」上體面地活著呢？
那是個荒蕪的行星。原始的藻類、真菌和地衣維繫著它勉強能支撐動物生存的大氣環境，而在那些堅強繁衍的原生物種中，幾乎沒有哪一種是對人類沒有威脅的。
如果星際和平公司沒有發現這顆行星所蘊含的礦產，應該也不會有人想要移居到這裡。
格妮薇兒在這顆貧瘠的星球上，度過了整個少女的時代。
她很擅長交朋友，與其他小孩子關係很好。窮苦人的兒子、流亡者的女兒、爛賭鬼的弟弟、殺人犯的妹妹…格妮薇兒並不在乎出身，畢竟無論他們出身於何種家庭，在這顆星球上，都同樣不一定能活到明天。
公司對此處的看管並不嚴格。除卻那些身負債務或罪案的倒霉蛋，只要交夠了應繳的稅款，公司並不會限制工人的自由。只不過，繳清了稅款之後，他們甚至未必有餘錢去鎮上的酒吧喝上一杯。
在故鄉時，父親是一家人最堅實的依靠。如今父親和故鄉都已不在，照護一家人的責任，就落到了唯一的年長者——「石牆騎士」身上。在逃離家園時，母親強硬地讓這位忠誠的老騎士與孩子們一同逃離，自己則留在故土，陪伴荒原的最後一縷塵埃。
老騎士曾是父親最親密的玩伴，而後是父親最勇敢的戰友，再來是父親最忠誠的家臣，現在…他成了孩子們的另一位「父親」。直到最後，格妮薇兒都沒能記住他的真名實姓，她更熟悉騎士的另一個名字——石牆叔叔。
十幾個飢餓的孩子，使本就捉襟見肘的經濟狀況雪上加霜。在某一夜的爭吵過後，石牆勉強同意讓三個哥哥姐姐同自己一起下礦，但無論格妮薇兒怎麼哀求，他也不肯讓她同行。
一個個夜晚過去，他變得蒼老、憔悴，肺部充滿難以癒合的創傷，脊椎再也無法像過去那樣挺拔，曾揮舞著動力錘虎虎生風的雙手如今扭曲到難以拿穩湯匙。
不久後，他死了。
石牆倒塌了，倒在黎明到來前，沒有發出一絲聲響。像沙灘上的城堡在潮汐漲落之間消退，像冬日的枯枝在風中輕輕墜地，像註定要到來的結局。
而石牆之外，是只有風雨冰霜的世界。
哥哥們變成星際海盜，是那之後不久的事。格妮薇兒能吃飽飯了，可她也隱約感到，自己進一步違背了父親的訓誡，走向了更加不體面的人生。
所以，當公司的士兵們給格妮薇兒戴上手銬，和弟弟妹妹們一起移交給雲騎軍的時候，她長舒了一口氣。
人們都說仙舟人特別善良，她想，雲騎軍一定願意讓我們一家體面地死在一起。
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誰曾想長兄他一時昏了頭，竟劫了艘商船它來自仙舟。
仙舟人剛直嫉惡如仇，有雷霆的手段似風馳雨驟。
長兄他被人剿了匪，降心俯首，只求軍爺對我們弟妹高抬貴手。
剿匪的軍爺亦是宅心仁厚，將我全家都請回了仙舟。
寬仁了我家長兄的一顆人頭，更為了我弟妹的生計苦苦籌謀。
弟妹們進了學宮識文斷字，咱這兒的悠姐對我把本事傳授。
長兄勸我學完了本事高飛遠走，可知恩不報非讓人說我不如禽獸。
誰曾想在這金人巷我把能耐展露，從貧苦的兒女到如今那是名利雙收。
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Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
When Guinevere was young, her father always told her that humans should live with dignity. However, who could manage that on Hombert-σ?
It was a barren planet. Primitive algae, fungi, and lichen maintained an atmosphere barely able to support animal life. Among the endemic species that stubbornly proliferated in that world, almost all of them existed as genuine threats to humanity.
Had the Interastral Peace Corporation not discovered the mineral ores hidden in the heart of this planet, no humans would have wanted to move here anyways.
Guinevere passed all of her teenage years on this poverty-stricken planet.
She was good at making friends and was on good terms with the other kids. The son of the poor man, the daughter of the refugee, the brother of the gambler, or the sister of the murderer... Guinevere did not care about people's background. No matter what kind of families people are from, they were equally at risk of perishing before the arrival of tomorrow on this planet.
The IPC didn't keep a tight eye on this place. Except for those with debts or criminal charges, the IPC didn't limit the workers' freedom as long as they paid their taxes. However, if they did pay their taxes, they might not have enough money left to even buy a drink at the town's bar.
Her father was the most reliable backbone of the family back home. Now that both father and home were lost, the duty of looking after the family fell on the shoulders of the only senior in the group — the Stone-Wall Knight. Back when they had to flee their home, the mother sternly demanded that this loyal old knight escape with the children, while she stayed behind in their homeland to watch over the last speck of dust on their barren planet.
The old knight was once her father's closest playmate, then her father's most courageous comrade in battle, then her father's most loyal servant. And now... he became another "father" for the children. Guinevere didn't manage to remember his real name even till the end. She was more familiar with the knight's other name — Uncle Stone-Wall.
A dozen starving children made their dwindling finances even worse. After a night of arguments, Stone-Wall reluctantly agreed to have the three eldest children go to work in the mines with him. However, no matter how much Guinevere begged, he refused to let her go with them.
Night after night passed. Stone-Well [sic] grew old and withered. His lungs became full of incurable scars, and his spine no longer stood as tall as in years past. His hands, once able to swing a kinetic hammer majestically on the battlefield, have been deformed till he could no longer hold a spoon.
Soon, he died.
The stone wall fell. It fell before the dawn arrived, and it didn't make a single sound. It was like a sand castle receding as the tides swelled and fell, like the soft descent of winter's withered boughs in a breeze, like an ending doomed to arrive.
Only a world of hoarfrost exists beyond the stone wall.
Her elder brothers soon became interstellar pirates. Guinevere can fill her stomach again. However, she was also faintly aware that she had further strayed from her father's creed and embarked on a life even less respectable.
Therefore, when the IPC's soldiers put cuffs on Guinevere and handed her over to the Cloud Knights together with her younger siblings, she breathed a long sigh of relief.
People all claim the folks of the Xianzhou are very kind. She thought that the Cloud Knights would definitely allow her entire family to die together in dignity.
...
Folly befell my brother's mind. A Xianzhou ship, his raid entwined
Those of Xianzhou, just and upright. Thunder and storm, willed in their might.
To Xianzhou, my brother offered compliance. For us siblings, he pleaded forbearance.
Xianzhou knights, blessed with grace. Xianzhou fleet, we get to embrace.
Our brother pardoned, our burdens lessened.
To the school, our young'uns go. Teaching skills was my dear Ms. Yo.
A future elsewhere, brother urged me to prepare. Gratitude to pay, I chose here to stay.
In Aurum Alley I shine. Fame and fortune, I'm fine.
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