角色故事•三（解锁条件：角色等级60）
小时候，父亲总告诉格妮薇儿，人应当体面地活着。可谁又能在「洪堡特-σ」上体面地活着呢？
那是个荒芜的行星。原始的藻类、真菌和地衣维系着它勉强能支撑动物生存的大气环境，而在那些坚强繁衍的原生物种中，几乎没有哪一种是对人类没有威胁的。
如果星际和平公司没有发现这颗行星所蕴含的矿产，应该也不会有人想要移居到这里。
格妮薇儿在这颗贫瘠的星球上，度过了整个少女的时代。
她很擅长交朋友，与其他小孩子关系很好。穷苦人的儿子、流亡者的女儿、烂赌鬼的弟弟、杀人犯的妹妹…格妮薇儿并不在乎出身，毕竟无论他们出身于何种家庭，在这颗星球上，都同样不一定能活到明天。
公司对此处的看管并不严格。除却那些身负债务或罪案的倒霉蛋，只要交够了应缴的税款，公司并不会限制工人的自由。只不过，缴清了税款之后，他们甚至未必有余钱去镇上的酒吧喝上一杯。
在故乡时，父亲是一家人最坚实的依靠。如今父亲和故乡都已不在，照护一家人的责任，就落到了唯一的年长者——「石墙骑士」身上。在逃离家园时，母亲强硬地让这位忠诚的老骑士与孩子们一同逃离，自己则留在故土，陪伴荒原的最后一缕尘埃。
老骑士曾是父亲最亲密的玩伴，而后是父亲最勇敢的战友，再来是父亲最忠诚的家臣，现在…他成了孩子们的另一位「父亲」。直到最后，格妮薇儿都没能记住他的真名实姓，她更熟悉骑士的另一个名字——石墙叔叔。
十几个饥饿的孩子，使本就捉襟见肘的经济状况雪上加霜。在某一夜的争吵过后，石墙勉强同意让三个哥哥姐姐同自己一起下矿，但无论格妮薇儿怎么哀求，他也不肯让她同行。
一个个夜晚过去，他变得苍老、憔悴，肺部充满难以愈合的创伤，脊椎再也无法像过去那样挺拔，曾挥舞着动力锤虎虎生风的双手如今扭曲到难以拿稳汤匙。
不久后，他死了。
石墙倒塌了，倒在黎明到来前，没有发出一丝声响。像沙滩上的城堡在潮汐涨落之间消退，像冬日的枯枝在风中轻轻坠地，像注定要到来的结局。
而石墙之外，是只有风雨冰霜的世界。
哥哥们变成星际海盗，是那之后不久的事。格妮薇儿能吃饱饭了，可她也隐约感到，自己进一步违背了父亲的训诫，走向了更加不体面的人生。
所以，当公司的士兵们给格妮薇儿戴上手铐，和弟弟妹妹们一起移交给云骑军的时候，她长舒了一口气。
人们都说仙舟人特别善良，她想，云骑军一定愿意让我们一家体面地死在一起。
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谁曾想长兄他一时昏了头，竟劫了艘商船它来自仙舟。
仙舟人刚直嫉恶如仇，有雷霆的手段似风驰雨骤。
长兄他被人剿了匪，降心俯首，只求军爷对我们弟妹高抬贵手。
剿匪的军爷亦是宅心仁厚，将我全家都请回了仙舟。
宽仁了我家长兄的一颗人头，更为了我弟妹的生计苦苦筹谋。
弟妹们进了学宫识文断字，咱这儿的悠姐对我把本事传授。
长兄劝我学完了本事高飞远走，可知恩不报非让人说我不如禽兽。
谁曾想在这金人巷我把能耐展露，从贫苦的儿女到如今那是名利双收。
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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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