Real Name: Maru Stray
Alias: Cinco Antioch
Genetic Type: Ascendant
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Height: 184cm
Weight: 70kg
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Ethnicity: Filipino
Allegiance: Sanctuarium
Background and Personality:
~Maru Stray was born in LC 185, to normal parents. It is not known when his Ascendant powers awakened, but he claimed that he had been seeing ghosts and causing glass to shatter as far as he could remember. His birth parents did not know what to do with Maru's strange power, so they sent him to an AEO research institute in Colorado, where it was confirmed that he was in fact, an Ascendant. Unable to handle the boy, Maru's parents abandoned him, leaving him in the care of the scientists who ran the institute. He was nine at that time, and this incident left a bitter scar in his heart.
Eventually, he was trained in the art of combat and piloting. His natural abilities allowed him to score exceptionally good grades in simulations, well above the capabilities of the other Ascendant children. Despite this, he and his fellow test subjects were treated inhumanely, being harshly scolded for the slightest mistakes and sometimes, deprived of food in order to bring out their eagerness for combat.
At the age of twelve, he was scouted by AEO officials, taking note of his extremely high aptitude scores. He was immediately given a rank of Ensign and was taken to Beijing, where AEO's top pilots were stationed. During his first battle, he was able to take down eleven rebel mobile suits, further cementing his status as an ace rookie. He was designated as the Beat Gundam's pilot afterwards.
Later, he began questioning his own view of the world. When the Second Lunar War broke out, he drifted from one faction to another, in pursuit of the truth. He only came to one conclusion: all Ascendants were being used as tools of war, nothing more. He became dissatisfied with this realization and went rogue at last.
Seven years later, he returned as a masked individual going by the name of Cinco Antioch. He pledged his life to the liberation of all Ascendants, but he took it one step further. Owing to his past experiences as a mistreated and unloved child, considered as a freak of nature, and other harrowing events, he came up with an even more extreme resolve.
The eradication of Non-Ascendants.
Lunar Century 214. With the Lunar Project nearing completion, Cinco sensed the right time to strike. Forming an small army of elite Ascendants, he would wage his personal, philosophical war against the world.
