Taken in as an orphan during the world war, the military was in bad need of pilots and engineered the perfect flying machine. The curse injection had such adverse affects it robbed him of his vision. However when he's entwined with a ship, he's the best pilot on the planet. He met Flynn on Flynn's final couple of missions as his designated drop off and rescue pilot. When the mass exodus happened Flynn cleared the ship of military personnel and they escaped to retrieve his sister. He rarely gets to leave the pilots chair.