Quantar Announces the Passing of a Hero

UUNN Newswire

(Quantar Core)  Quantar oficials today announced the passing of Yasar El-Baz, the last remaining Quantar member of the Thrice Seven.  El-Baz passed quietly in his home today at 19:17,  just days short of his 104th birthday.  The following excellent summation of Yasar’s life comes from the text of Tahir Tashawar’s speech four years ago on Yasar’s 100th birthday.

Today is a very special day.  We honor a hero on his 100^th birthday.  We honor Yasar El-Baz, Quantar’s last surviving member of The Thrice Seven.

But simply to define Yasar in that one role he played would be an injustice.  His 100 years have been very full years and his eyes have been witness to an amazing amount of history.  Just think about it.

• In 18AT, when Yasar was born, The Reconstruction had technically been going on for18 years, but only Solrain and Quantar were members.
• The TRI Charter was not signed until 30 AT, when Yasar was 12 years old. He saw ALL SIX TRI Primes elected.
• He was 2 years old when first “re-contact” was made with Octavius and 8 when Octavius joined The Reconstruction.
• When Yasar was 20, Amananth was discovered by Enkido – with whom Yasar would later become inextricably linked in the Thrice Seven.
• Two years later, in 40 AT, Yasar was on a ship in the mining convoy that made the first post-collapse contact with Hyperial.
• In 70 AT, Yasar was selected as one of seven Quantar test-pilots to test single-pilot jump-ships – the group which came to be known as The Thrice Seven.
• At age 64, Yasar saw the beginning of the Second GVB Wars — and four years later the destruction of Zantor Station and the final defeat of Hyperial.
• He saw the invention of the Extraction Wave in 89AT and then launched into his well-known10-year mission of exploration and mapping. His maps and ore charts were the first to ever be made publicly-available and they are in still use today.
• Finally, in 99AT – just as pilots began filling the spacelanes with the single-pilot jumpships that he had tested, and began large-scale mining using the maps that he created – Yasar, then age 81, began his well-earned retirement.