Tancred


 * "This name you have given me. What is its meaning?"
 * "Ancient king of someplace on the human homeworld. Ruled alright, then died of a fever, I think."
 * "Hmm. He was not perfect, but he had purpose. It is acceptable."
 * ⁠—Tancred and his rescuers.

Tancred was a tank-bred  created by Warlord  as part of his genetic engineering program. Born in the final days of Okeer's project, Tancred was among the few to survive his accelerated infancy, but would be found imperfect in the eyes of his "father" and released into the ship-breaking yards of to die. Knowing nothing but the struggle for survival against Captain 's mercenaries, the nameless berserker accepted his pitiful lot in life and fought in the vain hope of one day fighting in an army led by Okeer and his perfected creation as brethren.

Only a week after his release, while fighting off another team of mercenaries, the berserker was aided by the arrival of and his ground team. Answering a few of the Commander's questions, the krogan helped clear the Commander's path before parting ways. The subsequent deaths of both Okeer and Jedore led to the Blue Suns' abandonment of the lab site, leaving the remaining berserkers scattered and alone. Isolated after falling down a crevasse between the starship hulks, this krogan clone came to believe himself the last living thing on Korlus and concluded he would die of starvation.

He was found, however, when a tramp freighter hired to resupply Jedore's unit—unaware of her untimely demise—arrived and discovered him. Convinced by the crew he had no further purpose on Korlus with Okeer and his enemies dead, the berserker accepted their offer to take him offworld. Remaining with the spacers, he would take on their suggested name of Tancred as a nod to his tank-bred origin, and serve as the crew's muscle in the following years.

Personality and Traits
"It... has purpose."

- Tancred agreeing to a proposition.

Weapons and Equipment

 * Developed by, the Scimitar was one of the first contracts from an Earth-based firm to find success across the galactic community's private sector. The design's pioneering use of alternating dual mass effect field generators to increase rate of fire impressed leaders of the mercenary company , who then funded the company's development of the weapon and received the first mass-market shipments. The design has since spread across the Terminus Systems, found in the hands of elite mercenaries and lowly criminals alike. Tancred was given a field-fabricated Scimitar upon his release on Korlus. Despite it being one of few gifts he received from his creator, Tancred has never claimed any attachment to the weapon and considers it a tool to be replaced as soon as something more effective is found. He has yet to replace it, however.