Linc Bostrom

Linc Bostrom
Lincoln Thomas Bostrom, a news reporter working for the Gamma broadcasting network, under its mysterious proprietor Gareth Spence.

Formerly a cub reporter working for the biggest news network in the Protectorate, Focus Vision News (FVN), Linc Bostrom was bright and well thought of, but deeply frustrated by the powerful centre of gravity that was Ben Cranford, the network's number one reporter - a man of low principle, and even lower ethical integrity.

Having lived off his expense account and banked all of his salary until he could afford an interstellar craft and the equipment he would need to go freelance, Linc persuaded his friend and colleague, Claffy Bolga, to leave the network and begin a freelance career as a roving reporter, going places the safety conscious news media did not wish to tread.

Having achieved a solid scoop by identifying the PPB frigate Savatara as the attackers of the Black Fleet training craft Black Wreath, during the chaotic pirate ambush that accompanied the maiden voyage of the luxury cruise ship Francesce Reala, Linc found himself being aggressively headhunted for a job with the new broadcaster, Gamma.

Born from the ashes of a dark-net broadcast company run by the defunct Gamma Fraternity, which collapsed after the assassination of Darian Corvalis, Gamma was an up and coming network with very broad appeal among the young, hip, and well informed.

Having caught the eye of Sovereign Cleovald Dofstez, Linc was invited to a secret meeting with the Sovereign aboard Beacon 3, where he was asked to turn his skills to investigating the escalating attacks on Mining Alliance convoys. Reluctantly, and with no small amount of coercion from the Sovereign and Gareth Spence, Linc agreed.

After unmasking the February Consortium and revealing their invasion plans he was freed from the secrecy he was operating under and was able to broadcast his full investigation to the biggest audience in news history (a record only briefly held until Dofstez own speech on the aftermath of the invasion was broadcast later that same day.)

Show/Hide Spoilers The achievement was bittersweet for Linc, as his broadcast implicated the world of Kremmen in the conspiracy, which led to a swift and pitiless revenge attack against Kremmen - a devastating orbital bombardment with heavy mining torpedoes - which left the already ecologically fragile world in ruins. He held himself directly responsible for the attack, but Sovereign Staff Captain Wrath, assigned to the clean-up squad for Kremmen, assured him that people like themselves were too small a part of the great machinery to assume responsibility for such things. Winning the Gold-Star Broadcasting Award for his investigation secured his place as one of the greats of his generation, but the destruction it brought about on Kremmen continues to nag at his conscience.