William Alfirk III
William Alfirk III | |
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| Personal | |
| Affiliation | Terran Alliance |
| Career | |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Profession | Tank commander |
William Alfirk III was a twenty-second century Colonel (Retd) William Alfirk III.[1]
History
He led an expedition to found a new colony world. After making five jumps from Terra, the expedition's sixth jump suffered a misjump and mild damage to the K-F drive, stranding the colonists in what they would come to name the Alfirk system. (Given that Alfirk is almost 750 light years from Terra and that the first five jumps would have covered a maximum of 150 light years, the final misjump apparently catapulted the JumpShip across some 600 light years, twenty times the rates jump distance of common jump drives). The system the expedition arrived in happened to have a habitable world, and a successful colony was established..[1]