WipEout Pilot Archives

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Author Note: I consider this to be a lost pilot backstory. For 4 years, I didn't write one for this pilot, being burnt out of ideas at the time. Now I finally wrote it, only I have to change his backstory description. the original one can still be seen on an old pilot profile video I’d made back in 2013 on Youtube. This is the last one, but I have more things to say at the end.


Identification/Statistics

Birthname: Jusef Suyanto

Birthplace: Magelang (Indonesia)

SEX: Male

Birth: February 23th, 2176

Zodiac: Pisces

Age (Currently 2217): 41

Nationality: Indonesian

Origin: Indonesia (Father) / Malaysian (Mother)

Race: Asian

Language(s): Indonesian / Malay / Partial English

Religion: Buddhist

Height: 5'7"

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Occupation (Before AG-Pilot): Monk / Test Pilot

FX350 IDF: SUYA0223.2177

Team: Harimau

Position: Lead Pilot

Pilot Rank: Veteran

Region Reputation: Southeast Asia

Squad Teammates: Kaida Wong / Loraine Johnson

Team Loyalty: High

Allies: Damien Avandi (Mirage)

Rivals: EG.X (Unofficial rivalry) / Tigron

Medals: Gold: x10, Silver: x4, Bronze: x6

Sponsors: Silva, IOTA, Hi, AGD,

Favorite Events: Single Race

Favorite Track: Staten Park

Leagues Competed: FX300 to FX500

Character traits: Loner, Wise, Faithful, Moral


Skill

Awareness: 8/10

Aggression: 2/10

Reaction/Reflexes: 8/10

Consistency: 9/10

Born outside of the main city of Magelang Indonesia, Jusef Suyanto was raised in a Buddhist lifestyle by his father, turning to the religion during the events of the second great depression from fallout of the F9000 racing league in 2170. Most of Asia was heavily affected during the 2170s, suffering economic downfall which put the Asian population in a very poor state including the rest of the world. People had suffered economically during the decade, and no one wanted to ever mention anti-gravity since then. For Jusef’s father, he wanted to be enlightened from all the suffering, finding it by turning to a Buddhist monk when staying at the Central Java region of Indonesia. At the time in mid-2175, the father was already engaged while seeking the philosophy, and at some point he was already wearing an orange robe and shaved his head. The mother was also encouraged, though it took her time to get use to her husband’s new lifestyle including seeing him meditate in his rearranged office in their small apartment, not believing much of it. Still, the father was willing to have a child, and sure enough in 2176, Jusef was born, named by his Mother.

Sadly, Jusef’s mother passes away by a sepsis infection 3 years after his birth. While the father was devastated, he continues to meditate over his loss while now the only one to take care of his young son. From then point on, Jusef would follow the footsteps of his father. Starting around 5yrs old, he practices Buddhism alongside and continues by the time as a teenager. He had already adopted the beliefs and had found his enlightenment at a young age. Jusef visited the Borobuder temple many times with his father or by himself, interacting with the other monks in the location including taking part in ceremonies/meditations at the temple itself. When it came to employment however by his 20s, finding a job was kind of difficult in Magalang.

Though things have gotten better in the world through the 80s and heading to early 90s, including a comeback of AG-racing overall, as a monk, Jusef was not satisfied of the employment in his small city until one day witnessing aid groups from an organization coming from Malaysia. The aid groups were from Harimau International, openly helping the southern Asian population since the great depression, while mostly on a mission to repopulate long extinct animals across Asia and other parts of the world. Though Jusef didn’t pay much attention to the genetic engineering side of Hi, their other environmental projects looked to be beneficial. If it could end suffering across Asia, then he was on board with the organization. However, what fascinated him was the clean and bio-efficient breakthrough of Harimau’s bio-fueled AG-Racecraft. Jusef took interest; despite an odd choice for a Buddhist, who says they couldn’t have at least some fun every once and awhile on a floating craft?

Jusef’s purpose of becoming an AG-Pilot wasn’t for money or fame, but rather for charity. Harimau would be known for using the racing league as a way to fund and donate their race wins to the charitable, though other professional race teams found it to be ridiculous and considered the team as just a “fad� during the FX300 league. During the first few seasons however, Harimau would prove to be a solid race team including achieving it with their clean H2 and H3 racecraft. The more success they could bring, the better the chances of a better world environmentally, at least in their minds. Jusef believed it was possible, taking his training and test piloting crossing over to Malaysia in Sepang, housing the team’s main facility.

Jusef joins Harimau International in 2194, a year before the announcement of the FX300 Racing league in Makana. Traveling and living on his own in Sepang, he enters the facility feeling confident to test pilot a craft for the sake of good will. At the time, Harimau was still perfecting their H1 prototype craft for the upcoming league. Jusef would take his training first in zone mode, testing positive health beforehand, being able to pilot an actual craft. When VR training was completed passing the final zone mode tests, he was ready to pilot an actual craft. However, Harimau only had the prototype to test pilot, completing test flying and was on standby to manufacture their H1 model. For the trainees, along with partnership from FEISAR, they were lended their X1 models for pilot training on the test track a couple miles from the main facility. Jusef would test pilot the FEISAR craft for half a year until moving on to Harimau’s officially built craft, the H2. He, along with new pilots would train until the inaugural season in 2197.

During his time in the facility, Jusef would also take time to meditate in the facility’s Asian garden next to their tiger reserve area. By 2197, he would get chosen for the opening season taking place in Makana along with other rookie pilots graduating from the Sepang facility. In Harimau’s first group of new pilots was also English, Cassie Green, Indian, Sekhar Sahib, and Singaporean, Ronald Wong Zi Leung. The four pilots became the original first group to compete in the first season for Harimau International. Throughout the first few seasons, the team would become successful, establishing themselves as part of the professional AG-Teams. As for Jusef himself, he world perform above average by the end of the 22nd century, only to increase his skills to a professional level up until the FX350 league in 2205. Despite his teammates making elite much faster than him, Jusef was patient and never rushed himself. With that, He doesn’t compete for the FX350 league only to test pilot the team’s H5 and prototype H6 back at the main facility in Sepang. Team principal, Manjula Vamatharen would accept him to be one of the organization’s main test pilots for every craft they develop over the years.

As the FX400 league arrived in 2207, Harimau would become absent during the first three seasons. When Harimau decided to come back in 2210, Jusef was also back racing in the new H7 craft for the opening season. He was allowed to choose his own teammates for a squad, and who he came across was Makanian Harimau pilot, Kaida Wong. Friendly and environmental as she was, Kaida was also an above average pilot on the Harimau team. Despite her determination for her own personal reasons, she struggled while moving on to a different speed class and professional rank. Becoming Jusef’s wingman, they both became an excellent duo during team tournaments acquiring up to silver and gold medals in a number of seasons. In 2211, Kaida would introduce British FEISAR pilot and AG-Queen, Loraine Johnson to their squad, highly skilled and was still a teenager. Jusef would promote Kaida to Co-Lead pilot, responsible for Loraine in later seasons in the FX400 league. From 2212 to 14, it would become the team’s best seasons overall after Vamatharen had acquired Russian pilot, Roman Kovalenko to win a three year streak in the Season Final Championships. Jusef would make Elite in standard events, Kaida would earn her pilot name Sebenco for her dedicated flights on the mountain tracks, and Loraine would also make Elite rank all on her own.

Harimau’s success would bring Jusef and their many pilots a boom of earnings within the early 2210s, skyrocketing their organization’s budget to not only build more craft, but also fund off their environmental projects. Jusef would still give away 80% of his earnings for the organization in every season, knowing full well of the team’s good cause and was still grateful to be a part of it. However, Harimau’s win streak would only last till the new installment of the FX500 league in 2215. Jusef would still continue to race for Harimau despite other teams wanting him for his skill level. Around this time he would make veteran rank overall.

When it came to allies in race events, Jusef was tolerant of whoever will race alongside from another team. In the early 2210s, he was able to achieve an alliance from one of Mirage’s pilots, Damien Avandi, hailing from India. Aside from FEISAR, both Harimau and Mirage also seem to hold close relations on the track, only for Jusef to end up meeting Damien during a trial event in Southern Asia. They seem to respect one another with Jusef being the friendliest towards the Indian pilot at least in a pacifist way. It’s unconfirmed how they end up being friends outside of racing, only for Jusef to say during an interview saying, “He’s a good pilot and I respect his manner for the team overall. Having unity with pilots from any team is what will make this sport and the world better for all of us.�

Jusef believed in peace and pure racing in general, based on his background. Still, despite his tolerance, he would still end up making rivals in the racing league. Harimau didn’t have major rivals in the sport other than AG-Systems which they only see Harimau as a small nuisance and having close finishes during race events. Jusef didn’t have official rivals from other teams, yet he did have a concern with one of EG.X’s pilots back in 2210. Their experimental pilot from China, Han Lao, was known to be augmented along with other pilots who were cybernetically enhanced. When it was revealed, Jusef believed their neural bonding experiments were a form of suffering looking at Lao during races. A lot of concentration to pilot a craft sounded damaging to Jusef, hearing things about their past as EG.R having too much reliance on technology with their pilots controlling a craft with their minds only, suffering disabilities in the process of augmentation. Jusef didn’t dislike Lao, but rather felt sympathy for him. He showed little emotion and looked constrained by his own team, though Lao still had free will and even showed affection to his Makanian teammate, Yumi Nakamura. Still, Jusef had distrust for EG.X, unsure what they’ll do to their pilots for the FX500 Racing League including everyone else.

The FX500 would be the most violent league out of the all the past leagues since the announcement of the FX150 in 2185. Auricom and Qirex were at war for the race commission along with their allied teams, while other teams including Harimau stayed neutral. Jusef strongly opposed the situation and remains pacifist by not entering in combat based events including eliminator. Unfortunately for him, Kaida Wong would retire racing by 2218, while Loraine Johnson transferred back to FEISAR in current 2217. He was on his own during the current league, but remained cautious while entering in certain events. Only as a last resort would he ever use offensive weapons in combat events. Despite it being his biggest weakness for aggressive pilots, it does not faze him one bit believing his Buddhist while racing, even once again meditating before a race. Overall, he was one of Harimau’s best and influential pilots. With over 20 years of experience and entered in 17 seasons, Jusef earns over 20 medals in his long racing career. (10G/4S/6B) The challenges facing him by 2218 would soon be tested, dealing with the return of what was a dormant AG-Team, Tigron Enterprises.

Things could only get more destructive from this point on.

Author note: Well this concludes all my pilot backstories for now, ready for the Omega Collection coming this next week. However this is not the end of the WipEout Pilot Archive thread. I still need to go back and fix/update things reading over all of them again including attaching pilot appearances. With the comeback of both Van-Uber and Tigron Enterprises, there will be mentioning of them on some of the pilot stories. In continuation of this thread I will be introducing 6 new pilots from both Van Uber and Tigron as a bonus including my telling of their returns to the FX500 Racing League, creating a possible story plotline of this situation I’ve made now that I’ve established the pilots. I will make more videos for my Youtube channel of the Omega Collection including updated pilot profiles and etc. I won’t promise everything, but I’ll bring out what I’ll bring out. Overall that is it, and I hope to meet some of you online on WOC multiplayer.