Mikerus always had a horrible life. His parents had gone to war against the Federation when he was only seven. They were elite warriors, his father could invent new weapon designs, his mother would test them. They new that the Federation would rise up to destroy all of the Space Pirate army. They went to war, and and assault on the Pirate homeworld resulted in their deaths. The last words that Mikerus had heard from his father and mother were "The Federation must be destroyed. We trust you can carry on this mission." They said it to him before they left for the base on the Pirate Homeworld.
After he found out, the Pirate Commandoes decided he'd be sent to the army, and learn the routines early. He thn spent 5 years training, learning attacks, weapons, and learning the primary escape routes in built standard in each Pirate Base. He only had a few friends in his time in the army, all of them sacrificed their lives to help the Pirate army. He always felt alone-no he always was alone. Mikerus always used the same weapon, the Gruff 6000. A special weapon designed by his father. It had a special button on it which allowed the one barrel to seperate into five, allowing multiple shots. Mikerus, after his training was done, was sent to work on the Pirate Base he is on now. That is when the interesting things started to happen.
Mikerus could easily remember when Phazon was first discovered, and it caused panic across the Pirate armies. They were all unaware if it could spread, if the Federation would find a way to use it against them, there were too many bad things they suspected to happen. None of them did, Phazon wasn't contagious, and the Federation didn't use it against them as they feared. Scientists began to find Leviathans that crashed into planets, and on the planets where they hit, creatures became mutated. They soon realized they could use it to their advantage, releasing creatures to Phazon, and having them mutate. The first creature that was ever mutated will go down in history, the creature was called X-174 It never had a real name, because it didn't deserve one, it was pure evil.
Mikerus entered the official army at age 17, when he was assigned to the base. He had seen so many creatures die from Phazon mutation. And then there was Retry. Retry felt to Mikerus like they were friends their whole lives, and they especially started to become friends opening that damned orb. They told so many jokes to each other it almost made up for the frustration from opening the orb. Almost.