Corwin Thrice built his life around altitude, velocity, and domination from above.

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Long before his rise within the Anti-Alien Army (A3), Thrice appears to have spent much of his adult life in aviation or aviation-adjacent command structures. Records and theories vary: former combat pilot, test pilot, private military aviation chief, black-flight contractor, covert transport wing coordinator, or some mix of all of them. Whatever the exact truth, one conclusion is unavoidable—Corwin Thrice is a man who understands aircraft not merely as machines, but as extensions of power.

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The Soltan invasion of 2000 changed that obsession into doctrine.

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For Thrice, the invasion was not just a planetary trauma. It was an intolerable humiliation delivered from the sky. Earth had not merely been attacked; it had been overshadowed, outmaneuvered, and dominated by superior extraterrestrial mobility. Alien superiority in air and orbital space left a mark on him that never healed. He came to believe that humanity would never be secure until it could reclaim the psychological and tactical high ground above its own world.

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Like many future A3 leaders, Thrice emerged from the post-invasion years hardened, radicalized, and deeply anti-alien. But unlike many of the movement’s ground-bound militants, his focus was always specific: air dominance, aerial terror, and mobility. He did not care whether a regional cell could hold a neighborhood for long. He cared whether an aircraft, drone, rotorcraft, or salvaged alien flier could strike, scatter, escape, and strike again before defenders understood what happened.

 

In A3’s early years, Thrice likely began as a specialist rather than a political leader. The organization had angry men, guns, and scattered vehicles, but very little coherent aviation doctrine. Thrice changed that. He cultivated pilots willing to fly off-book routes, mechanics willing to keep obsolete aircraft alive, black-market fixers who could source restricted parts, and salvage technicians reckless enough to experiment with partially functioning alien propulsion systems. He assembled not a true air force in the national sense, but a ragged predatory wing of hidden craft, improvised launch capacity, and psychologically devastating strike methods.

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As A3 was forced underground after the 2017 protections for non-Terran beings, Thrice became more valuable, not less. Public militancy was restricted, but concealed air power offered reach, surprise, and terror. Under his leadership, A3 developed a covert aerial arm used for:

• rapid insertion and extraction of strike teams

• surveillance over remote compounds and target sites

• low-altitude intimidation passes

• interdiction of alien convoys or refugee movements

• destruction of isolated infrastructure

• contraband transfer across difficult terrain

• deployment of unstable captured alien payloads

• black-market testing of retrofitted aircraft and drone systems

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Thrice’s greatest strength is that he does not think like a cautious quartermaster or a bureaucratic officer. He thinks like a hunter who believes fear from above breaks resistance faster than ground force alone. He understands the symbolic power of aircraft—the sound of approaching engines, the impossibility of escape in open ground, the disorientation of attack from unexpected angles, the terror of something descending out of darkness.

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That same instinct is also what makes him dangerous to his own side.

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Thrice is notorious for pushing limits others would reject. He tolerates unsafe airframes, experimental fuel mixes, improvised control systems, and salvaged alien components whose long-term effects are poorly understood. He has likely lost craft, crews, and trainees to his own appetite for risk. But he treats losses the way some men treat weather: regrettable, but secondary to momentum. In his mind, timid pilots die forgotten. Aggressive ones change wars.

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This attitude has earned him both admiration and fear within A3. Some view him as the movement’s most dynamic branch commander. Others see him as a brilliant narcissist who mistakes audacity for invulnerability. Marcus Vane tolerates him because results matter. Sabine Kreel likely uses him carefully because his mobility is invaluable. Tomas Hale probably hates how much equipment he wastes. Yet none of them can deny that Thrice has made A3’s aerial branch more dangerous than anyone once thought possible.

If Earth hears A3 coming from the road, Elias Rourke is nearby.

If it hears A3 coming from the sky, Corwin Thrice is already in motion.

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