Zerek
Zerek was a native of the planet Vostroya, who worked as an exterminator, hunting down and killing dangerous animals alongside his younger brother, Ladbon. As the firstborn son of Oskar, he was scheduled to be shipped out and join the Vostroyan Firstborn, as their planet's tradition dictated. At the age of fifteen, shortly before he was due to enlist, however, he and Ladbon accepted a routine job to kill a chemdog which had been terrorizing Hive Decius (with seventeen reported deaths attributed to the creature). During the hunt, Zerek was accidently shot and killed by Yurri Sommletz, another exterminator from Decius, who had mistaken him for the chemdog in the mist.[1a]
Some time later, Ladbon ventured back out into the wastelands to retrieve Zerek's shotgun. Ladbon would go on to enlist in Zerek's place, in order to fulfill their family's obligations.[1b]
