Arthur R Hanson

"'I do what is needed sometimes to be done.' - Arthur R Hanson"Arthur R Hanson is one of the main characters of the Vandread GA Fanfic series. He is known as the leader of the Solar Eagles Squadron of Terrain Prime and later Infinity Team.

He's based mostly off of Amaro Ray of Mobile Suit Gundam and Souske Sagera from Full Metal Panic.

If he had a voice actor, it would likely be Chris Pratt of Guardians of the Galaxy Fame.

Personality
Most see Arthur as a workaholic, a habit he got from his dad Roy Hanson. They also see him as stubborn to a fault.

The reality is that Arthur is actually a nice and decent guy. On the flip side, Arthur can become really stubborn and overconfident occasionally.

This happens when he butts heads with people like Lockheed Ellison or creatures like Commander Feral, Chief Bogo or Nick Wilde.

Arthur hates Racism as he was taught that no race is better than the other one and Marxism due to his father's near death at hands of Marxist rebels.

Past Life
Arthur R Hanson was born on March 7th, 3794 AD to Roy and Rachel Hanson. Compared to his sister, he was born via artificial womb because of a medical condition at the time that allowed for him to be conceived, but couldn't allow Rachel to bear him.

This fact wouldn't be known to him until he was an adult and when he found out, he told his mother that he was proud of her as it saved his life.

As a member of the Founding Families of Terrain Prime, Arthur would get both praise and scorn from everyone.

Growing up, Arthur saw his dad worked a lot thus, he didn't form a proper connection with him until years later.

As a kid, Arthur really didn't connect with other kids his age aside from Victor Cruz and Alice Silverpath. Most of the time, he would be reading books from pre-Terrain Prime.

Arthur initially went to a public school until a school fight defending his younger sister resulted in his dad transferring him, Victoria and Harold to Olympus Academy.

Change in the winds
Arthur's path to the military (or Self-Defense Forces at the time) would start during his time at Olympus Academy.

One day after taking the AMAT (Academic Military Assessment Test), Arthur was approached by a recruiter for the TPR-JROTC (Terrain Prime Republic Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) about joining them to one day become an officer in the Self-Defense Forces of Terrain Prime.

The rational for the group wanting Arthur to join was due to his high test score on the AMAT and dreaming of being a war hero like his uncle Richard "Roger" Hanson.

Out of an impulsive desire to prove himself to his dad Roy and wanting to see where he should go in life, Arthur signed up for the Terrain Prime Self-Defense Air Force TPR-JROTC along with his sister Victoria.

Harold was the only one to sign up for the Terrain Prime Self-Defense Navy joking that he didn't want to "Polish a chair with his ass".

Arthur and Victoria's father wasn't too thrilled about the news although he was okay with Harold's choice.

At the end of the day, Roy calmed down as Arthur chose Business while Victoria chose Political Science for their respective TPR-JROTC degrees.

Zeus Air Force Academy
Arthur would be around 14 when he arrived at the Academy that would shape his destiny or around the Autumn of 3808 AD. For him, it was going to Junior High, Senior High and College at once.

Most of the time, Arthur would be focused more on his studies than anything though he did interact with others.

The only sports he participated in was Kendo for the School mostly due to his mom's instance. While he was there, he earned his Pilot's License at 16 and Driver's License at 17.

As the years went by, Arthur was transferred from the TPR-JROTC to the TPR-ROTC (Terrain Prime Republic-Reserve Officer Training Corps) upon reaching 18 years of age or in 3812 AD.

Arthur ended up graduation two years earlier than the rest of his class in an unexpected way due to his test scores stemming from his determined and serious study habits.

Afterwards, Arthur would be placed in the reserves. Then, in 3814 AD, war came to Terrain Prime.

Terrain Prime-Mejere War
When the war against Mejere broke out, Arthur volunteered to be in full active service.

This wouldn't happen until early 3816 when he finally was transferred to full active status after completing extra studying and training to be ready.

He also was made to work at recruiting stations that went to schools and colleges to help drum up new numbers for the war effort. Occasionally, he was recruited to help escort key Terrain Prime assets while under watch with the Purple Foxes Leader Haruhi Kyoto.

His time with the TPSDAF Squad the Purple Foxes was brief though he became the second-in-command of the group before hand.

1st Mejere Gundam Raid
Prior to the time of the 1st Mejere Gundam Raid, Arthur was made a back up pilot to a machine that he told was classified and told not to breathe word of to the public.

Then, the 1st Mejere Gundam Raid happened at the Shamerock Colony Military Base and Arthur boarded a Blackhawk Fighter and fought off the attackers until he got shot down by a Mejere ground team.

Escaping, Arthur fled from the Mejere team where upon entering a secret building, Arthur for the first time gazed upon the Fujin Gundam. Meeting up with the original intended would-be-pilot Rolf Hartman, the two fought to secure the machine.

When it looked like they had won, the real plan occurred: the Mejere team faked a surrender and fatally wounded Rolf Hartman and nearly killed Arthur.

Barely surviving by fleeing deeper into the secret warehouse and taking out the strike force one by one, Arthur watched Rolf Hartman die in his arms, but not before he was given control of the Fujin Gundam.

After the machine configured his DNA, Arthur flew into battle for the first time in the Gundam. It was in the very same battle that Arthur was exposed to the Omega-Alpha X System and combined with his state of mind at the time, he went to town on invading Mejere forces.

Due to his skill and the power of the Fujin Gundam, Arthur would take down 3/4 of the attacking Mejere forces by himself as the remainder quarter was dealt with by the rest of his allies.

In the aftermath, Arthur assumed he would be kicked out due to his actions during the battle using the Fujin Gundam against Mejere, but to his surprise, he was made the new pilot of the machine and awarded the Air Force Cross.

Becoming a Gundam Pilot
From the aftermath of the 1st Mejere Gundam Raid to October of that same year of 3816 AD, Arthur was sent into the world of Special Operations or Spec Ops to become a Gundam Pilot.

The training was very brutal and harsh as 20 males and 10 females were accepted to replace the lost pilots killed in the 1st Mejere Gundam raid.

In the end, only 9 males were accepted into the 1st class while 3 females were accepted. Two more males and two more females would end up becoming Gundam pilots less than a year later due to war time duties needing to be filled.

Just as he become a Gundam Pilot, Arthur would nearly lose it due to a fight he got himself involved with another Gundam Pilot, Lockheed Ellison of the Terrain Prime Self-Defense Army.

Due to the incident, the first twelve new Gundam pilots were split into two teams of six. Arthur would command one team christened the Solar Eagles while Lockheed commanded another one would be christened the Lunar Knights.

Arthur would apologize for his actions along with Lockheed and both were forgiven and showed a key character of both males: both accepted responsibility for their antics.

Afterwards, both teams would be deployed to help with Terrain Prime to the best that they could do. From the final months of 3816 AD to early 3817 AD, Arthur would lead his team in winning key, vital victories for Terrain Prime along with Lockheed and his team.

Vandread GA
At the time, Arthur was leading a recon squad to observe Magno's Pirates to see if they could be recruited as Privateers.

Ikazuchi
When the initial attack on the Ikazuchi occurred, Arthur's team consisting of Bella, Brian, Harold, Lilo, Steve, Victor, and Alice watched on. Harold, Lilo and Steve were back near the Solaris while the rest observed from up ahead.

Just as they were leaving, a downed Tarak ship picked them up and a Tarak Vanguard team got to them before they fully left the area.

To this day, Arthur maintains this belief: Tarak attacked first not him or his team.

Vandread GA: The Second Stage
By the time the events of the sequel to Vandread GA had occurred, Arthur had settled in to his role as a co-defender of the Nirvana as the leader of the Vanguards.

Misty
Shortly after defeating the Harvester carrier from the last fanfic, Arthur along with Brian, Bella, Hibiki, Dita, Meia and Jura all received an ominous warning from the Paksis about a battle if they lost.

Prior to Equestria Mission
In the aftermath of the Terrain Prime-Mejere War, Terrain Prime-Tarak War, and the Great Harvester War, Arthur instead of settling down choose to keep serving in the armed forces of Terrain Prime (having been reverted back to Armed Forces of Terrain Prime after it was the Self-Defense Forces of Terrain Prime) much to the chagrin of some close to him.

For him, the nation needed people like him still around to rebuild the nation. His sister Victoria would follow him as well but unlike her brother, she eventually found love herself.

Among his activities in the post-war era, Arthur would help with further development of the Dragon Armor and hunting down traitors rumored to be working as Marxists for a new threat called the Marxist Empire.

With the Marxist Empire, Arthur earned a good number of people ridiculing him over it calling him paranoid and nuts. Despite the detractors, Arthur kept on serving his nation.

According to Brian, Arthur had plans to keep serving after the mission with the Leonidas recon mission.

A behavior that emerged during the post-war period was Arthur more willing to spend more time in Dragon Armor as once out, he suddenly speaks sparingly and turns quiet suddenly.

Equestria
Arthur was one of the crew members of the Leonidas that ended up in Equestria just prior to Nightmare Moon's return.