Bio
Condi Hillard bought an old Aegis Gladius from a scrapyard in 2677. Hillard fixed up and outfitted the old hull herself and found work in the Orion system as a security contractor. Then one day, the Vanduul attacked Armitage.
This was the first time Humanity had ever encountered the Vanduul. It was two weeks later when a Vanduul raiding party attacked Hillard’s outpost.
Luckily, Hillard had increased her patrolling so she was ready when the clutch of Scythe appeared on her scans. Utilizing the mobility of her Gladius, Hillard was able to lead her team to destroy the Vanduul ships before they could strike the heart of the outpost. Hillard and her compatriots became the first pilots to successfully defeat a Vanduul force. It was in large part thanks to her success that the Navy decided to dispatch Squadron 36 to the system where the Gladius unit would eventually develop their highly effective ‘carry and leap’ technique.