Jeannette Devereaux

Jeanette Devereaux is a character of the computer game series Wing Commander. A native of Belgium, she was a starfighter pilot in the Terran Confederation Navy, flying under the callsign of Angel. She took part to the "Vega Sector" and "Enigma Sector" campaigns and worked also in the Special Operations division during the period of the Kilrathi War, as depicted in the first three games of the series: Wing Commander, Wing Commander II - Vengeance of the Kilrathi and Wing Commander III - Heart of the Tiger.

Personal Biography
Jeanette Devereaux was born in 2626 in Brussells on Earth and died in 2669. She is usually described as a cool and rational person who regarded her role as a fighter pilot as an honor since she used to say that: she lived to fight the good fight. Angel also had an interest into Confederation fighter craft's specifications and statistics about their combat capacities against Kilrathi ships because she often talked about such subjects when hanging out off-duty in the Rec Room.

In 2654 she had already risen to the rank of Captain and she was flying off the Confederation strike carrier TCS Tiger's Claw during the "Vega Sector" campaign. During this period Angel was assigned either to the "Killer Bees squadron", equipped with the Hornet light fighters, or the "Star Slayer" squadron, commandeering the Raptor heavy fighters. When she was flying in the "Star Slayer" squadron Angel also had the chance to test the new Confederation fighter Rapier in a real combat mission while the Tiger's Claw was operating in the Gimle star system.

In 2655, after the Confederation successfully repelled the Kilrathi from the Vega sector, the Tiger's Claw and her crew were sent in to destroy the Kilrathi HQ in the "Enigma Sector" at K'tithrak Mang. In this occasion Jeanette Devereaux was one of the few pilots to survive the destruction of the carrier when the ship was amushed by a squadron of the then unknown Kilrathi stealth fighters "Strakha".

By 2665, ten years after the loss of the "Tiger's Claw", Jeanette Deveraux had risen through the ranks up to Colonel and she had been detached as Wing Commander onboard the Confederation carrier TCS Concordia. The ship had been assigned the task to remove the enemy presence from the strategically important "Enigma Sector". However when the Concordia was ambushed by the Kilrathi near Caernavon Station the carrier and her crew were saved by Christopher Blair posted in that same station as a mere security officier after his career in the Navy had been ruined by the Tiger's Claw incident. Angel helped Blair by accepting him in her flight crew and thus gave him a chance to prove his loyalty to the Confederation. In 2666 after the tragic death of Devereaux and Blair common friend Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka the two of them starded a romantic relationship that would last till Angel's death. Between 2666 and 2667 Jeanette Devereaux led the Concordia's battle group to K'tithrak Mang where Christopher Blair finally destroyed the Kilrathi HQ flying on a daring solo mission.

Following the "Enigma Sector" campaign details on Jeanette Deveraux's career become a little hazy. However it is known that by 2668 she had transferred to the Special Operations division ran by another ex-Tiger's Claw pilot, Gen. James "Paladin" Taggart, leaving the Wing Commander role onboard the TCS Concordia to Christopher Blair. In 2669 after the "Battle of Earth", when a Kilrathi strike force was barely repelled from the Sol system by the combined efforts of the Confederation and Landreich battle fleets, Angel embarked on a Special Operations mission with a handful of pilots aimed to secretely penetrate into Kilrathi territory. Flying onboard a captured Kilrathi transport ship, Jeanette and her crew reached "Kilrah", the enemy homesystem, and started a survey of the geology of the Kilrathi homeplanet. She then set up three secret asteroid bases within the star system to be used in the upcoming Temblor Bomb strike as an extreme attempt to destroy the Kilrathi homeworld and thus stop the war. Unfortunately, after setting up all the depots, Jeanette Devereaux and her crew were captured by the Kilrathi and imprisoned. During a Kilrathi council held by the Kilrathi Emperor himself and Crown Prince Thrakhath, the Special Operation soldiers were executed by means of disintegration, all but Angel, who was personally killed by Thrakhath by disembowelment, a kind of execution the kilrathi bestowed upon an enemy as an honor.