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Shane Mayen, born Shardis Licita is the current first mate to Rogue Valian Dekani "Deka" Price. Initially serving as Deka's ranged firearms support in missions, then later as his equal in the battlefield, Mayen was considered the first human to ever wield Toron technology. Due to essentially using his real body in combat, as opposed to the conventional Valian way to pilot a Armoured suit known as the Lance, Shane gained the moniker among many in the Star System as The Unarmored Valian.

It was revealed to Shane and Deka that the Terran was actually not born in this world, but was rather time displaced just like Deka was. The son of Kirin and Caterena Licita, making Arsanios Licita his adopted older brother, and he himself a Reinian and Lualite to the house of Licita. However, the cause of Mayen's time displacement is unknown, as well as how he had been discovered by who he believed was his real parents which turned out to be his adopted ones.

Backstory

Shane Mayen lived with his parents, "Tim Mayen" and "Dana Mayen" in an urban neighbourhood. Struggling financially, Mayen was expected to pursue a degree in STEM to guarantee job prospects by his parents and to live a financially stable life. However, such expectations caused Shane to pursue an academic life he resented. Influenced by various media, Shane strived to become a hero like those in the movies he watched. Even going as far to hoping for a catastrophe to awaken any "hidden powers" he had.

One day, his wish partially came true, when the Severens, a time displaced alien race that the Valians were at war with, invaded. Shane watched as his world was sent into apocalypse, believing he would finally have a means to unlock his potential and to start "living his life", Mayen's delusion led him to engage one of the Severen Infantry, leading to the boy being critically injured. Before he could be finished off, Tim and Dana intercepted the Severen and protected their son, sacrificing their lives.

Struck with tremendous guilt, Shane realized that his goals in life were unrealistic, and attempted to commit suicide, but a dying Dana urged her son to continue living for them. Dana asks Shane why he would do something so foolish, as no normal person would face death the way he did, believing her son possessed incredible bravery. Before Shane could explain that it wasn't bravery that led him to attack the Severen, but rather his foolish delusion to become a hero, Dana reveals that Shane was actually adopted, and that they had found him in a broken pod. She believes that Shane possesses bravery that can only be explained by him not being from this world, but before Shane can ask Dana what she means by this, his mother dies in his arms.

Mayen is rescued by a squad of military soldiers and escorted to evacuation, but before the squad can get there, the Severens had already destroyed the cargo, killing everyone inside. The military troops protecting Mayen along with two other students are defeated by a Severen larger than the others, possessing a face of a woman but her limbs fragmented into a number of parts throughout her alien hide. Dana's final words ring in Mayen's mind, and Shane decides that even if Dana's words were not true, her faith in her son was, and the boy picks up a submachine gun dropped by one of the fallen troops and begins firing at the Severen. Shane's submachine gun bullets deflect off the Severen's hide, and Shane yells at the two students to run as he holds it off. The Severen begins to close the distance, and Shane picks up an assault rifle on the ground and wields it with his other arm, shooting the Severen, oblivious to the fact that he was holding a firearm in each hand and withstanding its recoil, a superhuman feat.

However, despite this, Shane's efforts are fruitless, as he runs out of ammunition in both weapons, and the Severen delivers a nearly fatal blow on the boy, sending him out of the military vehicle and sprawling on the ground. Shane gets to his feet, but realizes he, and the two students are cornered by numerous Severen who have closed in on them. Reminded the dying face of his mother and father, Shane announces that he will not die without giving a fight, and that he may not be a hero, and that he may not be brave, but he will keep fighting because that's what his parents believed in him to be. A fake hero in the eyes of the world, but a saviour in the eyes of his parents, Shane takes out his switchblade and charges the larger Severen, but before he can do anything, the aliens are dispatched and destroyed. Standing between him and the Severen, is an elegantly armoured soldier with patterns unlike the technology of the world.