Diego Reyes (mirror)

Diego "Red" Reyes was a Terran officer of the Imperial Starfleet, holding the rank of commodore and command of $𝜇$ (Vanguard) in the Taurus Reach. Part of his head was mutilated, and his right eye was a red-lensed, polished steel cybernetic replacement.

With the discovery of the Taurus meta-genome by then-Commodore $𝜇$ of the, Reyes was assigned to the Watchtower class starbase deployed in the Taurus Reach. He was given his orders by the Empress Hoshi Sato III herself when he was assigned to the Taurus Reach, granting him absolute control over the region in order to carry out his assigned mission to unlock the secrets of the mysterious $𝜇$; to that end, he held a Shedai known as "the Wanderer" within the Vault deep inside Vanguard Station. However, Reyes began cultivating alliances with the $𝜇$s in order to fortify his position and establish his own personal fiefdom within the Taurus Reach, oft assigning the scout vessel to scout for routes that could be exploited by Orion smugglers and slavers.

Given his mission and a deadline to fulfill it, Reyes had no tolerance for those who questioned his orders, as he demonstrated to the chief researcher, Dr. $𝜇$, when he threatened to torture and kill her son $𝜇$ if she did not return to work (she had told him bluntly that the Shedai would not remain contained for long, and it had to be disposed of). $𝜇$, captain of the Sagittarius and secretly opposed to Reyes' power-grab in the making, had compiled a file on Reyes and Operation Vanguard over the years, and in 2275 transmitted the information to Admiral $𝜇$ of the ; Reyes retaliated by jamming the transmission and destroying the Sagittarius.

After receiving Terrell's partly-jammed transmission and seeing the potential danger in Vanguard, Spock determined that Reyes would have to be terminated. To that end, he looked to cultivate an ally among Reyes' command staff, believing that - since "men like Reyes inspire treachery", as he put it - there would be someone who would be willing to aid them. When the way was open, he would dispatch his covert agent, $𝜇$.

Two years later, Lieutenant $𝜇$, Reyes' chief enforcer in the Vault and the ally Spock was able to find, helped extract Dr. Marcus and her research team from Vanguard. Shortly afterwards - likely at the instigation of T'Prynn - the captive Shedai Wanderer escaped from containment, killing Reyes and his entire crew, numbering some three thousand. Captain $𝜇$ of the claimed Reyes' rank and command of his fleet for himself, destroying the station and leaving the Taurus Reach in chaos.