Lieutenant Samuel Dray "Sam" Byrne ES was Gear commando in the COG Army, the son of a Kashkuri named Natalya and Tyran-Gorasni Gear Agustin Byrne, half brother of Sgt.Samuel K. Byrne making him the cousin of Samantha Byrne. Renowned as a hero of the Locust War, and convicted "traitor" after the Battle of Corren, which both earned him the Embry Star, the COG's highest military award, and cost him his career. Like most of humanity, Byrne saw everything change after Emergence Day. He joined the COG Army two years later and fought bravely for thirteen years until the aftermath of the battle in the ruins of Corren City when he was accused of "dereliction of duty" and sentenced to 27 years in Jacinto Maximum Security Prison. After being incarcerated for one grueling year, he was released by his