The Controller frequently requested updates on the research team’s progress, but never left his fortress on P3-X2 to personally see the Artifact. Several weeks later, the Artifact was found on the unnamed planet. He told the Commander to focus on the CSS while he dealt with RWI and the other “irritants” in the way of his plans. However, until sometime around the fateful Battle of the Colonies, the Controller kept the GDA’s true might hidden.Īt the outbreak of the Green Drone War, the Controller summoned the military leader, the Commander, to his chambers and reprimanded him for failing to stop Captain Jack and his Colonist Survivors from escaping the GDA’s trap at an unnamed planet. The Controller ordered several more strikes against the Colonists, DRF, and even small RWI battle group consisting of two Defender-class Frigates, the Gauntlet and the Stalwart. The Controller himself had stayed hidden, until he revealed his evil plans to the two sides and drove them from the facility with a battalion of A-Bot drones. Up until this point, Green Drone scouts had been making preliminary strikes on various life-forms on P3-X2, including INIC personnel and the Tenth Supply Convoy members Bashful, Lyderian, and Kevin. One was a group of Colonists led by ex-RWI Captain Jack Roberts the other being a unit of soldiers from the Drone Reactionary Force led by Arron. Two opposing factions simultaneously stumbled upon the base. The Controller was first discovered by outside presences on the desert planet P3-X2 in an underground maintenance facility that housed his chambers and factory lines for producing the GDA’s weapons of war. However, it is known that at some point the Controller learned the history of the Artifact and how it connected the GDA to their future. It is also unclear whether or not the Controller is completely drone, completely alive, or a cyborg-like being. Much of the Controller’s early origins are completely unknown - how or when or by whom he was created, how long he waited to build and unleash the GDA on the galaxy, or why he was created to lead the Green Drones.