Pilot

In a broad sense, a pilot is someone who pilots a vehicle. In a narrow sense, the Pilot is the protagonist of Starlancer, a volunteer man or woman who joins the 45h Volunteers at the outbreak of The Sol War and represents you, the player. Beyond customizing your callsign and the gender (which determines the pilot's voice), you cannot determine your character's appearance and as the rest of the game takes place from a first person perspective.

As the pilot, you fight on the frontlines of the war and witness its pivotal events, rising in rank as your number of kills increases (although even if you're a killing machine with no equal, you will never be issuing orders, merely following them.