Mickey Flynn

Mickey Flynn was an American pilot in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He flew combat missions against the Race's Conquest Fleet's killercraft when the Fleet first arrived on Earth in 1942.

After the Peace of Cairo, Flynn became an astronaut, and in 1963 he was selected to serve aboard the Lewis and Clark in the asteroid belt. A little more than twenty years later, he was selected to serve aboard the Admiral Peary on its journey to Home, and went into cold sleep in preparation for this trip.

Flynn piloted the Admiral Peary in Home orbit in 2031, with his longtime friend and comrade Glenn Johnson. When the FTL ship Commodore Perry arrived unexpectedly, Flynn made contact with the ship on behalf of his own vessel.

Flynn accepted the military's offer to retire and return to Earth aboard the Commodore Perry. His many decades in zero-g left him unable to live within a planet's gravitational field, so he spent the rest of his life aboard an American space station.

Flynn possessed a dry wit that allowed him to get the best of many an unprepared conversationalist with his jokes.