Patrick Attenborough

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Mr Attemborough was a journalist in the former Free Planets Alliance, and the father of Dusty Attemborough.

As a teenager, Dusty Attemborough initially wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a journalist. Mr. Attemborough, however, discouraged his son's dreams, pushing him to a military career instead. Eventually, Mr. Attemborough told his son that, as a condition for allowing him marry Mrs Attemborough, his father-in-law forced him to promise that he would raise his son to be a soldier.

All of Mr Attemborough's children, however, were girls, and his father-in-law died in battle against the Galactic Empire a few months before Dusty was born. Believing her newborn son to be the reincarnation of her father, Mrs Attemborough named her her son Dusty after her father.

Dusty adamantly refused his father's request, only aquiescing when his father fell to his knees, crying. Compromising, they decided that Dusty would attend both the military academy and the FPA Officer Academy. Ultimately, Dusty was accepted into the military school, but was not accepted into university.

Upon his son's entrance into the military academy on Heinessen, Mr Attemborough gave him a "lucky charm" that his father-in-law had given him on his wedding day: a rusted key. He claimed that once, while in Dusty's grandfather's pocket, it had saved him from a bullet (despite the key itself having no marks to corroborate). (SL: 'The End of One Journey')

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Memorable quotes

• "After more than a hundred arguments and three fistfights, I finally persuaded him."
• "Just the other day I wished for you to fail your university exams, and that wish actually came true!"