Giovanni "Pilot" Pilota

Giovanni Brewtaker, better known as Pilot, is the current Vice-Admiral of The Pirate State of Barbossa.

Early Life
Giovanni was found by some Barbossan citizens, unconscious in a rowboat that had beached on the Isle of Krakens. They could not exactly determine age, so they assumed he was around 8. They also couldn't find any information about him, but there was a folded up uniform in the boat he arrived in, with the name 'Giovanni' embroidered inside the collar. He spent the rest of his short-lived childhood as an orphan in the Isle, engaging in theft and other small crime to keep himself fed.

Barbossa had been under Uraka throughout his whole life, so he never got to experience the freedom of Barbossa before the invasion. Although, there was no shortage of stories. These stories inspired Giovanni, who would eventually sneak onto a ship, which he believed to be a pirate ship. However, this was no pirate ship. It was an Irulani merchant ship. It was on a short voyage back to the Irulani mainland, so Giovanni figured it would instead serve as his first maritime adventure.

Well, he was right, this would be an adventure. Not a pleasant one, though. The night after leaving port, he was discovered sleeping in a barrel. The sleep-deprived sailor s that found him decided to put him to work scrubbing the deck, which he would spend all of 5 minutes doing. The ship hit a rock, and began rapidly sinking. The shore was close, so Giovanni jumped from the ship, swimming for the coast. This proved a good idea, as he was the only one to make it back. Nobody knows what happened to the other sailors, but their bodies were never found.

After this, Giovanni fell madly in love with the sea, despite it almost taking his life. When he turned 18, he enlisted into the Barbossan military. Not long after joining, he was assigned to a patrol vessel, which ended up sinking 3 ships while Giovanni served on it. Giovanni, as well as most of the Barbossan military, was sent south to prepare for the upcoming war with the USSE. He eventually took charge of securing Al-Basaad, the fort in which Barbossa would be attacking the USSE from.

During the Battle of Al-Basaad, Giovanni was tasked with overseeing its defense. This would be easy, as the battle ended up being won is under 3 minutes. After the battle, Giovanni was promoted to Oligarch of the newly (re)formed De Vrijmasten Raden, and would go on to be adopted into the Brewtaker family by Erova Brewtaker.

Time in DVR / DE
As an oligarch, Giovanni would go on to build the city of Porto di Stelle, and would even govern his own province, Sirenia. Although he didn't know it yet, Sirenia would become very important in his, as well as De Vrijmasten Raden's history.

During a small border crisis with Alodia, they would reach out to Giovanni, assuming him to be leaning away from DVR. He joined their group, but used his position to peacefully settle the dispute between the 2 nations. These negotiations showed major flaws in DVR's diplomacy, however, which led to Giovanni to becoming the Head Diplomat of DVR, due to his level-headedness. When DVR and Bardonia eventually formed the Dandelion Empire, his title of Head Diplomat carried over to the new empire.

When it was exposed that Michael Imperium was plotting a Sylvanian-backed revolution in the province of New Novice, Giovanni led a swift anti-revolutionary sweep of the province. Michael was banished from all lands of the Dandelion Empire, which now included the newly gained territories of Oceanum and Vladigrad.

Old Banners' Rebellion / Barbossan Independence
As the empire of Uraka began to crumble, conquered nations and vassals plotted an empire-wide revolution. All at once, they declared independence from Uraka, leading it to rapidly collapse. Barbossa was one of these nations, and reformed into a new nation. Giovanni, along with some old Barbossan officials, parted from DVR and took their places in their homeland. When the government was restructured, Giovanni was appointed to Vice-Admiral.

Barbossa itself was a broken land. The War of the Black Flag weakened Barbossa, and the Valorant War destroyed it. Giovanni found the Isle, his hometown, abandoned. Holes still dotted the citadel from wars long ago, and the rest of Barbossa was in a similar shape. Ruins littered the land, and roads were torn up. There was also a new problem, in the form of Squatistan. Squatistan took advantage of the chaos caused by the rebellion and claimed a sizeable chunk of Barbossa, later selling the land to Helsia. On top of this, multiple new settlements had sprung up in Barbossa.

Barbossa had already lost a lot of land, so Giovanni reached out to the leaders of these cities, and was able to get Sindara and High Guard to join under Barbossa. With this, he was free to clean up the land. He began tearing down the ruins and repairing the roads, while other members of Barbossa expanded the Isle. Giovanni also singlehandedly built the island city of Siren's Bay.