James Rico Hernandez was an officer of the UTSEA and served loyally until the Kanderarch Incident , he and his Lieutenant Noemi Cerda rebelled against the UTSEA after the flash freeze, the SkyTiger II and the Dominion fired on the Earth's Fury killing 102 crew members outright, the ship lost it's Gravitic Drive and crashed upon Kanderarch's surface 1702 more crew members were killed including Hernandez himself being crushed by a bulkhead of the ship.
30 years later in 2526 Hernandez was memorialized at the Admiralcy in Antarctica.