A long time ago there was this young boy named Ian Dobesh. He was born on planet Holstein to a family of terraforming engineers. He grew up on a nice world, safe and protected from any danger. But during his teenage years he, like many other boys of his age, grew bored with the calm and peace of Holstein. So, he eventually joined the Navy. As a fresh new recruit he was one of the last group of RM officers drafted in service during the Rheinland-Liberty war. He faught in several battles for Texas, invaded New Hampshire with operation Klondyke and faught a bloody war for the honor of Kanzler and Rheinland. But after a very unfortunate battle in Hamburg, where RM lost the greaters number of ships during the whole war, he quit.

With an honorable discharge for medical reasons actually. But the medical reasons were actually severe PTSD(post-traumatic stress disorder) and a terrible fear of flying. For Ian it was a long trip from bad to worse. He started drinking, he left Rheinland, worked in Bretonia as a dock-worker, but got fired for excesive drinking. And trust me, when you get fired in Bretonia for drinking it means you're doing something really really wrong. Eventually he was out of work, out of money, with no bed and no booze, slowly dying on the streets of New London. And that's when he met a trader named Jason Nesmith, who recognized his face from one of the RM posters from the time of war. He told Ian the most important phrase of his life: "The ticket to the future is always blank!" He gave Ian another chance. Chance for a decent life. He gave him enough money to buy a fighter and employed him as his escort. Later when Ian paid of his debt, Nesmith introduced him to some Bounty Hunters he knew. And so Ian became a hunter.

Of course he still kept his ties with Jason. And so, when he heard that his friend's ship was brutally attacked without remorse and with no care for human life he took upon himself to find that animal that put Jasn and his son in hospital and for the first time in last decade he was out for blood. Nesmith was able to get a picture of the pirate Roc that attacked him and Ian spent several weeks pulling strings, collecting on old debts and making new ones just to get his hands on the pirate named Heidi.Corefall Eventually one of her friends sold her out for some quick cash and Ian caught her in Cambridge. The battle was brutal. Heidi and a Corsair accomplice of hers against Ian. But Ian was driven by rage and his military skills helped him to emerge victorious.

And then it all came to a stalemate. Ian had the pirate girl in his hold, but she was armed and promised Ian that if he'll attempt a forced entry, she would shoot. Ian on the other hand promised, that if she attempts to escape he'll dump the escape pod out of the airlock and will blast it to pieces. And as always when the emotions cool off, they started to talk. First it was more of a one side taunting the other but eventually they got to the core of their argument. Heidi talked about her childhood and the fact that she never belonged anywhere nor was she ever wanted by anyone, not even by her parents, Ian talked about the war and that he doesn't want to kill or hurt anyone anymore. Eventually he told her the same phrase that Jason Nesmith told him on Planet New London, that "The ticket to the future is always blank!" and everyone gets another chance no matter how bad they think they are and how bad their life was. In the end Heidi climbed out of the pod crying and they embraced each other and cried to their heart's content.

Later on, after he made sure that Heidi was well and safe among the Bounty Hunters Guild, after giving one last toast to the funny ways in which the fate works, Ian climbed to the cockpit of his Orca gunboat and decided it was time for new adventures. And after a few months of hunting Ian found out that BH business was not for him anymore. Now in his forties Ian was looking for a calmer environment. He wanted to start a family, maybe buy a nice house in Liberty, have a safe and pleasant job that would still let him fly his "flying Porsche" but something where his life wasn't on the line every day, he wanted to get a steady job that was not paid by the head of a dead pirate, but to have a stable pay that he can bring home every month. He wanted job with free Saturdays and he wants a company of people of his age, not just young jocks with no family who only think and talk about kills, bounties, booze and women. And he has decided to give Interspace Commerce a chance to be what he wants.