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[Praxor23]

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Primary Information

Name: Darius Vair

Age: 41

Citizenship: Independent



Biography:

Much of my early life was spent drifting from station to station throughout the Border Worlds and Edge Worlds. When I was very young my father who worked aboard a BMM mining ship ‘The Celestial Spirit’ was killed in an Outcast raid. With very little in the way of credits and no compensation from the BMM after the attack my mother was left to raise me on her own with virtually nothing to support. Much of my youth was spent scampering around the decks of Freeport 7 with the other children who inhabited the station. At a very young age I found that I had an affinity for anything to do with mechanics and engineering. Often I would hang around the docking bays of the Freeport picking up small maintenance and repair jobs on the ships that docked in an effort to earn some extra credits. As soon as I turned 16 in order to support my mother further I secured a position on a convey headed for planet Kurile and left the Freeport. That’s how I spent the next 6 years, going from convoy to convoy just trying to find at least semi-permanent work.

When Freeport 7 was destroyed, my mother along with it, I slowly slipped into a drunken depression. I don’t know how much time between then and when I met the Captain, must have been a year at least. There I was a drunken wreck lying in an alley outside a hole of a bar in the lower levels of some forgotten station somewhere in the Tau’s. I don’t know what he saw in me, must have been some potential or I wouldn’t have been signed up. His name was Lyons Vaughn, an ex-Kruger Minerals miner turned independent. He was as wise as he was experienced while also being stern but fair. To put it simply he was my mentor an eventually my best friend. He got me on my feet again and before I knew it I was standing outside an obscure docking bay on some level of the station. His ship the ‘Fortune’s Prospect’ was the grandest and the oldest ship I had ever laid eyes upon. An old DU5-7Y mining vessel its hull was weathered with age and plasma and laser scoring pock-marked the structure.

The next 10 years from then on would be the best and most defining years of my life. After so many years of wandering I had found a home Lyons had not just selected me to be just another crew member but to be his protégé as well. Lyons was my guide and teacher. He taught me the art of navigation, when a smuggler would be offended If you offered him too little for his services and whether a pirate would pose a real threat or just be microwave ready cannon fodder. After 7 years aboard the Prospect I had become an established and trusted member of the crew and the captain’s second in command. Around this time though Lyons had become increasingly ill, often retreating to his cabin not to emerge for days at a time. With this occurring the crew looked to me more and more for guidance and my position of command became more prominent and demanding. The next 3 years were a repeating cycle, of highs and lows and struggles to pull through. Lyons eventually passed away though he left me with one more surprise, this would prove to be one of his greatest gifts of all. He had given me the ‘Fortune’s Prospect’ itself.

Secondary Information

Outline the Independent Miners Guild goals:

One of the IMG’s most integral goals is to provide honest labour to its members where the money earned goes to the actual worker not some corporation or house. This work orientated policy ensures the most well-known of the IMG’s goals is fulfilled, that fair treatment and adequate profit from honest labour is up held.

What can you contribute while in the guild?

All I can promise you is a hardworking crew and ship willing to do some honest work for honest pay and with this in mind hopefully help carve out a place in this harsh universe which everyone can benefit from. I and my crew are experienced in both asteroid and planetoid mining. If you do accept me into the ranks of the IMG I will do my best to uphold the guild’s core values.

What are you personnel reasons for joining the guild? Which department would you like to join?

I have been the captain of the ‘Fortune’s Prospect for a number of years now. Lately I have been finding it hard to secure any really profitable contract from clients because they turns use down in favour of corporate owned and operated mining ships. Because of this I have found that I have been barely able to meet the maintenance costs for the ship and I fear I will have to sell her, which is something I dread the most. Otherwise I might have to find work with the BMM and with what they did to me and my mother that is something I would not consider unless I was very desperate. I would like to apply for a position within the mining department.

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OORP Information

Skype ID: Praxor23

How long have you played for? Have you joined any factions before?

I have played on and off for a few years now but never really gotten into discovery until now. I have joined no other factions before.

Have you been sanctioned before? No