Personal Background: I suppose the best place to start is with my parents. My dear mother was a Wraith pilot in the Rheinwehr, and she would often take me off-world in my father's civilian shuttle, do a little flying around Altona, all in good fun, teaching me to handle the shuttle when I was of age. I like to think she inspired my career in space. My father though, his employment with Republican Shipping as a low-level manager is what put me through university. I majored in business management, expecting to fill his shoes someday, with a minor in political science. That last part wasn't exactly a coincidence - both my parents had Bundschuh party sympathies, at least at the time, and they'd often discuss the latest efforts of the Volksfront when we had our moments in quiet, so this was something I wanted to learn more about beyond the sparse information they'd impart to me between their busy schedules, especially if it necessitated such hushed tones.
It was about halfway through my schooling, though, that my mother defected from the Rheinwehr after an explosive NeuralNet argument between her and my father. This apparently coincided with the decline of the Volksfront leadership, since I remember them becoming more and more angrily verbose with each other leading up to this incident. My father had told me that she had defected for the purpose of joining the Red Hessians, which infuriated him to no end. He managed to motivate himself to the point that he left me with a sizable sum of Sirius credits, said it would be enough to keep paying my tuition until he was back, and that he was leaving to find my mother and bring her back so that she wouldn't end up consorting with "murderous socialists". He took his shuttle, and he left. I haven't seen either of my parents since then, and I'm not certain I want to anymore. My school fund ran out and my father still wasn't back, so I dropped out and entered Hamburg's tourist service industry. It was a dead-end living like so many others, but I was lucky enough to have mentioned my minimal flight experience in my resume, and apparently that caught the eye of some Orbital Spa and Cruise gentlemen there to work out a deal with the locals to ferry people there on holiday. They offered me a job starside and I took it.
Now that we have that out of the way, I can get to what matters. I flew for Orbital Spa and Cruise for several years as a shuttle pilot, and I've been in scraps against the Rogues before, so I'm not too green when it comes to a fight. I've also served as freelance crewmember on-board a Serenity-class transport for two years as a navigator and second officer. I had a good captain and a tight crew, so I like to think that counts as experience working with a team under pressure. I consider myself to be a practical man for the most part, and I think your resistance might be in dire need of such people.
What brings you to our cause: Well, part of the reason I left Rheinland in the first place was to get away from the ideological struggle that up and stole my parents from me with little explanation. At the time, I just wanted nothing to do with it and to get away, try and find my own path in Sirius. What made me reconsider was being on the ground on Leeds about six months ago. My old transport captain was Bretonian and a patriot, and he and a few of us would occasionally smuggle in medical supplies to the Armed Forces fighting on the ground in a rented freighter, while the rest of the crew took a temporary leave on New London. Seeing him so eager to ferry wounded soldiers and refugees to emergency facilities on Cambridge, you could tell that this was where he was meant to be, helping his people. It made me think of Rheinland, the toils our people have endured under this farce of a government, and it made me want to be here, doing something that mattered instead of trying to eke out a life as a freelancer for the rest of my days. So, I suppose in short, I'm here for the sake of the common working man and woman of Rheinland, to work towards giving them a government that looks out for their interests. This is where I think I should be.
