I've been working on ships in one form or another since I first signed up to the crew of a scrap barge at the ripe age of fourteen, where I learnt the spacer's trade among the scrap fields of Sirius. It was a somewhat uncomfortable life, but whatever happened to the good old Bretonian stiff upper lip eh? The pay was good and the crew were like family to me, but all good things come to an end and I parted with the crew on the best of terms to make my fortune in the Armed Forces.
I suppose life didn't change very much. I enrolled as an officer in 788 and spent the next fifteen years in service to the Crown in the southern reaches of Bretonia, serving on the gunboats HMS-Antelope and HMS-Gallant, the latter a particularly fine ship, and then as the principal warfare officer aboard the destroyer HMS-Ramsbottom.
The winds of change eventually blew again in 803 after I decided to take a very sporting voluntary redundancy package following budget cuts to the Fleet. I spent a number of years dabbling in the work of self-employed work in the convoy escort business but it never offered me the security that I find desirable in a job, so in 806 I applied successfully to be given the captaincy of a Hegemon mining ship in the employ of Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing, which I had overseen the running of until two weeks ago.
That job ended with my ship destroyed at the hands of the Corsairs. There is an ongoing investigation into the loss so I am unable to give further details, but I was advised, and chose, to hand in my resignation to BMM.
That leaves me where I am today. Motivation for joining Gateway:
Job security, competitive salary and benefits and the need to be on a bridge again of a ship that helps make the wheels of Bretonian industry turn.
