Steffen "Crazy Silverspoon" Krane Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Planet Manhattan, New York System
Background
Steffen Krane is the son of Otto and Leah Krane.
Otto, originally from Rhineland, moved to Liberty for the tax breaks. He married Leah late in life, and together they had Steffen, the eldest and only legitimate child. Otto was not a kind husband or father. He was often abusive of both his wife and son, verbally and, more commonly, physically.
Steffen grew up angry, bitter, and resentful. He grew to hate authority figures with a passion, and if we were to play psychologist, we might surmise that his father’s abusive manipulations helped to shape this. Despite all this, Steffen grew up surrounded by wealth and luxury. It was a cushy life when his father wasn’t beating him. And given how much Otto traveled for work, especially as Steffen reached his teen years, the beatings grew scarce. Regardless Steffen always saw his home as a gilded cage and moved out of it as soon as possible. His father would give him no money, so he had to earn his way. Always craving the wealth he grew up with, Steffen sought to enter the most lucrative business he could find, and thus he began dealing cardamine in Manhattan. This introduced him to the Rogues. Coming from a wealthy background did nothing to endear him to the Rogues. But his absolute hatred for the authorities, and his aptitude for all things involving money (likely an accidental gift from his father) soon earned him friends among their ranks. This didn’t stop them from giving the nickname “Silverspoon.” His greed for wealth and his willingness to do anything to get it, no matter how suicidal, prompted them to tack another word to that nickname- “Crazy.” And crazy he was. “Crazy Silverspoon” flew for years in a little Startracker, refusing to buy a better vessel because it would cost valuable money.
One day, a long, sleek ship, a Falchion, docked at Buffalo, and out stepped Steffen. He would explain nothing about where he got it or why. But ever after that those closest to him noticed occasional cash deposits to his account. Had it not been for his eagerness to kill every Liberty agent and officer he came across, some would have surmised he was on the take, feeding information to the LSF. But Steffen would rather blast the escape pod of a Liberty officer than tractor them in and waste space in his cargo hold. “Cops ain’t nothin’ but a waste of space.” He would often say. “And I ain’t having one of those pigs waste space in my ship.”
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