Winterborn

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[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]L[color=#99AA99]ike I said way earlier however, I don't remember that much of my really early childhood.

I know from my parents that I was the cause of much worry in my early days, having been a sickly and fragile child. Many a night they would spend watching over me, one of them napping and the other wide awake when I caught a cold, Mumps or Measles. That all changed as I started to grow a little more however and it wasn't long until we moved. My parents were living off their military pensions, and while those were more than enough to keep our little family sustained, well...

As the saying from ancient Earth goes: "You can expel nature with a pitchfork, yet she will return through another window." Even though I was the center of the universe for my parents, the focal point of their lives, they both thirsted for work, for things to do, for things to explore. A way to be more than just the parents of my own self.

The destination they would choose was the Stuttgart system, more precisely the - again - watery world known as Baden-Baden. Investing their savings into buying what would become my home for the better portion of my early life, into my very early twenties, they afterwards set out to make themselves useful.

An opportunity came as Orbital Spa and Cruise's presence slowly rose on that glorified holiday resort of a planet along with the local - who would have thought - fishing industry. In the end it wasn't the extensive knowledge my parents had acquired as members of two different house militaries which paved the way for their and my own future, but more or less their combined knowledge of Kusarian and Rheinlander practices in the fishing industry - with my father originating out of a long bloodline of traditional Kusari fishermen who had risen up the corporate ladder steadily, and my mother having extensively studied both the practices and customs of Kusari and Rheinland corporate culture, they quickly found employment in a small private company which would over the years, thanks to them, rise to become one of the more dominant companies on the Rheinland fish market. Of course, their military knowledge pertaining to the whole leadership-thing - they had afterall both served as command officers in their respective militaries - came in very handy as they climbed up the ladder themselves and began managing increasingly larger assets of the company, developing new business strategies and the like on the way.

And all that while they lovingly took care of me over the years as I grew to be quite the bothersome teenager.