Jack Payton

[Jack Payton]

Personal Profile: Jack Payton

Jack Payton, one of the two founders of Emergency Defense Group Enterprise, was born in 776 A.S. in Texas system. Little else is known about his past before he emerged as a successful bounty hunter shortly after the Nomad War. Some say that before the War Payton was a pirate involved in cardamine smuggling, while others maintain that he was a Liberty Security Force officer discharged during the Nomad incursion. There is no doubt, however, that in 801 A.S. Payton became well known as a co-leader of a bounty hunter death squadron called White Eagles. Payton and his wing-men became widely known as superior fighter pilots mercilessly hunting pirates across both weakened Houses and wild Border Worlds. However, in 803 A.S., after two years filled with successful contracts, Payton felt that he lost his edge and retired. During this period, he consistently stayed out of dangerous bounty hunting until he met Walter Sobchak in 813 A.S. For about three years Payton and Sobchak worked in tandem as independent bounty hunters until they accumulated enough resources to launch the Enterprise in 816 A.S. For about three years Payton was co-leading the company, largely contributing to its successes in Upper Taus, Lower Omegas and Cortez-Magellan corridor. In 819 A.S. Payton left the Enterprise, shortly before a contract with the Independent Mining Guild was signed. Not much is known about what happened to him after he left the company. Some say that after the Enterprise was liquidated he became an independent mercenary, others claim that he was repeatedly seen drunk at the Java station.

Read more: Chapter I: The Nomad War
Read more: Chapter II: A Bounty Hunter
Read more: Chapter III: At the bottom
Read more: Epilogue

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