Born 23 September 2926, in Odyssa on Borea of the Magnus system. Named Autumn after the season in which he was born, he grew up, along with his two brothers (Spring and Winter) and sister (Summer), watching Drake Interplanetary ships be built and leave Borea. Never having known his father, his mother told stories of how he was the grandson of the founder and namesake of Drake Interplanetary, but the family had been ousted from the company.
Later, Autumn found this to be false but played along with his mother's story until her death in 2942. After she died, he got involved with betting arbitrage on many of the gravlev races that Drake Interplanetary put on to showcase their racers, and eventually Autumn became the owner of one of the race teams where he raced a Dragonfly.
Soon, he had amassed enough money to invest in interstellar spacecraft, and he continued accumulating more and more of such spaceships until the urge to set off on a journey of exploration in one of them grew into the act itself.