Major Raylan Ward was an efficient military officer in the UEE Army under the orders of the Colonel Chris "Cold One" Byrne during a few years on a specialized piloting & boarding intervention team called "The Condors". Nickname's coming from their "scavenging" methods : Using Terrapins for locating, then Gladius for damaging and cleaning small ships then letting the first ones pick the remnants by boarding damaged ships, arresting priority targets.
It's after an unforseen event that shattered is faith in what he was doing that Raylan decided to leave the army. He roamed a few years, trading his skills as a mercenary for a few carefully selected guys, spending his money in the maintenance of his old reconditioned Gladius he bought back from the army, good liquor and weirdly, charities. His whereabouts are unknown but some said that he has been seen around crusader, being the "danger adviser" of a certain Aaron Kane.