CITIZEN DOSSIER

Born on the fringes of civilization where help never guaranteed arrival, his first home was a Clipper—not a temporary shelter, but home. He slept, learned, and watched his father work there. His father was a Drake Interplanetary Field Recovery Investigator, a non-desk job requiring travel to damaged ships, failed systems, and disputed accidents. He examined wreckage, determined causes, and mediated disputes when truth mattered more than blame.He built a reputation by looking closer, never rushing to judgment. "Ships carry evidence," he taught his son. "A wreck is a record of everything before the end."With no traditional schools, his education came from a working vessel. He learned maintenance from failed systems, logistics from misplaced parts, and frontier survival. His father taught him technical limits, but the deeper lessons were about people. A person under pressure, frightened or desperate, makes dangerous choices. Understanding people was always more valuable than knowing how to fight them.