Farstrider Consortium / FARSTRIDER

Note: Also a place to save some character history.

2913 – Victor Komnenos, an Origin Jumpworks executive, relocates his family to Terra with the shift in corporate headquarters.
2922 – Markos is born to Victor’s son Joshua, an Origin non-technical executive and his wife Sasha, an engineer with Origin.
2923 – Alistair Villeufort is born to Joshua’s sister Vivian and her husband Emile Villeufort.
2938 – Emile loses his job at Origin and moves his family to Quasi to take a position with Crusader Industries’ Platinum Bay landing facilities. The cousins are parted.
2939 – Joshua gives Markos an Origin 80x, precursor to the 85x, for his 16th birthday. Markos immediately flies from New Austin to Quasi to see Alistair. After meeting up and sneaking some alcohol, the two nearly crash into one of the ruins and are grounded by the local police but released quickly on the basis of their last name.
2941 – Markos enters into the prestigious Wei-Yin Song University in Prime. He plans to major in biology and xenobiology, but fails to graduate spending 2 years in school after an argument with his family over being a civilian versus a citizen.
2941 – Alistair, after completing 3 years in a UEE-funded civilian engineering program, steals the designs for a cutting edge military engine design and sells them to a freelance ship component company. He is arrested and is given a choice of 3 years UEE Navy service or prison. He takes the service. Discovers he possesses a natural aptitude as a pilot and an engineer.
2943 – Markos joins the UEE Navy. Ends up as a scout and SAR team member, both pilot and medic, thanks to his background in biology. Meets Syndic Harlan and the two become friends.
2946 – Alistair finishes his required service, and to everyone’s surprise, remained on for one additional year as a technical advisor and training officer. Uses the funds from his commission to purchase a Freelancer DUR with the experimental engine design and immediately disappears into deep space for one year, returning with charts of a previously undiscovered system. Alistair contacts Markos, who presumed him dead somewhere in deep space, and the two begin talks of founding a deep-space exploration and trade company.
2947 – Markos finishes his tour of duty. Takes his inheritance and founds the Farstrider Consortium with Alistair, Harlan, and a few others, a grandiose name for a bunch of friends and his cousin. But it grants them access to equipment and licensing not available to private individuals, even citizens.