- Left earth at age 20, hitched a ride on a cargo ship.

- Cargo ship got attacked by raiders, Ash could join them or die. He chose to live.

- After a month or 2, the raiders clash with pirates. The pirates won and Ash jumped ship. Better to join the pirates who had some few moral values and a code, than ruthless raiders that kill almost anything the cross paths with. The lesser of two evils.

- After 5 years Ash worked himself up as a pirate, and after the passing of their captain, he became the new leader.  

- This did not fall well with other crewmembers, some of which were waiting for the captain to pass, so they could take over and continue more ruthless and without a code.

- Presured by the crew and fear for mutiny, Ash decided to attack an Aliance transport ship.
After the battle which they won, he is betrayed by the pirates, his ship destroyed and he is left by the pirates, in an escape pod in space.

- Aliance reinforcement come and find Ash and capture him.

- On journey to Aliance HQ the convoy get's attacked by Empire forces. Ash managed escape his holding cell, but is forced to help Aliance fight the empire.

- After the battle, the Aliance give Ash a chance to join them and prove he's not a cold blooded pirate. He becomes a fighter pilot in a small squadron. Flying Viper mk 3's.

- After the war, Ash still had to pay of the bounty on his head from the pirating. He did so as a Bounty Hunter using his old Viper from the war, called the Serpent I.

- When he paid off the bounty and earned enough, he bought himself a Salvage ship and started working as a salvager for an independent Salvaging company. He stored the Viper since he didn't want to fly the Serpent I again if he had the choice. It originaly was the fighter of his war buddy, who died fighting alongside him.

- On one of his salvaging jobs he crossed paths with his old pirate crew who took revenge on him for hunting pirates when he was a bounty hunter. They blow up his ship and leave him to die.. again.

- He is saved but left with a scarred face and a prostetic eye, being broke and shipless.

- He found freelance work for as a navigator and co-pilot on a transportship for a big colonial corp.

- After sertain tragic events on one of the voyages of this ship, he quits and gets a wealthy sum from the corporation to keep his mouth shut.

- In 'midlifecrisis' used the money to buy a racer. An eagle named: Swordfish. (he either still did not want to even touch the Serpent I, or he simply forgot where he left the ship)

- He reconnected with friends from the independent salvaging company and soon after loses the Swordfish, and a lot of his cash in gambling. Eventualy he used his last scraps to buy a cheap thirdhand Adder named the Sparrow.
Which he uses as a transport/smuggling vessel.



Present (10 years after leavin the pirates) :

- He borrows the Swordfish (retrofitted as a nimble fighter) from his salvaging buddies to bounty hunt for extra cash.

- In a complicated relationship with a young woman named Mila. A daughter of a Aliance Major and a former Aliance fighter herself. Now after the war she owns a bar on a station.

- Buys and fixes up a 'new' hunk 'a junk Asp Explorer. The Scarab. A long distance exploration/multirole ship for a final voyage to Sol, to see Earth again before the Thargoids attack.

- He doesn't plan to stay and fight, but rather take a quick holiday before traveling to the center of the universe, taking smuggling/transport and bounty hunter missions allong the way.

- Mila get's  angry at him for not wanting to flight the bugs when she finds out Ash wants to run.

- Old salvage friends who help him with the Asp try to convince him to take his old Viper stealthfighter (Serpent I) to join the fight against the Thargoids.

- Ash upgrades the Viper to a Mk.IV (and names it: Serpent II?)

- Later finds out his old pirates ship was salvaged by a rival salvaging company. He hesitates about buying it back, but by now Ash has docked his AspX at the Gnosis after visiting Sol, and is about to jump into the unknown...