How it began...

Tosh Vraugen was born in the industrial system of Kremainn, a tiny system located near the Core Federal Systems, his mother was a security officer working for the ruling faction, Kremainn Corp., and his father was a miner flying his old Lakon Type-6 and prospecting for valuable minerals and metals in the dangerous asteroids fields of Kremainn's gas giants. Life was hard, but in the end of the day, it was honest pay for honest work, however all that changed when a faction known as House of Grebmo showed up in the system, according to the story, the House of Grebmo once belonged to the Empire, but due to some sort of internal conflict with the Empire they fled to Kremainn and defected to the Federation.

When the faction arrived in the system it was pure chaos, most of the Kremainn populace didn't want Empire refugees, especially ones known for being criminals and outlaws, however due to some unknown pacts and treaties with Kremainn Corp. they were allowed to stay in the system and so the civil unrest was installed. Riots started occuring in the settlements and at the system main station, Wohler Terminal, it was in one of those riots that Tosh lost his mother, some thugs from the House of Grebmo ambushed and killed her squad while they were patrolling one of the sectors of Wohler Terminal that was housing some of those imperial refugees. Tosh and his father were devastated, not only he lost his mother but also the family income was greatly reduced, the minerals and metals that his father used to sell to the refineries were barely enough to pay the rent of their small apartment at Wohler Terminal and even less so to afford repairs to the old T-6 and most importantly, to put some food on the table.

Three years passed since the loss of his mother, by this time things have finally calmed in Kremainn, the House of Grebmo was accepted into the federal society and the conflicts with the other factions have mostly ceased, Tosh was 17 and he and his father were completely broke financially, his father got addicted to alcohol and spent most of the time drinking, even while mining in the asteroid fields, and on a fateful day his father was drunk while Core Mining, a mining technique know for using high yield explosives to break open asteroids, he missed the proper timing of activating the explosives and managed to blow his T-6 along with the asteroid, and once again, Tosh lost everything.

Without a single credit to his name, Tosh started working at the loading docks of Wohler Terminal just to be able make some money to buy food at the end of the day, many of the poor citizens of Wohler Terminal had to take low paying and dangerous jobs such as this one, and many also perished or were wounded due to the poor working conditions and the dangers of dealing with heavy machinery and hazardous materials. But Tosh had no other choice, he was no pilot, he couldn't mine like his father and much less use a gun like his mother so he thought he was fated to be a "Dock Boy" as the loading docks workers were called, for the rest of his life.

Two years later, his shift was almost over and as he was about to go to his locker to get changed and go home an alarm sounded, another ship was about to dock and unload, for a moment Tosh thought "Screw this, my shift is over anyway, let the other boys have it" but something made Tosh turn back and check the ship that had just landed. An imponent Anaconda, owned by a grizzled old man wearing an old duster with scars on his face and a fancy cybernetic left eye. He looked at Tosh and said "Hey Dock Boy, get your gear ready, got some stuff to unload here, make it quick and I will pay you extra" Tosh just gave him a nod and started unloading the canisters but then he noticed something was amiss, all the canisters were unmarked and they were also not in the cargo manifest for that ship, then when the old man wasn't looking he used his portable scanner to check what was inside these canisters and to his surprise all the canisters were filled with weapons, AR-50's, Aphelions, Executioners, you name it, there were enough weapons in this shipment to supply a small army, it was then that Tosh felt the cold barrel of a Tormentor plasma pistol pressed against his back, the old man then said "You work for the Feds kid?" Tosh replied "No sir, I-I-I was just checking the cargo, th-there was nothing in the manifest so..." the old man pressed the plasma pistol even harder on his back "Listen son, you have two choices now, either you keep unloading these canisters like you do every single day or you can try to call security and I will make a hole so big in your back that the cleaning service will spend a whole day cleaning your remains from the floor, so what is it gonna be?" Tosh surely didn't want to die over nothing, for whoever or where these illegal weapons were going to it was not his problem, so he just kept doing unloading the canisters, once the last canister was unloaded, the old man said "You are smart kid, here have some extra credits for your loyalty" Tosh accepted the pretty generous amount of credits, it was more than he made in the entire month loading and unloading canisters, so as the man was about to board his Anaconda, Tosh yelled "Can I come with you?!" the old man gave a brief look back and kept climbing the ramp to the ship and as he was about to enter he said "Grab only what you need, you have 5 minutes" and for the first time in years, Tosh had a smile on his face and rushed to grab his stuff, finally he would leave this damned system.

Tosh was now serving under the command of the pirate known as Frederick "Grizzled" Vraugen and his new family was the crew of the Justifier, the mighty Anaconda owned by Frederick. It was under his guidance that Tosh learned to fly and become a pilot and in a matter of months Tosh was helping the crew of the Justifier in running pirate operations all across the Kremainn region, from smuggling, to robbery and sometimes even the occasional political assassination, no job was too hard for Frederick Vraugen and his crew and Tosh became an important part of it,  rapidly climbing the ranks of this motley crew, some of the man even joked that Tosh could be one of Frederick's lost sons due to their good relationship and how their piloting and gunslinging skills were very similar. As the years passed and their experience together grew there was no doubt that Frederick had a lot of consideration and love for Tosh and the same could be said for him, Tosh considered Frederick as his second father, despite missing his real parents dearly, the pirate life was everything for him now and this crew was his family, some could say there is no honor or loyalty among thieves, but that wasn't true for Frederick's Crew.

Jobs, credits and blood...

Tosh and Frederick's Crew have been constantly running jobs in the Kremainn sector for years now, and with their most recent partnership with a pirate faction known as Diamond Frogs, they have become pretty much unstoppable, there were no shortage of jobs and the credits were flowing steadily, despite being in the Criminal Records and Wanted Board of every single Federal faction in the region very few security vessels or even private bounty hunters dared to go after them, the fat credits deposits in the accounts of Federal Officers and just the crew reputation of being deadly and taking no prisoners was enough to turn most people away and this was exactly what Frederick Vraugen wanted: for the feds to fear him, to respect him, to bend the knee to him. Tosh knew there was more to Frederick's story than just being some old fella living the pirate life, so he decided to ask around and even the oldest members of the crew had no idea who Frederick's truly was, most of them joined up for the offer of good pay and comradery and no more questions asked, some even advised Tosh to stop asking around about such a thing, but he was too curious for his own good, so one day he decided to sneak into Frederick's quarter and check his terminal, maybe there he could find a hint of who he really was. The terminal was locked tight, but luckily for him it was Frederick himself who taught him how to bypass security terminals, with an E-Breach in hand Tosh managed to get into the old man terminal and what he found there left him surpised. At first Tosh found what you would usually find in an Pirate Captain logbook, job entries, paychecks, intel on clients, enemies and even his crew but there was something else: battle reports, classified federal logs, transcribed comm logs, but these were not recent, they were old, as in dozens of years old, Tosh went deeper into the logs and he found out that Frederick's was actually a highly condecorated Federal Admiral, he commanded his very own Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser, had over 6000 people under his command from pilots to foot soldiers, hundreds of succesfully completed missions and more... so what could make a man renounce all of this to become a pirate? Tosh had to go through more logs and see if he could find something, Frederick was on a meeting with other leaders of the Diamond Frogs in the Chinicollo system, so it would be a while for him to be back. After 2 hours reading log after log, Tosh finally found what he was looking for, a battle report containing the final reports of the FNS - Bravado, the Battle Cruiser under Frederick's command, most of the info on the log was redacted, but apparently the FNS - Bravado was deployed in an imperial system to support a Federal Military Operation but the imperial forces overwhelmed the federal fleet and despite inumerous calls for backup the feds never sent any reinforcements, the Battle Cruiser was reported lost with all of its 6000 crew members declared dead, including Admiral Frederick Vraugen, and that was it, the justification for all the hatred Frederick had for the Federation, why he tries to undermine them in every way he can and why he just does what he does: the Federation betrayed him, left him and his comrades to die in that system. Tosh found the answer he was seeking for, he locked the terminal back and removed the E-Breach, if Frederick caught him doing this it could be the end of their partnership, perhaps Tosh was the only person that actually knew who Frederick Vraugen truly was. As he left the quarters he could hear the alarm, the captain was back, for a moment Tosh thought about confronting him about the matter, but in a last second decision he decided not to do so, perhaps for the best, as Frederick was pissed about something, the black market contact at Wohler Terminal in Kremainn was arrested following the recent laws approved by the President Zachary Hudson to reinforce security in the systems he controls, from now on the Frederick's Crew couldn't supply illegal goods to Kremainn anymore, but it didn't mean they couldn't do something else, and Frederick already had a plan, they would assault the military complex where the black market contact was being held, take out the personnel and steal whatever they could, however, Tosh now knew Frederick didn't care about the contact, it was all about hitting the feds where it hurts, to simply fulfill his need for vengeance. In a few hours the crew was ready, a Federal Officer was bribed to provide the intel and it turned out the contact was being held at a military facility called Buhle Military Site on planet 4 F in the Kremainn system. The travel to the facility took a while, everyone was quiet, so far the crew had never directly engaged any military facility, doing hit-and-run attacks on a lightly protected convoy is one thing, but heading straight to a military base? That would be something new for the crew, and some were actually afraid that this might be their last run, as the Justifier entered the 8km range the facility attempt to initiate comms with the vessel, but the Justifier replied with a volley of missiles and pulse lasers, the ship took some hits from the Anti Air Turrets but it was not enough to prevent it from landing and deploying the ground troops which were instantly greeted with the incoming fire from Federal soldiers and ground defense turrets, in just a few seconds the landing pad was littered with the corpses of both Federal soldiers and pirates, the facility was on full alert and the Justifier intercepted comms of reinforcements en route to the base, Tosh tried to convince Frederick to fall back to the ship and retreat but the old grizzled man refused to comply, with his plasma pistol in hand he kept shooting at every federal soldier he saw, in a matter of minutes Tosh, Frederick and a handful of pirates were pinned down inside the facility Command Center, it also turned out that the black market contact wasn't imprisoned there, the bribed officer actually sold the crew out. With no chance of victory Frederick gathered Tosh and the remaining man and said "We are truly screwed lads, but this is not the end, listen up, there is an access hatch at the Security Room, you boys go there and escape, I will draw their attention so they won't even notice you guys escaping, and you Tosh, you are the captain now, take the Justifier and get the hell out of here, do you understand me boy?!" Tosh refused to leave his captain side but the other man pushed him away to the access hatch, the last thing Tosh saw was Frederick valiantly charging into the federal soldiers with his plasma pistol in hand, the survivors then escaped the Command Center through the access hatch and just barely made it to the Justifier which was under heavy fire from federal fighters, luckily for them the Frame Shift Drive hasn't been completely destroyed and they managed to jump out of the system. Out of the 55 members of Frederick's Crew that assaulted the facility, only Tosh and another 6 pirates made it out alive, later that day local news confirmed the death of former Federal Admiral and Wanted Pirate Frederick Vraugen, the mission was a complete failure, the crew morale was shattered, the only members that remained after the incident were Dante Rollins and Tori Melendez, they have sworn loyalty to Tosh and they told him he should take the mantle of Captain Vraugen, after all, Frederick wouldn't want his crew and his fight to end this way and Tosh was his most trusted man, Tosh gave it some thought and they were right, the fight had to continue, and the Federation had a lot to pay for... With the help from the Diamond Frogs, the Justifier and it's new commander, Tosh Vraugen, stayed low in the Frog system for a while, it would take a lot of money to hire a new crew and also repair the Justifier but Tosh was ready to go for it and with Dante and Tori at his side, it would be only a matter of time before they would be back in shape and ready to take on the Federation.

The Heist...

It is August of 3307, four years after the death of Frederick Vraugen and the failed assault at Buhle Military Site, during this time Tosh Vraugen and his crew have been operating in Imperial space, right after the events in Kremainn, things were too hot for him and his crew to continue operating in the region, so seeking riches and mercenary contracts far away from the Federation seemed like the wisest thing to do, and in fact, it was. Tosh never been to Imperial space before but it turns out they are pretty much just the same as the feds, the inner disputes between the many factions and of course, the on-going "cold war" with the Federation proved to be very profitable, there were lots of opportunities for sabotage jobs, assassinations and mercenary work at wars, and the latter actually became the crew specialty, the crew and the ships under Tosh Vraugen command grew in size and finding a station large enough to serve as Headquarters and store the fleet was getting difficult, if there is one thing Frederick taught Tosh is to never stay in the same place for too long. While the crew assets were very considerable, they were not enough to buy one of those carriers built by the Brewer Corporation, a fully kitted carrier could cost up to 9 billion credits and the crew barely had 2 billion at the time, but luckily the Diamond Frogs were still running their underground operations in the Kremainn system and Tosh received a tip about a Federal Carrier owned by Kremainn Corp. which was being used to transport massive quantities of refined metals and minerals to systems such as Sol and Nanomam. It all seemed too good to be true, if Tosh and his crew could hijack that carrier, they would finally have a mobile base of operations capable of storing ships, personnel and commodities, after a brief meeting with his man they all agreed the mission could be worth the risk, and so Tosh, Dante, Tori and other 17 members of the crew hopped in their ships and started making their way to Kremainn. As soon as the ships entered Kremainn supercruise the contact panel indicated their target, the FNS - Pride of Kremainn was orbiting planet 2 B, close to Wohler Terminal, the attack would have to be swift or reinforcements from the station would show up and tear them apart. In just a few minutes they were dropping into the carrier location, Dante leaded the bombing team to take out the carrier automated turrets and Tori and her team engaged the few security vessels that were guarding the carrier, during this time Tosh and a small squad of 5 mercenaries used a dropship to blow a hole in one of the landing pads and land inside the carrier. As soon as they left the dropship they were met with federal security resistance, but after some kills the crew of workers and the remaining security officers decided to surrender, Tosh and his mercenaries took control of the command bridge in about 5 minutes. By the time the reinforcementes from Wohler Terminal arrived the carrier was already on it's way to leave Kremainn, the jamming devices that the Diamond Frogs provided ensured that there would be no way to track its position, and so the carrier made it to an remote system about 450 Ly from Kremainn, there was already a crew of mechanics and technicians waiting at the spot to initiate repairs and to override the systems, and so the Sevantya was born, Tosh Vraugen's Crew own fleet carrier, the job wasn't easy and the repairs and technical work weren't cheap but it was worth it.

The road ahead...

The year is 3308, one year after the heist... Frederick Vraugen would be proud... this journey started on that old Anaconda called Justifier with just a handful of people and a "Dock Boy" who had no piloting or combat skills, now the crew has it's own megaship with more than 150 crew members operating as technicians, mechanics, pilots and mercenaries. Perhaps none of this could have happened if that old grizzled pirate didn't give a chance to that young "Dock Boy", a chance which is denied daily to many people out there across human space. Tosh's crew is now stronger than ever, he now have the skills, the pilots and the resources to keep doing Frederick's work. With the failure of the Proteus Wave and all this farse that this "Salvation" individual played on the whole galactic community, perhaps now is the time to get back to business, all the superpowers are busy regrouping and gathering the pieces of their failure... or perhaps this whole thing woked something far more deadly than anything humanity has faced so far and we will have to stick together to survive... well... only time will tell what the future holds for us, but Tosh and his men? They will be ready.