I was born on Reagan's Legacy in Delta Pavonis, where my parents were terraformers specializing in oceanography. We lived in a habitat city on the sea bottom, but whenever I could I would get to the surface, especially at night, to see the stars. I went away to Sol to university studying astrophysics. But, my ideas were too radical and without tenure I turned to exploring the Galaxy. I got a nice settlement from the last place I taught, enough to get a small ship, a Sidewinder. From there I've been working my way to better ships to explore with.