Personal content

Real name
McGyver
Place of birth
Sol
Year of birth
3258
Age
52
Height
183 cm / 6' 0"
Weight
115 kg / 254 lb
Gender
Male
Build type
muscular, but starting to soften up
Skin color
Caucasian
Hair color
Brownish Blond
Eye color
Blue
Accent
Terran
Born in the Sol system, my family decided to head out to the outer systems to try and make a go of it. The Sol system was fine, but with all the people, it was a bit hard to make a decent living. My father was a FSD specialist and mom was a botanist. They figured that between the two of them, they could make a decent living at a larger orbital docking station or even planetside. This worked out well and they finally found themselves in the Eravate system. As I grew older I would help dad with the ships that would come in for repair or upgrades or help mom with the station hydroponics department. This was how life was for my first 17 years...

We never really found out what happened to them...Dad had to go check a ship at a planet side station and mom decided to go with him this time. Their ship was found about 35 km from the station. The Sec Boys said that it had augured in to the surface at about 15 km/sec. It created a crater that was over a click across. Sensor reading detected possible weapons fire signatures but they said that could have also been from the fireball created on impact. Regardless, I was now a 17 year old kid with no parents and no one else to call family. Luckily they had be able to purchase their housing slot, and had enough credits saved to keep everything going for a few years. I was able to keep dad's shop open for a while doing maintenance work on the few ships that would let a kid my age work on them. After a year, I was able to raise enough money to sell dad's shop and get a small ship, a Sidewinder, the Katana - MCG-01. Yeah, it wasn't much, just a basic stock bird with the lowest end modules, but to me, it was the keys to my escaping the station and getting out into the black.

Fast forward 30 years...I still have that old Sidey. It is currently parked at Haxel Station in the LTT 15547 system. I have it a bit more tricked out, and use it mostly to go hit the Hi Sec Res sites looking for pirates bouncing miners. It can handle a scrap to a point, but I think I keep it around more for the nostalgia of it being my First Love. I've had other birds, sold most, bought others...But seeing the Katana sitting there in the dim light of the hanger just brings back that chill I got the first time I boarded her and sat in the command seat.

I have not been back to the Sol system since we left there 46 years ago...One day I might go back. Hear they have an Entry Authorization system in place now or something like that. Gotta get permission to go the the Home System of Humanity. Guess it is to keep the riff raff out...who knows. Until then, I'll just keep hanging around, running missions and avoiding interdiction. Might save up enough to get a Type 7, buff it out and head out on an expedition to explore out beyond the bubble in which I live. But for now, I'll have an ale, a good pipe, and stare out into the black...sometimes I can almost feel my parents staring back at me...Hope I made them proud.