CMDR Bright Phoenix is fanatically loyal to Aisling Duval after his parents (illegally) escaped from imperial slavery with the help of a splinter group of agents from the Prismatic Imperium.

Using the credits he was saving to reduce his parent's time in servitude, the commander instead joined the Pilot’s Federation and took a sidewinder to Cubeo to aid the cause of the Prismatic Imperium. He even dyed his hair blue in honor of the Princess. The Commissioned Commander currently flies out of Chelomey Orbital in Cubeo for the Branch of Sight, doing whatever he can to help the Princess's cause against imperial slavery. The Commander uses the alias “Bright Phoenix” instead of his real name to prevent bounty hunters from tracking him back to his illegally-liberated parents.

The commander is a resourceful and principled pilot, if not necessarily the sharpest. His recklessness, obliviousness to political matters, and trust of strangers has gotten him into trouble on more than one occasion. Yet the commander has a knack for escaping seemingly perilous situations in one piece. On more than one occasion, the commander was pronounced dead after the destruction of his ship, only to be found “rising from the ashes” in a half-burnt escape pod days later. Those stories of survival, combined with his penchant for gaudy paint jobs, has earned him the callsign, “Bright Phoenix”, a name that has stuck with him to the present day.