Fenris “Fenner” Astrid Erikson (June 22, 3263 – ) was born and raised in the heart of the Alliance of Independent Systems, Alioth. His formative years were spent in a small suburb of Garden City on Turner’s World. His parents Stof and Glynda Erikson (Hammer) were young adults during the rise of the Alliance of Independent Systems, ultimately finding one another through a shared desire to be a part of the Alliance’s new galactic vision. Subsequently, they were hardworking, industrious, true believers in the ideals extolled by the Alliance. That enthusiasm for the vision shaped the Erikson household into an environment steeped in the ideas of liberty, democracy, courage, exploration, and self-determination.

Fenris’ father Stof was strong-willed, fiercely loyal to those he cared about and legendarily foul-mouthed. As a young man, he enlisted in the fledgling Alliance Defense Force (ADF) and served for four standard years as a Fire Control Specialist, first in the Sirius system aboard a Lakon Spaceways Asp Scout performing anti-piracy and systems security sorties . After nearly a standard decade he moved into an even more perilous assignment as part of a Type-9 Heavy crew responsible for resupply and support of Alliance expansion systems well beyond The Bubble. Stof’s tales of ferocious ship-to-ship space combat, dangerous ship boarding, close quarters small arms combat in zero-G and innumerable encounters with criminals and paragons and everything in between planted a seed in his son After being honorably discharged from the ADF, he worked as a water treatment and purification specialist in a host of facilities operated by Sirius throughout Alliance controlled space, eventually settling on Turner’s World where he would meet his future wife Glynda.

Fenris’ mother Glynda was a dedicated public servant, working nearly forty years as an educator before retiring. Where Fenris’ father was the fiery protector, his mother was the calming nucleus and bedrock of the Erikson family. She encouraged curiosity, exploration, imagination, and creativity, but also demanded toughness, compassion and accountability. Her quiet, determined commitment to both her family and her work instilled an unyielding work ethic in her eldest son and his brother.

Fenris repeatedly cites his mother as a primary inspiration for his journey from aimless dreamer to avid explorer, feared bounty hunter and self-made, interstellar multibillionaire.

Early life and the Pilots Federation

From an early age, Fenris took the credo of Alliance independence to heart. His grade school years were marked by begrudging academic success, while his heart, imagination and often his full attention were with the stars. In April of his ninth year, he was discovered attempting to stowaway as livestock on a Type-9 freighter destined for Mars in Sol. The day after his thirteenth birthday, an Imperial pilot performing preflight checks found the lanky, would-be adventurer squeezed into her ship’s forward landing gear compartment - nothing but a well-worn vac suit and its B-rated shield generator to protect him from the void.

Much to his mother’s chagrin, Fenris focused all his energies on earning a commander’s license, rather than carrying on with his academic studies. Consequently, he breezed through the Pilots’ Academy at the top of his class, joining the Pilots Federation as soon as he was of legal age. Commander’s license and ship’s loan agreement in hand, he launched from Dromi’s famed Mawson Dock, gleefully steering a well-worn Faulcon DeLacy Sidewinder MkI – christened Loki’s Gambit – through the station’s slot, past the shelter of its toast rack and out into the infinite expanse beyond.
Like commanders with nothing but a new-to-them Sidey and a desire for interstellar adventure, Fenris began his journey with light bounty work, operating in accordance with Dromi System Security as a privateer bounty hunter assisting with anti-piracy patrols in resource extraction sites (RES). His brief career scraping pirate’s paint with the Gambit’s humble armament yielded enough profit to allow for the purchase a Zorgon Peterson Adder, simply known as Adder, which he immediately outfitted for the lower risk, higher fiscal reward endeavor of asteroid mining. In the process of acquiring Adder, Fenris would leave Dromi and the relative safety of Pilots Federation space behind forever to finally answer the Milky Way’s siren song.

In short order, he was able to acquire a Lakon Spaceways Asp Explorer (ApsX), which he baptized Muninn after one of the Norse god Odin’s world traversing ravens. Muninn made a serviceable rock collector, but every commander knows that the AspX yearns to leap from star to star like a Labrador bounds across a suburban backyard - an eager companion in the act of joyous exploration. A top tier laser mining platform she would never be, and it quickly became apparent that an upgrade to the king of all middleweight, multipurpose spacecraft was in order. So it was that Fenris came to acquire his own example of Faulcon DeLacy’s glorious Python, christened Njord after the ancient Norse god of prosperity. During the painite market bubble of 3306, Fenris and his wondrous Python gorged themselves on painite mining profits, flying countless extraction sorties in and out of the overlapping hotspots Synuefe UZ-X c17-10 1A’s bountiful rings.

Njord has exceeded all expectations during its time in the Erikson fleet, both financial security and total independence in its role as a laser mining monster and later as a masterful passenger ferry. Conducting innumerable “Robigo runs” to the galaxy’s famous tourist beacon at Sirius Atmospherics in Sothis system from Robigo’s remote outposts paid astoundingly well, swelling Fenris’ personal coffers to bursting. This combination of relentless mining and ultra-efficient tourist transportation would make Fenris a billionaire, opening the door to possibilities as limitless as the galaxy itself.

Joy in Exploration

Robigo Mine’s rabid tourism wrapped Fenris in one of the galaxy’s most powerful shields – wealth - but he has always been a man who considers material wealth to be a means to an end, a stairway to higher aspirations. So Fenris used this newfound largess as nourishment to feed his hunger for exploration. That hunger has in turn spurred his pursuit of ships and components with ever greater performance capabilities. At its heart, all of Fenris’ work and toil has been in service to his childhood dream of galactic exploration. Inservice to to that dream, and at substantial expense, he hired Felicity Farseer’s team of frame shift drive (FSD) magicians at Farseer Incorporated to tune a gray market, prototype A-rated, class 5 FSD extending Muninn’s maximal jump range to a previously unimaginable 70 light years (LY).

Fenris proceeded to jump his beloved AspX tens of thousands of lightyears, often on random, ad hoc sightseeing trajectories, changing vectors at a whim - relying on young stars, an A-rated fuel scoop and sometimes pure chance to keep he and his ship functional in the black. He scanned previously unknown worlds of water, gas, and rock. He drove his SRV across hostile landscapes of cavernous ice, shuffled his way up and down crater scarred worlds devoid of all life and trundled across stellar bodies blanketed in strange, utterly alien life. He harvested ancient materials, schematics and encoded wisdom from Guardian ruins on far flung moons. He stared awestruck at the sight of living Thargoid relics on the fringes of documented space. He and Muninn ventured beyond the outer edges of the California nebula, through the heart of the mysterious Witch Head and onward to the furthest fringes of the Milky Way.
The desire for ever greater jump range, flexibility, carrying capacity and survivability in the black inspired the subsequent purchase of Faulcon DeLacy’s elegant Krait Phantom – launched as Huginn, Odin’s second mythical raven and sister ship to Muninn – and finally a Faulcon DeLacy Anaconda fully optimized for a jump range that would eventually surpass 80LY. It would be this Anaconda - which he dubbed Mjollnir, after the ancient Norse god of lightning’s mythical hammer – that has carried Fenris to Colonia and even the galactic core and Sagittarius A*.
The Pilots Federation’s Elite rank in exploration was achieved organically as part of this relentless need to wander. While it was Fenris’ first taste of Elite rank status, it would not be his last.
Prosperity in Trade

The credits earned as an asteroid miner yielded Fenris an opportunity to acquire a Type-9 Heavy of his own; Hvalr – either a mythical Norse giant counted amongst the jötnar (giant kind), or an ancient, proto-German word for the aquatic, Earth mammal known as whales today. Hvalr had what no other ship in Fenris’s fleet could boast, a massive storage bay capable of enveloping nearly 800 tonnes of cargo in its voluminous hold. Where mining was incredibly profitable, it was also time consuming and at times extremely dangerous. Pirate plagued extraction sites designated as high or hazardous – aka lawless – while highly fruitful from a yield perspective, require the sacrifice of maximum payload for the sake of substantial firepower and constant vigilance, so as not to be caught defenseless and off guard by roving wings of would-be thieves. Space trucking on the other hand, could be made measurably safer with clever route planning and patience, while yielding significant profits.

In contrast, the relatively safe, highly profitable exercise of loading and unloading a massive space freighter was alluring to Fenris at a time when he was feeling ready to take a break from full-time mining. Station-to-station trade presented Fenris with an opportunity to work fewer hours and with more variety. Hvalr paid for itself several times over in a matter of days and Fenris found himself ascending to the rank of Elite trader in what felt like no-time at all.

Purpose in Combat

“Veni, vidi, vici” – Julius Caesar. A quote from antiquity attributed to a legendary conqueror, but like everything from the Terran Ages, its provenance is always suspect. Fenris is no world conqueror who entered the world with a bone deep desire for self-glorification and a thirst for domination. He is a philosophical thinker, a pragmatic risk taker and someone who is always acutely aware of the life and death reality of ship-to-ship violence in the void. Like most armed combatants, Fenris came to his martial endeavors out of necessity. Being able to competently employ weapons in self-defense bounty hunting is one of the most lucrative sources of income for a fledgling pilot in the black with the lowest point of entry.

At the beginning of his career, the flash of ship-to-ship laser fire provided a visceral thrill. Spiraling through an asteroid field riddled with desperate pirate gangs hungry for their daily bread, he took pride in his developing pilot skills, his talent with fixed hardpoints and his contributions to the safety of those who were simply trying to earn an honest living cracking asteroids. Eventually, the thrill wore thin, the amount of effort was no longer offset by the reward and his gaze moved on to trade, mining and exploration. For a time, Fenris settled into the rhythms and routine of a full-time space trucker, enjoying the regularity after a fateful encounter during a return trip from a day of mining in his glorious Python Njord.

An ultra-aggressive pirate wielding a fully outfitted Anaconda interdicted him during final approach to Thuot Hub in the Tihtipihin system. Fenris’ cargo hold was filled to overflowing with refined painite, a hot commodity in expansionist space at the time. With less than 300Ls between his ship and a payout of nearly two hundred million credits, he was yanked from supercruise and immediately set upon by a massive, midnight black Anaconda. The Anaconda bore no identifying markings and Njord employed minimal shielding – an off the shelf class 3 bi-weave – so the outcome was inevitable. The pirate’s massive lasers made short work of Njord’s tiny shields and the attacker’s huge multi-cannon shredded the ships hull as if it were constructed of sack cloth. Fenris was fortunate enough to escape the encounter with his life and enough credits for a rebuy. However, the encounter inspired two years of extremely enthusiastic, some would say obsessively intense anti-piracy and bounty hunting that would ultimately prove even more lucrative than any of Fenner’s myriad other prior endeavors.

Marriage and Children

Fenris married Larren Erikson (Denoch) (January 1, 3273 - ) in May 3305. They have 4 children together.
• Ki Denoch-Erikson (April 9, 3295 - )
• Lachlan DeLarian Erikson (June 17, 3304 - )
• Annaleia Erikson (March 17, 3307 - )
• Lynne Erikson (March 17, 3307 - )

Recognition

Empire of Achenar Imperial Navy Auxiliary: Achieved Rank of King
Federation of Star Systems Federal Navy Auxiliary: Achieved Rank of Admiral
Pilots Federation: Achieved Exploration Rank of Elite
Pilots Federation: Achieved Trade Rank of Elite
Pilots Federation: Achieved Combat Rank of Elite