Having spent the last 7 cycles floating through deep space in suspended animation Minaros was recovered by salvage crew for Aisling Duval. The technicians were dumbfounded how a cry tube had drifted here from Federation space. After being awakened by the empire medical staff he had little to no rememberence to who he was or how he got there. This was blamed to the cryontube running on minimal life support. After weeks of therapeutics and medical nanobots he began remember som of his past. He remembers enlisting with the federation but not much else after that. Thankful for he revival by the empire he has since pledged himself to the Empire.

Aisling Duval staff got Minaros back into a stock Viper while they used his DNA to try and find out more about him in the galactic registry. After about a week they did come upon a heavily modified Vulture fighter craft that was in deep, cold storage with his DNA imprint on it.
Since then he has been steadily rising in the ranks of the Empire