After getting shot twice in the head, Danny then stacked the deck and switched from courier to bounty hunter on his home-world of Okinura 6. After becoming a formidable fighter, he was recruited into the Federal Navy. post-service he returned to independent work.

Working with his Bounty hunting partner from Okinura, Markus Carabine, he eventually met Nur Munsi after he rescued her escape pod and she signed on as a chef for the idiots after seeing how abused their "chef mike" was. alongside Gracie a pilot and Willow a ship born mechanic they eked out a living until the warp happened and a teenage alien kid ended up on their ship, with no way across to where she was from the crew let her stay alive, even volunteering work as a coms officer, the last addition was the AI Danny had revealing itself to the crew, to surprise acceptance

Sid got herself captured almost a year later, and when her sister and sister's human boyfriend came to find her, they found Prior and were unimpressed until he showed off his "flight suit" ( multidirectional streamlined flight and EVA suit) and incredibly reflexes... though as it turned out Scott and Danny's AIs were having a private conversation the entire time.

Assembling the crew alongside breaking out of jail a former illegal slaver of the worst kind to use to get info, the crews assaulted Okinura 6 blasting through the raider air-force right out of supercruise, even risking Prior when he got hit by the edge of an EMP but he regained power at the last moment. After mounting a vehicular assault where the "combat doc" burst in taking out vehicles with a car mounted multicannon. They rescued Sid in a land foot assault leveraging Danny's enhanced reaction and a key shot from Scott.

Esther remained as crew but on a short leash, though it felt like they were all in the same boat going day in and day out until Danny got a contract that was big bucks, a protection contract with Voltaire INC, this went well until a mercenary group with surprising intent against the company surfaced, lead by a leader of shocking capability. the crew clashed time after time and many times winning the fight but not the war.

Things took a turn when in a confrontation with the leader, Danny beat her but was sent data on Voltaire by her... they were a boogeyman from his past. Switching her to Ally and leaping off the roof, he made a scene with the fight he gave... sealing their fate as fugitives. They fled the system but the woman disappeared after Erika patched her up... stealing a jacket from Prior and clothes from her and Willow.

The crew were now wanted... and while he said nothing Prior made it clear they were now at war... Sid confirmed this when she went through the data, the Syndicate was deep in the bubble, and they were played like fools. They were outnumbered, outgunned, and on the run... they had to fight smart and dirty but vowed to never cause collateral.

Hit and run, surgical strikes, on foot blitz, stealth infiltration, the crew raided but made little progress. Eventually they tracked down the woman, dying in an alley. Hours of surgery later she awoke on an ELW on their ship while they were recouping and hiding... treated as crew despite her trying to kill them many times over. She identified herself as Julliett, from the rift world.

With their new addition the kept fighting though it still stalemated, Danny having to rely more and more on "Ei" and having roped in a fellow CMDR "Johnathan Arthur Valentine" Codenamed "CAS" or "Ground Support". Things took a near fatal turn when a planned blitz turned into a fight for surival with most of the crew stranded with only Esther, Sid, and Rue on the Rival up in orbit... until a flash of light and a radio signal, Esther commandeered the ship with agreement from the ithers and weapons blazing and ramming speed: knocked out the AA/AP defense block that had them all pinned.

Proving herself worthy of trust she was let off the leash, but stayed true to her new loyalties, the Crew now had a new although inexperience Pilot suitable more to blunt force trauma, useful when your next target requires using a type 9 as a ram. the crew kept at it, hitting them and slowly making ground despite being most wanted in many systems despite having no non syndicate casualties.

Then Danny bit the bullet... for a solid 5 minutes he was dead, his body controlled loosely by Ei as she panicked, flooding his system with epinephrine and adenosine until after fighting she could focus and began pumping as much voltage into his fluttering heart as she could, screaming at her CMDR to wake up... then his heart began beating.

He awoke in the med bay with Ei in her new body, one for trying to be more like the others and be something outside Danny and the Fleet, holding his hand lamenting that she was jealous humans could cry. he held it weakly and told her he was too tied to cry so the feeling was mutual for the moment. He and Ei knew she didn't feel emotions like they did, but whatever it was had to be the equivalent to what he felt.

Once he recuperated they fought on until they hit a breakthrough, a data point housing syndicate data that could be turned into a relay across the entire galaxy... in one coordinated attack they took on the facility and sent the broadcast but Danny was cornered at ledge with no visible route ground or air... Ei saw a chance and asked for trust and he said he already did and leapt. falling directly down and through a open manhole access to a tunnel, she ignited his boosters and they flew as fast as they had ever, even dodging a train, bursting out the entrance and soaring across the sky to meet the ship mid air... hearing Sid's relayed message that vindicated them at the cost of revealing her people's existence as not long before: they learned her people's planets in this galaxy came under syndicate occupation, the message was vindication, exposure, and a call to arms to any who'd help their crew fight in a war