Has nothing to do with the incident that occurred at Agarda on February 23, 3310.

Born into a farming community on the planet Thea Centauris in the Moirai system, he had developed a wanderlust from an early age. Later on he worked on a mining Type 9 crew, occasionally having to scare off pirates and the like with a Taipan.

In 3302, The Federation had set its sights on the system, as it held a strategic position on the edges of federal territory, and would be caught up in the Federal-Imperial cold war where it supplied the raw materials for starship alloy production.

The Federation came into the system and initiated a "legal" hostile takeover, propping up a foreign federal corporation to take over the company, bringing in and promoting supporters of the Federation while firing and driving any competition out of the system. Naturally, with Hugo and the rest of his crew without even severance pay.

Though in a terrible situation, he decided to make the most of it by getting his pilot's license and earning the rank of Commander in the Pilot's Federation. Through one way or another, he ended up in the "Old Worlds" region of Lave and Reorte. He saw that these worlds valued their individual cultures and fought to protect their autonomy by forming a cooperative not much unlike the GalCop of old. The Alliance of Independent Systems. Free of the wage slave tyranny of the Federation, and the brutal caste system of the Empire, it was a cause truly worth fighting for. However significantly weaker than both of the factions, it was all the more reason why they might appreciate his help.