Janos Sikorski
09 Feb 2020Prochaska
He was born on Olympus Village on Mars in 3276. While Zoe misses her parents, Janos could have done without his. His father had a serious drinking problem, and which led to uncontrollable outbreaks of violence. His talent saved him from being expelled from school on several occasions, and his school-leaving certificate was good enough for him to study afterwards. He owed his degree to his talent, not his consistency. Because of the neglect in the dysfunctional family, he became self-employed at a very early age, and he left the parental household even before leaving school. At this time he was already financing his independence mostly through drug dealing. If he had been honest with himself, he would have admitted to himself that he was already tracing his father's path with his lifestyle, and that his moving out was ultimately only an external separation; in fact, he was still completely trapped in the parental system. He studied at Olympus Village University and earned a degree in Computer Sciences. He met Zoraya Prochaska there, but at a stage where he was hanging out a lot with drugged people and other petty criminals, they had a very wild and chaotic relationship. Zoe had finally split up and completed her studies, he needed two more years (he graduated in 3301) for that. On the day Zoe had left, Janos had actually realized immediately that her decision was the right one and that he had to do the same. But pride prevented the realization from leading to action for quite some time. It still needed a lot of pressure from outside to bring about his decision. Finally caught by station security selling drugs, he bought his freedom by making a full statement that put his former cronies in jail. He struggled with his conscience for some time after that, but actually he knew very well that his old pals were not worth his pangs of conscience. He made a very good graduation, after he had freed himself from his detrimental environment. When self-knowledge had finally prevailed against all his inner resistance, the longing for Zoe also came back with all its might. However, at first he only knew that she had left Mars two years earlier and had no clue where to look for her.
He started working on Mars at Chengdu Robotics, a subsidiary of the Achilles Corporation, as a junior engineer. After the incident on Weyn Dock in the 64 Arietis system in December 3304, he found out that Zoe was working at the Bluford Orbital Universal Cartographics office and decided to follow her there; for that, he gave up his job on Mars. He scraped together all the money he had saved and headed for 64 Arietis. There he was apprehended by the Void Stalkers on Weyn Dock when he tried to access one of their craft. When he saw Zoe again, she reacted very reservedly to him, but because of his stubbornness he did not give up. The OSA hired him as a freelancer for the task of testing federal installations for intrusion resistance. Janos still knows nothing about the existence of the OSA and has never met Reedings, he gets his assignments through Zoe. He knows a lot about computers, but he is definitely not a pilot, which is why he waited until the Advanced Docking Computer was available to buy his first own ship. He currently operates a Cobra Mk III out of Bluford Orbital.