HISTORY

Orion Sholes (an alias) is a disreputable grifter with a flair for leadership and some small military ability. He began his career as a commerce raider, stealing corporate mining ships and ransoming crew and cargo back to the parent company. After the Lunar secession, he realized that he too could carve out an empire for himself.

As more and more people moved out into space and cast aside allegiances to Earth, Coalition, and Corporation, he found himself becoming more and more of a respected “public figure” - which has made him intensely uncomfortable.

Even more irritating to him is that, despite his checkered past, he can't help but stick up for the underdog, and engage in battle against oppression. Despite himself, he's become a true leader, and a good one, at that.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

As far as we've been able to determine, Sholes is a scruffy man of indeterminate age, anywhere from his early 30s to late 40s. He usually has long, unkempt black hair tied in a ragged pony tail. He wears a customized space suit, as most Belters do, with odd ornamentation and slogans painted on. He is frequently heavily armed, though his fearsome appearance is softened by his personal charm and somewhat oddball sense of humor.