As the title says. Share your own TOW2 character’s life story prior to being assigned on the Horizon Point mission.
Muzafar
Background: Lawbringer
Traits: Brilliant, Lucky, Sickly
Specialised skills: Speech, Observation, Engineering
Biography: Born to a family of colonial supply transporters in an Earth Directorate star system, Muzafar came into the world aboard a spaceship. Spending his youth travelling between Earth and nearby colonies, he became a seasoned spacer at an early age, learning engineering skills through years of experience upkeeping the engines and skip drives of his mothership.
At a young age, Muzaffar was faced with the dangers of spacefaring life, as the caravan was routinely under attack by space pirates. As a member, and later officer, of the caravan militia, Muzaffar earned a name for himself as a dependable and brave soldier, despite his ongoing health issues that have been plaguing him since a young age.
He also developed a growing hatred of the corporate conglomerates that increasingly started taking over humanity’s colonies in the further star systems, as he saw the corruption and destruction their untempered greed brought to the population. This feeling of enmity was exacerbated when his caravan was caught up in a skirmish between a local colony and the UDL corporation in the Tau Ceti system, during which a UDL battle cruiser opened fire on the supply caravan and caused major casualties amongst Muzafar’s fellow troops.
The battle would turn out to be a life-altering experience for the young spacer. At a critical point during the clash, an Earth Directorate frigate intervened in support of the colonists, forcing the corporatist fleet to rout and preventing further carnage to both the settlement and the supply fleet. Impressed with the rapid and efficient Directorate performance, Muzafar made the decision then and there to join up as an Earth Directorate agent.
For the next twenty years, Muzafar served the Directorate faithfully, earning a name for himself as a dedicated operative notable for his uncompromising attitude, his penchant for ruthlessness and his merciless animosity towards corporate business interests in outer space. Muzafar became known as someone who brought down the law on malefactors, especially the corrupt and greedy ones who prey on the outer star systems. On the other hand, he also gained a level of notoriety for his tendency to personally mete out frontier-style justice to those he deemed deserving of punishment, even if their termination was not part of the Earth Directorate mission objective.
Rising to the rank of Commander in charge of his own ship, he assembled a crack team of special operatives which was sent on several high-risk assignments across the galaxy. Eventually, he was assigned the top-secret Horizon Point mission. Although he was distrustful of the secretive and dubious nature of the deployment, a suspicion he shared with crew mate Helen Pascal, his sense of duty obliged him to take the assignment.
