CMDR Niko Radans Age: 31 (born December 15, 3278) Gender: Male Height: 180 cm (5'11") Weight on 1G planet: 70 kgs (154 lbs)

Born: Furuta Orbital, Ipilyaqa System Current place of residence: Chelomey Orbital, Cubeo System

Major points in history: 3301 (aged 22) - Graduated with bachelor degree in General Astronomy from Pan-Imperial University of Technology (Ipilyaqa Branch) 3305 (aged 26) - Graduated with masters degree in Astrography from Pan-Imperial University of Technology (Lumastya Branch) 3307 (aged 28) - Acquired Pilots Federation licence, becoming a CMDR. Started his career by protecting miners from pirates, but nowadays mostly focuses on exploration and by exploration mainly managed to acquire a reasonable amount of wealth - procuring a spacious penthouse on Chelomey Orbital, Cubeo system and buying a similar penthouse for his ageing parents back at Furuta Orbital, Ipilyaqa system. 3310 (aged 31, almost 32) - expressed formal interest in joining Imperial Astrographical Society of the Prismatic Imperium Branch of Sight, believing in the cause of Prismatic Imperium and that both his education and professional expertise will be enough to get in.

During higher education was employed part-time at various High-Tech Enterprises, working mostly with supporting and assisting in development of pilot HUD software. That allowed him to gain necessary expertise to modify his spaceship HUD (for example, increasing the resolution of radar data received, better noise filtering, capable of extract more information from data available, and so on - very useful in exploration), which he did for his private purposes - that of course made the producer warranties null and void, but it doesn't matter.

Details: As a born and lived-through spacer, he is unsuited for "normal" G's. On planets with acceleration above ~1G, he uses an exoskeleton to freely move around. Without it, it is hard for him to move. His uncle was killed during one major terrorist attack of Bank of Bhilinool (he was a "collateral casualty" - not a target of the attack) - and as the main perpetrator was still not apprehended, he holds a personal grudge against that organisation - but as he could not do anything against them, he tried to move on. Currently does know of Argentum as a “terrorist organisation” and as he despises terrorists with all his soul he might be very sceptical at the beginning, but learning that in reality they are not terrorists and are opposed to Bank of Bhilinool, will be very much cooperative with Argentum. While he can pilot a combat ship and nominally has a Pilots Federation rank of Expert in combat, he considers himself far from competent in space combat and would like to avoid being in the "centre of the storm" if possible.

Main ship: Diamondback Explorer (exploration) Other ships currently owned: Type-9 Heavy (trading), Anaconda (combat), Fer-de-Lance (combat), Imperial Courier (combat), Imperial Eagle (combat).

Character quirks: Quite enthusiastic about the world around, especially when topics of space exploration are on the board. Can be a smartass, especially in topics of ship HUD. Little bit obsessed with “immortality”, understood as placing Your permanent mark on human history - similar to great leaders, explorers, scientists, generals, poets, music composers and so on - who are known and remembered by humanity long after their death, thus in his eyes achieving “immortality”. Easy going, non-confrontational if not provoked.