Born on an ag colony I grew up farming but I hated it so when I came of age I had a plan and I had spent countless hours working on my plan odd jobs earning a small sum with which I managed to aquire a plasma thrower one of those efficient ones sadly it was only an orange grade but it could fire 900 shots before it would need to be reloaded.

(plasma throwers are rated by the color of their plasma red being the worst and from there in oder of rating it goes red < orange < yellow < white < blue with blue being the hottest and most effective granted red plasma will burn a decent hole in most organics depending on caliber pistols typically fire 5mm bolts while rifles fire 10mm ones)

Armed with around 9k shots for my plasma pistol I figured I was ready for anything but I kept to my plan and kept working odd jobs until I managed to buy a class 1 security vest and enough for a ticket off world I was going to be a merc if I could help it but I had to hide everything from my parents they wouldn't allow me to leave if they found out. Once I reached majority I made good my escape armed and armored as much as I could I booked the cheapest passage off world but I made sure that it included meals and was on a certified flight which would hopefully prevent me from being taken for slavery by the next stop.

The trip out of the system was uneventful and for about the first half and then we were attacked by pirates. The first I knew of the pirates was the captain coming over the coms to tell his crew to prepare to repell boarders so I armed and armored myself and positioned myself so I'd be able to hit whoever ca.e into the passageway to the bridge would have their back to me as they headed to the bridge. I didn't end up waiting overly long before I started hearing the whine of discharging plasma guns and then I saw the crew retreat past my position to set up at the other end of the corridor to protect the bridge. The first pirate started rushing towards the crew position and as his back came into view I waited patiently and under the concentrated fire of the crew the pirate went down that's when I realized that the crew was mostly using red class plasma guns.

When the push really came 6 pirates came barreling down the corridor all had their backs to me and I waited for them to get about half way between both me and the crew before I started unleashing a barrage of orange bolts at the backs of the pirates. I lucked out the pirates had covered their fronts heavily but didn't put anything on their backs and went down pretty quickly when I sprayed the back of their lines with fire. After securing the pirate boarding party I rushed to their ship and stared dispatching any pirates I found and in the end I defeated 15 pirates and captured the pirate ship mostly by myself.

I was given claim rights for the pirates vessel by the captain of the transport ship and he offered to help me take it to their next stop for a cut of the proceeds so in the end he was getting half the ships turn in value but any arms armor or cargo was mine to do with as I desired. After reaching our destination I ended up with quite a few credits from half the ships sale price and the cargo it had aboard along with most of the pirates gear though I kept a nice set for myself it was only a class 2 but it was almost pristine my class 1 I sold and I now had my pistol (orange) a rifle (red) and a pair of vibro knives and a katana with a monofilament edge honestly the katana was worth more than everything else ship included but I'd never sell such a priceless weapon willingly it was a relic of an older era.

Now rich enough to buy a small starship I decided to try my hand at the bounty hunters guild I'd picked the planet specifically because they had one after all. I found the guild and was registered within the hour then I started browsing the bounties some were quite lucrative but required a ship sadly the only ones I found locally were small time and paid little but I took copies of all of the local ones then decided I'd need a wrist com as it would help me keep track of bounties and do some research on my targets. After getting some bounties lined up I bought a wrist com and made sure it had a good connection to the local net and I even ensured that it came with a couple features that cost quite a bit extra but were worth it in my opinion one of which was an auto injector.

I loaded the injector in my wrist com with a regenerator something used by the military for their frontline troops to get them back on their feet as fast as possible it would not be fun if I needed it but would keep me alive unless I was taking a fatal injury to something vital the regenerator itself would be painful but it would do what I needed it to. after picking up the wrist com and it's upgrades I went to a weapon merchant and looked through their collection of gear and ended up trading my plasma rifle for a slug thrower designed for long range shooting and I made sure to get a high power one though ammunition would be a challenge to aquire as each shot cost enough to feed a large family for a month getting 3 rounds for it was fantastically expensive but with it I'd be able to take a target down from a few kilometers out and possibly disable a small starship at shorter ranges.

Once I was armed for anything I bought a helmet that chewed up the remainder of my funds but it was worth it because it linked with my wrist com and would automatically determine if whoever I was looking at had a bounty and was strong enough to stop nearly everything up to cannon caliber weapons. Once I was as ready as I could be I caught a ride to one of the locations where one of the more profitable of the local bounties had been seen recently and then I began searching for clues and rumors to where my bounty might be.

the first year of bounty hunting was pretty lucrative I managed to earn enough from the bounties and the sales of their gear to pick up the parts I wanted. With the patience of a Saint and the diy skills of a seasoned pro I slowly built my own ship the thing was essentially a wing with a cockpit in the middle with two oversized engines on either side and an arch linking one sides engines to the other and it contained the hyper drive assembly which I had custom built myself granted I had followed the blueprints of a previous design I just modified it with newer better parts and made it more robust.

My ship was unarmed as the license to put any kind of weapons on a starship were prohibitively expensive but I still ran the power lines out for weapons and ensured that there was enough power for some decent ones in the future. My ship constructed my budget blown and my credits gone I spent another 6 months running local bounties just to get fuel for the ship and then the adventure started.