Mathias Shallowgrave
Mathias Shallowgrave
space vagabond, warm-hearted smuggler and rebel opportunist
Background
Mathias Shallowgrave is a shady character. His name is most likely an alias, one of the many he’s been using – however that’s uncertain. Not much is known about his past apart from a few facts. He comes from one of the independent worlds and he used to be a trader, but has abandoned this profession over 15 years ago, after his family died in an accident during one of the many clashes between Federation and Empire over an independent system they were living in at the time.
After the incident Mathias grew a passionate hatred towards both the Empire and Federation as political formations. He has also become a quiet and introverted person as he struggled to deal with his loss. He's a lone wolf without any clear purpose, cruising the galaxy and looking for opportunities ever since.
Shallowgrave is a careless man that is fond of taking risky jobs, quite often being on the wrong side of the law. He isn't an evil person by any means however; quite the opposite in fact: he has a good heart and believes in karma. He's reluctant in showing his feelings due to the events of the past though.
He’s been doing many different things in an ongoing attempt to fill the emptiness he has felt since losing his family and all he cared about in life. It would have seemed that he’s constantly chasing something, but even Mathias himself is not quite sure what it is.
Recent events
Mathias Shallowgrave made a deal with a group of pirates a few months ago. He was supposed to steal an advanced weapon prototype plans from one of the corporations contracted by the Federation military. High risk – high reward errand, Shallowgrave’s favourite type. Unfortunately things didn’t go so well and Mathias was forced to run for his life from the top secret facility where the research was conducted. He barely made it, but he managed to escape in a ship registered under a false ID.
If that wasn’t enough, when the pirates found out about the mission failure, they decided to assassinate Shallowgrave in fear he may have compromised their base location to the Feds. They managed to track him down in one of the no man’s land empty systems and a deadly dogfight took place. Even though Mathias managed to destroy all the enemy ships, his own vessel was damaged beyond repair and he had no other choice, but to use the the escape capsule.
He was rescued by a big trading vessel that mis-jumped into the empty system Mathias was drifting in after his escape capsule ran out of fuel. When they finally arrived at the nearest starport in a nearby system, Shallowgrave discovered that all his accounts were hacked into and all the credits he’s amassed over the past years were gone. The main suspect was his recent pirate lord employer, but Mathias was never able to find out for sure.
He had no other choice but to wait those few months for things to go quiet and then loan a basic Sidewinder ship from the Pilots Federation to start anew. He was rescued by a big trading vessel that have mis-jumped into the empty system Mathias was drifting in after his escape capsule ran out of fuel. When they finally arrived at the nearest starport in a nearby system, he discovered that all his accounts were hacked into and all the credits and assets he’s amassed over the past years were gone. The main suspect was his recent pirate lord employer, but Mathias was never able to find out for sure.He wasn't a stupid man though. He's had an old Eagle class fighter docked deep within the Federal sectors in the case of emergency like this one. Shallowgrave waited a few months until his trail ran cold and then spent the last of his credits to book a passage to LT 15449 A system, where his Eagle was docked.
Left with nothing more than a 100 Credits and the ship he was forced to start anew yet again.
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