Darryl Blaine

Born in GSC 225, Darryl Blaine was to become known as one of the most prolific entrepreneurs and town founders in the history of the galaxy.

Darryl Blaine was born on Mars in GSC 225, and early in life quickly gained a reputation for being rowdy and unpredictable. After completing his education, he turned to asteroid mining to make a living. After working in the main asteroid belt for Krieg Enterprises for a few years, he turned his sights on the rich asteroid fields of Beta Pictoris, hoping to make a fortune.

Luck was on his side until it wasn’t. Blaine quickly made a small nest egg from mining before fate struck. A mining accident destroyed both his legs, which he had replaced with tank tracks. After an extended period of directionless living, Blaine had an idea. He started a business supplying miners with equipment and supplies that quickly grew and thrived. In a short span of time, his company grew to dominate the economy of the small town where it was headquartered, and that town was the first to be named Blaine in his honor.

Following this success, he opened a series of other businesses to round out the economy of Blaine, including restaurants, publications, entertainment venues, stores, and even a shopping mall. Blaine was quickly becoming a boom-town.

As his fortunes seemed to be reaching their zenith, Blaine was struck with an acute case of wanderlust, and started traveling from planet to planet. Wherever he traveled, Blaine brought his business acumen with him. He would land on a planet near some valuable natural resource, set up a company to supply those who worked the resource, and build a town around it. These towns, (almost all of them were named Blaine), were set up with a nearly identical set of businesses.

Blaine was rich enough to afford the best anti-aging treatments, and to the present there is no record of his death. This is not terribly surprising, because as far as anybody knows, he is still perpetually traveling from planet to planet founding towns named Blaine.

Amadeus Krieg

Biographical Outline

Born late in Era-0 on Mars, Amadeus Krieg was an industrious and entrepreneurial human.

In early adulthood, he went to Mars's L5 point as part of the asteroid mining boom, and founded Krieg Enterprises.  Through a combination of hard work, family connections back on Mars, and luck, Krieg Enterprises became the most prosperous mining company in the Martian L5 region.  

As a way to cement his wealth, Krieg became instrumental in the founding of the Autonomous Republic of Lindbergh, an independent state with low taxes that became a haven for the rich.

Krieg Enterprises rapidly expanded its operations into the main asteroid belt, where its fortunes continued to rise.   

Wealth and power were not enough for Krieg, though.  Immortality beckoned.  Krieg began using the state of the art in bioenhancement technology to extend his lifespan.  Secretly, he set up a deal with Cosmid, the leading biotechnology company, to have himself cloned.  Cloning an entire sentient life-form was illegal in the Planetary League, technically illegal in the Autonomous Republic, and generally taboo among democratic societies.  Cosmid, having an abundance of financial interests, and a lack of ethical principals agreed.    

Krieg became reclusive, hoping to avoid unwanted attention as he raised his "sons".  Eventually he left the eldest, Wolfgang, temporarily in charge of the business, as he went with the rest to a medical resort in a Cosmid-controlled system to get his brain  transplanted into one of the younger ones.  On the way, their ship was caught up in a gravity storm in hyperspace.  

Much later, when the ship (which had been drifting for a very long time in hyperspace, with everyone on board in suspended animation) crash-landed on the planet New Albuquerque, Krieg was killed, but most of his clones survived.  Disappointed at the end of their lives of luxury and wealth, the clones formed a criminal gang known as The Happy Lads, and spent the rest of their lives bullying and terrorizing the population of New Albuquerque.