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.
