Minno Paste

Youth-18: Backwoods space cabbie. Smart and bookish but with the shittest social standing in history. Basically untouchable caste

18-22: Applied for the Naval Academy, gained acceptance. When war broke out, he slyly dodged the draft by throwing one of Kyras informants under the bus, and narrowly managed to graduate.

22-26: Moved to the actual Navy and made commission as an O1 in a flight crew (ensign), but was injured in a routine mission, blamed for the mishap, and ejected.

26-30: Decided to enlist in the Scout Corps and explore the galaxy. Got blown up early in this career, narrowly survived due to his paranoid habit of wearing a rescue bubble and got towed back to a space station by Newton Peabody.

30-34: Frustrated with getting kicked out of careers due to circumstances out of his control and wanting to get revenge on society as a whole, Minno Paste decided that trying his hand at space piracy was the way to do it. He was promptly disabused of this notion when, once more, the ship he was piloting was left crippled in space after a failed space-train-heist. He narrowly avoided horrible crippling injury in an explosion that took the lives of many other space pirates. He escaped his angry boss by stowing away on another ship.

34-38: Almost utterly broke. Decided to try his hand at piloting a merchant ship for the money, and for once in his life did not get blown up. Started making a bit of cash and even has a steady girlfriend in one of the bigger trading ports. Unfortunately, he's made an enemy during these trading days. Left the job (it was boring and his boss was a dick, let's be real) as soon as he had enough money to survive on his own for a little while