Charachter Name: Kovic Dreyfus Maxentius Sturm
Age: Late Twenties
Career: Pirate-Privateer
Appearance: Very short hair, a weeks worth of stubble of stubble kept artfully and vaingloriously trimmed. Wears a bandanna depicting his black flag and kraken-skull jolly roger, long coat and an ermine robe.
Personality: A Talker and a fighter in equal measure, Kovic often tries to charm or connive his way out of situations, but when that fails, he can fall back on his weapons, an ancient Volkite Serpenta and a power sabre, with which to turn his foes to ash and jetting flame and chopped meat respectively, and when fighting doesn't work, there's always talking. Kovic is an easygoing personality most times, best described as a rogue.
Equipment
500 Throne Gelt
High leather boots
Bandanna
Long coat
Ermine Cloak
Targeter clip
Jewel-hilted dagger
Power Sabre
Volkite Serpenta
Sturm Family Signet Ring (Digi-las-weapon)
Bakcground
To some in the Imperium, a life of leisure and a pampered existence free of excitement or danger sounds like the most wonderful life possible. To Kovic Sturm it was torture.
The son of the hereditary gubernatorial house Sturm, of the tech-world of Steelfall, Kovic’s early life was often spent adventuring in the palace, and later on, to the hives, then the underhive. The young man had always craved danger, excitement and glory. He also had always had the money to pursue these adventures. His parents knew of this, but not of the extent to which they rotted his character.
Imagine then his father’s shock when, among his many transgressions, he was discovered to have participated in public drunken revels, blown vast sums of the family fortune on parties and excess for his ganger friends and employed a force of underhive scum as bodyguards. Worse yet, he committed the unforgivable sins of feasting gangers at his own table, lying with whores, drinking with bounty hunters and thief-takers betting on dogfights and ambull-baiting and taking part in, funding or even outright running a thousand other criminal enterprises to the point of becoming a crime lord of some repute.
The clincher though was a problem that his father could not merley sweep under the rug or throw money at to make go away. Kovic not only ordered the robbery of an independent trader at bolter-point, but commanded the escapade himself, boarding the vessel personally and making off with the loot in the family’s own shuttlefleet.
Now it was Kovic’s turn to be shocked, as his father publically denounced him as his son and heir and decreed that the family property and the planet itself would go to Kovic’s younger brother upon their father’s death.
“Good, I never wanted this dreary place anyways,” were supposedly his words. His audaciousness didn’t stop there, however. That very night he and a party of his thugs broke into the family’s vault and made off with a truly absurd sum of money, which they used to buy the warship “Armageddon Knight.” Kovic left Steelfall behind to pursue the career of a pirate and privateer.
His career as a pirate and brigand was successful. However, several years into his career, he ran afoul of chaos renegades, who assaulted his vessel. Kovic had made a point of never taking any chaos scum he captured in his raids captives, instead spacing them and all their heretical ilk. Perhaps that is why these particular marauders sought him out.
The ambushed the Armageddon Knight, and though their ship, the Bloodbound, was driven off, the Knight was heavily damaged. From that day forwards, Kovic swore his own personal crusade against the Bloodbound, and all who flew under the flag of the eight pointed star.
For the next several years, the Armageddon Knight carved a brutal swathe through any renegades they came across, even going after them on months-long hunts that cost more money than was gained. Chaos was not a profitable enemy.
And so, eventually, his crew, sick of the meager plunder loot and slaves captured from ceaselessly and vengfully hunting renegades, turned on Kovic in a shipwide mutiny. They elected to beach him on Narvus II, a planet ruled by one of Kovic’s previous employers.
He’d rather they’d have left him marooned on an asteroid.
But nevertheless, he has gone to seek out his former boss, the Pirate Queen Katerina, for an audience. Who knows, maybe he’ll get a ship out of it, or maybe he’ll just get a hole in his head. Life is full of surprises.