Captain Gleur
Xorphrin Republic
Although the Xorphrin Republic is not known to be a hotbed of pirates, smugglers, and troublemaking kinds, there were still a few individuals that made a name for themselves as swashbuckling heroes or soldiers of fortune. One of these was Captain Gleur; whose real name is unknown.
Salesman
Gleur had no real naval experience before his transport was attacked by pirates. He was a commodity salesman traveling between colonies. When his transport was boarded, many of the passengers were killed and the rest taken for slaves. The pirates sold their captives to a slaver mining colony but kept some, including Gleur, for crew replacements. A Xorphrani, Gleur was large and strong. He fought, argued and killed his way up the chain of command. He was captain of his own ship in two years and leading a squadron in four. When his force was strong enough, he moved his ships into the home territory of his former captors and began preying on the very pirates who had enslaved him. Gleur cut a fearsome figure on the command deck of his battlecruiser Vengeance. For ten years he terrorized the pirate territories.
Sythian Frontier Raid
The crowning glory of his career was the capture of three treasure ships returning from the Sythian Frontier loaded with the loot of four year’s raiding. All three ships were taken intact and their escort destroyed. Prize crews were put aboard and the whole convoy for the border. along the way, Gleur cleared all the less than trustworthy members of his crew from the ship via the airlocks; about half the crew in all. Commander Gleur and his remaining crew aboard the Vengeance, who were mostly Kratek natives, along with the prize ships, arrived under the guns of the fortresses guarding Maugham in 2763. After some negotiation, Gleur surrendered to the local authorities. His ship was taken into the Maugham self-defense forces. Gleur paid off the crew and those that wanted to return home where sold a small raider to return to the Kratek Horde territories. Gleur himself invested the remaining loot and retired into Maugham life as a private citizen.
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By Charles Lewis
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