Name: Daniel Weyrich
Age: 29
Biography: Daniel Weyrich was born in the African nation of Kangama to South African parents. Daniel's father was of the entrepreneurial sort, and had become wealthy by employing the native Kangamese to mine heavy metals used in the burgeoning starship construction industry. From a very early age, Daniel was exposed to the day-to-day affairs of running a business, and his father would devote much of what little free time he had in showing young Daniel around his mining operation.
As Daniel grew older, he would venture out into the Kangamese towns and cities and encountered the crushing poverty that most of that nation's people endured. Daniel once expressed his dismay at the squalor in which most Kangamese lived and expressed his concern that it was not right to use such a destitute people for cheap labor. But Daniel's father insisted that his mining operation was in fact helping these people, for the wages he paid his mine operators were several times higher than the yearly earnings of the average Kangamese citizen. Additionally, the taxes he paid to the national and local governments helped keep this impoverished nation afloat. More entrepreneurs, Daniel's father argued, would make Kangama a wealthy nation.
When Daniel was 16, unrest came to Kangama as it did to so many Subsaharan African nations. A minority ethnic group initiated a bloody civil war against the majority-ruled government that they claimed had disenfranchised them. When the rebels stormed the capital city and executed the president along with any pro-government supporters, Daniel's father immediately arranged for the evacuation of his wife and son. His father promised to meet up with him once he had arranged to ship much of his valuable mining equipment to neighboring Angola. Daniel and his mother safely arrived in Windhoek, Namibia, but his father never left Kangama. Less than 24 hours after their helicopter evacuation, the rebels had arrived at the mine and executed Daniel's father.
Daniel was distraught by the death of his father. He fell into a depressive state and, with the large inheritance left by his father, attempted to find joy in hedonistic pleasures and vices. For the next ten years, Daniel drank and womanized around Johannesburg, South Africa. He frittered away the wealth left to his family in a futile attempt to find some meaning in life. His mother eventually disowned wayward Daniel, and cut him off from what was left of the inheritance. Daniel now had only stock portfolios left to him by his father. When the Federation's putsch occurred, those stock portfolios tanked with the rest of the market. With what remained of his father's fortune quickly becoming worthless, Daniel downed a bottle of painkillers, washed it down with a few swigs of cheap vodka, and went to sleep with no intention of ever waking up.
Daniel did wake though, in a hospital bed after a three month-long coma. Upon discharge from the hospital, he discovered that his stock portfolios had spiked in value. With a new lease on life and a fair amount of money to his name, Daniel sold his stocks and with that last remainder of his father's fortune set off to find a real purpose for his life. When he contacted his father's old mining colleagues, Daniel was tipped off about the planet SEVI-T3, and the wild rumors of that planet's minerals being a gold mine.
Knowing this, Daniel purchased for himself a one-way ticket to the planet Ember with the aim to become a successful entrepreneur like his father was. This time, however, Daniel will not let some high-minded sense of responsibility and civic duty get in the way of his success. Daniel's father tried to be fair to the Kangamese, and he saw how they repaid his father's kindness. Daniel knows now to be ruthless, and to give his clients and rivals alike no quarter.
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