When the Soviet Republic collapsed after the fall of their last bastion worlds in 3270 and surrendered unconditionally in April 3271, its many diverse species of spacefaring aliens were suddenly placed under the direct authority of the Terran and Orionese military forces. Amidst this collapse, the criminal underground filled the power vacuum left by the collapsed government, and often collaborated with the occupation forces to ease the transition, and with hope to curry favor after the war. While the vast majority of graal, tauran, and other Soviet member races were subsequently enslaved or otherwise confined to reservations, many individuals were able to attain Free Alien status. While most of these were doctors, scientists, and technicians, some were skilled professionals of another sort.
Such as this fellow. A graal born just before the war, and growing up in the mean streets of the crumbling Soviet cities, this urchin without a name became a surprisingly renowned bounty hunter in the 3270s and 3280s. Nicknamed "Omar", he gained a reputation for cunning, ruthlessness, and determination, as well as being a wicked marksman with his shotgun. In the Pirate War of 3284-85, he racked up hundreds of kills and captures of vicious space pirates. Always skirting the bounds of the law, Omar became an associate of the Honorable Galactic Corsairs Company, a mercenary guild formed after the war by the pirates, mercs, and privateers that happened to be on the winning side. In the early 3290s, he joined the crew of the SV
Blue Heaven, under the command of Captain Scarlett Valhalla. With her, he continued his rough-and-tumble, adventurous lifestyle, a luxury many in his species are not able to realize.
The graal (
Anthropolycos agrestis sapiens) are a species of furry, mammalian humanoid aliens originating in the Carina arm, having evolved from forest-dwelling scavengers into plains-dwelling, erect hunter-gatherers over millions of years after a climate shift caused deforestation and glaciation. Despite reaching industry centuries before humanity did, they succumbed to global thermonuclear war, slowing development. The graal developed a spacefaring empire by the year 2000, but it was plunged into civil war and a tumultuous reconstruction over the next several centuries, resulting in the militaristic Worlds Commonality. They were introduced to the galactic political scene in the 2200s, and became one of the first species to welcome humanity to the galactic community in 2405. However, they were greatly influenced a wave of human cultural vogue in the 2400s, and their military culture absorbed Leninist ideas on social solidarity, vanguardism, and collectivism. In 2430, the Worlds Commonality government toppled to an army-backed communist coup, and in 2435 they joined with the tauran-led Covenant of Carina and the human-led Socialist Republic of Centaurus to form the Federative Republic of People's Solar Soviets, commonly shortened to the Soviet Republic.
